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imagine if the joker tattooed/carved jason with something to mark him as bruce’s, as a way to say that they made him together. the tattoo at the beginning of his torture and the brand at the end.

this is all to say, jason todd now has a tattoo on his lower back that says ‘Daddy’s Boy’ or ‘Daddy’s Baby’ or something along that line. it’s essentially a tramp stamp, it’s so humiliating, but something about having a physical reminder that he is bruce’s on his back keeps him going… until he realises bruce isn’t coming for him. won’t ever be coming for him.

he kind of forgets about it until he’s escaped one day (because he can’t see it like he sees the J on his face) and he hooks up with some older guy (perhaps slade) who makes a passing comment about it and jason just freezes up. he knew it was there, but he never thought it would be perceived, so to speak.

he thinks about getting rid of it, but he hates the idea of feeling unbalanced with just the J on his face. he even hooks up with countless older men who find it incredibly hot as a way to overwrite the meaning, but he can’t. can’t stop thinking about bruce.

he would rather the people he’s with in bed take him from behind and see the mark that represents bruce, as opposed to seeing his face and the mark that represents the joker in his mind.

[bruce contemplates excessively after he sees it by necessary circumstance one day in a faraway future. who is daddy referring to? he can’t stop thinking about it.

someone approaches bruce and subtly implies that his son calls him daddy too. maybe it haunts bruce. maybe it’s slade.]

this could be worse if the joker tattoos it referring to himself, and jason tries desperately to delude himself into thinking that no, anyone but the joker and he starts thinking of the tattoo as being dedicated to bruce teehee.

nonetheless, he’ll die before he tells bruce anything. if bruce doesn’t know, if that little bit never made it into the tapes, then there’s no reason to talk about it.

i'm so late to this anon IM SORRY but i've read this like a billion times because i'm in awe EACH TIME. this is everything to me like holy shit

that tramp stamp being the only thing keeping jason grounded, keeping jason from losing his mind with the knowledge that his father has abandoned him-- that bruce doesn't love him anymore. he needs it to keep going. needs to know he's still bruce's boy. i imagine he booked an appointment once to get it removed but before the artist could make contact with his skin, he just started panicking. don't take his daddy from him. don't take bruce away. bruce still loves him. he has to.

and every day after that, the shame literally tortures him because how can he be so pathetic?

sorry to make this brujay anon but i also see him guiltily getting off to the tattoo <3 and then crying right after

omg him sleeping with countless older men because he wants to rebrand the tattoo as something that has nothing to do with bruce... it never works though because then the daddy kink comes out and makes it all worse.

SLADE ABSOLUTELY SAYS THAT TO BRUCE LMAOOO hmmm i wonder how bruce would feel if he ever found out the truth about the tattoo