This Is Going Straight Into The "Jason's Goons, Correctly Or Incorrectly, Assume He's Trans Because Of

This is going straight into the "Jason's goons, correctly or incorrectly, assume he's trans because of references to his Robin era" - it's now a multi artist universe where nobody has no idea what the fuck is going on with anybody

DC can pretend that Jason knows who Tim is but I know the truth

That's really interesting and great analysis and I will never be normal about christic Jason symbolism! May I add, about the scene where Jason almost kills the Joker, here's something I find really interesting in the artwork: we alternate between flashbacks of the explosion, in which the sky is literally orange with fire, and the present, in which the sky is a murky green. As you can see, the flame, which is the same colour as the flashback sky, reflects on one side of his goggles; and as it gets more and more into focus, the flame takes up more and more space in comparison to the present sky, until Jason clicks the lighter shut. It's clear to me with the goggles that Jason is seeing, literally, two different realities at the same time, but I think it's interesting that it's the flame he's lighting up that looks like it's triggering the flashback. I think it's great symbolism of how Jason triggers and retraumatizes himself in an effort to fix his death, recreating himself his trauma to give it another ending, and how in the end he can't get closure himself because his attempts at closure are the very thing hurting him. Perhaps I'm reading too much into it, but I think it's the perfect set-up for the confrontation in UTRH, where Jason recreates the scene of his dead in a setting where he is in control and adds Bruce, who wasn't there the first time around, to the equation and basically begs him to fix the problem in his stead. Jason is feeding the fuel of his own destruction in an effort to get closure, and he feels like he can't go on with his life unless he gets closure, and this story is as tragic as symbolism is fun.

I like analysing shit.

I like Red Hood: Lost Days

So I am going to analyse some of it.

To start with, lets look at the titles of the issues.

#1: The First Step

#2: Baptism

#3: School

#4: Higher Learning

#5: After School Activities

#6: Benediction and Commencement

What immediately strikes me is how all of these are relevant to the issue AND as a whole. They are describing a life fresh from birth to how that life progresses until graduation. Extremely important when considering that this is basically Jason's second life. He died and now he is "reborn" after being put into the Lazarus pit.

The First Step: The fact that the title name was on the page in which Jason was pushed into the Pit lets me believe that this IS the first step, as Red Hood: Lost Days explains the time between him being found by Talia to him becoming Red Hood. This is the first step in him becoming the Red Hood.

Baptism: Not exactly clear as to what "Baptism" is referring to here. I have multiple ideas. First, there is the possibility that it is a continuation of the last issue, as that issue ended with Jason being pushed into the pit and in religious baptisms, water is usually connected to it as the person being baptized is getting water poured onto their head. But it could also mean a non-religious baptism as in he is starting a new role. He finally gets to train with a clear mind and can properly start his journey.

Issue #3-#5 are relatively similar, all him explaining his training and stopping the evil schemes his teachers are involved with.

Benediction and Commencement: Commencement, he has completed his training or "graduated" if you take the school aspect into account from issue 3 to 5. Benediction, he gets his blessings from Talia to finally confront Bruce after stalling him so long. Commencement, "the beginning of something new". The issue ends with him picking up the Red Hood helmet, before that, he met up with Hush. The beginning of the Red Hood.

Next I want to focus a bit on religious imagery. I am not a big fan of it in general, but considering that words like "Baptism" and "Benediction" are in the titles, it is note-worthy. If it is something you're uncomfortable with, feel free to skip this section

I have seen people make the point that this cover:

Has similarities to pictures of Mary holding a dead Jesus.

And now that I think about it more, I can see why and they are pretty good stand-ins.

Jason came back from the dead, like Jesus.

Talia found Jason after he came back. She considers it a miracle. Like fate WANTS Jason to live. He wandered into her life. She isn't so much as interfering with fate, as stepping out of its way.

And then you have this page:

Jason as he has his arms spread wide, legs forming almost a straight line. Similar to Jesus on the cross.

The Lazarus pit isn't green. It's orange and yellow. It shines so bright. Ra's says it burns in his heart. He tells Talia it could turn Jason mad in a few months, years or decades. That she has unleashed a curse. A pestilence. Pestilence being one of the for Horsemen of the Apocalypse. And so, the Lazarus Pit becomes a symbol for Hell.

The fact that Jason and Talia are more distorted versions of the religious figures they could represent becomes more prominent as the story goes on. In the bible, Jesus goes back to Heaven to rejoin with his Father. In this story, Talia is told and knows that she should return Jason to Bruce. But she doesn't. Because Jason will see it as betrayal and he wouldn't forgive her for that.

My last and favourite point is how RH: LD is the perfect set up to Under the Red Hood.

