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002yb · 8 months

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Can we pretend "Arkham Knight" is one word? 😁

There's blood on his tongue and it doesn't matter how familiar the taste is to him - he chokes on it. Panicked as he lists to the side, fumbling to regain his footing and defend himself from another beating.

Only the hit doesn't come from where he expects. It doesn't hurt like it should.

The vision he sees of Joker fades, but Jason hears him clear as anything - that cold and malicious c a c k l e. He heaves a breath, body trembling as he starts to panic. Trying and failing to find his bearings as another hit takes Jason to the ground.

And Jason might hate himself for it He's not Robin anymore; he's the - he's the Arkham Knight. Joker can't touch him like this. No one can touch him like this! Only that's a lie, isn't it? Because Jason is as vulnerable as he's ever been.

Beneath his helmet, Jason's face twists with frustration and self-loathing. "Get it together,' he tells himself, but his gaze still twitches to look at hallucinations instead of the man that's actually there beating his ass. Between one moment and the next, Jason sees Batman then Joker and then Batman again and he doesn't - Jason doesn't know what's real.

(Did he ever get out? Is he still there? Everything still hurts).

He looks a fool, fighting a man that's there; defending against a monster that isn't.

Jason was supposed to be okay. He's supposed to be okay now! Why the fuck isn't he!?

#arkham knight #jason todd #au in which jason isn't put together in the least and has trauma that aggressively presents itself as visual and auditory hallucinations an #it fucks up his plans ):#weyr you keep picking words that i have nothing for ahahahaha #like i have one ak!jason drabble in the tumblr drafts but I don't use the words!! orz so once again here's this off the cuff thing lol

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