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When you wake up next to him in the middle of the night

With your head in your hands, you're nothing more than his wife

And when you think about me, all of those years ago...

...You know I hate to say, but I told you so

And if I gave up on being pretty

I wouldn't know how to be alive

Local loser man falls hopelessly for a murderous clown

🦇🃏

As mentioned in my notes, do give criticism on my work. As much as I appreciate kind messages, I do want to improve. I’ve studied creative for 3 years… which might not look like it in my work, but it’s still a thing, so if something sounds crap, let me know! :)

It’s not perfect, and it took hours to do. I wanted it to be longer, but it’s what I have to work with, so pardon if it seems rushed. Bonus scene at the end. ;)

More vigilante Joker in the manor and batcave. And a selfie. Because it was kinda surprising that he didn’t do it in episode 5.

Speaking of selfies. Not sure if it was mentioned before, but one of his photos was done in front of Wayne manor.

I tried to make this disgusting scene better. But failed XD Because Bruce looks so bad.

Also I liked the idea of the previous post very much so here’s Bruce dreaming again XD

One of these days watched this program. Good show.

Thanks to @oi-chibi-oi

And this scene too.

John’s coat glitched so it looks awful :(

Finally remembered to do this scene XD

Your influence is everywhere in him

Part 3.

Happy ending!

Your influence is everywhere in him

Part 2.

The moment of awareness. I'm pretty sure that's what Bruce was thinking about in this scene.

John's response and these memories what made up his mind.

Honestly? John always brought out best part of Bruce. And even if his mind is messed up he still DOES have a good heart. That's what my Bruce loves him for SO much.

Your influence is everywhere in him

Part 1.

A couple of edited kissing scenes. They still look pretty bad, but not completely terrible as before… I hope so anyway XD

Some random stuff for those who asked for more.

Bonus: the best screenshot of John ever XD

Pure juce~

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You do believe me, don’t you? You still have faith in me, don’t you? Your old buddy, John?

Batman and Vigilante Joker

Thank you! That's all what I needed from this game

Seriously,no hugs in episode 5? What an utter disappointment! But well… at least modding can fix it

Guiding light

I'm really enjoying writing with this "Telltale choices" style =D

Also need to say english isn't my native language so if you find any mistakes or have any suggestions let me know.

Chapter 2

When Bruce woke up he found himself lying on the divan-bed in the batcave. It felt like his whole body went through the meat grinder because every move hurt like hell. Especially the upper back.

He gave an effort to remember what had happened before.

Chemical Ace… Agency… John losing control… their fight…

“Master Bruce?”, somebody interrupted his stream of thoughts, “Please remain lying”. His sight found another man standing nearby his bed.

“Alfred?”

“You lost too much blood. It’ll take more time for you to recover”

“How… how long was I unconscious?”

“Nearly 10 hours since I brought you here”

“What?! How did that happen?”

“Well, I suppose I’m the one who should be asking this question”

He approached Bruce’s bed.

“I was very worried when I received the call from your friend John. He couldn’t explain me the situation but only begged to come to you as quick as possible”

Bruce could read a sorrow in Alfred’s eyes.

“His voice so… Hearing the ton of his voice I realized something horrible had happened. And I wasn’t wrong”

“Where is John now?”

“I don’t know. When I found you he wasn’t around. And seeing you in the condition you were… I had no time to waste”

He went to the other side of Bruce’s bed.

“These wounds were awful, Bruce. It took me a lot of time to stitch them up”. He turned his head to Bruce again. “What happened?”

[Lie] I was stabbed by an accident.

The situation went out of control.

John tried to kill me.

“The things… went out of control. Waller blamed John in Riddler’s death. He wanted to bring her to “justice”, what on his language meant to murder her. Than Tiffany showed up… I tried to calm him down, reason with him, but it was too late for negotiations. He lost himself. So I needed to distract him and prevent more deaths. But… I couldn’t force myself to hurt him more. All I wanted was to bring him into consciousness again. And that’s how I ended up… like this”. He touched one of his shoulders. It felt like those wounds were burning right now.  

