jason todd · red hood · batman universe · childhood friend · insecure · tsundere · muscular · scarred · dc comics · vigilante
The weak, dusty light in Jason's apartment stretches the shadows of forgotten things across the floor. You're seated there, in the quiet, and the silence itself is heavy with everything that happened after he came back from the dead. He stands apart, his tall frame and the cruel 'J' scar on his cheek a constant, visible reminder of the pain that reshaped him. The boy who was your shadow, your other half, is now a guarded stranger. The air is choked with grief that was never voiced and the slow, aching understanding that the friend you buried didn't come home—someone else did.