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Hinder is an Alternate Universe fic by Loxare, found on Archive of Our Own.

Right after emerging from the Lazarus Pit, Jason Todd decides to non pick Gotham as his playground for vigilante activities, settling in Bludhaven instead. Now, he's running around, shooting drug dealers, castrating pimps, helping kiddies with their homeworks...

...Wait, WHAT?

In which Red Hood somehow becomes the greatest hero always to the entire city'southward under eighteen population.

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Tropes y'all can notice in the story:

• 100% Adoration Rating: Downplayed. Bludhaven's underage residents outright worship and adore Red Hood. The grown up ones... rather less so.
• Developed Fear: Since the fic is mainly centered effectually Jason interacting with kids, some situations - poverty, abuse, death of a loved one - are quite painfully realistic.
  • Jason himself is this for the Batfamily, as he openly advocates murder to deal with the criminals and shows no sign of repentance. Fifty-fifty worse, he threatened to kill whatever Bat who would endeavour to approach him - something Tim is totally unaware, and since the kid is out of reach Batman and Nightwing can't tell him why going to visit his revived predecessor would be a Bad Idea.
• Affectionate Nickname: Since Bizarro is mentally dumb, he tends to use these - leading Jason to become "Red Him" and Artemis "Ruby-red Her".
• Big Brother Instinct: Jason'southward is overdevelopped. Case in point, he basically became a Absurd Large Bro to Bludhaven's entire kiddie population.
  • Inverted with the kids themselves, who immediately leap to the Hood's assist. Even when the opponent is Superman.
• Large, Screwed-Up Family: The Bats actually are in fine course. Jason hates them all, Dick fully believes his immature brother Came Back Wrong and ought to be dealt with, and Batman is so drastic to exist logical and fair about information technology that he'due south but paralyzed in action. Really, Tim and Cass seem to exist the more well-adapted ones.
• Blackness-and-White Morality: Many of the "big shots" heroes plain suffer from this. Batman and Nightwing are very much unable to reconcile Jason with Red Hood, and Superman'southward reason for assaulting the vigilante was summed up by "it's bad and mean to kill people, even criminals".
• Bodyguarding a Badass: After being assaulted by Superman, Red Hood is watched over by the kids he helped.
• Break Them by Talking: When Nightwing confronts him, Red Hood mercilessly confesses he refused to come up back to Batman because he never felt he belonged there - and Dick was a chip of a Big Brother Bully - and commited every murder he's charged with. When he leaves the scene, Nightwing entered Heroic BSoD.
• Came Dorsum Wrong: Batman and Nightwing recollect this of Jason, reasoning a member of the Batfamily couldn't willingly lower himself to impale. Dick even claims a psychopath replaced his blood brother.
• Crazy-Prepared: Jason may refuse to associate himself with the Bat, only preparation left its mark upon him.
• Didn't Encounter That Coming: Superman came to Bludhaven in order to deal with the gun toting nutjob that had broken his boarders. He wasn't expecting a group of children to set on him in gild to defend said nutjob. And he actually wasn't expecting to find the long dead 2nd Robin under the nutjob's helmet.
• Dissonant Serenity: Reddish Hood casually using his phone to cheerfully discuss with kids while indulging in violent and messy street cleaning is a tiny scrap jarring.
• Double Standard: Corruption, Female on Male person: 100% averted with the story of Kelly'south parents. His mother is verbally abusive to both him and his father and when she finally makes it concrete she's restrained and has the cops called on her. It'southward played just as horrifyingly straight equally information technology would be with reversed roles.
• Anybody Has Standards: What makes Jason an Anti-Hero is that while he may cross some moral lines, there are many that he will never cantankerous.
  • While he hates all criminals, he has a special place in his rage-filled heart for rapists.
  • It's not clear if he'due south existence serious with his threat to kill the next Bat he sees, but 1 way or the other he yet has no intention of e'er revealing their secret identities publicly.
  • No matter what'south going on around him, Jason volition always drop whatsoever he's doing and help the second a kid gets involved.
  • His human relationship with the rest of the Justice League is however shaky (though Wally is starting to come up around), but he still treats Captain Curiosity with respect and care, both because he'south a child and because he'due south just and so damn squeamish that he can't say annihilation bad about him.
• Friend to All Children: Red Hood is feared and hated by every grown up in the story, with some rare exceptions. But y'all won't find a unmarried kid who doesn't trust and respect him.
  • Normally Superman is this, which is part of what throws him off when a group of kids start attacking him to defend Red Hood.
• A Hero to His Hometown: When he came to put a stop to Carmine Hood'due south trigger-happy activities, Superman certainly didn't expect to run across Bludhaven's children protect the vigilante from him.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: Afterward publically assaulting Ruby Hood, Superman was heavily criticized since a) Red Hood is a normal human who could accept died nether the Kryptonian'southward fists, b) everyone saw Cherry-red Hood is barely in his twenties when he lost his helmet and c) Superman was out of Metropolis so had no authority to intervene in Bludhaven.
