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I guess I'm just doomed to become the world's only Grant Morrison's Red Hood apologist or rather "it's a bad take on Jason but there were ideas in there worth revisiting"-ist but I do think Sasha is damn near enough to redeem it all. as a character in her own right she's not as fleshed out as I'd like her to be, but if we brought her back we could fix that, and as a supporting character to Jason's story at that point she's a genuinely brilliant addition.

because like. at this point, this little window of a few years between UtRH and Flashpoint, Jason is tying himself in knots desperately trying to outdo Batman, to outdo Bruce. He tried to have this argument out with Bruce and got a batarang to the neck; he tried to take over the cowl and more or less had a complete breakdown in the process and got (I think he would feel) humiliated and nearly killed, and furthermore during all that he did some shit which is the kind of thing he is shown, before and after, to have some reservations about. Then he's trying to fight the whole morality question out in the court of public opinion and it mostly ends in him arrested. Nothing's working.

But here's this kid a few years younger than him who needs a friend. His Scarlet, his sidekick, his own Robin. And he's so fucking pointedly trying to be everything to her that Bruce wasn't to him. He and Bruce have this constant, unspoken tension over whether they're really father and son or that's just a cover for Batman and Robin, soldier and general; the first thing Jason says to Sasha is that if she's in on this with him, he means to be her friend. Bruce cannot handle that Jason makes calls he wouldn't, won't try to talk out their differing moral codes or look for a compromise or even really discuss it at all, just refuses to trust him and withdraws; Sasha doesn't want to follow Jason's suggestion about her face and Jason falls all over himself to tell her that that option is also awesome and badass and a way to be a part of what they're doing. Bruce's last message to Jason says that from the beginning he took Jason in because he had a grand plan to try and turn Jason into someone whole; Jason tells Sasha that she's not a part of a grand plan and never could be. Bruce describes Jason's trauma as leaving him fundamentally broken and in need of repair; Jason tells Sasha "Remember, what happened to you helped make you special." So fucking deliberately trying to go right in the face of everything else.

Batman and Robin defeat them, and they vanish out of the story for a while. Jason got arrested and Sasha ran like hell; it's not clear where she's going, what she wants, whether she's still going to be Jason's sidekick or not. They haven't talked about it. And she gets kidnapped and held hostage in a dilapidated old building by people who are targeting her because she's the Red Hood's sidekick. The parallels to the circumstances of Jason's death aren't one-for-one, but they're sure as hell there. And Sasha looks at the person who kidnapped her and says, absolutely certain, he's going to come for me. He's going to come for me and he's going to kill you.

And he does.

Well, he doesn't manage to kill the kidnapper, though he tries. But he gets Sasha out. He drops everything to do it. He sets everything else aside long enough to work with Dick and Damian, when he previously chose a fifty-foot drop into open water over taking as much as a hand up from Dick. He walks literally bare ass naked into a trap -- with backup on the way, but still -- in order to get her out safely, and he does not value a single thing in that fight higher than her safety and freedom, and he gets her out. Like she trusted him to.

Everything that didn't happen for Jason in that warehouse in Ethiopia and in those last days leading up to it.

This one time, in this one thing, he really does outdo Batman, by doing better by her than Bruce did by him. And in the last few pages of the story, he's not even thinking about that anymore. He just wants to know if she's okay, and if he should drop her off somewhere she wants to go.

She wants to stay.

And that's where they are when that world's story ends.

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Batman and Robin (2009)

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If there's something Jason got from his time with Bruce it's his wild adoption instincs.

But when Bruce collects black haired, blue eyed boys, Jason have emotionally and physically scarred, red haired girls.

Bc Duela Dent? Sasha (Scarlet)? (In my mind Sasha is a redhead, sue me)

He likes them both more then anyone in his family.

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Scarlet and the Red Hood

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hello love 💖 would you write me jason coming to harper for sibling advice?

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I could talk about the potential that Jason’s sidekick could have on his story and rlly make him look at himself as a person. I could. But no, I keep it in the confines of my sketchbooks and multiple google doc files, never to see the light of day.