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I know Nanda Parbat is set in the Himalayas, and that Talia is Chinese/Arab. I was wondering if anyone knew what type of clothes they would be wearing, especially seen as Jason and Damian are training in the league.

Instead of one place, The League is an international organization with many secret bases all over the world, from ancient fort in arabia, underground cave in africa, mansions and safe houses in america, under old castle in england, in the alps, temples in china and himalaya, penthouse in hong kong, and private islands that each Al Ghul family members own at least one

Its members therefore also varied from ninjas, arabic militia, arabic nursemaids, tibetan monks, desert nomads, african porters, european mercenaries, american smugglers, all dressed depending on where they are, what's their job, their ranks and who comes along with the bosses

The Al Ghul family clothing varies from casual modern, combat catsuit, karate gi, traditional chinese, middle eastern robe, stereotypical ninja, to straight up fantasy outfit, again depending on what they're doing in the home base but not dependant on the local culture

Damian basically follows Ra's and Talia's style at home

Talia wears whatever she wants, a sexy spoiled rich daughter (but underestimate me at your peril) was the vibe of her youth, though she does cover up more after she became a mother, or when it's serious business

Jason opts for street wear because he doesn't care about the League, only using them for his goal, it's Talia who wears casual clothing alongside him (Ra's still wear his dracula collar)

Jason is pretty obviously talking about Wonder Woman's bared skin when it's snowing, something he's literally suffering right that moment, and Bruce thought he can only be talking about the other kind of inappropriate.

FUCK

I FINALLY ARTICULATED WHY I LIKED JASON'S ARC IN FUTURE STATE

so the thing with future state is that jason becomes a peacekeeper for the magistrate, which is basically a rent-a-cop/bounty hunter for a deeply corrupt company that's trying to control gotham through an authoritarian police state. and at first, it's like wow, okay, jason has COMPLETELY given up on morality, right? but then we learn that jason is the only peacekeeper that doesn't kill. the peacekeepers act as bounty hunters, bringing in "criminals" like the masks/vigilantes, and the thing is that they have the option to bring them in dead or alive, and jason ALWAYS brings them in alive.

which, on the surface, is a breach of what jason does in a narrative, right? he is almost ALWAYS the voice advocating for more violence, more permanent ends. so then, why the fuck has he suddenly become this jim gordon figure who is trying to work within and reform this incredibly corrupt system from the inside?

but i think... i think that's the key of it. jim gordon, the one honest cop in the whole of gotham city, the man who championed a one-cop crusade against the unstoppable flow of corruption in her streets, is the blueprint here.

because jason is, in some ways, always the underdog. the scapegoat or the black sheep or the powder keg--however you want to frame it, he's usually a dissenting voice. he has no qualms about standing in opposition to everything and everyone around him. which is why his stance of not killing ANYONE in future state makes so much sense. when the whole world has become okay with killing indiscriminately, when there is basically a genocide happening in gotham's streets, of course jason is going to fight back against the complacency.

jason todd isn't a killer. it isn't that the red hood decided to kill in UTRH/lost days, and so that's his personality now--no, what he ACTUALLY does in a narrative is challenge it. when batman shows too much hope for the villains, when the bats refuse to kill them even though it would reduce the (high!!!) numbers of their future victims--THAT is when jason grandstands about killing rogues. but when there is no hope, and everyone in power is happy to wipe out whoever comes up on the naughty list... well, then that's when jason REFUSES to kill. it's not that he's contrary, or that he's wishy-washy, or that he has no morals--jason todd red hood is, in essence, a critique of the system. when the system forgives, jason asks why. when the system murders, jason asks why. and i think, looking at it through this lens, i can see why jason is the perfect jim gordon figure. after everything, it makes perfect sense that future state!jason has decided that there's been far too much blood spilt, and thus is trying to do something about it.

Honestly, I can picture Bruce and Jason arguing about something completely unrelated, with Bruce suddenly shouting, "You died because you didn't follow my orders!" and Jason replying, "Yeah, sure! But that’s not the point here!" Like he’d just accept it and move right back to the topic at hand. Neither of them, Jason or Bruce would realize there’s anything wrong with that. I mean, seriously, we’ve come so close to that already. Bruce once told Jason he got killed for treating things like a game (back when he didn't know it was Jason), and Jason was just like, "haha are you trying to distract me." He can handle whatever the fuck Bruce throws at him. In fact, he actually think so and said it himself that it was his fault because he "went out on his own" (and it made me sick.)

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If you say that someone walking around an area known to be dangerous alone at night was assaulted because they were in that area alone at night despite its reputation, that's victim blaming.

If you say that someone reaching for something in their pocket was shot by the cop because they reached into their pocket that's victim blaming.

If someone was a member of a gang and they were killed in a gang fight and you said it's because they were in a gang in the first place, that's still victim blaming.

If you say the kid got themself killed because they were playing with a weapon and it accidentally discharged that's also still victim blaming.

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Jason, you absolute dork, making Hamlet references in the middle of a fight!

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