all in my head is just Jason Todd and what abt it

kon i'm so sorry you gotta deal with this guy again

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Jaybin takes one look at Jason and immediately notices how tired he is. Not just physically tired, but the kind of tired that settles into your bones. He looks at Jason for a long moment before asking quietly,

"Seems like Bruce isn't the dad we thought he'd be, huh?"

Jason gives him a small smile. "No," he says softly. "He isn't anymore."

Jaybin raises an eyebrow. "Oh? So... he was? Before?"

Jason lets out a quiet laugh, more bitter than amused. "Yeah. Yeah, he was. Once upon a time."

Jaybin falls silent for a moment, trying to fit that answer into everything he knows. "So... we're back to taking care of ourselves, huh?" he asks. "Just like before."

Jason looks at the kid in front of him. So young. So familiar. "Yeah," he admits. "And... sorry to disappoint you, but as you can see, I'm not exactly sure I'm doing a very good job."

Jaybin frowns immediately, like the idea itself is ridiculous. "I think you're doing a good job."

Jason blinks.

"You've survived, haven't you?" Jaybin continues. "You're still alive. Maybe your life is horrible right now, but we'll survive."

He shrugs, like it's the most obvious thing in the world. "We survived after Dad left. We survived after Mom overdosed and died. We survived when we had nothing. So we'll survive this too."

Jason doesn't answer right away. He just stands there, thinking. When he finally looks back at Jaybin, he sees it; the fire still burning in those young eyes. The stubborn determination to survive. To keep living, no matter what. Somewhere deep inside him, something warm stirs. Something that almost feels like hope.

Jason smiles, this one softer than before. "Okay," he says quietly. "We'll survive."

Then he pauses for a little while and continue. "And maybe... maybe one day we won't just survive."

His smile grows just a little. "We'll live. We'll build the life we deserve."

jason and parental wants.

Bruce does a double take when Danny walks in. His newest son was much more reserved than his other children. He didn't like having attention on himself- unless it was the popular kids at school but Bruce thought that was just something every teenager went through.

Danny spent most of his time locked away in his room, playing video games, writing for his blog, and watching documentaries about space. He was the most normal and well-behaved ward he had had since Jason, and Jason was so grateful for being able to go to school that he used to ask to skip patrol to do homework. Danny had no interest in getting into the life of crime fighting, despite his previous ghost-fighting days.

He mostly stopped the ghosts from attacking because there was literally no one else in Amity Park who could handle the ghosts. In Gotham, however, there were plenty of heroes who were trained and on top of whatever issues were going on. Danny saw no reason to jump in, despite the Waynes each taking time out of their days to give him training in thier respective areas.

Jason and Alfred were happy to report Danny was one of the best shots in the household, while Damian and Cass both agreed his hand-to-hand combat was his weakest point. Duke and Bruce were the ones who helped him the most with his powers, which Danny preferred to use the most and was his strongest.

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

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meanwhile this is how kid jason dressed before tim drake was even a thing

My piece for the @dcfanmadezines Local lesbian aunt and her bi nephew hanging out after a hard night day of work.

Big fan of this interaction

MORE evidence that Jason absolutely Does Not Have a secret identity. No mask at all going on here and a villain he doesn't even fight recognizes him.

Iirc killer moth is meant to be another of Batman's high intellect villains who're meant to match him, though he gets a very short end of the stick outside of comics. Nonetheless, I don't see Red Hood as high on the "I've GOTTA figure out his identity" radar. I do absolutely see this as Red Hood's face just Being That Known

Hes having fun ^

I like how he didn't even get off the chair and is just smiling about it. Chilling as he threatens you with knife. I feel like the bars in hell whenever I get happy about Jason threatening someone without yelling anger roar shoved in

I'm only a few pages in but all the Jason art here is so cutieful... I'm so delighted... whimsy meters are up... also he just casually stabbed killer moth again

When Killer Moth calls Jason an ex-superhero, what is he referring to? I assume we aren't meant to see any of rhato as Jason heroics. But Jason doesn't really have a prominent superhero role that people would know about? Is it because he teams up with the batfamily sometimes? Is tfz why he's currently an ex hero? Or does he know about Robin? Honestly, I might be a bit caught up on the wording here. I should stop taking long breaks between my comic reading sessions so my internal timeline is more coherent

Primarily based on these images

But also because I want Holmes and Morticia to speak French, and for him to fence with Gomez, and teach the kids about poisons and criminals

Holmes folded down the top of the newspaper he was reading so he could see me. “A letter from whom?”

“Not sure.” I turned it over to study it as best I could. The envelope was thick and expensive, postmarked from America. The ink was rich and black, and it smelled unexpectedly floral, with an odd sulphuric note underneath. “Looks to be a woman’s writing, I’d say.”

“If you would.” He held out a pale hand. I passed him the envelope and he neatly sliced it open with his pocket knife. A single page slipped out onto his breakfast plate. He unfolded it with a flick of his wrist, then smiled. “Ah! Morticia.”

“Morticia?”

“Addams. She is my second cousin.”

I was immediately intrigued, for Holmes so rarely talked about his relatives. It had taken several years after our meeting for him to bring up the subject of his elder brother, who lived and worked barely an hour’s walk away. I wasn’t surprised that a second cousin in America had gone unnoted until now.

“Unusual names run in the family, I see.”

Holmes smirked. “Her grandmother was my great-aunt Séraphine, who met and married a quite singular gentleman named Algernon Frump while travelling. They settled over in the States many years ago, and dear Morticia now resides there with her husband.”

“Why does she write you?”

“She is arranging a sort of family reunion on All Hallow’s Eve. Apparently it has been far too long since we have all seen each other.”

“How long is that?”

“Several years at least. It was certainly before you and I met.” 

“And will you oblige her?”

“I suppose I will.” He folded the letter and placed it neatly back in its envelope, tucking it into his inside pocket. “You’ve been angling for a holiday, my boy. Would this satisfy you?”

“Wouldn’t it be terribly rude?” I asked, startled. “She has invited you, not me.”

He tutted. “Nonsense, Watson! Morticia knows we live together, of course.”

“How?”

“She will have read your book.”

“Oh! Well that is kind of her. But a family reunion, Holmes, I am not—”

imagine my surprise when i crawl back outta my corner to post ch9 of drag path and suddenly there's a whole ass comic by the one and only melts, what the HELL and it's BEAUTIFUL it's literally everything i could've dreamt of

thank you for blessing us with this magnificence

so glad you like this comic I tried my best to do that beautiful scene justice 😭