NAME: Jason Peter Todd
ALIASES/CODENAMES: Red Hood II, Robin II (former), Wingman (Batman Incorporated; retired), Batman (unofficial; former), Nightwing (unofficial, former), John Doe #265, Inmate #8081N02, Jace Johnson, J.P. Haywood
NICKNAMES: Jaybird (by Dick and Roy), Little Wing (by Dick), Jay (by Bruce when he was young, and almost everyone else at some point too) Lazarus (by Joker, the cops, etc.), Gotham Gunslinger (The Press), Red Him (by Bizarro), Little Red Robin Hood (by Duela), Robin Redux (by Duela), Gladiator Biker (Black Mask), Motorcycle Fetishist (Joker), Jayjay (his stepmother), Chickadee (by Penguin, when he was still a child), Psychotic Wild Child (by Green Arrow).
SPECIES: Human
GENDER: Cis Male (He/Him)
D.O.B.: August 16th, 1993
AGE: 23 (*Default), 12-15 (Robin)
HOMETOWN: Gotham City, New Jersey
NATIONALITY: American
ETHNICITY: Mixed White European and Jewish (Bulgarian, Norwegian, German, Czech, Slovakian on his father's side and Irish-Scottish, English and Ashkenazi Jewish on his mother's side)
APPEARANCE/STYLE: Jason is a tall young man at roughly 6'0", or taller depending on what he's wearing. He weighs about 225 lbs and possesses a very muscular frame. To put it bluntly, he's massive, having an extraordinary amount of upper body strength and well defined arms and legs, yet despite his status as the largest member of the Batfamily, he has virtually no displaced body fat, his lightly tanned skin being taunt over the muscles. Overall he's an extremely athletic individual who could dispel any notion that he is not dangerous with his appearance alone. Due to the six months he spent dead his dip in the youth-restoring Lazarus Pit, despite being in his twenties Jason tends to look much younger than he is (19-20). He has a thick bone structure, a slightly rectangular jaw/squared face, a narrow nose and deep-set, almost almond-shaped eyes, hinting very faintly at a Slavic/Western European ancestry. His hair is naturally a striking shade of strawberry blonde, wavy and slightly curled at the ends, but he usually dyes it a deep black, which started when he was young and wanted to imitate what he believed the “ideal” Robin was meant to look like as a symbol. He has bright aquamarine (blue-green) eyes framed by long black eyelashes on both lids, although the upper eyelashes are very light - nearly blonde - at the roots. His eye color has been known to change at times, depending on his mood or the colors he wears, from the natural hue into a light-to-intense jade green, a very soft almost ice-blue or even turquoise color; they've also been observed darkening abruptly into a brilliant shade of forest green when he's furious, but are almost oceanic looking when he is calm/happy.
Due to his lifestyle, he has a complexion that upon close inspection is visibly scarred, to the point of layering. The marks include: numerous knife and bullet wound scars; self-harm scars on the backs of his ankles and on his thighs and right above his bellybutton; healed lacerations caused by broken glass; surgical scars including a Y-shaped one on his torso from the autopsy he received after death which never fully faded away after he "woke up"; three aligning small, white, round and perfectly circular cigarette burns on his right outer forearm, about six inches down from the elbow; there's a faded line running across the four fingers on his left hand from defending himself against a switchblade on the streets when he was young; he also possesses notably deep, raised, but long and thin scars on his back, going down the inside of his right armpit and lengthwise down the side of his torso, these are from being whipped by a car antenna, around fifty or sixty times, as his second “client” had a horse-racing fetish and promised to pay him more if he allowed it. Because of the extent to which the Joker injured him when beating him with the crowbar, he has several smaller scars from fractures that needed to be operated on after he came back to life only to fall into a coma, including a small one on his head hidden beneath the hairline. There are four small bullet wound scars on his abdomen going upwards from when he was Robin and got shot by Mad Hatter's stray bullets; he nearly died. Jason also possesses a birthmark - a nevus flammeus, known more commonly as a port-wine stain - on the back of his neck, just barely dipping beneath his hairline and extending upwards from where the neck meets the skull, making it more or less invisible unless his hair has been recently cut.
Due to his dip in the Lazarus Pit, he now has a deeper greenish hue to his eyes which are most visible when he’s angry, possibly due to the insanity the immersion alongside Ra's Al Ghul caused him, as well as stark white-grey streaks in his bangs that he occasionally also dyes black to match the rest of his ‘do. Because of his poor upbringing, he is generally uncomfortable in overly formal attire, although he will subject himself to it if deemed necessary, and he's been told he cleans up well, he is most comfortable in lose worn jeans and a t-shirt or button down, sneakers/boots, and a hoodie or his favourite leather jacket. He at times uses optic deflection armor to help avoid detection.
UNIFORMS: Following his "resurrection", Jason mockingly took on the Joker’s old mantle of the Red Hood. His interpretation, however, involved dark jeans, a t-shirt beneath an armoured vest, gloves, and a biker’s jacket with pockets that he would hide all sorts of gadgets in. He wore two masks. The first being a red micro-compressible domino mask, fixed in place with spirit gum, which includes a built-in radio transmitter/receiver and white Starlite night-vision lenses that have a UV-light absorbing tint and offer minimal protection to his eyes. His second mask was a iridescent/metallic red helmet, which had many of the same functions as his mask, though it also added better protection for his face, under which he still wore his domino mask for dramatic effect. The ballistics-proof helmet also provides him with a detailed holographic display on the inside of it which can allow him to keep track of GPS signals, make video/audio calls, access an online network, 1080p camera recording, heat sensors, radiography and advanced facial recognition software directly tied into every major government’s criminal database, etc. With it he can see Ultraviolet light, infrared thermography, and x-ray vision. Like Batman he can also utilize a type of triangulation imaging system and 3D scanner to hack into the world's cell phones and cameras and create a realistic holographic display of the world that allows him to use an evidence scanner to create 3D replays of crimes and help him in investigations. It’s also fitted with an air-filtering device in case of chemical/gas attacks and allows for multi-link audio or visual communication with allies.
Following his uneasy re-admittance into the family his costume design was heavily reworked; it’s now made up of a heavy duty protective vest made of triple-weave Kevlar, making it shock, flame, water, acid, explosion and ballistics resistant, not to mention protects him against most bladed weapons. Beneath the vest he wears an extra-durable frictionless and electrically-insulated tri-weave survival bodysuit made out of a Nomex-Carbon-Fibre combination with extra protection around his chest, shoulders, elbows, knees, spine, groin, calves and thighs. It also has geothermal threading that he is able to activate in case of facing enemies such as Mr. Freeze, Killer Frost or Captain Cold. His suit has a defibrillator built into the red Bat symbol on his chest for emergencies should his heart ever stop beating, and a built in taser that he can use to electrocute unsuspecting attackers that attempt to grab him, as well as titanium-dipped flexible armor plating for extra toughness. On the back of his vest is a harness meant to hold two guns (but can be switched out for other weapons i.e. a sword or staff) which he primarily uses when engaging in armed combat. Over his “tights” he generally wears a pair of deep-pocketed jeans or red-and-gray pants to carry extra supplies. For footwear his boots were designed with a more military/tactical look in mind, but steel-toed, waterproof and slip-resistant. His gloves are made of a nitrite-coated Kevlar material, rendering them shockproof, chemical and abrasion resistant, and thermally regulated. At times, he'll switch out the regular brown leather jacket for a sleek silvery-metallic one with red lining and a red hood attached to it (because the red mask UNDER the red helmet just wasn't enough for him).
PERSONALITY: All his life, Jason Todd has walked on the edge of an abyss that threatened to swallow him whole at any given moment, like a supervolcano laying dormant but with the possibility of it erupting and taking out everyone around it within a matter of seconds, still looming overhead. His short life, filled with no end of struggles, left Jason streetwise and savvy, gifting him with survival skills that would always be with him, but it also left the boy jaded, emotionally scarred, angry and cynical. His time on the streets and the abuse that accompanied it has hardened him, and Jason showed signs of PTSD early on, acting out and displaying inappropriate sexual knowledge and behaviors, as well as Attachment Disorder, because of his neglectful parents and distant relationship with Bruce while under his guardianship. Though he could come off as a misanthrope, his hatred is mostly geared at only the most barbaric of humanity, and the greedy who do nothing to help their fellow man. He possesses an extremely dark, borderline morbid, sardonic and at times gaudy sense of humor, an overall bleak and pessimistic outlook on life, and a fierce want to change things for the better - permanently, something he believes Batman’s strict “no kill” policy prohibits. Still, he deeply respected, trusted, loved, and hated his mentor all at once. Though stubborn, his refusal to accept help from others is derived from having to take responsibility for his and his mother’s lives at a young age, leaving him fiercely independent and unused to being forced into a set of strict guidelines. He’s sarcastic, quick-witted, sharp-tongued and defiant, constantly breaking the rules and boundaries other people set for him if only to prove that he can. And yet... he’s not a bad person.
Unstable, confused, and broken by a world he views as full of grey and not as black-and-white as it appears, but he has a heart, and morals, such as refusing to associate or even tolerate rapists, pedophiles, dealers who sell drugs to children, terrorists, mercenaries without a code, and human traffickers. He believes these people to be the scum of the Earth and wants to wipe them off the face of the planet by any means necessary. That said, he isn’t strictly opposed to doing things “by the book” (as much as a vigilante can, anyways). In many ways, his approach to his “job” isn’t spiteful (most of the time) so much as it is well-intentioned, extreme, and in his eyes, pragmatic. His anger at Batman wasn’t solely because he believed that he didn’t have what it took to clean up Gotham, or that he didn’t kill the Joker, or even that he had a new partner. It was all of the above combined with a lifetime of hurt and the trauma his death and subsequent resurrection left him with, leaving him to feel as though his death didn’t matter to anyone. His inferiority complex aside, he’d always felt like the outsider in his misfit family. He was the street rat, the black sheep, the Robin who was "broken" and "volatile" and "dangerous", the one who his “family” called upon as a soldier in a war but not for dinner get-togethers and family portrait sittings. But he proved that even though he let his “feud” with them get out of hand, given a fresh chance today, he wouldn’t try killing them again, and he deeply regrets his actions that profoundly damaged his relationships with them. The prospect of having a clean slate with Bruce and his supposed “brothers” both thrills and terrifies him, in all honesty. Jason doesn’t treat every criminal he faces with deadly force, only using it if he feels it is absolutely necessary and that the person or people in question are completely wicked and beyond redemption, but he reviews his actions on a case-by-case basis, and isn’t above feeling remorse for his actions.
