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[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Yami
AGE: 21
JOURNAL: yacchan
IM: kaizokuyacchan, but I am rarely on it anymore. Instead check my plurk, undeadyami
E-MAIL: kefkaknight@gmail.com
RETURNING: 3 - Pietro Maximoff (oncemercurial), Stephen Strange (hoaryhosts), Aoi “The Laughing Man” (leftymitt).
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Jason Todd / The Red Hood
FANDOM: DC Comics / Batman
CHRONOLOGY: Directly following the Under the Hood arc.
CLASS: Anti-hero at best, gun-totting psychopath on a bad day.
SUPERHERO NAME: Red Hood
ALTER EGO: Jason Todd, hood rat.
BACKGROUND:
Jason grew up in a lower class, broken home in one of Gotham’s worst neighborhoods. When he was approximately 13, Jason attempted to steal the tires off the Batmobile. Discovering that Jason’s mother had died of a drug overdose sometime earlier and that the kid was essentially living on the street, Bruce Wayne had him placed in a boarding school for troubled youth. The school ended up being little more than a vehicle for youth to get involved in the criminal element and Jason helped Batman bring it down. He shortly thereafter earned the mantle of Robin, but wasn’t allowed to wear the costume until another six months had passed. Despite being ostensibly accepted as Robin, Jason refused to give up some of the habits from his old life. Nightwing caught him smoking on more than one occasion, he continued to swear, and regularly disobeyed Batman’s orders. Still, he was considered a generally competent and trustworthy partner, if somewhat troubled emotionally.
His emotional troubles manifest most notably when the Dynamic Duo is pursuing Felipe Garzonas, a serial rapist and son of a dignitary. Due to his political status, the police were unable to prosecute Garzonas. After the suicide of one of the rape victims, Jason tracked Garzonas down. Batman and arrived moments after Garzonas falls from a rooftop to his death. Almost everyone involved assumed that Jason pushed him, but it’s never revealed for certain. In either case, Jason certainly didn’t show much remorse until Felipe’s father, challenged Batman and Robin by kidnapping commissioner Gordon. Garzonas Sr. was killed in the ensuing altercation and commissioner Gordon was shot (but not like, fatally or anything). Batman had some choice words for Jason on the subject of actions and consequences, but life generally continued on.
Jason continued to be unpredictable and slightly unbalanced in the field, prompting Batman to put him on a superhero “time out”. Around the same time, Jason returned to his old neighborhood, and the apartment where his mother used to live and discovered that, shockingly Catherine Todd wasn’t his birthmother. Jason then snuck back into the Batcave, using Batman’s super computer and access to international files and databases to look for his actual, biological mom. He found her halfway around the world and rushed off to meet this mysterious Sheila Haywood.
As it turned out, Sheila was a nurse being blackmailed by the Joker into keeping the silence on one of his side enterprises. After Jason revealed himself to her as Robin in an effort to get his mommy to leave her corrupt endeavor, the Joker blackmailed her into handing Jason over to him. In an abandoned warehouse in the middle of nowhere Ethiopia, the Joker beat Jason senseless and then left him to die (but not without setting a bomb to finish the job, just in case.) After receiving a taunting message from the Joker, Batman raced to save his ward, but it was too late. Jason was unable to disarm the bomb and both Sheila and the second Robin seemingly died in the explosion.
That should’ve been the end of Jason Todd. Except comics never ever work that way.
Due to a very complicated company-wide effort to give the DCU a more user-friendly continuity, Super Boy Prime (an alternate reality of the Superboy we know and love) punched a ‘reality wall’. This had several interesting effects, the more relevant here being that Jason, mysteriously, woke up two weeks after dying alive, but for a few broken ribs. Unfortunately, he’d been buried as a normal teenager with none of his Robin tools at all, so Jason had to claw his way out of a coffin. Which he did, all the while asking feverishly for Bruce. He also crawled his way down the highway, only to be hit by a car and rushed to Gotham General Hospital.
As no fingerprints for Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, or anyone else in the Batfamily exist on any file, he hospital and the police were unable to identify him. In the course of medical treatment, Jason also sustained brain damage and slipped into a vegetative coma. He stayed that way until one day he ‘got better’ and walked out of the hospital. The police were unconcerned about another John Doe vanishing, so they didn’t pursue it. Further, Jason still couldn’t speak, and he still couldn’t remember, exactly who he was or where he belonged.
