robintohood: (But I'm myself)
Jason Todd ([personal profile] robintohood) wrote in [community profile] metalogs 2022-06-24 12:08 am (UTC)

[Jason's quiet as he listens to Robbie. He's surprised by the offer. Any superhero would want to arrest him and ship him off to a maximum security prison after learning he's a violent vigilante with a considerable body count. Sure, Robbie also got an intense look at his traumas and it's very likely why the blond man's approaching him like this but Bruce knows about most of those traumas too. Jason knows it wouldn't take much for him and his adoptive father to be at each other's throats again.

But Robbie isn't like Bruce. Robbie's got his own traumas. He's being sympathetic and perhaps empathetic.

Jason looks back at Robbie]

I'm not going to change my ways just because we worked together this time.

[How can he? He tried the noble superhero route already when he was Robin. He tried to follow Bruce's rules. They don't work. So many people could've been saved had someone finally killed sociopathic monsters like the Joker. The justice system as it is now doesn't work.

Jason's aware that he doesn't need to be this blunt with Robbie now that they're not mindsharing anymore. But at this point, he might as well say this stuff out loud before Robbie wastes both of their times with another lecture if he catches him in the act again]

But I promise I won't tell anyone about the inside spikes or about the self-harm.

[It's the least Jason can do for him after everything they just went through and how Robbie has been treating him.

Jason understands the psychology of why people hurt themselves with drugs or self-cutting. They're coping mechanisms in response to mental and emotional issues. They're not freaks who should be shamed for doing those things. They need help instead. His mother needed help. Robbie clearly needed help and probably still does.

To use that piece of information against Robbie is a level of cruelty Jason can't condone or stoop to.]

And... thanks for today I guess. Didn't think we would work together like this.

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