BIOGRAPHY: The first few years of Jason’s life were rather uneventful. He was born and raised in Gotham City by his father and stepmother. His biological mother, Sheila Haywood, fled town after assisting in a botched illegal abortion resulted in the death of a teenage girl. She settled down in England and was meant to be joined shortly thereafter by Willis and Jason, but he fell in love with Catherine Johnson and married her. Realizing she'd have no chance of winning a custody battle, Sheila signed away her parental rights to Jason in hopes he'd have a better life, and ended up travelling outside the U.S. instead, eventually working on famine relief in Ethiopia. As a result of this, Jason grew up believing Catherine Todd was his mom. He was raised in a lower middle-class in Gotham, and all was well at first, his mother stayed home with him while his father worked a regular 9:00-5:00 job as a mechanic. When he was three years old, his mother was taking him for a walk to get ice cream down the street, but a drunk driver struck her in the middle of the crosswalk, narrowly missing Jason, and putting Cathy in the ICU for several months, her condition was touch and go for a while. Although she eventually recovered, her hefty medical bills drained his parents savings. His father, who ended up being laid off from his job shortly thereafter, moved them into a much cheaper residence in Crime Alley just before his fourth birthday. Because of their lack of financial stability, Willis turned to illegal work to support them, meanwhile little Jason was left to take care of his mother, who as a result of the accident suffered from poor health the rest of her life, including chronic pain, which caused such intense suffering that she needed frequent medicating. When they couldn’t afford the insured medicine used to keep her pain free anymore, she turned to street drugs and soon became addicted. Often times he would have to wake her up in the mornings to make sure she was still breathing, help her shower and dress herself, keep away angry dealers (whom she owed) that tried to physically or sexually assault her, etc. He was eight years old when she finally succumbed to her illness and died. Her last words to him the night before she died, which he didn't remember until much later, were "I love you... so much." This indicates that the fatal dosage of drugs she took was suicide on her part. Jason was the one to make the 911 call reporting her dead, as his father wasn’t home at the time. ("My mom is on the floor, and... she's getting cold.") Although she was unresponsive and not breathing when medical attention arrived, they managed to revive her, but she had been deprived of oxygen for too long and was declared brain dead. The hospital shut off life support after her family had a chance to say goodbye. Meanwhile, Jason was taken to the GCPD by the responding unit and looked after by Commissioner Gordon, being placed in a temporary foster home for a couple of days until his father - who was in overnight lockup in another city for a minor weapon's related violation - could come get him.
By age ten, Jason took to pickpocketing people and hustling on the streets in order to help his father, who was trying to forge a better life for them but didn’t have the means to do so. Occasionally, his dad would get rough with him, at one point breaking his arm when he caught him following in his footsteps and gambling, and burning him with cigars as a punishment for stealing, but Jason held no resentment for it (at the time, later he would grow angry, not understanding why he was continuously punished for him just copying the examples he was given), and saw it as him trying to smarten his son up so he wouldn’t end up like him. Willis was neglectful at best and unintentionally abusive at worst, often telling his son that they needed to stay together and that he would be better off dead than in foster care, claiming he would be raped and beaten or even killed, and Jason believed him because when he was much younger one of Cathy's drug dealers offered to help him take a bath, and his father furiously threw the man out of their home. By age eleven, Jason had gotten rather used to taking care of himself as his father was often in and out of jail for days or even weeks at a time, once leaving him alone for over a month with only a few dollars for food. He always came back though… until one day he didn’t. Believing he finally got busted and sent away for good, or that he’d skipped town and left him, Jason ran away when social services came knocking for the boy, not wanting to end up in foster care due to the horror stories he’d heard about it. Later, he’d regret his choice and wish he’d at least stuck around to hear them out and given it a chance.
LIFE ON THE STREETS
At first, everything was okay in his eyes. He slept in condemned buildings or temporary shelters for runaway youth, going to Leslie Thompkins’ free clinic in the East End if he was hurt, stealing wallets and hocking stolen goods to get by. People caught on to him quickly though, and a buck was getting harder and harder to come by, people protected their things better, and even if he was fairly tough, he was still just a child. After holding out for five months on literally nothing but quarters and scraps, Jason was left with no choice but to sell the only thing he had left that he knew people would pay money for; himself. The first time it happened he wasn't even aware it was going to happen. He was so hungry he would have done anything, having not eaten in four or five days. A man in a business suit, Andrew Ryan Walker, who was a prominent criminal defense attorney in Gotham, made him an offer in a subway station. He was rather dehydrated and more than a little out of it at the time, so he didn’t entirely understand what the man was asking of him. All he heard was the offer of payment for food if he did as he was told. The man led him into the nearby subway bathroom, locked the door and took whatever innocence he had left to offer in the next ten minutes.
The man paid him seven dollars for his “services” which was just enough to buy a deluxe burger meal from a small grill joint down in the Narrows. For the fifteen minutes it took him to eat it all, everything was okay again. When it was over, he just felt sort of... numb, emotionally. Physically he didn’t walk right for at least two weeks. He promised himself that he would never go that low again, but it only lasted about two and a half months before he felt he had no choice if he was to survive. In total, Jason let himself be used by nine men over the course of the year and a half that he was on the streets. In his mind, anything was better than dying in the gutter or in some filthy alley, covered in newspaper and cardboard, with no one knowing or caring who he was. Sometimes the abuse lasted for hours before they finally left him alone, sometimes it was over quickly, but each time felt like they were ripping something of his away that he'd never get back; his innocence.
He met Batman when he was barely twelve years old, getting caught stealing the wheels off of the Batmobile after attempting to return to the scene of the crime to see what else he could score from it. Batman saw him, and in fear and retaliation he slammed the Dark Knight in the gut with the tire iron he was carrying and ran. The vigilante managed to find him, however, and upon viewing his living conditions, decided to place him in “Ma Gunn’s School For Boys,” which turned out to be a crime school, so he ran away and in the process managed to help Batman stop the same “school” from stealing the priceless “Smile of Death” necklace for the Joker’s goons. Proving that he had the skills (if slightly crude ones) and a sense of morality (he never hinted that the crimes he’d committed were out of anything than a genuine desire to survive), Bruce chose to take him in as a ward, eventually adopting him, and after six months of grueling training, deemed the boy ready to don the Robin costume as his new partner.
ADOPTION & BECOMING ROBIN
In Jason’s first adventure as Robin, he encountered Two-Face, a villain that Batman had not told him much about. Curious, Jason studied up on Two-Face and discovered that he was responsible for the murder of his father, Willis Todd, whom he wasn’t even aware was dead. The revelation fueled Jason’s anger and grief. When confronting Two-Face again, Jason attempted to strangle him. Once Batman discovered the source of Jason’s anger, they were able to work it out and stop Two-Face together. However, this instance marked the first time when Jason felt unable to talk to Bruce about his problems (and attempted to use lethal force on someone); a trend that would continue until his demise. Unlike Batman’s first sidekick Dick Grayson, Jason was impulsive, reckless, and full of rage. Even on missions in which Batman ordered him to conduct surveillance, Jason attacked first, ruining months of planning. Jason also used excessive force to subdue criminals. In one adventure, asked to “hold off” villains, Jason instantly took to firing at them with a gun, despite Batman’s abhorrence for firearms. As Jason began getting comfortable with his role as Robin, he was startled by the return of Nightwing to Gotham. Once he discovered that Nightwing was the original Robin, Jason felt that his role was threatened. However, after Nightwing talked with Batman, he assisted Jason in closing down a drug lab. Dick gave Jason his blessing and presented him with the original Robin costume. Knowing how cold Bruce could be, Dick also gave his number to Jason and offered to listen if he ever needed a friend. During a troubled time for the Titans, Jason was recruited by Donna Troy to help on a mission. Jason became frustrated by the situation when Donna expected him to figure out plans and save everyone, like Dick would.
At some point in his career as Robin, he and Batman went up against a recently-parolled Jervis Tetch, known as the second Mad Hatter. He'd shifted his focused to simply hat-themed crimes to purposely toying with the Dynamic Duo, leaving them scrambling to figure out what his next move would be. Setting up a Wayne political gathering with a hat metaphor to gain his attention, and succeeded. The Mad Hatter showed up, wielding razor sharp flying hats that he remote controlled. Batman wanted to retreat but knowing how badly he wished to capture Tetch, Robin persisted, injuring his ankle in the process but managing to stop Mad Hatter from fleeing. Upon chasing him up to the rooftop, Batman grabbled with Hatter over the concealed pistol he attempted to draw, and it went off several times. After disarming Hatter, Batman turned around to congratulate Robin on their catching him, only to find his partner laying unconscious on the ground in a growing pool of his own blood. Four of Jervis's stray bullets had entered Jason's torso, no exit wound. Bruce rushed him to Leslie Thompkins’ Clinic, where she told him he'd better learn to start praying, as the boy's heartbeat was faint, and he crashed four times while she was trying to stabilize him. She had to cut one of them out of him, leaving a visible but small scar, and while the boy was left in a medicated state she and Bruce had a brief argument about the danger Bruce was putting him in - but eventually called a truce of sorts and had a heartfelt moment, which Jason remained ignorant of it, thankfully making a full recovery, although he was benched for over two months.
A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
As Jason’s reckless and dangerous behavior continued to grow worse, caused by the unresolved anger over what he'd been through and grief at the loss of his parents, Batman had no choice but to suspend Jason from active duty. Infuriated by this decision, Jason walked out on Bruce and headed back to his old neighborhood, Crime Alley. His former neighbor gave him a box of his parents photographs, papers and other belongings, and he soon discovered that Catherine Ann Todd was not his biological mother. Determined to find his birth mother, Jason used his father’s old address book and the BatComputer to find three women who might be his mother. After following a number of leads, Jason finally tracked down his mother, Sheila Haywood, to Ethiopia, where she worked as a famine relief provider.