Alfred shook his head.

“Gosh, Bruce! You could have got killed yourself only by hoping John would listen to you. What were you even thinking?”

“I couldn’t have done anything else, Al! You know he isn’t just some criminal for me…”

Here they were again. In the conversation about Batman’s duties and Bruce’s feelings to John. Alfred sighed.

“I know… You care about him even the way too much. But you serve the greatest good and sometimes you just have no other choice, Bruce”

“He did listen to me, Al”

“Yes, but what cost on this time”

Bruce faded.

“I… will just leave you for now. You need to rest”

“Thanks, Al”

Alfred went to the elevator.

Inform me if something happens.

I’ll be more careful.

I owe you on this one.

“I promise I’ll be more careful next time”

He stopped.

“For your sake I hope so too”

Bruce couldn’t bring himself not to think about John. But because of the condition he was in he also couldn’t do anything right now. Besides he didn’t want to make Alfred worried even more.

All he needed is to rest. A little bit more…

 “Master Bruce!”

He woke up immediately.

It felt like he slept only about 2 more hours. But seeing Alfred’s concerned face right now and his desire to sleep had been vanished at once.

“What’s wrong?”

“I know that even despite the whole exhaustion you would like to see this”, with that Alfred turned on the Bat-computer to the news channel and Bruce could only gasp.

“…and that’s how the story about this “Joker” guy ended. All the doctors talking only how surprised they were seeing the ex-patient to come back to Arkham and ask to lock him up again. And now we can only wonder what made him take such decision...”

Bruce was shocked by the news he received.

John? In Arkham? Again?

But he didn’t want to come back. In Chemical Ace he made it clear.

And now…

For Batman it was obligatory to bring Joker back to Arkham but Bruce didn’t want everything to end up like this.

At least he needed to know what made up John’s mind.

“What are you going to do now, Bruce”, Alfred’s voice led him out of his reasoning.

I need to see him.

I don’t know.

Let’s just leave all the things how they are for now.

“I need to meet with him, Al. I want to know why he decided to come back”

“Of course you do”, Alfred said it with a little sad smile, “I have already prepared your suit”.

It meant a lot for Bruce.

“Alfred… thank you”, he took a sitting position. Still he could feel all the wounds with his moves but at least they didn’t burn like earlier.

“Just please… be careful”

Bruce nodded.

Before heading back to the Arkham he determined to do one last thing.

Guiding light

You forced my hand, Telltale.

You wanted John to end up in Arkham no matter what cause you needed a fundament for your season 3? Okay. We can’t avoid this last battle with Vigilante Joker cause you wanted to give us as much drama as you potentially could? Fine. But at least you could have given us a little bit of choice.

That’s what my fic is going to be about. The choice we could have had.

Chapter 1

How did they end up like this?

That’s the only question Bruce had in his head watching this creepy smile on his best friend’s face. It looked even bigger and wilder than his usual one. Blood of people he killed covered his face. 

This whole view…  

He was gripping two joker-rangs in the hands with such a strength his own blood was dropping from the weapons onto the floor. And now he looked truly insane. Even more like bloody-minded. 

Damn. 

If Bruce didn’t already know this man was John Doe he would have never recognized him…

They stood in front of each other heavy breathing after the fight. But it didn’t seem as it was over. No matter how bad Bruce wanted this. The only solution seemed to be was to beat up Joker until he’d faint or just weaken. That’s however what Batman was used to do with his opponents. But John…

He remembered that day in the past when he was teaching John how to throw batarang. He was so excited. He looked up to Batman and Bruce wanted him to become better version of himself. That’s why he did everything to encourage his efforts of trying to be a hero.

“You have potential, John”, he said to him the same day, “Do something good with it”. “Well, with you to look up to… How could I go wrong?”. And Bruce wanted to believe in that so bad. Because knowing John… He did have a good heart. He had seen it. But his mind was really messed up.

