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idk man ive had this thought rolling around my brain insistently the past few weeks
things passed down in the robins that have nothing to do with heroics??? like jason saw dick do something and copy it, tim copies him and it just goes down them all.
like dick always stretching his wrist out an odd way and all the robins just do that because they copied it from the robin before them??? and they dont realize it like thatd be so sweet
sometimes i think about how small jason was when he was robin and it gets me on these tangents
dick teaching jason little circus tricks and tumbling things
like dick doing lifts with little jason????? bruce comes down the cave one day and dick has both of jasons feet in one of his hands holding him above his head
something about jason learning a lot of circus things from dick really gets my heart
wait wait ok so you know how jason was only like 4'6 and 87lbs when he died???? and he was 15???
that means he was too short and light to be without a booster seat in a car
Jason Todd as Robin! 🎁✨
Redraw of the first panel below from Robin 80th Anniversary, “More Time”! (AND IF I SAY HE IS TINY??? vvv)
My most cutie-est son, I love him so much. I hope nothing bad everrrrr happens to him 😊
Two Mistki songs per Robin, because I was physically incapable of picking one:
Dick: Liquid Smooth/Bag of Bones
Jason: Pearl Diver /Working for the knife
Tim: Everyone/ Frost
Steph: Buffalo Replaced/ Townie
Damian: Abbey/class of 2013
"Because these wings are no longer wings to fly
But merely vans to beat the air
The air which is now thoroughly small and dry
Dryer than the will
Teach us to care and not to care,
Teach us to sit still.
Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death,
Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death."
TS Eliot, Ash Wednesday
(Don't mind me, just yet again pushing the Jason Todd ft T. S. Eliot agenda because I dislike the concept of happiness)
I think it would be good if we had Robin!Jason be like a creepy kid. Like you know these characters in teen movies you see on vhs that talk like they know they're about to die in a tragic trampoline accident? I want a whole Batman series where Jason is Robin and he's still in character, all tiny funny and brave and adorable, but also at least once per episode he will look at the smoke rising from his cigarette and say some shit like "Do you think the souls of the people who die in fire scatter and vanish like ashes into the air?"
Jaybin, for absolutely no reason, on his fifteenth birthday: hey can you pass me the camera I wanna make a video for the members of the family I haven't met yet and tell them about how Robin is magic and life is beautiful and we should all really appreciate it because life is short and we never know what might happen. Oh and might taking a shot of me walking down the beach? Yeah that's a good idea.
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Dick: What's got you staring at the city like that Little Wing?
Jason: Sometimes the dead could afford to learn a thing or two from the unborn yet... *blinks* I'm sorry what was the question? Anyway let's go take out a trafficking ring!
Robin: Do you think the wind is ever trying to tell us something and we don’t know how to hear it anymore?
Batman: …I just want you to stop saying odd shit.
Have some magical girl!Jaybin while I scream about part two of chapter 6 of The Protector. This baby is about to get betrayed by a parental figure, brutally tortured, and murdered. At least that will get him out of the ugly colour scheme.
Jason, Constellation of the Robin Classic Transformation:
-Flight
-Enhanced athletics
-Limited Regeneration
-Colour Swirl: raises a colourful wave that rains concussive damage on his opponents, effectively stoning them with colourful magical energy.
-Starlit Labyrinth: While in the streets of Gotham, Jason has the ultimate high ground. He is able of finding the way out of any alley, like a thread only he can see out of a maze, and is capable of creating illusions of alleys and walls to better hide and lure his enemies into dead ends. This leaves him at a disadvantage when travelling in places away from Gotham like say, for example, Ethiopia.
