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Name: Jason Peter Todd Canon: DC Comics: Rebirth Age: DC recently decided everyone in the Batfamily was to physically regress and have confirmed Dick is now 21 instead of 30, narrowing the age gap between the Robins more than ever before. Jason is going to be around 19 in-game until Rebirth sheds some more light on the matter. Gender: Male Canon Point: Red Hood and the Outlaws: Rebirth #5 Background Link:Rebirth Revamp, Prime Wiki page, unedited for Rebirth, DC: Rebirth summary AKA Forget Half Of What We Told You
( Jason's personality has been edited to such an extent over the years that this app will take from his heavily revamped background in New 52-turned-Rebirth edition and the hints of his life in Prime. As a precursor, it's worth noting that when DC gave us Jason's origin story (for around the 3rd/4th time) they cherry-picked which facets of his Nu52 life they felt fans had responded to positively and were more "canon" than others, such as Talia Al'Ghul taking him in but cutting out the part where she turned him over the All-Caste (a league of super-assassins that predated the League of Assassins) and their leader Ducra. This makes for a choppy series of events when pulling from Jason's past in the Rebirth present, but huge events that span the entire Batfam are still etched in stone (Death Of The Family, Court of Owls, B&R: Eternal, Robin War) in the same way Rebirth's Nightwing never lived in Bludhaven but lived through the Grayson series and supposedly everything that came before that. Factors that were cut out of Jason's mishmashed past are largely anything to do with the magical/mystical elements that Ducra taught him. Essentially, fans wanted Rebirth!Jason to go back to his gritty roots as the tank of the former Robins, and DC used their relaunch to vaguely dismiss 50% of what we learned in the original RHatO while waving back in some of the Prime-verse history. Not confusing at all, thanks DC.
It's also not clear whether the Nu52 storyline of the Joker literally creating every tragedy in Jason's life is true because it was never entirely confirmed yet scenes from the result of it were, it's a headache that will be glossed over the same way DC has treated most of Jason's routinely specified-and-edited history. To sort through most of the mess DC Rebirth has given us, this app is going to outline the basics of Jason's life for mod reference and then develop an explanation of his personality from there. Cross-checking of Wikis is advised, but will be incredibly tedious. )
Jason Peter Todd was the product of a broken family with a depressed drug-user of a mother and a criminal father, as a young child he would hide under the table with his dog and try to block out the sound of his parents' screaming matches. Prior to his father being carted off to prison he taught Jason a few tricks to live on the street and following the (supposed) overdose of Jason's mother that was exactly what he did, leading up to a young teen trying to jack the wheels off the Batmobile one night when Bruce parked in Crime Alley. Batman bought both of them some fast-food and they ate it together, with Jason listening to the advice he was given about his outlook on life, how it was wrong to steal etc. Before his adoption by Bruce Wayne, it was made canon that Jason spent some time at a house for wayward children under the supervision of Ma Gunn (a less than moral old woman) but in his own words before his adoption he was "sleeping on a wet cardboard box a week earlier". Following his hasty induction as a ward of the billionaire it was a short time before Jason was given the chance to catch up on his studies (after dropping out off school in preteen years) and more, revealing he was an extremely bright boy with a 94.8 grade point average: Jason earned multiple doctorates in criminology, advanced computer science, learned German and Russian, and attended fighting/weight training near constantly when he wasn't studying.
At the height of his brilliance, he was presented with the new Robin suit and made Batman's trusted partner on the streets of Gotham. It was the best night of his young life.
This is around the time Jason's life started to crash and burn bad joke all over again. He was harsher with criminals when Bruce's life was in danger, brutally beating Two-Face and finding it difficult to rein in his anger when on the job. Bruce began to bench him from missions (unbeknown to Jason for his own safety after he 'allowed' a rapist to fall to their death, with Bruce fretting over what to do with him) and any New Teen Titans from his Pre-Crisis days, already miserable, were retconned into Jason feeling entirely mismatched within that group and greatly unwelcome in Dick's absence. Dick himself couldn't be faulted for feeling replaced and having a million of his own problems to attend to but this led to Jason's second unstable family dynamic; Bruce seemingly didn't want him around, his idol Dick never made an effort to be a mentor or brother, and Jason didn't know Alfred well enough to explain why he would cry alone at night. The scaffolding of his life began to quickly rust.