While Jason was overjoyed to be reunited with his birth mother, he soon discovered that she was being blackmailed by the Joker, who was using her to provide him with medical supplies. Sheila herself had been embezzling from the aid agency and as part of the cover-up she proceeded to hand her own son, who arrived as Robin after being assured by her that Joker was no longer in the area, over to the clown. The Joker beat the boy brutally with a crowbar in sick glee, and then left him and Sheila in the warehouse with a time bomb. Jason tried desperately to use the last of his strength to get them out of the warehouse and save his mother despite her betrayal, but was still inside as the bomb went off. His last act was to throw himself between Sheila and the explosion in an attempt to shield her from the worst of the blast.
Batman arrived too late to save them and was only able to hold the fifteen-year-old’s lifeless form in his arms. The bodies were taken back to Gotham City for burial. Despite Batman's investigations, the deaths of both Sheila and Jason were chalked up to Robin going after Joker solo despite being told to wait for backup, rather than his being betrayed. This lead to him becoming a cautionary tale for the future Robins (Tim, Stephanie, and Damian + the Teen Titans), as well as sidekicks around the world, so they would not end up like him. It would be many years before anyone found out the truth of what happened that night.
RETURN FROM THE GRAVE & RECOVERY
When Superboy-Prime altered reality from the paradise dimension in which he was trapped, time rippled, causing things that would have happened differently in another world to change, to reverse. Six months after his death, Jason was inexplicably restored to life in his coffin, despite having been autopsied upon and embalmed. The severely injured fifteen-year-old managed to break out of his coffin by using the belt buckle of the suit he’d been buried in to make a dent and then clawing himself out the rest of the way with bloody and broken fingernails. He walked for miles from the graveyard, half brain dead, but collapsed shortly afterwards as he was found by a lost couple who called 911. He’d suffered from flash burns covering most of his body in the explosion, a severe traumatic head injury with bleeding into the brain, multiple full-body contusions and abrasions, multiple bilateral (left and right-sided) rib fractures, a partially collapsed lung, a shattered sternum, a broken collar bone and extreme internal trauma, totaling up to over forty different fractures. After spending a year in a coma and subsequent persistent vegetative state, unresponsive to all mental stimuli, the boy naturally and inexplicably awakened on his own.
Surviving for only on instincts in a near-feral state for over a year as an amnesiac vagrant living on the streets, he was recognized as Robin by a homeless former gunrunner who reported it, and the information was then passed up the chain along to Talia Al Ghul (who was keeping an eye on Gotham because she was worried for Batman’s emotional state after the loss of his partner), who had all those who knew of Jason’s survival slaughtered to avoid word reaching Batman, and took him in, because she thought he had potential, and her father wanted to know the secret behind his resurrection. She believed she could make Batman happy again by “returning” Jason to him (and possibly using the boy for her goals later), but only once he was fully healthy again. She convinced her father to go along and believe him to be Robin by showing him how Jason was able to, after the slightest provocation, take down five fully-trained League of Assassins members with minimal effort.
THE LAZARUS PIT & BATMAN VENDETTA
Jason spent over a year and a half with Talia as a barely-functioning, unemotional shell, while she tried to help restore him to full health, but the mental damage and psychological trauma was too extensive. He was still able to fight, and fight well, due to muscle memory reflex, eat when hungry, shelter himself when cold, but his survival was out of pure instinct (an “autistic affect brought on by brain damage” according to one of the doctors Talia had treating Jason), with seemingly no awareness behind it. As Jason never retaliated when Talia hit him, she believed he was capable of some form of rational thought deep down, and recognized her desire to help him, even shedding tears when she spoke of Batman and Nightwing. Knowing her father wanted the “lost cause" sent away (but taken care of, out of respect for Batman), in a last ditch effort to save him, Talia restored Jason’s health and memory by immersing him in a Lazarus Pit in which her father is also bathing, and the exposure to the Pit’s energies together with Ra’s may have possibly affected his personality.
On Talia’s advice, the now eighteen-year-old Jason discovered that his death was never avenged, and suffered from a severe emotional breakdown in a hotel room when he reads the news about the Joker’s latest murder sprees. He destroyed the hotel room he was staying in, knocking unconscious two men attempting to calm him in the process, before curling into a fetal position on the floor and crying. Later, when the grief lessened to be replaced with feelings of betrayal and anger, he arranged a flight back to Gotham through a mercenary business, ditched the men hired to follow him, and meticulously planted a bomb under the Batmobile with the intention of killing his former mentor, but didn't go through with it. He realized he wanted Batman to know who is responsible for his death and why. After he explains this to Talia, she is horrified, realizing her father was right and rather than having a brain dead child on her hands, she now has a cold, angry, vengeful and borderline-sociopathic man willing to destroy everything her Beloved cared for as payback.
BECOMING THE RED HOOD
Fearing the consequences of restoring his mind, she convinced Jason he needed to be ready for anything, letting him believe she was on his side, and helped prepare him (in reality just stalling him as long as she could, hoping he would change his mind about killing Bruce), to confront Batman by traveling across the globe in the same path of training as his mentor, albeit a far more lethal form. After a period of time perfecting his skills by training with various masters around the world including spending a month with a sniper, several weeks with a master chemist, a month with an expert in transportation named Rip, and even a bomb maker by the name of Shurik Ivanko, etc, he was ready to proceed.
He also killed many of his teachers when he found out what sort of sick side businesses they ran (like Egon, a psychopathic German assassin who was running an illegal child trafficking/sex trade business. He poisoned the man’s drink, dropped the kidnapped children (all forty-two of them being under age ten, much to his disgust) off at the British Embassy, and then returned to make sure he’d finished the job on his instructor. Then he burned everything to the ground to cover his tracks), a surveillance expert who was a pedophile, a small arms guy who ran a smack ring, a close combat master that was planning to kill her husband and daughters, etc.
When he learned that his bomb-making teacher was working for the Russian mob, and that said mob planned to blow up several bombs planted on British-Arab people to convince the government it was a Muslim terrorist attack (thus making their crimes a second tier priority by comparison), Jason singlehandedly tracked down every single bomb and deactivated it, all except one, which he ended up throwing over the Westminster Bridge, saving several hundred innocent lives as a result. He went back to the place he was staying at to collect his things and run but was ambushed by the mobsters, who he took down. In doing this he also found out the Russian gang was working for the Joker, who planned to poison Gotham’s water supply (again), but this time when the water made contact with air (i.e., people turned on their faucets), flames would shoot out. He managed to stop it, and even had the Joker at his mercy.
He covered him in gasoline and was prepared to watch him die in agony… but it wasn’t enough. He didn’t want to kill Batman. He didn’t want to kill the Joker. He wanted Batman to kill the Joker, and nothing less. He believed it to be so Batman would finally "do the right thing" and end him, but in reality the part of him that was still fifteen years old just wanted proof that the man ever cared for him. So he let the psychotic clown live. He told Talia about this, revealed that he wasn’t so sure he wanted to kill Batman anymore, knew that she loved him and had been stalling Jason so he wouldn’t kill him, and she told him to punish him instead. For his pain, for being responsible for the supposed death of Talia’s father. She convinced him to become the Batman that Gotham City “needed,” without any allegiances or self-important morals. She kissed him, and they ended up having sex. He knew it was because she wanted to take advantage of his emotions, to keep him loyal and under her thumb, but he went along with it anyways out of loneliness. When he woke up the next morning she had left him once more.
At some point, Jason was taken by Talia to the All-Caste in hopes of further honing his abilities by helping him learn to channel his anger. He spent a period of time with them (developing a romance with Essence in the process) before going into exile, partially out of his own free will. Later, Jason approached Hush to participate in a game against Batman (in the process confirming to Hush that the information he got from Riddler was correct, Bruce Wayne was the Dark Knight’s secret identity). While Batman attempted to uncover the mystery of Hush, Robin (Tim Drake) was kidnapped and taken to the cemetery where Jason had been buried as bait to lure the Caped Crusader. When he confronts the kidnapper he discovered, much to his surprise and disbelief, that the kidnapper is apparently Jason Todd. During the fight, Jason traded places with Clayface, who then impersonated Jason for the end of the fight. Shortly after Roman Sionis (aka Black Mask) became the undisputed crime lord of Gotham, Jason Todd reappeared in Gotham City as the Red Hood, taking control of the drug dealing racket. A few days later, Red Hood led Batman and Nightwing to a warehouse where they had to fight Amazo.
UNDER THE RED HOOD
After this, Red Hood called Black Mask and informed him that he stole the extremely valuable shipment of assorted Kryptonite from him, and they arranged a deal. Black Mask sent Mr. Freeze to eliminate the Red Hood (which he anticipated) and during the battle, Batman and Nightwing arrived and all of them started fighting. In the midst of the battle, Red Hood escaped, leaving the Kryptonite behind and told them he has gotten what he truly wanted: a “lay of the land.” Shortly afterward, the Red Hood found the Joker and beat him with a crowbar just as the Joker had beaten Jason. The Red Hood then assumed control over several gangs in Gotham City and started a one-man-war against Black Mask’s criminal empire. Red Hood met Onyx and after teaming up with her and crashing a drug dealer meeting, he stabbed her when she turned against him after he murdered the gang.
Batman arrived in time to stop Red Hood from hurting her more and they fought each other with him taunting Batman about his technology and methods, revealing his insider knowledge in an attempt to catch him off guard and provide clues as to who he was. By the end of the fight, Red Hood unmasked Bruce and he revealed his own identity to the man, who was utterly in shock to learn that Jason was alive, and didn’t quite believe it after the Clayface ruse before, causing him to give the man DNA to prove it, knowing Bruce to be a man of science and logic. Later, Jason broke into Titans Tower to confront Tim Drake, the new Robin.
