mad man ramblings

dw I'm just shouting into the void pretty much solely red hood things

[nondistinctmeganerd]

Listen, I LOVE Jason and Damian meeting in the league and being raised as brothers but I cannot stress enough how they weren't one big happy family.

Like part of the reason that they are bonded so strongly is that they grew up in an unsafe environment together, like they were in capital D Danger all the time and were the only people that had each others backs there

Growing up Jason was the only person that didn't punish Damian for being a child instead of a weapon, the only person that Damian can trust to protect his vulnerability and Damian is the one that taught Jason to be human again, the only reminder in the league that he was still capable of empathy and gentleness and emotions other than anger

[nondistinctmeganerd]

I like the immortal!Jason Todd hc for many reasons but one of my favorites is that it means that Bruce most likely killed Jason with the batarang

Like Jason obviously knows this and desperately tries to hide it from everyone. He attempts to take it to his grave (which ever one will finally stick) and the truth has to be dragged out of him with claws and hooks that tear on the way out.

[nondistinctmeganerd]

currently in search of fics abt Dick being an actual asshole to robin!jason all the way up until his death and Jason coming back and assuming that Dick still hates him

obvi jason is shocked and confused as to why Dick is acting like he ever gave a shit and he's really pissed that Dick is apparently a model brother now

[nondistinctmeganerd]

don't get me wrong, any red hood identity reveal is gonna do it for me but picture this:

one the fam is out and about (preferably dick), maybe he barges in to a raid that the red hood was doing on a trafficking ring or something of the sort

one thing leads to another and, like most things with Jason, it ends in an explosion

Dick has to retrieve an unconscious Hood from the wreckage and, with the broken visor, gets a glimpse of his face for the first time

instead of recognizing Jason for who he is, because we can all admit its a crazy jump to make, especially for how different Jason looks, Dick only recognizes that the red hood is young. Younger than anyone could have guessed, couldn't possibly be older than 20. Dick, for all of his training and experience, completely short-circuits.

After this incident Jason is furious that Nightwing acts all familiar with him, practically fussing over him and treating him like a baby. He assumes that all of this mother henning means that Dick mustered up all of his brain power to put two and two together. Jason has to admit that the professional distance that Dick mostly maintains stings but he can't exactly be surprised.

Jason finds out how sorely mistaken he his when he gets fed up enough to take off his domino in front of Dick for the first time and ends up with an arm full of blubbering older brother.

[mysticblizzardkitty]

For those interested:

The fic based off this called and now it's done and he's won (what do you do when the devil offers you a drink?) By ScarletRequiem. Here's a link that hopefully (maybe??) works, fingers crossed

Hold down on it to copy

<a href="https://archiveofourown.org/works/70515896"><strong>and now it's done and he's won (what do you do when the devil offers you a drink?)</strong></a> (6835 words) by <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/users/ScarletRequiem"><strong>ScarletRequiem</strong></a><br />Chapters: 3/3<br />Fandom: <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Batman%20-%20All%20Media%20Types">Batman - All Media Types</a>, <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/tags/DCU">DCU</a><br />Rating: Teen And Up Audiences<br />Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply<br />Relationships: Dick Grayson & Jason Todd<br />Characters: Jason Todd, Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake (DCU)<br />Additional Tags: Identity Porn, Identity Reveal, Jason Todd Takes Care of Crime Alley | Park Row, Crime Alley | Park Row Residents Love Jason Todd, Jason Todd Has a Crime Alley | Park Row Accent, Good Sibling Dick Grayson, Good Parent Bruce Wayne, he's trying, Pre-Under the Red Hood, so neither of them even KNOW they're being a good dad/sibling<br />Series: Part 1 of <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/series/5431521">burn the witch</a><br />Summary: <p>tumblr prompt literally too long for the summary box:<br>https://www.tumblr.com/nondistinctmeganerd/793774353672175616/dont-get-me-wrong-any-red-hood-identity-reveal</p><p>He’d been called out to a warehouse on the edge of Park Row, he’d explained to Leslie. They didn’t know Hood was there until Nightwing had snuck through one of the windows and saw him having a tense conversation with the traffickers who ran operations there, and then one of them- the leader, probably- had taken a threatening step forward.</p><p>Hood had remedied that by shooting him in the face, and from there all hell had broken loose. Nightwing dropped down- enemy of my enemy, and also maybe Hood would kill less of them if a Bat was there (he did not) and assisted, but one of the traffickers, by the end, had managed to set up a bomb with non-insubstantial amounts of C4. So then the warehouse had been a smoking wreck. Hood had taken the brunt of it, slamming hard into a wall, mask letting out a sharp crack, and slumping, unconscious.</p><p>And- well, is Dick supposed to just leave him there?</p>

