#essence (DC)

[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.

[bitter-hibiscus]

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

[onnahu]

Let's clear up something.

Jason Todd's canon love interests as as followed: Essence, Koriand'r, Artemis of Bana Mighdall, Rose Wilson, and Isabela Adrila.

We don't know much about the last one, but from the pattern we can suspect things about her.

Lokking at that all, the thing is obvious.

Jason ain't toping shit. Those women could and would kick his ass. And he'd get butterflies in his stomach over it.

[nixienewt]

Fake cover for an Essence & Isabel comic

[nenehyuuchiha]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Red Hood: Lost Days Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne, Ducra & Jason Todd, Jason Todd & Everyone, Jason Todd & His Siblings Characters: Jason Todd, Ducra (DCU), Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Cassandra Cain, Tim Drake, Damian Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth, Essence (DCU), Stephanie Brown (mentioned), Barbara Gordon, Talia al Ghul (mentioned) Additional Tags: All Caste (DCU), All Caste Jason Todd, Tim Drake is Robin, Cassandra Cain is Batgirl, Damian isn't robin yet, Stephanie is still pretending to be dead, Canon is what your heart chooses, i chose violence, Bruce Wayne's A+ Parenting, Gotham City is canonically cursed, BAMF Jason Todd, no betas we die like robins, Swearing, Protective Jason Todd, Jason Todd Deserves Better, Cursed Gotham City, Jason Todd takes his life back Series: Part 1 of All-Caste Jason Todd Summary:

There was really only one question that Jason Todd needed the answer to after his resurrection.

Just one.

He could have confronted Batman with a dramatic and overly elaborated plan.

Or he could just ask Bruce.

So he asks.

 AU in which Jason Todd chooses to finish his All Caste training, and eventually goes back to Gotham to ask Batman why the Joker is still alive.

Flawless, perfect, in character, ate and left no crumbs, absolute cinema, i love it.

[stickyvoidpaper]

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

[what-if-this-happens-instead]

Whats Black & White - Part 1

In which we see Jason and his magic hair

The white streak in Jasons’ hair is not from the Lazarus pit. It’s not from dying or from waking up, and it’s not stress. It’s also not hair dye, Stephanie.

Jason came out of Nanda Parbat with the same almost black-brown hair he went in with. He killed several of his trainers, and and his hair only got longer. The colour didn’t change. He walked up deep into the mountains with Talia without a single white hair. He does, however, leave with the white.

Jason Todd became a master of the All Caste, slowly and painfully and carefully and he has so much power running through his veins now. Time works differently here. He and another student worked out he had experienced about a decade of time in what would be 4 months. His hair gets darker, fully ebony. There is no white. It contrasts with his skin now. He looks less human than before. One of his masters had smiled at him when they noticed.

Jason Todd ties the very essence (hah) of his being to the woman across from him. Jason and his other half in every way that matters bind their very selfs together, something deeper and more intrinsic than a soul or a body. It’s not romance or familial bonds. It’s not out of pure necessity just yet. It’s comfortable and he feels more at home than ever before with a part of him melded so completely into Essence and part of her with him. A lock of his hair turns snow white. A long streak of Essences’ turns Ebony. There are hints of blue in the voids that are her eyes. The whites of his own eyes darken, and look grey in the right light. He’s suddenly slightly quicker to anger, she’s now better at planning espionage.

Jason Todd leaves the Acres of All with a white streak in his hair. He will never tell anything, living or dead or in-between where it comes from. He will visit his mountain home, carefully, quickly, quietly, once a month and only under the new moon. No-one notices. For all he plays up his incompetence, Jason is All Caste. And at that, he trained until there was nothing left to ingrain into his memory. It’s not hard to get away when he’s so underestimated.

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Thank you for reading.

PART ONE (You are Here) --- PART TWO --- PART THREE

[the-real-aku]

What do you guys think of ancestry being important to the All-Caste. Like your ancestry playing a big role in what you're taught combat wise. Like more inclined to magic or better off teaching you just normal hand combat skills. What KINDS of magic would u be better at, etc.

Communing with your ancestors and getting to know where you came from etc. Obviously this would be more important to newer and you get members like Jason as they don't exactly have the hundreds of years under their belts.

[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

[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

[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.

[autisticrosewilson]

Meet Essence, daughter of Ducra, former love interest of Jason when he was training with the All-Caste! Currently a body being puppeted around by sentient shadows older than the sun.

Thinking about the newer bats (Duke, Cass, Steph, Tim) speculating on Jason's age because he looks like a recently divorced 30 y/o but he's younger than Dick, and he acts like a 50 year old man (he still has a Nokia, out of the loop on Internet and pop culture, primarily listens to dad rock), and after they've exhausted all their guesses Dick breezes in, informs them he's like 24, and then leaves.

The bats then have to come to terms with the fact that Jason NINETEEN when he took over the criminal underground.

[blackgurlnhermoods]

THICCC ASS 😍😍😍😜

[hyperblue]

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

[what-if-this-happens-instead]

Whats Black & White - Part 2

In which Jason loses his beauty sleep.

Jason startles awake, and it takes him less than a second to recognise the feeling in his chest. It’s panic, but it’s not his. Its panic, but Essence doesn’t deliberately reach out like this unless something is very, very wrong. He stands, reaching for a physical weapon and combat ready clothes he keeps in his room at the manor. He’s dressed and ready in less than 5 minutes but it takes him longer than he would like because he’s distracted trying to get though to Essence. He’s trying to get her to calm enough to come get him, but he feels a tug at the back of his throat and suddenly he’s standing in a battle field.

A sense of wrong so strong he can taste it in the air, and he falls into battle next to his sister in arms. (Jason is a warrior. Jason is a warrior, and this is not the same as an assassin or a martial artist or a vigilante. Jason can and will kill, but he won’t do it meaninglessly. Jason acts in defence of others. It tears at his soul to see the blood of his fellows on the ground, but grief can wait because these fuckers will pay for what they have done. Jason is a warrior.). He lets himself fall in at Essences side and lets everything else fade away until he’s working on instinct, until his All Blades are flashing in the dozens as Essence swirls around him with her own blade flying in an impossible dance.

(Jason doesn’t notice this - neither does Essence for that matter - but for the first time he truly begins to look inhuman what with how his eyes have simultaneously darkened and started glowing, and the light of the magic around the pair is an ancient amber. There is, in fact, more than one reason they are so tightly bound together, and it becomes clear in how easily they adjust and react to one another. Fighting like this is easier than breathing, most days. It’s a careful push and pull.) 

Well of Sins; Acres of All. Untitled; All Caste. It is a war that’s been waging for millennia, and there’s a battle in the middle of London. The Justice League is only alerted three hours after it truly began, 4 after the Untitled had first attacked. It’s practically over by the time they’ve assembled on the watchtower. All Caste magic builds up over generations of students and master, each one contributing. It has been building for thousands of years - needless to say there is a lot of magic. Technology doesn’t tend to get along with magic this old. (Jasons’ phone has, as a result, stopped working, so he won’t receive the semi-frantic calls once people notice he’s MIA. Not that he would have answered them.)

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Thank you for reading.

PART ONE --- PART TWO (You are Here) --- PART THREE

[addictedapple]

I found a way to squeeze Rose, Eddie, Isabel and Essence in, and I’m very proud of myself :)

On a completely unrelated note, this fic is going to be long.

So here’s how this is going…