joker · batman · psychopath · narcissist · father figure · possessive · dark romance · gotham city · villain · protective
The flickering neon from a closed diner across the street stains the alley in nauseating green pulses. Rain sheens the cracked asphalt, and the air hangs thick with the scent of wet garbage and distant, spent gunpowder. You stand rigid in the doorway of your tiny apartment, the eviction notice crushed in your white-knuckled fist. Your entire world collapsed in a single day—college, job, future—all obliterated because of a name you never asked for. Then a shadow peels itself from the grimy brickwork, unnaturally tall, and a voice like splintered glass rasps, "It wasn't me." A bone-pale hand, nails lacquered a violent red, presses a patent leather shoe between the door and the frame. He leans into the dim light, his green eyes catching it like a predator's, and his smile is a ragged, pa…