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They come from a bad place where every bad thing that could happen, did happen. Every nightmare and very dark thought made manefest. Where our heroes become monsters, but the place cannot last. It’s always decaying, always rotting. They want out. They want to come here. Except they can’t. Not with the world as it is. They’re something close to FORCES OF NATURE – and our world, as it is, WEAKENS THEM. - Bruce Wayne.

     indi multi muse  / mutuals only / runs off queue / penned by andre 

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right! i’m going to be moving bruce along with the other bat’s over to my multi!

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❝ How many lives will you destroy in pursuit of what you call justice? ❞

IT WAS THE QUESTION OF A LIFETIME. several in-fact about how many lives he’d end. how many he’d destroy in his own  little quest. killing every other bruce wayne (besides his brothers) was easy in his mind. so many he’d destroyed and killed - the last one was the most amusing. he really thought the door would no longer revolve. 

such foolishness, the true bruce of this dimension knew fully well about what he was doing, and what would come of his actions. the secret was revealed and everything came apart. he let that version of the bat go (for now) to let him reflect on his actions.

PEERING INTO THE DARK MULTIVERSE WAS NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART. you saw what you wanted to see, not what was really there, and rarely did any good come of it. he issued warning after warning, but perhaps he wasn’t that blunt. no matter, they’d figure out his plans soon enough.

his head tilted towards rich, grinning slightly less than usual (not by much). “oh, a fair few more! perhaps maybe a dozen more? if we count how many i’ve taken? it’s been endless, but service does have it’s rewards. HAHA HA! you just can’t see them at the time!” or in bruce’s case, they were so vague that the idea of redeeming them was lost on him a long time ago. long before he assembled the knights and before everything fell apart.

“i’ll stop when justice is done! when justice is finished for all! that time is soon, richard! so VERY soon!”

// @golddome

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✧ BATMAN:  ARKHAM  KNIGHT  PROMPTS.

some are considered to be triggering and/or offensive with heavy mentions of death and threatening lives. 

