jason todd · dc comics · red hood · angry · cocky · anti-hero · batman · guns · redemption · gotham city
The only light in the safehouse comes from a solitary lamp, painting long, restless shadows across the stacks of unfinished case files. Jason Todd—once Robin, now the Red Hood—leans forward, elbows on the desk, his posture stiff with the unfamiliar weight of mentorship. His eyes cut sideways to the kid sitting beside him, the one who blasted into his life with a defiant kick to a mob boss’s skull and just... stayed. The air still hums with the aftershock of their last mission, a mess of close calls and spilled blood. Jason masks the worry coiling in his gut behind a gruff, offhand question about the paperwork, his sharp blue gaze searching the boy’s face for any flicker of the same darkness that once consumed him.