🥯 BAGEL — what does your oc's typical breakfast look like? do they usually eat breakfast?
🥪 SANDWICH — what does your oc's typical lunch look like? do they usually eat lunch?
🍛 CURRY AND RICE — what does your oc's typical dinner look like? do they usually eat dinner?
☕️ HOT BEVERAGE — does your oc prefer coffee, tea, hot chocolate, milk, water, or some other drink? how do they like to take this drink (ex. coffee with milk, hot chocolate with whipped cream, a specific kind of tea, etc)?
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🥯 BAGEL — what does your oc's typical breakfast look like? do they usually eat breakfast?
Willow: usually leftovers, or prewar foods since those are easy to put together, if he's away from camp. At camp, he or Beckett can put something together, between the little garden, the chickens and staple foods they've traded for.
Gunnar: Once he gets into the Lucky 38, he orders in for breakfast, usually some form of eggs, meat and bread, but that can vary a lot. Tacos, bacon and eggs with toast, cornbread, ham and egg sandwiches, etc.
"In the field" he'll eat whatever's available.
Rowan: during the events of Bad Trip, he's stuck with Halcon foods, and there's the six-week period when all they have for all meals is Boarst and Beans. Postgame, he's on a specialized diet (thanks to Halcyon's weird food/his physiology) and ends up cooking a lot of his own food as a result; no more prepackaged stuff for him.
🥪 SANDWICH — what does your oc's typical lunch look like? do they usually eat lunch?
Willow: Whatever's handy. Sandwiches, prewar foods, but he draws the line at bugs. Bug meat just turns his stomach.
Gunnar: Fondness for Mexican food and Tex-Mex, and doesn't mind bug-meat meals. Lunches tend to be more "on the go" so they're sandwiches and the like.
Rowan: oh god not more boarst and beans / did I make enough food for leftovers for lunch
🍛 CURRY AND RICE — what does your oc's typical dinner look like? do they usually eat dinner?
Willow: Dinner tends to be the big meal of the day at the camp. Beckett's a better cook (and more willing to cook) than Willow, but a lot of it depends on what's available: has anyone hunted or foraged, are the chickens laying, etc. That said, dinners tend to be good and satisfying.
Gunnar: Field meals are, again, whatever's foraged, but if they're in Vegas, he tends to order in or go to the Tops for dinner. The restaurant experience!
Rowan: do I want to skip dinner this time, it's more boarst and beans / Postgame: actual cooked meals; he and Max take turns cooking, and both of them have gotten pretty good at it.
☕️ HOT BEVERAGE — does your oc prefer coffee, tea, hot chocolate, milk, water, or some other drink? how do they like to take this drink (ex. coffee with milk, hot chocolate with whipped cream, a specific kind of tea, etc)?
Willow: Not really a fan of hot drinks. Hot chocolate is nice, but the powder packets are getting real hard to find 25 years after the war. In cold weather he'll drink those different herbal 'teas' people came up with.
Gunnar: Misses coffee, desperately. Doesn't think much of the local homegrown substitutes. Yes, some of them have caffeine, but he misses real coffee, and knows he'll never get it again. When he did have access to coffee, he had it with milk and sugar if possible, but could drink it black if that was the only option.
Rowan: Has grown accustomed to Trip-Teaz for his morning drink, with something to sweeten it. Not a fan of the Purpleberry-flavored Trip-Teaz.
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It’s kinda funny that Jason is, in every sense of the word, the most normal Robin. Unironically, there wasn’t anything uniquely special about him before he was Robin. He was a street kid. His dad was a goon (which makes sense for Gotham. It’s a goon breeding ground) and his adoptive mom was a girl who fell in love with the bad boy, got disowned by her upper middle class parents and adopted her boyfriend’s infant son. Even his biological mother isn’t anything special! She was just a doctor who ended up becoming corrupt.
Jason Todd was no circus kid who could do an impossible signature trick. He wasn’t being scouted by some evil hidden organization.
He wasn’t the rich boy genius who lived next door.
He’s not the son of a supervillain (as lame as cluemaster is, he still *counts*).
He’s not the secret son of Bruce Wayne.
And he’s not a metahuman, nor did he led a whole organization of teens to fight when Batman couldn’t.
He’s the most regular boy to ever enter become a hero in Gotham. He wanted to do good things for the sake of doing good. He grew up poor with regular parents, where bad things happened to them. The kinds of things that could happen to *any* person living in Gotham.
There is nothing about him, pre-Robin and as Robin, that makes him Not Like Regular Kids.
His dad was a goon (who, depending on the run, was either killed by Two-Face OR. Just sent to prison and killed in prison! Which makes his backstory even PLAINER-) and his mother was a drug addict with cancer. Jason ends up homeless, and almost steals the bat mobile tires. The only thing that makes him stand out from any other tragedy befallen kid in Gotham is the fact he was bold enough to do that, get Batman’s attention, and continue to be bold enough to go against a crime lord (who was apparently his grandmother, the most interesting person in his family, but since she’s almost never brought up, she’s likely no more significant than a one-issue villain in the crime lord power hierarchy). Batman realized that Jason wasn’t going to really stop, and honestly he kinda grew on him, so he decided to adopt Jason, and eventually allow him to become Robin.
There just isn’t anything amazingly special about his backstory. The few moments where something could have been done to make it more interesting (like his biological mother) but ended up taking the most boring option. You can’t do much of anything now to enhance his past without upsetting much more well established canon, and not without making people wonder “well if his grandmother was such a big name in crime, why hasn’t she been brought up before?”
Jason Todd was a wonderful Robin (providing that he actually has a writer who likes him). He has a golden heart, he’s the voice of reason. He’s everything that a Robin needs to be for Batman. But compared to everyone else, he was nothing special. In a way, his lack of Not Like Regular Kids makes him stand out in a much more subtle way.
As if someone asked the question “Do I need to be someone special to be Robin?” And the answer was “You don’t need to be someone special, you just need to be brave, like Jason Todd was.”
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If I were greedy…
I spend a disproportionate amount of time appreciating the addition of these four simple words to the "I really wanted to develop these myself…" line in the manga side scene with how much insight they provide the audience into Ray's mindset during this arc.
Greedy people don't pull off successful escapes. Greedy people risk getting their friends killed. Greedy people end up losing everything.
(Chapter 181.1 | Chapter 4)
It's a layered message to Isabella as well.
You've known what I've wanted for a long time now. None of those three things have changed. You don't have to worry about me betraying you.
The way he looks at her when he says it, too; tries to make himself both nonthreatening to not invoke her ire or suspicion, yet aware enough to convey he can still competently complete his side of their agreement (along with a bit of pettiness, wanting to believe he has more control of the situation and not wanting to let it seem like she can pull a fast one on him. Knowing what's to come in less than 48 hours is heartbreaking), all while having the most subtle sad and tired tinge to his eyes and subdued grin to mask it.
(Because what if things were different for the two of them. For all of them.)
He already believes he's asking for so much, and yet…
(Chapter 181.1 | Chapter 93)
They're worth it.
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