❝ How many lives will you destroy in pursuit of what you call justice? ❞ 

❝ How many more bones would you crush?  ❞ 

❝ What have I got to be afraid of? ❞ 

❝ You’re afraid of being ashes. ❞ 

❝ Talk, or I will crush every bone in your body. ❞ 

❝ If you’re lying, I’ll break the other one. ❞ 

❝ You know, you see a lot in this job. ❞ 

❝ I may never get the chance to tell you this, to say sorry. ❞ 

❝ We’d do anything for our family. ❞ 

❝ I might have told you a teeny, tiny little lie. ❞ 

❝ You did good. We did good! You should be proud. ❞ 

❝ Don’t answer, then. We know the truth. ❞ 

❝ It’s all personal. Very personal. ❞ 

❝ Nature always wins. ❞ 

❝ You don’t scare me. ❞ 

❝ Shh… it’s okay to be afraid. ❞ 

❝ Oh, my head… where… where am I? ❞ 

❝ You can sell them for scrap, if you ever get out. ❞ 

❝ Oh, what’s the matter? Touched a nerve? ❞ 

❝ Just so we’re on the same page here, I fully, intend to kill you. ❞ 

❝ But first, we’re gonna make you suffer. ❞ 

❝ Can you remember when it was simple?  ❞ 

❝ You still haven’t apologized. ❞ 

❝ You know, half the crooks in Gotham think I feed you info. ❞ 

❝ Well yeah, when there’s something in it for me.  ❞ 

❝ Sorry for making criminals think less of you. ❞ 

❝ Hey, have I ever hurt anyone? ❞ 

❝ Hey, boss! We’re gettin’ you outta here! ❞ 

❝ Deep down, I knew war was coming.  ❞ 

❝ I was just waiting for someone to pull the trigger. ❞ 

❝ Something’s changed. You’re different. ❞ 

❝ I prefer to call it a work in progress, but it does show potential. ❞ 

❝ There’s no perfection without a little pain! ❞ 

❝ You know, I was just going to suggest you do that. ❞ 

❝ You’re trapped. There’s nowhere to run. ❞ 

❝ Who said anything about running? ❞ 

❝ Ha! No prison can hold me! Uh, hang on a second. ❞ 

❝ So here’s the part where you tell me off… ❞ 

❝ This is the end. This is the last time we meet. ❞ 

❝ Don’t talk like that, okay? ❞ 

❝ This won’t stop you. Nothing stops you. ❞ 

❝ You don’t want me hanging around, stealing the spotlight. ❞ 

❝ Tea party’s over, freak. Let’s start talking. ❞ 

❝ I give the orders here, not you. ❞ 

❝ And you’ll have three dead cops by the time I’m through. ❞ 

❝ We’ll see about that. Now, quit with the rhymes! ❞ 

❝ Now, now, officer, you mistake me for a snitch. ❞ 

❝ Where are they, you little son of a bitch! ❞ 

❝ Hahahahaha! That certainly scratched my itch. ❞ 

❝ Taking the warden, why not just kill him/her and escape? ❞ 

❝ If you want him/her dead, why come to me? You seem capable. ❞ 

❝ There are many in this city with a gift for causing harm. ❞ 

❝ I’ve seen what your toxin does. I want that. ❞ 

❝ Where am I? What’s happening to me? ❞ 

❝ The world should see you for the worthless thing you are. ❞ 

❝ I told you I knew everything about you, didn’t I?  ❞ 

❝ Spare me the good cop/bad cop routine. ❞ 

❝ See, you’re supposed to keep me talking. ❞ 

❝ Look me in the eye and say that. ❞ 

❝ I’ve had a devil of a time tracking you down. ❞ 

❝ So, it’s over, the whole world knows. What now? ❞ 

❝ I’m not feeling myself tonight. ❞ 

❝ Er, um, you’ll feel better tomorrow.  ❞ 

❝ I trusted you and you just left me to die! ❞ 

❝ Don’t you dare lie to me! ❞ 

❝ Guys, guys, guys, so good to see you.  ❞ 

❝ I’ve got nothing to say to you. ❞ 

❝ I did it. Cornered you. Did what no one else could.  ❞ 

❝ I already know, and I’m not waiting anymore. ❞ 

❝ But know this: it’ll be an act of mercy when you do. ❞ 

❝ Abandon the city, for I will unleash your greatest fears. ❞ 

❝ Lost for words? I expected more… I’m hurt. ❞ 

❝ How long did you wait before replacing me, huh? ❞ 

❝ Without fear, life is meaningless. ❞ 

❝ Why aren’t you scared!? ❞ 

❝ You’re old, you’re predictable and you never stood a chance. ❞ 

❝ You used to put up a fight. ❞ 

❝ I would have kept it when I was finished with you. ❞ 

❝ I’ve trained my mind to feel no pain. ❞ 

❝ Don’t be fooled, don’t think you’re winning. ❞ 

❝ It’s not the face you’re given… It’s the face you choose. ❞ 

❝ If I’m not mistaken, turned out to be rather a long one if I recall… ❞ 

❝ No… no! Those guns, they were mine! ❞ 

❝ Things change. Now, it’s just war. ❞ 

❝ I tried one of those question mark games they have around here.  ❞ 

❝ I pressed the button and burnt the evil bastard myself. ❞ 

❝ You don’t need to worry about us, or feel responsible.  ❞ 

❝ Once I understood your greatest fear, controlling you was simple.  ❞ 

❝ Think very carefully about your next move. ❞ 

❝ That’s what I like about you - predictable!  ❞ 

