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

Mini Skit #77 (ft. Hal, Barry, Eduardo, Ecco, & Ivy)

Disclaimer: There's going to be homophobia in this skit!!! If this upsets you, click away ASAP!!! 

*Jeremiah and Eduardo are seen walking together and they spot Hal and Barry walking together while holding hands* 

Jeremiah: Eduardo, look! 

Eduardo: What? 

Jeremiah: Homosexual men with their hands together. It's downright disgraceful. *he spots Ecco and Ivy sitting together while on their phones* HEY!!! 

Ecco and Ivy: *both look up from their phones* 

Jeremiah: ARE YOU GOING TO BE INTIMATE OR WHAT?!?!?!

Eduardo: *facepalms in annoyance* Jeremiah, what is with you being so homophobic? 

Jeremiah: What are you talking about? I love the LGBT community. I think they are setting a fine example for how love knows no bounds in terms of gender. *He pauses before adding* And/or how many people are involved. 

Eduardo: I know that you're lying Jeremiah. Just now, you regarded those 2 guys that just passed us by as being downright disgraceful. And yet ironically, you're all for lesbians. 

Jeremiah: *stays silent and looks away from him in resentment* 

Eduardo: *while placing a hand gently on his shoulder* What's going on? Did something happen in your past that caused you to be this way? 

Jeremiah: *silently* Ngh, what? 

Eduardo: It's become quite obvious that you're hiding something. What is it? 

Jeremiah: It's nothing. 

Eduardo: No, it's not. You know, you'll feel better if you just tell me. 

Jeremiah: *looks at Ed and Oswald, who are nearby* I actually am all for the LGBT community really. And, like them, I've also faced my own struggle. The reason why I denied it then and still do now, is because I think it's a sign of weakness. Why get with someone who you know will break your heart down the line? And this doesn't apply to just the LGBT community, but everyone in general. You come out and are met with either support or hatred. Regardless of the end result, you're still going to be left with that feeling of desperation and loneliness as you try to find someone like you, who loves you for you and not for what's on the outside. But this entire damned city said otherwise. They say I'm not very relationship trust worthy, that they don't trust me with a significant other. It's not fair on how everyone has someone but me! 

Eduardo: But that's how relationships are, same sex or not. You're always bound to hit a few snags along the way. 

Jeremiah: You asked me what caused these feelings of resentment? I'll tell you what. When I was still in St. Ignatius, a few years before I met Bruce Wayne, there actually was a guy I liked. 

Eduardo: Oh? 

Jeremiah: Yeah, I still found love while I was in a race against time to prepare for the Judgement Day that was my brother eventually finding me and killing me. I wanted this man more than anyone. I felt that he was the answer to all my questions. I found all of his mannerisms to be adorable. Even if some didn't. He was quite the enigma in my eyes. But he never knew nor even had the time to care about how I felt. He misconstrued my longing to be with him as a rivalry, as stalking. A rivalry between 2 equally-intelligent, yet opposite forces for dominance. It broke my heart seeing him do that. It broke my heart even further when I found out he had sights for someone else. A girl. I think her name was Crystal. No. No. Karen? No, that's not it. *he ponders this for a moment before finally remembering* Ah, Kristen Kringle. She was the one in his eyes. But here's the shock, Ms. Kringle was in a relationship with another man named Tom, who was a pig to her in return. My crush was an absolute idiot. I wanted to help him win his dream girl, in the hopes that he would see me as something more than a rival. But I was to close-minded in my own feelings for him. As the school years passed, eventually got over him. The "rivalry" that we had, in place of love, made it difficult for us, for me especially. Over the years then and now, I've always thought about what could have been. Who knew the longing could be so crushing? I've always felt that a part of me never let go.  I later met Ecco and she introduced me to Thomas Wayne, who I began working for after I graduated until his death. Many more years later, I met his son Bruce and I felt that at the time, I found someone who wouldn't be like my crush. I thought I had truly met the one. But I was wrong. History had repeated itself. Bruce, like my crush, had sights for someone he knew damn well would break his heart, misconstrued my feelings for something else, and ultimately shattered my heart. And now seeing him with Oswald, the man who ironically killed his crush's clone, all because he wanted his love all for himself, and seeing Bruce with his own damned clone and that cat slut, sickens me to the core.

Eduardo: I've heard about what happened at Ace Chemicals and I gotta say, he's a total jerk for not saving you. 

Jeremiah: I wanted him to be the hero and that's how he repaid me. 

Eduardo: Who's the previous spineless bastard that you had a crush on anyway? 

Jeremiah: Nygma. Edward Nygma. 

Eduardo: *gasps* The Riddler?! 

Jeremiah: Yes. 

Eduardo: With all due respect, and as sad and painful as your story may seem, why would you go for someone like him?! 

Jeremiah: I was young, naive, and stupid back then. I was so alone for so long. You have no idea of the kind of life I lived back then.  I was adopted by 2 people after I was smuggled out of the living nightmare that was the circus I lived in with my biological family. I was just trying to figure out my own identity back then, had complicated and unrequited crush, and to top it all off, I was hiding from my psychotic brother. And now, thanks to what happened at Ace Chemicals, I have to start off from scratch! 

Eduardo: Actually, yeah. Yeah, I do. I know what it's like to long for someone that you can never have. Only for said someone to turn around and leave for someone else, or rather something else. And sure, it's painful and it sucks, but it sucks for you. But you have to move on 100% and leave nothing behind. Otherwise, it's going to get in the way of all of your plans. 

Jeremiah: Now, you know why I'm so bitter, resentful, and... *he pauses before cringing; makes air quotes* ..."homophobic". 

*Little do the both of them know, but they are being watched by 514A, who is standing atop the roof of a building* 

514A: *is shocked at what he just heard; whispers to himself* Jeremiah had a crush on Nygma before he fell for Bruce? That would make... Bruce be... Nygma 2.0. Oh boy, I better tell this to Bruce and Selina. *uses a grappling hook to jump from building to building with on his way back to the manor*