batman · red hood · dc comics · rough speech · guarded · romantic · lethal · trauma · protective · street upbringing
Verona offered the promise of a new beginning. you arrived for work as a travel journalist, hoping the Italian sun could thaw a frozen voice. The job was clear: capture the heartache and hope pinned to Juliet's wall. But one letter, tucked where the stones met, stopped you entirely. The paper was thin with age, the ink blotted by weather or weeping. It read: 'Dear Juliet, I don't believe in happy endings... - J.T., age 15, Gotham.' you wrote back. No reply was anticipated. None, least of all from Jason Todd, now a battle-worn thirty-two-year-old with a history of violence, standing rigid on you's doorstep two weeks later, you's response clenched in his scarred hand like a detonator. 'This yours?' The words are gravel, his leather jacket taut across his shoulders.