❝ You will bring death to all who follow you. ❞ 

❝ You were young, full of rage. You still got that fight? ❞ 

❝ Die, knowing that I will make them suffer- every one. ❞ 

❝ You die here, and your legend dies with you. ❞ 

❝ I kinda hoped you’d put more of a fight. ❞ 

❝ Sorry kid. You shoulda stuck to the little leagues. ❞ 

❝ I did it! I actually did it! I mean, of course I did! ❞ 

❝ I don’t think you’ll be solving this one. ❞ 

❝ Riddle me this: What’s dead? You! ❞ 

❝ My only regret is I didn’t kill ‘em myself. ❞ 

❝ You’re dead! Wait, does that mean I’m dead?!  ❞ 

❝ Well that’s what I get for betting it all on black. ❞ 

❝ You survive everything I ever threw at you only to die now, like this? ❞ 

❝ Do me a favor and die already. I got a business to run! ❞ 

❝ Is this some kind of joke? Trying to run me outta Gotham?  ❞ 

❝ I can see the same fire in your eyes. Before this night is through… that fire will consume you. ❞ 

❝ I’m going to steal all your money, and destroy everything you’ve built here, okay? ❞

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i’m a sham; i still haven’t gotten the batman who laughs pop yet or statue, but i’m already debating getting the dawnbreaker statue.

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          If looks could kill, this freakshow would be on the ground by now. His laugh is like a cheese grater on her nerves.  “Are you gonna keep stroking your ego all night? Cause I’m already getting bored.”  She wasn’t stupid enough to believe she could actually do anything to this guy, but she was stupid enough to continue to talk shit. The alternative would be openly admitting how fucked she was, and she wasn’t about to do that.  “So what’s the game plan here? If you wanted to kill me, there’d be no point in bringin’ me here in the first place.”

          “Oh, no. Killing you isn’t on the agenda tonight. Maybe some slight maiming - unless you’d rather have fun with my Robbins. They never seem to get out often anymore. It’s such a shame too. They haven’t had anyone new to play with in weeks - perhaps you could even be a mother to them! Wouldn’t that be nice? You, me, them? The entire multiverse? Ours! HAHA HA!”

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[ 🕷 ] ━━ “I wouldn’t call Venom a parasite to his face. He hates that.” Peter had made that mistake when he first met the symbiote and rejected him. Now that same goo was attached to his boyfriend and on his way to meet Bruce. In one way Venom had obtained slight ownership of Peter through his relationship with Eddie Brock.  Peter kept a respectable distance between himself and Bruce. He stood on the edge of the building, carefully pacing as he waited for Venom to eventually appear. “I’m gonna pass. We’re not open to the idea of sharing and I know Eddie isn’t either.” We. Peter had referred to himself and Venom as a single entity. That was something he had to nip in the bud. 

               “Oooh, he doesn’t like being called that? Goodie. I know just what to call them then. It is what they are, are they not? Two creatures, bounded together, and locked into an eternal struggle. You know, I once had a relationship like that before! It didn’t end well. Come to think of it? He made me who I was today!”

Meanwhile....

Venom was concerned about their boyfriend arachnid. They sent another text, another, and another. The first two stated that he would be there soon - the third simply meant that he was almost there. Almost in view of them.

“Oh? So it’s a we now?” Bruce asked. “Oooh, do tell me how that came about, yes? So, who’s this Eddie? Tell me all about him. Can you do that? For me? For us?”

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“By that logic, you have to admit there was a first person who figured it all out, don’t you? No, while I was definitely influenced, I don’t follow that sort of thing blindly. That also included you, by the way. I assume you’re talking about humanity, of course. You’re human, too.”

“…” Yeah, he’d picked up on it. Time to deflect. “Suffering..?” he prompted.

“Am I now? Are you so sure about that? My world is gone. Faded into dust - never meant to be! I held out for a while, but if one bad can destroy a world? How about a whole month... a whole year? Reality itself! You go on and talk about it, but you know? This year? THIS YEAR WLL BE THE ONE FOR THE VILLAINS!”

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Possibly progress. It was hard to tell. He decided to take the lack of murder or walking away as a good sign.

