[ Image: A drawing of Warren White/Great White Shark and Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin sitting outside, at night, in the middle of a snow flurry. Oswald is wearing a plain, bluish fur coat over his usual posh wear, mittens, and is leaning an open umbrella on his shoulder. The umbrella's hooked handle is a feathery bird's head. Warren is sitting on the ground beside him, wearing a pinkish leopard print fur coat over his own outfit, with a beanie with a puff on the top of his head and mittens. He has folded around himself, his legs crossed at the ankles, with one arm tucked under his leg and the other leaned between his knees. Warren is shivering with a grim look on his face, and Oswald looks bored with a disappointed tint. The image is done in dull purple-blue tones. ]
"It snows every year, I'm not sure how you aren't prepared for this."
"I k-kind of had a b-bad experience with c-cold recently, you might rec-call."
[ Image: An uncolored drawing of the Black and White gang walking along the sidewalk in a downtown area. The Penguin/Oswald Cobblepot and Great White Shark/Warren White are in the foreground, with Oswald wearing a cardigan over a button-up and slacks with an umbrella under one arm and a hand on his hip, and Warren wearing a suit with organic stripes on the arms and sides and a long scarf, a hand on his hip and the other brought up to his brow to block out the sun. Roman Sionis is in the background, drawn minimally, with cats attacking him. He's trying to pull a cat off of his face and kick a cat away at the same time, his outfit covered in scratches. Oswald asks, "What's keeping him?", and Warren replies, "Pack of stray cats. Again." ]
I think Catwoman should make it so Black Mask can't go out in public, lest he be beset upon by beasts (mean ass stray cats). Warren is wearing a tiger shark themed suit here.
Summary: Astrid Arkham makes plans to kill Batman, forms a cult, and furthers the twisted legacy inherent to her bloodline. Not that she’s aware of the last part.
If Warren White cared enough he’d call it ironic, or maybe just stupidly grim. As it is, he mostly just wishes the Arkham Knight would stop feeding his closest associate the metaphorical kool-aid.
Characters: Warren White, Humphry Dumpler, Astrid Arkham, Jeremiah Arkham
Relationships: Warren White & Humphry Dumpler
Additional Tags: cults, brief description of human branding, institutional abuse, incompetent doctors, morally gray characters, bittersweet ending, unrealistic depictions of mental illness/hospitals, because it’s Batman (duh), friendship, minor hurt/comfort
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My second ever publicly posted fanfic, partly inspired by Arkham Asylum: Living Hell and Detective Comics #1000- #1002 (2019), but mostly by the-ventriloquizt (AKA helloemptyset) who happens to love the same obscure Batman characters as me. I recommend checking out their *adorable* fanart. Link below