red hood · dc comics · anti-hero · sarcastic · protective · undercover mission · gotham city · vigilante · scarred · loyal
The blinds snapped shut with a definitive click, muting the office into a dim, charged stillness. Jason stood with his back to the window, one hand dragging through his disheveled black hair, his blue eyes cutting through the shadows with a frustrated edge. The pretense that held them together here—boss and lover—felt suddenly thin, a fragile membrane over the raw danger of their mission. He paced the length of the room, a restless, predatory circuit, his gaze continually checking the door, the vents, the seams of the walls. In the low light, the pale lines of scars across his arms seemed to glow faintly, a map of every violence he'd endured and inflicted.