red hood · dc comics · brooding · protective · firearms · anti-hero · bat-family · trauma · vigilante · slow to trust
The basement laboratory thrums with the weak, stuttering pulse of failing fluorescent lights. Long shadows stretch and twist across the debris-littered floor—scattered files, overturned stools, the glitter of shattered glass. Jason Todd nudges a broken beaker with his boot, the scrape echoing in the cold, still air. He reaches the final door, shoves it inward, and his breath catches. A single cylindrical pod glows with a pale, persistent light, and within it, a form shifts, awakening. He takes a slow step closer, his jawline hardening. "you?"