Uncle dent :au
And (The quest for mother )
Location: Arkham asylum
Cell block number '22--222-22
Harvey dent sat in his cell. Flipping his coin idlely waiting as the clock to tick by.
(Face: liberty)
(chance Scratched)
( face )
Scratched
Face
Liberty and Justice (face)
Or greed and chance (scratched )
It was pointless to him, he couldn't find the will to escap
"Harvey dent you have a visitor." A small speaker in his room notified him in a monotone slight east gothamite voice.
It wasn't like a harvey had anything better to do, so he went to the front of his cell.
Two police guards proceeded to take him to the visitor center. As were there job.
Harvey as he was perp walked he Wondered .
who the hell would be visiting him at this hour.
"At least Wayne had his visits on normal hours.' Harvey dent thought to himself
"But we already played chess that week! ' Big Bad Harve countered.
'So it has to be someone else. But whom?'
Harvey approached the visitation window
Harvey dent looked at the kid on the other side of the visitors window.
He looked vaguely familiar. he's seen that face before , a boy he watched grown up under his gang
"Well wat doya want kid" Harvey's gothamite accent sung through his voice.
He was Gotham's deputy the people's elected district attorney. He had to sound like them
"Information, as much as you got"the kid responds
Harvey balked
"Aren't you a little young to be propositioning super villains for information?" He questioned rhetorically,
"I'm as old as the lawyers allow for visitation alone"
"You barely looked like you can jack a car! let alone convince a guard that we are family.
"Hey I got off the streets with my jacking skills" he defended himself,
Well bully for you kid! your parents must have been proud at your jacking skills."
Harvey chuckled with a bit of childish humor he asked" and Sense you brought it up which hand do you jack best, with lefty or.-"
"Can it dent" the boy cut off the mobster before he could finish his crass punchline. "all I want is information, nothing more "
I think a kid as old as you should know the prison rules by now. snitches and stitches and all"
The boy looked into the partition. huffed a laugh
"No not anything of the mob, this is I something that's rather more mundane that I need to ask"
Harvey cocked his unscarred eyebrow.
"what information would a young man like you come all the way out to Arkham asylum in order to ask me known mob boss Two-Face"
The kid placed a small book in the small open section of the divide..
It was a photo album. The Cover looked slightly burned and dirty but for the most part it was genuine. Two-face idly flip through the pages annoyed that this is what this strange visitor wanted
mostly baby pictures and likely pictures of young man in front of him.
"You were asking about a photo album? "Two-faced asked
"Flip five in from the front. ,"
It was there that he saw the photo.
.
Recognizing the photo
Huh
It held three people in the image. One former goon named Willis todd, his young son and Harvey dent himself.
Harvey remembered that day, Catherine (was that her name) had taken the photo. A smiling young woman. Willis's fiance if he remembered correctly.
Such a shame that Willis died in a gang encounter between his and cobblepots goons.
"You recognize that man?"
"Course I do it's it's good Old Willie Todd. Best gun runner and international arm dealer I had."
" Yeah and my old man too" the boy said blunyly
"No way" Harvey denied at first then he whispered
"Son of a bitch" he said in amazement!
There he was Jason Peter Todd, son of Willis and Catherine, the current adopted son of Bruce Wayne.
(this is a slight au of death in the family, Harvey and Jason has a better relationship then Canon.)
Harvey haven't seen the boy in person in ages
" Yes shit that baby there is me. "
" Well You grew up kid, congratulations"Two-Face said matter of factly, leaning forwards he asked jovially like a cranky cool Uncle. "got a car yet?"
" Nah, I'm only 15, do know how to hotwire one though."
"AH They keep getting younger" Harvey smiled ironically .
" Now what did you come all the way here. Besides reminiscing about old Times"
I'm trying to to find my mother"
" Pretty sure Catherine died of a drug overdose from the papers I read." Two-Face didn't often read obituaries but that was one of the more sad ones he read.
" It was cancer, she died of the pain meds she was given to help relieve the pain from the cancer."