I'm always thinking about Jason because fixation so my judgement is biaised because every song I listen to makes me think about at least one of my Jasons, but here are some songs though were definitely written for and about canon Jason Todd, and I will take no criticism (but you are definitely welcome to add your own songs):
-Take me To War, by The Crane Wives
>"But I keep snapping at Goliath hands with all of my tiny might"/ "All of the fire I swallowed, all of the sparks that went down in my guts, I am always burning out"/ "I'll be the sweetest thing to ever scare you"
The Robin -> Red Hood transition is so seamless
-Little Soldiers by the Crane Wives
> "On the broken back of all the words we spared, Like little soldiers in the trenches; It was a march we made towards ruin and despair, But we held hands all the while"
I always rant about how how Jason's character and story is centered around love, this is the song that plays in my head while I'm yapping
-Blue Lips by Regina Spektor
> "He took a step but then felt tired, He said I'll rest a little while; but when he tried to walk again, he wasn't a child"
If you ever wanna be sad about Jason's resurrection, catatonia and stolen childhood, this is the song to listen to
-The Horrors and The Wild by The Amazing Devil
"Think of all the horrors that I promised I'd bring, I promise they'll sing of every Time you passed your fingers through my hair and called me child, Witness me old man I am the Wild"
> If Under The Red Hood has one song it's this one
-The Old Witch Sleep and The Good Man Grace by The Amazing Devil
"There's a fire burning/And I'm learning to be/So much more than my tiredness/ So much more than that old witch sleep wishes/ She kisses my eyelids, and I/Breathe"
> If Red Hood: Lost Days (minus the gross bits) has one song it's this one
-Elsa's song by The Amazing Devil
>"And you'll throw some sage and lillies/ And roses where I'll rot/ Of all the flowers you picked/I knew you would forget/ Forget-me-nots"
idk who Elsa is this is about how Jason was grieved but he wasn't remembered
(Yeah I'm pretty convinced that at least either Madeline Hyland or Joey Batey read Under the Red Hood so many of their songs fit so well I restrained myself to three but there are so many)
-A Burning Hill by Mitski
>"I'm tired of wanting more, I think I'm finally worn/ For you have a way of promising things/ And I've been a forest fire"
Jason admitting loss and giving up on begging Bruce is something that can be so personal actually
-Heaven Knows by The Pretty Reckless
>"Now you're on your knees with your head hung low/ Big Man tell you where to go/ Tell them it's good, tell them okay/Don't do a goddamn thing they say"
Crime Alley united!!! Also, "tell the big guy I said hello" :))) (the God/Batman amalgam in Death in the Family is such an incredible one-liner and works so well for Jason omg)
-For the Departed by Shayfer James
>"Now I must finished what I started/I'll write a symphony for the departed/And I have no time for second chances/ So I survive on bourbon blood and backward glances"
The amount of angst, dramatics and intense devotion to his cause at the cost of his life, the literature references, everything about this song? Jason at his angstiest for sure
-Goodbye by Bo Burnham
> "If I wake up in a house that's full of smoke I'll panic/So call me up and tell me a joke/ When I'm fully irrelevant and totally broken dammit/ Call me up and tell me a joke /Oh shit/ You're really joking at a time like this"
exploded warehouse parallel aside, this song feels like not being able to heal because you're not capable of asking for what you really need, wanting to come back but feeling like you aren't allowed to because it would ruin you or the you that was shaped by other's perception of you and most importantly, begging to matter and to have mattered. So. Jason.
Discowing!Dick: Okay so for your first interrogation, would you like to play good cop or bad cop?
Robin!Jason: Who the fuck are you calling a cop
Dick: No, it's-
Jason: How dare you
Shout out to the best jason todd fanfic ever written truly it has it all
Truly it has it all (fix-it, adorable jaybin, healthier batfam, made me cry real human tears)
We need a meta fic where the actual story happens in the notes where the writer is going through incredibly fucked up shit:
"end notes edit: a serial killer killed my mom and tried to kill me to and I've been super traumatized about it so unfortunately idk when I'll be able to update for a while"
"hope that was good, I was kidnapped so sorry if the writing is a little spotty right now"
"sorry for the late update, I was busy being hunted down by the mafia so it's hard keeping a consistent posting schedule rn"
"omg y'all, thanks for the comments you guys are so sweet! Things have been super hectic right now what with trying to kill my dad, really needed the mood boost!"
"sorry for the late update, I was busy hunting down the mafia! Thankfully I managed to blackmail them into compliance so we should be good for now ^^"