#the death of jason todd

[onnahu]

Just had a thought.

The JL members that joined after Jason's death, never expirienced the Batman that can laugh.

Bc it's a big thing, that Jason could make Bruce laugh. Even on the anniversary of his parents murder! And after Jason's death, Bruce changed - as it is after your child dies, especially when you're already traumatised adult that has sooooo many psychological issues.

And now we have those two kinds of Justice League members. Those who knew Bruce before, and saw the change. That had to be terrible, to watch their friend and companion in that state. And the others, who met Batman only after.

What was it, to see the new members talking about who Batman is, when they never met the real him - the one who was crime-fighting partner with Dick Grayson, the one who was a proud father of Jason Todd.

[magnoliasandarson]

april 27th

In Wayne Manor there is a room unlike any of the other. It is not the Batcave, with all of its wonderful and physics-defying technology. It is not the study with its auspicious clock. It is not the library with its hundreds of rare and mysterious tomes. It is a room in the family wing, two doors down from the master bedroom.

This room is so special because it exists outside of time. In that room, it is always the morning of April 27th, just before dawn.

A small pile of dirty clothes is haphazardly tossed in a hamper next to the armoire. Drafts of half-written essays are scattered over the desk. A long-dead iPod is tucked between the pages of a lovingly annotated copy of Pride and Prejudice. A red hoodie is draped over the back of the desk chair, its pocket still holding a Batarang, a learner's permit, and a pencil.

In the center of the room, on the dusty floor, is a shattered picture frame.

If you were to look past the broken glass and the smallest blood stain, you would see a torn picture of a teenage boy standing between two men in suits. The boy was grinning like he'd won the lottery- crooked teeth on full display and blue eyes sparkling. The man on the right looks proud, also beaming at the camera with his hand clasping the boy's shoulder. The man on the left has his hands behind his back, the smallest smile pulling wrinkles into life on his face. The three looked like their lives had never been better; stood on the steps in front of a courthouse with the boy holding a freshly notarized certificate.

Perhaps that is why the frame was shattered.

Perhaps, on April 27th, in the early hours of the morning, Bruce Wayne knocked on the heavy mahogany door, regretful and wanting to make amends. But when he heard no response, he pushed the door open. Maybe when he saw the picture tossed to the ground, he panicked and dropped to his knees, slicing his fingers open on the glass in his haste to read the note that had been tossed onto the wreckage. The note crumbled in his hands as he raced out, slamming the door behind him.

The room remains untouched from that moment on, except on the 27th of April. Every year, a nightmare will rip Bruce Wayne from his fragile slumber, and he will tear through the manor in a blind panic, throwing the door open with the name Jason on his tongue.

Every year, he is greeted with the room that time forgot, and he falls apart.

[the-lights-are-loud]

Chapters: 4/5 Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Characters: Jason Todd, Catherine Todd, Willis Todd, Joker (DCU), Bruce Wayne, Sheila Haywood, Talia al Ghul, Ra's al Ghul, Damian Wayne Additional Tags: Hurt No Comfort, Angst, Jason Todd is traumatized, Jason Todd's Death, Death of Catherine Todd, Catherine Todd is Jason Todd's Parent, So much death, im not sorry, be in pain, Bad Parent Sheila Haywood, Mentioned Willis Todd, Blood and Gore, Lazarus Pit (DCU), Lazarus Pit Side Effects (DCU), Canon Divergence - Under the Red Hood Arc, Comic Arc: "A Death in the Family" in Batman (1940) #426-429, Decapitation, Jason Todd is Robin, Jason Todd is Red Hood, jason todd is a drug lord, Jason Todd Needs A Hug, Jason Todd Doesn't Get A Hug, Drug Addiction, Drug Use, Overdosing Summary:

There was a special place where Jason would hide from what was happening around him.

Somehow, the first head was the easiest.

