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Fic Update!

Chapter 5 of Curioser, Curioser is now out!

Fandom: Gotham

Characters: Jerome Valeska x OFC

Summary: Following Jerome's growing obsession with the girl who unknowingly insulted his presence and busted his ego when she chose to interview Oswald Cobblepot over him.

*A parallel story to "Are You Going to Write Your Report About Me?" in Jerome's POV.*

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Sneak peak:

It’s been a while since I took some time off from Arkham to walk around the City. In truth, any business I have in Gotham is well taken care of by my vast connections. I have no reason to tire myself with any dirty work, but tonight… tonight isn’t regular ol’dirty work. It’s different. It’s personal.

Hm… Can’t remember the last time I’ve taken something so personally. I’d laugh at myself if I wasn’t so pissed off at the whole matter.

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New Fic Posted

Look who’s back with another story to tell! After plenty of self-debate, I’ve decided to share the latest fic I’ve started working on. It’s a parallel story to "Are You Going to Write Your Report About Me?" but in Jerome's POV. Why? Cause why not ^_^

Fandom: Gotham

Pairing: Jerome/OFC

Summary: Following Jerome's growing obsession with the girl who unknowingly insulted his presence and busted his ego when she chose to interview Oswald Cobblepot over him.

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Sneak Peak:

The nerve she’s got…

It’s one thing not to be interested in a one-on-one session with moi, by far the most interesting gentleman in this line of mediocre delinquents, but to pick Oswald the Little Birdbrain instead? Well, that’s just downright stupid.

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Yes, that’s right, I’m back with a new Jerome fic. I swore I was done writing for this beloved character but I… just… couldn’t… resist.

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Fandom: Gotham

Characters: Jerome Valeska & Dr Harleen Quinzel

Summary: A nontraditional psychiatry session between Jerome and Doctor Harleen Quinzel hints at the start of their dysfunctional and highly questionable relationship.

Sneak peak:

“Jerome.”

He releases a tired sigh, and his eyes lazily return to stare into the light. “You know, Doc,” he says quietly, “With all due respect, but when a person ignores you, it usually means they don’t want to talk to you.”

“Why don’t you want to talk today?”

He smiles. He knows the pattern of her questions now. He knows the game she’s nudging him to play along with her.

“Come on now, Doc. Even you have those dreary days where the world swallows you whole and you just let it, don’t you?”

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Am I the only one who thinks the worst thing Gotham ever did was do the Joker Twin-Twist.

Because, I'm sorry, but Jeremiah is just such an underdeveloped and, frankly, boring character compared to Jerome. I hated when that happened.

Jerome had all the build-up with Bruce and in comes Jeremiah subsisting on like two episodes of forced "friendship" and suddenly Gotham thinks they recreated the tragedy of "The Killing Joke".

No, Gotham! Bad!

... I will never not be bitter about this ...

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when will my motivation to write return from the war.

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Amazing analysis. It’s mind boggling just how “identical” they are despite their severely different upbringings and labels in society: The genius engineer and the loony clown.

Regardless of Jeremiah’s nurtured intelligence, Jerome caught on to something a lot sooner than his brother did. They’re similarly crazy, no matter how hard Jeremiah tried to deny it.

It’s interesting.  While a lot of Jerome’s rage and resentment and pain over the years has come from Jeremiah’s perceived abandonment of him - something else that obviously really rankled was that Jeremiah was seen as ‘the clever one’, worthy of a fancy education, while he wasn’t.

We get hints that they think alike in many ways: the scale of their schemes, their ability to misdirect attention to get what they actually want.  Jerome might seem chaotic, but he’s instinctively as methodical as Jeremiah, planning ahead, creating pre-emptive solutions to likely problems.

But Jerome was right.  Do you know, he anticipated your betrayal?

Jim, as an engineer, you expect things to fail.  So you build in redundancies.

The contrast of their likely childhoods is just really eye-catching: Jeremiah at school, having his intelligence nurtured and shaped, all the while likely maintaining a scrupulous distance from his schoolmates, carefully concealing his past, probably consciously copying speech and movement patterns; Jerome at the circus, intelligence overlooked, suffering abuse, brimming with rage and pain and resentment.

I’d say they’re even fairly evenly-matched as adults - 

Jeremiah has had the benefit of formal schooling, but he seems to have kept a distance from people, and hidden himself away: he’s not quite as shrewd when it comes to how people work. 

Jerome, on the other hand, would have quickly become adept at reading moods and behaviour and reactions to try to avoid abuse when he could - as well as reading customers, what will draw them in, catch their eye.  Look at how he plays Jeremiah with the ‘gift’ from Wayne Enterprises.