Jason was fed a lead about his mother miraculously having survived her overdose and, feeling unfettered and unwanted, he flew himself halfway around the world to find her. When he did, it turned out she was a pawn of the Joker (she tried to save her own life instead of Jason's because she was so afraid of the clown, what a great mom) and the two of them were bound in an abandoned warehouse. Despite being brutally beaten with a crowbar and now convinced no one loved him, Jason tried to get his mother free, ultimately failing when the building exploded around them.
The last thing Jason ever did was whisper an apology to Bruce.
And this is where a supervillain punches reality to retcon Jason's death. DC have glossed over that whole mess of an event and so will we. At any rate, Jason is resurrected 6ft under, screaming in terror for Bruce, and has to claw his way to freedom. Already brain-damaged by the encounter, he retained the skills he was taught by Batman and his street rat sense of self-preservation, unable to function on higher levels as he lived homelessly for some months until his abilities caught the eye of Talia Al'Ghul. The daughter of Ra's took Jason home and, when her father almost had enough of her pandering to a brain-damaged boy, she kicked him in the Lazarus Pit because why not, he couldn't get any worse. Jason's injuries healed and he became inherently stronger as a result of his unauthorised swim in Ra's super-secret pool, with the increased 'natural' strength (that would much later in his life surprise Supergirl when he managed to fend off her attacks). In short, Jason got hench. Talia led him around a few covert missions where he learned more about himself than he was comfortable with, able to kill the cruel and criminal without remorse as he put his life on the line to save innocents. Eventually, Talia's meddling reached new heights when she showed him photographs of Batman with a new Robin, seemingly Batman's replacement of Jason, Tim Drake, and the Joker running around alive as ever. Jason's new purpose in life was to convince himself that Bruce still cared and would avenge him, even if Bruce's hand had to be forced.
For all that Talia did for him, she was neither a friend or a confidant, aiding Jason because she was in love with his mentor, Bruce. Stewing in the same loneliness he had felt as Robin, now heartbroken on an entirely new level, Jason returned to Gotham where he floundered in his plans for a while and stalked the new Dynamic Duo, almost blowing up Bruce in the batmobile. Finding himself unable to go through with it, he devised a far more complex plan to build up a rep for himself as the Red Hood that would catch Bruce's attention; the Joker's old name was recycled by Jason out of spite and to control his fear, the same way Bruce adopted the Bat.
A common misconception is that Jason kidnapped the Joker to lure out Bruce and kill him. In truth, Jason's gambit was that Bruce would at least defer to choose Jason over the Joker and reaffirm his love, having already forgiven Bruce for failing to save his life. When this didn't happen it incensed Jason and reinforced the idea that he was just "a good soldier" and had no real value to Bruce, launching them into a distance that would last for years. (Meanwhile, after losing Jason it was Bruce who fell into a steep depression over his death and Tim Drake who insisted on taking up the mantle of Robin, but Jason knew none of it.) This is where Under The Red Hood ends and Red Hood and the Outlaws picks up. Most of the plot of the 2011 series has been mangled by Rebirth, but in essence Jason learned how to build friendships through Roy Harper and Starfire, until the event of Death In The Family where the Joker's actions would ironically cause Jason to mend most of his fractured relationship with Bruce. It's later made known that the Justice League only refrain from taking Jason in because of Batman vouching for him.
Inventory: (1) Red Hood helmet, DEACTIVATED so it's more of a glorified hat, (1) Cropped leather jacket #FASHION, (1) taser-laced set of body armour; DEACTIVATED in Snowblind, (1) pair of boots, (2) Desert Eagles in holsters with hollow-point armor-piercing shells (or none if unallowed), (1) .45 gun, (1) super sharp knife courtesy of Talia.
