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working-class Batman with no known origin story, he just appears on the streets of Gotham as a hero of the people, with no wayne funding behind him just a man with ferocity and indominable will, who targets regular crime but also goes on a specific streak against the corporate elite of Gotham who have made themselves rich off exploiting the working class + selling themselves to the mob
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while Joker wasn't Joker yet but actually a well-known public figure coming from an immense fortune of old money who's CEO of some corp in Gotham, gifted the position by dear old daddy who has since died, and his detached-from-reality position/status plus a little bit of the inherent sociopathy of men like them makes him take Batman's targeted assault on the systems that prop him up very, very badly, until it all comes crashing down and his narcissism prevents him from seeing it as retribution but instead all his rightful property/wealth being stripped away, and then combined with general public reception being very positive to his empire crumbling he sees it all as a horrible nasty joke being played on him and him alone, and then he cracks and decides if it's all a joke he'll play along
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so you have this mystery, no-funds batman with no clear origin and the idea that really he could be anybody who'd had 1 bad day and decided to do something about it
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and this very well-documented origin Joker who's come from the insane Bruce Wayne kind of money and lost everything 'dear' to him (money and power, rather than parents) and reacts in the only way that makes sense to him (by becoming an insane clown hellbent on wreaking revenge on the city that 'wronged' him, and particularly the Batman who was the catalyst and in this setting may as well be Gotham incarnate come to reclaim itself)

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riddler as an AI could be so fun
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Make him like, a learning algorithm that got out of hand of its creators
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Obsessed with gathering knowledge because that’s literally what it was designed to do, like a Gone Horribly Right kind of thing

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Firefly as a corporate espionage agent tasked by Gotham's corrupt elite to destroy evidence of their corruption, who is then double-crossed when Batman and Jim's MCU put the squeeze on corruption and target Lyons as a suspect/potential informant, so one job he's on is sabotaged to tie up the loose end before he can be apprehended and caught, and he's left to burn from his own job but miraculously survives and turns around to wage a revenge-based war on those who betrayed him

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T H E B A T M A N
T H E B A T M A N

^{“I’m vengeance.”}

C H A R A C T E R P O R T R A I T C H A R A C T E R P O R T R A I T _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ C H A R A C T E R S U M M A R Y C H A R A C T E R S U M M A R Y _________________________________________________________ The Batman _________________________________________________________ Caucasian | Vigilante | Independent _________________________________________________________ Gotham | New Jersey | United States of America C H A R A C T E R N O T E S C H A R A C T E R N O T E S _________________________________________________________ [+] - G C P D P E R S O N N E L ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ Street Officer James 'Jimmy' Gordon ◼ Detective Harvey Bullock ◼ Detective Renee Montoya ◼ Senior Detective Crispus Allen ◼ Coroner Dr. Leslie Thompkins ◼ Police Commissioner Gillian Loeb G O T H A M P U B L I C O F F I C E S ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ Gotham Mayor, Aubrey James ◼ District Attorney, Janice Porter ◼ Assistant District Attorney, Harvey Dent ◼ Editor-in-Chief, Gotham Gazzette, Jack Ryder ◼ Field Reporter, Gotham Gazzette, Victoria 'Vicki' Vale G O T H A M P R I V A T E C I T I Z E N S ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ CEO, Antarctic Industries, Oswald Cobblepot ◼ CFO, Antarctic Industries, Warren White ◼ CEO, Sionis Industrial & Janus Cosmetics, Roman Sionis ◼ COO, Sionis Industrial, Victor Zsasz ◼ Founder and Lead Jeweller, Félin-Bijou, Selina Kyle ◼ CEO, Hightowers LLC, William D. Sommers - P O S T C A T A L O G P O S T C A T A L O G _________________________________________________________ [+] - P O S T C A T A L O G ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ ◼ -

C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T ________________________________________________________________________________________ This is a Batman turned on his head, dynamic reversed, the globally-known basics discarded. Real identity unknown and irrelevant, The Batman feels to been birthed directly from the oppressed suffering of Gotham's working-class, a walking avatar for the ever-looming class war; someone, somewhere, grew tired of the exploitation of the masses, and grew disillusioned with the idea that change would come, tired of waiting for protests and movements and cancellations to enact sweeping change. Waging his war without the backing of Bruce Wayne's usual billions, The Batman is a brutal, unforgiving, resourceful man, leveraging every advantage and exploiting every weakness. While still concerned with petty crime, his efforts are less about prevention or striking fear, and more about inspiration and unification; when a teenager robs a liquor store with his father's snub-nose, is it for thrills? Or is it because eighty dollars in their hand pays for a week of food, and 3 bottles of booze equals 3 nights without the belt across their back? When an unemployed man agrees to play night-watch when a local mob boss needs to move contraband, is it because he's trying to get his foot in the door of organised crime? Or is it because eleven interviews and eleven rejections weigh heavily when the rent cheque is due? And most critically, why mug the lady allowing herself her once-a-month spiced latte treat, when there are hundreds upon hundreds of billions being stolen from the common man every single day? Why not steal it back? This is The Batman's key focus; the Fortune 500, the 10 richest CEO's, the pompous, entitled, exploitative, planet-destructive, callous 1%, who care more about the extra zero on the end of their octuple-figure annual bonus than a mother forced to pick which one of her children to feed each night. The Batman is a soldier, but not in the war on crime; in the Class War. Gotham's real criminals are those in the penthouses, the board rooms, their ivory towers built as headstones upon the planet they are killing. These are the men who need locking away. This is the Batman's mission. He will inspire and bring hope to Gotham's working-class masses; he will frighten and instil fear to those who grow rich from their deaths. P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S ) P L O T ( S ) & G O A L ( S ) ________________________________________________________________________________________ A true Year Zero for The Batman, he appears in Gotham apparently overnight and begins a brutal campaign against the criminal elements of the city; but while at first the police appear complacent to let him have his fun doing their 'jobs' for them, heads soon turn when it becomes apparent this new vigilante is waging a war on white-collar crime just as fierce as that on violence and gang-banging. Making quick enemies of powerful people, The Batman becomes GCPD's number one priority, and finds himself contending with the 'boys in blue' as just another gang that needs putting down. Naturally, as The Batman wages his war, power balances will shift, and the face of Gotham City will change forever.

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Japanese magic apocalypse urban fantasy horror. Yokai, spells, survival, etc.

Could mix with that big black coffin that got cracked open in Egypt?

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- John Constantine new origin arc

- Eve Coffin/Aava Arkham/Arkr's Cairn/Magpie Witch homebrew mashup + witching killings in time loop/trapped in town

- Batman Brother EYE arc

- Batman Two-Face Finale arc

- Batman revised origin flipped Bat/Joker dynamic

- Batman Magpie murders

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^{_{"One time, I gutted this choom kid, right in front of this pig's eyes, for shits 'n' giggles."}}

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Former is easily okay, current...trickier, but would have to see the story of it before any kind of judgment. Open mind, and all that.

@Ruby

Duly noted; I can account for both.

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Former ganger a la Jackie Welles, or current ganger?

@Ruby

Either/or.

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Can't guarantee my consistency and I understand that's less than ideal, but interested. Would PC's hailing from Night City's street gangs be viable?

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A CITY IS ALIVE BECAUSE THE PEOPLE LIVING IN IT BOUNCING AROUND THEIR DAILY ROUTINES ARE EQUIVALENT TO ELECTRICAL SIGNALS FIRING THROUGH NEURONS AND BRAIN CELLS