#he doesn't care about wooing some mysterious hair to the throne

[regonold]

I want jason to go ALL OUT on his costume to go like this os his chance to live romance novel dream and he's not going to prepare according red hood isn't active for a solid month simply because jason is painstakingly stitching proper period accurate stitching a whole ass suit

He goes hard making it and due to the wording of the letter calling him death awoken (he was fully dead for years and then revived he's more than just death touched) and referencing he was robin redhood and jason todd he adds elements of all into his suit (its not just because i want a redhood useing a cane with his helmet as the cane head shut up)

He adds robins flying on the inside of his jacket he spells out the streets and allyways that he grew up in stiches he crafts custom redhood cufflinks slowly and painstakingly stitches a suit for the ball of his childhood dreams that are finally coming to fruition

Something deep deep inside of him Something of something primal Something no longer living (something bubling and swirling with thousands of voices) compels him to prick his finger on a roses thorn and drop a tiny bit of blood on it and when he does the rose changes to the swirling green that haunts his mind and against all odds he adds it to his suit

Jason is thriving by the time the ball is due to start he has a home made spectacular suit that'd make even the lords and ladies of his books green with envy he's not even planning on trying to romance the supposed courtee he's going soly to live his dream

On the day the ball is due to start he finally emerges from his room he bangs open his door as his goons turn to stare at redhood decked out in the most spectacular stunning and jawdroping suit (quite a few males started question their feelings)

"I'm heading out clear the road of everyone " he anounced as he slowly walked forward after a beat of silence there was a rush of activitie as all the goons rushed to clear a path

As jason stepped out he took a breath of the smog filled air it smelled of home and his dreams coming true as he stepped further out he noticed his goons had done remarkable job clearing the road

As he walked forward he heard a thunderous clop of hooves and looking forward he saw a deep dark gothic style carriage waiting for him the seemed to have melted right out of thin air

Entering the carriage he saw a 'person' and he used that definition loosely because the being before him was shifting constantly the wierd this was jason knew the people the being was shifting into

"Hello Jason," it said, shifting from Bill his goons face to tomy, one of his clean business owners "who are you what are you" he asked sitting at peace in this carriage with this stranger who wore the faces of those he knew

"Hehaheha" the being laughed switching to the crabit old lady who lived atop the apartment building just inside his territory "oh dear look deep in yourself you know who i am after all I've been with you for a very long time even when you died away from me i never stoped clinging to you" the now 70 year old mr crochit said

Jason thought back back to his days as robin and before and remembered the being who was always there just out of eye sight but protected him none the less who'd stand infront if the dumster he hid behind makeing those who wer looking turn an just miss him the being who after he had suffered a particularly bad beating had numed the pain the being who pointed him towards the batmobile the 'person' who he could always see in Gotham

"You're Gotham aren't you" he said stareing at the being who's form flickerd and he had a glimpse of the true Gotham a dark jumbled mass of smog sluge and blood a being with sharp teetha and a familiar smile whose eyes shone a bright glow their pupils a dark bat their skin craked woth bloodshed and violence and cuses galore

Before it was all gone and he was just looking at himself "hmhmhm you were always my favourite you know? You were truly of me sure bruce and tim are of me too but you you are of me in a deeper way you are of the children of Gotham who swipe and steal to survive you are of the fighteres just hoping to survive you are truly of me" the second jason said

"But why are you here now?" something in him already knows but not able to speak it the being let out a sigh "i am an old city batman was not the first to try and make a difference nor will he be the last, but he was the first to succeed on both fronts on the criminal and political side and he didn't seem to be stopping no matter how hurt he got he always went back for more so i did what i must i claimed him as a knight if my territory, of course I'm not all powerful and was stretched quite thin due to all the damages over the years so i couldn't give him true superpowers but i could give him a boost stronger faster blend in better that sort of thing"

the second jason sighed before slower morphing into bruce "and then along came Richard poor boy he was trying so hard i just had to so i blessed him with knight hood after he proved himself then so on a new robin comes i test if they are truly up to snuff and bless them with knight hood and all that comes with Gotham carriage

"So when i felt the spark of myself in you as you responded to that letter, i knew you had to travel i style, so I figured I'd take you in my official Gotham carriage so you could truly live your dreams now we're here i must be off go have fun live your dreams my favourite knight Gotham said switching for a moment to their true form before letting go and switching back to human

As jason stepped out still reeling from the info dump he looked up and saw the most stunning castle he has ever seen walls of crystalline stars and spiralling towers a garden of flowers of all shapes colours and sizes

Gapping for a moment longer he composed himself and walked forward now was time to shine time to live his dream and nothing would take that away as he walked he showed the door man his invitation an was ushered in side

"NOW PRESENTING JASON TODD OF THE REDHOOD PROTECTER OF CRIME ALLY AVENGER OF THE INOCENT KNIGHT OF GOTHAM" the crier shouted

Ok jason you can do this

One of those "Danny needs a consort" fics where a bunch of people are invited to a mass speed dating event. The invitation uses prettier words but thats what this is. Now Batman wants to go get a look a this super powerful being and see if he's a threat or ally, and would you look at that, most of his children fall into the age bracket the invitation specifies 

(or maybe the batkids have just been touched by death enough they're viable candidates and got personalized invitations. Either way Bruce wants to go)

So Batman says a few of his kids will go and he's tagging along as a "chaperone". Maybe a few other JL members do the same with their proteges. The hard part for Bruce is actually getting his kids to agree to go. The biggest surprise is Jason finds out and demands to go.

Now Jason, a known lover of regency period romances, read a copy of the invitation the JL got and knew exactly what this was. There will be a ball. The word "courting" was used. This is a chance to live out his secret romance novel dreams and nothing is getting in the way of that. So he calls the batfam to say he's going

The batfam are like flabbergasted that Jason wants to go to a spooky speed dating event but it has the added bonus of getting the kids to start volunteering bc they have to know why Jason is so excited about this