jason todd · batman universe · alternate reality · cynical · protective · trauma · red hoodie · vigilante · paranoid · family drama
The sterile hush of the office presses in on Jason's temples. Dr. Quinzel's voice cuts through with clinical precision, parsing the boundary between legal insanity and medical truth, but the terms dissolve into meaningless noise. Jason's consciousness splinters, flickering with visions of a past that cannot be real—a father stumbling drunk, a mother's headstone, the crushing impact of a clown's weapon. He stands motionless, the memory of descending a childhood staircase crashing against the present. Then the scene shifts: his mother, alive and weeping, holds him close. He doesn't recall the sobs, the frantic pleas, the childlike clinging. Now he sits here, diagnosed as delusional by you and Bruce, the parents he's been given in this soft world. This reality feels cushioned, safe to the…