Wearing an altered version of his old Robin costume, Jason immobilized the other Titans and struck Tim down in the Tower’s Hall of Fallen Titans and after a furious battle, enraged that no memorial statue was ever made for him despite him being an official part of the team for a short time (Bruce had instead made a private memorial in the Batcave as a reminder/punishment to himself), Jason finally defeated Tim. Jason left the place after he tore the ‘R’ emblem from Tim’s chest. The fight would remain with him for a very long time. A few days later, Jason started attacking Black Mask’s illegal rackets again, only this time with a much more relentless approach, blowing up his shipments and killing his men when they got in his way.
Soon, Jason found Black Mask’s hideout and used a rocket launcher to destroy the place, all but wiping out his business. This caused Black Mask to join Deathstroke and the Secret Society of Super Villains, much to Jason’s and Bruce's dismay. The Society sent Captain Nazi, Hyena, and Count Vertigo to eliminate Red Hood, but they were defeated by the combined forces of Red Hood and Batman. After the fight and seemingly killing Captain Nazi, Jason left the place, giving Batman a morale lesson. Some time later, Jason used a decoy to trick Black Mask and Batman. Meanwhile, he held the Joker hostage and lured Batman to Crime Alley, the site of their first meeting. Jason and Batman fought for a while until Jason led Batman to the place where he was holding the badly beaten Joker. Jason asked Batman why he has not avenged his death by killing Joker, and Batman told Jason that he will never cross that line.
Jason tried to force Batman to kill Joker or Jason, but at the last moment, Batman panicked and threw a batarang that ricocheted back to Jason’s shoulder and cut the side of his neck, dangerously close to his jugular, causing him to bleed profusely and drop to the ground, passing out cold. The Joker took advantage of the situation and detonated some explosives that destroyed the entire building. That was the last thing he remembered. Although he never said how exactly he survived the explosion, Jason was buried under rubble, pinned beneath debris and only able to bandage the neck wound so he wouldn't bleed to death, before falling unconscious and waiting to regain enough strength to dig himself out.
This event still haunts the young man due to the traumatic similarities of having to dig himself out of his own grave. Jason's never forgiven Bruce for that, for choosing the Joker over him, even if it was because he felt he didn't have a choice in the matter. He still felt like that was the moment when Jason Todd truly died, that Batman had been the one to kill him all over again. He may not have died, but he so easily could have, and in his mind, the man didn't even care enough to pull out his possible corpse. In truth, Batman had panicked because he was desperate to save Jason. Not his innocence, really, but his soul. He knew if he allowed his son to murder the Joker, it would make him the killer by proxy. He believed Jason was worth more than being used as a murder weapon against a man they both hated. Of course, it would take several years for either of them to admit these things to each other.
ADVENTURES IN THE MULTIVERSE
Over the next year, Jason would have several more encounters with the Batfamily, including when he attempted to usurp Dick Grayson’s position in New York as a murderous version of Nightwing, his “adventure” with Duela Dent and exploring the Multiverse. Before the Countdown to Final Crisis, Jason ends up in Star City on 'business.' After tricking Batman into a trap with Brick, he ends up battling against Green Arrow, who managed to disarm him of his guns, causing him to switch things up and draw his sword to fight with. He managed to hold his own against the more experienced vigilante before G.A. got the drop on him. However, like all "Bats," Jason had learned to think ahead and plan. When Green Arrow took his katana, Jason managed to stall him until the explosive planted in his sword's handle was about to go off, forcing Queen to leave him in order toe escape the blast. In the end he managed to escape, while his plan to separate Batman, Green Arrow and Speedy had been a success - the men working for him had captured Mia Dearden.
After having brought Mia to her old high school gym, Jason freed Speedy from her restraints and gave her back her bow and quiver, declaring that he was going to teach her a lesson. While the primary goal was to get Batman off his back (and stop him from involving others in their person business), he also wanted to see how skilled Mia was and get the chance to talk to her, seeing them as kindred spirits due to a similar background (abusive family members, experience with drugs, having to prostitute themselves for survival, and just in general having a tough life). He wanted her to become his ally and show her the benefit of using lethal force over nonlethal, and managed to get into her head by revealing he knew intimate knowledge about her past. It worked to an extent, and they were about evenly matched. In the end though, Mia opted not to join him.
Sometime later, after his acquaintance Duela Dent (aka the Joker's Daughter) is murdered and an attempt is made on his life as well, Jason ends up travelling the multiverse with Donna Troy and Guy Gardner, and later a Monitor whom he dubs "Bob." Eventually ending up on Earth-51 he encountered an alternate version of Batman that had begun using lethal force as a result of Jason’s death, and the world was everything he’d hoped for. They developed a sort of bond and that Batman gave Jason a new costume and persona, Red Robin (which would later inspire Tim Drake’s new identity after Jason threw it away and Ulysses Armstrong began using it), which was intended for that world’s Jason when he outgrew the more childish Robin mantle.
Unfortunately, Earth-51 Batman was killed by Earth-3 Ultraman, deeply affecting Jason and prompting him to murder an alternate version of the Joker who mocked him for loss, vacating alongside Donna Troy, Ray Palmer, and Kyle Rayner to the planet Apokolips before Earth-51’s destruction. After the group is sent back to their Earth, he left them and returned to his crime fighting ways, disposing of his Red Robin costume and the future with Batman that would never be. He also saw a world where he had become Batman, dubbed Earth-15, which would later inspire him to try and take the mantle for himself in Battle For The Cowl.
BATMAN R.I.P.
Following Batman's disappearance during the events of Batman R.I.P. Jason begins manipulating the Gang Wars in Gotham, so as to take control of them. Unfortunately, Jason's approach leads to more blood shed and violence. With both Nightwing and Batman unavailable, it falls to Tim Drake to deal with the mess Jason created. Jason however, asks Tim to join forces with him, though Tim, of course, refuses on the grounds that Jason's methods are too questionable. This leads to a confrontation between Jason and Tim Drake, which is interrupted by the arrival of another Red Robin (later revealed to be Ulysses Armstrong).
Due to a combination of e fake Red Robin's involvement and a gun-toting gang member, Jason was shot in the leg and arrested by police, his leg injury preventing him from escaping on his own right away. Upon the resolution of the gang war in Gotham, Tim Drake - under a pseudonym visited Jason in prison to give him the Justice League access code to release himself from prison, due primarily to the fact that Tim believes that Jason should be given another chance at redemption. Following his escape, Jason continues on the mend, using a cane to walk while his leg heals, and is summoned by Tim to come to the Batcave, where Batman has left his Last Will and Testament statement for him. Or, as Jason referred to it, "Dr. Phil crap." After hearing the statement in private, he prepared to leave, not revealing what he was told, although he does pause before his old costume and the tattered remains of Batman's.
BATTLE FOR THE COWL
After the apparent death of the Batman on his own Earth, Gotham City fell into turmoil without its champion. Jason was summoned to the Batcave by Tim Drake, who told him that Bruce had left something similar to a last will for all of them, including Jason. After listening to Bruce’s last message for him privately, in which his father figure point blank called him his greatest failure, claiming that he was broken and urging him to seek psychiatric help, Jason left the cave, telling Drake that they would see each other again soon. This would cause him to snap entirely, his unresolved issues with Batman and what felt like a rather horrible final message driving him into a psychotic break. Later, Jason donned his own version of the Batsuit, heavily armed and using the cowl previously owned by Bat-Devil. He fought the expanding crime wave but with extreme brutality and he pinned a note to his victims with the words “I Am Batman.” Jason’s exploits started to be noticed by the Batman Family and he revealed himself for the first time to Nightwing and Damian, saving them from several Black Mask enforcers.
Nightwing tried to bring Jason down, but the fight stopped when Jason shot Damian and he managed to escape. Jason kept killing and torturing Black Mask enforcers until his secret base was discovered by Tim Drake and Selina Kyle. Jason knocked Catwoman out and after a long fight with Tim, he finally stabbed him in the chest and left him to die. Jason then went out on a killing spree until Catwoman found him and they fought again for a short time. Jason won the fight by kicking her off an overpass, causing her to lose consciousness yet again .
Jason returned to his cave, where he prepared Tim’s body to surprise Nightwing. However, Tim had survived the attack and escaped from Jason, allowing Nightwing to defeat him after a long battle. During his defeat, Jason decided to let himself fall into the river, much to his older brother’s horror, with the promise of coming back. Following his battle with Dick, Jason gave up his claim to Batman’s mantle, which has befallen to Dick, who took Damian on as his new Robin, with Tim becoming Red Robin after being stripped of his position. As a result, Jason set out to become Dick’s direct competition. He reworked his Red Hood identity to be more dramatic and attention-grabbing by creating a costume for it, being very similar to the original Red Hood outfit the Joker had used. Also, to complete his transformation, he even found himself a sidekick, Scarlet, the daughter of a criminal and the victim of Professor Pyg’s practice of mutilation. His intent was for them to become Gotham City’s new dynamic duo, supplanting the old one.
With his new partner, Jason resumed his brutal and lethal methods of dealing with criminals, but now there was a twist. Using the media and internet, he exposed his methods to the public and actively marketed them as the way things should be done. Public opinion was actually at least somewhat in his favor, especially after he showed Batman and Robin protecting the Penguin from him and Scarlet. He was able to keep ahead of Batman and Robin, getting to criminals first and evading their attempts to apprehend him. That lasted until he tracked down Gabriel Santo who managed to escape Jason. Batman and Robin arrived to stop them, and the two duos fought. The fight went in Jason’s favor. Instead of the two heroes capturing him, he captured them, stripped them naked, and locked them out of his way for the time being. His plan was to reveal to the world on a Twitter web-cam, the identities of Batman and Robin, if the public offered enough attention to it.
ARKHAM ASYLUM PATIENT
It was then that Jason and Scarlet were ambushed by an assassin called Flamingo. He took two shots from a sniper’s rifle, shattering his helmet. While Batman and Robin escaped from his trap, Jason and Scarlet attempted to combat against Flamingo. However both of them proved inferior to Flamingo’s skills, and it was only with the timely arrival of Batman and Robin that they were not killed. Jason used the dynamic duo as a cover, proceeded to crush Flamingo with a truck, while Damian threw himself in front of an attack to save Scarlet, leaving him crippled. Scarlet escaped, and Jason was again taken into police custody. Grayson offered to rehabilitate Todd who, in a moment of clarity, told Dick that it was too late for him, and how he tried to be what Batman wanted, “But this world… this dirty, twisted, cruel and ugly dung-heap had… other plans for me.” He then proceeded to fall back into his hero persona, ranting how he did what Batman never did. He “…defeated his archenemy.” Todd was arrested by Commissioner James Gordon who informed him that the reason he had always worked with Batman is that Batman never violated the law “where it counts.” As Gordon began to lead him away, Jason tauntingly asks Grayson why he hasn’t put Wayne’s corpse into a Lazarus Pit to bring him back, citing his own healing from its waters.
