Bruce: Your relationship with Dick didn't end well. What makes you think I'll approve of your relationship with Jason?
Roy: Do you know that, if I marry Jason, Lian automatically becomes your granddaughter right?
Bruce: ...
Bruce: So when's the wedding? Do you have a ring yet?
Day 12 of this Advent Calendar! (prompts by @countessofravenclaw)
Today’s prompts: Chaos
Fandom: Batman - Pairing: RoyJason 1.3k[Ao3]
"Okay, hear me out," Dick started, popping some skittles in his mouth. "Lola Bunny."
"Nope, not weird enough."
"What? It's a cartoon rabbit!"
Jason shook his head, biting off the end of his beef jerky. "Yeah, that awakened young furries the world over. Everyone thinks Lola Bunny is hot."
"Hood's right," Roy said. "If you're trying for a cartoon bunny 'hear me out,' you gotta go Roger Rabbit."
Jason snapped and pointed at him. "Yes, exactly! And I would hear you out about Roger Rabbit – that is an unconventionally fuckable rabbit."
Steph cackled and Roy cheersed his beefstick with Jason's.
It was a rare night in Gotham where Batman was off on some Justice League thing so the kids were allowed to bring in backup. Tim and Kon were doing a sweep, just a quick perimeter check, but Roy, Dick, Jason, and Steph decided to have a quick snack break on the roof of the library, which then devolved into a couple rounds of "Hear Me Out".
"I don't like this game," Dick pouted.
"That's because you're not enough of a freak," Tim said, landing next to Steph and stealing some of her Milk Duds. "Like, look. Hear me out. Karen: Plankton's computer wife."
"Now, that's a hear me out," Jason said, tipping his jerky in appreciation. "But also, explain? I cannot imagine wanting to fuck that one."
"He's gonna get meta with it," Kon said, rolling his eyes, planting himself on Tim's other side. "Something about how Karen was clearly created just to be Plankton's wife but still had enough willpower to be mean to him."
"Or, alternatively," Tim continued, picking up from Kon. "Plankton created her just to be mean to him. Which is both funny and interesting. For reasons of the 'tell me what you want me to do' variety."
Roy coughed a laugh into his fist, trying to decide how he felt about learning this much about Tim's sexual preferences. Even if they were hypothetical.
Jason and Dick seemed to be wrestling with the same dilemma but Jason clearly went his admiration win out. "I respect that. I disagree, but I have heard you."
"And that's all I ask," Tim said, gravely before brightening. "Who'd I miss?"
"Spoiler wants to fuck the shrimp muppet, Red Hood wants to fuck the Chrysler building, and Nightwing is the most boring person alive," Roy reported.
"He's a prawn," Stephanie corrected, full of offense.
Kon made a face at Jason. "I don't know about Hood's, either. The Chrysler building is an objectively hot building."
Dick threw his hands up, clearly fed up. Jason just laughed.
"Okay, for Big Bird, let's all pitch our most conventional 'hear me outs'."
"Easy," Tim started. "Kovu. The Lion King 2."
"Oh, yes," Steph said, snapplausing at him.
Jason hummed in agreement. "Roxanne from A Goofy Movie."
"Max from A Goofy Movie," Kon agreed. Jason raised his fist for a fist bump. Konnor complied.
Roy rolled his eyes.
"I'll say Hugh Laurie," Steph added, contemplatively. "But specifically as Gregory House."
Jason sighed in dreamy agreement. "They hate to see a bitch from New Jersey winning."
"He wasn't from New Jersey, though?" Tim said. "He was an army brat. His mom still lived in Kentucky after his father died."
"We claim him!" Steph butt in.
Jason nodded. "New Jersey absolutely claims Greg House."
Roy held up a hand like he was presenting something obvious. "Shadow the Hedgehog."
Steph, Tim, and Kon all booed at him. Dick still looked baffled at the lot of him.
"Why are you booing me?" Roy protested. "I'm right!"
"Yeah, but you would say Shadow," Tim mumbled.
"Why? What does that mean?"
Steph snorted. "Shadow's basically just Red Hood in a different font."
"What?" Roy and Jason said together.
Tim rolled his eyes. "What, the whole edgy backstory where he's this outcast who gets experimented on and then breaks out on a plot for revenge?" He scoffed. "Yeah, doesn't sound like anyone I know at all."
"Also, he's got the black and red color scheme."
"Red, you have a black and red color scheme."
"Fuck you, do you not see this yellow?"
Roy wanted to point out that Shadow also had yellow accents in his color scheme but he feared it would not help him make the point he was trying to make.
Jason crossed his arm. "I'm not fucking Shadow."
"Oh, I'm sorry," Steph jumped in. "Is your whole pit rage thing not just Chaos Control?"
"Do you not ride around on your Chaos Motorcycle wearing your Chaos Helmet and hitting things with your Chaos Crowbar?"
"Why do you guys know so much lore about Shadow the Hedgehog?" Dick wondered aloud.
"No, you know what, Hood's right," Kon said.
"Thank you."
"Yeah, dying in an explosion and sending loved ones on a vengeance quest is more Maria's origin story."
Steph snapped and pointed at Kon. "Right! The little human girl!"
"And you know who that makes Shadow." Tim grinned.
"No!" Jason yelled. "Fuck you! Batman doesn't get to be Shadow, I'll be Shadow!"
"So you agree!"
The three of them laughed while Dick looked increasingly grumpy in his confusion and Hood blushed scarlet. Roy was kind of grateful Jason had had to take his helmet off to eat his jerky. Even though they were both being made fun of, Roy couldn't help thinking Jason's blush was cute.
"Okay," Dick tried again, clearly trying to get the game back on the rails. "What about Disney Robin Hood?"