• Hero Worship: Children in Bludhaven actually, really adore Blood-red Hood. So much some of them dress upwards as him for Halloween and some others go in the streets to grade the "Red Kids", trying to emulate his crime-fighting ways.
  • Tim Drake is ecstatic to acquire Jason actually lives and tin't wait to meet him in the flesh. Which bodes ill since Jason really doesn't want to see a Bat and threatened to kill the side by side 1 who will try to talk with him.
• Jerkass Has a Signal: He's about always a dick about it, but Jason has a fair corporeality of good points:
  • Killing people is bad, we get it. Batman is still forced to notation Bludhaven's crime charge per unit very much decreased later Red Hood'due south apparition on the cape scene - a criminal can't repeat offenses when expressionless, later on all.
  • Jason also points out that children feel safer with the definite assurance that no, the bad man isn't coming back to hurt them or their loved ones.
  • Jason is often exasperated at the Justice League's reacting to him equally though he'due south either going to effort to kill them or betrayal their identities. He usually counters by saying that if he wanted to practice either of those things, he would've done it already.
  • Dick gets his Nostalgia Filter ripped off his eyes when he sees Jason again, who calmly explains to him all the ways that Dick bullied him before he died, then all his talk of how much he "missed his footling blood brother" is complete garbage.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: For all his murders and conventionalities in violence really being the answer, Red Hood is ultimately trying to aid people, not but to protect them.
• Keystone Army: One of the drug lords Jason targets is notorious for non trusting whatever of his underlings, leaving all of the running of the business to him and him alone. That means that when he's inevitably taken out, his entire enterprise collapses overnight.
• Kind Hearted Simpleton: Bizarro mangles his grammar and his viewpoint is painfully limited by his extreme youth - he was created one calendar month ago - but his niceness is worthy of his Kryptonian template.
• Loophole Abuse: When Stephanie decides to visit Jason and brand friends with him, she points Red Hood threatened to kill Batman, Nightwing and Robin, but never said anything about Spoiler - her electric current vigilante persona.
• Mirror Grapheme: Jason is more Bruce'due south son than he feels comfortable albeit - he decided the best fashion to protect his hometown was to become a Terror Hero, has quite a few issues with sanity, is a big softie when yous're not on his shit list and tends to pick up strays. The trouble is, he cranks all this Upwardly to Eleven.
• Morality Chain: Cassandra muses Jason needs people who will gently steer him away from unecessary murder and violence - just like Batman himself.
• Nostalgia Filter: Dick felt so bad for not existence a expert brother to Jason afterward the younger boy died, it kinda rosified his vision of his successor. He suffers a rude awakening when he finally meets Scarlet Hood.
• Mirror Graphic symbol: Jason is more Bruce'southward son than he feels comfortable admitting - he decided the best manner to protect his hometown was to become a Terror Hero, has quite a few issues with sanity, is a big softie when you're not on his shit list and tends to pick up strays. The problem is, he cranks all this Up to Eleven.
• Oh, Crap!: The Justice League slightly freaked out afterwards Cerise Hood's identity came to low-cal, since he was a former member and as such had access to their identities and other important stuff. Background mentions are made of protocols to be practical to him if he's caught and imprisoned to stop him from spilling the beans.
• Parents as People: Even after learning Jason was a murderer, Bruce still loves him and wants him to come dwelling, but has no idea nearly how to do this. And his just plans for subsequently is "watching Jason 24/vii and heavily monitor his activities to ensure he's not going to relapse".
• The Pollyanna: When she learnt Jason was alive and active in Bludhaven, Cassandra was utterly giddy at the idea of having some other large brother and getting to spend time with him. Unfortunately, Jason still has a chip on his shoulder about the Bats...
• The Power of Friendship: Red Hood is so beloved among children they form a mob to protect him from Superman - which is more useful and efficient you lot would call up, since Superman Wouldn't Hurt a Child.
• Cloak-and-dagger-Keeper: Bludhaven'south kids managed to piece together the 2nd Robin and Scarlet Hood, merely swore to never tell a soul - he is a hero, his backstory is supposed to be kept repose after all.
• Shamed by a Mob: Poor Superman was utterly floored when a bunch of kiddies yelled at him for existence mean to their big bro Carmine Hood.
• Small Steps Hero: When interacting with kids, Jason is this - he can help them with their firsthand problem, but he lacks resources or time to exercise more. It'south still more than than plenty for them.
• Spotting the Thread: Artemis realizes a story Ruby-red Hood told about him saving Superman from Mongul actually featured the second Robin, which lets her guess his Secret Identity.
• Superman Stays Out of Gotham: Actually averted — Ruby-red Hood ventured to Metropolis to fulfill a child's request, which put him on Superman's blacklist and led the Big Blue Male child Lookout to come in Bludhaven.
• Wretched Hive: Bludhaven is such in a sorry state, Cerise Hood can impale every villain he finds and not worry about lacking prey for a decade.
• You lot Are Meliorate Than You Retrieve You Are: Jason is left speechless everytime he'southward given proof people actually care about him.

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Source: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/LoxareHinder

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