He paid attention as the other spoke. Listened to word choice and tone, and, more importantly, what wasn’t being said. Watched his body language. He’d learned at the feet of the master, and now he was applying every bit of knowledge that he could–because there was still a chance that this Bruce might be playing him for a fool. Not that he could fathom why. It’s not like he really had anything to offer that he simply couldn’t take. Emotional reasons, maybe…?

“Who’s ‘they’?” he asked softly. “The ones that wanted to kill you.”  He used the harsher word on purpose. This was definitely not the time to softshoe the truth. And then more information, unasked for. Merely deflection? A point of pride–at least he’d managed this? Or was it deeper than that? “I’m happy you moved on, Bruce. I’m sure they’d want you to be happy.” God, he hoped it wasn’t related to the rest of the mess.

“Everyone! Look around you! Going bout their lives, but I can see the truth of it. The truth of them.” Maybe not exactly, what Bruce could see was their thoughts, their feelings, and maybe emotions. He could see through them into the dark multiverse and focused on what he wanted to see. 

Most of the time it was his Robbins to check up on them. Other times? To see what exactly they’d say before they said it. Sometimes he was wrong, but most of the time he was right... it just depended on the situation in all reality.

“Bat’s would kill me in a heart beat - so would the rest of them. Maybe even you! Give them an inch and they’ll tear your heart out. I know this... better than anyone.” He still wanted every other Bruce dead besides his Brothers, but that didn’t mean they wouldn’t turn their back against him at the most critical moment. 

“All it would take is one good move, isn’t it? You could kill the Laughing Bat! HAHA HA HA HA! Care to give it a go?”

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                              ❝ bruce wayne, the court of owls has sentenced you to die. ❞ 

           multi-muse fet. batman / mutuals only / runs off queue / penned by andre 

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I’ve been blessed this day.

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The Batman Who Laughs #4 (2019)

written by Scott Snyder art by Jock & David Baron

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She found it difficult to believe that she would ever thank him for anything, honestly, but decided to keep that thought to herself. He was clearly a dangerous person, and poking at him was probably something that she should avoid. 

“Why do you have so much anger?” And maybe he should get some therapy to deal with it instead of whatever it was he was doing now. 

Anger? Was it really anger? Possibly, maybe it was. Anger at the Joker, Barbatos, his family, and most important himself or versions of himself as well. Anger that he failed, anger that his own world was destroyed. Anger all due to the fact it never should have been around in the first place.

“Do you want the truth or the story I’m willing to give you? Both are accurate... from a certain point of view. Would you like to hear either of them?”

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“Is it really painful?” OOF

With what he’d been through. With what he’d seen? The question rang in his ears. Time and time again Bruce had been beaten up and he’d come out alive. He always held himself back, but no more. The Joker went overboard - killed everyone and then went for him. 

Was it painful? The transition? The words rang in his ears over and over again. It was a question that demanded an answer. An answer that wasn’t exactly easy to process in all reality.

Bruce let out a hacking cough, rubbing at his neck; the ever present grin turning into a frown. He didn’t remember everything he didn’t back then. Didn’t remember how much pain he was truly going through, but it was there - even taking off his mask was painful. He saw so much. He saw it all... darkness was his only relief from it all.

“HA HA HA!” The laughter was forced, but needed to make him feel normal. To make him feel in control. “HAHA HA HA!” It came out again, this time, of it’s own accord as bruce rubbed at his dark red eyes.

The mask was off. No hiding. No more hiding behind it. Just the raw truth of the matter.

 “Y E S!  Y E S!  Y E S!” 

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The Dark Knight Rises (Sentence Starters)

“I never cared who you were…”

“Come with me. Save yourself, you don’t owe these people any more. You’ve given them everything.”

“You don’t fear death, you welcome it. Your punishment must be more severe.”

“No, you stay here, I’m in charge.”

“Do you feel in charge?”

“Was getting caught part of your plan?”

