[Western Crossover/Red Hood] Miss Ghost Can't Do Anything

Ding! Congratulations! You've drawn a Resurrection Card!

What? You say other people who transmigrate get an unoccupied body assigned to them, so why does your body still have its original owner's soul?

That's because this child [redacted] you, and the other [redacted] [redacted] can [redacted] by [redacted]...

She was just an ordinary, harmless twenty-first-century woman, with no parents, no beauty or strength, but plenty of misery. She went through the most standard process of transmigrating to another world.

She had never done anything wrong, yet woke up in Gotham, a notorious criminal haven where everyone lived in fear, inhabiting the body of a scrawny little boy whose dad was in jail and whose mom was [redacted].

Luckily, her Host was exceptionally talented and could learn anything. With both parents dead, it seemed like the perfect setup for a coming-of-age story, a hard-work-and-self-made-farming tale, or a face-slapping hero's journey...

Jason: I'm hungry. Let's steal a tire.

Heroine: Stealing isn't in line with the values of a harmonious society. It'll only end badly!

Black-clad buzzkill: Good job, kid. Stealing tires is great. Let me buy you a burger. By the way, want me to adopt you?

Heroine: ...Martial arts are so likely to get you hurt. Why not study hard instead? As long as your thinking doesn't go astray!

Little Prince Wayne: Hey, the Batcomputer's password isn't that hard to crack. You just have to use xxxx, xxx, xxxx, and then... Awesome! I've got all the files from the Batcomputer.

Heroine: Master, please stop. Stop... Oh, and vigilantes operate on the edge of the law and are always misunderstood by the public. They don't follow the people's way!

Happy Robin: Today is the best day of my life!

Bullseye.

Well, maybe being a vigilante for a few years and helping people wouldn't hurt?

She and the boy signed a mutual non-aggression pact. They helped each other and lived together:

They played games on the Batcomputer and got caught, stole little pastries from Gleason's plate, mixed healthy green bitter melon juice into Bruce's fruit and vegetable juice, and secretly raised an alien creature that lived inside a cat...

They believed that the choices they made might not be the most correct, but they were choices they accepted together, were willing to take responsibility for, and would never regret.

No... In a dim warehouse, faced once more with his treacherous birth mother and an inescapable fate, as death loomed again, Istria finally regretted her choice--

I'm sorry.

[Staying by your side through that most difficult brush with death was the last thing I could do.]

A symbiotic bond, a companion, a friend, a comfort zone, two halves who became each other's cage, and the self that grew wild after their parting.

* The main story is serious in tone and slow to heat up. The author is a day-job worker, so the writing is slow too.

* The pairing is with Jason. The timeline stretches from Park Row to Red Hood. The N52 and P52 settings are mixed according to preference, with some Spider-Man and Venom elements. The Avengers do not appear.

* The heroine undergoes a change in attitude. She has no major cheat early on, but gets a golden finger later. Her morals are ambiguous, but she's basically an ordinary person. The main story follows Under the Red Hood, while the extras follow the Arkham Knight storyline. The order of the extras and main story is meaningful, and the two complement each other and fill in details and emotional development. I hope you'll read them in order.

* The author works as an architect in real life and writes for love despite being extremely busy, so it's hard to keep updates regular.

* Typos and bugs will be fixed from time to time.

Theme: Companionship is the most enduring declaration of love