The Original Lost Boy

What makes you the most emotional about your muse?

There’s a lot of things going on in current comics that have gotten me wanting to kidnap him and lock him in a box, but I won’t go into any of that. What makes me the most emotional is how badly this boy wants friends and a family and at every turn he is being shoved back into the darkness. Sure most of the time he does it to protect the people he cares about, but just once I’d love for someone to jump into it with him and be all ‘I’m here till the end’. Hell even just one of his family members to step up and be all: “we know you’ve got some serious issues and need someone to talk to. So how about we go and have some milkshakes and talk through stuff”. But of course he’s a member of the Batfam and they communicate with fists to the face. 

What made you decide to write this muse?

So a long time ago there was this comic book story line that came out. Batman: Under the Hood. The basis of it was that someone who KNEW the bats was causing hell throughout Gotham and starting to kill the mob. I grew attached to this sassy, snarky, devil may care attitude, bastard of a man known as the Red Hood. When it was revealed to be the Robin that I had first read in comics (Death in the Family still makes me cry okay), I knew I had to have him. I used him through out my various RP years, finally making my way here to tumblr like maybe eight years ago. I can’t really pin point the WHY I’ve kept him around as long as I have. He’s always been the loudest muse I’ve ever had. 

If you could change one event in your muse’s life (in their main or canon verse), what would you change?

Oh this is so easy it’s bad... His death. A vote of the people caused his death, and would result in the torment that he faces still today in comics. It all stems from that single vote back in the 80s when people sucked and only cared about how big their hair could get and how ‘cool’ they looked. This poor boy has suffered for all these years because some snot nosed man in his mom’s basement spam called the hotline to get Robin killed off. Congratulations you weasel, you were responsible for the death of a child and the torture and torment of his future self. Yes... I’m a bit salty.

If you could tell your muse one thing, what would you tell them?

I’d tell him that he can’t give up. He’s done horrible things sure, and people have turned their backs on him. But he will find someone (somewhere somehow) who will stick by his side. He doesn’t have to be and he won’t be alone for the rest of his life. 

If you could give your muse one gift, what would you give them?

Seeing as he’s been a crime lord and the son of a billionaire, there isn’t any material things I could give him that he probably doesn’t already have. What I’d give him instead is a hug and the reassurance that no matter what he does (or who he might kill), I’m still going to love him.

If you had to take one positive thing away from your muse, what would you take away?

I suppose the most positive thing about him is that he’s loyal as all hell (once he cares for a person). It doesn’t take too much to break his trust (after all look at how many times he’s had to deal with lying from his family). But yeah he’s very loyal and protective of the people he cares for. He’d even kill for them, which is actually not really positive (though I guess that depends on who you ask).

If you could “borrow” one aspect of your muse and apply it to yourself or your own life, what would you borrow?

Oh no. Nope. I wouldn’t borrow anything from Jason. I have enough issues as it is and I don’t really need any others. His skills with weapons and being very athletic would be cool, but I’d never be able to use either one. So yeah... he doesn’t have much I could borrow.

Do you genuinely want your muse to be happy? What do you think would make them most happy in life?

I do want to see Jason happy. He’s had such a shitty live and trash keeps getting tossed on top of him over and over again. It’d be super nice for him to be able to just kick back and look over things and be like: ‘yup... I’m happy with this’. What would make him happy? I think just having his family accept him would be a good start. Maybe having a best friend who didn’t turn on him the moment things got hard would be nice too... Just someone who loves him and accepts him for him. Hell just give this boy a friend at all and he’d be happy.

Do you enjoy putting your muse through angst? What do you think would break their heart the most?

.... This is a question? I love putting Jason through angst, and honestly it doesn’t even take that much to do it. His life is written like a bad angst fanfic. Abusive father, druggie mom, living on the street, death, torture, murdering people, being excelled from his family, having no friends, depression, attempted suicides... yeah... his life is an angst hole and I like tossing him into it every chance I get.

What do you love about your muse?

Oh where ever do I begin. Jason is intelligent, athletic, sassy, and murderous. He has a 'gives no shits’ type of attitude, and he’s a huge trouble magnet. He’s also got a huge heart buried under all that murderous rage. He isn’t a perfect person and has a ton of issues and problems that hinders him from being a “hero” and I just love that. I’ve always fell in love with characters that had issues to over come. Jason has a lot of those and more that pile on top of those ones. 

What do you hate about your muse?

He blames himself for everything. Even things that are out of his control. He piles on the blame on top of himself and it weights him down. He’s very self sacrificing as well, and sometimes I just want to shake him and tell him to STOP. Oh and he tends to push people away, even though he longs to have people close to him. He’s so afraid all the time of them getting hurt so his answer is to push them away, which in turn makes him more depressed and angry because everyone leaves him... Like dude, you do this shit to yourself... I really just want to wack him with a rolled up newspaper.

What about your muse amuses you?

It amuses me the most when Jason mouths off to people that he and I both know could totally kick his ass to the moon and back. He has died, he knows what death is like, and yet he goes running up to it and hugs it when he’s faced with it. Like: ‘what are you doing!?’ and at this point you just have to laugh because omg he has no self preservation at all!

What about your muse makes you sad?

The fact that he continues to push everyone he loves and cares about away, making him be alone forever and ever. He wants people in his life, yet at every turn he’s forcing them to make decisions that would make them leave him. Sure he does this to protect them, but it just hurts him in the end and it makes me heart ache for him.

How would you describe your muse to someone about to meet them, in person, for the first time? 

This is Jason my troublesome son. He died once, but he got better. He’s got a mouth on him but please don’t punch him in the face, even though he probably totally deserves it. Oh he was once Robin, but don’t mention Batman to him because he gets really angry and might go and kill someone. Also he hates clowns. Please don’t ask, it’s a very touchy subject. Also crowbars are a big no in his presence. 

Would you like your muse as a person if you met them in real life?

I would get very frustrated with him if I knew him in real life. The way he seems to hate himself and pushes everyone away, would really make me want to hit him. I think we’d get along though and I’d probably stick to him like glue. 

What aspect of your muse’s personality is most important to you? What aspect of your muse’s personality do you think is most important to them? Is it the same? Why or why not?

He has a moral code that he refuses to sway from. He won’t hurt women (unless they come at him first) and children are completely off limits. I think this is important to him too, and breaking this code would be the last straw for him. It’s what keeps him from thinking of himself like one of his targets.

If you had to judge your muse and sentence them to a “fair” fate, what would your judgement be? Would you punish them? Reward them? How?