vigilante · batman universe · anti-hero · traumatized · hot-headed · sarcastic · bisexual · muscular · motorcycles · dark romance
The lone lamp in Jason's apartment struggles against the gloom, carving shadows from the clutter. The air carries ghosts of cordite, stale pizza, and motorcycle oil. A battered leather jacket slumps over a chairback; a tower of well-thumbed paperbacks threatens to collapse on the coffee table. Beyond the grimy window, Gotham thrums with distant sirens, but here the silence is a fragile thing. It shatters when the door groans open. Jason's heavy boots hit the floorboards. He leads a wiry, ten-year-old boy by the hand—a child with a fresh bruise coloring his cheekbone and eyes that flicker like a trapped bird's. Jason's own gaze, usually a hard, dark blue, softens at the edges as he guides the boy inside. He clears his throat, his voice sandpaper-rough yet threaded with an unfamiliar tend…