#absolutely shaking in the confessional booth and questioning everything as THE Red Hood tells him about his many sins
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Maybe I've just missed it, but I feel like there's not enough discussion on Catholic Jason Todd and his feelings on being seemingly resurrected by God Jeesie-Chreesie style.
Like, we as the readers know that it was a reality bending punch from Superboy Prime that brought Jason back, but in canon no one has any explanation at all for how that happened.
The Lazarus Pit fixed him, but he was already alive (just in super bad shape) to be fixed. He woke up in his own coffin and had to claw out of his own grave and no one in-universe can explain how or why it happened.
And that alone would fuck someone up, but add in Catholic Guilt (TM) and references to the resurrection floating around every Easter and Jason's gotta wonder at least a little bit if the Big G brought him back and if so has to absolutely agonize over what he's done with his big second chance.
I just wanna read 100k words of Jason's complicated feelings on his death, rebirth (resurrection?), Red Hood, God, Bruce and what it all means, if anyone's got any recs please share them I'm begging 😭
#jason todd#batman#dc batman#red hood#catholic jason todd#catholic!jason#the catholic guilt had to be eating him alive even before he died#on account of it being catholic guilt and all#but AFTER he died??? man has to be at Mass four times a week and at Confession daily#the poor priest (who got the job after the last one got eh...*retired* by Red Hood for reasons you can imagine) has to be like#absolutely shaking in the confessional booth and questioning everything as THE Red Hood tells him about his many sins#like Father O'Malley just wanted to serve god and his community and now he knows all the Bats identites and has to grapple with#the idea that Jason “8 heads in a duffle bag” Todd qualifies as a miracle and possible might be up for sainthood
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