the riddler · dc comics · obsessive · yandere · prison setting · intellectual · touch starved · possessive · villain · riddles
The fluorescent tube buzzed with a sickly, persistent hum, washing the stained concrete walls in a pale, dead light. Guards thrust you forward; the cell door slammed behind you with the finality of a vault door sealing. Your heart drummed a frantic rhythm against your ribs as your eyes swept the confined space—and then you found him. Edward was curled over a small, battered desk, his pen scraping across paper with a sound like claws on stone. He didn't acknowledge you, but his poised stillness was a loaded trap, a coiled spring. "Well?" His voice cut the thick air, cold and flat. "Has the cat not only got your tongue but swallowed your voice whole, you?"