Looove It Cause The Idea That The Uncanny Valley Is Scary Because If A Human Looks Off, It Reminds You

Looove it cause the idea that the uncanny valley is scary because if a human looks off, it reminds you of a corpse, and that triggers an instinct because if a corpse is there, then it means what killed them might still be near, you need to run before the predator comes back. Jason's physical appearance as a warning that death is always, always near.

Corpse warning Jason Todd you will always have my heart

Ideally Jason should feel/look eternally “off” to others. For example: someone might look at him, their “that’s a dead body” instinct will ring. Not always, but just enough to fuck with them. His eyes are milky, if you catch them in the right light. He’s just a tad too cold. Despite his best efforts, most dogs are afraid of him- that being said, cats seem to love him. Magic users do NOT vibe with him, the sole exceptions being John Constantine, Jason Blood, and Raven.

Jason decided Sheila was also his mom, went to her even if she had abandoned her, decided to help her after finding out she was a criminal, and when she betrayed him in the worse way possible, spent precious time untying her instead or intenting to escape, then covered her body from the blast and said "i love you mom". Family love to Jason is sacrifice, it's devotion, it's relentless beyond any slight, and it overcomes any taboo of life and death. Love and suffering and loss are always, always intertwined for Jason.

So how could Bruce have loved him if there's isn't any blood?

What you mean by" willis todds love for jason is the reason bruce failed him" ?

Sorry ive seen your post and I agree with everything but this just kinda suprise me, not hating, just curiuos

HELLO! so this is a take that is based on pre-new 52 todds, before they were simplified to the one dimensional (and classist) personalities they're known for now. neither of them were shown to be abusive or willfully negligent, but rather found themselves in bad situations out of their control and died, leaving jason to fend for himself.

in the most simplest way what i mean is willis todds self sacrificing actions of turning to crime in order to provide for jason and catherine is the key defining part of jasons life and why he views bruce's love for him as 'not enough'.

(of course, the actual proof of this is like. one single panel and its not even said by jason. however i think it is something that can be found in jasons character through other, less obvious situations.)

in jasons initial (public) return to gotham and that long and convoluted plan to mess around with batman psychology to get the two of them and the joker in the same place, it all seems like a well planned out revenge story until the final conversation:

Batman: Under the Red Hood

it always stood out to me, not just because of how absolutely heart wrenching the entire moment is (definitely read utrh if you haven't, at least once), but because it really gives you an insight into what love and loving someone means to jason.

to him it's an all encompassing responsibility. this idea that love is something that you need to be able to prove by the quantitive value of what you'll sacrifice for it. in this case, jason is saying i love you" in the way he truly believes gets across how much he means it; i would kill the person who hurt you.

whenever i read this part of utrh, another situation immediately pops into my mind. and that's when jason found out two-face had killed willis todd.

Batman #411

upon finding out two-face had killed willis, jason goes on a brief grief filled rampage, swearing he'll kill him for what he did. it's important to note that up until now, jason had assumed willis was still in prison, only to find out he was actually murdered.

again, it's this idea that love is the extremes you'll go to for family. jason was well aware of willis' less than legal means to make money, and even bruce makes a mention of it in.

Batman: A death in the family

i imagine, like a lot of what fuels jason to fight crime now, guilt is a major deciding factor in a lot of his choices. it's this guilt that he feels upon hearing about willis' death that makes him take it out on two-face. it's even guilt that plays a huge factor even in new 52 stories (such as Cheer).

so when he returns to gotham, or even before that, just hearing about what bruce had done following his death (locking the joker up instead of killing him, taking in tim as his robin) were, to him, clear evidence that he did not love jason in any way that mattered. that bruce did not love jason as much as jason loved him.

because loving him means giving up your morals. loving him means sacrificing your health and your time and your safety.

but bruce didn't do any of that in a way jason could see.

i imagine to someone like jason, who lost every parental figure in some capacity, whether it be to illness or crime or something else entirely, the evident disregard for him was as painful as any rejection could have been.

a lot of how jason feels and acts can be seen in much more interesting ways if we all look at him for he is; an unreliable narrator. he is missing huge chunks of story, especially when it comes to bruce, and has no choice but to act irrationally on the little truth he does know.

of course we the readers, and some other characters, know just how hard jasons death was for bruce. how destructively he mourned for his son.

but again, the surface level proof of it is not enough for jason, who's entire life has been love through sacrifice. but now, it's a sacrifice bruce can not ever give him.

Batman: Under the Red Hood

"Her face crumples without a warning and Spoiler only has a second to bring a paper basket at her feet before she retches violently. The truth sinks in to the sound of those violent heaves and for a moment, nobody says anything anymore. Even just to hear, without even speaking the words- because hell if that's the thing about taboos, they make it unreal to make it bearable- it's a terrible thing to have to listen to. Dick Grayson, the unshakeable Nightwing, grabs onto Robin's shoulder to keep himself steady. All of them look like they're holding something terrible in their mouth.

Something to be said about swallowing the rot."

The Protector chapter 9 "Morning on an open grave"

https://archiveofourown.org/works/57542074/chapters/149997673

Wooopsie

Glad to hear "successful 30 years old american businesspeople" also struggle to know the wtf querulous, fractious and extemporaneous refer to

I got the Top 4.47% on this English Vocabulary test

Took me some time because college is back but here's magical girl Jason in his Constellation of the Wolf Meteor Transformation!!! Usually he wears the hood over his head because his ears show his moods (but you can't hide that wagging tail) and the cape closed over his chest because, well, his tits are indeed fully out.

His powers include:

-Flight

-Enhanced Athletics ++

-Enhanced Healing +++

-Claw of the Shimmering Sky: Jason's red diamond bracelets merge with his hands and form something like a shimmering fusion between the All Blades and Wolverine's claws and fights with them; on top of being neigh-indestructible and inflicting both burns and slashes, it's also capable of cutting through the matter of a Dark Wave or a Colour Waterfall.

Labyrinth of Wonder: While in Crime Alley, Jason has the ultimate high ground. He is capable of finding the way out of any alley, creating illusions of alleys and walls to better hide and lure his enemies into dead ends. He also has short range teleportation abilities within that area and, when in danger, can teleport into Crime Alley from any place in the universe. Finally, this ability allowed him to cast a permanent spell that creates glowing floating lights, visible only to the children of Crime Alley, that lead them home when they are lost and show the way towards the clinic and other safe places. This ability waxes and wanes depending on his relationship with the Alley.

Guardian of the heart: Jason's cape, when he wraps people into it, has healing properties

Artificer's Fang: if Jason bites into something (or someone) hard enough, he can turn it into a bomb which he can then trigger, creating a controlled explosion with the appearance of red fireworks.

(also, I got tired of trying and failing to draw accurate body shapes (with enough muscle and stuff like that) on winx/magical girl anime drawing references so until I get better at anatomy y'all get magical girl batfam in basic/superhero poses. I'll draw a redraw of Duke's Meteor transformation with a more accurate bodytype as soon as I got time.)