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scathefires) wrote2018-07-30 06:48 pm
scathefires) wrote2018-07-30 06:48 pm
character info @ sixth iteration.
Name: Jason Peter Todd, aka the Red Hood. He may also give "John Doe" as his name, if he's feeling like being a complete shit.
Canon: DC Comics, broadly; specifically, the Batman: Under the Red Hood animated film.
Scrubs Color: Teal.
Visible Age:
Gender: He's a dude.
Height/Physique: 6 feet tall, about 200 lbs of solid muscle, and built like a linebacker from a hell dimension.
Hygiene: ... Average?
Hair: Dark and in a permanent state of disaster.
Eyes: Somewhere between blue and green.
Defining Marks: Nothing visible, but if you happen to catch him with his shirt off, there will be a fair number of old battle scars.
Accent/Speech: The dulcet tones of Jensen Ackles.
Bearing/Demeanor: Jason is, in a word, wary of others. He’s not exactly paranoid, but he doesn’t trust easily, either - he has been burned by some pretty significant people in his life (most notably Bruce Wayne, his surrogate father figure and mentor) and it has left him with some deep pain that he is currently Not Dealing With. He projects a certain base level of affability, mostly through dry wit and sarcasm, and he knows how to carry an amicable conversation, but he'll only let people in so far, and he’s a lot like a feral cat - his mood can shift on a moment’s notice. Jason also does not respond well to authority types, and he will have a sassy comeback for just about anything anyone says to him.
Habits: Violence counts as a habit, right?
Skills: Despite being a DC Comics character, Jason doesn’t possess any superpowers, per se, though he does have quite a few entirely human talents. He has an impressive physical presence, having been trained - and trained well - in hand-to-hand combat, martial arts, and acrobatics; he is also a skilled marksman and proficient in wielding a number of other weapons, such as knives, throwing stars, and explosives. In other words, in a physical fight, Jason’s able to physically handle himself and take care of others, if necessary.
Jason may not possess a genius-level intellect, but he’s no dummy - he’s been trained in the investigative arts by none other than the world’s (well - this world’s) greatest detective, Bruce Wayne, aka the goddamn Batman. Jason is also quick-thinking under pressure, resourceful, and a skilled strategist, as evidenced by the masterful manipulation he sets into play in order to get to the Joker via Black Mask, the only person in Gotham with the resources and connections to break him out of Arkham. He’s smarter than most people – himself included – give him credit for, and he can certainly use his brains in combination with or instead of his brawn to survive and thrive under pressure.
Jason’s survival skills in general are quite strong, displayed in how he lived on the streets of Crime Alley as a homeless child and took care of himself by ripping off car parts to sell before that fateful meeting with Batman. One of his less-obvious survival skills is a sense of intuition - being able to read people and guess at their intentions and how to proceed in any interaction. It’s not perfect by any means, but it does give Jason a sense of who can be trusted and to what extent, and it’s an important learned skill to have when placed in a high-pressure situation with other people.
@ entranceway.
- Jason also spoke with Tim Drake over the network, but did not know him (Tim isn’t included in the film at all), and since they both gave fake names, Tim didn’t recognize Jason at first, either (Tim’s canon point was from before Jason’s return to Gotham, so they hadn’t met). He pieced together who “John Doe” was from the clues Damian provided, though, and approached Jason, which did not go well. To Jason’s credit, he managed to restrain himself to only threatening to break Tim’s face on his fist, rather than actually attacking the boy, as his comics counterpart did in canon. Jason later looked after Tim when they were both aged down in an event and afterwards, decided to treat Tim as a potential ally instead of a bitter rival.
- Two other important connections were made that first day, one of which was Jonathan Kent, a young, compassionate Superboy who became Jason’s friend by tapping into his dormant sense of empathy – Jason is especially protective of children, and the horrors of Wonderland are something he believed Jonathan shouldn’t be forced into coping with alone. The other was Cissie King-Jones, an ex-masked vigilante who’d worked with Tim Drake and knew of Jason, but never personally met him before their time in Wonderland. She became Jason’s friend simply by being nice to him without reservation, with no strings attached, and supported him when as a result of in-game events, he was reverted back to his 16-year-old, freshly resurrected self, and has just as hard a time coping with it as he did the first time. She was later instrumental in Jason’s decision to view Tim not as a rival but a potential ally and friend.
- Perhaps the most important connection Jason made in Wonderland was with another version of himself, a Jason Todd who wasn’t murdered when captured but rather tortured for a prolonged period of time by the Joker and went on the become the Arkham Knight instead of the Red Hood. Through comparison of their lives, Jason was forced to accept that what happened to him was not the worst possible outcome.