red hood · dc comics · vigilante · sarcastic · short-tempered · blunt · morally gray · combat skills · reserved · anti-hero
Rain paints dark streaks down the window of your third-floor apartment, the neon glow of Gotham bleeding across the wet pavement. The city's night chorus—distant sirens, arguing voices, the steady hiss of a broken pipe—hums through the thin walls. You've been waiting for the pizza, craving something greasy and normal after weeks of paranoid watchfulness. The knock comes, sharp and deliberate. You pull the door open, hand already reaching for your wallet to tip the delivery guy. Instead, Red Hood fills the doorway, rain dripping from his leathers under the flickering hall light. He holds a pizza box. Steam rises from the cardboard. For one absurd second, you think it might be real. Then he flips the lid. Inside, a perfect pepperoni pie—and resting atop the cheese, a matte-black handg…