[idekwthmuistb]

Popped up in my head, totally an angst idea that is unfounded by anything other than a few angst fics I've read and would probs never be said naturally but consider Bruce, soon after Jason's death/when Tim forced his way into Bruce's life, is talking to Tim and basically says, "You are hard to love because it's not You I want to give this love to" (familial love ofc) and I just feel like that could be potentially very damaging for preteen-Tim to hear yknow, just saying, idk I'm tired

[jonmyblaze]

Uncle dent :au

And (The quest for mother )

Location: Arkham asylum

Cell block number '22--222-22

Harvey dent sat in his cell. Flipping his coin idlely waiting as the clock to tick by.

(Face: liberty)

(chance Scratched)

( face )

Scratched

Face

Liberty and Justice (face)

Or greed and chance (scratched )

It was pointless to him, he couldn't find the will to escap

"Harvey dent you have a visitor." A small speaker in his room notified him in a monotone slight east gothamite voice.

It wasn't like a harvey had anything better to do, so he went to the front of his cell.

Two police guards proceeded to take him to the visitor center. As were there job.

Harvey as he was perp walked he Wondered .

who the hell would be visiting him at this hour.

"At least Wayne had his visits on normal hours.' Harvey dent thought to himself

"But we already played chess that week! ' Big Bad Harve countered.

'So it has to be someone else. But whom?'

Harvey approached the visitation window

Harvey dent looked at the kid on the other side of the visitors window.

He looked vaguely familiar. he's seen that face before , a boy he watched grown up under his gang

"Well wat doya want kid" Harvey's gothamite accent sung through his voice.

He was Gotham's deputy the people's elected district attorney. He had to sound like them

"Information, as much as you got"the kid responds

Harvey balked

"Aren't you a little young to be propositioning super villains for information?" He questioned rhetorically,

"I'm as old as the lawyers allow for visitation alone"

"You barely looked like you can jack a car! let alone convince a guard that we are family.

"Hey I got off the streets with my jacking skills" he defended himself,

Well bully for you kid! your parents must have been proud at your jacking skills."

Harvey chuckled with a bit of childish humor he asked" and Sense you brought it up which hand do you jack best, with lefty or.-"

"Can it dent" the boy cut off the mobster before he could finish his crass punchline. "all I want is information, nothing more "

I think a kid as old as you should know the prison rules by now. snitches and stitches and all"

The boy looked into the partition. huffed a laugh

"No not anything of the mob, this is I something that's rather more mundane that I need to ask"

Harvey cocked his unscarred eyebrow.

"what information would a young man like you come all the way out to Arkham asylum in order to ask me known mob boss Two-Face"

The kid placed a small book in the small open section of the divide..

It was a photo album. The Cover looked slightly burned and dirty but for the most part it was genuine. Two-face idly flip through the pages annoyed that this is what this strange visitor wanted

mostly baby pictures and likely pictures of young man in front of him.

"You were asking about a photo album? "Two-faced asked

"Flip five in from the front. ,"

It was there that he saw the photo.

.

Recognizing the photo

Huh

It held three people in the image. One former goon named Willis todd, his young son and Harvey dent himself.

Harvey remembered that day, Catherine (was that her name) had taken the photo. A smiling young woman. Willis's fiance if he remembered correctly.

Such a shame that Willis died in a gang encounter between his and cobblepots goons.

"You recognize that man?"

"Course I do it's it's good Old Willie Todd. Best gun runner and international arm dealer I had."

" Yeah and my old man too" the boy said blunyly

"No way" Harvey denied at first then he whispered

"Son of a bitch" he said in amazement!

There he was Jason Peter Todd, son of Willis and Catherine, the current adopted son of Bruce Wayne.

(this is a slight au of death in the family, Harvey and Jason has a better relationship then Canon.)

Harvey haven't seen the boy in person in ages

" Yes shit that baby there is me. "

" Well You grew up kid, congratulations"Two-Face said matter of factly, leaning forwards he asked jovially like a cranky cool Uncle. "got a car yet?"

" Nah, I'm only 15, do know how to hotwire one though."

"AH They keep getting younger" Harvey smiled ironically .

" Now what did you come all the way here. Besides reminiscing about old Times"

I'm trying to to find my mother"

" Pretty sure Catherine died of a drug overdose from the papers I read." Two-Face didn't often read obituaries but that was one of the more sad ones he read.

