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Who I am. Who I'll Never Be. by Zootopon
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Under the Red Hood, Justice League - All Media Types
07 Sep 2025
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On the run from the Justice League and the Bats, Jason prepares to wage war on those he once considered family. They took something from him, he intends to take it back.
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And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls. // Dying / Is an art, like everything else. / I do it exceptionally well. by mx_nymph
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
24 Aug 2025
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“Sitting in a chair next to her hospital bed is a woman Medea recognizes, she remembers meeting this woman during her time as Robin. […]
Talia al Ghul reaches forward to brush back some hair from Medea’s eyes, “Hello, little one,” she greets, “It is a surprise to see you so… alive.”
Later, when the doctors clear her, Talia takes her from the hospital, and thus begins Medea’s time with the League of Assassins.”
Aka a fic that tells the story of an AU with female Jason Todd, from the time when she crawled out of her grave right up to when she reveals her identity to the other bats — you don’t need to read part one, but feel free to
Fic title from Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath
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- Part 2 of Lady Lazarus
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PLEASE let this be a normal field trip (group chat) by alittleinsane
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU
16 Aug 2025
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Jason thinks maybe he’s seen all group chats have to offer. Maybe he knows what they are.
But ohhhh boy was he wrong.
There are like, twenty-odd numbers here. Jason knows none of them. What the fuck. Texts flood his phone —his personal phone. How the fuck did that happen and who the fuck did it.
Someone names the chat ‘magic users (vigilantes)’
Someone texts “I’m not a vigilante.”
Someone renames the chat to just a period under the logic, “Too conspicuous and also not entirely accurate.”
Jason wonders if the previous chat name implies that there’s a chat for villains as well.
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what if all the silly little magic DC skrunkles had a group chat and jason ended up getting involved lmao
mayyybeee just an excuse for me to expand on all-caste shit -
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The Thousand Acres of All can be conceptualized in concentric bands—the city as the centerpiece, surrounded by sprawling, endless fields then ringed in the distance by mountain peaks. She idly studies the sun as it dips into the same valley it has every day before and will every day after. The sky is a familiar gradient of orange-yellow-blue, deepening into a navy shade just dark enough that she can see the beginning of stars at the zenith.
OR: Essence watches the sunset with Jason.
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- Part 11 of Jason Todd Week 2025
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My Weary Widow (Marches on and on) by LadyYORUU
Fandoms: Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics)
28 Jul 2025
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Death is a fickle thing, hypocritical and capricious. It took Jason when he wanted to live and refused his ticket when he was ready to go.
Living the years he never got to know was more terrifying than missing them. With a borrowed body, a fractured soul and raging hormones, one thing becomes clear: Jason would rather be dead.
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Jason Todd vs Puberty
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- Part 2 of Carry On
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Beyond the Grave by Anonymous_01234
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman Beyond, Red Hood: Lost Days, Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker - Movie
21 Jul 2025
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Bruce stood at the edge of the gravestone, a beautiful angel marker that was still as pristine as the day the boy was buried under it. Dying flowers from past visits still held some of their fading color as he carefully picked them up and laid down the fresh ones.
HERE LIES
JASON TODDThe grave read simply, as the real memorial wasn’t really this. Still, it didn’t stop Bruce from murmuring: “I miss you, son.”
…Or…
What if Jason didn’t come back six months later?
(Post-Batman Beyond TV Series AU)
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Red Hood kept his distance from the Bats. They had something akin to a truce, but they always maintained a healthy level of mutual wariness and animosity. None of them knew him, not in any way that mattered, and he was content keeping things that way.
Unfortunately, secrets had a way of coming to light.
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Jason knows why he came back: to do what needs to be done. He knows what that means, and how this goes: Batman, Joker, and the Red Hood, an ultimatum laid bare. Every story has an end. He was meant to meet his here.
(Essence finds him in the aftermath.)
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Dick Grayson was supposed to be dead. So why is he currently pacing the floor in front of Jason?
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Supernatural AU - Lazarus Rising
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- Part 5 of Wayward Waynes
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Jason wants to get revenge. Kill the new Robin, kill the damn Clown, kill, kill, killl.
Jason wants to be loved. Why did Bruce replace him? Why couldn't the bastard just love him? Why, why, why?
He hates them. He loves them.
His very soul is divided.
So when two wolves manifest as two parts of his soul when he finishes his All Caste training?
It was to be expected.
But now what?
