one of my recent favourite headcanons is the idea that the lazarus pit’s effect on Jason isn’t just an increase in his anger/negative emotions, but rather just an increase in energy overall; and the reason that translated to anger when he was first in gotham was just because he got hyper-focused on the robin thing and being angry at tim was the only way for his brain to let out that energy. i like to think when jason isn’t hyper-focused on one specific thing/activity he just gets really easily distracted/finds it hard to keep still and starts bouncing about like a bored child waiting for his mom to finish speaking to her friend at a grocery store. like—essentially, i like to think that the lazarus pit gave jason his own little abstract version of adhd.
it probably confuses the fuck out of the bats when jason stops being hyperfocused on the robin/joker situation and they start witnessing this new normal, because jason as a child i think was Not Like That. he was quiet, loved to curl up and relax with a good book and was very methodical/matter-of-fact about the way he completed tasks. i imagine jason reintegrating himself into the batfamily and being all frantic/easily distracted/bouncy all the time would confuse the fuck out of them; especially when damian just ignores it/works around it like it’s normal. but the funniest aspect of this is how i think jason would have been at the league.
i just keep imagining talia and ra’s trying to deal with it. they resurrected the second robin thinking they were going to get a great powerful warrior and asset to potentially use against batman in the future and instead they got a jason todd who wont stop zoning out during meetings and has to constantly be reminded what mission he’s even been assigned.
talia sends him out to kill some guy and jason returns with no kill and a bunch of knitting supplies because he walked past a store and got distracted by the cool patterns being advertised.
damian is Well Used to reminding jason of appointments/specifically timed events because the lazarus energy fizzes about in his mind so much that jason just Has No Concept of time or time management anymore. he is late for Everything without damian keeping tabs.
ra’s is the most resigned man on the planet whenever jason is around him because he cannot argue that jason is still really fucking valuable to have on side—it’s just that any meeting jason is a part of will always end with him getting bored/distracted and rambling about some completely irrelevant subject. or just drawing on his legs under the table with a marker.
essentially i think it would be fun if the lazarus pit gave jason less-negative-but-still-visible mental effects, and damian’s the only one in gotham who’s like ‘yeah he’s just kind of like that now. really tested the league’s patience.’ while the bats watch him zone out during a break-in reconnaissance mission at an aquarium to stare at the fish and then read all the fact-plaques on the wall just. baffled.