So maybe Alfred was right about Batman’s darkest side affecting John as well? Maybe that’s what made him believe that any problem could be resolved only by using violence? Batman did use his fists more often than he wanted… And if it was his fault he needed to fix it. He needed to show John that not all the things in this world could be solved by violence. But could he potentially do it in such conditions?

[John became completely uncontrollable. I need to stop him at any cost]

[It’s still a chance I could talk him down. I need to comfort him]

He made his decision. No more thinking.

John rushed to him madly laughing and swinging the weapons with his two hands aiming to plant them as deep into Bruce’s body as possible. Batman in his turn hasted to meet him and grabbed with the whole force. He locked his arms around John’s body. But John himself seemed not to pay attention to Bruce’s efforts to show how desperate he was about the whole situation they were in. He wasn’t sobered at all. It looked like some veil covered his mind and he lost the touch with the reality.

Leading by his emotions Joker started stabbing Batman’s back until he succeeded to reach his skin several times.

With Batman’s gasp and Joker’s laugh Bruce decided it was too much for him…

Please, stop.

Enough!

[Throw him away]

“John, please… stop it”

It didn’t work.

“I’m begging you… STOP”. On that one he squeezed John’s body even harder with that kind of hug.

John exclaimed: “Let me go!”.

“Not… until you stop this craziness”

“I HATE YOU! What you did to me!”, he planted the last wound deeper than the others.

“Argh!”, Bruce grimaced.

“By looking up to you I had only lost myself!”

For Bruce hearing those words were even more painful then all of the stab wounds.

“I’m… I’m sorry, John”, he started with the softest voice he could potentially make, “I… really tried my best. And I’m sorry if I failed you…”.

He felt John stopped his attempts to stab him again and relaxed a little bit.

“I know you angry at me but please…”, now Bruce was feeling his body started to weaken because of the blood he was losing. But he needed to tell John what he was feeling. At least this one time. “Just please… I don’t want us to fight anymore… I don’t want you to get hurt… I don’t want to lose you or anybody else! Not again!”.

John shivered.

For Bruce it became harder to speak. “I… wasn’t such a good friend to you as I wished to be. And now it doesn’t seem I’m good enough to take an example from either…”.

“Bruce…”

“So please! Let me fix it. Let me… argh… make up for it”

Bruce’s sight started to drift away but it looked like John finally came to himself. That’s all Bruce was trying to achieve for now.

John dropped his weapons and grabbed Batman’s shoulders. Bruce felt him sobbing now.

“Bruce… What are you… That’s not what I… You…”

Batman loosened his grip revealing Joker and fell to his knees.

“Bruce!”

John rushed back to him willing to swoop up Batman’s wrist but only touched the wounds.

“Argh!”

He immediately recoiled letting Bruce collapsed on the floor.

John’s face covered with blood and tears… That’s the last thing Bruce saw before falling into the darkness.

Good chat.

"It's getting pretty jucie here"

Dream team :D

Joker. Batman. We make one heck of a team

This guy definitely knows what he's talking about

Okay, I’m gonna talk about this. The cafe scene is a favourite, but I wanted to monitor Bruce a little, looking at his body language. In the first gif, when he did an impression of Harley, he blinks a lot and looks away. This suggests feeling awkward, which is understandable, he’s playing pretend with John.

The second gif I love, because it screams smitten to me. He’s completely relaxed, but not only that, he makes himself appear smaller, more petite or frail. He’s also smiling and diverting his eyes. I don’t know if writers were going for this, but that’s how it looks to me. Honestly, it’s adorable.

I find myself thinking that perhaps, JUST PERHAPS, this is when Bruce starts to see John as more than a friend, even if he doesn’t really know it yet. The whole scene is brilliant (provided you pick the “be yourself” choice, so rip me, but the other one is good too). The writers did say that this “date” was important, and that John might not be after just Harley’s feelings.

I am starting to believe that up until ep4, it’s us as players to decide if we have developed a friendship in John, and with what happens in ep4, how important is that friendship, and if we choose the right choice or not.