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Backtagging: Yes
Threadhopping: Yes
Fourthwalling: Feel free to recognize the Matrix part of his story (I don't mind it being fictional in others' worlds)
Offensive subjects: None

Hugging this character: Yes
Kissing this character: Only with past character relationship (or if the thread says assumed CR okay)
Flirting with this character: Yes
Fighting with this character: Yes
Injuring this character: Yes
Killing this character: With discussion (PM the journal)
Using telepathy/mind reading abilities on this character: Sometimes.

If he's been pulled in from the Matrix, he'll just be a computer code projection (and it would be harder to get to his brain). If he's been pulled in from his real world, then he's human and you can read his mind easily.

[OOC: I figured it might be nice to explain a bit more coherently what's going on in the fusion.]

CodeRed (Jason) and everyone else are in the third beta version of the Matrix. [Note: In Matrix canon, there were only two betas -- the initial "Paradise" version, and the second "based on your history" version which is theorized to be a Nightmare Matrix.]

Kal-El's rocket crashed to Earth, but since there was no Kansas farm couple longing for a child of their own near the crash site... just machines... the alien baby was picked up by the Machines and studied, eventually plugged into a shell version of the Matrix separate from humans. The programs within the simulation observed him and the superpowers that they were unable to suppress in his mental projection. Eventually it was discovered that his processing power output increased when Agent programs took on a villainous role and challenged him to use his superpowers.

The machines eventually figured out that there were some humans who reacted similarly and reorganized their various "power plant" towers to give each of these special minds their own cities within the Matrix simulation, complete with a Rogues' Gallery of unique Agent programs to invent the challenges that increased processing power.

Bruce Wayne (Batman) is one such mind, and Gotham City is the simulation version of the "power plant" tower that he is plugged in to. These special minds also notice like-minded individuals, with Bruce Wayne in particular having a habit of finding and training them up. The machines have also allowed said special minds to remain in contact with each other and team up, often staging especially large in-simulation "crises" when the need for extra processing power arises.

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Metahumans only have their powers within the Matrix, thanks to the programming of this particular version. When they are unplugged, they are normal humans. And since the sky was messed up by humans trying to block the then-solar-powered robots from their energy source, it's not like a Kryptonian is going to be very strong on this version of Earth.

Not that Kal-El can be unplugged... he's older than 25, the upper limit to when minds can be unplugged from the Matrix. (CodeRed broke out of the simulation at age 15... when he, the second Robin, was 'killed off'.)

Jason finds Tsukino Usagi (yes that Usagi)... to be frightening.

But this is in the context of who she'd be within his version of the Matrix...

Dr. McCoy sends: Just a heads up, the trains are stopped and I'm exhausted, so I'm sleeping in your bed. You're also out of shampoo now, sorry.

Jason replies: Suppose the shampoo bottle gave its life for a worthy cause, maintaining your lovely hair.

[[ OOC: Such a cute thread! ]]

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And later on, Leonard texts again...
I saw you sitting on top of the shuttle trying to row back home... Did you make it?

Jason has an appropriately chaotic answer to that

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Gothic (literature) style AU prompt with

homeostatic: here

Tony Stark texts:
You peed on a flamingo?!?

Jason gives far too much information.

Selene has a thorough plan.

The Lady Crow says it should be a wedding and a coronation.

Richie Tozier mentions his crush on Eddie Kaspbrak

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Jason misfires a text at an alternate Jason, thinking it was the other Jason Todd from his world (confusing, I know)...

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Roxy Spaulding texts: A black cat walked my drunken ass home last night and made sure I made it back into the apartment safe. Sat with me for 30 minutes as I struggled to unlock the door. Guardian angel or drunken hallucinations?

Jason figures it for a glitch in the Matrix

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Captain Gabriel Lorca texts: When I said to shut up, I meant it.

And Jason gets creative with emoji before asking a serious question and giving an apology.

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Raphael Santiago asks "Would you date someone who's asexual?"

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Would Jason date Sansa Stark?

He'd have to know more about her, and not just her obvious good looks.

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Midnight texting Clark Kent... about ice cream

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History nerd bothers Jacob Black around midnight.

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The stars are different from the ones that Jason knows.

Jason misfires a text at Dawn Granger.

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Peter Parker shares some photos, and Jason asks some questions about the diner shown.

Alina Starkov wonders: Can you love and hate someone at the same time?
[Jason is the second thread.]

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Loki asks: Can love be built upon a lie?

Jason replies, "We tell ourselves a lot of lies."

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Kara Danvers asks: Have you ever thought that sometimes that you're not meant to be with anyone?

Several people say yes, one says no, and Jason takes a third option.

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Chrissy Cunningham inquires: Is it possible to be happy with someone you're not in love with?

And Jason gives some advice.

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Kiritani Yoshino wonders: ...How long is too long not to ever be with somebody?

Jason doesn't think there's a time limit.

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Eda asks: Is it normal to just... not have any romantic feelings for anyone? Or do I just need my head checked sometime?

Jason says yes, some people are aromantic...

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Thomas Price has questions about a separation

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Scott Lang wonders: How important do you think sex drive to a relationship?

Jason gives an 'it depends' type of answer.

The Berossus is a hovercraft recovered and refurbished by the Zion resistance against the Machines. Equipped with the technology necessary to connect to the Matrix, it is one of many self-contained units of the resistance who have been fighting to free the minds of the human race.

Working against them are the Agents -- programs within the Matrix who will exterminate them with extreme prejudice -- and even time itself. For when a mind hits 25 years of age, it's too dangerous to free them from the Matrix. They can't handle the transition.

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CAPTAIN NATALIA KNIGHT aka MOTHERBOARD