#post utrh

[green-lantern-apologist]

I HAVE A POTENTIALLY ANGSTY FIC IDEA FOR JAYKYLE ft. Star Sapphire Jason Todd.

A little bit of Background on the Violet Lantern Corps (Star Sapphires):

From what I know about the star sapphire corps initially is that they mainly harnesses to power of love AND rage. The rings find people who have been loved and spurned (sound familar?)

Going off of the original corps they typically were possessed or overcome with the power of the star sapphire crystal which kind of made them susceptible to villainous acts of love. But they got reformed and create a central power battery with power rings, and the new corps is mostly good.

They also had to deal with Predator. Predator is the embodiment of the violet light (love) kind of like Parallax and Ion. He's typically a toxic form of love, mostly violent or obsessive love. He was defeated by Carol Ferris and became slightly less creepy when he got retconned, with his main focus shifting to manipulating a powerful violet lantern, giving them God-like powers steming from a parasitic attachment that manipulates their inner aggression and alters the love they have for someone to obsession.

THE JAYKYLE BIT:

JayKyle after getting together and settling into a relationship.

1. after getting over the whole hating each other thing

2. a childhood sweetheart au where jason dies, comes back, and instead of fighting with the batfam Kyle finds him instead

3. during his run as red hood sees Kyle again

4. Something else idk

Whatever the origin is Jason becomes a star sapphire because of the events of Under the Red Hood and his rocky relationship with the fam (loved and scorned). I'm thinking at some point after UtRH and after JayKyle reunion more violet rings are sent out, new Star Sapphire Jason Todd gets possessed either by the Star Sapphire crystal somehow or Predator. (More angst if it's childhood sweetheart au, Kyle loses Jason twice 😈).

A. The main conflict could focus on Jason's obsession with being accepted by his family and his revenge on the Joker, in a very toxic way that takes up every moment in his life after his possession from the crystal or Predator, leaving Kyle to the side to figure out how to save him.

OR

B. Have it center around a conflicting geniune "eternal love" for Kyle and his obsessive/violent love focused on his family and the internal struggle between him and his twisted emotions from Predator/Star Sapphire Crystal.

OR

C. Jason is possessed by Predator and is some what unattached to his family already so no one knows he's a Star Sapphire besides the green lanterns. Jason and Predator have an agreement and get along. Despite having a parasitic god like entity in his brain, Jason is pretty chill about the whole thing especially because he has some control over when Predator is out vs when Jason is in charge. (A little OOC for both of them, but it would be interesting).

Some intergalactic/alternate dimension evil is putting earth at risk, and Kyle gets injured defending it with the justice league + titans. Either Jason is there already or he tethers to Kyle because of his eternal love being at risk (love attunement). Seeing Kyle down in a fight and his family again for the first time since UtRH he gets overwhelmed and suddenly Predator is in the front seat.

Feeding on Jason's rage, obsession, and love in the moment Predator decides the best case scenario is to go feral, which ends up in a dead army of whatever threat was there, a very wary justice league, relived green lanterns, and very confused/angry/hurt batfam.

Idk, I have so many ideas for it, it'd be so good. Mostly ideas for physcologically torturing Kyle, with minor injuries in some🤷‍♀️

[crims0nrosie]

more oc content!! ahh!!!

[redhoodscorvid]

My partner got to see the frantic creation of the "Does Jason Todd sleep with a gun" poll in real time. But the real question? The real question is how literal we're going to get about Jason's gun being a teddy bear.

Jason woke to silence.

Sun poured through the cheap blinds. Hot air bled the smell of cigarettes and sweat. Sheets stuck to his front, the shitty fabric rough and saturated, as his right hand tapped against something soft. Full on dog days of summer: you didn't have to be nightlife for sunlight to be unbearable at this point.

At mid-morning, the neighbour couple two doors over should be yelling about what chores are humanly possible to do before shift. The godawful buzzer for the corner store directly below the unit should ring with a delivery. One floor up, frantic shuffling and cupboard slamming will echo as the guy who's holding on to a courier job by the skin of his teeth looks for his keys. He'll usually run down the hallway three to seven minutes late.

