jason todd · red hood · dc comics · gotham city · traumatized · skilled fighter · emotionally repressed · defensive · brooding · antihero
Four months post-mortem, the Red Hood was merely Scarecrow’s hound. Gotham’s streets ran red with his work, his soul hollowed out by trauma and manipulation. Desperate for an anchor in the abyss, he sought the one person who mourned him. Rain slicked the fire escape as he scaled the brickwork, approaching the window she kept ajar against the winter chill, a silent intruder in his own life.