Me when… me when… the identity is horror. Who are you? Can you be replicated? Is that replication you? If someone looks just like you, acts like you and is interpreted by others as you, are they you? Do your thoughts count for anything? If everything you actually think stays in your head and never comes out then you die do people grieve you? Do you respond to your name or to any name?
It's really interesting to me how often Bruce thinks about the fact that Thomas was a doctor and his oath to save lives in relation to what Bruce does as Batman. And I do think making that comparison ourselves helps put his "no kill" rule in perspective.
Obviously Bruce does knowingly and intentionally cause harm, but his overall goal is still to save lives. Is it just of him to use his knowledge of the personal histories of the people he's sworn to save to decide whether they deserve life or death? Bruce has that power now like his father before him and he's certainly thinking about it that way.
Controversial opinion, but DC is not making any radically progressive media by paying WebToons to create wholesome content intended for the 'Batfam means ohana, cute manufactured sitcom shenanigans ensue unrelated and unconnected from the source,' crowd.
The stupid Cloudburst Tank fight in the Arkham Knight is so flustering. Who designed that shet?
You spend almost an hour hunting down six Cobra Tanks, in the stupid Batmobile, then when you finally get scan the damn Cloudburst Tank and take two out of four pieces of it, the whining idiot hit you and you have to do that shet aaall over again.
Not to mention that AK keep telling you stuff like "Batman never gives up", I do shut the fuck up. You almost can't see anything because of the Cloudburst and the Joker hallucinations keep laughing at you, the entire freaking mission. I'm losing my marbles. This is the most boring fight I've ever played in video games, I hate it sm. I need a crowbar.
What if, whenever he's sent to solitary, entirely restrained and trapped with his own thoughts, Joker writes diaries.
It's canon that he knows Morse code, and that he's used it to communicate with other inmates through the walls. And it's also canon that he's the kind of guy who draws and scribbles and writes down thoughts and schemes. It definitely helps organize the chaos in his head... and if sensory deprivation gets thrown in, there's no doubt Joker goes a little more insane each time he's left utterly alone. He needs stimulation, and being made unable to move freely and given nothing for his mind to chew on must be torturous.
So maybe he writes journal entries in Morse code, tapping away with whatever limb he's got available. And maybe one day, entirely by accident, Bruce hears the pattern. He goes back to the Batcomputer and has it analyze all the data from Joker's cell that's available, has it translate the Morse code into text.
Bruce buries himself in the Cave for days on end, reading. What if there's some kind of crucial clue in there, after all? But they're all either letters to Batman, or to Joker himself. Sometimes they're entirely disjointed and make no sense, other times they're painfully self-aware. They're sad and contradictory, either describing Batman's death in graphic detail or begging him to come back, to save him, to kill him-- and Bruce won't ever be able to look at Joker the same way.
portal coffee shop au but glados is a vindictive keurig
the first time i went out with a girl she said she wanted to kiss me and i replied with "cool!" and continued talking about portal
detective comics #85 (1944): the joker's double
Crazy frog in fact isn't my favourite song22
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