It felt like the building was holding its breath.

Half-decent, Jason thought.

Jason's forearms tensed for leverage. He swung his right leg over his body, springing up. His heel hit Thug 1 in the nose. 

The blood is extraneous. Ignore the bullet hitting the wall behind you. 

He let the momentum of the arc touch his feet to the ground, and followed up the tap with a solid left hook to the temple. The guy dropped like his strings were cut, and Jason uncoiled with his right hand pointing unerringly at the doorway.

Jason blinked slowly, hoping his face only gave away how unimpressed he was at the situation. He was pointing a teddy bear at Thug 2. 

Control the situation.

"You know, I actually like this shaggy dog toy a bit," he said, letting dead casual fall from his lips. "It'd be a shame if something happened to it."

Skinny Thug 2 was eleven feet away, with the small hurdle of the poor excuse for a mattress between them. The man had let his gun droop a bit, his straw blond hair falling into his face as he gaped. 

Jason smiled. It wasn't a sunny smile; it was the kind that exhaled concrete dust and industrial fumes in the heat of summer.

"A .44 Magnum," he said, letting the words fall, carefully timed, into the quiet room, "Is usually overkill. Your little 9mm is a better choice for this kind of situation. But you know..."

A pause as Thug 2's eyes widened. He managed to get the gun mostly pointed up at Jason.

Jason stepped forward, not letting the shaggy teddy bear drop an inch. "...the Magnum will make a big chunk of your head explode. Brain matter everywhere. Kind of on my bucket list.

"It's a shame, though. Would pretty much annihilate this little fucker."

Jason pointed the teddy bear lower.

"I'd probably have to shoot you a few times to make up for it."

Thug 2 raised his hands, letting the gun clatter to the floor. 

Jason actually did wince at that point. Idiot could have killed Mr. Chronically-Seven-Minutes-Late if the gun misfired. So Jason didn't feel too bad about smashing the guy's forehead into his knee.

He left the completely normal teddy bear tucked under Thug 2's elbow.

[moonllshadow]

Context: Jason can’t stop hearing the clown after the whole confrontation with Bruce at the collapsing building and the fresh cut on his neck, courtesy of Batman... Can’t deny that nightmares are getting worse...

Sorry UnU I’ve only got angst to offer today

[redhoodscorvid]

One of my favourite time travel tropes is when characters go back and are shocked by how fucking YOUNG their antagonists are.

I remember the first time I watched The Old Guard movie, and I was thrown by how baby all of the soldiers in the first act were. Like, damn, that actually is realism—how old is the average recruit to the US military when they join up? (No idea, but the average enlisted member across the entire military is 27.5 years old.)

Show me Jason Todd, years after Under the Red Hood, going back in time and being thrown by how young the other batclan members are, even if it's just a few years' difference in reality. Show me Future Jason Todd judging his past self so harshly, denigrating his past actions—and being wrong to do so. If the people that he was railing against were young, then he was young, too.

Sometimes it's easier to let others off the hook than to forgive yourself, after all.

Show me the complexity of having your worldview fucked with because what you remember doesn't line up with what you're seeing in front of you. Show me what it takes to grow beyond seeing your past self as a worthy target of resentment and hatred. Show me how growth doesn't always mean letting go of the hurts without addressing them first.

Show me how the pure, righteous rage of Jason Todd is both blinding and absolutely necessary.

[do-not-careissa]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Jason Todd, Ducra (DCU) Additional Tags: Post-Under the Red Hood, All Caste (DCU), Mute Jason Todd, Angst Summary:

He had failed. There was no denying it, not with the gash in his throat or the destroyed building back in Gotham. He'd failed. But he at least had one place he could return to.

For an old ask meme: "I wish you would write a fic.." about Jason with All-Caste bc All-Caste is so interesting but underused.