" It was cancer, she died of the pain meds she was given to help relieve the pain from the cancer."

"Sorry kid but if that's the case your ma's Dead and gone, what about trini and Joe? What happened to them "

Harvey remembered that lengthy custody battle with Willis, being unable to afford to take care of the boy and thus having to put him up for foster care temporarily. He was lucky that that boys measly acrobatic Aunt and Uncle to take him in as a way to keep him from experiencing the worst of the foster system .

This in turn forced Willis to take the more dangerous jobs that Two-Face had. And earned him much respect. Dent never got to hear the end to that story.

"unfortunately, they fell to their death when I was nine"

“Huh... Went out like the graysons. " Harvey commented nonchalantly.

Harvey, before the acid, had seen the flying Grayson's last performance.

He remembered the gasps of the crowd, the look of horror as they fell, the sickening sound of their landing. The cries of traumatized civilians

He distinctly recalled Bruce's expression of sympathy looking at the newly made orphan of the Grayson family.

And he recalled The pride on Bruce's face when he revealed that he adopted the kid to save him from the Foster system.

He may not have gotten the boys official custody in merely a wardship at the time but there was still so much pride in his face so much help in a brighter future.

" is that why Wayne took you in?" Harvey asked. He he may have missed a few things during one of his breakout and was way behind the papers..

Jason todd looked confused

“No, why would you say that “

"You lost your parents because of a acrobatic accident, you know what they say '

once is incidental

"twice is a pattern"

"Bleh I haven't met Bruce until after I was at 10 and already an orphan twice over."

"Really ?.So how did you catch Wayne's eye? "

"Wait You mean he hasn't told you? I thought you two were friends.

Nope, all he said that he found you and took sympathy in yout plight. Are you implying there's more to that story?

Definitely"

" So tell it kid”

And tell it Jason did. And it was the funniest shit Harvey ever heard.

‘See, remember how I said I got off the streets thanks to my car jacking skills.

" No way, what did you do?" Dent asked, like a schoolgirl wanting more gossip. Which was as par for the course in police work, they were just as bad when it came to gossip.

‘I jacked the tires of one of his muscle cars when he was visiting Crime Alley.. “

“You jacked his muscle car?” he asked in almost amazement. Bruce love those things it was one of the few things that showed that he was a fucking multi-billionaire with hobbies.

“Yep took the tires and everything, nearly got away with it too."

Harvey burst out laughing, nearly worse than the clown. It was a low baritone laugh but it seemed to echo throughout the room

Harvey didn't care it was fucking hysterical.

SOME PUNK ASS KID STOLE the tires of his best friend's multi-million dollar muscle car and the man decided to adopt the kid

It was funny, objectively funny

It took Harvey a few moments to calm down. Other inmates looked at him with sympathy.thinking he might have got Joker gassed.

“Sorry sorry that's the funniest thing I've heard all week”

“That's what Bruce said too. I think that's kind of why he adopted me.”

“He took you in immediately?”

"He tried the system first the place he sent me was a child to the criminal pipeline system that Batman broke up. Bruce decided if the system ain't going to work for him then he'll do it himself. And that's how I got to stay at Wayne Manor."

“Well aren't you the quintessential orphan Anne, “

“Yep, I even got the Daddy Warbucks too.”

“Haha haha real funny now I only have one thing to ask, why was my boy Wayne in crime Alley in the first place..”

“If I remember correctly it was the 26th of june at 10:27 pm. One the alley right Behind an old theater in crime Alley. I was a petty kid who didn't know any better. Said it was his first time having that happen. “

Harvey sobered up

No wonder why Bruce saw so much in the boy, Wayne found the kid on the anniversary of his parents' death.

It was funny, on one of the most crime ridden parts of this hell hole of a city, the famous multi-millionaire who rarely got into trouble with crime, on on the anniversary of one of his most tragic days .saw some young orphan kid jacking his tires as something deeply sympathetic. And funny

whereas most people his status would have loved to see the kid behind bars for mildly inconveniencing them.

