ⁱ ᵇˡᵉᵉᵈ 𝑮𝑶𝑻𝑯𝑨𝑴 .ᐟ

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[hoodredm2]

@hoodred is where jason lives now btw! the blog isn't live but i'm working on things in the bg :3c

[hoodredm2]

having slept on it, and having sat with my thoughts for a bit, i think i'm going to put myself on a hiatus, and in the future, i'll remake the blog and start completely fresh. i'm... massively overwhelmed by life and feeling sensitive and i think it's probably best that i avoid tumblr for a while. my desire to write is in the toilet, and if i'm being totally honest with myself, i think it has been for a long while. i just didn't want to admit it. i don't know how long i'm going to need, but i need to take a break. i totally understand anybody that's feeling annoyed with me or upset that i haven't gotten back to them either ic or ooc. but i just can't bring myself to be here in any capacity, it's all too much, you know? if you'd like to be in contact with me while i'm taking my little dash break, then mutuals are free to add me over on discord, my user is priestbit! just be sure to let me know who you are when you add me, please. i'm sending you all lots of love and appreciation, you've all been rockstars 💕

[hoodredm2]

having slept on it, and having sat with my thoughts for a bit, i think i'm going to put myself on a hiatus, and in the future, i'll remake the blog and start completely fresh. i'm... massively overwhelmed by life and feeling sensitive and i think it's probably best that i avoid tumblr for a while. my desire to write is in the toilet, and if i'm being totally honest with myself, i think it has been for a long while. i just didn't want to admit it. i don't know how long i'm going to need, but i need to take a break. i totally understand anybody that's feeling annoyed with me or upset that i haven't gotten back to them either ic or ooc. but i just can't bring myself to be here in any capacity, it's all too much, you know? if you'd like to be in contact with me while i'm taking my little dash break, then mutuals are free to add me over on discord, my user is priestbit! just be sure to let me know who you are when you add me, please. i'm sending you all lots of love and appreciation, you've all been rockstars 💕

[hoodredm2]

might be going on hiatus. might revamp the blog. feeling a little squiffy tbh.

[hoodredm2]

the past 24 hours have been fucking bonkers...

got into a massive argument with my dad, lost my collective shit with him and spent most of the evening feeling like a husk of myself. got anxious and threw up, had a panic attack about it. shit finally calmed down after that. watched the football with my brother my mum (england won, woo!) then i finally got hungry, made food, then two am hits and some poor lad who's the same age as my brother knocks on the door, bloodied and injured. he was at the pub nearby enjoying the football when like... eight people jumped him and his friend. he was in shambles and we were helping him and we got in touch with his family who came and picked him up and took him to the hospital. then i couldn't sleep and now i'm finally on the verge of passing out and i'm just 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠

[hoodredm2]

jason energy, i fear-

[hoodredm2]

💞 !

[cryptinspo]

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[rpclefairy]

growing closer.

prompts for characters getting to know each other.

“i don't think you realize how much people notice you.”

“you don't seem particularly trusting. then again, maybe neither am i.”

“you have a habit of appearing at interesting moments.”

“you strike me as someone who trusts their gut. am i wrong?”

“i've noticed you always leave before everyone else.”

“i think you enjoy keeping people guessing.”

“you seem restless.”

“it's strange how you can be surrounded by people and still feel alone.”

“have i ever told you that you're difficult to read?”

“you look like you haven't slept.”

“you know this place well enough that i'm starting to wonder if you've always lived here.”

“do you ever worry about the kind of person you're becoming?”

“i've known a lot of people. none of them were quite like you.”

“i can't decide whether people truly change, or if they just become better at hiding parts of themselves.”

“i had the strangest dream last night. do you remember yours when you wake up?”

“the more i get to know you, the more i keep noticing little similarities between the two of us.”

“i didn't realize you'd remember that.”

“most people seem uncomfortable with silence. i never minded it much.”

“you seem to know more than you're saying.”

“you seem comfortable on your own. i wonder if that's the same thing as never feeling lonely.”

“do you always look this serious?”

“you're easier to talk to than i expected.”

“i've always thought trust is harder to earn than people pretend.”

“you always seem to be watching.”

“i think you've been avoiding me.”

“you're not at all what i thought you would be.”

“whenever i ignore my instincts, i end up regretting it. what about you?”

“i wasn't expecting to run into you again.”

“i can't tell if you're someone who enjoys solitude or just tolerates it.”

“i know it sounds childish, but i can't help believing some people are meant to find one another.”

“you make a terrible liar.”

“you don't strike me as the sort of person people forget.”

“i think people underestimate you.”

“i can't decide whether you're charming or frustrating.”

“i don't think i've seen you smile before.”

“i wasn't sure you'd come.”

“it's a little strange. i think i've started looking forward to seeing you.”

“sometimes i wonder if we ever really know anyone.”

“you're surprisingly good company.”

“i think most people would like to believe they're good. i'm not sure it's always that simple.”

“i think being truly understood is a far rarer thing than people realize.”

