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Jason Todd ([personal profile] robintohood) wrote in [community profile] metalogs2023-12-21 06:06 pm

[Closed] Happy Deathday

Who: Jason Todd [personal profile] robintohood and whoever has CR with him
What: Jason dealing with his deathday anniversary
When: December 20th to 21st
Where: Central City
Content Warnings: PG-13 level violence and mentions of self-harm and suicide ideation

[The closer it gets to December 21st, the less present Jason Todd the civilian is. It's harder to catch him at the Descendant during this month because he hasn't been there as often as he usually is. He's not spotted as often at other places either his favorite libraries or any bookstores. Meanwhile, there's an increase in Red Hood appearances.

At first, the crime lord is seemingly burying himself with his work and trying to regain what his gang lost last month. Plenty of fights with other gangs, muscling in on territory, dodging bullets from mobsters. The beatings he dishes out on goons seem to have intensified. But as December 21st creeps closer, even most of that work gradually gets less attention from him.

The beatings continue though with a change in what information Jason wants out of his victims.

In place of most of his crime lord work are solo recon missions. Lots of decrepit properties are checked. Unused fairgrounds, warehouses, and even empty properties that used to be toy stores get searched. Jason's always on the lookout for reports of gruesome crimes involving things like deadly laughing gas, frozen smiles, and clowns too. Jason knows the Joker loves gimmicks.

For all of Jason's vigilance though, there's not even a chuckle or any other hint of the mass murderer. The quietness feeds into how unsettled Jason feels. He’s expecting something to happen. That's how the Joker works sometimes. He’s a sick freak who likes to put his own twist on special occasions.

So Jason keeps searching around Central City. That's what he tells himself what he's doing. He has so much rage, fear, and other negative feelings he doesn't want to contemplate. Once he finally kills the Joker he’ll finally feel at peace.

It’s either December 20th or it's December 21st when one might spot the Red Hood in Central City.

He could be zooming all over the streets on his motorcycle. He could be curbstomping and bludgeoning someone with a tire iron outside of a dive. He might be lurking on a dark rooftop overlooking the city, or staking out a waterfront warehouse.

Whatever the case is, he’s clearly in an extremely foul mood]

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purplexing: (i cannot be hearing this right)

[personal profile] purplexing 2023-12-25 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Another nod.]

I will.

[He's not sure what all the real Joker's capable of but the copy had been pretty creepy as it was. If he's got someone like Red Hood worked up, then Donnie knows better than to ignore the advice given.]
purplexing: (definitely not sanitary)

[personal profile] purplexing 2023-12-25 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
Eugh gross. This guy definitely sounds twisted. That why you were worried when he chucked something at us during that big fight?
purplexing: (literally the greatest question I've eve)

[personal profile] purplexing 2023-12-25 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
Is he just crazy or does he have it out for certain people?

[Or maybe both. Either way, this guy sounds terrible. It'd be amazing if he's really been hanging around and lying low all this time but who can really say, if the guy is a few issues short of a subscription?]
purplexing: (it's not a nerd thing)

[personal profile] purplexing 2023-12-25 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
Good luck. Hope he's not actually here to be as horrible as you're telling me he is, but if he is, you seem to know him well enough to track him down.

...just. If you need backup or something- Not saying that you do but...

[He shrugs, leaving it open to interpretation. After all, he figures Hood's got plenty of people he knows that he can ask for assistance, but if even a doppleganger was giving Red Hood a time, it didn't seem like a great idea to go hunting this Joker guy alone.]
purplexing: (dubious leo plans)

[personal profile] purplexing 2023-12-25 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, undoubtedly. Donnie hasn't yet had to deal with any serious criminals that he'd believe would be better off six feet under.]

Be better if you gave me a way to contact you.
purplexing: (i know things i wish i didn't)

[personal profile] purplexing 2023-12-25 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
[It's something. Donnie's already putting to mind making something akin to his old panic buttons so people can get in touch with him in turn. Another project for another night.]

Yeah, I'll drop a line if anything comes up.
purplexing: (i can't believe it's not butter)

[personal profile] purplexing 2023-12-25 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Donnie watches him go, brow furrowing a little. Concerned? Maybe a little. The guy may have a rep but he's only human. At least Donnie's pretty sure he is.

Frowning, he looks around before slipping out the window himself. He pulls his phone out to check the time, tucking it away as he closes his eyes to pull up the closest location of the ones Red Hood had given him. At the very least, Donnie figures he can check one more out for the night. He ducks out of the alleyway and heads on to his next destination.
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