#red hood all blades

[jazzadraws]

🗡️🏛️-RED HOOD AND THE ARGONAUTS- 🏛️🗡️

okay so someone on twitter (Miel, my fave red hood fan account 🥰) said that if jason had a team they should’ve been called “the argonauts” (after Jason and the Argonauts from greek mythology) instead of “the outlaws” and as someone who adores greek mythology i agree 100%.

which brings me to THIS piece!! inspired by the scene in the 1963 movie “Jason and the Argonauts” where jason and his crew fight warrior skeletons. it really got me thinking about jason going on silly quests and using the all-blades to fight supernatural (or mythological 👀) forces.

i really enjoyed drawing this so hope you guys like it too!! :)

[dragonpyre]

Do the bat's know about the All-Blades? Cuz if not, Jason has an opportunity to do the funniest thing

Commission info / ko-fi

[poisonousliliy]

So, when will we see that weapon again btw

[forgotten-daydreamer]

The concept of the family not knowing that Jason can summon the All Blades is so funny to me because imagine they're losing and he just pulls that shit out of his bleeding chest and they're like "wait what the fuck-"

[webshood]

imagine being a villain magic user and you find the last remaining member of the All Caste, the guy who's borderline immortal and carries centuries of tradition and magical practices with him, you think this is your chance, you'll fight him fair and square, depending on the outcome you'll be able to beg him to teach you the ways of All or fight till death

you approach him, ready to fight, you expect a spells, you expect flamming swords, but what he does instead is break off a steal pipe, barehanded, and beat you with it

[panakina]

I like to imagine Duke is the only one who knows Jason’s magic, because he can literally see it on him. The swords are floating in his back or ties to his arms or some such. He doesn’t bring it up, not his business, until one day they’re in a fight and things are looking dicy. Jason’s injured and punches aren’t doing anything, so duke just… picks up one of the swords.

Cue horror and confusion from everyone including Jason.

[sophiasrant]

There’s so much discourse on whether or not Jason should have an autopsy scar. but like. even if he doesn’t have one,, if you look at the tattoos the all blades canonically gave him, they’re in the shape of an autopsy scar. so we stay winning no matter what!!

[onnahu]

No bc it's sad how Jason just loses everything original about him with time. Like his backstory - Steph. Suspicion of him being Lady Shiva's son - Cass. Dying - literally everyone. Training with the league - Tim. Killing - Tim once again. Guns - Kate. Even Lazarus Pit. Even gim stealing the tires is taken away in Batman Animated Series. His whole character is just renamed Tim. And that's as bad for Tim as it is fir Jason!

The only special thing about him at the moment is that he's got All-Blades, and the funny thing is - batfam propably doesn't even know about them.

It's sad to be Jason Todd lmao

[beesbiteandwillowrites]

DP x DC Prompt: "Rematch"

Back when Jason was still a wee baby Robin, Bruce was in business negotiations with some company from out west. Jason wasn't paying attention to whatever it was that Bruce did during his day job, CEO is a boring job anyway, he wants to be a doctor or something so he can help people.

But he notices when Bruce starts acting strange.

It's subtle, yes, and Jason doesn't think most people would even notice something amiss, but he's Robin, he's Batman's partner, he knows Bruce better than anyone except maybe Alfred or Dick, but Alfred is on holiday in England for a week or two, and Dick is on one of his "no talking to Bruce unless the world ends" binges, so Jason really is the only one in a position to do anything.

It's up to Robin to save the day.

Jason investigates Bruce's comings and goings and the CEO of this potential new business partner of WE is kinda shady. He's slimy. Definitely keeping secrets. Jason dislikes this Vladimir Masters right away. Especially when it becomes apparent that he's doing something to Bruce during one of their business dinners that makes Bruce's eyes glaze over in a very worrying manner.

Jason is so not going to let this guy mess with his dad's mind.

It ends with Vlad being beaten up and chased out of Gotham by an enraged Robin. Bruce turns out to be fine and doesn't remember the incident. Jason doesn't tell him, just types up a report and files it in Bruce's archives. Alfred comes back from England, and Dick drops by again to steal Jason away for some brotherly bonding, and everything is fine.

Jason never forgets Vlad Masters and how he tried to manipulate Bruce. Not even a resurrection and a Lazarus pit swim will make him forget that guy.

So naturally, when he starts coming around the manor more and more, and hears that Vlad Masters is sniffing around Tim in hopes of manipulating WE's CEO, he is ready for round two. He's got a bone to pick, and he's bringing the big guns (All-Blades)

And if this round two happens at a gala where Sam Manson is present to see and capture the whole thing with her camera, well, Jason has gained a couple of fans back in Amity Park.

