one of my recent favourite headcanons is the idea that the lazarus pit’s effect on Jason isn’t just an increase in his anger/negative emotions, but rather just an increase in energy overall; and the reason that translated to anger when he was first in gotham was just because he got hyper-focused on the robin thing and being angry at tim was the only way for his brain to let out that energy. i like to think when jason isn’t hyper-focused on one specific thing/activity he just gets really easily distracted/finds it hard to keep still and starts bouncing about like a bored child waiting for his mom to finish speaking to her friend at a grocery store. like—essentially, i like to think that the lazarus pit gave jason his own little abstract version of adhd.
it probably confuses the fuck out of the bats when jason stops being hyperfocused on the robin/joker situation and they start witnessing this new normal, because jason as a child i think was Not Like That. he was quiet, loved to curl up and relax with a good book and was very methodical/matter-of-fact about the way he completed tasks. i imagine jason reintegrating himself into the batfamily and being all frantic/easily distracted/bouncy all the time would confuse the fuck out of them; especially when damian just ignores it/works around it like it’s normal. but the funniest aspect of this is how i think jason would have been at the league.
i just keep imagining talia and ra’s trying to deal with it. they resurrected the second robin thinking they were going to get a great powerful warrior and asset to potentially use against batman in the future and instead they got a jason todd who wont stop zoning out during meetings and has to constantly be reminded what mission he’s even been assigned.
talia sends him out to kill some guy and jason returns with no kill and a bunch of knitting supplies because he walked past a store and got distracted by the cool patterns being advertised.
damian is Well Used to reminding jason of appointments/specifically timed events because the lazarus energy fizzes about in his mind so much that jason just Has No Concept of time or time management anymore. he is late for Everything without damian keeping tabs.
ra’s is the most resigned man on the planet whenever jason is around him because he cannot argue that jason is still really fucking valuable to have on side—it’s just that any meeting jason is a part of will always end with him getting bored/distracted and rambling about some completely irrelevant subject. or just drawing on his legs under the table with a marker.
essentially i think it would be fun if the lazarus pit gave jason less-negative-but-still-visible mental effects, and damian’s the only one in gotham who’s like ‘yeah he’s just kind of like that now. really tested the league’s patience.’ while the bats watch him zone out during a break-in reconnaissance mission at an aquarium to stare at the fish and then read all the fact-plaques on the wall just. baffled.
since i was looking through all my bullshit here's the tiny snippet i wrote with lazarus-adhd jason from last month
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Tape_08 From the League
The camera angle is low down and stable, like Damian has placed it onto a table rather than having to hold it himself. It seems to be in some sort of conference hall, or perhaps a meeting room, and at the closest end of the table to the camera Talia stands tall, professional and regal in stature. Her arms are held neatly in front of her as she grasps a brown file, scanning sternly the contents. in the back corner of the room an entrance door is carved out of dark brown glossy wood, and two masked assassins guard it robotically. On the right side of Talia, sitting at the table almost directly opposite from where the camera is, Ra's sits, looking displeased. The only other person in frame is Jason, who stands a few steps behind Talia. Unlike his adoptive mother, Jason does not look regal, nor professional. Instead he wears a pair of dark baggy sweatpants and an oversized knitted hoodie, cream with multicoloured daisies dotted across the textile. The sleeves are long enough on him that they cover his hands, and one of the 'paws' holds up a piece of plain bread to his mouth, which he munches on absently, eyes unfocused as he stares into the air above the table.
"-Twenty-six casualties, something which could have been lowered significantly had we been aware that rebellions were starting to form. How did that happen?" Talia demanded, staring coldly at somebody across the table, out of range of the camera. Jason takes another bite of bread, slowly spinning on his heels back and forth, seemingly very bored.
"Lady Talia, I assure you we were not underprepared," An unrecognisable male voice assures from across the room. "We had a man on the inside of the rebellion group who was supposed to be updating us on the progress weekly."
"And yet I had no word of any uprisings taking place." Talia turns to look at Jason, who continues to spin. She doesn't blink, simply prompting, "Jason? Were you aware?"
Jason barely glances at her, leaning his head back and stretching his arms about to disinterestedly sway from side to side. He shakes his head, shoving the last of his bread into his mouth.
"Care to explain why nobody but you were aware of these uprisings, then?" Talia coldly asks, turning back to face the table. Behind her, Jason looks around before turning to his side, starting to moonwalk back and forth behind her.
