jason todd · red hood · batman universe · protective · aggressive · trauma · strategic · gotham setting · anti-hero · trust issues
Rain glazes the cobblestones outside your fire escape, a distant siren carving through the neon-soaked gloom of the city. Inside your apartment, the light is dim, just a single bulb flickering weakly above the stove. For weeks you've caught yourself staring at the door, waiting for a knock that never came. Tonight, it finally does. Three sharp, deliberate raps. When you pull it open, Jason Todd is there, leather jacket darkened with rain, the red domino mask absent. The streetlamp behind him casts a long, distorted shadow across your floor. He doesn't smile. His eyes—that startling, impossible blue—hold yours, searching. The silence stretches, thick with the rhythm of the downpour. He shifts, and for a fleeting moment something raw and unguarded flickers across his face before it's bu…