I Wonder If The Alternative Me, Who Decided To Pick Up Drumsticks Instead Of Pencil To Draw Is Having

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(wish I had something new to post for Portal 2’s anniversary today, but I did recently spend some time refining this ol’ thing, so… here’s that instead!  

Happy second anniversary to the greatest game I’ve ever played!)

If I had a nickel for every time Joker dies (or isn't in a state to be technically considered alive), but somehow even beyond his grave partners up with Batman and works as a narrator or a deuteragonist, I'd have three nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened three times.

Evan Cagle’s covers for Detective Comics (2022)

What if, whenever he's sent to solitary, entirely restrained and trapped with his own thoughts, Joker writes diaries.

It's canon that he knows Morse code, and that he's used it to communicate with other inmates through the walls. And it's also canon that he's the kind of guy who draws and scribbles and writes down thoughts and schemes. It definitely helps organize the chaos in his head... and if sensory deprivation gets thrown in, there's no doubt Joker goes a little more insane each time he's left utterly alone. He needs stimulation, and being made unable to move freely and given nothing for his mind to chew on must be torturous.

So maybe he writes journal entries in Morse code, tapping away with whatever limb he's got available. And maybe one day, entirely by accident, Bruce hears the pattern. He goes back to the Batcomputer and has it analyze all the data from Joker's cell that's available, has it translate the Morse code into text.

Bruce buries himself in the Cave for days on end, reading. What if there's some kind of crucial clue in there, after all? But they're all either letters to Batman, or to Joker himself. Sometimes they're entirely disjointed and make no sense, other times they're painfully self-aware. They're sad and contradictory, either describing Batman's death in graphic detail or begging him to come back, to save him, to kill him-- and Bruce won't ever be able to look at Joker the same way.

Worst road trip ever

MOOOOOOM, they’re trying to turn Tumblr into TikTok again!

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<study from a few months back>