#redwolf

If I could hold you for a minute (darling), I would do it again.

For people who doesn't know her, Rena is Jason's girlfriend from his original run as Robin in the 80s. She was in like, 5 comics and they never mentioned her again. But some people on tumblr (aka, @the-jason-todd-impreganator ), have been talking about her and we have a small community of people who ship her with Jason (me included)

So this post is just to yap about her and my hcs about her as an adult + I'm counting her as a OC for the Jason Todd Bingo because we know basically nothing about her. Gonna post more about that one later but also I'm making a lot of the prompts based on Jayrena, so it's a good excuse to talk about her.

Finally getting to my HCs:

Her actual name is Renata Lazarou. I can't remember who talked about that last name first but it's a greek one making reference to the Lazarus Pit, which revived Jason just as she as his gf gives him a reason to live. Also I'm gonna make her actual name Renata and Rena is just a nickname. I commonly hate when people make character's name longer for no reason but idgaf. I'm making her argentinian too because I'm argentinian and her fanart is insanely similar to what I imagined myself as an adult when I was a kid.

It's canon that her family moves a lot because of her dad's job, so...

She has a sister some years older that moved with their grandma to have some stability on her last year of high school. Rena got the option to go with them but she said no. She wouldn't have moved to Gotham and known Jason if she said yes, but sometimes she just wants a place to actually call hers

Because of moving a lot since she can remember, she doesn't have a lot of near friends and loses contact with any she makes while living at some place, so she didn't knew what actual friendships were and was easily peer-presured

Gotham isn't the exception, they move to another city after that. And another and another and another.

But when Rena graduates, she quickly moves by herself to Gotham. She fels kinda guilty because she has a younger brother she will not see grow but also knows she's an adult and it's okay. After all, she fell in love with the city even before meeting Jason and she feels like a part of her was left there, a wound needs to heal because she couldn't process it properly as a teen.

Casually, Red Hood starts appearing in Gotham some weeks later.

Going back to her personality, she likes the 80s retro aesthetic. Big hair, colourful clothes and all of that.

Some fav shows/movies are the Back To The Future trilogy, The Nanny and Goncharov, probably more.

Really into cinema, wanted to be a director or just work in a movie in any way possible

Ends up becoming a journalist, talking about Gotham's social problematics and things like that (I don't about Gotham's journalism industry tbh)

She has the biggest rivalry with Bruce Wayne because he didn't told her what happened to Jason and she had to find out her boyfriend's death BY THE NEWS. So her notes always talk about Brucie Wayne in a not-so-positive light, to put it nicely.

She starts investigating Jason's death and discovers the family secret. Now she also hates Joker.

And then, a guy called in honor of the Joker becomes the boss of Crime Alley (Jason's origin place) by ways he would have probably hated.

So she makes her own suit with old batfam technology (don't ask how she got it) and becomes "The Wolf", an anti-hero who goes specifically agaisnt Red Hood. And as a threat, she sends him Joker's cutted head.

Red Hood finally pays attention to the new vigilante because she took revenge because she's becoming a big problem to his business.

Shh, they're sleeping

I don't know if it's just me but as much as I love Red Riding Hood and Badwolf together living happily ever after with their two daughters I need angst.

So I started thinking about how much more heartbreaking it would be if Cerise didn't know that Badwolf was her Dad and that Ramona didn't know that Red was her mom because they had separated for safety.

Red wasn't allowed to tell Cerise about her father or her sister again for safety reasons and fear that if she said who Cerise's father was out loud someone might hear and take Cerise and Ramona away, with Badwolf being the same way.

And now with Cerise in Ever After High Badwolf sees her every single day, he sees how much she's grown and how he missed everything. And he wants so badly to go and talk to her, to embrace her, to just stand in front of her and really see her if only for a few seconds. He can't though, he knows he can't, because that would put them all in danger.

Red on the other hand doesn't get that torture/privilege she doesn't see Ramona until way down the line and it's only for a brief moment. It's only for a few seconds while running around town does she sees her oldest daughter, and she wants to run to her and hold her close like she had once done so long ago; then she blinks and she's lost in the crowd.

And in this world, Cerise doesn't really have any outer wolf traits, but she does have inner wolf traits speed, strength, agility, the need to be in the woods at all times, to rough-house, to bare her teeth when a threat shows its head. She doesn't know why she does these things, no one else does these things, and she doesn't know why there's this empty feeling in her chest whenever she hears a wolf howling at night.

Then there's Ramona who has no clue why she feels so hollow even if she's around her Dad and the rest of their pack. She doesn't understand why when she sees flashes of red she feels a sort of nostalgic longing and sometimes a little teary-eyed. She doesn't know why she feels like she's missing an important half of herself that she can't fill no matter how hard she tries. She's not alone, she knows she's not alone, Ramona is almost never alone, why does she feel like she is?

Don't even get me started on how Red and Badwolf long for one another, how they both stay awake at night wishing that the other was with them, wishing for one more night or one more morning just anything other than longing glances.

OKAY LAST COOKIE RUN POST FOR TODAY. I love you redwolf