Hii i hope you're healthy in this turbulent weather (the weather here has been fucked to hell one moment it's hot as balls the next it's raining cats and dogs)
Didn't expect to get two 10k+ chapters in a row 😭🙏 Prime got me clutching my pearls cus WHAT WAS THAT???????? PRIME?????? HELLO?????
Jason : "you brought me back on for no specific purpose??? Bro I'm fucking miserable being alive I was legit chilling in heaven"
Prime : "yea I brought you back to life you could at least be a lil grateful"
MY JAW DROPPED 😭 PRIME NOOOOO THATS THE WORST POSSIBLE THING YOU COULDVE SAID TO HIM!!!!! THE AUDACITY!! Prime bbg I know this is all somewhat like. A fiction for you. but these people actually lived through them
And then he said Jason was overreacting and oh :(( that got me so sad cus Jason has been labelled that so many times and to hear it come out of prime is just 😔 (but prime got to nibble on Jason aheuhshahuehuuhe I feel like a pervert they're so messy I love it)
But Prime for the record between you and Jason I will always 100% take Jason's side. I'm sorry. He could do all the crime he wants and I'd still pick his side. Like, yea he did all that. What about it?? Nobody's perfect . Also you're coming off as a major insensitive asshole here
There are two people on this ship and neither of them knows how to steer it and they're bound to hit a rock sooner or later
And then the Convo with the batfam 😀 I'm so 😭😭 it's like????
Jason : "naw prime didn't do jack shit twas me all along. He was a child trafficker"
Batman : "yk I used to think u kill for like some misguided greater purpose but now I think you just enjoy it"
Did Jason not just tell Batman that he was a child trafficker???? Does killing that not count as a greater purpose or what??? are they having different conversations here cus I feel so dumb??? Maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing (I definitely am lmao) idk
And I did not expect you to bring up the titans tower topic. Holy hell. I usually avoid those stuff cus it pisses me off how much Jason gets portrayed as an evil adult beating up wittle baby Timmy up( be so fr rn it's clearly a skill issue are we even reading the same thing). I am so tired of coming across fics where Jason is trying to atone for what happened and is agonized over it cus "omg I can't believe I almost killed this clearly very small very tiny very fragile child" cus no Jason you're like barely older than him 😭 2 years age gap is nothing 😭 (also maybe this is bcs I'm biased, but I've never really liked Tim's character in the comics cus it's just so not palatable to me. I don't know in what world I can justify someone victim blaming a child who died trying to save his mother just because they're insecure)
And that last sentence in the fic ahahaha. "Not even if it were his last chance to ever see his brother in this life"???? In this life????? So, Jason. Like. Say if you died and then got resurrected and then met Dickie again would that still count as "in this life" or is that fair game (but ofc that would be ridiculous ain't no way that's gonna happen right lol)
P.S. hehehehehehe another scene of them being disgusted over the worm tgt I love it so much
P.P.S. sorry Jason the more you suffer the more entertained I get. Please suffer well 🙇♂️
P.P.P.S. sorry if it feels like I'm spamming your inbox I am just so insane about this story (if it bothers you just say the words no hard feelings 🫡)
P.P.P.P.S. the "then you shouldn't have brought an audience" reminds me of that one comedian that often comes across my yt shorts lol
Hi!!!!! I'm sorry for taking so long to answer, I wanted to give this the attention it deserved!!
First off, I'm doing okay with the heat🫠 I actually enjoy being outside in the heat wave, but being in my room is hell. Hope you're handling the weather okay too! And trust me, I'll never be annoyed about an ask. Ever! Unless it's like a death threat lol. But I love nothing more than receiving something in my inbox. It might take a while to respond to everything, but know it makes my day!
I hope you're getting used to the 10k chapters because I don't think we'll ever go under 6k again. I can't hold myself back. There is too much happening. Also, I think my prose developed over the last few months to be a bit more descriptive and atmospheric than before. But maybe that's just me.
I love all your thoughts/reactions! On the topic of Bruce and accusing Jason of killing for fun, I think in his mind Chuck being a child trafficker is not the real real motif for the murder. Because of the way Jason acted (and how Jason and Prime have behaved about everything up until that point), he sees it as an excuse, not a genuine ideology. And he isn't entirely wrong in that. Jason had no intention of killing Chuck, it just sort of happened, and therefore the murder itself wasn't born out of ideology. The reaction to it definitely was, though Bruce doesn't recognise it. In his mind, the way Jason acts, and the fact he was able to spend three months dicking around with Prime and the Teen Titans after having murdered someone, is a sign that he pushes the reality of the situation away and treats it as a joke, mostly as a coping mechanism. Bruce is just waiting for the day that Jason breaks down in guilt over all the lives he's taken, because that's what would happen to Bruce. He doesn't understand that Jason doesn't feel guilty about this. He feels guilty about many other things, but killing genuinely awful people to prevent them from hurting others, even if he didn't mean to, isn't one of them. But Bruce doesn't get that. He thinks Jason is acting on impulse and has manipulated himself into enjoying it, so he doesn't have to deal with the consequences. He thinks Jason needs help because all the things he did will some day catch up to him and he'll shatter completely. To Bruce, he's saving his son from himself. Bruce isn't bad intentioned, but he fundamentally doesn't understand Jason as a person.
Anyway. Hope that makes sense. There's more to the story, but we're getting into spoiler territory there. In fact, there are other things in this ask I can't respond to lmao. You're all so damn smart
I'm glad you have issues with Tim Drake. I do too. I can't ever forgive him for victim blaming Jason (or more accurately, I can't forgive him for starting the neverending narrative change that Jason indeed was at fault that literally every character and even DC editorial believes atp. They could've had Tim victim blame out of insecurities if it wasn't eventually treated as literal truth). And considering my own background/circumstances, I was predestined to hate the little posh brat with no big problems that replaced the witty street kid that loved helping others despite the awful card he'd been dealt in life. When I first read Jaybin comics as a kid, I felt so represented by him. I used the few Jaybin content we got as an escape and ignored a death in the family as much as I could. I had only seen the animated utrh at the time and watched my siblings play Arkham Knight. I never read anything red hood related. Then, some day when I was seventeen, I felt like I had died. I had issues before, all my life, even, but everything that happened to me at that age made me into a different person and I barely got out with my life. I hadn't read comics in years at that point, but some time later, I asked myself whatever happened to Jason Todd. So I read utrh. And I couldn't stop sobbing. Some parts of it, I didn't quite get at the time because my knowledge was limited, but that didn't stop the emotional attachment from forming. I had never seen myself in anything so much. Or not necessarily myself, but rather a person who went through metaphorically the same things. I think in the span of a month I had read everything he appears in that I could find on the interent. At the time, I didn't live somewhere with a comic book store, nor could I have afforded to buy anything. He resonated so much with me because he wasn't the perfect victim. He came from a hard background, he was angry about what happened to him, he made mistakes, he was violent, he hated himself, he was an active part of the narrative. My own life was very different, but I always felt like there was something we shared. So yeah, safe to say I could never stand Tim Drake for replacing him. Not in universe. I mean out of universe. I mean DC's decision, which was based on so much Reagan era classism, it makes me want to throw up. Sorry for the personal anecdote, but I just wanted to share why Jason is so special to me. And I'm sure most of us have similar stories. It's not a coincidence that he has so many fans who have histories of trauma, especially women, afabs, and fem presenting people, and ESPECIALLY people who grew up under difficult circumstances.
