Jason Todd: Robin, Red Hood, Arkham Knight Appreciation 2019

[Zaresh]

Hello again. The Untiring Collector is coming back with a new list.

This time we are going under the theme and title: "Jason becomes his own man", which collects fics that deal with Jason moving on his life after coming back, or after almost dying or after whatever traumatic event has happened to him. He may have left superheroing (or being a bad guy), he may have abandoned his Red Hood alias, or he may have decided to do his own thing as the Red Hood, but away from Batman. I may put here some of the fics that deal with Jason reconnecting with his family, even if I plan to put them in another post too, because they do show Jason moving on.

Recommended by @Sergard or / and @Jackalope89:

Jason Todd - Collector of Strays, by @whatomen. On-going fanfic with over 60 chapters about Jason adopting animals and children while trying to avoid the batfamily.
—Zaresh here. It's tagged under Mature, but I would say it's pretty safe for teens too. Average canon violence, no sexual content as far as I recall, not a lot of triggers either. It's mostly a mix of fluff, drama, mystery and, well, maybe romance, maybe not.

The Ties That Bind, by @trx (dxs).
—Zaresh here. Teen audience, and so far, gen relationships. An amnesiac Jason that has work for the League dies again and Talia sends him far from them, to live a new life. He becomes a doctor in the UK, and several years later, Alfred finds him. And then the family he cannot remember starts to look for and reach him. This work is not finished at the time I'm writing this post, but it's regularly updated, and I guess it will be finished within this year.

Recommended by @Arsenal and @JasonTodd428:

From Now On, by @little_wayward_bird. "It's a great story about Jason moving on from all his sh*t and finding a good, happy life for himself in spite of all the trauma he's gone through."
—Zaresh here. Teen audience, with canon typical violence. Jason reconnecting with his family, creating his own one, and falling in love with an original character. It's heavy in the romance, and could be taken as some soft thriller too. But it's, over all, a musical in text form. The writer clearly loves that genre and indulges themselves on it.

Autumn of Life, by @ofVellichor.
—Zaresh here. General audiences, general relationships. Jason founds his own merc team and helps the JL, I think? I haven't read it yet, so I cannot say much more.

Jason Todd: The Not-So-Outlaw, by @GoAwayOlivia.
—Zaresh here. This work is pretty good and entertaining: I highly recommend it as well. Mature audience, because it's a bit on the heavy side of violence in the last chapters. Jason comes back to Gotham after a very painful mission that uncovers his trauma to certain members of the JL, and starts making his own life outside the Batfamily. He proceeds to work on the renovation of his house. He also begins to work helping street kids. But then Tim starts to plot against his intentions of being left alone, and step by step, Jason gets back into having a family that he has chosen and that supports his efforts. Hurt/Confort, Fluff and angst.

Recommended by @G-Potion (iirc)
Help, by @Loxare. First part of the Hinder series. Jason takes base in Blüdhaven instead of Gotham when he comes back to life and starts doing his thing and, slowly but steadily, becomes the fanfave of the kids from that city. It's a collection of shorts stories. It's warm.

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In case you want to add more recs, next lists I have in mind are the ones that collect works under the time-travel and age-deage trope; the ones that deal with family matters (family drama, feels and bonding, with Bruce, Dick, Tim, Damian, or even Talia); another under the pure fantasy category, I guess; and the last one will be an assorted works list with all the other works (which is something you shouldn't do when categorizing, but it can't be helped here) like the ones under the arkhamverse. With time, once we have enough works with a shared theme in that assorted list, I'll branch a new post for them.

Let me know if you have new recs for the lists that have already been written or you noticed I've skipped any. I'll add new ones in those lists too, as I skim over them and learn what they're about (for the sake of backing the rec and adding info).