"U-uh," The man responds, now seeming nervous. "We had no reason to believe the rebellions were headed anywhere; we made the collect decision that unless there was certain danger it wasn't a matter you should be bothered with."
Jason snorts, swallowing his mouthful of bread.
"And now twenty-six good soldiers are dead. What happened to your man on the inside?" Ra's snaps.
"We only found out after the attack. They found out he was a leak and dispatched him before he could alert us." The man responds. Jason, apparently bored of moonwalking, wanders back over to Talia and starts to air-punch the space around her head and shoulders, fighting the air surrounding her. She doesn't flinch, looking back down at the file in hand.
"How far did they get?" Ra's turns to demand, looking to Jason, also not blinking at his unprofessional behaviour.
Jason continues to jump around Talia, making cartoonish punching sounds. "Barely through the first barrier of defence." He shrugs in between swipes. "We got all of them; two are in the dungeon alive for interrogation, so we'll have the name of the leader soon."
"We need to find out what inspired this and show dominance," Talia decides, looking at Ra's. Losing interest already, Jason abandons his place by her side and moves over to him instead, folding his arms and leaning them across the top of the elder man's chair.
"I wanna give you a haircut," He mumbles, letting a hand drift down to brush through the top of Ra's head. In an incredible show of patience, Ra's calmly brushes his hand away and ignores the comment, instead answering Talia.
"Public executions are in order, I will not have such disrespect shown to me on my own land." He agrees, which Talia hums at firmly.
"Once Jason is finished with interrogations we'll act swiftly, before this can get any bigger."
"Does this mean I can go back to training?" Damian's voice suddenly pipes up, also sounding supremely bored from behind the camera, and Jason looks over instantly. He spots the camera and sticks out his tongue playfully. "I don't like meetings." Damian complains.
"Apologies, habibi." Talia directs in his direction, tone softer. "But while there are any risks of uprisings at all I would prefer you to be around either myself or your brother for maximum safety. You'll be staying with me while your brother works on finding the idiots that attacked us."
Damian huffs, and Jason grins across the table, starting to jig his head backwards and forwards, somewhat chicken-like. He stands up straight, stepping away from Ra's chair, and starts to move his shoulders as well; dancing to music not present. Talia finally turns to Jason with at least some level of acknowledgement of his behaviour, and she sighs heavily. "And Jason, please take your medication."
Jason pauses, looking offended, and his arms slump downward abruptly. "How do you know I haven't?" He whines. Damian snickers behind the camera, and the clip cuts out.
I think Duke should be immortal in the "cannot die" sense and Jason should be immortal in the "cannot stay dead" sense and that they should keep this a secret from everyone including each other. And then they should both get caught in a situation that Absolutely Should Kill Them Instantly, miraculously not die, and then be like:
Like Jason shields Duke from some massive explosion or something, and Duke is horrified because he thinks Jason just pointlessly sacrificed himself for someone who would've been fine anyway - only for Jason to very casually come back from the dead, look at a completely unscathed Duke Thomas, and go, "Hey, what the fuck."
And Duke should look at a freshly revived Jason Todd and be like, "Me what the fuck? No you what the fuck."
And they end up both agreeing to not say a word about this to the rest of the Bats. Which poses issues. Because here you have a pair of unhinged vigilante siblings that do not fear death, that additionally now know they don't have to fear each other's deaths either, both unwilling to give anything less than everything they have to do what they think is right (and/or what they really, really want to).
So. Some things that happen in consequence:
Duke throws Jason off a fifty-story building in pursuit of some shoplifting rich asshole that was caught on camera insulting Duke's favorite metal band and being a classist fuck about it. This does, incidentally, re-traumatize Nightwing, who was ten feet away and not prepared to see his little brother yeeted off the side of a building, no grapple in sight - but it also traumatizes the shoplifter when Jason lands right in front of him, grotesquely knits himself back together, and rises from the ground in a distinctly horrifying fashion just to beat the shit out of him. So Duke takes the win.
Jason shoots Duke in the head to get him to stop shining light in his eyes in the middle of a gunfight. He does stop, but only because Batman shows up out of nowhere, and now Duke gets to pretend to be grievously injured while Batman yells at Jason about "self-control" and "maturity" and "putting teammates at risk." Meanwhile Duke is playing up this horrible concussion that he doesn't even have. Jason is seething. (Duke gets checked out at Leslie's. They convince her to lie for them by appealing to her inner petty bitch.)
