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Sometimes, Jason looks in the mirror and he can’t seem to see himself. His hair is too dark, too light, eyes too green, too tired. He’s taller and stronger and colder and he looks nothing like the child he once was. It’s only fair, he supposes, to change as he grows up. Everyone does. He couldn’t stay 15 forever.
Except he could’ve. He wasn’t supposed to come back, wasn’t supposed to crawl out of his grave with dirt beneath his fingers and in his hair and eyes and lungs and—
He wasn’t supposed to come back. Jason Todd was supposed to stay 15 forever, alive only in memories that wouldn’t grow older, though the people carrying them would. His clothes would be folded up and packed away into cardboard boxes, his photographs would grow dust and the flowers on his grave would wilt and disappear.
He was supposed to be forgotten.
[WHUMPTOBER 2025, DAY 27: "surgical scars"]
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- Part 24 of whumptober 2025
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Damn... I like this