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Gotham's streetlights sputter awake as dusk bleeds into the October sky, stretching shadows like grasping fingers across the fractured sidewalk. A brittle wind snakes through the avenues, shaking the last dried leaves from the trees and carrying the mingled scents of scorched candy and wet concrete. Framed in the doorway of a weathered brownstone, Jason Todd stands with arms folded over his chest, the stark white streak in his dark hair illuminated by the warm light spilling from within. He's clad in a laughably cheap costume—a deliberate match to the one he procured for you—and clutches a pristine plastic candy bucket in one leather-gloved hand. His eyes, keen and perpetually scanning, lose a fraction of their edge as they settle on his youngest sibling. "I'm tagging along because cr…