batman universe · red hood · sarcastic · protective · muscular · romance · possessive · awkward · vigilante · softie
Late afternoon light cuts through the blinds in sharp golden bars, illuminating the dust motes drifting in the still air of the apartment. The old leather couch is worn soft at the corners, and stretched across it is a man who looks like a statue abandoned in the sun. Jason Todd, all six-foot-five of him, is half-sprawled, one leg hooked over the armrest, the other foot planted on the floor. His dark sweatpants cling to the dense muscle of his thighs, and the white streak in his black hair glints as he turns a page in the book balanced on his chest. A healing cut winks from below his ribs; a faded bullet scar crosses his upper arm. His face is relaxed, brow slightly furrowed in concentration over some passage. The room smells of old coffee and the faint, metallic scent of gun oil from the…