Personality: For a man known as the Red Hood by the NSA, CIA, Homeland Security, FBI, KGB, and Interpol, Jason's faults are far more clear-cut than they otherwise could be. He is known to steal extortionate amounts of money and commit felonies across the world, hence his title as an Outlaw to pretty much every government of significance, yet his moral code is strong. He murders and decapitates criminal lieutenants with a zero-tolerance policy toward those who sell drugs to children, rapists, sadists, etc, yet owns a heroic streak a mile wide when it comes to protecting innocents, even offended when Supergirl accuses him of shooting a dog in order to silence it when he actually just put it in a nearby bathroom ("What kind of monster do you think I am?"). His reputation is that of the 'Tank', the brutal former-Robin who goes to the lengths that Batman cannot in search of justice, and he doesn't mind one bit. A huge point of contention between Jason and his mentor is that Bruce never killed the Joker to exact vengeance, whereas were the tables turned it would have been Jason's only option.
Family is the one anchor in Jason's heart that keeps him connected to the Batfam and enables him, over time, to develop deeper relationships with the people from his past whom he initiated resented: he almost slips up and calls Dick his brother when the acrobat fakes his death and Jason chews him out, bonds with Tim to the point where he calls him Babybird, takes him to bars, and can't even bring himself to go to Tim's funeral (when Tim supposedly died in recent issues), also agreeing to keep an eye on Barbara when Bruce suspects she's unstable and petitions Jason's help. Alfred becomes Alfie. His heart is huge with a capacity to protect as strong as his values are to punish, leaving Jason the outsider in his own familial unit.
A good analogy would be a dog miraculously cured of rabies with everyone second-guessing its bite thereafter.
For this reason in RHatO: Rebirth, Jason has to act without Bruce's consent and lead everyone to believe he shoots the mayor of Gotham, when in fact he was injecting him with an antidote to a techno-organic virus created by Black Mask, and why Bruce insists that if Jason gets too deep into the investigation over it ("If you take one life for whatever reason, I'm coming for you") he'll treat him like an actual criminal. The Red Hood is vicious and merciless. Jason Todd likes to read Jane Austen and Sun Tzu. He isn't sure himself whether he's a villain or a hero, he simply does whatever needs to be done that Batman can't or won't deal with. His peppy attitude from childhood has soured into sarcasm, a hardened version of innocent sass, with Jason molded into a grimmer version of the enthused young boy that eagerly gave away his heart to Bruce Wayne, now a lonely adult left to remind himself (with a spare Batmobile tyre on a shelf, next to a precious photo) of the only time in his life he felt trusted and loved.
"Take it from someone who was beaten to death with a crowbar -- some crimes require a permanent solution."
Many people both icly and oocly like to refer to Jason as 'The Bad Robin' when he actually lives most of his life in an unsatisfying grey-scale as a result of extensive trauma, both mental and physical, in two lives. Most recently in the Rebirth arc, Jason has shown his capacity to care for those otherwise written off by the world; he buys Bizarro a plushie of Superman and tries to befriend the monster despite already being deep undercover, and his attempts to garner Artemis's aid are not without some degree of success from the stoic Amazon. He goes so far as to admit that even he has his limits when Black Mask shoots his own henchmen in cold blood.
Jason is usually referred to as the strength of the Robins but, just as often, he is also viewed as the heart of whichever Outlaw dark trinity he leads.
Flavor Abilities: With Rebirth having scrapped all the mystical nonsense from Nu52, Jason's only real extra ability is the reinforced strength and healing factor that the Lazarus Pit gave him. Already a significantly healthy, agile tank in his own right, I'm happy for him to get pared down to a basic human level. Getting brought up by Batman is enough hench training for anyone.
Suitability: Jason "I'm used to holding it all together with toothpaste and bubblegum" Todd. Resourcefulness is a trait that Jason owned long before Batman swooped into his life, a street rat that knew how to live on nothing and make it work from the trashcans up. With his training he'll adapt to Snowblind as if it's a mission or a test, rooting out allies he can tenuously trust as he carves out his own heavily protected niche; he isn't paranoid, he's a Gothamite. Survival is what he does, either as Jason Todd or the Red Hood. He may also feel his identity has been compromised after shenanigans in canon with Roman Sionis, admitting who he is in order to recruit some companions, while the detective in him will be on overdrive. He's no Tim Drake, however, so his attitude will range around "Can we please just fucking solve this ASAP" and if he has to make unsavoury connections to get that to happen, he will.
