#jason todd as robin

[deadsetobsessions]

Danny Fenton is so damn sick of rich fruit loops. It’s worse now, since he’s one of them.

It’s not Vlad that he’s with, thank the Ancients, but Danny isn’t sure that this is better.

Because he’s Timothy Drake, a baby, and he’s been reincarnated after the Ancient of Reincarnation accidentally drank too much wine.

He’s going to kick their ass so hard when he gets back.

Danny huffs. He rolls over, ignoring the silent manor. Sure, he’s read the comics. Sure, he laughed and imagined being adopted by Batman- come on, Danny had black hair and blue eyes even back then, he was totally adoption bait- when his parents gave him reason to lose trust in their love. But that’s it, that’s all he thought it was. A day dream, a wish for a universe that didn’t exist.

Danny hadn’t understood the reality of the whole Infinite Realms thing, a place he was now the King of. Batman? Real. Danny? Reincarnated. Hotel? Trivago.

Like, this wasn’t what he meant, dammit.

And now he’s stuck as Timothy Drake, and Ancients, he was starting to see parallels.

——

Danny tried photography. He really did. He wanted to at least stick to the source material. But that’s not who he is. Even with the shiny new brain that memorized, catalogued, and put together clues at the snap of his fingers, but Danny’s never been one to take photos. It’s a respectable art, for sure, but Danny preferred to live in the moment instead of capturing it to remember forever. It’s just-

He watched the Graysons fall. He watched Dick Grayson turn into Robin. And Danny can’t and won’t ever betray his Obsession like that, ever again. He can’t let Jason die for his “story” to begin. That’s not how Danny works.

He’s there to protect.

Danny hasn’t ever been just Tim. Danny was also Tim and the Ghost King without a haunt. But now? Gotham is his haunt. He, in lieu of an actual city spirit, is Gotham. He’s also a Drake. And Drakes were meant to hoard.

Batman and Robin? They are his.

He claimed them, as a Drake. But that claim is weak. So he claimed them as their city, and that is a claim that will never be able to be challenged.

Danny’ll be damned before he allows some lanky starved clown beat the life out of one of his Robins. So, for the first time in his nine years on this planet, Tim-Danny goes ghost and flies.

“Who- who. Are you?” Robin slurred from his place in Danny’s hold. He is broken, yes. But not dead. Danny infuses some of his vitality, his ecto, into Jason’s injuries to help them heal.

“Gotham.” Danny replied, layering his ghostly voice with those of the city.

“Goth’m?”

“Gotham. Sleep, little bird. Your city has got you.”

When Robin, Jason, settled with a sense of trust that tugs at Danny’s core, Danny carried him to Batman, whose eyes were wild and manic. He glared menacingly at the green and white ghost in front of him, who was holding his broken and beaten son-

Well, it’d be menacing if Danny hadn’t watched him eat bricks and mortar, crashing into a building while using his grappling gun.

“You-”

“I am Gotham.” Danny cut him off. Despite his wary nature and natural paranoia, Batman settled at his city’s gaze rested on him. Danny knew that Batman recognized his city. Batman’s head bowed, but his eyes stayed on Robin. “You were supposed to take care of Robin.”

“I- I know.” And that voice was all Bruce Wayne the Dad instead of Batman the Vigilante. Danny gently placed Robin in Batman’s arms, taking in the tremors as he held his son close.

“Go back, Bruce. And make sure Jason knows how much you love him.”

He laughed as Bruce whipped his head upwards. “I am your city. You are mine as much as I am yours. I’ve known of you before you were born.”

Technically? Not untrue. But Bruce will chalk it up to weird magic shit. It’s not like it’s a secret that Gotham’s kind of curse. Besides, this way, Danny will be able to help out more often. And Bruce won’t be able to connect Tim Drake to the “Spirit of Gotham.”

“Return, my knight. This is not your city. I can not protect you as well as I can in Gotham.”

“Thank you… Gotham.”

Danny sighed. He wondered when he’ll have to field questions from a John Constantine. He’s pretty sure Bruce will call in magical help, even if it was his own city he was investigating.

Batman’s lucky Danny liked him enough to allow it.

[itshype]

Reverse Bruce (DC x DP)

Danny adopts Jason who stumbles into a natural portal aged 7. He does not miss Willis. Danny is currently the Ghost King and living full time in the zone.

Danny loves his son. I'm picturing him as a colossus like in Blister Pack if you know that fic, but you don't have to. He dotes on his human child and protects him with ferocity that straight up scares any of his rowdier subjects. They touch him and they're about to discover what comes after the afterlife.

Then five years later, when Jason is 12, either under the power of a rogue or by stumbling back out the way he came, Jason is returned to his Earth.

Danny immediately starts to look for him. But the realms are infinite. Jason could be anywhere inside or outside the realms. Danny and his army have to check every single person on every single version of Earth.

If Jason rejoins the infinite realms, Danny will know. Other than that, all he can do is look.

Jason knows this. So, all he can do is wait. On the streets of Gotham. He waits for his dad.

Jason does okay, he was 7 when he left so he remembers enough about the 'real' world to take care of himself and not be declared a raving lunatic or shanked.