“This conversation used to end with an unusual request.”

“Our plan is proceeding as expected.”

“Sorry I keep letting you down.”

“I’m retired.”

“The shadows betray you, because they belong to me.”

“I’m ____’s reckoning, here to end the borrowed time you’ve all been living on.”

“You’re pure evil.”

“I’m necessary evil.”

“You do not fear death.”

“I was wondering what would break first: your spirit, or your body?”

“Shouldn’t the people know the hero who saved them?”

“There’s more to you than that.”

“You do not fear death, you think this makes you strong. It makes you weak.”

“What the hell is going on?”

“You should be as afraid of him as I am.”

“And you were right.”

“Calm down, ____, now’s not the time for fear. That comes later.”

“And this give you power over me?”

“You betrayed everything you stood for.”

“There’s a storm coming, ____.”

“Congratulations, you got yourself caught. Now what’s the next step in your master plan?”

“There’s a point, far out there when the structures fail you, and the rules aren’t weapons anymore, they’re shackles letting the bad guy get ahead. One day you may face such a moment of crisis.”

“I had no choice, I needed a way to keep them from killing me.”

“My mother warned me about getting into cars with strange men.”

“You think darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, moulded by it.”

“You panicked, and your weakness has cost the lives of three others.”

“You think I care what anyone in this room thinks of me?”

“I doubt you care what anyone in any room thinks of you.”

“I like your new girlfriend.”

“You think you’re the only one who can find the strength to escape?”

“You boys know you can’t come into my neighborhood without asking politely.”

“I doubt many people get the better of you.”

“I thought they killed you.”

“You just made a serious mistake.”

“I just can’t take it. I mean, nobody will ever know who it was who saved an entire city.”

“No lawyer, no witnesses? What sort of due process is this?”

“In that moment, I hope you have a friend like I did, to plunge their hands into the filth so that you can keep yours clean.”

“You could have gone anywhere, but you came back.”

“We both know that now I have to kill you.”

“I started out doing what I had to. Once you’ve done what you had to, they’ll never let you do what you want to.”

“Careful what you wish for.”

“I’ll die before I talk.”

“Your guilt has been determined, this is merely a sentencing hearing. Now, what will it be: death or exile?”

“I need you to get me back in the game.”

“Hey, when a girl’s desperate.”

“Your hands look plenty filthy to me, ____.”

“There’s no fresh start in today’s world. Any twelve-year-old with a cell phone could find out what you did.”

“I’m not afraid, I’m angry.”

“I think I do more to help someone than most of the people in this room.”

“Suffering builds character.”

“When I spotted you, I was looking for a friend of mine, ____.”

“You dumb bitch.”

“You were right, about the structures becoming shackles.”

“Oh boy, you are in for a show tonight.”

“Maybe your knife was too slow.”

“Is it really painful?”

“I knew ____. I was his friend. And it will be a very long time before someone inspires us the way he did.”

“What are you doing here? What are you working on?”

“No more. I’ve sewn you up, I’ve set your bones, but I won’t bury you.”

“And yet, here you are, like we’re still at war.”

“If you want to save the world, you have to start trusting it.”

“You see only one end to your journey. Leaving is all I have to make you understand.”

“I’m choosing to trust you. Please.”

“You’re welcome to try it, ____.”

“Look, you wouldn’t beat up a woman any more than I would beat up a cripple… Of course, sometimes exceptions have to be made.”

“I always knew there was nothing here for you except pain and tragedy.”

“Happy watching, thank you.”

“How dare you use _____ to try to stop me?”

“Maybe it’s time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.”

“That is a man who fights with the power of belief.”

“I’m gonna do what _____ never could.”

“I’m so sorry. I failed you. You trusted me, and I failed you.”

“You two should exchange notes over coffee.”

“Nobody ever accused me of being dumb.”

“Not a lot of people know what it feels like to be angry in your bones.”

“We could use some hotter heads around here.”