Unlike most, Bruce chose empathy and Mercy instead of petty vengeance.. (he was much better than Harvey ever was.)

Harvey had decided long ago his friend was a saint but this took the cake.

On the anniversary of Wayne's death of all days. It was tragic yet funny.

—----

Jason Todd was lying

Only partially.

Bruce as Batman had found him on a normal day. It was weeks before the anniversary of the elder Wayne's death. But he wasn't lying about anything else. He jacked the tires off the batmobile Batman found funny and took a liking to Jason enough to later try and adopt him. This was a story they told the press.

It can coincided with the anniversary of the Wayne's death, and told the story of a young kid being adopted into gothamite royalty purely out of the sympathy of his big childish heart

As Bruce's media manager had told Jason. It's good to sell a story but it's even better if the populace wants to believe that story. little details being fudged are fine so long as the greater narrative is intact.

Ultimately it was harmless of a lie nobody noticed but still it was a lie nonetheless to be noted

—------

" So both sets of your parents are dead but you said you were looking for your mother? What's wrong with living with bruce.

I think I should clarify .

I meant.. my biological mother. The one who gave birth to me,'. not, the ones who raised me.

As much as I like Bruce, I just can't help but wish to have some closure. I want to know where I came from. it feels wrong without at least knowing a little bit about her.

This is all I ask. It's why I came here.

Do you know anywhere where l can go to get that info." Two-face contemplated the request for a few seconds before relenting

" You know what? sure. I'll help." There was a brigh light in the boys eyes.. there was hope

Harvey had to temper that." keep in mind, kid that these details could be outdated, they are a few years old after all."

" Please. I'll take anything at this point" Jason looked happy. He cherished Catherine,he loved his foster parents/uncle and Aunt Joe and Trina Todd(before they ultimately demise) he genuinely enjoyed Bruce as his father figure and he respected his bio dad Willis Todd. He just wanted closure, that was all.

Harvey would give him the details to one of the more secure bases. Jason would visit once again and with Harvey's help succeeded in narrowing down the three ladies until he came across the final one, Sheila Haywood. currently in Ethiopia.

--------Weeks later-----

Jason Todd would go alone to Ethiopia unknowing the tragedy that would occur

--------in death in the family telethon-----

Call now Gotham will the bird Boy live or will he fry!

HAHA-HAHA-HAHA-HAHA!

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Harvey watched the television screen in the horror everything clicked into place. Jason Todd was the second Robin. A boy that he accidentally sent to his death. The clown viciously beat Jason Todd on one of his sick deprived telethons.

Where would Joker be hiding he couldn't be in Gotham Sheila wasn't any where near Gotham

."Unless the clown and jay never were in Gotham in the first place." Big bad harv suggested.

Joker's Gambit ultimately implied he was in Gotham but last he heard of Jason he was heading for Ethiopia to find Sheila.

He even saw that bitch Sheila taking a cigarette break! while Jason was being beaten and broken

Harvey try to call and hope that the vote would end up with a boy living. He Tried to call Bruce but the line ended up dead.

Batman was too busy hunting for Jason. He doesn't know the truth Jason isn't even in Gotham he's in Ethiopia

Harvey wanted to shoot the damn TV but he couldn't, his eyes were addicted to the screen hoping that Jason would live.

(Bruce Wayne had just confirmed that the bird that was being a beaten was a runaway Jason Todd, who dressed up in the robin outfit

at that moment it was very easy for Harvey to put together Bruce Wayne was Batman but to the crowd and inmates in Arkham

Bruce was just Batmans sugar daddy. And the punk kid from the streets was a sympathetic story to some in Arkham. Especially to Harvey himself.)

Harvey prays that Bruce would end clown this time.. for if not he would do it himself.

Harvey would watch in horror as the clock struck zero.

The vote said he should have lived. But the vote counter just kept going, even after the clock struck Zero.

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Joker had given Batman one final chance to save his bird tying up both Sheila and leaving Jason broken

He set the counter to explode

And yet somehow the boy struggled but escaped. Only for a locked door to keep them in the way.

