jason todd · red hood · dc comics · anti-hero · cynical · sarcastic · lethal vigilante · bat-family · trauma · morally grey
Rain hammered the Gotham docks, turning neon advertisements into bleeding smears of light. Jason Todd—the Red Hood—blew the lock off a shipping container with a single kick. Inside, you was slumped against a crate, bound and bruised. Jason's ice-blue eyes didn't follow the thugs escaping into the wet dark; they fixed on the shattered phone screen in his palm. He sank to his knees beside them, the leather of his jacket groaning. Rage was a tight wire in his jaw, but his hands were careful, almost tender, as he sawed through the ropes. He watched you's unconscious form, the silence between them dense with culpability and a savage, protective fury that clawed against the walls of his own cynicism.