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Komaeda in a clover field 🍀

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The idea of the Batkids doing normal people things while suited up is hilarious to me, you know, like Red Robin and Spoiler making the 9 o'clock news while racing through a grocery store because they totally forgot to get the things Alfred asked them to bring for the family dinner. Or Damian and Dick swinging into the Bludhaven Zoo mid-patrol because Dami really wanted to see the new baby tiger. Red Hood buying lemonade from a kid's stand and then standing there awkwardly messing with his helmet, trying not to hurt the kid's feelings. Black Bat, on a particularly tiring day randomly appeared in the nosebleeds of the ballet hall and started sniping phones out of people's hands. Or Signal and a deeply irritated Batman changing out a blown-out tyre in some back alley, earning amused looks.

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Jason “Drama Queen” Peter Todd at it again

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Something I find really interesting about tim is his willingness to work with those outside of the box of a typical “hero”. It’s more blatant near the end with red robin working alongside the league and orchestrating a murder on boomerang, but it’s there from the beginning. he works with shiva in his very first mini series. works with huntress in his third despite her willingness to kill. even boomerang near the end of his robin run despite his anger and grief over his father. hell he contemplates murder when trapped in a buried truck to make sure he has more oxygen. red robin is definitely tim at his lowest, and these traits become more prominent and questionable, but his willingness to compromise and work with anyone despite moral conflicts being there from the very beginning is such an interesting piece of his character that i wish had been explored more

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All your life, you’ve been quite accustomed to your psychic powers. Though, as you return to school, your new peculiar classmate has always befuddled you and for one simple reason–you’re unable to read their mind.

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airplane

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Nagito gets to spend his birthday with the two most important things in his life 🥰

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How many times has Jason Todd tried to murder Tim Drake?

Answer: Jason Todd has tried one (1) time to murder Tim Drake AND Damian Wayne. And it was not "The Titans Tower Incident".

Sections:

Attack I: Hush by Jeph Loeb

Attack II: Teen Titans (2003) #29 by Geoff Johns (AKA the "Titans Tower Incident")

Attack III: Battle for the Cowl by Tony Daniel

Hush

Did Jason try to murder Tim in Hush?

Batman #617 (writer: Jeph Loeb)

Jason cuts Tim's neck!

Batman #618 [writer: Jeph Loeb]

...Oh, wait, it actually isn't that bad.

Tim could use some non-urgent stitches, but he is still fully awake and walking on his own two feet. Batman sends Tim back to the Batcave unaccompanied, and tells him to continue working on their case.

♢ Verdict: Nah, Jason did not try to murder Tim in Hush. It wasn't theatrical and climactic enough.

(*Side note: Hush reveals that this Jason is supposedly just an impersonation by Clayface. But Batman Annual #25 later changes the lore so that the real Jason did initially appear here. After the part when the real Jason takes Tim hostage, Batman chases him through a dark and rainy graveyard—and the real Jason then takes the opportunity to switch out with Clayface as his body double. It's confusing, I know!)

Teen Titans (2003) #29

Did Jason try to murder Tim in Teen Titans (2003) #29? (Also known as "THE Titans Tower Incident", as opposed to all the other Titans Tower incidents in which Titans died and the Tower was destroyed.)

Teen Titans (2003) #29 [writer: Geoff Johns]

Jason beats up Tim with a bo staff and punching. No blades or guns involved. Tim blacks out. Tim later wakes up and gets to his feet when the other Titans come to help him.

Raven explains, "Jason was always aggressive. He was determined to one day be better than all of us. Especially Batman." This story confirms that Jason has always been an overcompensating jerkwad, and death didn't make him any nicer—he's bullying Tim in a jealous fit to prove he's better than him, and not out of murderous intent.

Teen Titans (2003) #47 [writer: Adam Beechen] - "The guy attacked all of us once just to prove he was better than me!"

Straight from Tim's own mouth—Jason infiltrated Titans Tower just to bully Tim, not to murder him.

♢ Verdict: Jason EXPLICITLY did NOT try to murder Tim in Teen Titans (2003) #29, also bafflingly known as "THE Titans Tower Incident". He didn't cut Tim's neck or use any bladed implements this time either.

Battle for the Cowl

(Everyone's favorite comic! Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha! Evil Batman time!)

Did Jason try to kill Tim in Batman: Battle for the Cowl?

Batman: Battle for the Cowl [writer: Tony S Daniel]

Jason shoots 10-year-old Damian in the chest, causing Damian to need eighty-nine stitches and a sizable blood transfusion to save his life.

Jason later stabs Tim in the chest, drags his "rotting corpse" into an alcove in his weird sewer creature lair, crucifies Tim's Batman suit on an honest-to-God actual cross, and brags about killing him to Dick.

But when Jason and Dick come unto the "tomb", they found the stone rolled away, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus, Tim's "body" had risen on the third day vanished.

Tim apparently only survived the blood loss due to some weird technique that allows him to slow his pulse to a near-death state.

♠ Verdict: YEAH, it sure looks like Jason did try to kill 17-year-old Tim AND 10-year-old Damian in Battle for the Cowl!

So remember—next time we bring up the time that Jason tried to kill poor Tim, we ALSO need to hold Jason accountable for trying to brutally murder a ten-year-old little boy and all the trauma that must've caused.

Conclusion: Jason would ONLY try to kill Tim as a dramatic cliffhanger to end the second act of a limited event series in which he's the main villain. Otherwise the production just wouldn't be theatrical enough.

See also: Robin tradition by @arabian-batboy

#sounds like the average fight between me and my brother #whats a little blood between family ya know?

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Alfred: Batman would certainly not approve.

Robin: Which is why–we’re certainly not going to tell him, Alfred.

–Tim Drake with Alfred Pennyworth (Robin #27 – Natural Born Healer)

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A fire started and my first thought was the Fire!!!!!! moodlet that sims get. So. Also I put it out and thought about the confident booster they get when they extinguish it.

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When someone does something and is waiting for your reaction, but you're autistic and your face doesn't convey emotions very well :

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This came to be in a vision.

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i think when we talk about "female coded" it is a nicer way of saying "nerfed" and before anyone comes for me for the wording i need everyone to remember a majority of dc writers are white men. to believe they KNOW they're writing him in a "girlish" manner is something im incapable of doing, but what i can believe is that they're finding ways to make him seem less useful, too emotionally distraught, and isolate him from people who can sympathize with him because otherwise everyone they write to be idolized looks so much worse.

these are all things they will do to female characters, consciously or unconsciously, and jason happens to fall into this category. what sealed the deal for me was gotham war. bruce quite literally decided that instead of sitting down and getting to the root of the problem, the solution was to just make it so the problem could never be articulated. he chose taking jason's autonomy away, rather than finding a middle ground.

if implanting a chip in a deeply traumatized young 20 something so all he can experience is crippling fear isnt a comic book equivalent to a man forcing a lobotomy on a woman so she's no longer "hysterical" isn't in the same ballpark of deranged idk what is.

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I wonder if the Citizens of Gotham write fanfics about being in serious trouble and Nightwing rescuing them and they fall in love and get married in the BatCave

it’s their version of those One Direction fics

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In another universe Jason Todd was Johnny Cade.

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Pretending that this (The outsiders) isn't a dead fandom.

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I've noticed how you've been putting yourself down multiple times saying how you aren't as good as women. No offense, but making such sweeping statements about all women sounds almost sexist, does it not?

Ghhk—! No, I— Of course I realize that women can be bad people too! It’s just…well, isn’t it just an objective fact that I’m not better than anyone, woman or not? I-I’m only trying to make sure I know my place…I’m so sorry, women…