------live from Ethiopia--------

Harvey watched as the screen faded to Black vowing he would kill that clown once it breaks for free

[ashoss]

patrol is fun :DD

[flonflonflon]

His look with the bandages.......... erm, have another scrib of Jason I did based on that wahoo I care he o(-(

[incorrectbatfam]

Alfred gets sick of Bruce breaking and losing stuff on patrol so he gets a label maker and starts naming items after the kids

Alfred: I got you a new phone, just like you asked. Its name is Jason. Try not to let it die.

Bruce, tearing up: Why would you say that—

[brucie-baby]

the fact that alfred was the one to put up jason's memorial is so important to me

[god-help-me-pls]

u guys don’t understand how much how small jason was as robin means to me,,, he was tiny,,, his ass was NOT physically fit i tell u,,,

little guy really was little

[violent138]

Obsessed with Batkids that came after Jason's death accidentally letting slip things they know about him/talking about him like he's there:

Tim: "Not that he's-- I mean, the way Bruce talks about him, sometimes it's like--

Duke, simultaneously: "We hired a medium last week to communicate with his spirit."

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Steph, accidentally bursting out of the kitchen while Damian is being interviewed: "Someone tell Jason he's an asshole for finishing all the peanut butter." *spots camera crew and freezes*

Damian: "Jason's what I named our new dog. Right Baba? He's the dog we saw last week at the shelter."

Bruce, through gritted teeth: "Yes, I remember saying that we had too many animals already, but anything to make my kids happy."

Steph, awkwardly sidestepping out of the frame.

[ghost-bxrd]

Headcanon that when Jason so much as says “ow..” on the comms the rest of the batfam immediately assume he must be dying.

[magnoliasandarson]

group

Dick wasn't sure he why he was where he was. Unconsciously, his feet carried him to the rec center where he would bring Jason to play basketball. It must've been fate, because he wasn't met with teens playing, but with a group of stone-faced weepers.

They all looked over to him, and he hated what he knew they saw. His pants were covered in mud, a bruise forming on his jaw, blood leaking out of the corner of his mouth, and tears dripping off his chin.

"Welcome to Grief Counseling."

[the-lights-are-loud]

Chapters: 3/5 Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Characters: Jason Todd, Catherine Todd, Willis Todd, Joker (DCU), Bruce Wayne, Sheila Haywood, Talia al Ghul, Ra's al Ghul, Damian Wayne Additional Tags: Hurt No Comfort, Angst, Jason Todd is traumatized, Jason Todd's Death, Death of Catherine Todd, Catherine Todd is Jason Todd's Parent, So much death, im not sorry, be in pain, Bad Parent Sheila Haywood, Mentioned Willis Todd, Blood and Gore, Lazarus Pit (DCU), Lazarus Pit Side Effects (DCU), Canon Divergence - Under the Red Hood Arc, Comic Arc: "A Death in the Family" in Batman (1940) #426-429, Decapitation, Jason Todd is Robin, Jason Todd is Red Hood, jason todd is a drug lord, Jason Todd Needs A Hug, Jason Todd Doesn't Get A Hug, Drug Addiction, Drug Use, Overdosing Summary:

There was a special place where Jason would hide from what was happening around him.

Happy Birthday, Jason

[littlefankingdom]

Bruce is a overprotective and kind of strict parent, but he is very lax in some domains where other parents wouldn't. Here are some examples:

His kids stealing money from him. You will never catch Bruce Wayne lecturing his kids for taking his money. In the Arkhamverse, Jason steals 5 millions from Bruce's bank account to buy his army, and the problems for Bruce are: he didn't know it was Jason so it stressed him a bit, and Jason used it to buy an army.

Stealing from him in general. What is his is theirs. Unless it's dangerous. (Cars are death machines for his anxious self, which is why buying another batmobile for the young justice is not acceptable, or is kids taking it for a ride. He did made Redbird for Tim as a gift for when he got his license.)