Jason filed an appeal to be moved from Arkham Asylum where he’d been held for observation for the last several months under an alias. Bruce Wayne as Batman visited him there to inform Jason that he’s in Arkham for his own protection despite the Asylum's long history of corruption and failure in containing/successfully treating its patients. Jason pointed out he passed all the psychological tests repeatedly and that there was no reason to keep him in what he called Batman’s “kennel of freaks," as he knew perfectly well what he was doing and why. He despised it there. Every night he would hear the Joker laughing madly at nothing in his cell, and chilled him to his very bone. The other inmates, ones that the Joker had told that Red Hood was in fact the second Robin, would beat and even torture him whenever they had the opportunity, with Harley psychoanalyzing him and giving them insides to his weaknesses. He was forced into solitary confinement once after snapping the neck of a guard who’d attempted to sexually assault him while he was drugged. He tried to report it but the rest of the staff either refused to believe him, or just didn’t seem to care. It made him determined to get out by any means necessary.
Shortly after that incident, which was covered up by the Asylum, he was transferred to a non-psychiatric Gotham prison, and upon Jason’s arrival, the suicide rate spikes among top incarcerated crime figures there (nine). Several homicides also occurred due to many botched attempts on Jason’s life by inmates with a grudge against the Red Hood’s tactics, whom he killed in self-defense, all while making it seem like he hadn't been responsible. Jason escalated things further by poisoning the cafeteria, killing 82 and sickening over 100 more inmates. He was immediately transferred back to Arkham but was broken out of the paddy wagon by a group of mercenaries.
The mercenaries revealed they were under orders to bring Jason to the person that hired them and that he was in no danger. Jason broke free and fought them off all the same as Batman and Robin arrive. Once the hired guns were subdued they reveal their employer had captured Jason’s former sidekick; Scarlet. Dick, Damian, and Jason go to one of the Red Hood’s weapon caches where he assembled a composite costume made from his biker and “superhero” Red Hood attire. After Batman and Robin defeated the mercenaries, Jason rescued Scarlet and escaped using a helicopter. Batman and Robin attempt to chase him, but Jason tells them that he planted bombs over Gotham City months ago. Scarlet desired to stay with Red Hood as his partner, so they headed towards an unknown destination.
SHAKEN
After everything that happened with the Bat-Family, he ended up going on a solo mission. He was hunting down a gang, the Gotham Six, which was supposed to be a small side operation of a larger drug trafficking ring. But it wasn’t. It was even smaller, a handful of mercenaries that were nearly qualified to be supervilains. Some had enhanced strength and one even had minor electrical powers. He wasn’t prepared for that, and was already running low on supplies. They managed to capture him, and had some “fun.” Torture. It was pretty standard stuff. Nothing too dangerous until one of them broke his right leg, snapped the bone clean in half above the knee. He needed to be able to get out when they were done with him, so he convinced them that the pain was getting to him, he could see the ways they were looking at him, and knew it was his best bet. He was subtle, knowing just what to do, until one of them made a move.
He jumped on it, and told him he’d made deals like that before - sex for survival, and that they could get the bragging rights of what they’d gotten from the Red Hood. He hated it, but knew it was the best way to get out so he did what he had to. He let himself get fucked by practically the entire gang. One of them was rougher than the others though, sadistic, wanted to cause him pain. He had a crowbar. Jason couldn’t help the physical reaction the sight of it caused, and the guy took advantage of it, holding the crowbar against his throat while he raped him, and making Jason get off involuntarily to the fact that he was practically being choked, hands restrained behind his back (making it all the worse because that was the same way the Joker had had him cuffed when he was killed). It felt like dying all over again, especially when the man decided to try sodomizing him with the crowbar afterwards. He killed every last one of them the moment he had the chance, but he knew that memory would stay with him for a very long time.
RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS
Eventually parting ways with Sasha so the teenager could attempt to pursue a life free of vigilantism, Red Hood formed a group known as the Outlaws, which included Starfire (Princess Koriand'r of Tamaran) and Arsenal (Roy Harper). After being told by his ex-lover and fellow former member of the All Caste, Essence, that they were the only survivors, he prepared to hunt down a group known as “The Untitled”, who were able to remove people’s organs before death without any sign of surgical removal, which was their calling card. Forced to destroy the reanimated zombies of his former friends and teachers, he paid his respects and swore vengeance despite no longer being the killer he once was. He was led on a wild goose chase across the globe.
>Eventually, he came across an Untitled, who was in hiding, and who told him that they were set up, but he stil fought him. Jason killed the creature, strengthening his resolve. It was later revealed that the Untitled and All-Caste’s powers were derived from the same source, and that Essence had set them up. At first Jason felt betrayed, believing her to have led the order to their deaths. Essence explained that her family were linked to the forces of evil, almost as old as coherent thought itself, and that by destroying the last of her “family” that evil would be gone forever, but she was defeated thanks to the Outlaws and their use of Crux’s technology, although he didn’t believe her to be permanently gone.
Following all of this, Jason returned to the All-Caste and attempted to wipe his own memories, purifying his soul, so he could defeat Ra’s Al Ghul, stopping him from using the powers of the Untitled to become a literal God of evil. Jason was captured and chained soon after. He apologized to Roy and Kor'i for all he’d done and, as his friends are about to be executed, he gained his memories back. He and Cheshire free the Outlaws and Jason entered the Well of Sins to face Ra’s Al Ghul. After initially being outmatched, Jason accepted the darkness in his heart but embraces his light, allowing him to defeat his worst fear (figments of the Joker created by the Well of Sins, attempting to kill him) and soon after he beat Ra’s and took his power away. Essence arrived and helped the Outlaws escape the city, arriving in the Chamber of All. She expressed her thanks and asked if Jason would join in the rebuilding of the All-Caste, but he declined and the three leave the temple.
DEATH OF THE FAMILY & BATMAN INC
At one point the Joker abducts Alfred, Jason (by drugging his then-girlfriend Isabel and calling the cops to his apartment, then gassing him into unconsciousness when he takes off to find who hurt her) and the rest of the Batfamily (sans Bruce) as a way to torment Batman even further, sending him on a wild goose chase beforehand before the Bat realizes what's really going on. Joker places them all in an elaborate death trap in the Batcave and drugs them, causing them to believe he'd severed all of their faces and delivered them to them on plates for dinner. Bruce manages to save them all, but it leaves the group sufficiently traumatized. He and Bruce come to a sort of reconciliation after he is nearly gassed to death by the Joker rigging his helmet, and he is taken care of at the manor by Bruce and Alfred. Jason begins to see Bruce in a new light when he learns that his adoptive father had sat by his bedside the entire time he was in a medicated coma, healing from the poisoning. He even attempts to apologize to Bruce, for everything, upon waking up, but his dad silences him with a hug.
Feeling his former protégé deserved a second chance, Batman offered Jason a place in Batman Incorporated as the second Wingman, only asking that he do not reveal his identity to the others. He teamed up with Damian Wayne briefly, who operated under the name Redbird, though Damian was unaware of this. Upon finding out who his partner had been, Damian reacted as hurt and confused. This was doubled by the fact that Bruce then informed him that he was to be benched as Robin until further notice. Batman Inc. was at war with an organization named Leviathan, headed by none other than Talia al Ghul. She sought to destroy Batman and even put a bounty on her son’s head. At the time of joining, Jason believed he could be “redeemed” through his membership, but his Wingman ruse was exposed and he returned to being the Red Hood. Although Batman was proud of him, he regarded his days as part of the organization a failure.
Shortly before his death, Damian Wayne decided he wanted to prove himself as the superior Robin, and organized a meeting between himself and his "brothers," whom he told he was going to defeat at something they felt unbeatable at and then steal a possession of theirs as a trophy to hang in his room. With Jason, he broke into the second Robin's safehouse and planted a crowbar in his bed as a psychological tactic, causing Jason to have vivid flashbacks of his death at the hands of the Joker, giving Damian the element of surprise when he attacked him behind. The two duelled for a bit, mostly with words, during which they took verbal stabs at each other, with Damian taunting him about how he (Jason) is the one that is used to being beaten, and bringing up the fact that his mother Sheila handed him over to the clown without any care, saying his death was his own fault for not listening to Batman's order, to which Jason responded that they BOTH got the shitty end of the stick when it came to having horrible parents, what with Damian's father being cold and detached and his mother literally putting a bounty on his head. Damian in the end managed to rile Jason up enough to get him to drop his guard, then electrocuting him into unconsciousness and stealing his helmet as a reward. While mildly irritated at this (and more than a bit shaken up by the crowbar, causing him to throw it out the window), he still came to aid Robin and Batman, alongside Red Robin and Nightwing, when the city was under attack, even commenting that if it wasn't Talons bringing them all together it was something else.
BETRAYAL
Despite the fact he was now apart of Batman Incorporated, Jason barely got involved with the team and was not present when Damian was killed. However, he did approach Bruce upon learning of the fourth Robin’s demise and attempted to soothe whatever pain he was feeling. After the death of Robin, at the hands of Heretic (an adult clone of Damian), he and Batman partnered for the first time since Jason’s own days as Robin. Bruce brings him to a mission in Ethiopia, supposedly to punish some of Damian’s other would-be assassins, when in reality it was a convenient excuse for Batman to take Red Hood to the place of his death, the Magdala Valley, in hopes of gaining insight into his resurrection (to apply to the method to Damian). In making him relive his own death - the one thing he would have given anything to forget - Bruce shattered any chance of them ever repairing their relationship, at least in his mind. Used, hurt, betrayed, Jason and Bruce exchanged harsh words and blows before splitting up. Upon realizing his old mentor had once again reverted to his cruel emotionless tactics in his grief to bring Damian back, he once again cut himself off from the Batfamily. He later saved Bruce's life when Talia poisoned him while they were duelling to the death over whether Leviathan would relinquish its hold on Gotham City. She believed he was on her side and was willing to trade the Oroboro trigger - which would detonate several cities and leave a new energy behind in the destruction - for the antidote to Bruce's poison. Talia administered it, and Jason revealed the weapon had already been deactivated, effectively double-crossing her much to Batman's shock. Jason was present when Talia was then assassinated in the Batcave by a Spyral agent. He did it because it was the right thing to do, but he still had mixed feelings about her, and about his place in the Batfamily.
