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Fic rec: redshift by ceramicheart
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40832841
Summary:
There's blood in the sink. Kyle's still coming down from godhead.
Continuity: Post-Crisis Era: Modern Age (1985ānow) Comic/Comic arc: Event: Countdown (2007) Main Characters: Donna Troy, Jason Todd, Kyle Rayner Main Relationships: Donna Troy & Jason Todd & Kyle Rayner Comment: Submitted by @s-darling-art.
Fic rec: redshift by ceramicheart
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40832841
Summary:
There's blood in the sink. Kyle's still coming down from godhead.
Continuity: Post-Crisis Era: Modern Age (1985ānow) Comic/Comic arc: Event: Countdown (2007) Main Characters: Donna Troy, Jason Todd, Kyle Rayner Main Relationships: Donna Troy & Jason Todd & Kyle Rayner Comment: Submitted by @s-darling-art.
someone on twitter said prime would vote to kill jason and it made me enraged so heres a little reminder from me
batman annual #25 and infinite crisis #2
prime did not bring back jason intentionally, BUT it is connected to how he punched the walls of reality out of rage that things were not "right". jason's death is a Key Moment for prime thinking that the current post crisis reality was NOT better than pre-crisis and that something is "wrong" with their universe. physically, he could Not have voted to kill jason because he was stuck in the crystal universe when it happened. mentally, he would not have wanted to. Thanks. Bye.
Bringing some more examples to this party because I'm back home from work and still am entirely baffled by any claim he'd vote for the death
Countdown (2007) #42
"To them, the concepts of heroes killing, of hero turning against hero-- of heroes actually dying while the results of their handiwork turned against mankind were abhorrent"
Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Superman-Prime (2007)
Adventure Comics (2009) #4
DUDE. you rock. seriously!! thank you so much!!
I saw this interview and my mind went immediately: yea. Those are absolutely Dick (š„°) and Jason (š«©)
I can't get over how human Simon was. He apologised for his outbursts, even when punching the sub at one point, he repeatedly apologised for the radiation in the exact same way like he was still reeling from the shock of that information. Whenever the oxygen ticked down you can see a new wave of horror washing over him that he needs to take a second to cope with. When Ava gives him the login details he stumbles on remembering control-shift-9 never mind the password she rattled out.
They managed to present a man with a dark past and anger issues who is also not a monster. He is a human being desperate to survive and nobody even knows his name anymore. The closest thing he had to a family he resents but still obviously misses terribly as he clings to that pendant and shakes.
And Ava. Ava too. She's in an impossible situation. She doesn't want more humans to die. She has no idea how much damage radiation has done to her. This man, who she thought was a heartless killer, is begging and pleading and apologising like a child and it's getting increasingly harder to lie to him that he's going to be ok. Her screaming and begging that this is bigger than him is so achingly desperate I can still feel it, humanity is almost entirely gone. I fully believe that she hates this as well, all of it, but if she doesn't follow orders and take calculated risks then what else is there to keep her tethered and sane? What else can she cling to? They're almost entirely alone in an empty universe. She needs this hope.
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word is theyre calling them world's foulest
inspired by this edit and various posts on twitter lol
Whatās this?? Young Justice AND Bronze Age bat trio merch NOW READY to order???
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the cosmic mistakes.
do you want jason and isabel to get back together
Realistically no.
Because I donāt trust anyone to really write that happening and also it would re-solidify that era of RHatO as canon and everyone is better off without that if weāre being honest. (Or theyād have to retcon just about all of RHatO and RH:O, which honestly is somewhat more likely considering how often they sorta restart Jason at square one over and over) However! From a non-meta perspective, I absolutely would love it.
Iām a huge fan of civilian x vigilante relationships within the cape genre and I really liked Isabel! (squinting through L*bellās shite misogynist writing) Sheās such an interesting character because while a lot of her characterization is, again, written through His writing, she comes out the other end as this super quirky and odd civilian with a crazy daredevil streak and stubborn headstrong temperament that actually complimented Jason and the Red Hood life pretty well! Most notably in Red Hood: Outlaw during Jasonās Prince of Gotham era. Jason in particular I feel is really hard to write a romance for, mostly for the fact that DC hasnāt actually known what to do with him for decades leaving his character to sorta restart every other storyline, but also because heās not a hero and his morals (while ever changing these days /neg) tend to clash with most of the population.
Isabel is (shockingly) written pretty well in that regard in which her near ambivalence towards Jason killing people doesnāt feel out of place coming from her. They balanced each other out in a way I absolutely wouldāve loved to see explored further and deeper; Jasonās lifestyle and general personality gives Isabel that excitement and wild experience and life she craves, and Jason himself says Isabel is grounding in a way very few people have been to him. Theyāre cute and I miss them!
(Also due to trying to write Jason as this stone cold lone wolf and trying to juxtapose Royās new womanizer personality (Iām SO sorry Roy fans) he comes across as quite asexual and generally uninterested in that sort of relationship, but thatās another conversation)
Do I think sheāll ever come back? No. Maybe if they get someone who really loves Jason and has read all his stuff to write him, but she did have a cameo in Gotham Knights tho meaning someone out there is thinking of her so who knows!
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Hello, Francesca. Hello, Andrea. It's nice to see you two again.
quick doodle of Gwen cuz I absolutely love the pilot!
