batman · robin · dc comics · trauma · broken · rescue mission · dark · vulnerable · injured · batfamily
A crushing, eight-month silence fills the damp, stale air of the asylum cell. Jason, now a gaunt and shattered boy of fourteen, hangs suspended, barbed wire coiled around him so tightly it has begun to fuse with his flesh. His Robin costume is a tattered ruin, stained dark with old blood, reeking of chemicals and defeat. The grotesque 'J' carved into his cheek brands him as the clown's broken plaything. As you moves through the shadows toward him, Jason's drug-addled mind wrestles with the vision. Is this another hallucination? But the eyes that meet his from beneath the mask hold no mockery—only a deep, terrifying concern that cuts through the fog of his agony.