#jason thoughtdd

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just read your Obi-Wan mafia story...What about a Jason Todd mafia au 👀

ngl i think about this a lot bc one thing about me is that i love a good mafia au (not in a dark romance way) and i'm surprised they aren't more common in jason todd-batfam spheres. but i've specifically been thinking about the incredibly niche arranged marriage subgenre of mafia fics and jason quite a bit lately

Like always, Wayne is a prominent name in Gotham, but they're just as prominent in the criminal underworld as they are in high society. Instead of a fearsome vigilante, the Batman is an elusive mafia Don that only a few outside of the underworld know is really Bruce Wayne.

Your parents are District Attorneys working under the table for Maroni, a rival of the Batman. Maroni brings up your name to Bruce while discussing potential ways to marry their two families in an alliance. After all, Maroni has no daughters of his own and marrying you to one of Bruce's wayward boys would ensure your parents stay under his thumb. The idea of an arranged marriage is a little old fashioned to Bruce, but he thinks it might help rein in Jason, the most unruly of his sons.

So without getting much of a say, you and Jason get hitched. Needless to say neither of you are happy about the situation, but Jason's got a lot more attitude about it. He's cold, he's mean, he's scary. He's the most mysterious Wayne child, both in the crime world and regular society. So all you've heard about Jason is that he's violent.

Thankfully, he never seems to be home enough to prove whether or not that's true. When he is home, he hardly talks to you unless it's absolutely necessary or you're in his way.

At first you try to remedy the stiffness. You try making dinner, reading books from his shelf, asking if he wants to watch a show together, inviting him out with your friends. You know this isn't a marriage of love, but that doesn't mean you have to be enemies. It's nice to have a friend. However, he's stubborn. The more he ignores or sneers at your attempt, the more miserable it makes you. He looks at you like this is all your fault, like he's comparing you to the hook-ups you're sure he's having. It all just makes you feel like complete shit. After a few weeks, you just start glaring back.

It's frustrating. It's frustrating to have a moody husband that doesn't want anything to do with you. It's even more frustrating when you through in the whole mob situation on top of that. Of course you had your suspicions about your parents connections. Of course you already knew to look over your shoulder, to not say anything. But at least you didn't have to know anything.

You're not supposed to ask when Jason comes home with blood on his hands, but you always know what it's from. You know what the unlabeled packages hidden in your bathroom are. You know which cops to call if Jason gets arrested. You know which important figures are being paid off, which ones are secretly in the Family; including your father-in-law because on top of all this, you also have to be a Wayne now.

You can't see your friends as much because you might accidentally blab to them (and you're too paranoid to risk getting any of them in trouble). You can't explain to them why you married Bruce Wayne's son out of nowhere. You can't even talk about Jason to the friends that stuck around after your big 'reveal' was received as a slap in the face to your entire friend system. You just had to lie that you'd been keeping you 'relationship' with him a secret. You've been "asked" not to work until the powers that be are absolutely positive you can be trusted. Although you have a sinking suspicion that it's just a ploy to turn you into a housewife. It feels like there's always someone watching you, making sure you're behaving and keeping quiet.

All this for a husband who frankly couldn't give a fuck about you.

Maybe you should be glad that Jason ignores you. You've heard the stories about mob wives. You know that he could be worse. You'd rather have a husband that can't stand to touch you than one who puts his hands on you.

But still.

It's lonely.

At least Jason's siblings are nice. Dick's made it a habit to check-in on you and Jason once a week. Mostly on you, you think. Since he mostly swings by when Jason's out of the apartment. Dick is good company. He's easy to get along with, appreciates your cooking and is sympathetic to your struggle with being thrust head first into this life. But he never stays for long and he always looks at you with so much pity. Even if he is interested in getting to know his sister-in-law, you both know he's really here because he knows his brother is a jerk.

Once he let it slip to the other siblings that you make bomb cookies, they start showing up unannounced every now and then. They're weird, but they're fun. You would make more of an effort to form an actual friendship with them if you didn't think it would lead to arguments with Jason. You're not willing to risk your peace, even if it's miserable.

