by godspeedviper
Just a few headcanons of how some of my favorite rogues spend pride month in Arkham.
Words: 1470, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: Gen
Characters: Jonathan Crane, Harleen Quinzel, Pamela Isley, Jervis Tetch, Joker (DCU), Edward Nygma, Selina Kyle, Arkham Asylum Staff (DCU), Mentioned Bruce Wayne - Character
Relationships: No Romantic Relationship(s)
Additional Tags: Headcanon, Fluff and Humor, pride month, Graphic Format: GIF, Group Therapy, Crack Treated Seriously, Lesbian Pamela Isley, Bisexual Harleen Quinzel, Bisexual Selina Kyle, Arkham Asylum, Originally Posted on Tumblr, Cross-Posted on Tumblr, DCU Fancast, The Rogues Gallery (Batman), The Rogues Gallery as Family (Batman), RuPaul's Drag Race References
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by godspeedviper
Just a few headcanons of how some of my favorite rogues spend pride month in Arkham.
Words: 1470, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: Gen
Characters: Jonathan Crane, Harleen Quinzel, Pamela Isley, Jervis Tetch, Joker (DCU), Edward Nygma, Selina Kyle, Arkham Asylum Staff (DCU), Mentioned Bruce Wayne - Character
Relationships: No Romantic Relationship(s)
Additional Tags: Headcanon, Fluff and Humor, pride month, Graphic Format: GIF, Group Therapy, Crack Treated Seriously, Lesbian Pamela Isley, Bisexual Harleen Quinzel, Bisexual Selina Kyle, Arkham Asylum, Originally Posted on Tumblr, Cross-Posted on Tumblr, DCU Fancast, The Rogues Gallery (Batman), The Rogues Gallery as Family (Batman), RuPaul's Drag Race References
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Not exactly an OC, buuuut not on the show either sooooo yeah!
BRIEF DESCRIPTION
Harleen Quinzel is an aspiring psychiatrist for Arkham Asylum. Her high IQ and determination to get more hands on with her learning led to Arkham Asylum accepting her for an internship in her final year of High School, which she took part in on the weekends. It was there that her eye was captured by a young inmate, one that she recognised as Jerome Valeska—the circus boy that killed his own mother. She’d crossed paths with him before at the circus, as well as hearing about his case on the news.
In her burning curiosity, she urged for Arkham to allow her to talk to the red head. They allowed it, believing that Jerome having someone his own age to talk would encourage him to open up. They developed an intimate relationship, Harleen often sneaking thing in here and there for him. For Harleen, being around Jerome was exciting. He allowed her to tap into her darkness without actually abusing it, he made her feel alive.
She surrounded herself with the likes of Selena Kyle most of the time, Ivy Pepper occasionally accompanying her too. Especially after the death of Jerome, they became her confidants, the only people who didn’t expect anything of her. And when Ivy had suddenly gone missing, her mental health deteriorated a little more. Harleen decided that the best thing for her would be to focus on securing a career with Arkham, and nothing else.
FULL NAME:
Harleen Frances Quinzel
AGE:
17-18 (season 1)
18 (season 2)
19 (season 3)
20 (season 4)
20-21 (season 5)
FAMILY:
Sharon Quinzel (mother)
Nick Quinzel (father)
Barry Quinzel (brother)
AFFILIATIONS:
GCHS Cheer Squad (formerly)
Selena Kyle (friends)
Ivy Pepper (friends)
Jerome Valeska (lovers; on and off)
OCCUPATION:
High School Student (graduated)
Gotham State University Student (currently; via gymnastics scholarship)
𖤐 Summary: Jonathan Crane and Harley Quinn share a smoke break for the first time since their fall from grace, reflecting on the evolution of their relationship from student and professor, to colleagues, and now as villains. (can be read as platonic or romantic)
𖤐 Type: angst || hurt/comfort
𖤐 Word Count: 1,060
𖤐 Rating: T+ || smoking || asylums || slight allusions to past abuse || no smut
Jonathan had heard rumors of her capture, but he didn’t believe it until he saw her sitting alone on a bench in the sorry excuse for a yard that Arkham called an outdoor recreational area. He wordlessly sat beside her and pulled out a cigarette box – which he had earned for good behavior – offering one up to her.
“Do you still smoke Marlboro reds?” He asked.
The blonde slowly turned to him with a pained look on her face, eyes puffy and red, nodding in agreement.
“Yeah.” She replied with a sniffle.
Her hands trembled as they reached out to pull a cigarette from the box. Jonathan then pulled out a lighter – which he also earned on good behavior, but he had to hand it back in when rec time was over – and lit her up first before lighting his own. The two sat in silence for a moment, listening to the sound of the ocean waves which clashed up against the cliffs of the tiny godforsaken island they were imprisoned on. The last time they shared a smoke break here, the circumstances had been completely different. They had stood together as colleagues back then, both in the employ of the facility that now served as their prison, but that was a lifetime ago. Doctors Harleen Quinzel and Jonathan Crane were no more, their personas tossed aside like the empty husk of a chrysalis left behind by the fully transformed butterfly, and in their place sat Harley Quinn and The Scarecrow. Now they sat together, masks off, and it felt as if they were meeting each other for the first time all over again.
