#dc essence

[ambrosethedarling]

you may nor may not have gotten me onto jaybel (also isabel as a character she seems cool). would you be willing to provide a reading list for them?

Absolutely I can!! Fair warning, she is a pretty minor supporting character so she doesn’t have much.

That said, here’s the (Prime Earth) Reading List for Isabel Ardila

Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol. 1 #2 - First Appearance

Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol. 1 #7 - A very brief appearance

Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol. 1 #10-15 - An Adventure Out of this World!!!

Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol. 1 #28 - One Last Date (for now)

Red Hood: Outlaw #33-36 - Dating the Prince of Gotham!!

Red Hood: Outlaw #43-45, 49 - Isabel, Meet Essence

And that’s basically it!!

There’s no current word or confirmation that she’ll be back anytime soon, but she’s also NOT dead and gone for good so we might get to see her again!

[vodrae]

Jason Todd singing Black No 1 (little miss scares all) - Type O Negative to Essence but it's actually romantic.

[cologona]

Chuckling to myself imagining Jason coming off as a snarky New Jersey bad-boy in English, but sounding like some prim and proper little prince in Tibetan because he learned the language from Talia, and she only speaks with perfect formal Lhasa diction.

It’s to the point that when they first met, Essence and Ducra assumed that Jason was Talia’s rumored son. The first time Essence hears Jason use English and he calls someone a ‘brain donor’ she gets whiplash.

[arunneronthird]

okay so hear me out, i think about their dynamic a lot cause damian will get in the way of danger for jon to a stupid extent, to the point where he will risk everyone else including himself, and jon... he cannot really be hurt so he really just has to deal with the fallout 

also im so sorry

[blackgurlnhermoods]

THICCC ASS 😍😍😍😜

[bitter-hibiscus]

Im sure I forgot multiple other characters whom Jason has completely fucked over

[hyperblue]

who'd be more scary when it comes to timkon as protective parents in your opinion bc i genuinely can't decide

[apollo18]

Concept: the justice league finds out that Blaze and Satanus, the rulers of hell, are kids of their ‘even more of a boy scout than Superman’ coworker’s “boss” and think Shazam is the Christian God. They ask Billy really vague questions that lead Billy into confusing them even more and they become convinced that Marvel’s Wizard guy is God with a capital G and Marvel’s either an angel or the second coming of Jesus.

Meanwhile Shazam doesn’t even know what the Bible is and his knowledge about religion is so outdated he still thinks Solomon’s Judaism is new age and not worth his time to research such a ‘fad’ religion, but he knows humans will make a religion out of anything as well as bastardize existing ones and very well could have mixed up actual tales that involve him, his allies, and his children into some sort of melting pot of a religion.

So when someone finally asks Marvel outright if his “boss” is God, Billy goes ‘wait… old guy in white robes and sandals, with long white hair and a beard… lives in space… aka the “heavens”, whose a ghost(Holy Spirit), and knows everything(historama)??? I need to dig deeper into this hold on guys’ and goes off to ask the wizard.

So when Billy asks the Wizard he just tells Billy “well, my boy, if so many things match up, maybe it is so and the tales of myself and my champions grew so estranged from their origins or mixed in with other beliefs that it can explain the things that aren’t true to our reality.”

Then The Canonical Character To The DC Universe, Jesus of Nazareth, shows up.

[groovyace]

Tim cosplaying as Kon for maximum drip and pazzaz (he stole).

[onnahu]

Essence meets Batfam

Essence: I'm Essence, Jason's partner.

Jason: My ex.

Dick: So... partner or ex?

Jason: Both.

Dick: How does that work?

Essence: My mother likes him. More than me. And we murder people together.

[local-limebug]

jason todd has so many underrated canon love interests. essence, isabel, artemis, and rose are all characters i love with him. like those are good ships. why is everyone ignoring them?

[autisticrosewilson]

So Willis is Ma Gunn's son. He has a neice, Faye Gunn II, implying he has a sibling.

That's not what I wanted to talk about though, I'll get to that in a later post. I wanted to talk about the fact that Faye has fully white hair even though she seems Jason's age or younger. Which has. Implications about Jason's white streak. Possibly that it's a genetic condition that Jason chose to hide on the streets/as Robin and the pit just washed it out.

[cologona]

I need a Jason and Essence ghost-hunting arc that explores the politics of forgiveness and Jason comes out of it having learned that sometimes revenge is Good actually. The Cycle Of Violence is bad yes, but

[undertheredhood]

jason 'i've been bamboozled' todd: wow! if i had a nickel for everytime i've dated a white-haired asian girl with superpowers who can and will kick my ass, i'd have two nickels. which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. right?

[aingeal98]

You would think that since Bruce and Cass's morals are so aligned I'd be rooting for Bruce in his confrontations against Jason but you'd be wrong. If it's Cass vs Jason I'm team Cass she has the moral high ground and I like her more. If it's Bruce vs Jason neither of them fully have the moral high ground even though technically Bruce and Cass's codes are quite similar. Because unlike Cass Bruce has been used as a mouthpiece by multiple right wing writers and also just plain bad writers to the point that you have to ignore a LOT to simplify his morals down to "Killing bad." Like yeah if Jason's going around murdering people I'm rooting for say, Cass or Dick to take him down. With lots of angst and challenging their codes and making sure everyone has a bad time. But Bruce is just such an asshole and yeah, bad person, in so many other ways. (You can ignore the comics where he's horrible if you want but they exist and there have been so, so many of them it's a consistent character trait post Jason's death. And it's never character assassinating him for anyone else, he's always presented as the Protagonist even when he's going through his edgy punch the kids moments. Which sucks but that's what DC chose.)

And also Jason was sacrificed for Bruce's pain and meant to just stay dead and smeared to let Bruce get the angst without the bad dad allegations so hell yeah son. Come back to life and torment your father. Be more than just a costume in a cave. Just get better comics and better fans because when you're not fighting Bruce you've been Lobdell's pet for so long that most casual readers associate you with his godawful writing right after the UTRH movie.

[stickyvoidpaper]

ik they're sharing a body but Isabel and Essense should date.