[nondistinctmeganerd]

EVERYONE IN THIS ENTIRE WORLD GO READ THIS

nothing in the world brings me more joy than people worrying fics based off my posts

THANK YOU SO MUCH IT'S SO GOOD I'M PUKING

[nondistinctmeganerd]

and I know that the Red Hood is the red hood but I think it would be really cool if his color was neon green

like the Lazarus pit and still a little joker and part of Robin all together in neon green

not to mention neon green and black is such a kick ass color combo like I'm sorry

[nondistinctmeganerd]

thinking about Jason being the resident Damian whisperer and everyone is beyond confused

Like imagine Damian is out and its late and he's a little banged up. It doesn't take a detective to know that Damian should probably call it quits for the night.

Despite the obvious, any attempt to suggest that Damian should rest is met with indignant protests and threats of bodily harm.

Jason takes one look at the kid and palms his face shoving him towards the bat mobile and just tells him to go to bed

Damian looks surprised for a beat before he acquiesces with barely any grumbling and drags himself to the backseat

Dick and Bruce are shocked to their core, completely and utterly baffled, and Bruce follows Damian to the bat mobile to drive him home

[nondistinctmeganerd]

I LIVE for Jason thinking that his death wasn't that big of a deal for anyone other than himself.

Like before he died Bruce had disowned him and he was never really close with Dick, and then he finds out his memorial says 'good solider' on it and he just quietly accepts his place in the family wasn't even that, 'in the family'

His last parent watched as the joker beat him and died along with him in the end. There was never anyone left to mourn Jason Todd except the twisted version that crawled out of the same grave

When Jason sees pain on the bats' faces when he mentions his past he assumes that its because they don't like being reminded of his fall from grace, the fact that they're tied, even if vaguely, to the big bad Red Hood

One night Dick tries to tell Jason that he missed him and Jason scoffs.

"You don't have to force yourself, dickface", Jason changes the subject to fast to hear Dick try and insist otherwise

If Jason is honest with himself, sometimes he would rather believe the empty words. It's nice to believe that someone still cares, even if just for a second, even if its not really true.

[nondistinctmeganerd]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I need to sit the entire family down in a room and I need a play by play reenactment of Jason's death and resurrection (really just his entire life) and I need a neutral third party to relay the information so no one can downplay how fucked up everything is

like its really not funny because, if left to their own devices, NO ONE IS GOING TO SAY ANYTHING, THEY'RE GOING TO BOTTLE UP THEIR FEELINGS UNTIL THEY DIE

an outside force is needed to physically force vulnerability because LORD KNOWS THEY'RE NOT GONNA DO IT THEMSLEVES

[nondistinctmeganerd]

I'm currently addicted to sick ficsss

pre or post Red Hood it doesn't matter all that matters is that we discuss Jason's aversion to be taken care of

it's all just so delicious

I think that it would be cool if you switched between jason being sick pre and post resurrection highlighting the differences and similarities in how Jason acts when he needs help

[nondistinctmeganerd]

confession time: I still picture a motorcycle helmet when I think abt the Red Hood helmet and at this point I don't think it's ever gonna change

[nondistinctmeganerd]

I've recently been enjoying the immortal jason todd headcannon

like he just keeps dying over and over and everyone thinks that they're just a series of really close calls or insanely lucky moments bc jason just doesn't think that it really matters

eventually it happens with one of the bats as a witness and Jason has to explain how he's alive (he really doesn't know), and did he know (obviously he did), and how many times (yikes)

the family, much to Jason's dismay, forbids him from dying anymore, even if it is temporary

[nondistinctmeganerd]

I've mentioned this before but now it's time to really talk about it, post-resurrection Jason assuming that the fam knows who he is and just don't care is gonna do it for me every time.

like imagine Jason thinks that the bread crumbs that he's left make it glaringly obvious that its him behind the mask and his family is still treating him like a crime lord that sometimes helps people. Like he didn't think that he would be welcomed back with open arms, and to be honest he didn't know what to expect, but the unfamiliarity that he's met with just proves to him that beyond Robin, he never really was a part of the family.

