Jason Todd had failed his Jedi Trials.

The sentence alone made him feel sick. It was... unfair. At first, all he’d felt was guilt and sadness, as if he were not enough. But as it set in, as he realized the fault was not his own, anger began to spill into his chest.

It wasn’t fair. He had been a child when Order 66 was carried out, fresh into becoming a padawan after training as a youngling. Jedi were in short supply; he had been pushed through his trials in desperation.

How was it fair? How was it fair to ask a child to perform a duty they’d been training less than a year for? The typical Jedi got at least five or more years to train – and he was asked to do the same thing they could do, as a child? It was cruel. They had taken him from his home as a child, and spat him back out when he did not perform the way they wished him to.