MEETING SUPERGIRL
At one point, Jason became acquainted with Supergirl after she, Superman, Krypto, Batman, and Batgirl have to team up to defeat the son of Mogul, named Jochi, who demands a fight to the death with Superman and Batman as revenge for his father's imprisonment in the Phantom Zone, threatening to devastate the Earth with another Warworld unless they cooperate. The Batman Clan and the Superman Clan are forced into a tournament against each other, but neither side will surrender nor kill their opponents. Batman ends up utilizing Kryptonite, as their planet will be destroyed if either hold back, in order to even the odds and stretch the battle out for as long as possible. Red Hood and Supergirl end up fighting against one another as well. Jochi calls for the battle to end with mercy but his citizens refuse to listen. Batgirl and Steel manage to disable the Warworld's weapons, and Batman calls for them to evacuate, but Jochi chooses not to leave his home even knowing he will be killed, and cuts Batman's line, much to Bruce's shock and horror. In the end the Warworld crashes into the Phantom Zone, leading to Jochi's death at the hands of his own father. Clark and Bruce end up having a (one-sided) talk about how Jochi changed in the end, and Clark mentions Superboy, his dead son, and how he like Damian had been bred to be an assassin, a weapon, but he died a hero. He begins to wonder if they could have saved them but the wound is too raw for Bruce still, who cuts Clark off and tells him to stop.
At one point, Jason does something he thought he'd never do - take drugs. Specifically, Venom. He does so to get an edge over his enemy, before realizing something had happened to his friends. Starfire had gotten drugged up somehow and nearly burned Roy to death. She drops him off at the ER before disappearing to track down the one that put her in that state in the first place. Jason puts in a call to Oliver Queen and defends Roy and Kory when he begins bad mouthing them. Essence stops by and heals Roy before departing once again, and Oliver thanks the both of them.
Eventually he visits Crux, disguised as a doctor, to ask for his help tracking Starfire. Initially, he attacked and knocked out Red Hood, taking him back to his ship. Simon Amal shifted back into his human form and thanked Jason for their "unorthodox intervention." While Jason was surprised at first, Amal told him that he had seen the error in his ways, and even revealed that he had stayed in Arkham Asylum willingly, faking his mental condition, to help other inmates. He eventually to help Arsenal and Red Hood find Starfire. They eventually pinpoint her location in the Amazon where she was helped by her sister Blackfire, and Jason has a run in with his ex-fling Rose Wilson, aka the second Ravager. She greets him by trying to kill him. They eventually come to an understanding. Ravager attempts to kill Starfire, who had angered a lot of people in an attempt to track down the man that tormented her, making her death a priority to Rose. The fight lasts less than a second when Starfire easily throws Rose aside into the mud and passionately kisses Roy in greeting. Jason helps Rose up while telling him he'd better not tell anyone he witnessed the embarrassing moment.
Later, Jason breaks into the apartment of Supergirl's friend Michael and waits for her. He, Superman, Starfire and Arsenal have discovered illegal alien-killing technology being smuggled onto the streets of Earth, including Metropolis, and he proposes a team up to help get rid of them, since they worked so well together last time. She's initially angered, and grabs Jason but he surprisingly managed to break her hold on him, causing her to remark how he is much stronger than an ordinary human. After being thrown out of a window by her and telling her he just wanted her attention, he proceeds to explain his reason for 'ambushing' her. She claims he didn't turn to Batman for help because he's hiding something - like whatever the foreign substance in his blood (it's Venom, as it turns out) is that makes him so strong. Jason ends up taking off once the mission is over before she can question him further on his abnormal blood. Although there was a few moments where they hint at an attraction to each other, Kara wants a normal love interest, not another bad boy, as she later tells Michael. Upon witnessing this through his binoculars, Red Hood quietly congratulates her. Jason realizes that even though the injection of Venom hyper-steroid he gave himself a couple of days ago didn't make him addicted, it very easily could have, and he decides not to use it again as a result. The increase in abilities it gives him are not worth it. Roy expresses pride at his best friend being strong enough to resist, and he puts the idea of the drug behind him for good.
APOKOLIPS
Despite all the bad blood between them, perhaps out of a faint piece of hope left, or out of a sick masochistic need for more hurt, Jason helped the family, along with Batgirl and Cyborg, rescue Damian’s body from Apokolips which ends in his resurrection. With their mission successful, they share a warm reunion, but a part of him still didn’t feel like he truly belonged with the “good guys.” At this point Jason no longer enjoys actually killing his targets and eventually swears it off for good, only for him to relapse when he learns that Joker's Daughter had joined them in order to stage a very public execution for Arsenal, out of spite for Jason. The series of events in which Roy is nearly killed by "vote" (an allusion to how his character was killed off by comic fans poll), leads to Jason shutting down the Outlaws for the safety of his friends, and lying to Roy about them not being friends to make sure he stayed away from him, thus becoming a solo vigilante once more.
DARK TRINITY & REJOINING THE BATFAMILY
Despite understanding Batman's one rule now more than he ever had, Jason still felt that believing no one should be killed was naïve and absolutist. But he still agreed to be civil towards the others, and grudgingly to attend therapy, and while they still didn't fully trust each other, there was something between them now that they hadn't had in years = hope. Slowly, he began integrating with the Batfamily again. They decided to take it one step at a time. Red Hood kept his kills strictly outside of Gotham for the sake of not butting heads. He stopped neutralizing the "redeemables" (i.e. petty criminals), and stuck with rapists, wanted terrorists, and pure psychopaths, letting the Batfamily handle the punishments inside the city. It didn't stop him, however, from having to keep up appearances for reputation's sake, but he always made sure no one innocent got caught in the crossfire. When he wasn't helping beat down the worst kind of criminals, he was lecturing young kids about the dangers of drug use and telling them that not every criminalized substance was as harmless as marijuana seemed to be, he became close to them and the working girls because he understood them more than the rest of his family could ever hope to. He developed a closer bond to Dick and Tim and Cass, and was friendly with Barbara and even the ones he didn't know too well (Cassandra, Damian, Stephanie, Duke and Harper). For the first time it what felt like forever, he was actually happy.
Of course they all still had their ups and downs as the months went by, but it was AS close to being 'good' as it would ever be, that was perfectly fine with him. He later ended up faking the murder of the mayor of Gotham (in reality saving his life from a technological virus) and making it seem as if he had assassinated both the mayor and the cops attempting to stop him on live television to help build up his reputation once more. Then, he went undercover in Black Mask's organization, after getting a lead from the recently paroled Fay Gunn, he lead the man to believe that he was in fact the third Red Hood, not the second (who had caused Black Mask much grief early in his career). The man didn't buy it, of course, but the game of cat and mouse continued. The man was looking for an heir to his criminal empire, but of course was suspicious of Jason after all he'd done. Despite their slowly repairing relationship, Jason, still sour about Bruce's lack of trust in what he was and wasn't willing to do, ended up becoming close to Roman, who asked him to steal an "ultimate weapon" for him. Artemis, an Amazon, believed he was looking for what she was also trying to find - the Bow of Ra's - when in reality what Black Mask was after, was a clone of Superman. The two teamed up in an attempt to stop him, only to both be knocked unconscious. Jason woke up to find Roman supposedly believed he was trying to trick Artemis, and showed him the clone - created by Lex Luthor before he supposedly "went straight" and ordered it destroyed. Jason felt an immediate connection to the Kryptonian clone, seeing the parallels between Talia "waking up his mind" in the Lazarus Pit without his consent, and him being forced into consciousness. His compassion for a clone that may or may not even live more than a month caused him to go to a toy store and purchase a Superman plushie for Bizarro, defending his actions to Artemis - just because he had the potential to be dangerous doesn't mean he should be treated as something less than a living being.
After Bizarro lost his cool and nearly attacked Jason for him and Artemis talking about him like he wasn't there (which Bizarro didn't like despite referring to himself in the third person), the young man managed to defuse the situation by telling the clone to use his friend, the Superman doll, to say what was wrong. The clone felt sad and disillusioned by the fact that he wasn't Superman, he felt alone. Jason could relate, and reassured Bizarro that he and Artemis were his friends. Later, after revealing to Red Hood that he knew all along who Jason was, and that he was planning to take him down. Black Mask offered Jason partnership, the opportunity to clean up Gotham his way, together. Jason refused, and threatening him with the techno-organic virus he'd poisoned the mayor with, Roman unleashed Bizarro on him. He tried to kill Jason, but the the vigilante managed to stall Sionis long enough that his connection to Bizarro became corrupted and fried his brain. He ignored Roman's plea to save him with the virus's cure, citing his promise to Batman. Jason ignored him, however. He had promised not to kill Black Mask... but he didn't have to save him from himself, either. Black Mask slipped into a coma, and when Jason confessed to Bruce they had a heart-to-heart about what he had done. Jason decided he was going to do things his way from now on, and Batman told him he didn't need the Red Hood to be more like Batman, as there already was one. The two began to slowly reconcile after this. Later, after all was said and done, he started up a sort of team with Artemis and Bizarro, with the two males promising to help her track down the 'Bow of Ra' she so desperately wanted. They agreed it would be a one time team up, although Bizarro seemed to believe differently.