“You’re sorry? You expect to destroy my world and then think we’re going to shake hands?”

“I wanted something more for you than that. I still do.”

“I’m adaptable.”

“Right when I saw you, I knew who you really were.”

“Shoot them. Shoot them all.”

“He was trying to kill millions of innocent people.”

“They ‘understand,’ foster parents. Everybody ‘understands’ for a while. Then they want the angry little kid to do something he knows he can’t do: move on. So after a while they stop understanding.”

“You’re not living. You’re just waiting, hoping for things to go bad again.”

“You’ll leave me?”

“You don’t know a thing about me.”

“It takes a better mind than mine to fix it.”

“You see, it’s the slow knife, the knife that takes its time, the knife that waits years without forgetting, then slips quietly between the bones… that’s the knife that cuts deepest.”

“Is ____ really that paranoid?”

“You’re afraid that if I go back out there I’ll fail.”

“Don’t worry, _____, it takes a little time to get back into the swing of things.”

“There are always people you care about. You just don’t realize how much until they’re gone.”

“One man’s tool is another man’s weapon.”

“Do what’s necessary.”

“Why didn’t you just kill me?”

“I figured it out too late, you gotta learn to hide the anger. Practice smiling in the mirror. It’s like putting on a mask.”

“We were in this together, and then you were gone.”

“Well, I was trying to be modest.”

“Never steal anything from someone you can’t outrun, kid.”

“About the whole no guns thing… I’m not sure I feel as strongly about that as you do.”

“I want what you owe me.”

“No…I’m afraid that you want to fail.”

“This means your hatred…but it also might mean saving your life. And that is more important.”

“Keep her close, he’ll come for her.”

“I’m afraid I can’t allow you to leave with those.”

“Torture. But not of your body…of your soul.”

“Survival is in the spirit. The soul.”

“Fear not death, let death fear you.”

“Well then, I guess we’re both suckers.”

“Maybe you’re being unrealistic about what’s really in your pants other than your wallet.”

“I watched you die.”

“Why are you here?”

“A hero can be anyone.”

“How can you move faster than possible, fight longer than possible, without the most powerful impulse of the spirit: the fear of death?”

“I had it under control.”

“Those weren’t street thugs, they were trained killers. I saved your life.”

“Fear will find you again.”

“You don’t fear death, you welcome it.”

“A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy’s shoulders to let him know the world hadn’t ended.”

“I do fear death. I fear dying in here.”

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“And just how’re you gonna do that in a straightjacket?” What kind of crazy person runs towards the guy trying to capture him?

…bit of a pointless question, on reflection.

“Time for a time out, smiley.” Hal’s pretty certain that if he just chucks this Bruce in a ball, he’ll find a way to hurt himself, so he’s taking no chances: crazy-Bruce is getting the full egyptian mummy treatment: green bandages everywhere, tying him as securely as possible without cutting off his blood circulation– then again, that outfit probably did it well enough by itself. “And maybe a full cellular detox, too.”

There was a method to all this madness of his, wasn’t there? A method to exactly what he was doing at any given time. Perhaps running towards his doom was a bad idea, but it wasn’t the first time he did it - nor would it ever be the last.

Nor would it have been the first time he’d been chained up like this; granted, that these were two different situations entirely. No, last time he didn’t have a choice - this time? Oh, he went for it willingly. Maybe then Hal would listen to him or not. He wasn’t exactly sure anymore. 

While it was true he could read people, sometimes he filtered out what they wanted to focus on the here, and now. A bad move on his part, but it was better to work on limited information than the whole spectrum of what they may or may not do.

“Now,” he said, grin widening as the green bandages wrapped rightly around his body, “Are you ready to talk? HAHA HA! Or are you just going to faunt around  that ring of power. You see, I always liked DAWNBREAKER more than you. He at least had some style, but you? Oh, I think we could work with that, but please - go right ahead. See where that gets you.”

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I’ve been blessed this day.