Stop Killing Jason Todd

Happy one year anniversary of me reading Brothers in Blood and ruining lives with the horrible burden of Knowing.

Every year I trick more and more people into learning about Tentatodd against their will. Go read Brothers in Blood. I promise you, you will regret it.

BIG WIN FOR THE DC COMMUNITY TODAY.

i feel like ppl are always on one extreme abt dick & jason's relationship....... like idk how to tell you but they don't entirely hate or love each other. thats not how they work. they barely know each other and yet can't shake the feeling of kinship they feel. was it the robin suit? bruce? guilt? what-ifs? wishful thinking for things to be different? where did they get cut for the trail of blood to mix up and end up in the same grave? the same dead dream of a brotherhood? was it because of those things or despite them that the stream of their lives cannot seem to diverge no matter what happens? just shut up and let them be complicated.

oh & btw they try very hard to be unaffected but again. thats not how it works. idk obviously everyone has their opinions so im not abt to tell you what to believe but they both care too much to be stop reaching out. like i hate to break it to you but its not just dick who would keep reaching out to jason or vice versa. dick would wish jason had remained dead and the next thing we know he sees jason falling and has his hand stretched out screaming at him to hold on. jason would try to destroy dick's entire life and the moment hes in actual danger bro's ready to jump in. like am i making sense. tell me im making sense.

i've been thinking very hard abt this and just.

during jason's robin days... no dick wasn't an abhorrent monster to him. no he also wasn't the #bestbigbroever. i feel like some ppl fall into wanting to angst the shit out of it and go route 1 and some other ppl to overcorrect that and fall into route 2 [myself included previously]. this was a very delicate, very complicated situation for everyone involved.

dick had no clue how to react- he was barely an adult by the time jason rolled around and had been a single child forever. add to that the fact that he hadnt been adopted but jason had been. add to all of that the fact that he saw someone swinging around with bruce across gotham the way he had. listen idc what anyone says - this is a very jarring situation to face. you have realise: bruce & dick are stupidly codependent THEY ARE INSANE ABT EACH OTHER like absolutely abnormal. pls tell me you understand. honestly theyre unhealthy. so for dick to see this happening especially when hes in a rough patch with bruce isn't... the best.

and to top all of that.... he can't exactly hate jason. look at him. so he gives him suit. his number. a smile and the promise to listen.

he returns to a bygone funeral, his own broken promise as all the voicemails play.

you don't come back from that.

and jason. he thought dick was the most amazing thing he had ever seen. childish, innocent, hero worship. he never thought dick was perfect [because by the time they actually crossed paths jason was pretty jaded] but he looked up to him. big pixie boots to fill and a lot to learn.

dick wasnt around a lot but he gave him his number!! his suit!! his predecessor [brother?] had smiled at him.

everyone SHUT UP.

how do you think it feels like knowing he was the prototype. the fragile experiment. how do you think it feels knowing that dick did better the second time around, with the new brother he got? how do you think it feels like realising that oh. the guilt made sure the other one had some semblance of a support system. ok. cool ig.

THATS WHAT I PPL TO UNDERSTAND!!!!!!! dick & jason fuck each other up in the worst of ways but can't help but think that they'll do better this time. just one more chance- for him and for me. it shouldn't be so difficult. we love each other after all. WRONG. they love each other but they'll never ever give the other what they want. they will KEEP MESSING UP!!! THEYRE BOUND TO!!!! you don't think jason will kill someone who goes after dick? you think dick will like that? you don't think dick will jump in jason's way and try to help and undermine him in the process? how do you think jason will take that? god. head in hands.

i hate watering their dynamic down to either they hate or love each other unconditionally. or just that jason feels like he never lived up to dick and dick never really being a big brother to him but suddenly when jason's back theyre chums ahahaa! occasional bickering but a hug fixes everything ahahaha!!!

girl. what abt the grief that sits festering in dick? the innate pit of yearning in jason for the brotherhood he never had the chance to live in? the time theyve both lost? what abt how dick feels he personally failed him. how abt jason feeling betrayed.

im so sorry i keep going but something inside my head has just spilled over and turns out its an unending spring. but listen youre here, you might as well see me yap a bit more.

its just that- this person, this man [the boy i never got to know] knows the worst of me. i know the worst of him. when i see blood on him my head tells me i should ask whose it is. i ask him how badly are you hurt?

its that - this person, this man [the boy i followed everywhere, but barely got a glance thrown my way] knows the worst of me. i know the worst of him. when i see him fall my head tells me thats him falling him off of the pedestal everyone puts him on. i stretch my hand out and ask wheres your grapple gun, dumbass?

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

Brothers in Blood will trick you into thinking it’s just a silly crack scenario brought to life and Jason just concocted this plan for shits and giggles. Then you get a single page like this:

that reveals he wanted/desperately needed shreds of acceptance even if it was coated in layers of resentment irritation and doubt after going through this:

And it had to be from someone who isn’t Bruce

Nightwing #118

I know that Brothers in Blood is trying to portray Jason as a psychotic serial killer, but... I think I'm kind of into that. Yes, it's violent and bloody and cruel, but Jason is totally in control. He is powerful in this moment because he does not question if the ends justify the means. His end is protecting the kids that no one else is looking out for. His end is saving every child that the Bats can't or won't. His end is making sure that no one goes through what he went through.

No more dead Robins– any means necessary.

??? stop bullying him???

Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne THE BATMAN (2022) - dir. Matt Reeves

alfred & bruce's relationship in gotham tv is so based. ur telling me bruce told alfred some asshole hit him and insulted martha wayne and alfred TAUGHT BRUCE HOW TO PUNCH AND DROVE TO THAT KID'S HOME JUST TO HAVE BRUCE PUNCH THE KID. alfred fucking pennyworth u absolute madman. no wonder bruce dresses up as a bat and fights crime as a grown ass adult

the potentiality for bat comics to explore existential horror in the context of people (esp dick and barbara, those who remember jason—though not as well as bruce did—before his death) realizing that YOUR father/mentor has sole control over the narrative. it is HIS grief that is the only thing that matters and it alone will rewrite everyone he ever loved. love as a horrible unstoppable overpowering force, gives “to be loved is to be changed” a whole new, more sinister meaning.

to be remembered and recalled and retold as a story to someone else (in jason’s case, often as a cautionary tale) is to be rewritten and created again and again and again

absolutely lost it over this fic by @neuro-psyche so. have this comic o(- (

go read it rn if u also love some Good identity reveal fic!!!!

yeah this comic book burrowed itself deep in my brain and its all i think about and it changed me as a person but that doesnt mean its "good". i wouldnt even say i like it

cha cha real smooth

I love this

Twilight-y thing where post Jason's death, Bruce starts hallucinating Jason whenever he's in a dangerous situation. So of course he gets into more and more dangerous situations, trying desperately to see his son again. This cools a bit when Tim joins up, but Bruce still sometimes puts himself into a dangerous situation to get Jason to show up, angry and worried and upset, lecturing Bruce on how he needs to take better care of himself and fight harder and all that.

Then one day Bruce gets rescued from an explosion by the mysterious new Red Hood. And man does that lecturing sound very, very familiar.