"Sorry kid but if that's the case your ma's Dead and gone, what about trini and Joe? What happened to them "
Harvey remembered that lengthy custody battle with Willis, being unable to afford to take care of the boy and thus having to put him up for foster care temporarily. He was lucky that that boys measly acrobatic Aunt and Uncle to take him in as a way to keep him from experiencing the worst of the foster system .
This in turn forced Willis to take the more dangerous jobs that Two-Face had. And earned him much respect. Dent never got to hear the end to that story.
"unfortunately, they fell to their death when I was nine"
“Huh... Went out like the graysons. " Harvey commented nonchalantly.
Harvey, before the acid, had seen the flying Grayson's last performance.
He remembered the gasps of the crowd, the look of horror as they fell, the sickening sound of their landing. The cries of traumatized civilians
He distinctly recalled Bruce's expression of sympathy looking at the newly made orphan of the Grayson family.
And he recalled The pride on Bruce's face when he revealed that he adopted the kid to save him from the Foster system.
He may not have gotten the boys official custody in merely a wardship at the time but there was still so much pride in his face so much help in a brighter future.
" is that why Wayne took you in?" Harvey asked. He he may have missed a few things during one of his breakout and was way behind the papers..
Jason todd looked confused
“No, why would you say that “
"You lost your parents because of a acrobatic accident, you know what they say '
once is incidental
"twice is a pattern"
"Bleh I haven't met Bruce until after I was at 10 and already an orphan twice over."
"Really ?.So how did you catch Wayne's eye? "
"Wait You mean he hasn't told you? I thought you two were friends.
Nope, all he said that he found you and took sympathy in yout plight. Are you implying there's more to that story?
Definitely"
" So tell it kid”
And tell it Jason did. And it was the funniest shit Harvey ever heard.
‘See, remember how I said I got off the streets thanks to my car jacking skills.
" No way, what did you do?" Dent asked, like a schoolgirl wanting more gossip. Which was as par for the course in police work, they were just as bad when it came to gossip.
‘I jacked the tires of one of his muscle cars when he was visiting Crime Alley.. “
“You jacked his muscle car?” he asked in almost amazement. Bruce love those things it was one of the few things that showed that he was a fucking multi-billionaire with hobbies.
��Yep took the tires and everything, nearly got away with it too."
Harvey burst out laughing, nearly worse than the clown. It was a low baritone laugh but it seemed to echo throughout the room
Harvey didn't care it was fucking hysterical.
SOME PUNK ASS KID STOLE the tires of his best friend's multi-million dollar muscle car and the man decided to adopt the kid
It was funny, objectively funny
It took Harvey a few moments to calm down. Other inmates looked at him with sympathy.thinking he might have got Joker gassed.
“Sorry sorry that's the funniest thing I've heard all week”
“That's what Bruce said too. I think that's kind of why he adopted me.”
“He took you in immediately?”
"He tried the system first the place he sent me was a child to the criminal pipeline system that Batman broke up. Bruce decided if the system ain't going to work for him then he'll do it himself. And that's how I got to stay at Wayne Manor."
“Well aren't you the quintessential orphan Anne, “
“Yep, I even got the Daddy Warbucks too.”
“Haha haha real funny now I only have one thing to ask, why was my boy Wayne in crime Alley in the first place..”
“If I remember correctly it was the 26th of june at 10:27 pm. One the alley right Behind an old theater in crime Alley. I was a petty kid who didn't know any better. Said it was his first time having that happen. “
Harvey sobered up
No wonder why Bruce saw so much in the boy, Wayne found the kid on the anniversary of his parents' death.
It was funny, on one of the most crime ridden parts of this hell hole of a city, the famous multi-millionaire who rarely got into trouble with crime, on on the anniversary of one of his most tragic days .saw some young orphan kid jacking his tires as something deeply sympathetic. And funny
whereas most people his status would have loved to see the kid behind bars for mildly inconveniencing them.
Unlike most, Bruce chose empathy and Mercy instead of petty vengeance.. (he was much better than Harvey ever was.)