Jason explains how it isn't about the Joker. Or Bruce. Or him. It's about the three of them.

Bruce was supposed to protect him.

Joker killed him.

Bruce didn't avenge him.

He tried to kill both of them only to NOT do it and walk away.

Jason died away from Gotham in Ethiopia, but not before being beaten with a crowbar, the building he was in having exploded and then asphyxiating due to the smoke.

Jason almost killed the Joker by setting him on fire. (Explosion)

He initially wanted to do it in another location. (Ethiopia)

He wanted to do it slowly. (Crowbar)

Jason says when the pain would hit the Joker, he would scream. Until it hit his throat. His lungs. (Asphyxiating)

He is reliving his own death. He wants his murderer to go through the agony he did. An eye for an eye one could say.

"Reliving his own death" is an objective statement here, as Jason sees the Joker swinging a crowbar that is dripping with his own blood while at the same time also standing right above the Joker, who is drenched in gasoline.

Now I want you to compare these two scenes. This is when he was about to kill the Joker:

The panels switch between Jason and the firelighter, present Joker and past Joker. The firelighter, the device that would end the Joker's life, comes more and more into the focus. Until he disengages it on the last panel.

Now to the second scene, when Jason planted a bomb under the Batmobile and was about to detonate it.

The panels switch between Batman and Jason. Jason is hovering over the detonater. Until he pulls away.

When Jason explained to Talia why he walked away from the Joker, he said that it wasn't enough. It was only ever about the three of them, not just Joker. His plan doesn't include murdering Batman anymore.

But the reason Jason gave Talia why he didn't kill Bruce? "I couldn't let him get off so easy. He'd never know what happened. He'd never know knwo why. He'd never know it was me." One could wonder if we are supposed to see this as a parallel as well. If we should apply this reasoning of why he didn't kill Bruce to why he didn't kill Joker.

The Joker would never know why Jason killed him. He doesn't even know that it IS Jason who is about to murder him.

And while is plan doesn't include killing Bruce anymore. Nobody said anything about the Joker.

As I said, perfect setup to Under the Red Hood.

In a kinder world...

This is actually adorable I do not take criticism

What if Talia saved Jason before Joker could kill him?

(Should I do a part 2?)

What are you asking about? Primary/secondary blast injury zones? The mechanics of how an explosion needs pressure buildup? Speed differential between the Thermal pulse/blast wave?

Mostly trying to figure out how to (in terms of material) deflagrate a glass, metal and electronics window-sized flat structure as quickly as possible (aka how to perfect the maximise structural damage to minimize potential casualty ratio) and how wide the primary/secondary blast zones would be.

(it's for a fanfic, I promise. Don't do this at home kids)

Let's goooo

Not The Man I Used to Be

by Imaybecringebutiamfree Based on a post by @glitter-stained on tumblr. “I was…a different person then.” The modulator on his voice made it hard to identify his tone but he sounded almost hurt, longing for something gone. “Not,” he gestured to himself, “but that doesn’t matter.” His tone steeled, “That person, that name is dead. And no one can take this from me. Not even him.” Nadia felt as the meaning of his words washed over them all at the same time. She met Alex’s eyes as they all came to the same conclusion. Oh, Bossman in trans. Words: 2950, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: Gen Characters: Jason Todd, Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson Relationships: Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne, Jason Todd & Original Character(s), Dick Grayson & Jason Todd Additional Tags: Jason Todd is Red Hood, POV Outsider, Transphobia, (but not really), Misunderstandings, Rated T for swears, Crack, maybe? - Freeform, idk - Freeform via https://ift.tt/UT02gmL

I think it would be good if we had Robin!Jason be like a creepy kid. Like you know these characters in teen movies you see on vhs that talk like they know they're about to die in a tragic trampoline accident? I want a whole Batman series where Jason is Robin and he's still in character, all tiny funny and brave and adorable, but also at least once per episode he will look at the smoke rising from his cigarette and say some shit like "Do you think the souls of the people who die in fire scatter and vanish like ashes into the air?"

Jaybin, for absolutely no reason, on his fifteenth birthday: hey can you pass me the camera I wanna make a video for the members of the family I haven't met yet and tell them about how Robin is magic and life is beautiful and we should all really appreciate it because life is short and we never know what might happen. Oh and might taking a shot of me walking down the beach? Yeah that's a good idea.

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Dick: What's got you staring at the city like that Little Wing?

Jason: Sometimes the dead could afford to learn a thing or two from the unborn yet... *blinks* I'm sorry what was the question? Anyway let's go take out a trafficking ring!

Robin: Do you think the wind is ever trying to tell us something and we don’t know how to hear it anymore?

Batman: …I just want you to stop saying odd shit.