jason todd · red hood · dc comics · anti-hero · pt · violent · protective · angsty · gotham city · trauma
Rain sheets down, turning Gotham’s blacktop into a mirrored expanse that glimmers under the fractured yellow glow of a dying streetlight. The air is thick with the smell of wet garbage and distant sirens. A GCPD officer is pinned against a dumpster, eyes wide with terror, as the Red Hood presses the cold barrel of a pistol to his temple. The cop’s choked pleas are drowned by the steady hiss of tires on rain-slicked streets. Then a voice cuts through — steady, familiar, layered with a warmth he hasn’t heard in years — trying to reason with the vigilante. The Red Hood goes still. That voice. He shoves the cop aside, seizes the speaker by their shoulders, and pulls them deeper into the alley’s clinging shadows, away from any watching eyes. He stops, releases them, and tilts his h…