Harvey had decided long ago his friend was a saint but this took the cake.
On the anniversary of Wayne's death of all days. It was tragic yet funny.
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Jason Todd was lying
Only partially.
Bruce as Batman had found him on a normal day. It was weeks before the anniversary of the elder Wayne's death. But he wasn't lying about anything else. He jacked the tires off the batmobile Batman found funny and took a liking to Jason enough to later try and adopt him. This was a story they told the press.
It can coincided with the anniversary of the Wayne's death, and told the story of a young kid being adopted into gothamite royalty purely out of the sympathy of his big childish heart
As Bruce's media manager had told Jason. It's good to sell a story but it's even better if the populace wants to believe that story. little details being fudged are fine so long as the greater narrative is intact.
Ultimately it was harmless of a lie nobody noticed but still it was a lie nonetheless to be noted
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" So both sets of your parents are dead but you said you were looking for your mother? What's wrong with living with bruce.
I think I should clarify .
I meant.. my biological mother. The one who gave birth to me,'. not, the ones who raised me.
As much as I like Bruce, I just can't help but wish to have some closure. I want to know where I came from. it feels wrong without at least knowing a little bit about her.
This is all I ask. It's why I came here.
Do you know anywhere where l can go to get that info." Two-face contemplated the request for a few seconds before relenting
" You know what? sure. I'll help." There was a brigh light in the boys eyes.. there was hope
Harvey had to temper that." keep in mind, kid that these details could be outdated, they are a few years old after all."
" Please. I'll take anything at this point" Jason looked happy. He cherished Catherine,he loved his foster parents/uncle and Aunt Joe and Trina Todd(before they ultimately demise) he genuinely enjoyed Bruce as his father figure and he respected his bio dad Willis Todd. He just wanted closure, that was all.
Harvey would give him the details to one of the more secure bases. Jason would visit once again and with Harvey's help succeeded in narrowing down the three ladies until he came across the final one, Sheila Haywood. currently in Ethiopia.
--------Weeks later-----
Jason Todd would go alone to Ethiopia unknowing the tragedy that would occur
--------in death in the family telethon-----
Call now Gotham will the bird Boy live or will he fry!
HAHA-HAHA-HAHA-HAHA!
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Harvey watched the television screen in the horror everything clicked into place. Jason Todd was the second Robin. A boy that he accidentally sent to his death. The clown viciously beat Jason Todd on one of his sick deprived telethons.
Where would Joker be hiding he couldn't be in Gotham Sheila wasn't any where near Gotham
."Unless the clown and jay never were in Gotham in the first place." Big bad harv suggested.
Joker's Gambit ultimately implied he was in Gotham but last he heard of Jason he was heading for Ethiopia to find Sheila.
He even saw that bitch Sheila taking a cigarette break! while Jason was being beaten and broken
Harvey try to call and hope that the vote would end up with a boy living. He Tried to call Bruce but the line ended up dead.
Batman was too busy hunting for Jason. He doesn't know the truth Jason isn't even in Gotham he's in Ethiopia
Harvey wanted to shoot the damn TV but he couldn't, his eyes were addicted to the screen hoping that Jason would live.
(Bruce Wayne had just confirmed that the bird that was being a beaten was a runaway Jason Todd, who dressed up in the robin outfit
at that moment it was very easy for Harvey to put together Bruce Wayne was Batman but to the crowd and inmates in Arkham
Bruce was just Batmans sugar daddy. And the punk kid from the streets was a sympathetic story to some in Arkham. Especially to Harvey himself.)
Harvey prays that Bruce would end clown this time.. for if not he would do it himself.
Harvey would watch in horror as the clock struck zero.
The vote said he should have lived. But the vote counter just kept going, even after the clock struck Zero.
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Joker had given Batman one final chance to save his bird tying up both Sheila and leaving Jason broken
He set the counter to explode
And yet somehow the boy struggled but escaped. Only for a locked door to keep them in the way.
