Dead on Main fic prompt: Way of the House Husband.
Picture this: Jason with a fresh batarang neck wound he's trying to staunch while stumbling towards his nearest safe house, he collapses in some side alley. He's in bad shape, both physically and emotionally.
Enter Danny, broke college student going to GU on a scholarship and living in Crime Alley because it's all he can afford. He sees a guy collapsed on the ground with a bleeding neck wound and rushes to help.
All of that, of course, is just the flashback to how they met.
Time skip: they're married. Danny is working a high paying high stress job in some RnD department (it doesn't have to be Wayne Enterprises, there are rivals) and Jason is his super hot, super intimidating house husband.
The difference is Jason knows how scary he is and delights in causing drama. It's Danny who's oblivious to just how intimidating Jason is, all he sees is his big soft teddy bear husband. But also just! It would be so funny you guys.
Red haired Jason who stops coloring his hair in order to fully cut ties with his past.
Some additional thoughts that have come up.
I've got a lot on my to-do list already, so I don't know if I'll ever get around to this. But if I do!
Additional angst: since this splits off right after UTRH I love the idea that Jason just... vanishes. Bruce goes looking for him and just never finds him. All he knows is Jason took a batarang to the neck, there was a trail of a looooooot of blood, and he's just gone. Live with your stupid decision, Bruce.
The above red hair Jason. Love it. He can keep the white streak. UwU
I still want Jason to be friends with the Outlaws, but I also want him to leave Red Hood behind. So I'd have Jason working under a different name, probably still full head covering. He sometimes works with various batlings even, but they have no idea.
Jason would probably call himself "All Caste" or "All Blade" since he's now the only one and he's not great at coming up with names. I mean, it's an automatic built in non-Bat name, why wouldn't he use it?
Danny and Jason are both currently living in this kind of semi-retired phase where they only show up for ghosts or the Untitled. Jason only ever deals with other magic bullshit if it happens right in front of him.
Danny is fully aware of Jason's past as Robin, dying, coming back, and being Red Hood. He still just looks at this hurt man he loves and goes "he's my sweet teddy bear!" Once you've seen a man cry over an Emma adaptation it's hard to see him as anything other than cuddly.
Jason keeps Dog. This is very important to me. She and Cujo are besties.
Yep. Bruce made his choice, even if by accident, so Red Hood dies and Bruce has to live with the consequences.
What do you think of those permanent vocals cord damage aus? I feel like that's a step too far in this case, but oh the angst.
The vocal chords AUs are in the "enjoy reading but wouldn't enjoy writing" category for me. The ones I've read are all well written and are good angst.
But also Jason is a mouthy little shit. I kinda want him to show up to one of Danny's work BBQs and just not shut up the whole time. XD
And now I'm thinking about heights/muscles. XD
I think Tim and Danny suffer the same fate. Compared to other vigilantes like Bruce or Dick, with abs you could grind meat on, they look small and weedy. But compare them to your average Joe off the street and they're unreasonably fit.
So enter Danny who's like 5 foot 10 or 11, just tall enough to be a bit above average. He's been living with Jason for years now and they go to the gym together 2 or 3 times a week and Danny doesn't hate it but the only reason he keeps going is it makes Jason happy and he's so encouraging and Danny likes spending time with him (and Jason being all hot and sweaty by the time they're done is a bonus).
Danny just so happens to be the tallest, fittest man working in RnD. (I'm attached to him working for Oliver Queen making arrow gadgets, it's so funny to me for some reason.) Everyone knows he's married, but half the office is swooning anyway. One chick is aggressively trying to make herself his "work wife" in the most cringe way. They all assume he's the "man" of his relationship despite him going on about his handsome, sweet, thoughtful husband. Look at the cute lunches he makes Danny! His husband must be the stereotypical gay. Probably looks and acts like B. Dylan Hollis. (No, he calls his husband a teddy bear, he must be hairy and soft and doughy.)
And then they see Jason in person for the first time.
What. The. Fuck?!
He's like 6'3"!!! His shoulders are so broad he practically has to go sideways through the door! His hands are so big! He's so muscular he looks like he lives at the gym (that soft knit sweater hides nothing)! He's got a scar on his face and a crooked nose and a tattoo on his neck that might or might not being covering a jagged scar.
THIS is Danny's darling teddy bear husband? There's nothing bear about him!
I think you meant: "There is nothing teddy about him. He's just bear."