(Gifs are from @endiness​)

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Jeremiah/Jerome

First time drawing ‘that’ kind of face… so hopefully it doesn’t look stupid

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I am in total support of this analysis. Certainly clears up a lot of the grey areas where time is concerned.

Guys, I think I cracked Jerome's time line. Ok hear me out.

Gordon says that Jerome is 18, but after Jeremiah says that they were at the circus together when they were ten, Jerome says he's been waiting to confront him for 15 years.

So, where is Gordon getting that information? Obviously not Lila and I doubt she kept any documents. Jerome obviously wouldn't say anything trustworthy and the other circus performers wouldn't be reliable. So that leaves Cicero.

He's a bad father, we know this, but he does care for J in his own weird way. What if he lied about Jerome's age to make him younger in the hopes of getting him a lighter sentence or to at least keep him out of Blackgate and get sent to Arkham instead?

Jerome doesn't display signs of pure insanity or anything I would say a professional would put him there for. Sure he's unhinged and definitely shows signs of an antisocial disorder, but I have a hard time believing that they couldn't deal with that in Blackgate.

However, if they thought he was 18 they might have thought by catching it while he was still young they could treat him and rehabilitate him. And this is what Cicero was betting on.

Even though Cicero was a shitty father, he still tried to help J when he murdered Lila, so I think it's entirely possible he would lie to try and get him help in Arkham.

He also knew that Lila abused J, so he could've lied to avoid him getting too harsh a sentence since even he can't deny she deserved what she got.

This is just my mind going off and rambling, but what do you think. Does it hold any water?

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I'm suing you for emotional damages after that update

I’ll gladly take full responsibility 😂 Although I gotta admit I’m high key thrilled knowing that people are effected by that final chapter. Means that I’ve done my job right!

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Believe me I’m crying too!!!

so how's everyone dealing with the end of @blackberd 's "Are You Going To Write Your Report About Me?"

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Fanfic Update!

I’m proud to finally announce that the final chapter of ‘Are You Going to Write Your Report About Me?’ is finally up! The story is officially completed and I couldn’t be happier :’) I’ve had a blast writing it and hope that readers have a blast reading it, just the same.

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Fic update coming soon!

The final chapter of ‘Are You Going to Write Your Report About Me?’ is almost out! It’s been a long time coming, and I cannot wait to finally conclude what I’ve been working on for two solid years :’)

Here’s a small teaser of chapter 10:

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Don’t you wanna laugh?” He asks me.

A small smile forms around my mouth. “What, right now? In this very minute?”

“No, always.”

“Why would I always want to laugh?”

“Because.” Gloved fingers find mine in a soft hold. “The world is such a funny place. It just cracks me up.”

Now I really do laugh. Not at this ridiculous world, but at the equally ridiculous man who cracks me up.

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Story time !

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I adore this analysis. There are two sides of the same coin, two jokers in a single deck of cards. One will always complete the other in a balance between calm and chaos.

Both Jerome and Jeremiah are great Jokers.

A lot like a lot of people didn’t and don’t like Jeremiah because he’s “organised and calm and he isn’t loud and chaotic”. The thing is....The Joker isn’t some monkey that just ate a ton of cocaine going wild in a cage like an idiot. The Joker is alarmingly intelligent that’s why he’s paired so well against Batman and why he rivals so well against the Riddler. The thing is Joker doesn’t flaunt his intelligence like Ed does, he doesn’t see the point in that because that’s boring.

But if you look there are so many works that showcase a side of the Joker that is a more calm methodical and terrifying being. If you look at Killing Joke or what little we see of the Joker in Suicide Squad 2016 and Justice League Snyder Cut then you see that side of the character where he can do these well thought out intelligent plans. The man in countless stories manipulated Dr. Quinn until she thought he loved her so that she would break him out of Arkham. If he was just a ball of loud chaos like Jerome then that never would have happened.

If you look at Jerome’s time in Arkham when he’s talking to Barbara he mostly annoys her. When he’s in there with Oswald he manages to mostly just set out to terrify and traumatise him. Which I have my own theory about.

Both twins perfectly showcase aspects of the Joker’s personality and when Jeremiah comes back 10 years later he’s complete, he’s both parts of that finally stitched together. He’s chaotic but intelligent and clever.

So no Jeremiah isn’t weaker because he isn’t super loud and chaotic for the sake of chaos. Using literally that one scene of the Dark Knight to say the Joker is meant to just destroy shit because he can isn’t at all good evidence of how the character actually is. Including the movie that scene is from.

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But what happened to Jerome’s snake, Sheba? Is she still distraught?

These are the things I wonder

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I LOVE this! Beautiful!

We’ll kill Uncle Zach, I promise

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