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cologona · 3 months ago

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Jason has been through a traumatic experience which has deeply impacted his perspective. Things he wasn't aware of before, he can't help but notice now.

Given that his experience was of death, it's only natural that he should hear the dead.

#Beetlejuice “The living won't usually see the dead” logic here #Jason fully being able to hear and see ghosts upon resurrecting but not being able to make sense of it due to brain damage #His senses are dampened after coming out of the Pit (he's too focused on Bruce) but start to come back after his fight with Egon #Talia doesn't know what to make of it when Jason says he's hearing voices but she doesn't have any trustworthy psychologists on hand so #she sends him to the All-Caste #Ducra teaches him how to not lose his shit or get possessed #Offers for him to stay and join when Jason asks about learning magic #though Jason politely declines #Essence lets slip that there actually is a way for them to magically empower Jason in less than a single lifetime #but that no one who wasn't fanatically dedicated to their cause has ever had the ritual done because the sacrifice is your own soul #Jason forgets about the whole thing until after UTRH and he fights a bunch of sidekicks and Bruce dies and he loses his marbles #and then gets them back #and by that time he's formed this intense bond with this teenage girl who he knows he shouldn't drag into his messes but #he can't just abandon her #and he doesn't actually fully have his marbles back so he reaches out to Essence #and has a dream in which her black robes turns into scrubs and her ritual dagger becomes a scalpel #He wakes up to a safehouse flooded with blood and a deep three-pronged gash on his chest #a neophyte member of the All-Caste #his plans have spiraled out of control and he wasn't going back to heaven now anyways so it's worth it #because when he says his goodbyes to Sasha he's able to leave her with a karambit-shaped piece of himself #(and then the All-Caste are wiped out by the Untitled)#(and Essence gets trapped in her own sword in her misguided certainty that it was his doing)#(and somehow he becomes its last warrior)#(how many lost places to belong does that make it?)#(how many lost people?)#Jason Todd #prompt #Can you tell I've thought way too much about this #I couldn't put it into a proper post but when i'm word-vomiting in the tags apparently my brain works

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