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[restwellsoon]

Reading Red Hood: Outlaws on Webtoon and

*spoiler alert*

Any person who thinks that Jason doesn’t love his city (or the world as a whole!) doesn’t understand his character. Jason is the type of motherfucker to be rockin’ that Gotham Knights jersey and uses his own money to hold seasonal tickets in the neutral zone.

Is he angry? Yes! But his anger stems from a deep love for his city and his desire for it to be better. He’s realistic in that he understands how crime works. He can’t eradicate it completely, but he’s gonna do his goddamn best to control it in a way that limits the harm that can be done. He’s never been a misanthrope at all!

Also Jason thinking that Bruce and him weren’t family?! Jason Todd is Bruce Wayne’s first child! A part of me even wants to say that Jason’s adoption before Dick was an issue with Bruce and Dick but my memory is foggy.

Aside from that though, the premise of the story seems fun if you’re not too picky about canon and characterization. I really liked the banter between Jason and Arty,

[restwellsoon]

I think the opening highlights the real reason they fell apart. Jason already loved his city but he also saw the flaws in it and ask Bruce real questions about how it had failed people like him and his family. Bruce doesn't actually address his questions and just tells him he to love the city. Jason says he loved being Robin until he didn't. In his run he saw how Batman and the justice system still constantly fail to help people and Bruce didn't fix that he focused on Jason's reaction to it.

i get what you're saying. I think if they rearranged the introduction, it would have made a bit more sense to me and I would have read it differently. In the original sequence, I read it as:

Bruce telling Jason to be compassionate (can't tell if it's as a reminder or as teaching him a lesson)

Jason questioning the justice system

Bruce saying that he can help him fight crime physically but that's not part of his mission

Jason's seeing the role of Robin as a way to control crime through physical violence

Bruce telling Jason that if he wishes to conquer crime in Gotham, he might lose himself

IMO, it would be better if Bruce has his lil spiel about being a warrior, Jason using Robin as a means to fight crime, Bruce saying that if he gets caught in trying to control all crime that he might lose himself, then Jason questions the justice system and Bruce's methods. Also as different scenes during Jason’s tenure as Robin instead of it being a same-night conversation on the gargoyle.