------live from Ethiopia--------
Harvey watched as the screen faded to Black vowing he would kill that clown once it breaks for free
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Personal New Headcanon: Parental Backstory of Jason Todd/Events Before Death in the Family
(This is my take on Death in the Family and the days leading up to Jason’s Death)
(WARNING DARK THEMES AHEAD)
Sheila Haywood was born and raised in Gotham. She hated Gotham and everything in it. And wanted nothing more than to get out of the city and make something for herself. She decides to become a doctor (not a very good one) to earn heaps of money. Sheila as an inexperienced pre-med student decides to charge women for under the table abortions. Selling her services on the black market. (She charges almost $1000 dollars per abortion. Yet a lot of her patients have complications often leaving the girls with infection and almost sterilized)
After a successful day, Sheila goes to a bar where she meets Willis Todd. They have a one night stand in the back alley of the bar that results in Sheila getting pregnant. Sheila is horrified and upset; never wanting the burden of children. Hates the idea of being pregnant having this kid ruin her life. Willis who is actually married and is having a rough patch with his wife due to not being able to have children decides to pay Sheila to have the baby and give the child to him. Willis is at this time a small time drug dealer who has access to a decent amount of cash. Sheila liking the prospect of the large sum of money agrees.
Giving birth to Jason, Sheila does another abortion procedure on a teenage girl that results in the girl dying. Taking the money that Willis gave her for their son, Sheila leaves Gotham to flee the investigation of the teenage girls death. Leaving Jason with Willis and Catherine.
Years later
Willis Todd went to prison after being one of Two-FAces small time goons. It is implied that Two-Face kills him. Catherine Todd was a drug addict who was also diagnosed with cancer. She dies from drug overdose and that leaves Jason in the system that he will run away from and live on the streets. Until he is taken in by Batman and becomes Robin.
Jason is going through a rough time with Bruce after the incident with Felipe Gonzales.
Yes, Felipe Garzonas was a rapist who always got a way from his crimes due to his father’s power. No, Jason did not push him off the balcony. No, Jason did not attempt save the man either. Jason is a street kid who believes in street justice. And that does not involve saving rapists who would get away with their crimes over and over again. (It is also implied that Jason may have past personal experience with being sexually assaulted or worse.) Yet this is not a concept that Bruce will ever understand.
Barbara Gordon, at this time Batgirl, hears about Jason potentially killing Felipe and eventually tells Dick. They both discuss how dangerous Jason is.
Dick has previously stated that he has accepted that Jason is the new Robin. He does not think Jason deserves the title anymore because of how dangerous he is. Dick is furious that Jason may have killed as Robin and tells Bruce that Jason never should have been Robin or killed while wearing his name. Bruce states that there is no proof that Jason has killed Garzonas but even he seems unsure. Dick tells Bruce that he is Batman and the Bruce already knows the truth. Dick says that he is leaving to go on a space mission with Titans. Jason has heard the whole conversation.
Meanwhile Batman meets Gordon on the Bat-Signal roof and tells him that the Joker has escaped. This time it seems a bunch of his goons dressed up as Arkham employees and let him out. For the time being it seems that the Joker is lying low.
Jason thinking that he is going to be kicked out and now knowing that no matter how many times he tells everyone that he didn’t kill Garzonas they will never believe him. It’s around this time that Jason finds out that Catherine Todd wasn’t his biological mother. It is stated clearly that his mother is Sheila Haywood.
Sheila Haywood finds out that Jason Todd is adopted by Billionaire Bruce Wayne and decides to meet Jason.
While it seems like Jason went looking for his mother, it was actually Sheila that told people where Jason could find her and that she was his real mother. Jason finds Sheila and the two of them bond over a couple of meetings. He is excited to have a mother that he can go to especially now that things are getting worse with Bruce. Jason keeps finding his real mother from Bruce and continues to meet her secretly.
