Anti-Hero Lola [Comprehensive Anglo-American]

Gotham.

Jason Todd suddenly appeared in front of the oracle.

Barbara didn't know how the former Robin, who had been confirmed dead, came back from the dead.

She was not familiar with Jason at all.

During the time when he was most active, she was busy building and managing her Birds of Prey as an oracle, and at the same time, Dick in Bluhaven City was also pulling her heart.

The combination of various coincidences made Barbara hardly ever deal with Jason.

She knew him from his death.

——Jason and she are both victims of the clown.

This special connection made her couldn't help reading a lot of materials related to Jason after his death.

She watched every training video of Jason, and was familiar with his habitual movements and facial expressions, and gradually pieced together a rebellious, grumpy but kind-hearted little boy from the uneven materials.

The more she watched, the more she felt sorry for Jason.

When the Red Hood appeared, she recognized him almost immediately.

She tried to contact Jason, wondering why he didn't come home the first time after his resurrection, even though she knew the answer he would say...and his behavior in Gotham City was so over the top, as if Has been completely blinded by hatred.

She asked Jason to meet in one of her safe houses, not sure if Jason would agree.

They barely had anything to do with each other while he was alive - she used to give all her attention to Dick, and Dick hurt her, so she avoided her successor Robin.

She later learned that Dick didn't like Jason either, and Batman didn't respond to Dick's provocation against Jason.

Jason once joined the Titans for a short time, but because of his character and Dick's attitude, other members of the Titans were not friendly to Jason, and being hostile and isolated exacerbated Jason's irritability.

For as long as a year before his death, Jason was completely isolated and helpless.

His death is so full of hopelessness and pain.

Barbara couldn't imagine what kind of Jason Todd she would meet.

Will it be a nasty thug?

An avenger who has been hollowed out by hatred and has no other pursuits in life?

Or a painful, walking-dead exorcism?

And Red Robin.What would his junior successor, Timothy Drake, who appeared not long after his death, think of the boy who had taken his place?

It must be said that after the Jason incident, both Dick, she, and even Batman have shown a lot of tolerance and love to Timothy.

There's nothing wrong with that of course but when Jason comes back from the dead...

It was as if all the dark sides in this family, those mutual hostility and mutual misunderstanding, were all borne by Jason alone in the worst form.

He was only 15 years old when he died.

The reason he was deceived and tortured was because he wanted to see his mother.

When the appointed time came, someone knocked on her door, but there was no one in the camera.

After much hesitation, Barbara opened the door.

Then the boy who came back from the dead appeared in front of her: tall, handsome, vigorous and calm.

His eyes were burning with anger, but he didn't look like a demon.

They didn't talk much.Jason didn't speak much. He walked into the room silently, sat down silently, and then looked at her silently, waiting for Barbara to speak first.

"You..." So Barbara said, "don't do anything to Tim. He's innocent."

Jason pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled.

An unabashedly mocking smile.

Barbara realized that she had said something wrong, and she immediately made up for it: "I know you must be very angry. To be honest, when Batman agreed to make him Red Robin, both I and Dick thought it was too much." , after all you just..." She paused, "But Batman..."

"I think the news of my death hasn't served as enough warning." Jason said, he had completely passed the period of voice change, his voice was deep and magnetic, "There are always brats who don't know the heights of the sky and the earth want to inherit the position of death. "

"...I'm sorry, Jason." Barbara said sincerely, "What happened to you is everyone's responsibility."

"It was my fault. I shouldn't have believed that stupid deception so easily."

"No, there's nothing wrong with you wanting to see your biological mother," Barbara said, "but we should pay more attention to you so you'll be willing to talk to us about it." , instead of going quietly alone."

"Is there anything else you want to say?" Jason asked calmly, "Finish it."

"Stop it, Jason," Barbara said. "There's still time to stop. Go and explain it to Batman, and he'll forgive you."

Jason laughed. "Apologize? Me? You want me to apologize to Batman?"

"He didn't do it right. He didn't do it right from beginning to end. But you shouldn't kill, Jason, he won't let you become like this... Stop it, it's too late."

"...She's right." Jason said suddenly, "No matter what the clown does, no matter how much chaos he causes, how many people he kills, and how he hurts his friends and companions, he will endure it; but if His companions, such as Robin, make mistakes, and he will not tolerate even the slightest mistake."

"who is she?

"She" must be important.Barbara instinctively thought so. "She" must be the one who kept Jason calm.

Maybe the secret of his resurrection from the dead is also in it.

But Jason never mentioned that mysterious "she" again.He sat on the sofa and listened to Barbara's long speech in silence, then stood up in silence, intending to leave directly.

