Curate, connect, and discover
a severely underrated and underused pre-reveal-Red-Hood-plot is the one where Dick finds out that he’s Jason first, and out of desperation to make up for past failings at being a big brother and wanting to reconnect with Jason, he decides to keep it from the rest of the family and use it as a way for them to bond. clearly this could be funny for like a thousand different reasons, but the first way this could turn out that i can think of is obviously Bruce watching Nightwing and Red Hood getting closer and closer and instead of automatically coming to the realisation that it’s Dick getting to know and hanging out with his little brother, he immediately assumes that Nightwing and Red Hood are dating.
i’m torn between Jason finding this hysterical while Dick is horrified about it (Jason doesn’t have to deal with the sexual jokes from the family and talks about safety within villain/hero relationships) and both of them deciding it’s a prime opportunity to pull the greatest prank on Bruce possible (both of them leaning into the relationship thing publicly and then Jason casually taking off his helmet to give Dick a cheek-kiss and Bruce a fucking heart attack), but mostly i just think it would be funny if Dick got stressed about his web of lies and decided to rant to a friend, idk who probably Wally, and he gets to have this conversation:
Dick, pacing back and forth: i don’t know what to do, i mean my dad thinks i’m fucking my brother!
Wally, incredulous: …what the fuck did you do to make Bruce think you’re fucking Tim???
Dick, horrified: OH MY GOD NO? I MEANT JASON!
Wally: HE THINKS YOU’RE FUCKING A CORPSE!?
Dick: OK NO- I SHOULD HAVE EXPLAINED BETTER WAIT A SECOND-
Wally: *distressed noises*