#imagine someone in a hundred years looking at old gotham news headlines and discovering the articles during the peak of this prank

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I've always wondered how Jason would be publicly integrated back into the family without it seeming suspicious as fuck (because let's be real, legally reviving your son who turns out to not actually be dead is gonna be real hard to explain to the public)

So instead of going through all the hassle of paperwork and a cover story, what if Jason just sorta...popped back into the family without any explanation whatsoever?

But instead of explaining his reappearance, Jason just doesn't fucking say anything and acts like the once dead Wayne kid suddenly being alive isn't the biggest fucking deal in Gotham right now

and when someone tries to approach him he just looks at them wide-eyed and says in his most startled voice "...you can SEE me?"

and then the second the person takes their eyes off him he just ✨disappears✨ (because bat powers obviously) and it freaks everyone the fuck out

and when the other batkids get interviewed they just put up their best act of pretending they have no idea what anyone's talking about

Reporter: Mr. Drake, what do you have to say about the impossible return of your late brother?"

Tim: Who?

Reporter: ...

their performances range from straight up ignorance to dramatically bursting into tears whenever someone brings up the topic

Reporter: Do you have anything to say about the recent events surrounding Jason Todd?"

[Cue Dick letting out the most obnoxious wail possible and crying all over the reporter]

Reporter: Oh-I didn't mean to upse-

Dick: I just wish I was there for him more when he was alive, yknow?

Reporter: Ah, well-

Dick: And sometimes I wonder what he would've been like now...All grown up and going to college...[more sobbing]

Reporter whispering under their breath: What the fuck is going on

everyone stopped asking Dick after that.

these shenanigans get so ridiculous to the point where Jason's even started standing RIGHT NEXT to his siblings whenever they're in public and they just pretend like he isn't even fucking there

it's come to the point where ghost!Jason (?) even has his own wiki page where people just talk about his weird ass appearances and the possibilities of him being a cryptid

and oh yeah this all happens during the span of one week while Bruce is (conveniently) off world

when he comes back he's just met with half of Gotham in hysterics over his dead son and theorizing if the Waynes are being haunted and he has absolutely zero clue about what the HELL is going on

he first finds out from an interviewer asking him how he feels about his ghost son and how any of this is even possible

but I imagine that Bruce's brain kinda short circuits and the only thing he's processing right now is that Jason is back in the family and he just starts tearing up like, "My son is back in the family? He loves me? 🥺"

and everyone in Gotham is like Mr. Wayne did you miss the fucking part where your DEAD son is just ALIVE again and just chilling around the city??

anyways you CANNOT tell me Jason wouldn't use this opportunity to pull the biggest prank in Gotham history like that boy LIVES for drama

#the best part about this is that i imagine that jason didnt even have to tell the others what to do #they just saw how jason was behaving and IMMEDIATELY understood the assignment #imagine someone in a hundred years looking at old gotham news headlines and discovering the articles during the peak of this prank #and reading the weird ass headlines and trying to put together the story from the titles alone #'formally dead wayne kid back from the dead?' #'dead wayne kid is a GHOST??' #'wayne kids unable to see dead ghost brother???' #'bruce wayne cries over dead ghost son's return to family' #'JASON TODD IS A CRYPTID????' #'GHOST OF JASON TODD IS MOTHMAN CONFIRMED? (NOT CLICKBAIT)' #it just gets more and more absurd #anyways the batkids said gaslight gatekeep girlboss ✨ #at some point bruce tells jason he needs to calm down the public so jason just goes on live just to say 'yo im alive chill' #but it literally doesnt answer ANYTHING and makes the problem WORSE because how is he even alive?? #jason todd #red hood #batman #bruce wayne #batfam #batfamily #batkids #batbros #batdad #dick grayson #nightwing #dc #tim drake #crack #incorrect quotes #fanatical posting