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emmcfrxst · 6 months ago

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i am so normal about this i swear

Jason Todd is used to violence. He’s a little less used to love.

The first time you give Jason a hickey, it’s bittersweet. For a man so used to violence and all its aftermaths, that small mark on the vulnerable reach of his throat leaves him shell shocked. He presses down at that fresh bruise and is astounded at the lack of violence. That the violently marred planes of his body can bear the evidence of affection just as well. It surprises him a little, how two such opposed things can end up looking so similar. He’ll take a thousand little bruises from you if they’re made of love.

Every morning after you, he stands in front of his bathroom mirror and catalogues the damages. Symmetrical purple blooms on each collarbone, a fading one overlapping an old bullet wound on his chest, more scattered along his pulse points. He presses careful fingers down on each one and wonders at how close your sharp teeth came to the fragile parts of him. Decides how he wouldn’t mind an imprint of your jaws if you chose to give it to him. Thinks abstractly about how he’d look decorated in ruby droplets and your grin.

Jason Todd is used to violence. He’s a little less used to love. Sometimes for him, the boundaries get a little blurry.

#i don’t even have words to articulate what i want to say because this is just so. so incredibly Jason. so tender but sad. so very genuine #this was not only beautifully thought out but the writing style is absolutely stunning and lets you feel every emotion op is trying to #convey. i’d never really seen that concept be explored before and i am absolutely taken with it #a man so profoundly shaken by tragedy that it tilts his view of not only himself but also what he does and does not deserve. but taken in a #direction that just feels so close to character and there are so many incredible layers that can be explored when it comes to the blurred #lines between love and violence; because he’s so used to showing his love through violence—he keeps crime alley safe through violence; that’#that’s how he chooses to express his love for the less fortunate. by keeping them as safe as he possibly can and trying to prevent them from #experiencing the horrors he has endured as a child. he’s a little brash and a little skittish and he still doesn’t really know where he #stands in the world that has hurt him so many times but he always chooses love. he always has chosen love. he always will.#no matter what that love may look like. and you’re here to break the conceptions of love shown solely through violence and build something #strong and real with him. something substantial. something that will last. i could go on forever about this actually #jason todd x reader #fic recs

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