Jay wandered Gotham for a while (a few months to a year), surviving by stealing food as needed. He was usually unbothered by the other hobos as they learned quickly that doing anything to get in his way would result in a severe beat down. One thug witnessed such a beat down and was actually able to connect the dots between the Robin that had vanished and the weird homeless kid who every so often, got on the wrong side of the weird homeless guys and food.
Said thug contacted Talia Al Ghul and after some consideration, Talia ordered Jason be brought to her. She had him tested, trained, but her father insisted her ‘pet human’ was a poor use of time and resources. Before Ra’s could insist that Jason be done away with entirely, though, Talia made a last ditch effort to restore his mind and memory by knocking him into the Lazarus Pits during one of her father’s rituals.
Talia sent Jason away, where her father couldn’t get to him. Eventually Ra’s got over the slight (sort of). Jason and Talia maintained contact via email and Jason got to explore the world for the first time since death as a fully coherent person. What he discovered was that he had been replaced as Robin by Tim Drake, and more importantly, that the Joker was still running around being a psychopath.
Angry that Batman had replaced him and angrier that he hadn’t done away with the Joker, Jason began forming careful plans to kill the big bad Batman. He placed several trap, ultimately leading up to setting a bomb in the batmobile, but he was unable to kill Bruce remotely. Jason realized the entire thing was bigger than him or Bruce, and he wanted to see the look on Batman’s face when he finally realized who was responsible.
Not really wanting any harm to come to her ‘beloved’, Talia tried to distract Jason with various highly expensive and very dangerous teachers. He learned about toxins, poisons, explosives, sharpshooting, hand-to-hand, every thing a good assassin would need to know and everything Batman would never bother to teach a sidekick. Eventually, Jason confronts the Joker, lights him on fire, but is unable to kill him for well, mostly the same reasons that he was unable to kill Bruce when he had the chance.
Returning to Gotham, Jason met up with Talia who told him of Ra’s Al Ghul’s death (not really) at Batman’s hands. Talia then gave Jason a replica of Ra’s signature weapon, his Red Hood helmet, and informed him of her acquisition of Kord Tech (the developmental wing of Wayne Enterprises). Talia told Jason to ‘cross the line’ and get revenge by becoming the Batman that Gotham needs. The conversation was emotionally tense, one thing led to another and the two ended up sleeping together. Talia was gone by morning, but she left an emailed note suggesting that Jason team up with someone called Hush.
Jay and Hush teamed up to play some fun mind games on Batman and company, but his role in Hush’s plans was pretty minor. He kidnapped Tim Drake (replacement-Robin) and took him to the cemetery where he’d been buried before rising from the dead. Jason got his fight with Batman, but swapped places with Clayface midway though. Bruce continued to see visions of Jason, but dismissed it as a residual result of Scarecrow’s fear toxins. However, Alfred found Jason’s domino mask in the batmobile leading to some speculation about the visions’ legitimacy.
Months later, a mysterious vigilante calling himself the Red Hood showed up in Gotham. His first move was to steal a crate of Kryptonite from Gotham’s reigning crime lord, the Black Mask. The stunt got him knee-deep in a battle between Batman, Nightwing (Dick Grayson, the first Robin), and Mr. Freeze (an enemy of Batman’s who was working with Black Mask at the time). He retreated claiming to have only started the fight to test the waters and catch Batman and the Black Mask’s attention. He then proceeded to track down the Joker and beat the crap out of him with a crowbar. Between the beatings, the Joker was able to put two and two together and figure out that this vigilante with a crowbar fetish and fascination with Batman was probably Jason Todd.
Red Hood muscled in on Black Mask’s gangs and eventually created a deadlock between the two of them. He bought off most of the Mask’s gangs, but forbid them from dealing to children. This brought him into conflict with Batman and Nightwing on more than one occasion and eventually, Batman connected the dots, noting that Jason’s moves and fighting style was more than a little familiar. Bruce confirmed his suspicions by digging up Jason’s coffin only to find it empty, something having broken out from within. Despite his criminal behavior and new identity, Bruce kept Jason’s Robin uniform on display in the Batcave.