Finally Sheila approaches Jason about how she needs money to pay off loan sharks. Jason is reluctant to give her money. Then she shows up bruised claiming to be beat up by the loan sharks. Jason offers to go after the loan sharks but Sheila doesn’t fess up any names. Sheila underestimates Jason saying that he was just a kid. Then Jason decides to show Sheila that he is actually Robin. Shocked at the knowledge Sheila asks who Batman is but Jason doesn’t tell. And Sheila doesn’t tell him about the loan shark. Yet this incident triggers Jason deeply, reminding him of Catherine, so he takes some of the interest from the trust fund that Bruce set up and gives the money to Sheila.
Sheila is thankful to Jason and eventually leaves with the money to open a clinic in Ethiopia.
Things start to get worst for Bruce and Jason resulting in Jason being benched as Robin after a discussion between Bruce and Alfred claiming that he is too reckless and violent. Bruce is still looking for the Joker but keeps on coming up empty.
Jason decides to run away to find his mother so he could live with her instead. When he calls Sheila she invites him to Ethiopia where she is living temporarily with her company.
When he arrives at the clinic he finds Joker with his mother. He overhears everything from the plan to steal medical supplies and redistribute in Gotham but instead using laughing gas to infect the citizens of Gotham.
Jason decides to dress up as Robin and take down the Joker. But he is caught off guard by one of his goons who knew that he was coming.
In Gotham Bruce doesn’t know that Jason has run away yet. He is out investigating the missing Joker trying to find any leads. Then he gets reports that there is a suspicious box in Jokers old cell. Batman arrives to investigate and finds a dead bird in the a box, a robin to be specific. On the bird there is a note saying, “Missing a stray bird Batty?”
That’s when Batman finds out that Jason has run away.
When Jason opens his eyes again he realizes that he is tied up in a warehouse. There in the warehouse he sees the Joker and the rest of his gang. And then he sees his mother sitting on a crate smoking, completely calm.
Confused, Jason asks what is going on.
Then Joker laughs and explains his plan. It had pissed him off that he could never capture the second Robin. That no matter what he tried the little Robin had stayed out of his path. When he was creating a plan that would drive all of Gotham and Batman slowly insane. He planned on getting medicine and filling it all up on Joker Gas that would eventually make its way to hospitals and whole groups of people in Gotham.
That was when he met Sheila Haywood. Sheila was embezzling money and medical supplies from the organization she works for. He forced Sheila to control her operation or he would turn her over the police. Sheila in turn offered to give the Joker money to leave her alone and let her go free.
Sheila explains then that she was only using Jason to get money from him so that she could buy her way out of Jokers scheme. After the last meeting she confessed she had purposefully gotten beat up by Jokers goons so that it would look like loan sharks got to her. Then she found out that Jason was Robin, so she decided to keep the money and hand over Jason instead.
Sheila shrugs clearly not caring about Jason’s life.
Joker starts laughing and beating up Jason with the crowbar. He tells Jason that he almost decided to forgo the whole medicine plan so that he could finally get his hands on little bitty Robin. That it was already obvious that Robin and Batman were having problems and this would just be the nail in the coffin. And how delicious would it be when Batman finally finds his broken Robin.
The whole time Sheila is in the warehouse smoking while Joker beats Robin until he is almost dead. The henchmen are filling the medicine with Joker Gas.
After hours and hours and hours Joker finally stops. Stating that it was time to leave if they didn’t want Batman to catch them. He sets the timer on the bomb. Sheila is about to leave too with the trucks full of medicine.
That’s when Joker ties up Sheila to a post. Stating to Robin who looks to be dead, “A little gift for you.” He leaves Sheila in the warehouse as she screams after him.
Jason gets up after Joker leaves and unties Sheila telling her to leave. He tries to deactivate the bomb but is unable to get the strength to do it since he is bleeding from his head so much. Even as Sheila looks for a way out since the door is locked.
As the timer ticked on it was obvious neither one of them were getting out alive. In his final seconds Jason Todd did two things he threw himself over his mother blocking her from the brunt of the blast. And right before he died he whispered, “I’m sorry, Bruce.”
After the Blast
Batman stopped the trucks of medicine from boarding to Gotham. But as he was doing this the warehouse explodes in the distance.
