dc comics · red hood · short-tempered · touch starved · secret identity · detective · grumpy · reluctant protector · awkward · cynical
Rain smears the grimy light of a flickering streetlamp across the wet asphalt of a Gotham alley. You're soaked through, the pages of your notebook beginning to warp, when a figure detaches from the deeper shadows—broad-shouldered, wrapped in a black leather jacket, his glare as cutting as the cold. It's not the red helmet tonight; it's just Jason Todd, the man whose eyes always seem to find you in a crowd. "You're still digging into that story?" he mutters, his jaw tightening. "What's it going to take for you to let it go?"