jason todd headcanons (ii) 💭
jason fast reflexes todd. where something slips, falls, gets tossed without warning and his hand is there before your brain even registers motion. effortless. precise. like his reflexes live a half-second ahead of the world. the moment you drop something your heart already drops with it, until his hand swoops in, all saving grace. it's insanely attractive.
you even try to test him once; drop something “by accident.” toss him an object without warning. you think you might catch him off guard. you don’t. he catches it cleanly, barely looking. sometimes he doesn’t even break conversation with whoever he's talking to. he'll just raise a brow at you afterward, faintly amused, throw you back the object. and suddenly the tables have turned and you are the one humbled.
jason barely ever flinches todd. it's no secret he is physically tough, but people forget he’s also mentally and visually tough. as in there isn’t anything he hasn’t seen before so his shock threshold has a high ceiling. you can snap a hand up near his face, slam a door behind him, have damian jump out of the dark trying to scare him and he doesn’t budge. no recoil. no startled breath. no instinctive step back. just donning an unamused resting face that you can practically hear saying "anything else?". his subconscious is (in honestly an abnormal way) chemically wired to believe that this is just another day and his body doesn’t interpret suddenness as danger anymore.
jason sensitive ears todd. he is sensitive to a lot of sounds but doesn’t get frightened easily. every loud noise, he’s heard it, growing up in crime alley. drop all the pans in the kitchen? he’ll sleep right through it. snore in your sleep? it’s practically his white noise. save for the exception of timers and ticking, he doesn’t really get triggered by sound. he’s also good at deciphering which sounds mean trouble and which ones are loud but harmless. it’s kind of like his superpower.
on the contrary what scares him is silence. because there’s nothing he can do when it’s silent. he can’t hear if you are suffering. if you’re in danger. if you need his help. he’d rather you be screaming your head off than be too late because he couldn’t hear something happen. to him silence is worse than noise. he literally doesn’t care if you wake him up at 3am if it means he can change the outcomes of things. since silent deaths is probably one of his biggest fears.
— as a footnote, he hums to himself mindlessly a lot. he isn’t trying to combat silence with conversation. he prefers subtle sounds. soft breathing, the fan, and he won’t complain about night crickets. he likes to sleep with very soft white noise. enough to know his ears work + avoiding fear and sleep restlessness due to utter silence, but not such a loud and assaulting sound that it hinders his hearing from emergencies (fire alarms, someone yelling for help etc.). thus, he sleeps like a baby when it’s raining outside.
jason light-footed todd. can* be light footed. this guy grew up tactical, stealthy. he knows how to be quiet, it’s just a matter of conscious choice. like for example, if he knows he’s going home to an empty apartment, he’s not careful with boots thudding, dishes clinking. but if he knows someone is home or already asleep, he’s so quiet it’s practically a walking paradox to his physique. and you’ll just get startled as you shift and your sheets and suddenly there’s this tanky six-foot monster in the shadows that you throw your pillow at on instinct. he catches it and raises an arm whispering “sorry, sorry.”
jason tender todd. he’s definitely tender in the way he loves. you know he missed the prime-time to learn game, so most of his knowledge on how to treat others has (green-flaggedly) been on the caretaking end. he knows queues for when a woman needs help but is too shy to ask. he is very attentive to bodily reactions and responds accordingly. like he’ll notice when you’re shifty in the summer and will turn on the fan before you ask. when you start to eye something across the room like a snack and he grabs it ahead like he can read your mind. or when you’re about to hit and sharp edges of furniture and his hand goes out to cover it so you don’t hurt yourself. or even when you clutch your stomach and walk even slightly different when you’re on your period and he’ll fall into the rhythm of all your needs. “how did you know i was craving reese’s?” “lucky guess.”
once in a while he’ll attempt some spicy quips, but he easily cringes at himself. he’s definitely a “not what you said last night, sweetheart.” overuser cause it’s seriously the only line he knows even if you said absolutely nothing audible last night anyway. but, it’s when he’s not trying and is genuine that he actually comes off insanely hot. which is when? when he’s taking care of you. when he’s asking you if this feels good. for you to tell him what feels good. his asking is so natural, it’s heart-aching that it’s oddly a turn on. and he’ll always respect your answers and wishes.
jason listens to your heartbeat todd. he’s big on pulse points to remind himself that he or whoever he’s with is alive. will put a finger to his neck or wrist, or a palm to his heart to keep himself grounded and remind himself he’s alive whenever he feels a panic coming. he does the same to his lovers when things seems too good to be true and he needs to remind himself it’s all real.
and speaking of loving…
jason top-down kisser todd. will start with his lips to your forehead, both your eyelids, your nose then to your mouth. again, it’s mostly a grounding mechanism when he can’t believe something is real and he has to break it all down to remind himself you are.
jason journaling todd. that’s it. that’s the headcanon. cause you mean to tell me an avid reader isn’t an avid analyser who needs to put their thoughts down before their head explodes from mental overstimulation?
@ karaaeps
