prentiss: cat logic is so simple yet so effective
prentiss: don't like something? smack it as far away from you as possible
prentiss: literally flawless reasoning
I want an AU where Red Hood never reformed and is still a crime boss in Gotham and doing very morally questionable things on the daily to other criminals and is absolutely 100% not a Bat. But also very clearly is related to the Bats outside of masks.
Like there’s never any doubt that Hood is a son of Batman and brother to the Robins and that one scary Batgirl and, outside of working hours, get along pretty well. The Bats have sort of a “love the sinner, hate the sin” approach to being disappointed and disagreeing with Hood’s methods but by god he better not miss out on Sunday dinner.
Red Hood, at a meeting with other crime bosses: Actually I was gonna request we back off for a week. Yeah you see Robin, the newest one, is struggling through his lit class and I won’t stand for that so I’m tutoring him on the side. Figure we might as well go easy on the brat.
X
Hood and Batman: intense, emotionally charged arguments on how to best clean up Gotham amid all the violence they inflict on one another. Red Hood stops to sneeze.
Batman: Are you catching a cold? You never wear enough layers when it’s cold out, wait here, I have an extra jacket in the car. You should also come over for some soup.
Hood: Dad, oh my god, I’m fine.
X
Hood and Black Bat are fighting intensely when Hood turns around and shoots one of his own lieutenants in the knee when they’d aimed a gun at Nightwing’s back.
Hood: He may be an obnoxious moron but he’s still my big brother. Ready for round two, Sis?
Hood and BB go back to fighting, looking like they’re trying to kill each other but really just having fun.
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