#its 3am and my blog im allowed to ramble. as a treat

[aalghul]

If it showed up in a comic and I missed all of it, I am so disappointed in myself right now. Please let me know if you ever find out where that happened. Regardless, I’m in love with your idea.

The image of a woman standing over his grave in the darkest hour of night, the only consistency in every panel being skin so dark that she is difficult to see at certain angles. Though once you see her, she looks starkly unfamiliar to the world around her. Even the air is rigid and afraid. Yet, every movement feels like it never happened, that she was always in that position; the way that erosion along a riverside is never noticed by those that walked by it every morning for years.

Suddenly, she’s on her knees on the ground above a grave. She must be directly above the coffin of whomever lies eternally underneath. Two hands drop down to the soil in front of her, clutching at the dirt desperately, her face finally visible, as if existing for the first time. It’s unearthly, unnatural, yet nothing has ever felt more true than the pain etched on it. It’s a mystery whether it is shadows in the dark night across her dark skin atop the dark ground, or whether soil truly is climbing up her hands. It stills, after a moment, and something pure white falls from her face. A mimicry of a tear, maybe. Making her seem capable of hurting the way humans do, to lull them into sympathy.

There are words spoken in a voice that must be older and heavier than any wind. The language is no language, it would be a maddening task to attempt make any sense out of it. But somehow, all her creatures know she says, “I am not through with your suffering yet.”

A whisper of wind, a blink of an eye, and she is gone, as if never having appeared. Because she never leaves. Old souls lingering in the graveyards take their moment to mourn for the risen. Then, the faintest sound of a scream can be heard: “Bruce!”

“He’s rarely boring” LMAO one way of putting it. Just the idea of Gotham deciding Jason has suffered and understood her, that he’s willing to do anything for her (not that Gotham has an opinion on what should or shouldn’t be done, just that Jason’s will towards it is strong. Even as Robin).

Makes sense that Gotham would take Jason’s murder at the hands of the Joker as being a murder committed by Sheila (his mother, so, also unnatural), and then by Bruce’s hand, and fixing those specifically. For whatever reason. So Jason is unkillable to the extent that it can’t be his family that kill him.

I enjoy it when Jason’s head is working against him. It balances out his genius :] also, I just enjoy it. But really, one eldritch entity is already beyond human comprehension, and could make someone go mad. Two? With two distinct forces? Insanity.

Maybe too comedic to be how it goes down for Steph, but it is hilarious. Though, she could just remember very vague bits. Less like they’re memories, more like they’re common sense and she can see them in the world around her. Random bursts of “insanity” because she saw a bird fly by a window, and her mind just put together the link between a hazy memory from Gotham. Theoretically, she would know what she just understood and what the pieces of the puzzle she put together mean, but she can’t comprehend it. But it still makes her head spin, and she knows it far more than any person should know. The typical mind fucky eldritch stuff.

OK, so I know Jason came back cos of the whole Superboy punched reality thing, but I can't deny I tend to gloss over that due to me being weird and cos it doesn't fit in every timeline but I digress.

Thus, I like to imagine Jason (& maybe Steph) Are brought back by Gotham itself, cos the place is an Eldrich location and may have worn Steph as a skin suit once.

So for Jason its just like, "You are my favorite son who died so far from mother, but you're not done yet, so wake up."

Cue Jason waking up underground.

Steph could be a similarly intended resurrection or Gotham just wearing her body, cos Steph was another favored child so her body was a neat fit post death. Then when Gotham leaves it, Steph's spirit just bounces back in like "Holy shit, what the fuck?"

That’s so wild. I love it. I’m able to put aside the timelines not matching up with the Superboy-Prime thing because nothing in DC lines up lol, but I’m so willing to build on this idea instead. The concept that Gotham itself corrected what it considered a mistake, and that it had to wait until Jason was buried in its own soil to act, makes his resurrection feel so much more personal. Far more intentional than just another crack caused by a tantrum. That blends so well with the way Jason speaks of Gotham like it’s alive. Maybe he doesn’t truly know it, but he understands on a subconscious level that there’s some level of consciousness to this insane city. It just gives me more reasoning ti say that Jason has more of a claim to Gotham than Bruce ever could. + It’s a neat explanation for Jason’s second revival: Jason can’t die like this, murdered by his own father, it’s unnatural. Plain & simple.

That sounds like such a disturbingly weird experience. Would Steph remember that? Would the others have seen her, alive but so…unearthly.

Kinda unrelated, but I like to think of the Lazarus as an eldritch entity, so how those two would mix with Jason is interesting to think about. They could clash as Jason’s roots VS the foreign entity that healed him.