Juni Ba Jason Todd. Jason Todd, please give me one chance. I'll hand you everything and anything you want 🙏
I know people tend to give short-haired Jason Todd designs some grief, but I think the look is growing on me. I like to think that this Jason is a little bit of a zombie- he's a little paler than before, his injuries scar easier than they heal (no matter how small), and he still has his pre-death injuries. He's unrecognisable otherwise. The pit tried. It brought back his mind and that's good enough 💔
The angst potential though?
Red Hood takes off the helmet in his big dramatic reveal, and Batman, who was expecting to see Jason Todd (albeit an older version he imagined up in his mind), doesn't recognise his face at all. Bruce, for a moment, is shocked that he might have gotten it all wrong. That the Red Hood isn't Jason Todd. (Nevermind the conflicting swirl of emotions that arise from that!)
When Bruce really looks, he finally sees it in the scars. There's newer ones, of course, but they're overlaid atop old, recognisable scars. Scars that Bruce once thought was etched into the back of his lids because at that time, he swore he had stared at the pictures in Jason's autopsy report for longer than he ever had Jason in his life (if only to torture himself over his self-perceived failures)
And realises, oh God, that is Jason.
also, the all caste blades' original marking covered the autopsy scar i wanted on Jason 💔 so even though the original design is so sick, I drew it on his arms instead. It's a bit scuffed and unfinalised 😭 Wack ramblings in all my posts I'm sorry
