Something that amuses me between knitters and crocheters is this... almost humble nature each craft has about the other. I couldn't imagine how one would knit, and I know some of the basics - and yet, I have met so many knitters who say crochet is impossible, and yet I find it to be so simple. There's just something charming about when one recognizes just how much skill, effort, patience, and care go into a craft, and to be humbled by just how incredible human ingenuity and creativity are
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It’s kinda funny that Jason is, in every sense of the word, the most normal Robin. Unironically, there wasn’t anything uniquely special about him before he was Robin. He was a street kid. His dad was a goon (which makes sense for Gotham. It’s a goon breeding ground) and his adoptive mom was a girl who fell in love with the bad boy, got disowned by her upper middle class parents and adopted her boyfriend’s infant son. Even his biological mother isn’t anything special! She was just a doctor who ended up becoming corrupt.
Jason Todd was no circus kid who could do an impossible signature trick. He wasn’t being scouted by some evil hidden organization.
He wasn’t the rich boy genius who lived next door.
He’s not the son of a supervillain (as lame as cluemaster is, he still *counts*).
He’s not the secret son of Bruce Wayne.
And he’s not a metahuman, nor did he led a whole organization of teens to fight when Batman couldn’t.
He’s the most regular boy to ever enter become a hero in Gotham. He wanted to do good things for the sake of doing good. He grew up poor with regular parents, where bad things happened to them. The kinds of things that could happen to *any* person living in Gotham.
There is nothing about him, pre-Robin and as Robin, that makes him Not Like Regular Kids.
His dad was a goon (who, depending on the run, was either killed by Two-Face OR. Just sent to prison and killed in prison! Which makes his backstory even PLAINER-) and his mother was a drug addict with cancer. Jason ends up homeless, and almost steals the bat mobile tires. The only thing that makes him stand out from any other tragedy befallen kid in Gotham is the fact he was bold enough to do that, get Batman’s attention, and continue to be bold enough to go against a crime lord (who was apparently his grandmother, the most interesting person in his family, but since she’s almost never brought up, she’s likely no more significant than a one-issue villain in the crime lord power hierarchy). Batman realized that Jason wasn’t going to really stop, and honestly he kinda grew on him, so he decided to adopt Jason, and eventually allow him to become Robin.
There just isn’t anything amazingly special about his backstory. The few moments where something could have been done to make it more interesting (like his biological mother) but ended up taking the most boring option. You can’t do much of anything now to enhance his past without upsetting much more well established canon, and not without making people wonder “well if his grandmother was such a big name in crime, why hasn’t she been brought up before?”
Jason Todd was a wonderful Robin (providing that he actually has a writer who likes him). He has a golden heart, he’s the voice of reason. He’s everything that a Robin needs to be for Batman. But compared to everyone else, he was nothing special. In a way, his lack of Not Like Regular Kids makes him stand out in a much more subtle way.
As if someone asked the question “Do I need to be someone special to be Robin?” And the answer was “You don’t need to be someone special, you just need to be brave, like Jason Todd was.”
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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.
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I know it's silly, but I would love it if DC gave Jason the opportunity to randomly summon the All Blades mid fight. Especially if he immediately tries to gaslight everyone into thinking they were seeing shit.
I just think it would be hysterical.
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i find it highly amusing that dc just keeps giving jason things
like jason got five years of training with the crop of the crop selected by talia al ghul herself, jason got trained by magical monks who are borderline immortal and now has infinite soulbond flamming swords, he negates magic, he's super resistant to toxins/poison, he can shake off illusions and mind control, he has taser tits, if I'm not wrong he has super strength too (??)
and in dark crisis he just became a green lantern
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I wish we could get more All Caste Jason Todd shenanigans. Wish we could get Jason Todd being the magical equivalent of someone who walks into a situation that requires a delicate handling and extensive effort to solve and he just smacks it around a little bit and it’s fixed before peacing out (he is also smacked around for a little bit).
I want him to be the guy who essentially fixes an expensive broken machine by kicking it and it goes back to working great.
I want some shady magician to get hired by a crime lord trying to kill the Red Hood and they go “hehe okay! Million dollars :).” And they’re basically being paid to summon Creatures to Kill some vigilante guy and it’s overkill but hey, a million per creature is a bargain in their favor.
And then this Red Hood guy manages to kill all his creatures with two glowing swords of Fuck You. And it’s like “yo. You didn’t tell me he could to that?”
“I didn’t know he could do that.”
And then you have Oracle forcing Jason to accept her comm call so she can go “what the hell was that?!?!?”
And Jason is just like “lens flare. Mind your business.”
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