two birds on a wire (closed)

[overlyprecocious]

Who: Tim Drake overlyprecocious & Jason Todd reneger
What: meeting the bonus big bro (part one)
When: mid-April or whatever
Where: Central City rooftops
Content Warnings: n/a so far



Since the other Tim confirmed that there's not only one but two living Jason Todds here, revived by Lazarus Pits, and then refused to give him too many details, Tim has started reconnaissance on the Red Hood as Robin. So far he hasn't been caught - it helps that his suit has a built-in stealth mode, but it probably helps a lot more that one of his new abilities here makes him incredibly difficult to notice - but he's not thrilled with what he's seeing, either. The Jason Todd he knew. Well, he didn't know him, did he? He followed Robin around when he was in Gotham and he took pictures, and he has stories from the Bats and Alfred and things the Team will say sometimes, but he didn't know Jason Todd. But he knew Jason was Robin, and he was a hero.

What the Red Hood is doing is more difficult to describe as heroic. He's not blind, he can gather that there's a method to it, but it's not the way they - he - was taught to deal with crime, and he doesn't know how to feel about that. He's not sure why the older Tim didn't warn him properly either, why he just dropped him in this with a name to do his own research. Is it a test, or does he just not want to influence Tim one way or the other?

The Jason he ends up approaching on a roof isn't the Jason he's been tracking, but he's a Jason, and he's got a cup of coffee and Tim has a bag of donuts, and he bought extra in case he was really hungry or saw someone else who needed them, so. Somehow, he finds himself landing on that roof and sitting down next to Jason and quietly offering over the open bag for him to pick out a donut.

Comments

[reneger]

He'll take another donut. Empty carbs on patrol sounds like a great idea--and he was starting to get a little hungry. Jason takes a good sized bite out of it when he reaches the edge of the roof and looks down to the next building.

"Anyway. Came back from the dead. Spent time with the al Ghul's, then took a training tour of my own. Heard there was a new little bird wearing the R, so I came 'round to investigate. Wasn't very nice about it, but I didn't come back very nice either. Staged a hostile takeover of a lot of the shit underground gangs rampaging through Gotham, 'cause you can't stop crime, but you can control it. Got into other shit too, but that's the basic gist of it."

[overlyprecocious]

"What did you do?" Tim asks, because he can't not ask. His older self was careful about not telling him too much about the Jasons, and he's not really sure why. Maybe he didn't want to talk about it, maybe it's a test, to see if Tim can find things out on his own. But there's clearly something that happened, from the way Jason phrases it.

[reneger]

"Does it matter?" It doesn't come off harsh just--tired. Jason has several regrets about the way the first couple years of him back in Gotham went. He's apologized for it, or tried to, a few times. It was messy, he shouldn't have taken any of it out on Tim, on Damian--Dick deserved it a little but not to the extent Jason pushed.

Eyes roll behind the mask, before Jason's shoving the rest of the donut into his mouth. "I started fights with everyone. B, Nightwing, you. Our littlest Robin when he came 'round. I was angry. Felt like I'd been replaced, like B'd learned nothing after what happened to me." Hand emptied of donut, Jason reaches back for Tim. Shoves his palm down onto his head to ruffle his hair. "Won't lie and say I'm over it, but I'm less angry about it now."