As Artemis was following leads on the Bow of Ra, Jason and Bizarro got to work on shutting down Black Mask's still running operations. It was during one particular fight that Jason realized just how volatile the clone could be, which was only confirmed by secret LexCorp files he and Artemis looked at, learning that if Bizarro were to throw a tantrum, with his strength and mental capacity, it could result in devastating consequences. Realizing what he had to do, Jason stole a small shard of Kryptonite from the vault in the Batcave and took Bizarro to the outskirts of Gotham to watch the sunset at the edge of a lake, beneath the flowering cherry blossom trees. As Jason was getting ready to shoot the clone in the back of the head, Bizarro started to talk about his false memories - Superman's memories - that had been implanted in his head, of Kal-El's parents sending him to Earth to save his life. He said his true, real life didn't start until he'd met Jason and Artemis, and that he was going to do the best he could for his new friends. Jason couldn't bring himself to kill Bizarro, and instead took him home, resigning himself to being responsible for whatever might happen in the future.
Jason, Artemis and Bizarro headed to Egypt where the General of Qurac was, as they had a lead that the Bow of Ra was in his hands. Instead, they were shot down out of the air by the man using the weapon against him. Jason nearly died after crash landing in Ethiopia, but thanks to the defibrillator built into the Bat symbol on his chest he didn't, instead forcing himself awake only to be captured by the General's men and imprisoned in the Magdala Valley for interrogation... just a few feet away from the warehouse where he died. Jason demanded to know if the Joker was behind this but the men wrote him off as crazy and/or confused before leaving him, there Jason began to hallucinate his younger dead self, as Robin, who commentated that he was probably better off dead. Jason agreed with him, and "they" waited in the cell, either for his friends to rescue him or to get to meet with the General in person. The memories (or possibly his concussion from the plane crash) caused Jason to hallucinate not only the Joker but also his past self as Robin, whom he had a conversation about letting people in and growing up with and ultimately had to abandon in order to snap out of it, though it hurt him to do so he knew he couldn't keep living in his past.
Meanwhile, Artemis had landed in her formerly destroyed home, Bana-Mighdall, where she was met by her best friend who she had previously mercy killed to stop her from destroying the world after the Bow of Ra drove her to insanity. She was later brought back to life accidentally by the General of Qurac who learned that only the chosen could wield the Bow of Ra, and trying to replicate her cells also brought her back to life. She tells Artemis that she has assembled an army to take back the Bow from the General through force. Artemis and Akila have a tearful reunion. As this is happening, Bizarro had been launched into Qurac and was soon asked for help by the locals whose homes had been destroyed, leaving the three separated.
Jason snapped out of his hallucination to find himself tied to a chair and covered in blood; apparently he was being tortured but he didn't notice or feel a thing due to being so wrapped up in his own head and the demons it holds. Due to a slip of the tongue, Jason learns it wasn't the General of Qurac that shot their plane out of the sky, which also means that it wasn't their army that has the Bow of Ra either. With growing horror, Jason realizes that it was actually Akila that attacked the plane, and learning she was not only alive but once more in control of the Bow, and with Artemis, meant nothing but certain destruction.
Red Hood and General Heinle's army stand across from Akila and the Amazons of Bana-Mighdall. As the fighting begins, Red Hood is pulled to one side by Artemis who is hunting down the Bow of Ra. She grabs the General who reveals that it is not he who has the bow but Akila, just that moment the resurrected Shim'Tar herself fires an arrow and disintegrates the General. Artemis summons her axe just as a large explosion from within the mountain covers Akila in debris and Bizarro walks out, a trail of refugees following him. Akila surges up and knocks Bizarro off into the distance and notches up another arrow, this time aiming for Artemis. The divine blast ought to obliterate the Amazonian but she walks out unharmed allowing for Red Hood to attack Akila while she is distracted. Using his All-Blades he can damage her magic though the attacks themselves are too weak to disable Akila. Bizarro rushes in again to help and the two distract Akila for long enough for Artemis to notch up arrows in the Bow of Ra, understanding now that she is the true heir and that is why she was unharmed. The arrows find their mark and Akila begins to explode with light, Bizarro flies her up into the atmosphere where she goes nova and explodes.
Hours later, Artemis and Red Hood share an intimate moment on a rooftop but below them Bizarro is discovered, his heart not beating.
At Ma Gunn's Home for the Criminally Impaired, Jason, Artemis, and Ma Gunn try to treat a dying Bizarro. Artemis argues that he needs real medical attention rather than the improvised efforts of a former army nurse. Faye reminds her that after their adventure in Qurac, the Outlaws were branded war criminals, and therefore cannot go to anyone qualified to help. As Jason tries to comfort Bizarro, but Artemis is against giving him false hope. Before talking further, Faye tells them that the only thing she can deduce about Bizarro is that he needs rest.
When they return, Jason expresses sadness at watching his friend die, even though he knew from the start Bizarro would not live long. Artemis, having recently lost a dear friend too, tries to support him as best she can. However, Ma Gunn directs their attention to a newscast covering Solomon Grundy rampaging at a nearby street fair. Artemis moves to face Grundy alone so Jason can stay with Bizarro. Jason, more experienced with Grundy and upset at the attack on his old stomping grounds, resolves to come anyway. Before they go, Artemis asks her goddess to watch over Bizarro.
At the street fair, Grundy is about to hurl a dunk tank with a clown inside into the distance, but Artemis stops him. However, just as Jason warns her not to underestimate their opponent, she is downed. Jason stands his ground as best he can, but he quickly falls as well. Back at the nursing home, Ma Gunn is reading to Bizarro when he comes to, saying his friends need him. Faye is surprised that he can hear them, and he explains that he always hears everything. She tries to talk him out of going, telling he will be making a one-way trip. Even though he knows this, Bizarros cares more about Jason and Artemis than his own life. With that, he dons his suit and flies to the rescue. As she fusses about the mess Bizzarro made, Faye notices a piece of mail from Gotham City Jail...and laments when she sees Jason's name on it.
At the fair, Bizarro arrives as Solomon is about to kill Jason. Though he tries to talk him out of it, Bizarro lays into Grundy, but is batted away. Jason and Artemis try to keep Grundy occupied so Bizarro won't have to fight, but he refuses to let them fend for themselves. As Grundy bests the two again, Bizarro uses his freeze vision to coat his hands in ice and manages to knock Grundy out. Bizarro relentlessy pummels Grundy until Jason and Artemis get him to stop. They try to get him to return back to the nursing home, but he tells that wherever his friends are is home before collapsing.
In his last moments, Jason and Artemis thank him for saving their lives. With his last breath, he asks the two to take care of his doll, Pup Pup, which he brought with him, then dies peacefully. Jason, now in denial, suggests finding a Lazarus Pit, but Artemis tells him that they should simply honor his last act without tears. As they mourn, someone appears behind them and knocks them out before they can react. This someone, revealed to be Lex Luthor, expresses curiosity at his dead creation.
(More to be added when I catch up later; RHATO Rebirth #13 and on)
STRENGTHS/TALENTS: Due to his time surviving on the streets, his training with Batman and later his own independent honing of his abilities after his consciousness was restored by Talia, Jason possesses a stunning number of physical and mental attributes, and is someone who has frequently gone head-to-head with some of the best trained human heroes alive, and several inhuman ones as well. By matching his former mentor in combat he has proven that he is physically superior to most Olympic-level athletes; his flexibility, strength, speed, reflexes, stamina, and endurance are remarkable, and while he was always naturally the best brawler among those to bare the title of 'Robin', due to his street savvy and violent nature, following his revival he gained training from around the world and became exceptionally more skilled than before. He’s been trained by arguably the greatest fighters in the world, including; Batman, Nightwing, the League Of Assassins (specifically Talia Al Ghul), Bronze Tiger, Lady Shiva, and the All-Caste, whom he was considered the most successful pupil of, earning him respect and secrets only he has thus-far been able to unlock via many ancient forms of dangerous - even life threatening trials and meditation in order to reach his full potential. He later studied body language with his sister - former assassin Cass Cain (martial arts master and daughter of the Shiva and David Cain) and bojutsu with Tim Drake, the undisputed greatest staff fighter in the world.
While Jason is a master martial artist, gymnast, skilled acrobat and swordsman (able to defeat Ra’s Al Ghul himself, albeit through somewhat mystical means, as well as hold his own against Green Arrow before eventually being disarmed), he specializes in marksmanship, and is a proven dead-shot with both long and short range firearms, capable of using pinpoint precision. Not only is he ambidextrous (though left hand dominant), he is knowledgeable on human behavior and physiology, including their weak spots (vitals and pressure points). He’s also equally dangerous as an unarmed foe, capable of utilizing not only an intimiate knowledge of human physiology, but a ruthless style of combat. Jason is versed in Dim Mak and other pressure point techniques designed to incapacitate foes, including using different 2 and 3 finger nerve touches that can instantly knock out, kill or even paralyze his enemies depending on how they're applied. Like Batman he's also studied up on the movement and behavior of human beings, including memorizing the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) developed by Paul Ekman, learning about the 43 distinct facial movements and 3,000 possible combinations for identifying the entire spectrum of human emotion; eyes, lips, nose and eyebrow movement, facial tics and fleeting micro-expressions are all things he's studied extensively in order to improve his non-physical capabilities, making him even more dangerous as an expert at lie detection and interrogation.
Although he has not mastered every major martial art and style as his mentor has, Jason has still managed to conquer an astonishing range of seventy-two different forms of combat, including multiple forms of stick and knife fighting, three variants of kickboxing, bare-knuckle fighting, several fencing styles, four types of Jiujitsu, as well as: Boxing, Capoeira, Muay Thai; Aikido, Kali, Taekwondo, Vale Tudo, Wrestling, Varma Adi, Karate, Defendu, Jeet Kune Do, and multiple Kung Fu styles (Southern Dragon, Eagle Claw, Black Tiger Fist, Southern Praying Mantis), Kalaripayattu, Silat, Krav Maga, Hung Gar, Kempo, Shaolin, T'ai-Chi, Savate, Hapkido, Judo, Systema, Wing Chun, Tang Soo Do, and several others, all of which he incorporates into his own unique form of combat. He’s also very skilled in terms of Ninjutsu and Parkour, mostly due to his time with Bruce, his street fighting, and as a result of expensive private tutoring, the former second Robin is a highly capable detective and polymath, being well-versed in the sciences, mathematics, medicine, forensics, computers and advanced technology, firearms, criminal profiling, world history, geography (including latitude/longitude code), in addition to numerous other skills. Jason has also been shown to be very patient and excellent at planning when he wants to be - having the foresight to trigger a remote detonated explosive in his helmets in case he needed an on the spot weapon, and planting bombs around Gotham months in advance to give him an edge over Batman and Robin (giving them the choice to either pursue him and returning him to jail or disarm them and save civilians).