Batman picks him up not for taking his tyres, but because Jason was investigating Batman in case he was a ghost. Jason tells Bruce, Alfred, Grayson, anyone who will sit still long enough that he's not Bruce's new kid. Jason will just stay with him until his Dad comes to get him.

Willis died in prison years ago. They tell him and are concerned that it's not sinking in when he doesn't seem to care.

Jason still becomes Robin, his time in the Zone giving him excellent aerial abilities as he's used to operating without pesky gravity harshing his vibe. So once he's got a grapple gun he's good to go. He and Dick bond beautifully over it.

(There is so much content in Jason raised by Danny as a concept.)

Over time he grows to care about Bruce but insists that he still has a dad who loves him. He declines a legal adoption.

Three years later, Jason is dying in Ethiopia. He calls out for Bruce and then Danny. Neither can hear him. Then he's dead.

Danny's still looking over in the CBS Supergirl universe.

Bruce is only a mile away.

Jason wakes up in his coffin and the next part goes how you would think.

Then Danny shows up. An army of ghosts cloud the sky and demand the son of their king back. They're threatening but non-violent.

The king - while terrifying - is actually fairly reasonable when confronted by the Justice League and UN representatives.

Then Danny feels it when Jason comes into contact with a pool of ectoplasm leeching right from the infinite realms. Someone has his kid. Possibly the same person who took or lured him away from the realms. Someone has his son and they're hiding him away from Danny.

[crow-eyed]

Two of a Kind (Part 1/2)

I've re-read Batman 410 and 411 recently and I was struck by the parallels it was drawing between Harvey and Jason.

This is the first issue Jason is in the field as Robin. Its also where Bruce rebuffs people calling Jay a child twice when he's questioned on bringing another child into his fight.

This is an often talked about panel (as it should be) but what people don't often talk about is how Two Face's backstory was just retold in this issue.

This is Bruce's retelling to Jason and it focuses on how his story is tragic, how he and Bruce used to be friends, and how Harvey is not motivated by greed but by madness. The parallels between Bruce and Harvey of course but Jason is the new element here.

Its stressed how young Harvey was (it's literally mentioned twice on the same page)

Bruce says that perhaps things could have improved for Harvey but his emotional scars led him to become fixated on his coin. His madness comes from these 'deeper' scars, which he projects onto the coin, and then uses to guide his life and actions.

Immediately after this retelling its revealed that Bruce is hiding a connection between Harvey and Jason. That Jason's Dad Willis Todd had worked for Harvey and after 'crossing' him in some way was killed by him.

Harvey is simultaneously the cautionary tale, a very real source of loss and pain for Jason, and a representative of the wrong side of the law in Bruce's crusade.

Keeping this a secret is the 'protecting' Alfred is calling Bruce out on. Bruce's response is to claim that if it wasn't for him Jason would eventually be in the same conflict anyway- just on the wrong side (Harvey's side).

Bruce is so certain that Jason was headed down the wrong path already. He even specifies that Jason's pre existing skills must be channelled with Bruce's teachings for him to go down the right path.

Jason was a homeless 12 year old stealing tires for survival. The implication that the thing that will keep him on the right path is Bruce's lessons is insane and incredibly classist. He needed resources and stability not to be patronizingly taught that stealing is wrong and crime is dangerous.

Overall the setup here reads to me as a tragedy of low expectations. He see's Jason as barely off the 'wrong path' so he hides this information from him to keep the metaphorical coin in the air. He sees this information as a challenge to Jason staying on the right path and he's already decided its a challenge Jason would fail.

[frogaroundandfindout]

[justice-artblog]

I can never and will never draw Batman nromally. This is a little guy that is littol and tiny and he doesnt fucking hurt his kids.

He's just here to vibe.

[rusomnia]

robin!jason: hey can you. can you not steal that. i dont want to chase you down

stray!tim: counterpoint - no. turn around and walk away.

jason, regretting stealing tires from the batmobile: why couldn't you have done this when nightwing was on patrol

[lonelydaydreamsalways]

Jason: Realizing he should not have went after the joker alone

*cue dumb ways to die starts playing*

[starspilli]

a little comic for jasons birthday. on being robin & batman and being brave & scared

[jellllllo-bowl]

gotham rainy nights

i firmly believe in Duke doing silly things with his power

hiding under your dad's cape when it's pouring outside can be something very special + bat-rain-poncho, several years later

[flyrobinflyy]

NOBODY FUCKING MOVE.

[mysterycitrus]

lbr he doesnt stand a chance against a real clownoisseur

[ashrayus]

some jasons and damians thats been piling up :]

(and tim and alfred the cat)

[itsdabatt]

when your crime lord son has glow in the dark eyes

[boombaux]

[sunaddicted]

I love the idea of all the batkids kinda being weird with Bruce's money - Dick doesn't want it; Tim has his own money; Damian was born in luxury and doesn't really comprehend Bruce showing affection with money. And then there's Jason texting Bruce something like "put a couple of hundreds on my bank account" or just forwarding Bruce his bills because goddamn, that boy has pride but he's not stupid: if the old man wants to pay, let him fucking pay.

[h-l-w]