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Time loop/Time travel fic idea where Jason gets thrown into the past to when he first went to look for his real mother. Jason tries convincing his younger self to stop the search. Sometimes he fails. The warehouse explodes while Jason is trying to break down the door. He wakes up and starts again. Sometimes he succeeds. Bruce dies in those ones; trying to save his Robin, or trying to save Sheila Haywood. Jason doesn't know if that's better. He doesn't think about it. The loop starts again.

Slowly, Jason realizes that he will always end up in Ethiopia.

He will always wake up with his ears ringing, alive to do it all again.

For one loop, he waits for Batman and Robin to leave the manor and just. Sits there. In the library reading his favorite book that he's long since lost, in a blanket that hasn't yet been ruined. He finds a spare comm and texts Dick. Jason doesn't expect him to answer. Jason doesn't expect Dick to ask if he wants to get ice cream next week.

The loop resets before he can say yes.

Jason walks to the Drake's place. Tim is small. He sleeps on a desk cluttered with pictures. His parents yell at each other in the other room. He considers shooting Jack and Janet this round but settles on keeping watch. Just as long as they don't wake Tim.

The loop resets just as Jason realizes in a world where he lives, Tim remains a bird in a cage.

Jason walks past Gordon's apartment and leaves Barbra's favorite brownies at the door while his counterpart is beaten to death. The loop resets.

Jason is homesick. The loop resets.

Jason wonders if he can make it to the league. He can't. The loop resets.

He walks by Duke's school. He's talking with friends when his parents pull up. His smile is blinding. The loop resets.

For a brief second, Jason forgets why he's there. Then he hears himself arguing with Bruce a couple rooms over. He doesn't bother getting up. He only asks why. Little Jason doesn't know. Neither of them do. He follows his ghost to Ethiopia. He beats the Joker to the punch (literally).

The bomb's timer has a dead man's switch. Jason, fifteen years old, slumps against a door that never opens. Sheila Haywood cries because she is going to die. The younger version of her son tries to shield her. The older version knows she doesn't deserve it. He looks at the Joker's body. Even in death, he smiles. He smiles at this one, big, twisted joke.

The loop resets. Jason knows that he will die. He knows exactly where he will be buried. And exactly where he will crawl out of. He can still feel the burn of green in his lungs. His eyes. Between the layers of his skin. It burns worse than the explosion. It burns worse than hell.

The loop resets and Jason breaks everything. He feels like a child, yelling at nothing. Yelling at everything. It's not fair.

The loop resets and Jason looks up every possible person who could've stuck him here. He shoots some of them. The loop resets and he swears it's mocking him now.

The loop resets on a round where Jason has one more name on his list.

The loop resets. A younger version of Jason fights to reach a mother that doesn't exist. An older version of him is halfway out of Gotham determined to get back to the father of his brothers, his sisters, and maybe even him too.

The loop breaks. Jason knows because when he wakes up in the world where Jason dies, Damian is pounding on his bedroom door and Tim is shouting and Dick is telling Duke to stop recording and Steph is laughing with Babs over the phone. He's sure Cass is there too. They don't know why he hugs them. It's weird. He kinda hates it.

They don't pull away.

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love economics, hate economics classes.

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me: wow im super sensitive and emotional right now. what the hell is going on

the notorious menstrual cycle:

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World's Finest: Power Girl And Huntress

Art by Paolo Rivera

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silliests ever

the girl wonders bc i love them… sm….. girl robins i love u all…..

these goofy ahh doodles of jason and tim andddd reverse robins bc i think that AU can b pretty cool

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red hood and spoiler ready to kick ass!!

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Nightwing in Prelude to the Wedding:Nightwing vs Hush

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Just a playing card…

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Stuck 5 Robins and 2 bats in an elevator

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near and dear to me that jason has canonically bedrotted at least once. he found out willis died, crawled into his sheets, tucked himself in, and did not move until it was time for patrol. he said goodnight babes im going to fucking bed. realest shit ever, i like to think he does the same as an adult when life gets slow. oracle’s like we thought you were out of town how’d you get here so fast and he’s like wouldnt you like to know (he never left, he accidentally took a two-week depression nap. this is the longest he’s been upright in days)

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Throwback to the time Clark helped a woman deliver a baby and then suggested she named him Jason, after Jason Todd (who had recently died)

Batman & Superman: World’s Finest #7 (1999)

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wait isnt gender over today

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they should make a version of socializing that doesn’t make you feel like you’re still the weird 12 year old kid that doesn’t know why she’s not normal like the other kids

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May I offer some Diana in these trying times 🤲

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face study with stephanie >_< also tried out new brushes

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i hadn’t drawn in traditional in a hot minute but I got this rlly good sketchbook 😛