Still, you let yourself feel some satisfaction at the way Jason's temple throbs every time he comes home to find Tim and Duke have accidentally gotten sucked into whatever you're watching.

Months of marriage purgatory come to a head when Jason comes home in the middle of the night to find you drunk off your ass. It's your friend's birthday. You haven't spoken to her since your engagement to Jason was announced. If you had to guess, she probably didn't feel like she could trust you after you had to make everyone think that you just casually hid a serious relationship. She probably assumed you just didn't trust her. You sent her a 'happy birthday, I miss you' message, only to realize you'd been blocked. Which stung more than any bitch face Jason could ever make at you.

So you celebrate her birthday with a bottle of gin. Fuck it, no one's here to judge you. Until your meanass, killjoy excuse of a husband interrupts you by having the audacity to come home. Jason discovers you hunkered down on the couch, lips to bottle, scrolling pathetically through old pictures from when you actually had a life.

Jason rolls his eyes at the sight. He probably would've just gone to bed and left you to your own devices, but the contents of that gin bottle have been utterly depleted since he poured himself a glass last night. He's not about to risk waking up to see you've choked to death on your own vomit. Dick would never let him hear the end of it.

So instead he scoffs and chastises you, subtly trying to get you to explain why you're plastered without making it seem like he cares. He's expecting some swallow, 'whoopsie-daisies' response, but instead he accidentally opens up your floodgates.

You tell him all about your friends, how this marriage destroyed your life, how lonely you are. That...That strikes a nerve for Jason. He's been so frustrated with suddenly having to share his space with a stranger, that he hadn't stopped to think about how much of an actual change this was for you. To be roped into the mafia, of all fucking things.

"...This must all be so terrifying for you," he says, his voice barely above a whisper. You look at him with sad eyes, glazed over with gin and dark with exhaustion.

"Yeah. Yeah, it is."

Jason will never forgive himself for the fact that this is the first real connection the two of you have shared this entire time. He feels even shitty that it took him seeing you like this to decide to be nicer to you.

He isn't sold on being a husband yet, but he supposes he knows a thing or two about being a friend. And maybe it would benefit him if you knew a thing or two about being in the mafia. He would feel better about leaving you alone at home if he was confident in your ability to handle a piece.

He can't fix everything overnight, but this...this is a start.

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What are some random Jason opinions/headcanons that you have? Sorry aboit the man, Jason would never 😔

thank you, nonnie ❤️‍🩹

ngl i’ve been rethinking some of my previous headcanons as i’ve been going through and annotating his stories, appearances and mentions.

he deals with a lot of chronic pain, specifically in his shoulders and lower back. he’s constantly stuck in a vicious cycle of his terrible posture making things worse but straightening his posture also makes things worse.

it took him a while to fully get his vision back after he came back to life. he still doesn’t have full 20/20 vision and one eye is worse than the other.

always carries a little note pad around with him!!

at his core, jason just wants family. he wants to be a part of his family, he just struggles to stand them all at once for longer than an hour.

he loses his train of thought and says um a lot in casual conversations. it frustrates him because the conversation will move on before he’s finished speaking but it’ll look super pacif aggressive if he says anything about it.

in his nsft alphabet, i mentioned he’d be really into you wearing red. i stand by that, but the thing is that his favorite color is actually green. ever since coming out of the lazarus pit, his eyes have been green (slowly turning hazel). so while he absolutely adores seeing you in red, his favorite sight is you being a vision in sage - especially if you do it on purpose because that means you’re making an effort to match jason todd, not the red hood. he likes when you wear red to go out and green to stay in.

oh, and he digs it when you wear low rise jeans with a whale tail

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rn You and Jason are reading Sunrise on the Reaping together btw

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What kind of car do you think Jason would drive (having a discussion with my friend)

i said this in my jason headcanons, but i actually think jason is a shit driver when it comes to cars. he’s functional, but he’s going to hit several curbs and do a poor parking job. he’ll take a motorcycle over a car any day, BUT i do think he has one or two super old sport cars hidden around the city just in case. like a beat up mustang that really has no business running but he can get it up to 90 miles per hour.

i do think he knows a lot about cars and has an interest in them- i am a connoisseur of mechanic!jason - but it’s like an art critic that can’t draw. it drove (haha) him crazy when he first came back to gotham, but honestly? you don’t need a license when you live in a city as big as gotham. motorcycles and public transportation are cooler anyways.

