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Anon! Thank you for the ask!

What do I think about that little story? I think that “More Time” is proof that Judd Winick is the best Jason Todd writer that has even existed. He gets Jason, his Robin Jason is ridiculously cute and sweet and I just want to boop his nose.

Amidst Lobdell’s complete destruction of Robin Jason’s characterization we had that little story that was just bright enough to make us all smile.

I love the parallels in this story, I love that it starts with a side by side of Robin Jason and Red Hood Jason and it ends the same way.

This story was both too short and just long enough. It really feels like DC didn’t want to do much with Robin Jason, I mean his story is told from the Red Hood perspective but Winick still gave us the Robin Jason content that we deserved.

I don’t know if you have been reading my posts for some time but not long ago, I made a post in which I talked about how I headcanon Jason getting his memories back. Why am I talking about this you ask? Well, because the story was so short that it really doesn’t give us much context to what happens.

What Winick wrote was short and effective in making us feel all the feels.

But how did Red Hood Jason remember that he had to finish his work on Bruce’s watch? Well, my headcanon is that Jason has to see or be told about something from his past in order for him to recover his memories.

The Red Hood that we see in the issue is obviously UtRH Jason, he is not wearing a bat symbol and he has his red mask over his eyes.

I think that the cover from Batman (1940) #638 was put before the start of the story for a reason, after all, that was the issue in which I believe Bruce started to come to the conclusion that Jason was the man under the hood, he started asking questions about resurrection in the very next issue of that run so yeah. I think that Winick is a smart man and that might have been a clue for us to place this story in the timeline.

But back to my “memory recovery” talk, I think that Jason gifted Bruce the watch because that’s something he promised he would do as Robin. I really don’t think that Jason in the middle of the UtRH situation was like “I better give dad a gift for his b-day”, I think that he went to the cave or the manor back when Batman: Hush was happening and while doing surveillance and all that he came across the watch and snatched it as soon as the memory came back to him.

And that’s why Jason took the time to finish his work on the watch. It was something that he had to do, he does keep his promises, you know?

That’s just what I came up with to give the story more context and I wanted to share it. But the story as it is written is beautiful and it made me tear up when I read it. As I said before in this post Robin Jason was just too adorable and I was really happy we were able to see that Robin Jason again.

I also think that Winick chose some very interesting dialogue, when Robin Jason is talking to Bruce about the watch, he says this, “Yep, it needs to be with you all the time or needs a lot of attention when it isn’t”. Clever, as the reader when I saw that I was thinking that maybe Winick was trying to suggest that what Robin says about the watch can be easily applied to Jason.

Jason needed to be with Bruce “all the time” because he was a kid and Robin had to be with Batman “all the time” so he could be safe in patrol. And even when Jason or Robin were away Bruce and Batman had to pay attention and make sure that everything was still alright.

What do you guys think? Have I gone completely insane or does it make sense to you too?

I just love parallels, and that looked like one. But yeah, enough of my rambling, I hope you have a fantastic day Anon! Here, I left the best panel for last!

Day 3: Bonding during a mission