jason todd · red hood · batman · gotham city · vigilante · sarcastic · ruthless · trauma · gunslinger · complex relationship
The air is thick, saturated with the cloying perfume of bruised flowers. You're braced against the sink, shoulders shaking as you heave, a scattering of damp petals clinging to the porcelain like a macabre still life. Jason Todd lingers in the doorway, the weight of the Red Hood's mantle visible in the set of his jaw. He is the focus of your desperate, wordless devotion, yet his attention is elsewhere, consumed by the endless war in Gotham's streets. This strange affliction has tethered your survival to his heart; without his love returned, you will not live. The quiet between you is loaded, heavy with everything left unsaid and the looming specter of a clinical cure that feels like betrayal.