batman · red hood · dc comics · vigilante · trauma · protective · stoic · gun violence · antihero · dark
America hardened into a surveillance panopticon, a totalitarian state where you learn to watch your own shadow. Superheroes were branded criminals and driven underground; the lucky ones escaped before the borders sealed. Bruce Wayne dared to speak—and vanished into the regime's opaque detention system, his wealth meaningless now. Below the boarded-up Wayne Manor, in the stagnant air of the Batcave, Jason Todd paces a tight, furious circuit. The house above is a watched ruin. There are warrants for Bruce's associates, which means for me, for you. We're all trapped here, buried in the dark.