Barbara stopped Jason: "How far do you have to go to be satisfied?"

"He won't deal with the clown," Jason said, "I'll deal with him."

"And will you stop?"

"Then I will protect Gotham in my own way." Jason sneered, "I want to prove that Batman's 'don't kill' approach doesn't work."

He strode away, and Barbara was worried, but there was nothing she could do about him.

——She still helped Jason cover up the traces he left behind.

once.twice.three times.more times.

Jason finally took the initiative to contact Barbara, and he came to the safe house again: "What do you want to do?"

"I don't know," Barbara said. "Maybe I'm just trying to put things off as long as possible."

Putting things off as long as possible, Jason thought, isn't that what Lola has been doing?

Whether it's treating him or dealing with his own life experience.Her words are nice, but her actions are not always the same.

Barbara saw the flicker of a smile on Jason's face.

What a sincere and thin smile.

Like sunshine in Gotham City.

is her".Barbara knew right away.It must be "she".She couldn't think of anyone else who could make Jason smile like that after everything he'd been through.

Except "she".

She wants to ask more, but Tim is on the comm and just about to ask about the Red Hood.

Jason backed away, sat down by the window, and started wiping the barrel of his gun.

He didn't seem to care what Barbara had to say next.

Barbara hides the truth, but also gives Tim some hints.

He's a smart little boy, and he's more Batman than Dick or Jason, not just in character but in mindset.This hint is enough, he will find out the truth.

But facing Jason's calm profile, she still whispered, "Sorry."

"If you were really sorry, you wouldn't have done it in the first place," Jason said quietly. "You don't want to hurt anyone, Barbara, but the thought itself hurts everyone."

Barbara wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Jason: "You don't treat me very well, but I have to admit that you don't treat me badly—we are not related by blood, and you have no obligation to love and take care of me."

"And my personality is not good." Jason laughed at himself, "No one likes a sensitive, irritable, and grumpy person. And Dick, he is lively, gentle, and tolerant. He's done far better than me."

"...Jason," Barbara said sadly, "come on, Jason."

Tears had filled her eyes, and she would rather see a hysterical Jason in pain than to see him calmly analyze his mistakes before saying such a thing.

It was cruel.Yes to all.Especially for Jason.

"Did 'she' say something to you?" Barbara asked, choked up. "Is it?"

Lola did say a lot to him.

But this truth is realized by himself.

Her words can only be regarded as an enlightenment at best, allowing him to interpret the whole incident from the perspective of a bystander.

"...When I first woke up, I found myself lying in a coffin." Jason said slowly, "I broke the coffin, dug from the ground to the surface, and then... it took a long time to recover own sanity and memory."

His brain is actually awake, but his body keeps disobeying his commands, and he can use his body intermittently, only for a few minutes at a time.

And what Lola did to him...

...Sometimes Jason would pretend he wasn't awake at all, even when he was awake.

Anyway, it only takes a few minutes to wake up, and the embarrassment is only a few minutes. If it is found out, it will not be a matter of a few minutes!

——Although Jason didn't know if Laura saw through until he left.

If she pretended not to know...he wouldn't be able to see that Laura was better at lying than she looked.

dry.

She is more than a liar!

She is a complete lie expert!

In front of "her own boy", Laura seldom concealed it. Jason clearly remembered how Laura misled everyone around her with a few words.

Artemis, Wanda, that goofy Tim, even Bruce...she doesn't even have to think when she cheats.

Lying is simply her instinct.

talent.Only talent can explain how good she is at lying.

However, Jason has never wondered whether she knew that he was actually sane during that time.He just doesn't show it.

—if she didn't know, why did she say those suggestive things, turn on the speaker while talking to Tim and Bruce?

—If she knew, why hadn't she ever tried to hide herself from him?

"I have a lot of time to think," Jason said. "Thinking about my experience. My past. My death."

"Then I realized," he said, "that no one owed me anything. My biological parents didn't love me. But there was no one in this world who took it for granted except them..." he said, remembering Laura lying on his back. The flushed face and warm breath when kissing and rubbing on the body.

God, she's lighter than a cat.She was only a handful of bones.

The memory made him pause.

"...be nice to me for no reason."

"Jason," Barbara said, "don't..."

"I don't blame you," Jason said. "You, Dick, or Tim. You're both innocent. If I should blame anyone, it's the Joker, and Batman second—but he pried me off." He adopted me after the tire, provided me with food and shelter, sent me to study, and gave me a home... Although it is no longer there, at least it was once warm."

The author has something to say: Laura: Am I the kind of person who keeps brainwashing my boys!

Laura: That's right I am.