#but uhhhHHh this got Long n rambly ??? am i surprised ?? No .
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✕ — isn’t that harvey dent wandering the streets of new york ? civilians know them as two face and see them as a villain. as far as i know, the forty year old stands alone and are rumoured to be pretty spiteful & forlorn. ( oscar isaac / cis male / he, him. )
harvey father was physically abusive. as a child in a low income house, his alcoholic father would flip a coin every night to determine if harvey deserved a beating. the coin was double - headed, and sparked his long - lasting unhealthy obsession with duality & chance. when his father eventually drank himself to death, harvey inherited the double - headed coin, and would make jokes about how he made his own luck when using it to seemingly make decisions.
at heart, he has always wanted to bring about good to gotham. harvey studied hard and gained scholarships in order to obtain a law degree. he was charismatic, sharp. he represented the blue - collar, working class, decent & honest everyman in a city of corruption. he was a white knight. a beacon of hope in the dark. and his gruelling work was rewarded in being elected by the people as district attorney at twenty six.
bipolar had been a disorder harvey struggled with before becoming two face. harvey’s history was spotted with small but seemingly erratic outbursts to those unaware of his past. punching someone for simply bad mouthing a friend, losing his temper out of the blue. inexplicable episodes of depression. these were few and far between, a stark difference from the golden boy of gotham. harvey’s therapist referred to these outbursts as ‘ another side ’ of him, likely a result of childhood trauma left unaddressed.
harvey served as gotham’s district attorney for six solid years. it was slow moving at first. every cop had a finger dipped in organised crime and no one would talk. in making friends with jim gordan and the batman, harvey found irreplaceable allies who shared his desire to see gotham’s streets clean. harvey pissed off a lot of people and made countless enemies, ignoring every superior’s attempts to deflect him from targeting high profile businessmen involved in corrupting justice and crime. ignoring every warning and threat of retaliation, a sense of invincibility present in his poster boy grin and proud shoulders. he put away crook after crook. and for this gotham’s citizens loved him more. he couldn’t be bribed or intimidated.
eventually, his enemies caught up with him. a dirty business man / mob boss that before seemed untouchable began to come undone at the hands of harvey dent, with aid from the batman & jim. salvatore maroni, in retaliation, disfigured harvey’s face with acid and murdered his fiancée, gilda gold. this assault permanently destroyed half of his face, and combined with the death of his wife to be saw harvey descend into a break down at thirty two.
harvey has dissociative identity disorder, sparked by the tragedy that took his wife, lingering childhood trauma and the destruction of his face. this means that two face and harvey are, from his perspective: two different identities. harvey often cannot remember what two face has done, as he is in state of dissociation formed to remove himself from deeply distressing and psychologically damaging experiences. he’ll come to with confusion and need to be informed on what two face has done.
two face is an answer to his trauma, and has been for eight years. where harvey dent stood for justice, order. two face stands for chaos. two face believes that everything has an inherent dualism, two sides that cannot be controlled. two face is a manifestation of harvey’s internalised rage and bitterness. he uses harvey’s father’s double - headed coin as a symbolism of irony, subverting the idea of luck and using it to hurt people, commit crimes, etc. two face is a criminal, often an unsuccessful one ━━ harvey dent is not.
harvey dent is still a good man. one that desperately needs professional help. however having lived with two face for eight years, rehabilitation proves a difficult task ━━ especially since reverting to his second personality so frequently and unchecked makes the possibility of harvey receiving aid all the more unlikely.
#alcoholism#death#abuse#73:intro#this kinda details how i'll be portraying harvey / two face#but uhhhHHh this got Long n rambly ??? am i surprised ?? No .#anyway if u hit tht HEART i'll prolly slide in ya dms for a thicc plot or smthn
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