Around he same time, he confronted Tim Drake in the Titans Tower. They ended up fighting in the Hall of Fallen Titans (Jason noting that he didn’t merit a statue even though he’d been a Titan and died). Jason demanded that Tim acknowledge him as the better Robin, Tim did and then passed out, leaving Jason to steal the R patch off his costume.
Jason’s last stunt involved baiting Batman back to his old neighborhood of Crime Alley using the Joker. They fought, much to the Joker’s amusement, and eventually, Jason tossed Batman one gun, holding another to the Joker’s head and demanding to know why, after everything he’d done, Batman wouldn’t just kill an unrepentant psychopath, but then decided that it didn’t really matter. If Batman wouldn’t do it, Jason would and then Batman would be forced to choose between shooting his adoptive son, or killing the Joker himself. Batman refused either option and disarmed Jason with a convenient batarang throw.
Naturally, the Joker decided this was an anti-climactic end, so taking advantage of the chaos, he activated a bomb Jason had set up earlier. The platform holding the warehouse subsequently exploded, crashing them all down into Gotham Harbor. Upon investigating the wreckage, Batman could find the Joker injured but more or less okay. The Red Hood, however, was gone.
PERSONALITY:’
Jason isn’t the best adjusted of the Robins, to say the least. As a child, he grew up in a troubled home, and a difficult area, which was undoubtedly the beginning of his anger-issues. Given the freedom to dress up in tights and take the law into his own hands only made his violent streak worse. While as a street punk he could get into fights, as Robin, he could create skirmishes or intervene whenever he felt necessary (as long as Batman kinda-sorta approved), and dish out justice as he saw fit (many times without the Bat’s express approval). As Robin, Jason was viewed by many as unstable and impulsive and while that’s all probably true, it also isn’t super surprising. In the end, Jason died partially because of his family-related issues (specifically his birth mom), and partially because despite having a mean streak a mile wide, he also had a very clear-cut moral basis for his actions 99.9% of the time. The impulsiveness just didn’t help much.
After coming back to life, Jason felt betrayed by the Batfamily (specifically Bruce, but to a lesser extent, Dick) for being replaced. In his death, he felt he gave absolutely everything to Batman and Gotham, only to be forgotten on a good day, and mocked for his failures the rest of the time. He treads a fine line of wanting to be accepted back into the family, and wanting to punish them all for the slights (either intentioned or imagined) against him. Outside of the Batfam, Jason acts pretty normal. He’s not Joker-style giggly-insane. He’s more “act normal and unaffected and then shoot them in the kneecaps”-crazy.
His new philosopy of vigilantism is loosely based on Batmans, and expanded to compensate for his perceptions of Batman’s failures. Jason believes he’s picking up the slack for Batman and becoming what Gotham needs. He also believes that he’s capable of doing this, and the most suited toward doing this because he probably didn’t have a shot of becoming anything but a criminal anyway. If he dirties his hands, it’s no great loss to society, and if it’s effective, why not?
POWER:
Jason has no canon superpowers. He has bat-training, and assassin training. He’s an excellent fighter and a pretty decent acrobat. He’s also pretty darn good at strategy and tactics.
For CnC, his powers would be…
Quickchange: The ability to dress or redress himself very quickly. Like unrealistically quickly.
Tentacles: Um, just you know. Spontaneous tentacles. They’re kind of slimey and generally unpleasant. They have a reach of ten feet or so and there are six of them. They only appear when he’s in severe emotional distress.
Mood-Appropriate 80s Music: This is the most immediately apparent of Jason’s powers. Basically, he’d have 80s-tastic background music at all times. Eventually he’ll learn to control it, but for the first oh… 3 weeks or so it’ll be the best of A Flock of Seagulls, Devo, Franky Goes to Hollywood, and Bon Jovi playing in the background at all times.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
It’s weird looking through the backlog and realizing there have been a few of you here before. I mean really fucking weird. Almost as weird as waking up to a robot telling you you’re a superpowered cop and oh yeah, have superpowers.
Which would be fucking swell, except for I apparently got the shit-end of the meta-spectrum. Superman gets heat vision, I get Jon Bon fucking Jovi.
