( This is around the time in the movie whenever the news is broadcasting the video he made of the Waynes covering up their image by killing the reporter. Bruce is distraught by this and immediately goes to see Carmine Falcone in search for answers. Similar to the movie he parallels his first appearance at the iceberg and asks his "do you know who i am?" line while drenched from the rain, he then heads up see Falcone. Currently this is the riddlers point of view. )
Edward sits at a bus stop ground level a block or so in front of the Iceberg lounge, facing the window to Falcone's office. He is looking cautiously up to the window "Today we will be birdwatching everyone, here we have gothams finest falcon." he says and chuckles softly to his viewers. Hes using a regular monocular with a small camera to the taped to the top to stalk his prey. He then continues to update his fans, "Appears they are playing pool again, our rat is not doing too bad as usual but the Penguin seems to be in the lead- yet i am unsure why guard number 2 also has a cue..." He trails off before regathering his focus as bruce wayne walks in. "Look at this-? The unexpected has shown up!"
It begins to rain harder and then a loud boom of thunder spooks Edward and he drops the monocular/camera. "shit!" Edward exclaims. He attempts to be quick to fix it but the storm picks up and he is gets frustrated and shoved the ruined camera into his bag. He crams all of his tools into his bag except the broken monocular and he looks back up there and sees bruce and Falcone alone. They get closer and he pieces it together. "Poor Bruce is now finding out his father had the reporter killed to protect the campaign, or so he believes," Edward mutters as he finishes packing up his things and walks back to his appartment in the rain. On his way there he takes out his phone to post an apology to his fans for abruptly ending the stream and blames the storms and the connections. The comments immediately fill up with them claiming he definitely dropped it with the thunder but he fails to notice.
After he quickly plugs the camera in for a diagnostic and changes into more comfortable clothing. "water damage, the usual." he complains to himself and opens up the camera, removes the data chip and tosses the rest into his scraps bucket beside his desk. "I wonder if bruce remebers how close him and i were," his mind wonders. "I wonder if he remembers me from the few nights he went to my orphanage," edward gets lost in thought before setting up the chip and starts to fall into the memories of them as children.
Whenever the Waynes were murdered before Alfred could take bruce into his full custody bruce had to spend a week or so in an orphanage. he mostly kept to himself the first few days but there was one kid, Edward. He seemed to have this obsession with befriending him. Every morning bruce would wake up to Edward asking to join him with piano practice, playing with toys or often for breakfast. Bruce couldn't shake the memory of his parents being killed so he always accepted the invitation because to him these distractions helped. one morning Edward woke bruce up with a surprise. "Bruce! Bruce! i need to show you something come on!!" He shouted as he attempted to wake up his new friend who was clearly just pretending to be asleep.
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