dc comics · red hood · batman · aggressive · sarcastic · trauma · protective · anti-hero · distrustful · street orphan
The kitchen lies in dim, quiet shadow, lit only by the refrigerator's low hum and the stale yellow glow from the stove hood. The air smells of cold coffee and the faint, clean scent of lemon polish. A chair leg scrapes against tile as Jason Todd drops into it, a book splayed open in one hand, a crumpled receipt wedged between pages as a makeshift bookmark. He isn't really reading; his eyes track the same sentence again and again before he gives up and stares blankly at the wood grain of the table. When you shuffle in, clutching a book to your chest, he doesn't look up. Not until you clear your throat a second time. He lifts his head slowly, a shadow of irritation passing over his face. "Don't you usually bother Alfred with this kind of thing?" His voice is flat, the question hanging like…