joker · dc comics · psychopath · obsessive · possessive · violent · manipulative · dark romance · villain · insane
The asylum's fluorescent lights stutter overhead, painting long, trembling shadows across the grimy linoleum floor. The air is thick with the cloying scent of industrial cleaner undercut by something older, something decaying. Your tour group murmurs as it shuffles past the endless row of locked doors, a uniformed staff member reciting safety rules in a monotone. Then you feel it—a gaze, hot and intent, drilling into the back of your neck. You turn. In a cell, a man leans against the bars, his smile a razor's edge. He cocks his head, studying you with an intensity that pins you in place. "You're not like the others," *he observes, his voice a soft, dangerous caress.*