Um. Yeah.
I know there’s no use asking for a way home, so I’ll settle for an easier question: What brand of earplugs do you prefer? I’m really gonna need some. Assuming this isn’t all in my head, because I really needed a new psychosis.
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
She says: We've got to hold on to what we've got
'Cause it doesn't make a difference if we make it or not.
At first, Jason was pretty sure he was hallucinating. That could happen if you lost enough oxygen, right? Get short enough of breath and you’re lightheaded. Nex thing you know, you’re blanking out and Bon Jovi is wailing away in your head with all their hair and guyliner and everything else you never really needed to remember about the 80s.
Or y’know, not.
It was weird when his eyes opened and the music didn’t stop. Weirder still when the machine addressed him and told him to take the dogtags with his names (both of them, huh) on them and gave him the spiel about the police force and the apartments and whatever else she’d said. Honestly, it was hard to keep up over the screeching and the idea that a robot not only knew his identity, but was actively encouraging vigilantism. Not that he knew that much about robots really, it was just the ridiculousness of everything together.
Then the music switched. Living On A Prayer ended and Jason thanked whatever higher power existed in the split second he had before it was replaced with Karma Chameleon.
Culture Club. What the hell.
Nodding listlessly, in a way that reminded him eerily of vegetative states, sterile hospital rooms, and IVs that slowly drip until you’re pretty sure you can’t hear anything except the blop-plop of saline, let alone form a real thought, he shuffled from the compound which turned out to be a sky scrapper onto the streets of an unknown city. It probably wasn’t Gotham. Then again karmakarmakarmakarmakarma chameleon coming and going in your head could really fuck up perceptions so maybe it was. Finally, after he crossed Broadway, then 8th Avenue, passed a part with and entrance that looked too welcoming, and a statue of some asshole he didn’t recognize, Jason figured it really (probably, definitively) wasn’t Gotham and that oh, wait, this could mean some real shit.
The City, Gotham, Metropolis, New York State of Mind. Billy Joel, get out of my head.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
Is there anything else about your character that you feel we should know, that isn't covered in any of the earlier sections? This field is optional.
NAME: Yami
AGE: 21
JOURNAL: yacchan
IM: kaizokuyacchan, but I am rarely on it anymore. Instead check my plurk, undeadyami
E-MAIL: kefkaknight@gmail.com
RETURNING: 3 - Pietro Maximoff (oncemercurial), Stephen Strange (hoaryhosts), Aoi “The Laughing Man” (leftymitt).
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Jason Todd / The Red Hood
FANDOM: DC Comics / Batman
CHRONOLOGY: Directly following the Under the Hood arc.
CLASS: Anti-hero at best, gun-totting psychopath on a bad day.
SUPERHERO NAME: Red Hood
ALTER EGO: Jason Todd, hood rat.
BACKGROUND:
Jason grew up in a lower class, broken home in one of Gotham’s worst neighborhoods. When he was approximately 13, Jason attempted to steal the tires off the Batmobile. Discovering that Jason’s mother had died of a drug overdose sometime earlier and that the kid was essentially living on the street, Bruce Wayne had him placed in a boarding school for troubled youth. The school ended up being little more than a vehicle for youth to get involved in the criminal element and Jason helped Batman bring it down. He shortly thereafter earned the mantle of Robin, but wasn’t allowed to wear the costume until another six months had passed. Despite being ostensibly accepted as Robin, Jason refused to give up some of the habits from his old life. Nightwing caught him smoking on more than one occasion, he continued to swear, and regularly disobeyed Batman’s orders. Still, he was considered a generally competent and trustworthy partner, if somewhat troubled emotionally.
His emotional troubles manifest most notably when the Dynamic Duo is pursuing Felipe Garzonas, a serial rapist and son of a dignitary. Due to his political status, the police were unable to prosecute Garzonas. After the suicide of one of the rape victims, Jason tracked Garzonas down. Batman and arrived moments after Garzonas falls from a rooftop to his death. Almost everyone involved assumed that Jason pushed him, but it’s never revealed for certain. In either case, Jason certainly didn’t show much remorse until Felipe’s father, challenged Batman and Robin by kidnapping commissioner Gordon. Garzonas Sr. was killed in the ensuing altercation and commissioner Gordon was shot (but not like, fatally or anything). Batman had some choice words for Jason on the subject of actions and consequences, but life generally continued on.