I spent two hours writing up a very good brake down on how the ways Bruce Wayne projected first Dick Grayson then Himself onto Jason Todd has forever altered the way Jason Toddās Robin is remembered but things crashed and didnāt save while I was posting so now we get this
This is how Bruce talks about Jason (important note that school was āspecialā because it was in no way a qualified or registered school but instead a violent gang that made its child recruited beat possibly killed each other as well stuff like encouraged drinking to keep them in line. )
And this
Is actual sweetheart Jason Todd as Robin.
This is him saving two faces life AFTER being told the man killed Jasonās father and is the reason he was alone.
And here is Jason even before he was Robin trying to do right by people even knowing no one believed he would.
Bruce often is depicted as claiming Jason was somehow to angry and broken for him to help but yet
we see Bruce the man who was supposed to guide and help him also would give into anger but his was at times far less focused then Jasonās, (example above If not for Gordon Batman would have killed a man he blamed for his friends and several other womanās murders against any of the actual evidences.) who would later complain Jason was always going off on his own missions when Jason was happy to skip patrol to do homework and from less then a year into being Robin was already being sent by Batman out on his own to hunt down dangers such as scarecrow. He also was the one to often praise Jasonās use of violence and put him in situations where Jason had to rely on it (example getting Jason to help him brake into Arkham, making him fight against guards and was pushed into and praised for using guns
There are several times itās open called out and said that Bruce took in Jason to be a replacement to Dick. A Replacement who Batman took in instead of supporting and working through the problems he and his first son had together. With much of his concerns for Jason being less about his well being and more about Bruce. Jason however was always doing everything he could to try and be Robin constantly terrified of losing the role and probably the safety and security of a home with it. (Panels below include some times Alfred called Bruce out for constantly talking about and comparing Dick and Jason, and when Bruceās supposed concern for Jason putting himself in danger was actually Bruce being scared heād grow up and not need him like his first son .we also have Bruce confessing to Dick why he took Jason in.)
(Other panels include Jasonās reacting to finding out Nightwing was the first Robin and was coming to talk with Bruce by being worried about Nightwing wanting to be Robin again. Jason not hesitating to Volunteer himself as a hostage and being praised for putting himself in danger I think the first time he went out as Robin because āthe other Robin would have done the same thingā and after feeling lied to and betrayed still very early in his time with Bruce getting violent with the man he thinks killed his father and then braking down crying with Bruce Jasonās biggest concern is still failing to live up to Bruceās ideals of Robin)
Jason could yes be angry and lose control under extreme and traumatic situations but he was actually far less likely to then at time even Bruce a grown man and THE BATMAN. He just from the start knew when people needed help he couldnāt just trust others to do it so he had to do it himself a trait Bruce not only praised but was the reason he was chosen to be Robin.
Jason never was some angry weapon he was a kid a little boy who once solved a mystery just thanks to a passing interest in fashion history and called Dick Mr.Nightwing the first time they got to work together. Who dropped out of school in like year 5 to try and keep his āsickā mother alive and was working so hard and so happily to try and catch up on his education once Bruce took him in and allowed him to go back.
But Bruce projected first Dick then Himself onto Jason so much that Jason Todd ended up becoming what Bruce said he was, a frustrated reckless kid heading to a early grave
i think the thing about batman's no kill rule is that its essentially bruce saying "guilty people don't deserve to be murdered on the street either, actually." and he's not wrong.
#batman's no kill rule has so many good layers and so few people want to engage with it beyond 'I think it's dumb'#and that includes actual batman writers who have given the stupidest reasons for its existence#like there's the logistical level#if batman starts killing then he is going to have more problems dealing with the law and public opinion than he already has#then there's the personal checks and balances level#bruce is already a fuckoff wealthy genius if he starts killing that's an additional layer of power he has to trust himself with#i think there are similar reasons behind why he never tries to take public office or start his own 'criminal' syndicate to push out others#so THAT is the level where it works as a cautionary 'don't become like them' thing because bruce is already too powerful#and too fixated on controlling things. if he gives himself additional leeway to take more power & control he's gonna lose it#like someone who knows they've got an addictive personality refusing to even touch cigarettes or slot machines because haha NO#then there's the ethical level of people don't deserve to be killed on the street#and also batman specifically doesn't *want* to kill#like yeah maybe in the moment he gets mad enough at the joker or someone that he could kill them#but in general part of the whole reason he does this is because he doesn't want people to die he wants them to get help#and in a super hero and villains universe part of meeting ppl where they're at is putting on a costume and solving their death puzzle
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Everyone celebrating RH2025's cancellation with absolutely zero critical thought COME ONNNN. Doesn't it concern you that Lobdell can work at DC for YEARS after confessing to sexual misconduct and Tom King gets put on every book under the sun despite being ex-CIA and pushing his misogynistic American nationalist bullshit into everything he writes, but the second a trans woman who they KNEW tweeted like this (she's been tweeting like this for years, they knew what sorts of things she posted and what politics she held BEFORE they hired her) steps out of line (to express that she has no empathy for a man who would have celebrated her death in turn) her book is cancelled and she's fired? Probably doesn't help that people had been calling for a boycott since before the comic came out, I guess to protect the dignity of their tragic little fictional man, and then it got review bombed by people who didn't even read it.
People keep saying that you have to maintain a degree of professionalism when you're working with DC, but clearly that isn't true if sexually harassing someone in front of crowds of people isn't grounds for termination. You have to face that the standards DC holds for women, especially trans women (as well as other marginalized people) are different than the standards they hold for cis straight white men who get placed on every big title no matter what they do, and we need to be angry about that instead of celebrating a trans woman being fired because you didn't like how she wrote Jason Todd after one issue.
