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April 27, JASON PETER TODD

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Special Children :: All Hell Breaks Loose

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what if Damian wasn’t sent to Bruce by Talia and instead decided to do a bit of early child-rebellion by running away to him himself. Talia, pissed off but too busy dealing with uprisings in the league to go track him down herself, calls up the person Damian is most likely to listen to other than her; his brother, who she trusts to keep him safe.

the thing is, Jason is 1: busy with his own missions atm 2: was also once a rebellious little asshole who liked to run away from home. he was Damian’s tutor once, he knows the kid can handle himself and he also knows if he CAN’T handle something he’ll contact Jason for help. he knows this because about a week before Talia called him, Damian called him.

Jason, phone balanced between his ear and shoulder: what do you want, i’m undercover

Damian: i require money for a fake passport.

Jason:

Jason, letting go of the guy he was beating up: alright you have my attention.

Damian: i am running away from home. i wish to do something ‘for the lore’ like the stories you used to tell me as a child.

Jason:

Jason ‘i’m going to ethiopia’ Todd: there’s some stuff in the fake panel under my bed. don’t tell me where you’re going, i don’t want to be complicit when Talia calls. also don’t die, because if you do i’m gonna make you eat dirt once you get out of the pit.

Damian: understood. if i am about to die, i shall call again.

Jason: have fun kiddo.

so Jason tells Talia he’ll ‘keep an eye out for any leads’ and then goes back to his normal business. league missions, his own missions, some outlaw shit, and eventually he ends up crime lording it up in Gotham. he’s a little confused when Tim Drake is seen swinging around as Red Robin rather than just Robin, but he got over his obsession with the Robin shit a while ago, so he ignores it.

until he runs into Batman and Robin. and there isn’t a mask in the fucking world that could hide his kid brother’s face from him.

Red Hood:

Robin:

Red Hood:

Robin:

Batman: why are you two staring at each other like that. what’s happening.

Robin:

Red Hood: *deep sigh*

Robin: are you going to tell mother-

Red Hood: -when you said ‘like the stories i used to tell you’.

Robin: *looks at the floor*

Red Hood: i did NOT think you meant running to a different country to find your birth parent. you fucking COPIER.

Robin:

Robin: …but you made being Robin sound so cool…

Batman: what the fuck are you two talking about?

Red Hood, pointing: you stay out of this, this is family business.

Batman: ????

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⚠️ ROUND 6 ⚠️

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my brother's keeper

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No offense to Itachi (jk full offense) but if Danzo had told Sasuke to kill his whole clan Sasuke would just have killed Danzo right there and ended the entire storyline prematurely.

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My heart...

watching you (please look at me once)

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do you guys ever think about how john literally groomed sam and dean to be the perfect lucifer vessel and michael sword without ever realising he was doing it. it would make him want to fucking die and yet he does it so perfectly. instils it into sam that he has no autonomy, no control over his life, unconsciously lets him know there is something Wrong about him. instils it into dean that his personhood is in hunting, that that’s how he’s useful and how he can be loved. and none of that’s intentional except maybe sam’s disempowerment. but it still happens.

dean was john’s sword long before he knew he’d be michael’s sword. and sam was john’s, full stop, long before he knew he’d be lucifer’s.

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You’re a perfect devil

Prints

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i devastated myself drawing this

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blue hour

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this is how he looks in my mind

anyways i made another brush and now i love it with all my heart what do yall think

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Jason has a different perspective than anyone else in the Batfam because Jason is a victim, not a survivor. Jason has been the collateral damage, the “we can’t save everyone”. Jason has been the one dead because Bruce said “if I kill Joker I’m just as bad” (which is a ridiculous false equivalency). Jason has been the poor street kid written off by society, he has been the victim of domestic violence and child abuse. Jason has been one of the hundreds The Joker has senselessly tortured and murdered.

What Bruce & Co are essentially asking Jason to do is accept that his death was okay, that he was an acceptable sacrifice for The Joker whose life is nothing but harming others for fun and continues creating more victims like Jason. And Bruce’s only defense is the absolutist “killing is bad and if we do it we’ll be bad” (even though mass surveillance, torture, excessive force, etc. is all also bad but Bruce is fine with doing that “for the greater good” even when it clearly doesn’t work).

Of course Jason cannot accept that it’s okay he died and that other innocent people keep dying because it isn’t fucking okay. Victims are allowed to be angry, are allowed to fight back.

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"If it was... so simple a thing, then why? Why not sooner?"

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The last few decades of comic writers have crafted Batman into a really accurate portrayal of specific type of abusive father, a sort that is rarely depicted well because its easier to just use the short hand of bruised children. Its the recurring patterns that make up long years of emotional manipulation, grounded perfectly in his characterisation, complete with realistic emotional fallout in the children subject to it.

Unfortunately it was completely by accident and almost none of them seem to realise what they've done.

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can you tell where i completely gave up besides giving up in the middle of it? haha

Also i fucking hate it