Jason continued to be unpredictable and slightly unbalanced in the field, prompting Batman to put him on a superhero “time out”. Around the same time, Jason returned to his old neighborhood, and the apartment where his mother used to live and discovered that, shockingly Catherine Todd wasn’t his birthmother. Jason then snuck back into the Batcave, using Batman’s super computer and access to international files and databases to look for his actual, biological mom. He found her halfway around the world and rushed off to meet this mysterious Sheila Haywood.
As it turned out, Sheila was a nurse being blackmailed by the Joker into keeping the silence on one of his side enterprises. After Jason revealed himself to her as Robin in an effort to get his mommy to leave her corrupt endeavor, the Joker blackmailed her into handing Jason over to him. In an abandoned warehouse in the middle of nowhere Ethiopia, the Joker beat Jason senseless and then left him to die (but not without setting a bomb to finish the job, just in case.) After receiving a taunting message from the Joker, Batman raced to save his ward, but it was too late. Jason was unable to disarm the bomb and both Sheila and the second Robin seemingly died in the explosion.
That should’ve been the end of Jason Todd. Except comics never ever work that way.
Due to a very complicated company-wide effort to give the DCU a more user-friendly continuity, Super Boy Prime (an alternate reality of the Superboy we know and love) punched a ‘reality wall’. This had several interesting effects, the more relevant here being that Jason, mysteriously, woke up two weeks after dying alive, but for a few broken ribs. Unfortunately, he’d been buried as a normal teenager with none of his Robin tools at all, so Jason had to claw his way out of a coffin. Which he did, all the while asking feverishly for Bruce. He also crawled his way down the highway, only to be hit by a car and rushed to Gotham General Hospital.
As no fingerprints for Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, or anyone else in the Batfamily exist on any file, he hospital and the police were unable to identify him. In the course of medical treatment, Jason also sustained brain damage and slipped into a vegetative coma. He stayed that way until one day he ‘got better’ and walked out of the hospital. The police were unconcerned about another John Doe vanishing, so they didn’t pursue it. Further, Jason still couldn’t speak, and he still couldn’t remember, exactly who he was or where he belonged.
Jay wandered Gotham for a while (a few months to a year), surviving by stealing food as needed. He was usually unbothered by the other hobos as they learned quickly that doing anything to get in his way would result in a severe beat down. One thug witnessed such a beat down and was actually able to connect the dots between the Robin that had vanished and the weird homeless kid who every so often, got on the wrong side of the weird homeless guys and food.
Said thug contacted Talia Al Ghul and after some consideration, Talia ordered Jason be brought to her. She had him tested, trained, but her father insisted her ‘pet human’ was a poor use of time and resources. Before Ra’s could insist that Jason be done away with entirely, though, Talia made a last ditch effort to restore his mind and memory by knocking him into the Lazarus Pits during one of her father’s rituals.
Talia sent Jason away, where her father couldn’t get to him. Eventually Ra’s got over the slight (sort of). Jason and Talia maintained contact via email and Jason got to explore the world for the first time since death as a fully coherent person. What he discovered was that he had been replaced as Robin by Tim Drake, and more importantly, that the Joker was still running around being a psychopath.
Angry that Batman had replaced him and angrier that he hadn’t done away with the Joker, Jason began forming careful plans to kill the big bad Batman. He placed several trap, ultimately leading up to setting a bomb in the batmobile, but he was unable to kill Bruce remotely. Jason realized the entire thing was bigger than him or Bruce, and he wanted to see the look on Batman’s face when he finally realized who was responsible.
Not really wanting any harm to come to her ‘beloved’, Talia tried to distract Jason with various highly expensive and very dangerous teachers. He learned about toxins, poisons, explosives, sharpshooting, hand-to-hand, every thing a good assassin would need to know and everything Batman would never bother to teach a sidekick. Eventually, Jason confronts the Joker, lights him on fire, but is unable to kill him for well, mostly the same reasons that he was unable to kill Bruce when he had the chance.
