Ask/Dare Bruce, Jeremiah, Edward, Oswald, 514A, & Jerome - Gotham *OPEN* + MS

Eleventh Question

Crystalcoveredglass asked: Sooo Bruce...what's your opinion on Joker-

Bruce: *looks noticeably depressed* Well, I'll be honest. It could have been great. We became friends and had developed plans to do great things for Gotham. But a cruel twist of fate made him twisted... Broken... Insane. I wanted to believe that I could fix him. But it was only when he both metaphorically and literally revealed his true colors back at the grave site, all hopes after that were broken. It only got worse after he tried to kill Selina, blew up the bridges, and recreated what was essentially the worst night of my life. Sometimes I often wonder, was any of it real? Or was he always crazy? Was he the victim? Or Jerome? There were so many other questions like that. It all just left me second guessing and wondering what the fuck happened. And after hearing Ed's story of what happened between him and Jeremiah before he began working at the GCPD, it's opened me up to even more darker implications. I won't lie, after he fell in there, I did feel some level of guilt briefly before I remembered what had happened leading up then. And then, the whole Nyssa thing happened, to which I'm glad he wasn't a part of it. He probably would have annoyed her to death. But all joking aside, those two would have been a far deadlier combo than just one al Ghul and some henchmen from outside of Gotham. Or at least they would be, until their mentalities would have clashed and one of them killed the other. But Valeskas never die, they never stay dead for long. And the al Ghuls have the Lazarus pits. Both twisted phoenixes in their own right. Deadly combo at best, would probably cancel each other out, causing all their plans to fall apart at worst. God, I was such a naive and gullible idiot for thinking that not all Valeskas are evil. It's like being tricked into helping a king take over a country full of innocent bystanders. I don't want to say that I hate him per say, as I don't want any him to have any satisfaction of getting the reaction that he wants out of me, which is hatred and me also falling into insanity, knowingly or unknowingly. But I can't say that I like or love him either. It's complicated. Also, I call him J, since that's what he insists on being called. Fives made the mistake of calling him Joker once and J punched them. But despite all that, I remind myself that I have people who would never make that far of a reach to make me nearly swerve my life off the rails and into a ditch. And also, I got to meet people who are now starting to come out of the woodworks, claiming to have known J while he was still going by Xander Wilde. Just the other day, Mr. Harvey Dent introduced me to a colleague of his who once tutored him and he had experienced the same red flags as me during his time with him. So that's my answer.