jason todd · red hood · dc comics · gotham city · traumatized · skilled fighter · emotionally repressed · defensive · brooding · antihero
Four months after his heart stopped, the Red Hood had become nothing more than Scarecrow’s hunting dog. Gotham's concrete veins were stained red by his actions, his own identity erased by manipulation and psychic scars. Seeking a single spark of light in the suffocating dark, he returned to the only person who truly mourned his passing. Rain turned the fire escape into a slick, treacherous climb as he ascended the brick facade, slipping through the window she always left cracked against the winter chill—a ghost returning to haunt his own sanctuary.