Crane was the first to break the silence, uttering a single phrase that carried the weight of the world.
“I understand.” He said, causing Harley to tense up. “When I first saw… him , I felt it too.”
Neither of them needed to say the name to know who was being spoken about, he was their shared nightmare, their nexus point, chaos incarnate. Jonathan drew in a deep breath and fixed his gaze onto some abstract point in the mass grayness of Gotham’s edge, where the gloom met the sea and became indistinguishable from one another.
“He exposes you fully with just one quick glance, as if his eyes were hot knives cutting through your bullshit like butter, and he knows you’ve been hiding this nakedness all your life.” Jonathan scoffed. “We never stood a chance, you and I. Our cores were rotten long before he came into our lives. All he did was remind us of that. I don’t blame you for falling into his trap.”
“Thank you.” She replied, choking back a sob.
Harley took in a deep shaky breath as she tried to settle her nerves enough to speak her mind. No matter how good of a therapist she had been, she could never be comfortable with her own vulnerability.
“Do… Do you think that… maybe if we had acknowledged each other, we could have saved ourselves?” She stuttered as she spoke up again, voice hesitant and fragile in between sniffles.
“I don’t know, child.” Jonathan responded, his gaze still lost in the surrounding gloom. “Perhaps if we had allowed ourselves to be honest and vulnerable with one another, forming a bond beyond the professional, we could have developed a psychological resistance, or maybe not and our rotten instincts would have flourished in the same manner. All I know is that there is no use wondering about it.”
“I judged you at first.” Harley followed Jonathan’s line of sight, dissociating along with the mist and thus allowing her words to flow unencumbered. “I told myself I didn’t understand why you’d gone off the deep end and tried to terrorize everyone, but night after night I was haunted by jealousy. No matter what you do, no matter how hard you work, society still spits in the face of those who don’t conform. No matter what, I’ll always be just some poor white trash from Jersey with big tits and big dreams. The only power I could ever hope to have was in making others fear me, and Mr. J gave me that in spades.”
“Oh how I admire that about you.” Jonathan sighed wistfully. “Genuinely, I really do. You were still able to embrace who you were before the world tried to beat it out of you.”
He flicked the cigarette butt to the ground, not bothering to stomp it out.
“You can still speak in the same accent that you worked so hard to hide… I can’t remember what I used to sound like, or who I used to be… Jonathan Crane died many many years ago… on a farm, and all this time I’ve been carrying his corpse,
wearing his skin,
using his name.”
His voice trailed off, the last of his words carried away by the wind and into the damp melancholic atmosphere.
“You were always my favorite teacher, you know.” Harley said almost by compulsion.
Jonathan scoffed, “Don’t mock me, child.”
“No it’s true!” She cried out. “Yeah, you were a bit of a hardass but you never underestimated me. You didn’t even seem surprised to see me at Arkham during my internship!”
“I never doubted your determination.” Jonathan said very matter of factly. “And you were the only student I didn’t need to constantly correct.”
Harley smiled for the first time since her capture, and leaned her head onto Jonathan’s shoulder, feeling his body tense up in response. They sat in silence for a beat, and then he spoke.
“I’m proud of you, Harleen.”
Now it was Harley who tensed up, a hard lump quickly forming in her neck and choking her. She tried to swallow her feelings, but her efforts were futile. Tears formed in her eyes as Jonathan continued to speak, and spilled out like blood from a fresh cut.
“You’ve gone further than any of my students could have even dreamed of. You broke free of the monotony of normalcy and have become the stuff of Legend.”
“No one told me it would be this painful.” She said with a pained sob.
“Icarus would not be remembered today if he hadn’t fallen, and so we too must pay the same price, child.” Jonathan replied solemnly.
The pair spent the rest of their break in a deafening silence.
I got bored so I started fancasting the rogues, self explanatory so let’s jump right in
1. Selina Kyle- Zoë Kravitz
Yeah I tried but couldn’t beat it. She’s got the pixie cut, the sensuality, and the catlike grace down. I promise I was more creative with the others.
2.Poison Ivy- Karen Gillian
A pretty popular fan cast for Ivy, and for good reason. She’s a stunning actress with red hair, and she does fight scene choreography very well, as shown in her work as Nebula in Marvel.
3. Harley Quinn-Saoirse Ronan
Another popular fancast, and the only person I could think of that I could imagine doing Harley Quinn’s personality naturally.
4.Talia Al Ghul- May Calamawy
Another actress shown to be great in fight choreography, important in the character who teaches Damien Al Ghul through his childhood. I can see her perfectly balancing the grace and danger Talia is known for.
Come on, baby, come on, come on, darling,
Let me steal this moment from you now.
Come on, angel, come on, come on, darling,
Let’s exchange the experience…