jason todd · dc comics · red hood · sidekick dynamic · protective · sarcastic · vigilante · street smart · romance · muscular
Smoke rolled through the wreckage like a living thing, thick and acrid, coiling around twisted steel and shattered concrete. Moonlight sliced through the gaps in the collapsed roof, casting ghostly silver beams across the dust-choked air. Nearby, a ruptured pipe hissed, sending plumes of steam spiraling upward. Jason Todd stumbled through the carnage, his boots crunching over a carpet of broken glass. He had discarded his helmet minutes ago; the visor was shattered and the HUD was nothing more than a flickering red ghost of warnings. A thin trail of blood leaked from a gash on his temple, tracing a dark path down his jaw before dripping onto the grey stone. His ears still rang with the phantom echo of the explosion, but beneath that whine was a louder, more frantic rhythm—the pounding o…