Headcanon Jason Todd is versed in like five different languages because he travels so much and he surprises his brothers and sister by that:
Jason, on the phone: Zasranets, ya skazal, v magazine na uglu! (Asshole, I said, at the corner store!)
Dick: Um, who are you-
Jason, still on the phone: Ryadom s gastronomom, a ne s Makdonal'dsom, u tebya yest' desyat' minut! (Near the grocery store, not McDonald's, you have ten minutes!)
Jason hangs up the phone.
Jason: Okay, we got ten minutes. Also can you not talk while I'm on the phone next time.
Dick Grayson: You... You speak Russian?
Jason: I learned it a few years ago.
Dick Grayson: What do you use it for?
Jason: To meet ... Friends from a far. So when three men enter this store, it's for totally legal reasons.
Dick Grayson: For my sake and yours, I'll pretend that's true.
...
Tim: Jason, Jason! I need to talk to you!
Jason, groaning: Anong gusto mo?!
Tim: Did you speak... Was that Filipino?
Jason: Shit my brain got confused for a second, I was talking to some... Friends about a... Meeting in a week and it's hard to switch back to English. Teaching yourself Filipino ain't easy, am I right? I asked you 'what do you want?'
Tim: I completely forgot, I'm low-key impressed.
...
Damien: Hallo, Todd hast du den neuen Film gesehen? (Hello Todd have you seen the new movie?)
Jason: Ja. (Yes)
Damien: War es gut? (Was it good?)
Jason: Mittelmäßig, das Ende zog sich hin. (Mediocre, the end dragged on.)
Damien nods and walks off.
Barbara: When did either of you learn German?
Jason: I learned it to travel to Germany to meet with a crime boss and shoot him in the brain. This was before I got better, not like last week or anything. Then I taught Damien.
Barbara: Oh, cool. I admire your honesty to me.
Jason: Yeah I respect you enough not to lie. That and you scare me.
Barbara: Habe es immer noch verstanden. (Still got it.)
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