Wildly Unpopular Opinion Maybe, But Every Time I See Something About Jason "moving On" Or "getting Better,"

wildly unpopular opinion maybe, but every time i see something about jason "moving on" or "getting better," it just pushes me further in the opposite direction & i want him to go even more off the deep end. going back to being a weird little anti-hero isn't enough anymore. we have to balance the scales. he needs to start burning down buildings for fun. start framing heroes for his crimes for literally no reason. start eating people again. brothers in blood 2

Honestly, if Billy Batson made himself the Justice League cryptid, no one would even blink if/when his identity was revealed. Like "yeah, that's just Marvel. He's like that sometimes".

Like he just puts out such strange pieces of information that literally anything could be possible. He shows up to a League meeting one day soaked in Lazarus pit waters, and the only thing he says about it is an earnest apology for being late. His clothes audibly squelch when he sits down. The League is struggling to translate some old text because the language has literally been lost to time, and somehow Marvel not only knows it, but also other information that implies that he was alive at the time (he was not. Solomon is just very, very thorough). He casually mentions talking to gods like it's just another Tuesday. He eats weird shit. The way he uses magic gives the other magic users a huge migraine. He has very specific knowledge about not only being homeless in the 21st century, but also about being a homeless kid in the 21st century (he's very touchy about the foster care system). Sometimes things just see him and flee the other way. None of his villains take him seriously. He's friends with a magical tiger that sometimes talks. An ally refers to him as the "Incarnation of Magic" and the League takes that very literally. If you try and track him in his off hours or hunt him down literally at all it's like he just stopped existing. He's somehow very in touch with the modern world and also gets confused by the simplest things. Sometimes he talks about the Rock of Eternity like he was born there, died there, or like it's the place to take the ultimate power nap. Someone asks how he knows some forgotten dead language and he implies time travel. Diana thinks its continuous rebirth. Half the league has their money on immortal eldritch being. Was he created? Born? Is he even alive? The world may never know.

Favorite thing about Kaveh and Alhaitham’s canon interactions at this point in time is that Alhaitham straight up refuses to tell Kaveh anything that happened at the Akademiya or why, despite being arguably the most involved person in the whole affair (since he came up with the plan, tweaked the Akasha terminals, etc.)

and meanwhile from Kaveh’s perspective, his misanthropic conspiracy theorist roommate overthrew the government, is being considered as a candidate for the new head of government, and he also straight up tells Alhaitham that he suspects him of leading a coup d’etat to seize power. Absolute insane energy. They had two long conversations and there was no communication involved whatsoever.

Let’s be real, the only reason the league doesn’t know Captain Marvel is a kid is bc his villains don’t want anyone to know that they get the shit kicked out them by someone who hasn’t even gone through puberty yet. They keep that shit on lock down, any ‘outsider’ villain who tries to look for it gets the whole monster society on their doorstep, Batman steps foot in Fawcett once and almost gets mauled by every criminal in the city at once. When word got out the “world’s greatest detective” was on the look out for Marvels secret identity they all mutually decided that they had to find him and chase him out the city before he found billy. This leads to Marvel himself having to show up and put a stop to it

Unfortunately for Marvel this means the JL is very curious to know why his villains are so unusually protective of him, Billy genuinely has no clue and assumes he’s grown on them in some weird way but he just gives them a shrug, saying maybe they’re just territorial

Jason Todd has always been the most cryptic Wayne/batfamily member.

Even as a kid, Jason was still a bit of a cryptid. Sure, the others were strange, but not like him.

Dick was a weird circus kid who liked swinging on chandeliers. He seemed really cheerful and adventurous (he never showed guests his anger, despite wanting to kill Tony Zucco). Tim was already an established rich kid, and he was too smart for his own good.

You see, the others were a strange outsiders knew. They thought they understood the oddities. Jason, though?

Guests had no idea what to think of him. He was nervous to be around so many people, to have so many eyes focused on him, but he was bright and cheery all the same. When uncomfortable, the boy could disappear so quickly. He was tiny from years of malnutrition, but he was fast. Nobody really knew his story. Obviously, he was found on the streets, but nobody knew much else about him. Then one day he disappeared and the next news of him was that he was dead.

Months after his death, there were people who would swear they'd seen his ghost while they were walking. One day the sightings stopped and the young ghost was never seen again. Years later, someone who looked like Jason Todd if he'd been given the chance to grow would be seen walking around Gotham.

After crawling from his grave, Jason was a mysterious John Doe at a hospital for a while. Nobody knew where he'd come from or how he'd gotten such terrible injuries. One day, he just disappeared, after being unresponsive for his entire stay. On the streets, there was some weird kid who nobody really knew. He didn't react to their attempts at communication and pretty much just walked around as a zombie, but he fought like a demon if provoked. Then one day some people from out of town started asking about the kid and he just disappeared forever. Nobody saw him again.

As a civilian after he comes back, he's some young guy who's super muscular (seriously, what's his workout routine?) and nobody really knows where he came from. He doesn't seem to have a job, but he has plenty of money. They don't even know his real name, and every time he uses one it changes (aliases to keep anonymity. He doesn't really have much of an identity outside of red hood or Jason Todd, a kid who died years ago).

As the Red Hood, he rarely even takes off his helmet (unless it was broken off, like when Bruce fought him, or he was purposely showing someone who he is). They don't know his age; he just showed up one day in full body armor ready to become a crime boss. He's got a rule against hurting children and is incredibly skilled in combat. He's too smart and calculating. His move with the duffel bag made him infamous, and he was able to evade Batman by himself for months.

Even to other members of the family, Jason is a mystery. Not much is known about the years in between his death and his return as the Red Hood. His confrontation with Bruce isn't discussed much by either of them, and Jason just sort of does his own thing most of the time. He's had several odd team-ups, and they never really get context as to how or why they meet and decide to start working together.

I think we should just write Jason as being straight up liminal. I don't think he should be alive or dead, Somedays when the veil is thin I think he should look like a corpse, somedays he should look fine. One moment he's freezing to the touch another he's warm. Heart monitor? He's flatlining for 5 minutes and suddenly he sits up.

Not moving for long periods of time? I think he should just flatline and be dead for a little before he just a alive again. Make him creepy and unsettling to be around at the witching hour, eyes glowing and have an ethereal glow to his entire body. Pale or dark skinned doesn't matter why the fuck he glowin'.

Make him see powerful Spirits, sense lesser ones, give him access to magic from the all-caste that drain his soul like the All-Blades do that makes him appear more like the walking corpse he is. Let him bend the shadows around him but not by his doing. I want him creepy and weird but I also think he should be mildly unaware of it all and or uncaring.