I think Jason should use the All Blades for more mundane shit

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The concept of the family not knowing that Jason can summon the All Blades is so funny to me because imagine they're losing and he just pulls that shit out of his bleeding chest and they're like "wait what the fuck-"

Duke: so let me get this straight. You died in an explosion— going up in flames

Jason: yes

Duke: then you came back to life

Jason: yes

Duke: and before you came back to Gotham you had magical training and because of that training you got magical fire swords

Jason: …yes

Duke: you’re literally a Phoenix in human form, yet you chose the name ‘Red Hood’

Jason: It was to get back at the Joker because I knew it would rile him up

Duke: I didn’t realize you were petty to the point that you would just toss away the analogy that was handed to you on a silver platter

All Caste Jason Todd

My official All-Blades tattoo design !

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- The blades are powered by Jason’s soul and blood and can be summoned anytime. The only physically aspect to the blades are the copper hilts.

- The tattoos are a deep red, like dried blood, and glow whenever Jason is using magic.

- The blades can harm magical and non-magical beings alike but cannot harm Jason. The blades along with the tattoos are slightly warm to the touch.

- If you listen closely, you can hear the blades humming softly to the rhythm of Jason’s heartbeat.

- The bands around his wrists act as cuffs chaining the blades to him and him to the blades binding him down to the soul.

- The circles on his hands and wrists rest over acupuncture points that link to the heart and the one of his chest rests over his heart.

Jason: *exists*

Everyone: This stupid bitch-

All-Caste Jason (DC x DP)

Cute reminder that Jason can summon two glowing, flaming swords from his soul for the sole purpose of fighting evil. Non-evil entities are immune to the All-Blades and he physically cannot draw them unless he is in the presence of evil. (please use this liberally in any and all fics).

Anyways, Danny ends up cursed somehow to be unable to leave Gotham as well as unable to leave his human form, so his rogues come to him. Desiree you're the worst. Within days the whole of Gotham is overrun because most ghosts can only be hurt by ecto-tech, other ghosts and magic and batman has outlawed magic, plus some canon versions of Gotham get their own judicial system. I think one of the only things that could hurt the ghosts are Jason's magical All-Blades. I also think that him explaining he is one of the last of a group of magic, demon killing, warrior cults would just be a fun conversation.

Pictured: The All-Blades

I wish we could get more All Caste Jason Todd shenanigans. Wish we could get Jason Todd being the magical equivalent of someone who walks into a situation that requires a delicate handling and extensive effort to solve and he just smacks it around a little bit and it’s fixed before peacing out (he is also smacked around for a little bit).

I want him to be the guy who essentially fixes an expensive broken machine by kicking it and it goes back to working great.

I want some shady magician to get hired by a crime lord trying to kill the Red Hood and they go “hehe okay! Million dollars :).” And they’re basically being paid to summon Creatures to Kill some vigilante guy and it’s overkill but hey, a million per creature is a bargain in their favor.

And then this Red Hood guy manages to kill all his creatures with two glowing swords of Fuck You. And it’s like “yo. You didn’t tell me he could to that?”

“I didn’t know he could do that.”

And then you have Oracle forcing Jason to accept her comm call so she can go “what the hell was that?!?!?”

And Jason is just like “lens flare. Mind your business.”

Thoughts about Jason and the All-Blades

The All-Blades are, at this point, the biggest example of waste when it comes to the canonical depiction of Jason Todd. (To some extent, fanon also qualifies, but there is at least some attempt at depicting something.) I guess it happens because people look at the surface-level idea of 'anti-evil anti-magic' and discard it when they want to do their 'serious stories'.

My idea is this: take the idea of an evil-destroying weapon as a tool to analyze and comment on the world. Maybe it affects people you would think were safe - or it doesn't affect people who you thought would be hurt. Either way, if you can find the right angle, it becomes commentary on the nature of evil and good in the world you are trying to depict.

My headcanon goes thus - the All-Blades affect every living being, because all living beings have some degree of evil within. That's why you need a person to wield the Blades - someone needs to choose who actually needs to be purged. Also, most people are capable of giving up the evil within themselves - but heroes and villains are unqieuly incapable of letting go of their egos to an extent and are thus always going to have a degree of evil in their hearts.

Jason avoids using the Blades unless it is a last resort. This is because he sees within Lian Harper, a prepubescent child, the same selfish tendencies he sees in Ra's al Ghul. He knows that it is the context of their life experiences (or lack thereof) that makes one person an irredeemably evil man and the other a normal child, but using the Blades regularly conditions you into constantly evaluating the people around you - and Jason would rather be able to love the important people in his life unconditionally, and so he distances himself from the Blades and their coldly calculative way of looking at the world.

There's other ways of approaching this, of course - but the approach needs to be centered on character and theme, instead of plot and lore machinations. That way, it will have weight beyond being a cool tidbit.

sometimes late at night, Jason will look at the all blades markings on his arms and feel relieved, they haven't abandoned him and he's not pure evil

okay was anyone ever gonna tell me jason todd can summon magic swords or was i supposed to just find that out myself while reading through his character wiki

"I trained you well"

Bruce says it snidely, a throw-away jab in between actual punches. It makes the green filling Jason's vision swell like a riptide. The Pit howls in his ears, demanding blood.

He wants to scream that Bruce hadn't trained him well and that he fucking knows it. If he had been trained well, he wouldn't have died in that warehouse in Ethiopia. He wants to empty his clip into Bruce's smug fucking face right then and there; he wants to beat him to death with a crowbar so he'd feel the agony he felt.

The pit roars a half-feral battle cry through his mouth, and he throws himself at the Bat. A flurry of fists and fury, blades and righteous anger. This wasn't Bat training, this was the League, this was the All-Caste, this was the Alley. Jason was a product of many things, but he would die again before letting Bruce claim any of what he was.

In another life, he'd screamed through tears that he was Bruce's son, only for Bruce to say he wasn't and take Robin away. He'd made it clear Jason wasn't a Bat- wasn't a Wayne. He didn't get to rewrite history now.

I imagine John and Jason are good drinking friends. Until John realized Jason in underage, then they were just smoking buddies who occasionally worked together.

Jason is really connected to the magical world. He has the All blades, studied with Ducra and the All Caste for a long time. He probably gives off magical energy.

But the Batfam has no idea bc they don’t do magic.

John sees the All Blades and his magical potential, teaches him simple magic, and is mildly impressed by how fast he picks it up.

Of course Batman has no clue that they know each other and meet frequently. Until they are doing an all hands on deck with demons. Then John is like, Jason is out trump card with his All Blades.

Everyone is like, the gun toting drug lord has magic? Jason pulls out his All Blades and destroys so many demons that it’s nuts.

*ahem*

I NEED MORE MAGICAL JASON TODD FANFICS. HIM BEING THE ONLY MAGIC BATFAM MEMBER GIVES ME LIFE.

thank you.

as much as i don't like rhato (this is about both versions btw), because of how much the writing sucks, i think jason todd being a part of the all caste (and also just involved in magic and the supernatural) makes complete sense to me and i wish writers would further explore that side of jason when writing him

I just need more all blades Jason out there. Those flaming magic swords are so stupid cool???? And they don’t come out to play NEARLY enough

Just throw him in some dark kooky adventures and let him RIP