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Name: Jason Peter Todd
Canon: DC Comics: Rebirth
Age: DC recently decided everyone in the Batfamily was to physically regress and have confirmed Dick is now 21 instead of 30, narrowing the age gap between the Robins more than ever before. Jason is going to be around 19 in-game until Rebirth sheds some more light on the matter.
Gender: Male
Canon Point: Red Hood and the Outlaws: Rebirth #5
Background Link: Rebirth Revamp, Prime Wiki page, unedited for Rebirth, DC: Rebirth summary AKA Forget Half Of What We Told You
( Jason's personality has been edited to such an extent over the years that this app will take from his heavily revamped background in New 52-turned-Rebirth edition and the hints of his life in Prime. As a precursor, it's worth noting that when DC gave us Jason's origin story (for around the 3rd/4th time) they cherry-picked which facets of his Nu52 life they felt fans had responded to positively and were more "canon" than others, such as Talia Al'Ghul taking him in but cutting out the part where she turned him over the All-Caste (a league of super-assassins that predated the League of Assassins) and their leader Ducra. This makes for a choppy series of events when pulling from Jason's past in the Rebirth present, but huge events that span the entire Batfam are still etched in stone (Death Of The Family, Court of Owls, B&R: Eternal, Robin War) in the same way Rebirth's Nightwing never lived in Bludhaven but lived through the Grayson series and supposedly everything that came before that. Factors that were cut out of Jason's mishmashed past are largely anything to do with the magical/mystical elements that Ducra taught him. Essentially, fans wanted Rebirth!Jason to go back to his gritty roots as the tank of the former Robins, and DC used their relaunch to vaguely dismiss 50% of what we learned in the original RHatO while waving back in some of the Prime-verse history. Not confusing at all, thanks DC.
It's also not clear whether the Nu52 storyline of the Joker literally creating every tragedy in Jason's life is true because it was never entirely confirmed yet scenes from the result of it were, it's a headache that will be glossed over the same way DC has treated most of Jason's routinely specified-and-edited history. To sort through most of the mess DC Rebirth has given us, this app is going to outline the basics of Jason's life for mod reference and then develop an explanation of his personality from there. Cross-checking of Wikis is advised, but will be incredibly tedious. )
Jason Peter Todd was the product of a broken family with a depressed drug-user of a mother and a criminal father, as a young child he would hide under the table with his dog and try to block out the sound of his parents' screaming matches. Prior to his father being carted off to prison he taught Jason a few tricks to live on the street and following the (supposed) overdose of Jason's mother that was exactly what he did, leading up to a young teen trying to jack the wheels off the Batmobile one night when Bruce parked in Crime Alley. Batman bought both of them some fast-food and they ate it together, with Jason listening to the advice he was given about his outlook on life, how it was wrong to steal etc. Before his adoption by Bruce Wayne, it was made canon that Jason spent some time at a house for wayward children under the supervision of Ma Gunn (a less than moral old woman) but in his own words before his adoption he was "sleeping on a wet cardboard box a week earlier". Following his hasty induction as a ward of the billionaire it was a short time before Jason was given the chance to catch up on his studies (after dropping out off school in preteen years) and more, revealing he was an extremely bright boy with a 94.8 grade point average: Jason earned multiple doctorates in criminology, advanced computer science, learned German and Russian, and attended fighting/weight training near constantly when he wasn't studying.
At the height of his brilliance, he was presented with the new Robin suit and made Batman's trusted partner on the streets of Gotham. It was the best night of his young life.