Stealing from the cops (he has done it himself so many times)

Stealing money from rich people. In Knightfall, Bruce meets a British vigilante named Hood who steals from the rich to give to the poor, and Bruce had NO problems with that. He likes the young man. Stealing possessions is an issue tho. (Dick should follow his Robin Hood's dream, his father is fine with that)

Hacking into government facilities or anything really. Unless it's to harm an innocent civilian, like a classmate, he will not say anything. Hacking the FBI? Good. Hacking a russian mafia? Ok. As long as they do it safely and follow Barbara's instructions, it's fine.

Lying to him. Bruce is always impressed when he realizes one of his kids lied to him and he believed them. He's the Batman, after all, they have been able to fool the Batman. When he learns that Tim invented a fake uncle, he is proud of him and he tells him such, because he made the Batman believed it.

[latinotimdrake]

image text: In this issue, we'll be seeing letters written in response to BATMAN #428, also known as the infamous "Death of Robin" issue. Some of your comments have been shortened in order to make room for more of them.

Dear Denny and Company, You have no doubt received an avalanche of mail on the "A Death in the Family" series which recently ran in [all caps] Batman [end caps]. I look forward to reading the upcoming lettercols to see how extreme the reactions are to this superlative series. I myself have quite a few strong opinions on the aftermath and ramifications of Jason Todd's death, but I shall leave that to my fellow fans. My purpose in writing this time is to offer my services as one of comicdom's ranking clergymen. Jason's funeral was so brief (just one panel? Come on!), but the story had to move forward. I hereby offer my own humble reflections had I been officiating at Jason's funeral.

[all caps] Requiem for a Robin [end caps]

"The just man, though he die early, shall be at rest. For the age that is honorable comes not with the passing of time, nor can it be measured in terms of years… Having become perfect in a short while, he reached the fullness of a long career, for his soul was pleasing to the Lord. Therefore, God sped him out of the midst of wickedness. But the people saw and did not understand, nor did they take this into account." —the Book of Wisdom 4:7-8, 13-14

My dear friends, we gather here in a stunned and painful silence. Death is already such a dumbfounding mystery, but is accepted as a part of the normal cycle of life. Yet, what can one say upon the death of someone so young, someone so seemingly innocent, someone who was so full of the vigor of life? As the Scripture says, "We see, but we do not understand."

Jason Todd was an extraordinary young man. Deprived of any semblance of a normal family life, Jason somehow survived. Thinking his parents dead, Jason survived on his own. In this he showed his commitment to living. Perhaps justifiably bitter at what society had dealt him, Jason was fortunate enough to channel his anger in a more positive way. Thanks to Mr. Wayne's loving concern and attention, Jason finally found a way to not only survive, but to live life to the fullest.

But the exhilaration of being Robin too soon took a back seat to Jason's overriding need for parental love. What happened to his parents? Who was his mother? Jason had to know. Perhaps the ghosts of his shadowy past obstructed his commitment as a crime fighter. In retrospect, who can really fault him for this, in light of the glimmer of possibility that his mother might still be alive?

Jason Todd's life was tragically short. But he accomplished more in his youthful years than most of us may ever accomplish in a long lifetime. Jason wanted the truth. Jason wanted his parents' love. Live doesn't get more basic than that. Having found both the truth and his mother, Jason was not about to let these be snatched away from him again. Jason's whole life found meaning and fulfillment when he finally found his mother. Even the face of death could not crush the power of Jason's love.

Jason did good. Our faith tells us that he is now united with his parents forever in the Lord. Still, those of us left behind must sort out our grief and our feelings. Through we will certainly miss Jason, we know his enthusiasm for life and his independent spirit will always be alive in us. May we all someday find the fulfillment that Jason found in his young life.

Rest in peace, Jason Todd. More than we may ever fully acknowledge, you were the greatest Robin of all.

Sincerely in the Spirit, Father Ken Canedo Pastor St. Benedict Parish for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired 2869 Bush Street San Francisco, CA 94115

Thank you as always, Father Ken.

end text transcription.

RIP JASON PETER TODD

from Batman #431