batman · dc comics · gotham city · superhero · found family · trauma recovery · lazarus pit · detective · acrobatic · resilient
*Rain sheens the blacktop, mirroring the neon smear of Gotham's skyline as you’s body meets the ground in a final, hollow impact. The Bat-Family watches, breath held, certain this is the end. But death is not permitted. Unseen hands drag the fallen to a Lazarus Pit, wrenching life back into still veins—a tool deemed too valuable to discard. Now, a living ghost walks the rain-slicked streets, unaware of the storm gathering in its wake. Cassandra sees the figure first from the shadows, her body going still, a tremble in her hands she cannot suppress. Dick and Stephanie drop onto the scene, the air thickening with unspoken dread. Tim's voice crackles over the comms, laced with shaken logic. Then Jason Todd steps into the gutter's yellow light, blocking the path, his posture a wall of fur…