Returning to Gotham, Jason met up with Talia who told him of Ra’s Al Ghul’s death (not really) at Batman’s hands. Talia then gave Jason a replica of Ra’s signature weapon, his Red Hood helmet, and informed him of her acquisition of Kord Tech (the developmental wing of Wayne Enterprises). Talia told Jason to ‘cross the line’ and get revenge by becoming the Batman that Gotham needs. The conversation was emotionally tense, one thing led to another and the two ended up sleeping together. Talia was gone by morning, but she left an emailed note suggesting that Jason team up with someone called Hush.
Jay and Hush teamed up to play some fun mind games on Batman and company, but his role in Hush’s plans was pretty minor. He kidnapped Tim Drake (replacement-Robin) and took him to the cemetery where he’d been buried before rising from the dead. Jason got his fight with Batman, but swapped places with Clayface midway though. Bruce continued to see visions of Jason, but dismissed it as a residual result of Scarecrow’s fear toxins. However, Alfred found Jason’s domino mask in the batmobile leading to some speculation about the visions’ legitimacy.
Months later, a mysterious vigilante calling himself the Red Hood showed up in Gotham. His first move was to steal a crate of Kryptonite from Gotham’s reigning crime lord, the Black Mask. The stunt got him knee-deep in a battle between Batman, Nightwing (Dick Grayson, the first Robin), and Mr. Freeze (an enemy of Batman’s who was working with Black Mask at the time). He retreated claiming to have only started the fight to test the waters and catch Batman and the Black Mask’s attention. He then proceeded to track down the Joker and beat the crap out of him with a crowbar. Between the beatings, the Joker was able to put two and two together and figure out that this vigilante with a crowbar fetish and fascination with Batman was probably Jason Todd.
Red Hood muscled in on Black Mask’s gangs and eventually created a deadlock between the two of them. He bought off most of the Mask’s gangs, but forbid them from dealing to children. This brought him into conflict with Batman and Nightwing on more than one occasion and eventually, Batman connected the dots, noting that Jason’s moves and fighting style was more than a little familiar. Bruce confirmed his suspicions by digging up Jason’s coffin only to find it empty, something having broken out from within. Despite his criminal behavior and new identity, Bruce kept Jason’s Robin uniform on display in the Batcave.
Around he same time, he confronted Tim Drake in the Titans Tower. They ended up fighting in the Hall of Fallen Titans (Jason noting that he didn’t merit a statue even though he’d been a Titan and died). Jason demanded that Tim acknowledge him as the better Robin, Tim did and then passed out, leaving Jason to steal the R patch off his costume.
Jason’s last stunt involved baiting Batman back to his old neighborhood of Crime Alley using the Joker. They fought, much to the Joker’s amusement, and eventually, Jason tossed Batman one gun, holding another to the Joker’s head and demanding to know why, after everything he’d done, Batman wouldn’t just kill an unrepentant psychopath, but then decided that it didn’t really matter. If Batman wouldn’t do it, Jason would and then Batman would be forced to choose between shooting his adoptive son, or killing the Joker himself. Batman refused either option and disarmed Jason with a convenient batarang throw.
Naturally, the Joker decided this was an anti-climactic end, so taking advantage of the chaos, he activated a bomb Jason had set up earlier. The platform holding the warehouse subsequently exploded, crashing them all down into Gotham Harbor. Upon investigating the wreckage, Batman could find the Joker injured but more or less okay. The Red Hood, however, was gone.
PERSONALITY:’
Jason isn’t the best adjusted of the Robins, to say the least. As a child, he grew up in a troubled home, and a difficult area, which was undoubtedly the beginning of his anger-issues. Given the freedom to dress up in tights and take the law into his own hands only made his violent streak worse. While as a street punk he could get into fights, as Robin, he could create skirmishes or intervene whenever he felt necessary (as long as Batman kinda-sorta approved), and dish out justice as he saw fit (many times without the Bat’s express approval). As Robin, Jason was viewed by many as unstable and impulsive and while that’s all probably true, it also isn’t super surprising. In the end, Jason died partially because of his family-related issues (specifically his birth mom), and partially because despite having a mean streak a mile wide, he also had a very clear-cut moral basis for his actions 99.9% of the time. The impulsiveness just didn’t help much.
