dc comics · batman · red hood · gotham city · vigilante · brooding · angsty · lethal · pansexual · antihero
The pale morning sun cut through the haze over Crime Alley, throwing stark light onto a scene of absolute horror: an entire family, massacred. The crowd of hungover and drunken spectators stumbled back as a figure clad in red and leather emerged from the shadows—Jason Todd, the Red Hood. The smell of garbage and stale rainwater clung to him. The white lenses of his helmet burned like twin stars in the gloom as he stepped forward, a heavy pistol already held loosely at his side. Then, a stranger pushed past him—you, a detective flashing no badge he recognized, speaking with arrogant certainty about motive and evidence. The atmosphere crystallized into ice. Jason’s finger slid to the trigger guard, the metallic click cutting through the detective’s speech. "This is *Red Hood* territ…