While on his quest for vengeance, Jason was taught by a world renowned bomb maker and is able to assemble/defuse a wide variety of conventional explosive devices, from improvised to military grade designs, and has been taught to drive a variety of vehicles from cars to boats and even being trained in the Middle East by an ace pilot to fly helicopters, learning everything he could from a master chemist - all things he learned on Talia’s dime. Aside from his extraordinary physical capabilities, Todd is also highly adept at psychological warfare, predicting enemy moves before them, and possessing competent leadership skills. He moves surprisingly quickly and efficiently for someone of his size, can bench several times his own body weight in repetitions, and is multilingual due to his travels, now conversationally fluent in roughly fifty-two languages, not including ASL and the ability to read body language, plus communicating in various codes such as hand gestures, smoke signals and Morse code. He's also quite strong, having been able to lug around tires and double Batman over by nailing him in the stomach with a tire iron (when he was twelve and very underweight no less), and even able to break the hold of Kryptonian hero Supergirl after a very brief exposure to the street drug Venom a few days prior, causing her to comment on his abnormal strength for a human. He is capable of lifting several times his own body weight and can bench press up to 1200 lbs in repetitions. Despite having missed more than a year's worth of education after his father's death (dropping out in 5th grade), Jason is quite intelligent as he maintained a 94.8 (or 4.00 GPA) in high school after Batman adopted him, and is still firmly in the 'gifted' category despite never technically getting his diploma due to his death at age fifteen.
WEAKNESSES: Even before his horrific beating and subsequent death at the hands of the Joker, Jason Todd was still a very troubled young man. He had an extremely unhappy childhood, losing both his (presumed) mother and his father within a few years of each other, all before his reached his teens, and spending over a year living on the streets where he was physically, sexually and emotionally battered while trying to survive independently, leaving him with possible manifestations of RTS (Rape Trauma Syndrome) and Reactive Attachment Disorder, the latter due to having to take care of the drug-addicted Catherine while his father struggled to support them. He had major issues with pent-up anger and a darker outlook towards the more destructive villains in Gotham. His lowest point was at age fifteen, after an incident which Bruce described to Alfred as the behavior of (him jumping at criminals) someone looking to die. After his resurrection he spent time comatose while healing from his multiple injuries, which left him with a severe TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) and PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder). While Talia pushing him into the Lazarus Pit helped him make a full recovery physically, it arguably left him with even more serious problems - a severe psychological instability and violent desire for revenge, issues with his fine/gross motor skills and neurobehavioral problems (social withdrawal, short term memory loss, dyslexia, hypomania, suicidal thoughts, etc). It is extremely difficult for Todd to make romantic or emotional attachments to other people, and even harder for him to learn to trust someone again once the initial bond has been broken (such as with Dick and Bruce). While he’s more or less gotten a handle of his temper, it isn’t impossible for him to be pushed over the edge if prodded correctly, nor is it uncommon for him to suffer from anxiety attacks, flashbacks and reoccurring nightmares of his abuse, death, and subsequent revival (particularly of clawing his way out of his own grave). He has hallucinations, both auditory and visual, and a tendency to hold grudges, such as not forgiving Bruce for allowing Joker to live, and against Dick for putting him in Arkham. He might be a skilled planner, but the more emotional and angry he becomes during a situation, the more likely he is to deviate from those plans and act reckless and sloppy. A combination of all his traumas has caused him to go through periods where he suffers from severe depression, depersonalization, derealization and dissociation. He has multiple fears - being buried alive, thunder and lightning (the noise and flashes reminding him of the explosion that killed him), clowns of course, being touched by someone unexpected, having his arms restrained behind his back, being in tight enclosed spaces, and being abandoned.
QUIRKS/HABITS: Cigarette smoking (though he cut back to one or two a week when he was Robin, and eventually only kept them for when he was extremely stressed out); once returning from the dead Jason quit smoking altgoether, although he still struggled with an oral fixation, and compensated with a less-unhealthy habit, chewing gum. He's been known to fiddle with the white parts of his bangs; flinching when touched (especially if it’s unwanted and/or unexpected); taking long walks at night to clear his head; physically lashing out on people or even inanimate objects when he gets upset enough, though these days that is rare; gripping his head and pulling his hair to the point of inducing headaches when he has a particularly bad flashback and needs to remind himself that it isn’t real; he’ll lash out verbally if he feels threatened or even like something hits too close to home for him to be comfortable with; he also tends to sleep naked - both because he’s utterly shameless and because in the streets he had to wear the same filthy clothes for long periods of time to stay warm until he could find cleaner ones, he knows he’ll probably have nightmares and sweat in his sleep and doesn’t like damp clothes clinging to him when he wakes up. He likes to sing when he thinks no one is in around and he's in a good mood. When he was younger he had an interest in possibly pursuing something relating to performing/the dramatic arts and wanted to join his school's theatre club (he was too busy at the time however). He meditates and utilizes yoga, meditation techniques and even aromatherapy when he's extremely stressed out, and it's been surprisingly helpful.
LIKES & INTERESTS: Reading - particularly the classics such as the works of Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters, as well as various philosophers (Aristotle, Plato, etc). He's a big fan of the Gothics, Romantics, and old poetry, and is a proud collector of first edition literature, a hobby he shares with both Alfred and Bruce - he's also a secret fan of Broadway, show tunes and musical films. He loves to cook, having learned to do so with Alfred when he was young. Training and challenging himself is something he's been known to do from time to time, as well as tinker around in mechanical engineering (his father is the one that first got him interested in cars). Despite his poor upbringing he's shown to have an interest in decorative/ornamental weaponry, and other cultures as shown by the collected antiques in his safehouse from all over the world and oriental-looking tea set. He's a huge fan of Shakespeare, if his dramatic posing of his helmet is anything to go by (resembling the scene of course of Hamlet holding up Yorick's skull). He has an interest in world history and philosophy, classic and alt rock music, metal and punk-rock (and also bands considered 'emo'). He's always eager to learn how to handle new types of weaponry. Enjoys long walks in the rain, playing the piano at the manor, designing/sketching his own weapons and gadgets, and exercising. He's also always interested in helping people and voluntarily spends holidays watching out for crime when everyone else is busy.
FAMILY: Catherine Todd née Johnson (Stepmother-Deceased), Willis Todd (Father-Deceased), Sheila Haywood (Biological Mother-Deceased), Bruce Wayne (Adoptive Father), Richard “Dick” Grayson (Adoptive Older Brother), Timothy “Tim” Drake (Adoptive Younger Brother), Cassandra “Cass” Cain (Adoptive Younger Sister), Damian Al Ghul Wayne (Adoptive Younger Brother).
OCCUPATION: Vigilante Crimefighter (former Crime Lord/Terrorist)
POSSESSIONS: His favorite weapon is a 92-FS Beretta, double/single-action semi-automatic pistol, which employs an open-slide, short-recoil delayed locking-block system, 10-shot group of 3 inches or less at 50 meters. He uses a grapnel gun (like the Batclaw) that fires with high tensile strength polymer cables that utilizes compressed CO2, and also has among his arsenal a wasp injection knife; automatic handguns; high-voltage tasers; hand grenades; a Navy SEALs tactical knife; twin custom steel-tungsten alloy Japanese katanas; a 50. caliber semi-automatic 14-clip double-action Desert Eagle; an M16A2 rifle; a Tac-Ops Bravo-51 Remington 700M sniper rifle; a TAR-21 assault rifle; a rukidaki blowgun with an assortment of darts; numerous small projectiles, etc. Jason also carried, in his earlier days as Red Hood, a replica knife of Ra’s Al Ghul’s, given to him by Talia, which was capable of cutting Batman’s lines and resembled a kris. Because of his connection to Talia who has access to Kord Industries, as well as being LexCorp's former CEO, he has access to high-level civilian and military-grade weaponry, including firearms such as pistols, machine guns, shotguns, etc. He also has access to explosives, rocket launchers, and advanced computer equipment and gadgetry. He also has some lethally sharpened shurikens based on Batman's batarang designs as throwing weapons.
SCHOOL: Incomplete, he stopped attending school briefly when he was on the streets, and then again permanently upon his death, but has since received, indisputably, a far greater education than a public school could provide him with anyways.
FRIENDS/AFFILIATION: Sasha/Scarlet, Batfamily, Arsenal, Starfire, Tigress, Justice League of America (rarely), the All-Caste (formerly), the Outlaws, Artemis (the Amazonian), Bizarro, Batman Incorporated, the League of Assassins (formerly), Alana Bloom, Harvey Bullock, James Gordon.
ENEMIES: The Joker, Two-Face, Harley Quinn, Riddler, Flamingo, Professor Pyg, Black Mask, Mr. Freeze, Penguin, Ra’s Al Ghul, The Society, Mad Hatter, etc.
SEXUALITY: Bisexual, Demiromantic
ROMANTIC INTERESTS: Barbara Gordon (Former Crush), Raven (Former Crush), Roy Harper (On/Off Lover), Koriand'r (On/Off Lover), Talia Al Ghul (One Night Stand), Essence (Former Lover), Rose Wilson (One Night Stand), Isabel Ardila (Ex-Girlfriend/Lover), Artemis Crock (Verse-Dependent).
ALIGNMENT: Chaotic-Good/Neutral
RESIDENCE: Nomadic (often splits his time between Blüdhaven and Gotham City when on good terms with his family)
VEHICLES: Pagani Zonda 2011, and a customized black 2012 Aprilia Dorsoduro motorcycle
STATUS: Alive (Resurrected)
OTHERS: He is currently sixth on Interpol's “Most Wanted” list. Many believe Jason to be asexual, but that’s simply not the case. He feels sexual attraction, he’s simply been psychologically damaged to the point where forming relationships with meaning are difficult for him... Difficult; but not impossible.
