*RECLAIM YOUR SPOTS.

do you know how many people he killed or SOLD DRUGS TO even tho he’s STAUNCHLY ANTI-DRUGS for one of the three FOLLOWING outcomes to be completed?

one: bruce kills the joker. (ideal outcome.)

two: jason kills the joker AND THEN kills bruce. (not ideal at all.)

three: bruce stops jason from killing the joker and all three of them die in an explosion set to go off just in case bruce takes too long either way. i hope you die. i hope we both die. etc.

this is not some grand chess plan. this is the maddening deliciously whimsical pointlessly convoluted instagram-worthy rube goldberg machine of death and making several stupid points that all technically go against what jason believes in but who cares as long as they get to the same stupid end.

bruce isn’t supposed to die on his own. bruce is supposed to die or live with jason, by jason’s hand, bc of jason, and in all three outcomes---the joker dies. there is no option where the joker lives and bruce dies.

but that’s what happens.

whatever u hc happened to jason in his childhood----and there are a lot of things u can extrapolate from it----i really do hc that bruce saved him from a terrible life. and that in exchange, jason was always supposed to save bruce from himself, as every robin before and after him was supposed to.

he loses his sense of control. he loses his protector, the one constant in his life beyond life even as he goes aainst him and his bizarre sense of justice. (bc bruce was, he knows, protecting jason from the red hood as much as he was protecting himself, and that’s its own kind of love, it’s own stupid, terrible kind of love.) robin loses batman. and he goes off the rails in a way he never has before bc he’s never had to. bc he needs batman, and he needs robin, regardless of what he has to say about the people to come after him (and who have died for him.)

the red hood seamlessly fits into the equation---between jokers and batmans and robins, there’s always the start of a new villain, there’s always one truly bad day, there’s always the hope batman and robin can save somebody and the risk they can ruin them, and that’s where jason has always existed, at the bottom of a toxic pit that he has always believed only batman can pull him out of, by making the effort.

so do i  think jason went crazy? yeah. obviously. but also? jason todd can go crazy go stupid? there’s no such think as a methodical serial killer who are completely normal seeming and aesthete in every day life like dexters and hannibal lecter aint real or even realistic yall. sometimes the shit just breaks you.

final point: jason literally says he’s being the better batman in under the red hood. he’s doing what bruce can’t. totally natural to go from that (and his arc in nightwing, which i don’t... like... but still) to like. batman is gone now. i was robin. i was trained to be batman. i was trained to take over gotham when batman died. i was a better batman. i am batman now. dick was always the better robin. dick can be my robin.

 tim's is 'hacking' & 'planning.' 

dick (as nightwing)'s is 'teamwork' & 'people.' 

cass's is 'fighting' & 'reacting.' 

steph is 'enthusiasm' & 'growth.' 

jason ironically is just the ability to kill people bc i think after the red hood comes into being and after bruce dies and after so many robins have died, dick especially, bruce just comes to terms with 'its never okay if people die but some people still maybe need to die for batman to work and gotham to be safe and maybe jason can be the proper fear and justice that gotham needs in a way that i can't anymore bc of the justice league and all these fucking children. AND if he kills i dont have to.' 

 like can you imagine how actually little crime there is in gotham after battle of the cowl? there were so many fucking batmans out there and one of them was literally torturing people before he killed them LOL. jason is effective as fuck at fear. 

 and then damian. tbh he hasn't figured damian out yet. he thinks damian's special power may actually be being able to be normal despite all that he's been thru. being kind but not to impress anybody or please anybody. just bc underneath all the shit he's been thru. he loves with his whole heart, and he's just. painfully genuine, the way only a child can be, the way bruce kind of techniclly is but in a way no one notices bc he's an adult man acting exactly like damian in so subtler ways lol.

so i’m very sorry if u like. wanna roleplay & plot but i haven’t like. been able to reach out. my brain is simply made of those little plastic packing peanuts right now.

THIS IS LITERALLY THE FIRST TIME THEY HAVE INTERACTED IN DC CANON AND STARFIRE AND DICK ARE DATING AND ROY JUST... mind if i... swooce right in there...

he can create a sonic boom HALFWAY ACROSS THE CITY that the titans can trace to his exact location? (he apparently worked on this with robin. dickwally rights!)

he can make the air around someone vibrate to the point he siphons the air around them and takes away someone’s oxygen but is so good at this he can do it so its only temporary and they simply pass out? fucking airbender antics?

@zzapzzaptasers​ [ thor being an incorrigible flirt bc he would marry darcy but like totally platonically of course. ]

@irnmaidn​ [ cruella & cass ]

(doesn’t necessarily have to go anywhere. shame-free flirty-fun flirting. feel free to have ur muse turn mine down.)