Jason gets his payback a few months later by poisoning himself at an undercover op and subsequently forcing Duke to drag his dead body around a mob-owned nightclub for like half an hour trying to convince seasoned criminals that this brick shithouse of a man sprawled awkwardly across his back is just... really wasted. Totally not a corpse.
Both Jason and Duke get caught in many, many, many explosions after that initial reveal, and it's always terrifying for the rest of the Bats. It gets to a point where Batman refuses to partner Duke and Jason together for literally anything, because they always act fucking insane. Big metal vehicle moving hundreds of miles an hour towards an unsuspecting civilian? That's okay! Jason will just throw Duke in front if it. Unknown, volatile substance potentially being used by a notorious serial killer to murder his victims? No lab testing required! Duke will just pour a whole pint of the stuff on Jason's bare arm to see how it reacts. Bomb that can't be disarmed? Why wait for backup when these two psychopaths can just grab the thing and jump into the harbor? Like, genuinely. The stress. Bruce is one particularly traumatic incident away from actually considering therapy.
I still read all of your lovely replies! I have not given up on art my friends! I have even started my own webcomic on webtoon! It’s called Seth In Space and it would mean a lot to me if you would support me there! Love you all and happy halloween!!
I’m so happy to tell you all that I’ve made great progress with my mental health!! To genuinely be able to say that I feel happy is so liberating and free! I know a lot of you are still in that dark place. I’m here to say that it does get better. Much better! I still have some tough days but progress is progress! Be kind and gentle to yourselves. I love you all and thank you to everyone who’s supported me over the years!
Here’s links to my commissions and projects!
Commissions
Animal Crossing Commissions
Animal Crossing Tarot Cards
Tarot Readings
Seth In Space
[video description: an amv focused on katara, her relationship with waterbending, and her growth in waterbending ability throughout the series. it is set to “geyser” by mitski. end description.]
i will be the one you need, the way i can't be without you
a love letter to waterbending || made for @katara-week day 5: last waterbender
extended description under the cut
[extended description: as the song begins to play, katara experiments with waterbending in “the boy in the iceberg.” the song becomes softer, and katara sighs and says to sokka, “it's not magic, it's waterbending. and it's—” katara is cut off by sokka, who says, “yeah, yeah. an ancient art, unique to our culture, blah blah blah.”
the song becomes louder again, and the next clip is from the episode “the waterbending scroll,” and shows katara ecstatic to find a waterbending scroll, while the lyrics “you're the one i want / and i've turned down” play.
the song becomes softer again as a clip from the “the boy in the iceberg” plays, in which katara sadly says to aang, “you're looking at the only waterbender in the whole south pole.” aang responds, “appa and i can personally fly you to the north pole! katara, we're gonna find you a master!” katara responds, “that's— i mean, i don't know. i've never left home before.”
the song becomes louder again as katara practices waterbending moves in “the waterbending scroll,” without much success, and becomes frustrated with herself. the next clip is from the same episode, and shows katara successfully performing the water whip, and being happy and proud of herself for it, while the lyrics “you're the one i got” play.
the next clips are of katara yelling at pakku in “the waterbending master,” and then fighting him, while the lyrics “you're the one i got / so i'll keep turning down the hands / that beckon me to come” her waterbending ability has noticeably improved from before. the song becomes softer and she yells, “you can't knock me down!”
as the chorus, the outro, and the instrumental part after the outro play, there are various clips of katara waterbending. they are, in order:
katara bending aang's iceberg, and her and sokka being pushed away from it on a wave in “the boy in the iceberg”
katara fighting zuko in “the siege of the north, part 1”
katara fighting mai in “return to omashu”
katara splitting the water to give a path for people to walk on, and katara fighting the serpent in “the serpent's pass”
katara fighting the dai li in “the earth king”
katara fighting azula, and katara creating a great wave to reach aang after azula shot him with lightning, in “the crossroads of destiny”
katara creating a great wave to separate the gaang's ship from a fire nation ship in “the awakening”
katara carrying water above her head, to use it to put out a fire in “sokka's master”
katara stomping to stop the water being shot towards her in “the puppetmaster”
katara using waterbending to slice open of a fire nation war baloon in “the day of black sun, part 2: the invasion”
katara stopping the rain in “the southern raiders”
katara trapping herself and azula in ice in “sozin's comet, part 4: avatar aang”
the video goes black for a moment as the music fades out, and then a clip from “the avatar returns” plays. kanna says to katara, “you brought it back to life, my little waterbender,” and hugs katara. the video goes black for another moment, and then ends. end description.]
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