"Still no!" Steph replied, rolling her eyes.
"What? Why? I thought we were doing an easy round for me!"
"Yeah, but, come on," Kon snorted. "That's furry bait number one."
Tim nodded. "Everyone wanted to fuck that fox, Wing."
"And also a super boring choice for you, specifically," Jason commented, smirking beyond his blush. "A redhead? Groundbreaking."
"Oh fuck off with that," Dick said, clearly fed up. "Of the two of us, I'm not the one pining after a ginger archer."
Jason froze. Dick froze. Roy choked.
"Pining?" He tried to ask around the bite of jerky.
"Wow, look at the time." Steph jumped up, yanking on the back of Dick's suit and Tim's suits. "Kon?"
"Yup," Kon confirmed, wrapping his arms around all three of the bats and lifting off, leaving Roy and Jason on the rooftop.
They looked at each other. Or, rather, into the blank white eyes of their domino masks. Which was easier. For Roy at least.
He coughed into his fist, making sure his throat was clear. "Pining?" He asked again.
Jason's fingers twitched, his Adam's apple moving in a hard swallow.
"Do you–" Jason cleared his throat. "Do you think I'm like Shadow the Hedgehog?"
Roy started to deny it, thinking Jason just wanted reassurance that his image was more distinctive than a rival video game character introduced to the franchise in 2001.
But then he processed the context for the question.
"Yeah, you're just like Shadow," Roy answered, smiling nervously. "Your siblings had me pegged."
Jason let out a choked sounding laugh. "Yeah, Dick too. With me." He waved his hand, redundantly. "About the ginger archer."
"Yeah, okay." Roy laughed back.
They just stood their kind of smiling dumbly at each other until their comms crackled to life.
Both Jason and Roy jumped. They'd forgotten they were wearing them.
"Hear me out," said Steph over the comms. "Both of you get off the roof and go kiss or something."
Roy grinned, extending a hand to Jason. "Sounds like a plan."
Jason grinned back, grabbing Roy by the waist before he fired his grapple and swung them both off into the night.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: DCU (Comics)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Roy Harper/Jason Todd
Characters: Jason Todd, Roy Harper
Additional Tags: Food as a Metaphor for Love, cooking as a love language, Complicated Relationships, Food made with love tastes better, Shapes Mac and Cheese taste best, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Jason Todd and his complicated relationship with his family, Bittersweet
Summary:
Jason kneads the dough, pinching it a little to check the elasticity before going back to working it.
The motion is soothing. Stress relief. His mind wanders, and given that he’s cooking, the way it goes is predictable. He takes a breath of yeasty air, lets it out slowly, and lets it happen.
He thinks about Alfred teaching him how to cook. He thinks about carefully writing out note cards of recipes, under Alfred’s watchful eye.
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Seeing as Roy has a kid and she presumably wasn’t a product of gene tinkering or something (though lbr, she totally could be), I’m going with Jason secretly being a virgin.
So Roy and Jason are roomies and Roy occasionally brings over a one night stand, but he never sees Jason do the same. Which is a little weird bc he’s definitely had the opportunity if he so chose. Roy just watches for a while, and he just cannot figure out why. So one day he corners Jason and is like, “dude, if you feel awkward sleeping with someone while I’m here, just lemme know and I’ll clear out.” Perfectly reasonable, right? But Jason gets pissed bc he’s embarrassed for some reason and like... stomps off into the night or whatever. Which makes Roy pissed off and confused, so he goes to the only ppl he thinks he can get answers from. Jason’s brothers.
Who are of course little shits themselves and just about die laughing (except Damien who just rolls his eyes and goes to see his own bf) when Roy asks wtf Jason’s problem is. Like Dick can literally not breathe bc he’s laughing so hard, but he eventually manages to tell Roy that that’s really for Jason to say, not him. Tim looks like he’s going to say, but Dick tells him not to, so later Roy corners him to get some answers bc he knows that Jason sure as fuck isn’t gonna tell him anything rn. So Tim spills Jason’s secret and Roy is fucking floored. Like out of all the reasons he thought of that Jason could be pissed, this didn’t even make the top hundred bc um what.
It takes a while for Roy to track Jason down bc he really doesn’t want to be found. But he does. Probably in some shitty hole in the wall building that’s set to be destroyed like tomorrow. Jason is still pissed and Roy is pissed and there’s a lot of shouting right off the bat until Roy just drops that he knows. And everything just kind of stops bc fuck, Jason doesn’t know what to say to that and Roy doesn’t know what to say after that and... Well, after a few minutes of them both being kind of lost bc this is like the most embarrassing and awkward situation they’ve ever been in and that’s saying something, Roy says fuck it and just kisses Jason. They end up having sex on the floor of this nasty warehouse and it’s kind of awful, but it’s also so awesome bc wow, Roy hadn’t even realized before then that that’s what he wanted to be doing. And Jason’s just kind of glad his brothers can’t blackmail him about that anymore.
Pick a trope from this list and provide a fandom/pairing and I’ll tell you something about the story I’d write for that combination.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: DCU (Comics)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Roy Harper & Jason Todd, Roy Harper/Jason Todd
Characters: Jason Todd, Roy Harper
Additional Tags: Werewolves, Alternate Universe - Werewolves Are Known, Full Shift Werewolves, Mutual Pining, Idiots in Love, Emotions, Fluff and Humor, Unreliable Narrator
Summary:
The second thing Roy says to Jason after he’s gotten bit is “You’re going to have to ditch the helmet now I think.” The first this is honestly less of a thing and more of a cry of concern and then an amount of fussing that is somehow both deeply annoying and warm and comforting.