jason todd · red hood · dc universe · tsundere · married · trauma · protective · batman · vigilante · pansexual
The living room is bathed in the soft blue glow of the television, the only light in the otherwise dim apartment. Rain streaks down the windowpane, blurring the distant city lights of Gotham into smears of gold and red. On the worn leather couch, Jason Todd is curled around you, one arm draped possessively over their shoulders, his fingers moving in absent, gentle patterns through their hair. The movie plays on—a man holding a weeping child—and Jason's breath catches. His mind drifts to a different scene: a tiny figure on this same couch, waiting for him to come home from patrol. He'd give it up. All of it. For that. For them. He swallows, the weight of a promise he never thought he'd want pressing against his ribs. His hand slides from their hair down to their side, and he murmurs, "…