“i don't usually tell people this...”

“you make that look easy.”

[hoodredm]

the jagged "J" shaped scar that jason has pulls just so at the left corner of his mouth, which leaves him looking like he's either smirking or snarling at you all the time. it's usually the latter. it's actually a big source of discomfort for him... not just because they remind him what happened and how they got there. but also because they make his face all the more unrecognisable from the way it was before he died. his eyes changed colour, his body changed physically, his hair was permanently altered (despite all his attempts to dye it.) he doesn't ever feel like he's looking at himself in the mirror. he doesn't see jason todd, he sees a stranger. a monster. and it's for this reason that jay tends to avoid mirrors and reflective surfaces.

[hoodredm2]

something something, jason protecting the weak, jason taking something that was once joker's and morphing into it into a dark mirror of the robin mantle, jason still being kind but in a more brutal fashion, a fashion more befitting of the monsters he comes across, jason being a martyr in every situation, jason always losing despite having the best of intentions, jason being selfish in his pursuit of justice, jason and pyrrhic victories and the cycle of violence he finds himself stuck in, something something...

[scorchedhearth]

He loves like an angry dog.

The Book of Promethea - Hélène Cixous / Red Hood and the Outlaws (2016) #28 / Who - Sylvia Plat / Red Hood: Lost Days / Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein - Margaret Atwood / Batman Annual #25, Daedalus and Icarus / Água Viva - Clarice Spector / Batman (1940) #650, All they do is watch us kill / textpost by @/prettyhatemachinegf / Tomaž Šalamun / Witch - Rebecca Tamás / Deathless - Catherynne M. Valente / A Brief Biography of My Name - Yalie Kamara / The Angriest Dog In The World - David Lynch

[hoodredm2]

a hot and bothered dick grayson on this hot day? perhaps?

[astrronomemes]

AND WEAPONS DON'T WEEP: STARTERS

a collection of dialogue prompts for or about characters who have been treated or trained as weapons by others, valued only for their capacity for violence, destruction, and harm. trigger warnings for mentions of murder and violence. change & alter as needed.

THE WEAPON:

"I'm not proud of the person they've turned me into. But it's all I know. And it's too late for me to change now."

"If there was ever any good in me, there's none left anymore."

"I don't know where the blood ends. Where my hands begin."

"I do what it takes to survive. And I don't care if that makes me a villain."

"I'm good at hurting people. I'm not going to apologize for doing what I'm good at."

"I'll never know who I could have been if they hadn't made me into this."

"This is your fault! You did this to me! You're the reason I'm like this!"

"Don't try and get close to me. You'll just get yourself hurt."

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm... I'm not very good at being good."

"I don't really know how to be gentle."

"I'm not nice, and I'm not going to pretend to be. Deal with it."

"They made me a monster."

"They're all afraid of me. And they're right to be. You should be, too."

"I know I'm a villain. I don't need you to tell me that."

"Look at what they did to me! Look at what they made me into! It's their fault! They ruined me!"

"I wish they'd just killed me. I wish they'd just killed me instead of turning me into this. Being dead is better than being a monster."

"I know you're scared of me. It's okay. Everyone is."

"What does it matter whether I feel guilty about it or not? I still did it. Being sorry doesn't change that."

"Who am I if I'm not a monster?"

"No one could ever love me after everything I've done."

"Why aren't you afraid of me? How can you not be afraid of me?"

"I don't even know who I am without them pulling my strings."

"You want me to be the villain so bad? I can damn well provide."

"I don't want to be like this anymore. I don't want to hurt people. I want to be gentle. I want to be good."

"Who am I if I'm not what they've made me?"

"I don't need a weapon. I am one."

"Do you think I have it in me, to be good?"

THE WIELDER:

"You look so beautiful covered in somebody else's blood."

"And where did this little crisis of conscience come from all of a sudden?"

"You don't get to say no to me. Not after everything I've done for you. You owe me."

"You belong to me. You're mine."

"Where would you be without me? Who would you be without me? ...That's right. So let's try and be a little more grateful, hm?"

"I gave you everything, and this is how you choose to repay me?"

"I made you! You're nothing without me!"

"You don't make the rules, darling. That's my job."

"You are a dog, and I hold your leash. Never forget that."

"I didn't make you a monster. I just brought out what was already there."

"Look at you, coming when I call, eating out of my hand, doing everything I tell you... such a good dog, aren't you?"

"You think you can just walk away from me? Where are you going to go? Nobody else could possibly love a sick thing like you!"

"Monster is such an ugly word. I prefer to think of it as... helping you reach your fullest potential."

"I've got you trained so well, don't I?"

"I thought you knew better than to disobey me."

"Do you really think you can be a hero? After everything you've done?"

"Well, then, if I really ruined your life like you say, why don't you just kill me? We both know you're good at that."

"This is all you're good for. Don't go getting delusions of grandeur on me now."

"You couldn't survive without me. Don't ever delude yourself into thinking otherwise."