[rubydubydoo122]

Duke: so let me get this straight. You died in an explosion— going up in flames

Jason: yes

Duke: then you came back to life

Jason: yes

Duke: and before you came back to Gotham you had magical training and because of that training you got magical fire swords

Jason: …yes

Duke: you’re literally a Phoenix in human form, yet you chose the name ‘Red Hood’

Jason: It was to get back at the Joker because I knew it would rile him up

Duke: I didn’t realize you were petty to the point that you would just toss away the analogy that was handed to you on a silver platter

[were-wolverine]

okay but imagine jason like. not knowing that the Allblades aren’t a normal thing and thinking some people just have magic swords that appear in the presence of true evil. cuz like if aliens and metahumans and magic exist surely it isn’t that weird, right?

and then as Hood he uses them one time and everyone is like “what the FUCK? are those magic flaming swords??” and he’s like “yeah? what about it?”

everyone just stares at him like “what. WHAT.” and jason’s just like “cmon guys, magic and metas and aliens exist, is this really that surprising?” and the goons are all “fair fuckin point” and move on

[kundusaysthings]

Thoughts about Jason and the All-Blades

The All-Blades are, at this point, the biggest example of waste when it comes to the canonical depiction of Jason Todd. (To some extent, fanon also qualifies, but there is at least some attempt at depicting something.) I guess it happens because people look at the surface-level idea of 'anti-evil anti-magic' and discard it when they want to do their 'serious stories'.

My idea is this: take the idea of an evil-destroying weapon as a tool to analyze and comment on the world. Maybe it affects people you would think were safe - or it doesn't affect people who you thought would be hurt. Either way, if you can find the right angle, it becomes commentary on the nature of evil and good in the world you are trying to depict.

My headcanon goes thus - the All-Blades affect every living being, because all living beings have some degree of evil within. That's why you need a person to wield the Blades - someone needs to choose who actually needs to be purged. Also, most people are capable of giving up the evil within themselves - but heroes and villains are unqieuly incapable of letting go of their egos to an extent and are thus always going to have a degree of evil in their hearts.

Jason avoids using the Blades unless it is a last resort. This is because he sees within Lian Harper, a prepubescent child, the same selfish tendencies he sees in Ra's al Ghul. He knows that it is the context of their life experiences (or lack thereof) that makes one person an irredeemably evil man and the other a normal child, but using the Blades regularly conditions you into constantly evaluating the people around you - and Jason would rather be able to love the important people in his life unconditionally, and so he distances himself from the Blades and their coldly calculative way of looking at the world.

There's other ways of approaching this, of course - but the approach needs to be centered on character and theme, instead of plot and lore machinations. That way, it will have weight beyond being a cool tidbit.

[dragonpyre]

I think Jason should use the All Blades for more mundane shit

Commission info ko-fi

[kindlingkeen]

It kills me that rhato has Jason having spent all this time in the mountains with the all caste meditating and working through his inner conflicts and he winds up able to manifest his soul into swords that kill true evil and then he hardly uses them. Also what is true evil? Since it is his soul is it based on his understanding of evil? If so then DC let my boy kill the joker with his soul swords! You owe him one after like 40 years of classism and victim blaming and disrespect!

Friend, I’m afraid you and I are going to be waiting a looooong time for dc to do right by Jason. Pretty sure the world economy will be collapsing in the face of a second viral apocalypse, and dc will still be happily publishing bullshit dragging Jay through the mud.

I totally agree, the all blades are such a missed opportunity. I love the idea of Jason ‘Robin gives me magic’ Todd as Red ‘I’m actually fucking magic’ Hood. And they would totally shish kabob the joker. He’s true evil by anyone’s definition.

In fact, given the joker’s cockroach like tendency to come back from just about anything, seems like magic soul swords are just the thing to kill him dead for good. And is it really murder if it’s done with magic soul swords? Sounds like divine intervention to me. Batman can’t throw you in Arkham for carrying out spiritual destiny, right? Hmm … this is sounding more and more like a good fic prompt 👀

Thanks for the ask, anon!! 💙

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[shyjusticewarrior]

Do you think Jason doesn't use the all blades on Joker because if it doesn't register him as true evil then Jason's worldview is shattered

[s-darling-art]

My official All-Blades tattoo design !

[Neat info under the cut]

- The blades are powered by Jason’s soul and blood and can be summoned anytime. The only physically aspect to the blades are the copper hilts.

- The tattoos are a deep red, like dried blood, and glow whenever Jason is using magic.

- The blades can harm magical and non-magical beings alike but cannot harm Jason. The blades along with the tattoos are slightly warm to the touch.

- If you listen closely, you can hear the blades humming softly to the rhythm of Jason’s heartbeat.

- The bands around his wrists act as cuffs chaining the blades to him and him to the blades binding him down to the soul.

- The circles on his hands and wrists rest over acupuncture points that link to the heart and the one of his chest rests over his heart.