The following contains spoilers for Batman: White Knight Presents: Red Hood #2, on sale now from DC Comics.
In Batman: White Knight lore, Jason Todd has severely lacked discipline. Admittedly, it's a trait brought over from the main DCU into this Elseworlds story, with Jason going from being an ex-Robin to a prizefighter to a soldier to a warden who couldn't keep old Bruce Wayne in his cell. Still, Jason is trying, which says a lot as he once lost hope when he fled Gotham, outing Batman's secret identity to Joker, and then remaining hidden.
Interestingly, Batman: White Knight Presents: Red Hood #2 (by Sean Gordon Murphy, Clay McCormack, Simone Di Meo, George Kambadais, Dave Stewart, and AndWorld Design) is changing his fate, painting Jason in an ambitious light as he tries to decide if he should help Bruce on the mission to take down Derek Powers and Terry McGinnis. In the process, as Jason dug for old skeletons, he got a new mentor and teased some intriguing weapons which hold a lot of sentiment in his tumultuous backstory.
In this chapter, the mentor Jason's working with is none other than the girl he trained to be Robin years ago when he left Gotham. He initially allied with Gan, harnessing his old ways as an ex-Boy Wonder, not just to show he could be a better teacher than Bruce, but to prove to himself that he cared about heroism. That said, while they took down Shriek, Jason deserted Gan after she got hospitalized from the battle.
He felt guilty because he knew she wasn't ready to be weaponized. He made the same mistake Bruce made, but when he reunited with Gan years later, she assured him that it was all water under the bridge. Gan opened a dojo and was doing a lot of charity work in her community. However, after forgiving Jason, she made it clear to him that he needed to level up, so they could aid Bruce.
After all, she didn't like Dick's brutal police force, which she felt oppressed the people. Thus, she began training Jason for the war to come, even gifting him a new helmet she designed. He confesses that he is rusty, but her honing her martial arts and bow and arrow skills with ease shows that she's the perfect person to shape Jason into a capable warrior, something that Dick won't see coming.
Interestingly, a variant cover for the issue from Jim Cheung and Jay David Ramos has Jason rocking crowbars for the war to come. Admittedly, this could just be a cool design, scoring style points for the cover, but it would be apt as Joker -- across so many stories -- pummeled him that fateful night with them. In this continuity, Jason doesn't die, thankfully, so he doesn't hold much disdain for the weapons.
Still, they changed his life, transforming him from an apprentice to someone meaningful to Gan, so Jason could use these tools in his crusade with Barbara Gordon and Duke (aka the new Robin) in Batman: Beyond the White Knight. They'd be perfect for the armored cops and bots Dick has patrolling under Powers' banner, allowing Jason to move away from the guns. And ultimately, just like how Bruce turned the bat into a symbol, Jason could transform his fear of these weapons into a statement for justice and liberation in his beloved city.