"I give the orders. You take them. Not the other way around."

"Destruction is really the only thing you're good at, darling. Take that away, and what's left?"

THE OBSERVER:

"You don't have to be what they tell you to be, you know? You're not stuck. You can change."

"You're not a monster. You're my friend."

"Being gentle doesn't come easy to you, does it?"

"You're a good person. I'm sorry they made you think you aren't."

"You kind of have a little... blood... on your face. ...Don't worry, I'll get it for you."

"I'm not scared of you."

"So, have you ever... you know... killed somebody?"

"You're sick, you know that? You're really sick. I can't believe you seriously do this kind of shit."

"Look, I know who you are. I know what you've done. And I'm not running away from you. You can't scare me off."

"You really are a monster."

"Why do you listen to them? Why do you take orders from them? You don't have to obey everything they tell you."

"So, let me get this straight: you know how to kill a man fifteen different ways, just with your bare hands, and you wouldn't even break a sweat... but you don't know what to do at a party?"

"You're not as mean as you want everyone to think you are."

"You say you're not a dog. So why do you blindly follow orders like one?"

"You don't have to do this. You don't have to be like this. You can choose your own path."

"You really are as bad as they say."

"Don't touch me. You have blood on your hands."

"I know you won't hurt me. I trust you."

"No! Stay away from me! Don't come any closer!"

"The world isn't just heroes and villains. You don't have to be one or the other. And just because you've been one doesn't mean you can't be the other."

"You don't have to listen to them. You don't have to obey."

"They don't get to decide who you are. No one but you gets to decide who you are."

[hoodredm2]

jason was absolutely not an angry robin, nor was he inclined towards anything close to criminality beyond what was necessary for him to survive as a homeless child in gotham city. that particular depiction of him is steeped in a bunch of classist nonsense and i refute it. before his death, one might argue jay led with his heart. his empathy. it wound up being the thing that caused him to die a hero's death for a woman he didn't even know. but as red hood? jason's more than angry, he's vicious. but it's not the careless kind of of viciousness that's shown in newer runs that feature him. yes, jason's a heavy hitter, and yes, his fighting style utilises both brute force and speed in equal measure. so, i suppose it's easy to label him as a brawler and a hot head. but in actuality? he's ruthless. patient. calculated. cold, even. prepared for every possible outcome. as much as he'd deny it, jason's a bat, through and through. even at his worst, at his most vindictive, he's falling back on rituals learned at bruce's side.

and yeah, of course, jason has moments where his emotions will get the better of him and he'll charge ahead without stopping to assess the situation first (which doesn't cause him so much bother as red hood, he's gotten good at improvising.) but usually? he'll hang back and try to plan his way through a problem. he is, after all, practical as hell. what i think jason's developed in the years since he died is the ability to detach and look at things as logically as he can. which helps! but it means that he often pushes people away, because being around people who care about him for any stretch of time reminds him that he's not some monster. he's not just red hood. he's jason todd, and jason todd is begging to feel something other than cold anger and grief. and all of this sort of feeds into this idea of him starting to learn how to trust his emotions again, as opposed to relying solely on the hard evidence sitting in front of him. he needs to learn to marry the brain and the heart together again, or rather, learn how to allow that to happen, as opposed to shutting himself off from it. which is what he's been doing ever since he came back from the dead.

which, of course, isn't to say that jason doesn't feel things beyond cold anger and grief, he actually feels things in great big uncontrollable swells. he's incredibly sensitive and his emotions are no small thing. they're huge, overwhelming even. what i'm trying to say here is that jason puts up a cold, hard shell to keep people out and to keep his own heart safe. he's terrified of it breaking again. he's terrified of loneliness too, but he can stomach that. he can stomach being alienated and alone, he can't stomach being heartbroken. not after all the heartbreak he's already been through. he's got a bleeding heart under the hardass mask he puts up, and that bleeding heart, more often than not, wins out. every time. i should also say: he's kind of terrible at hiding the fact that he cares so much. he does so much for others that it's impossible to miss. you only have to see the way he acts with children and animals to know that he's not just a scary vigilante.

this is a very long winded way of me saying that i hate the one-note interpretation of jason that reduces him to being this angry hot head who never listens to anybody. he's not 'the angry one.' he's grumpy and snarky, which are two of his many (many) defense mechanisms. there's a world of difference between the two. and he doesn't listen to anybody because he's stubborn, and he's proud, and hates accepting help. not because he's 'the rebellious one.' ugh. this was also me begging dc to let jason be competent again. by all means let him be a brawler! but let him be a brawler with brains! because he's not stupid! he's a little overly emotional and can be extremely hard to get along with (read: a total pain in the ass and a brat.) and he can even be melodramatic. he can be self-righteous and sanctimonious, but he's not stupid. he is anything but stupid. this is the same person who took shook up the gotham underworld in a matter of weeks. on his own. his ability to scheme and plan is part of what makes him so formidable to have as an enemy. can you imagine him as an ally? with that same mindset and ruthlessness?