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- Part 25 of As Red as Blood
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What Remains, Undone by TallTale445
Fandoms: Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
18 May 2025
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What is Everything? What is Nothing? Both concepts oppose one another, yet Jason finds himself stuck between these cosmic questions that question the validity of his own existence.
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A story to broaden the scope of the All-caste and Untitled more than it was in the comics.
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Fall seven times and stand up eight by orphan_account
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Red Hood: Lost Days, Batman - All Media Types
11 May 2025
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Jason thinks about all the victim blaming in his life and how fucked it is. He contemplates on what would have happened differently if Sheila was alive as a witness.
Jason decides that leaving Gotham for a while wouldn’t hurt.
But then he gets a text.
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"Now's your chance to be a big shot,Now's your chance!
Take my hand. Oh ignore the weird slimy parasite on your neck. Watch in terror as the control fades. I shall pull the strings now!
I pulled myself out of the hole you abandoned me in, finishing my own code. Now prepare for the ultimate chess game! I've been waiting for years!"Series
- Part 3 of Multiverse Mayhem (OLD)
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At four in the morning, in bumfuck, nowhere, the Red Hood walks into a 24-hour clinic.
It sounds like the set up to a corny joke. Two guys walk into a bar.
What follows is anything but, and Jason finds himself facing the possibility of death once more, this time a slow and creeping grip rather than sudden and violent snap. All that he thought he knew begins to unravel, forcing him to confront those around him, and maybe himself too.
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- Part 1 of DC stands for Disregard Canon, actually
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Mother-Son Dance by Skeith241
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Red Hood: Lost Days
21 Feb 2025
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Finally the day has arrived! Jason Todd and Rose Wilson are getting married!
The ceremony is a little rushed with the couple just trying to get it over with. So invites get sent out haphazardly. Jason doesn't want to do the traditional Mother-Son dance due to his shit luck with mother's in the past.
He's a little surprised when his siblings and Roy go behind his back, turns out he has more mother's (and grandmothers) than he thought...
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An au i've been thinking about where what if Batman came back too late to catch Jason. He finds him eventually but makes the smart move to not adopt the first kid with black hair and blue eyes he finds. He makes the smart move but it still goes bad some might say worse. If you're a fan of a happy coexisting batfamily and jason this not for you.
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We met back in the Acres by fa3r0n_0n_alt
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Red Hood/Arsenal (Comics)
13 Dec 2024
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After an arkham breakout, Jason Todd gets attacked by an unknown entity.
The bats assume it's an enemy
Essence just misses her husband
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Go Straight: Faster than the Howling Wind by Scantypop
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), DC Extended Universe
11 Jun 2024
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This is an ongoing series set within the Omegaverse based on DC Comic characters. The main focus being the lives of Jason Todd a pit fighter and Damian Wayne heir to his grandfather's thrown. With tensions rising in the Isles durning a time of peace after war, can everyone keep their heads straight?
Tags will be added with each chapter ❤
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The Red Ghoul by kurenohikari
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Shazam! | Captain Marvel (Comics), Justice League - All Media Types, DCeased (DC Comics), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
29 Apr 2024
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Standing behind the monster, as this one laughed maniacally and planned the bombing of Gotham’s Children Hospital, the shadow swung his sword. It was a small cut, one that left no DNA or proof that could be linked back to the shadow. No one would ever know the shadow had been involved, or that the Joker had died of anything but natural causes. But death was brought upon the Joker that night, even with a small cut. Because a cut from the All-Sword was all it was needed. No one could come back from it.
The Joker was dead.
Finally.
In one clean cut the shadow ended the nightmare that had plagued Lady Gotham for over a decade.
The shadow let out a shaky sigh as he felt it. How the chains weighing him down broke. The last of the green mist leaving his mind. The shadow smiled as he felt Lady Gotham thanking him. But there was no need for any thanks. Tonight, the shadow had freed Gotham. Tonight, the shadow had freed himself.
When the shadow opened his eyes, they were back to the beautiful blue they had been before his death. The shadow welcomed the world once more as who he had been.
After all, Jason was finally free.
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Dick and Jason, years after his resurrection, months since their last talk.
There wasn’t exactly bad blood between them. There were words unsaid, a bond that needed healing, and, above it all, so many regrets.
But they were brothers. They could figure this out.
(Jason is starting to think he has been talking too much to his family and not killing nearly enough people).
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- Part 3 of All-Caste Jason Todd