This is around the time Jason's life started to crash and burn
bad jokeall over again. He was harsher with criminals when Bruce's life was in danger, brutally beating Two-Face and finding it difficult to rein in his anger when on the job. Bruce began to bench him from missions (unbeknown to Jason for his own safety after he 'allowed' a rapist to fall to their death, with Bruce fretting over what to do with him) and any New Teen Titans from his Pre-Crisis days, already miserable, were retconned into Jason feeling entirely mismatched within that group and greatly unwelcome in Dick's absence. Dick himself couldn't be faulted for feeling replaced and having a million of his own problems to attend to but this led to Jason's second unstable family dynamic; Bruce seemingly didn't want him around, his idol Dick never made an effort to be a mentor or brother, and Jason didn't know Alfred well enough to explain why he would cry alone at night. The scaffolding of his life began to quickly rust.Jason was fed a lead about his mother miraculously having survived her overdose and, feeling unfettered and unwanted, he flew himself halfway around the world to find her. When he did, it turned out she was a pawn of the Joker (she tried to save her own life instead of Jason's because she was so afraid of the clown, what a great mom) and the two of them were bound in an abandoned warehouse. Despite being brutally beaten with a crowbar and now convinced no one loved him, Jason tried to get his mother free, ultimately failing when the building exploded around them.
The last thing Jason ever did was whisper an apology to Bruce.
And this is where a supervillain punches reality to retcon Jason's death. DC have glossed over that whole mess of an event and so will we. At any rate, Jason is resurrected 6ft under, screaming in terror for Bruce, and has to claw his way to freedom. Already brain-damaged by the encounter, he retained the skills he was taught by Batman and his street rat sense of self-preservation, unable to function on higher levels as he lived homelessly for some months until his abilities caught the eye of Talia Al'Ghul. The daughter of Ra's took Jason home and, when her father almost had enough of her pandering to a brain-damaged boy, she kicked him in the Lazarus Pit because why not, he couldn't get any worse. Jason's injuries healed and he became inherently stronger as a result of his unauthorised swim in Ra's super-secret pool, with the increased 'natural' strength (that would much later in his life surprise Supergirl when he managed to fend off her attacks). In short, Jason got hench. Talia led him around a few covert missions where he learned more about himself than he was comfortable with, able to kill the cruel and criminal without remorse as he put his life on the line to save innocents. Eventually, Talia's meddling reached new heights when she showed him photographs of Batman with a new Robin, seemingly Batman's replacement of Jason, Tim Drake, and the Joker running around alive as ever. Jason's new purpose in life was to convince himself that Bruce still cared and would avenge him, even if Bruce's hand had to be forced.
For all that Talia did for him, she was neither a friend or a confidant, aiding Jason because she was in love with his mentor, Bruce. Stewing in the same loneliness he had felt as Robin, now heartbroken on an entirely new level, Jason returned to Gotham where he floundered in his plans for a while and stalked the new Dynamic Duo, almost blowing up Bruce in the batmobile. Finding himself unable to go through with it, he devised a far more complex plan to build up a rep for himself as the Red Hood that would catch Bruce's attention; the Joker's old name was recycled by Jason out of spite and to control his fear, the same way Bruce adopted the Bat.
A common misconception is that Jason kidnapped the Joker to lure out Bruce and kill him. In truth, Jason's gambit was that Bruce would at least defer to choose Jason over the Joker and reaffirm his love, having already forgiven Bruce for failing to save his life. When this didn't happen it incensed Jason and reinforced the idea that he was just "a good soldier" and had no real value to Bruce, launching them into a distance that would last for years. (Meanwhile, after losing Jason it was Bruce who fell into a steep depression over his death and Tim Drake who insisted on taking up the mantle of Robin, but Jason knew none of it.) This is where Under The Red Hood ends and Red Hood and the Outlaws picks up. Most of the plot of the 2011 series has been mangled by Rebirth, but in essence Jason learned how to build friendships through Roy Harper and Starfire, until the event of Death In The Family where the Joker's actions would ironically cause Jason to mend most of his fractured relationship with Bruce. It's later made known that the Justice League only refrain from taking Jason in because of Batman vouching for him.
