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undertheredhood · 1 year ago

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au where after some time being the red hood, jason realizes he wants to retire from being an anti-hero/vigilante and just live a normal life (or as normal as one can have when you’re the adopted son of batman).

but because he’s jason (an over-dramatic theatre nerd) he doesn’t go about retiring in a normal way. no, what he decides is the best way to leave vigilantism is to fake the red hood’s death, and what better way would it be if it happened during a confrontation with the joker (the joker obviously dies in this au, btw)?

after all, he chose the name to draw the joker out, wouldn’t it be kinda poetic if it ended with the joker as well? but of course like a dumbass, he doesn’t tell a soul what he’s planning, and when his plan goes exactly as he intended, his friends and family all think he’s dead.

jason shows up at the batcave a couple hours after his death in a t-shirt that says ‘i lived bitch!’ or something similar sipping on boba, and he’s wondering why everyone is looking at him like he’s a ghost (he forgot he didn’t tell anyone what he was planning on doing (jason might be insanely smart but sometimes he acts like a complete dumbass and i love that for him)).

(this was actually inspired by an angsty fanfic i read where jason actually did die after he faked being captured and killed the joker in an explosion (it can be found under the tag dead jason todd) or you can read it here!)

#batman #red hood #jason todd #jason peter todd #jason wayne #jason peter wayne #jason todd wayne #jason peter todd wayne #jason was never the angry robin #what he is tho is an over-dramatic nerd #jason todd is on a one-man mission to stress everyone out #bruce was hysterically sobbing when he thought jason was dead again #nobody lets jason leave the manor unaccompanied for the next six months #batfamily #bruce is happy at least one of his kids is leaving the family business #even though jason didn’t go about in the greatest way #ding dong! the clown is dead!#gotham throws a city-wide festival that lasts for two weeks when news of the joker’s death breaks out #jason todd is canonically a nerd and i will stand on this hill forever #despite leaving vigilantism for hood jason will still find ways to stress bruce out #jason becomes the favourite child by default because he’s living a normal life #jason goes to college and becomes a social worker in this au #which is a respectable profession that no one in the family will clown him for #despite being an adult jason gets grounded for a month for the stunt #imo if jason had lived he would’ve quit being a hero the moment he graduated from high school #jason todd is a menace #jason todd is an agent of chaos #in this au jason had been legally alive for almost a year before he put his plan into motion #jason todd shenanigans

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