one of my favourite headcanons for jason in the league is that he becomes weirdly fixated/obsessed with photography and home videos, both because he realises he never really had any physical memories of his childhood before bruce and also because upon coming into care of damian, he realises that unless he does something about it, damian will literally not have a single baby photo/video. and jason decides that is unacceptable.
i think it would be cute if he takes over the whole ‘making sure damian has nice moments in his childhood’ operation, and part of that is photos and memories. i think damian is probably eternally annoyed by the camera constantly following him around, but he likes jason and is aware that jason is pretty much just fixating on anything he can get his hands on to distract him from how fucked up his own existence has become, so he decides to just let jason have this one coping mechanism and doesn’t say anything.
the concept of league home videos filmed by jason/damian is so fun for so many reasons—most of them to do with damian once he’s in gotham. i keep thinking about the concept of damian growing up with jason’s hyperfixation of photography/videography rubbing off on him slightly, so when he goes to gotham one of the few possessions he takes with him is an old video camera jason gifted him as a birthday present one year. he doesn’t use it much at first because he’s so used to it being a Jason Thing that he doesn’t think to capture anything when jason isn’t there, but eventually he starts taking photos of his new family around the manor. it’s probably the one thing that gets tim and damian to interact without obvious hostility. tim sees another kid with a camera and instantly becomes enamoured. but eventually after some vague conversations about how ‘oh my brother back at the compound likes to carry a camera around, i picked it up from him’ tim gets curious about what the fuck could possibly be in a ‘home video’ from the league of assassins, so he takes one of the old flash-drives with damian’s old footage.
first thing he sees when he looks through the files is a thirty second clip of jason trying to teach damian how to use a yo-yo while ra’s glares at them in the background like he wishes he had no grandchildren, and tim’s like,
there’s fucking hundreds of hours of footage collected within damian’s belongings, a culmination of jason keeping a record of damian’s entire childhood. there’s unedited raw footage that’s just jason talking to damian about random shit for three+ hours while trekking through the desert. there’s edited sagas of different bullshit side-quests jason took damian on that he decided to film vlog-style. there’s tiny clips of jason throwing things at ra’s across meeting tables, of damian learning combat from various tutors, of jason and damian sneaking into talia’s bedroom so they can steal her jewellery—tim is losing his mind at what he’s found, for multiple reasons.
it would be funny if tim eventually decided that there was literally No Calm Way to break his find to bruce, so he just quietly puts damian’s stuff back and pretends he has no idea that damian’s league brother is jason fucking todd. it just becomes really awkward when the red hood shows up and starts causing trouble, because as intimidating as hood is to everybody else, tim has to just stand there and think ‘i’ve seen video footage of you face planting the ground after surfing down a sand dune.’ and he can’t even say anything about it.
i also just think it would be funny if after jason’s identity WAS revealed, he absolutely did not like tim in the slightest. not because tim replaced him as robin, no. because that little shit likes photography and that was jason’s thing.
“fucking- you little stalker, you can’t let me have anything, can you-?”
“what are you talking- MORE THAN ONE PERSON CAN LIKE PHOTOGRAPHY, JASON.”
“what are you trying to do? steal my entire identity? my fucking dad and my job wasn’t enough, now you’re trying to steal my HOBBIES?!”
“I LIKED PHOTOGRAPHY BEFORE YOU EVEN FUCKING DIED. I WAS HERE FIRST.”
“YES I CAN?!?! YOU’RE IN MOST OF THE FUCKING PHOTOS?!?”
“no. you’re stealing my thing. after everything i’ve been through- just get out, Tim. i can’t look at you right now. get out of my house.”
“THIS IS THE MANOR—I LIVE HERE.”
“-BRUCE, GET HIM OUT OF MY SIGHT.”
damian is filming the entire argument from the top of the stairs and refuses to delete the footage.
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