when I told a friend that I was a devout member of the “English teacher Jason Todd” headcanon, her addition was: “what if he catches one of his students in a gang or something? He begins to deal psychic damage while beating people up”
Jason: YOU DIDNT EVEN KNOW HOW TO INDENT A PARAGRAPH UNTIL A WEEK AGO, JARED. PUT THE GUN AWAY Jared: *runs* Jason: *yelling at his back* YES, GO CRY TO THE MOM WHO WAS WRITING YOUR ESSAYS UNTIL TENTH GRADE
the gangs start avoiding him because they’ve found out that any of their newer, younger recruits will flee at the sight of him. (By god, how did he know about that horrible test score? That awkward boner? That PE incident involving a stinky shoe? How did he have that kid’s MOM’S PHONE NUMBER???)
Red Hood has a rule against hurting kids. Both because he doesn't want to hurt kids, but also because if too many kids have to stay home from school with injuries from their bad life decisions, he'd be out of a day job!
- someone calls red hood "Mr Hood" once and jason just freezes. "what did you just call me"
- students notice Mr Todd is like. constantly sleeping. why is the man always exhausted? well, whatever, probably stayed up late grading papers.
- a student gets bored and starts editing teachers faces onto different vigilantes. The old lady math teacher becomes red Robin, the hip with the kids Spanish teacher becomes Nightwing and Mr Todd becomes Red Hood. He actually has to leave the room when he sees it.
- one day, two of his seniors are talking about getting pulled over. "what did the cop say?" and Mr Todd is too exhausted and on too many pain meds to stop himself from announcing "oink" from across the room. "Mr Todd says ACAB" becomes a running joke among his students
- kids in gangs start getting flyers on gang violence and alternate money making methods for teens shoved into their lockers. they can't figure out who's doing it.
And this is the story of how Jason became Aizawa Shouta