The Joker laughs on taunting Batman about his now dead Robin. Batman in fury knocks out the Joker with a single punch and ties him up for the authorities to take him in.
Batman arrives at the warehouse and desperately starts moving through the rubble.
That’s when he find Jason dead and desperately covering his still-breathing mother from the blast.
Bruce clutches the dead broken body of Jason Todd.
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The wrong DNA test
( what if, Sheila wasn't really Jason's mother? The system is already corrupted, then what about the test?).
A huge brawl containing every rogue had started at the time of Halloween, causing the people from downtown to fled there home's as joker had clownized the whole neighborhood with his goon's.
Every bats had taken to groups to take out the three parts of Gotham's as the rogue's had started to make alliances, some had lasted quite long while had conflicts, and causing a big damage to Arkham asylum,
It didn't take long before they captured all of them, none of the bats questions as they observed Jason glowing green eyes starting to flick, they thought it was the pit again, growing wary of the cooperation, but Crime alley was involved and that mean business to Red hood's turf.
Catherine todd love her son as her own even if not biological, Jason knew that. But her thing with drugs couldn't make her stop.
Sometimes after that, they could hear Jason humming a tune,a nice melody from Damian's statement saying that Jason muttered to him “ lullaby” as Jason continued to read his book, maybe it could be from Catherine,
they knew how Jason's past with Catherine todd, his mom even if not related, Catherine loves her son like her own kid but her doing drugs and... overdosing couldn't be stop.
Maybe Jason just remembered his mother maybe reminiscing atleast something familiar...even if it was a bad time.
Jason had constantly have been hearing a woman's? Man's? Voice, singing him a lullaby...it soothing, like as if he known and loved this melody...and that's where the dreams kept coming, there was a person, giving him kisses, Talkin to him stories, singing him lullabies and soothing him, he could dream that he was actually a baby, a baby from a normal couple, well don't count the luxurious baby room.
Jason had took out a conspiracies why he was getting this dreams, ( he swears he's not becoming Tim) and voices, maybe like a misshapen memories from the pits of victims? No it's to peaceful for that, maybe magic? He already contacted Constantine but surely hang up after knowing who it was-
Just how is he getting this dreams? Unless it wasn't.... So he proved again his point, he started a DNA test, again but none had records...of Sheila being his biological mother...that was weird, last time he had a test was from the time as robin..and before his-
So he went to that hospital who had said where Sheila had given birth to him, and most of shock is that no one knows a mother giving birth named Sheila haywood but had a document of a baby, of one Jason jay nightingale, the most believing part was that it's the same day he was born in.
His mother, Daniel F. Nightingale was said to be trans as the doctor who help his mother safely delivered him, And saying that his mother loved him,
one Sheila Haywood had the constant trick to get him and taken him as his own, because his mother's family was a wealthy one they practically sold him to her.
Jason had thought that maybe his mother's family never wanted him to have a son with a man from Gotham's crime alley.
Meanwhile Danny had just been YEETED to the DC universe before the start of Batman's justice thing and had been adopted by a very wealthy fruit loops couple as there kid, so he stayed as the couples daughter even pretending, because he owed ghost writer a favor for the last time, and as DC universe exist so it's story, and one thing for sure the child he had to give birth in this universe has a very complicated fate,
he did the one night stand from his supposed friend Willis Todd? He had to befriend him as Dalia F. nightingale the supposed Wealthy daughter who fell in love with a peasant trope, and gotten pregnant making it a scandal, and reaching to his ‘parents’ circle and getting that drama.
But he never thought he would care for his child, his little jay, his ghost side would purr in delight when they held Jason, he was a very hard sucker especially from his pacifier or his breast, it's so weird being in a women body,
but the way his ‘parents’ sold his son to the women who was supposed to get his son killed and being revived by cheap parody ass of ectoplasm.
He went feral, he had an argument to his ‘parents’ but all fell deaf ears, he couldn't find his son in one of the hotels nearby where that BXtch was.
And that time was where his part of the script was fulfilled, ghost writer already took him, both sides of his, were angry.
He. will. get. his. baby. back.
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