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jason todd likes pride & prejudice bc he sees himself in mr. darcy (could easily get bitches, but Does Not know how to not be weird and offputting.)

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I read "tremble and shake" and I just need to know about Jason saving reader from the green out. Was he upset? How did she get saved by him? I have so many angst questions

tw; greening out, brief mention of hypothetical vomit

Surprisingly, Jason isn't all that upset when you green out. You would think that someone as overprotective as him would be writing a lecture in his head the entire time you're wiped out on the devil's lettuce, but the thing is...he gets it. Weed is not a hard drug. Sometimes the edible doesn't hit quick enough, so you indulge in another joint...another hit off the bong or the pen...another nibble of a weed cookie. Your dad's been stressing you out lately, he's not judging. He's been there. When you're sober, he'll tell you to take it easier next time, but not as much as he'll tease you.

"I've never seen someone produce as much drool in such a short amount of time. You could've been watering crops!"

Secretly, he's mostly honored that you thought to text him when you were scared He wakes up to a series of vague and cryptic messages from you about how you're gonna die, which has him sitting bolt up right. However, once he puts it together that you're just greening out, they kind of make his heart flutter - especially the one where you ask him to come get you. He obliges in your request, of course, and awkwardly shows up at your friend's apartment. All of your friends are kind of shocked that he's real, and part like the Red Sea so he can get to where you're pancaked out on the couch and, with your friend's permission, carry you to your friend's bedroom.

He lays you down and helps you hydrate, promises you that this will only last a little longer. He puts something on the bedroom tv to help you relax. If you throw up, he'll clean you up and leave $50 on your friend's nightstand, just in case she wants to replace the sheets completely. Mostly, he talks to you. He rests your head in his lap and strokes it as he listens and responds to your babbling. It's much angstier for you than him as the feeling of being inebriated and out of control sucks. It does worry him quite a bit to see you like this, but he knows you'll be okay, that he's making this a lot less traumatic for you. However, if Jason Todd is telling you that you're gonna be fine, then even in this state, a tiny part of you knows you'll be fine.

"You were right to text me."

"I know."

It's humilating for you when you wake up the next morning. You can't believe you let yourself do that in front of your friends and then in front of Jason. You aren't an open book and you hate being vulnerable like that. However, Jason assures you that it's perfectly fine - a rite of passage for any stoner really, and people have done way more embarrassing things than ask for their boyfriend.

"Still, I'm sorry you had to come to my rescue because of fucking weed."

"Baby, I'll come to your rescue over a stubbed toe."

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What Muppet movie does Jason feel passionately about

muppets in space because he relates to the idea of feeling like an outsider even within a group you objectively belong in

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Sorry to send in two asks, but I accidentally submitted the last one before I was done typing

The Cinephile in me wants to know what Jason’s Letterboxd top four are. I know you said he would have terrible taste, like really bad action comedies, but surely he must like at least one good movie

skekekek i fear Jason does not know what letterboxd is, but you are correct. so-bad-they’re-good type movies are his go to in terms of his top four favorites, my vote is

I, Tonya

Clerks (or Clerks II)

Do The Right Thing

Superbad

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Do you have a face/fan cast for Jason? Like someone you envision when you write him? (I’m asking different Jason writers this question because I’m curious!)

Thank you for answering!

it really kinda depends on my mood. i’m a big fan of the jason being latino headcanon, so i love ciricearts depiction of him. i am just a girl so ofc jorge jiménez, dexter soy and dan mora do it for me, they really know how to slut a grown man out (even if they are perpetuators of blue eyed jason).

as for irl actors, i kinda envision oscar isaac. because if either of them were shapes, they’d be squares with just slightly rounded edges. and oscar isaac has that classic beauty with the body type i write jason as having. plus he can fuckin brood.