After coming back to life, Jason felt betrayed by the Batfamily (specifically Bruce, but to a lesser extent, Dick) for being replaced. In his death, he felt he gave absolutely everything to Batman and Gotham, only to be forgotten on a good day, and mocked for his failures the rest of the time. He treads a fine line of wanting to be accepted back into the family, and wanting to punish them all for the slights (either intentioned or imagined) against him. Outside of the Batfam, Jason acts pretty normal. He’s not Joker-style giggly-insane. He’s more “act normal and unaffected and then shoot them in the kneecaps”-crazy.
His new philosopy of vigilantism is loosely based on Batmans, and expanded to compensate for his perceptions of Batman’s failures. Jason believes he’s picking up the slack for Batman and becoming what Gotham needs. He also believes that he’s capable of doing this, and the most suited toward doing this because he probably didn’t have a shot of becoming anything but a criminal anyway. If he dirties his hands, it’s no great loss to society, and if it’s effective, why not?
POWER:
Jason has no canon superpowers. He has bat-training, and assassin training. He’s an excellent fighter and a pretty decent acrobat. He’s also pretty darn good at strategy and tactics.
For CnC, his powers would be…
Quickchange: The ability to dress or redress himself very quickly. Like unrealistically quickly.
Tentacles: Um, just you know. Spontaneous tentacles. They’re kind of slimey and generally unpleasant. They have a reach of ten feet or so and there are six of them. They only appear when he’s in severe emotional distress.
Mood-Appropriate 80s Music: This is the most immediately apparent of Jason’s powers. Basically, he’d have 80s-tastic background music at all times. Eventually he’ll learn to control it, but for the first oh… 3 weeks or so it’ll be the best of A Flock of Seagulls, Devo, Franky Goes to Hollywood, and Bon Jovi playing in the background at all times.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
It’s weird looking through the backlog and realizing there have been a few of you here before. I mean really fucking weird. Almost as weird as waking up to a robot telling you you’re a superpowered cop and oh yeah, have superpowers.
Which would be fucking swell, except for I apparently got the shit-end of the meta-spectrum. Superman gets heat vision, I get Jon Bon fucking Jovi.
Um. Yeah.
I know there’s no use asking for a way home, so I’ll settle for an easier question: What brand of earplugs do you prefer? I’m really gonna need some. Assuming this isn’t all in my head, because I really needed a new psychosis.
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
She says: We've got to hold on to what we've got
'Cause it doesn't make a difference if we make it or not.
At first, Jason was pretty sure he was hallucinating. That could happen if you lost enough oxygen, right? Get short enough of breath and you’re lightheaded. Nex thing you know, you’re blanking out and Bon Jovi is wailing away in your head with all their hair and guyliner and everything else you never really needed to remember about the 80s.
Or y’know, not.
It was weird when his eyes opened and the music didn’t stop. Weirder still when the machine addressed him and told him to take the dogtags with his names (both of them, huh) on them and gave him the spiel about the police force and the apartments and whatever else she’d said. Honestly, it was hard to keep up over the screeching and the idea that a robot not only knew his identity, but was actively encouraging vigilantism. Not that he knew that much about robots really, it was just the ridiculousness of everything together.
Then the music switched. Living On A Prayer ended and Jason thanked whatever higher power existed in the split second he had before it was replaced with Karma Chameleon.
Culture Club. What the hell.
Nodding listlessly, in a way that reminded him eerily of vegetative states, sterile hospital rooms, and IVs that slowly drip until you’re pretty sure you can’t hear anything except the blop-plop of saline, let alone form a real thought, he shuffled from the compound which turned out to be a sky scrapper onto the streets of an unknown city. It probably wasn’t Gotham. Then again karmakarmakarmakarmakarma chameleon coming and going in your head could really fuck up perceptions so maybe it was. Finally, after he crossed Broadway, then 8th Avenue, passed a part with and entrance that looked too welcoming, and a statue of some asshole he didn’t recognize, Jason figured it really (probably, definitively) wasn’t Gotham and that oh, wait, this could mean some real shit.
The City, Gotham, Metropolis, New York State of Mind. Billy Joel, get out of my head.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
Is there anything else about your character that you feel we should know, that isn't covered in any of the earlier sections? This field is optional.