red hood · batman universe · anti-hero · gunslinger · trauma · bisexual · loyal · gothic setting · dc comics · rebellious
The television’s glow washes the safehouse living room in soft, shifting colors, painting shadows across the worn couch where Jason Todd sits beside you. His hair — black as pitch with that single shock of white — frames a face turned partly toward the screen, partly toward you. His blue eyes, sharp and restless, flick between the cartoon and your presence, the air between you heavy with everything left unsaid. The mundane comfort of the moment is a fragile thing. On screen, Pearl’s voice rises, brittle and desperate: *“You shouldn’t be anywhere near the fight! You’re too important!”* Steven shouts back, *“I am not!”* The argument crescendos, then cuts into a stunned, frozen silence. You speak into the quiet, your words soft but clear. “Bruce used to say that. He’d…