___ one tiny rock rolled on his gloved palm and to the other, doing that for a few minutes as the first drops of rain of the night started falling. the night was calm and quiet -as quiet as that place could be anymore-, not many people were out and fortunately nothing big was happening for him to be doing something. maybe it was boring, but it was better than dealing with whatever was happening anymore. jason had given up on trying to understand how the world worked now. “i know you are there.” said as he turned his head to the side, letting the rock he was holding finally hit the ground. he had only been back for couple of years and spent not even seven months in gotham, but the ability to sense the bat and those trained by him, wasn’t lost. if it was dick, tim, or whoever else was part of it now - was the surprise.
___ the world wasn’t so normal since he could remember, much less for someone who was born and raised in gotham. and worse if the last years of one’s life were spent with batman himself. but the whole worlds-crashing-situation was beyond his understanding and probably, his patience. thankfully though, the universe wasn’t acting so bad and one of the only people that could make him feel welcome - like he belonged or fitted, walked down the street. the man he once was able to call a best friend. “if i try to find you, i fail. but if i don’t, you appear. funny how it works.” said once he was close enough to the other, a small smile teasing to form at the corner of his mouth.
“ at least you still know the real brains of the operations, jay. ” she teases, greeting him with a soft smile. jason was still a delicate topic among much of the family. barbara had no desire to play into that, however. he was still jason and that was all barbara needed at the end of the day, “ glad to hear it. i don’t always get such good responses when i show up. ” she holds out a warm cup of coffee with a raised brow, “ i even brought a gift, on the house. so we have time to catch up. okay? ”
___ jason looked at the cup of coffee and extended out his arm to take it only a moment later. the only two people who he could have a real conversation with were roy and koriand’r and before that, talia. even though the last one he wasn’t so sure how honest it was, at the moment it felt right. none of the ‘batfamily’ could fit in that list so, it felt quiet weird now to be there with barbara while drinking a coffee. it felt intimate, like maybe, they could be friends after all. “good. because i wouldn’t pay for a coffee without dessert.” said jokingly. “well, i haven’t done anything too important since i left gotham months ago. i met roy harper and starfire, though. pretty sure you guys knew of that.”
Peter opens his mouth for a moment, a hand raising as if to explain a point before dropping back to his side. “This is just my voice.” He doesn’t cry in front of people often, much rather take to doing it in private instead. He ignores the fading sirens, sighing a little as he moves to plop down on the edge of the building, pulling out a phone to look at his police scanner.
___ at the action, jason couldn’t help but laugh. an honest laugh. “don’t take it to heart. i was joking.” he laughed some more and then worked on getting his mouth mask off, feet carefully balancing his body on the edge of the building. “so, what happened down there?”
___ jason was still looking at the scene in front of him, while trying to understand whatever the boy in the... spider suit, was saying. not that he wasn’t paying attention, miraculously he was, but the other talked way too fast. and between the rain hitting his helmet, the fading sirens and whatever his brain was trying to put together, it was too much. “are you crying or is that just your voice?”
___ it had been only two years or less since he had decided to give a chance to the bats and robins again, since he took the jump of faith and put his walls down just so they wouldn’t be in a constant fight. and it wasn’t for anyone else but himself, because he didn’t want to be the one pointed at every time there was a problem. being the black sheep was something he got used to, not something he liked. but the only one he felt really comfortable with, was barbara. so, meeting with her didn’t sound like a bad idea. “leave it to the smart one of the pack to track me down.” said with a small and shy smile. “good to see you, barbie.”
i’m too lazy to do a proper edit to go with his intro or a full intro page right now... but it will come. soon. someday. maybe. who knows. <3
ok so, most people know what needs to be known about jason todd and it’s prob not necessary to go through some things - but, i’ll do my best to resume his background and then the stuff i’ll be adding to my boy. *cracks knuckles*
born in crime alley, jason didn’t exactly run with luck in life. his mom was a drug addict and his dad wasn’t much in the picture, except for the days when everything was even worse for his simple presence. he grew up hating the man that called himself his father and helped his mother as much as he could, even if it just meant holding her hand when she was far too gone.
after his mom died of an overdose and his dad was supposedly killed in prison, the kid refused to look for help. he knew that the orphanages weren’t any better and it wasn’t like he didn’t practically live alone anyway. so, he learned to steal in order to eat and survive.
it was like that for almost a year, until he found the perfect target: the batmobile. stealing the tires wouldn’t be an easy task, but jason was talented enough. talented but not faster than the bat, so he was caught at the last second. batman made sure jason was taken care of and sent him to an institute, where unfortunately he wasn’t able to fit. after too many fights and problems, bruce wayne himself took the boy to the manor and not long later, adopted him as his own.
the years as robin were the best of jason’s life, but they were lonely too. so, after finding out the woman who raised him wasn’t really his biological mother, he jumped into work and tried to find the woman that brought him into the world in an attempt to have someone who loved him and maybe finding the family he always wanted. little did he know that the joker tracked his movements and found on them the perfect opportunity to attack the bat. this resulting in his own death - surviving the clown’s torture but giving his life while saving his mother’s in the explosion.
now, infinite crisis is the event where jason came back and became the red hood. so, i’ll be changing that in order for his comeback to work with the group’s plot:
he came back to life only three years ago. after digging his way out of his own grave, jason wandered on the streets like a zombie for a few hours before talia al ghul found him. she took him to the lazarus pit where her father takes his immortality from and it worked on his body in a perfect way.
he was trained by the league of assassins for a few months, wanting to be better than he was before his death and show bruce how good he could be - but after finding out about the new robin and the fact that the joker was still alive, he was filled with rage and the plans of going back to gotham in a peaceful way were thrown out the window.
after positioning himself as one of gotham’s major forces for a year, jason found good company in roy harper and koriand’r, forming a small team and a strong connection between them. the outlaws helped him direct all his rage in a new direction and made him change his views, giving space to someone almost completely different, for the better. they worked together for a few months, but then they parted ways and jason decided to go back to gotham.
jason is working by himself, but laying low for the most part of the time. in the last big mission the new outlaws took, he lost both bizarro and artemis, so for now he wants nothing to do with whatever ‘mystic bullshit’ is happening.
--- i’ll be adding an about page to his blog later, but for now let me be the lazy bum i’m meant to be ksksk with this all said, if anyone is interested in plotting with my boy you can send me a message on discord @ that deep web cryptic#1189 orrr feel free to assume connections, i’m okay with anythin’ <3