Inventory: (1) Red Hood helmet, DEACTIVATED so it's more of a glorified hat, (1) Cropped leather jacket #FASHION, (1) taser-laced set of body armour; DEACTIVATED in Snowblind, (1) pair of boots, (2) Desert Eagles in holsters with hollow-point armor-piercing shells (or none if unallowed), (1) .45 gun, (1) super sharp knife courtesy of Talia.
Personality: For a man known as the Red Hood by the NSA, CIA, Homeland Security, FBI, KGB, and Interpol, Jason's faults are far more clear-cut than they otherwise could be. He is known to steal extortionate amounts of money and commit felonies across the world, hence his title as an Outlaw to pretty much every government of significance, yet his moral code is strong. He murders and decapitates criminal lieutenants with a zero-tolerance policy toward those who sell drugs to children, rapists, sadists, etc, yet owns a heroic streak a mile wide when it comes to protecting innocents, even offended when Supergirl accuses him of shooting a dog in order to silence it when he actually just put it in a nearby bathroom ("What kind of monster do you think I am?"). His reputation is that of the 'Tank', the brutal former-Robin who goes to the lengths that Batman cannot in search of justice, and he doesn't mind one bit. A huge point of contention between Jason and his mentor is that Bruce never killed the Joker to exact vengeance, whereas were the tables turned it would have been Jason's only option.
Family is the one anchor in Jason's heart that keeps him connected to the Batfam and enables him, over time, to develop deeper relationships with the people from his past whom he initiated resented: he almost slips up and calls Dick his brother when the acrobat fakes his death and Jason chews him out, bonds with Tim to the point where he calls him Babybird, takes him to bars, and can't even bring himself to go to Tim's funeral (when Tim supposedly died in recent issues), also agreeing to keep an eye on Barbara when Bruce suspects she's unstable and petitions Jason's help. Alfred becomes Alfie. His heart is huge with a capacity to protect as strong as his values are to punish, leaving Jason the outsider in his own familial unit.
A good analogy would be a dog miraculously cured of rabies with everyone second-guessing its bite thereafter.
For this reason in RHatO: Rebirth, Jason has to act without Bruce's consent and lead everyone to believe he shoots the mayor of Gotham, when in fact he was injecting him with an antidote to a techno-organic virus created by Black Mask, and why Bruce insists that if Jason gets too deep into the investigation over it ("If you take one life for whatever reason, I'm coming for you") he'll treat him like an actual criminal. The Red Hood is vicious and merciless. Jason Todd likes to read Jane Austen and Sun Tzu. He isn't sure himself whether he's a villain or a hero, he simply does whatever needs to be done that Batman can't or won't deal with. His peppy attitude from childhood has soured into sarcasm, a hardened version of innocent sass, with Jason molded into a grimmer version of the enthused young boy that eagerly gave away his heart to Bruce Wayne, now a lonely adult left to remind himself (with a spare Batmobile tyre on a shelf, next to a precious photo) of the only time in his life he felt trusted and loved.
Jason is usually referred to as the strength of the Robins but, just as often, he is also viewed as the heart of whichever Outlaw dark trinity he leads.
Flavor Abilities: With Rebirth having scrapped all the mystical nonsense from Nu52, Jason's only real extra ability is the reinforced strength and healing factor that the Lazarus Pit gave him. Already a significantly healthy, agile tank in his own right, I'm happy for him to get pared down to a basic human level. Getting brought up by Batman is enough hench training for anyone.
Suitability: Jason "I'm used to holding it all together with toothpaste and bubblegum" Todd. Resourcefulness is a trait that Jason owned long before Batman swooped into his life, a street rat that knew how to live on nothing and make it work from the trashcans up. With his training he'll adapt to Snowblind as if it's a mission or a test, rooting out allies he can tenuously trust as he carves out his own heavily protected niche; he isn't paranoid, he's a Gothamite. Survival is what he does, either as Jason Todd or the Red Hood. He may also feel his identity has been compromised after shenanigans in canon with Roman Sionis, admitting who he is in order to recruit some companions, while the detective in him will be on overdrive. He's no Tim Drake, however, so his attitude will range around "Can we please just fucking solve this ASAP" and if he has to make unsavoury connections to get that to happen, he will.
RP Samples: Both on the TDM.