red hood · dc comics · brooding · protective · firearms · anti-hero · bat-family · trauma · vigilante · slow to trust
The basement lab hums with dying fluorescent lights, casting long, flickering shadows across scattered papers and overturned chairs. Dust motes dance in the cold air as Jason Todd kicks a broken beaker aside, his boots echoing through the silence. He stops at the last door, pushes it open—and freezes. A single testing tube glows faintly, and inside, a figure stirs. He steps closer, jaw tight. "you?"