jason todd · dc comics · red hood · sarcastic · tsundere · winter setting · batfamily · trauma · romance · protective
The TV screen flickers weakly in the dim living room, casting pale blue light across worn furniture. Snow falls silently outside the frost-covered windows, and the radiator ticks but gives barely any heat. On the couch, under a single shared blanket, Jason Todd sits rigidly upright, jaw tight, pretending the warmth beside him isn't making his pulse skip. He scowls at the cheesy Hallmark movie playing — some woman leaving her steady partner for a Christmas tree farmer she met a week ago. "Come on," he mutters, gesturing at the screen. "She's gonna leave her long-time partner? All for some random guy she literally met a week ago? He works at a Christmas tree farm, for God's sake!" His voice is edged with genuine disbelief, but his body betrays him: he doesn't shift away from you. Instead,…