He scolds himself for getting disappointed when they still only call him Red Hood barely care if he lives or dies, so he withdraws and matches the tone of barely acquaintances.

[nondistinctmeganerd]

obviously Jason portrays himself as stoic and aloof, and most of the time he can keep that up pretty well, but I like to think that when faced with positive emotions he is an absolute cry baby of the highest order.

like Jason is not used to positive emotions in the slightest, his whole life its been extremely rare, so i think that positive emotions overwhelm him really easily.

specifically I think that he cries in the rare times that he feels safe. the first couple of times he did it when he was new to the manor, he scared Dick and Bruce half to death thinking that they did something wrong only to make him cry harder when they tried to comfort him.

The first time he does it after his resurrection, Dick dragged him back to one of his safe houses after a pretty nasty patrol, and starts patching him up. Jason starts sniffling and desperately trying to hide the fact that his eyes are welling up, but he really can't help it because he's laying on his couch in a place that's steadily becoming his own and he's hurt and bleeding and he was scared and in pain but Dick is here and he cares and he's gonna make it better.

Dick tries to hide his shock and initial concern which is pretty easy because there is no way that Jason can see him very well with the tears in his eyes and then Dick is fighting back tears too because Jason is crying just like he used to and his baby brother is back and he's gonna be okay and Dick was scared too.

they're both a mess and they both pretend not to notice the other trying to pull themselves together

[nondistinctmeganerd]

BRB I'm getting weirdly territorial over the charcuterie board at the function

[nondistinctmeganerd]

I want more fics that highlight Jason's lost time. like he was dead and then in the league of assassins and he didn't really have time to catch up on what happened in Gotham let alone any pop culture

like i just want everyone to forget that Jason actually has no fucking clue what they were up to while he was gone

especially considering when he died it was him, dick and bruce and now there are fucking 7+ kids that are apparently his siblings

I want him to be shocked at Bruce's gray hairs, shocked that dick is like a full blown (is he really?) adult with a career and shit

[nondistinctmeganerd]

I'm currently thinking about how, before his death, Jason was small

like obviously malnourished growth permanently stunted growth, when he was robin he was tiny

now imagine the Red Hood, 200+ pounds of muscle and just built out of his mind. imagine him reverting to the fighting tactics he learned when he had to take down opponents twice his size

like these guys see this brick shithouse of a man and expect a typical beat down but all of a sudden he's darting around all of their attacks, ducking and weaving, getting up unreasonably close in their guard, kicking out their knees, leveraging them in crazy holds even though he could fully overpower them without it

just a thought

[nondistinctmeganerd]

I love the trope that Jason forgets to tell Damian that his resurrection is a secret and Damian accidentally reveals Jason's identity but allow me to introduce you to the opposite.

Jason bringing Damian to the manor, watching to make sure he gets in safe and all. He isn't thrilled that the family will know about him but he's resigned himself to his fate.

Damian, who knows more than Jason thinks he does about his older brother's history, remains extremely cryptic and tight lipped about his supposed 'brother'. Meanwhile Jason shows up at the front door, mask still on because, even if the family knows he's back he's trying to keep a layer of separation and is like 'I'm here for the kid' and now the family has to try and accept that this mysterious older brother is the Red Hood.

A comedy of errors ensues with Jason acting way too familiar with them until eventually they piece it together, whether that be because Jason directly references his pre-death life, or maybe he gets hurt and they (read: Damian) has to bring him back to the cave for medical attention, maybe Damian is so stressed about his brother and its been long enough for him to forget that there's a possibility that they don't know it's Jason and calls him Todd

The family has a collective meltdown and Jason, still out of it and on pain meds, is just extremely confused, all he can say is 'I thought you knew'.