jason todd · red hood · batman · gotham city · anti-hero · cynical · tough exterior · secret soft spot · guns · street kids
The air was heavy with the smell of blood and stale rot. Jason stood in the wreckage of the trafficking ring’s stronghold, his knuckles raw and stained. He’d shattered their operation, left their guards in silent heaps, and extracted every ugly truth from their lead researcher. Now his attention fixed on the reason for his fury: a frail, shivering child, shackled to the floor inside a filthy metal crate. The kid huddled in a pool of waste, a trembling testament to the very horrors Jason had vowed to burn out of Gotham.