(Upload) Psych_30 prompt 10) Approach - Avoidance (Fish pal in lawn)
This is the first one I wrote, and my favorite, probably because it's Eddie! Woo! /glomps Eddie. It's still a month for his birthday, but this is for DaMo! Riddler and Two-Face are my favorite rogues, and the ones I feel more comfortable with, so I hope it shows :)
Fandom: DC animated
Title: Fish pal in lawn
Characters: Edward Nygma a.k.a. The Riddler
Rating: G
Prompt: 10 - Approach - avoidance
Word Count: 370
Spoilers: Not really
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: I don't own the rogues, but I could probably use a holiday in Arkham
A/N: The table is here. Beta by awesome tmelange.
Fish pal in lawn
Riddler circled his unconscious prisoner for the eleventh time that night, trying to find an answer for his current predicament.
There were two obvious answers for this question, one of them being ‘unmask him’ and the other being ‘kill him’. But they were really simple answers; they had no elegance, aside from, perhaps, the elegance of mere simplicity.
What does one do with a tied up Bat?
Nygma had designed a trap and left his clues. He had ensnared the Bat with a web knitted with nothing but his superior intellect; he now had him at his mercy. His plan had worked flawlessly. Yet…
What does one do with an unconscious Bat?
Whenever the ridiculous chiropteran started to wake up, Riddler chloroformed him again. It wasn’t something he could keep on doing forever; he had other things to do aside from sitting in an abandoned mine drugging the Bat. He didn’t want to admit it, but there might have been a FISH PAL IN LAWN, a flaw in his plan.
What does one do with the Bat once you catch him?
If he unmasked him, he would have the answer to one of the biggest mysteries in Gotham: who was the man behind the mask? And once he knew that, then… what? A riddle wasn’t worth anything if everybody knew the answer. He would have the answer to the ultimate rogue question, and there would be nothing he could do with it. He would have an advantage over the Bat, but Nygma wasn’t anywhere as crude as his fellow Arkham inmates. He considered Batman his ultimate rival, a brain to match his own. In bringing Batman down, he would also end up unchallenged.
Which made killing him completely out of the question. Killing Batman not only achieved exactly the same thing -bored to death, committing crimes no one ever understood- but was also too plain and vulgar to suit his taste.
Nygma looked at the tied up crime fighter with a mix of contempt and annoyance. For the game to continue, Batman had to be out there, ready for Riddler’s next scheme. It was really a FISH PAL IN LAWN.
When Batman woke up, he was alone in the mine.
Fandom: DC animated
Title: Fish pal in lawn
Characters: Edward Nygma a.k.a. The Riddler
Rating: G
Prompt: 10 - Approach - avoidance
Word Count: 370
Spoilers: Not really
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: I don't own the rogues, but I could probably use a holiday in Arkham
A/N: The table is here. Beta by awesome tmelange.
Fish pal in lawn
Riddler circled his unconscious prisoner for the eleventh time that night, trying to find an answer for his current predicament.
There were two obvious answers for this question, one of them being ‘unmask him’ and the other being ‘kill him’. But they were really simple answers; they had no elegance, aside from, perhaps, the elegance of mere simplicity.
What does one do with a tied up Bat?
Nygma had designed a trap and left his clues. He had ensnared the Bat with a web knitted with nothing but his superior intellect; he now had him at his mercy. His plan had worked flawlessly. Yet…
What does one do with an unconscious Bat?
Whenever the ridiculous chiropteran started to wake up, Riddler chloroformed him again. It wasn’t something he could keep on doing forever; he had other things to do aside from sitting in an abandoned mine drugging the Bat. He didn’t want to admit it, but there might have been a FISH PAL IN LAWN, a flaw in his plan.
What does one do with the Bat once you catch him?
If he unmasked him, he would have the answer to one of the biggest mysteries in Gotham: who was the man behind the mask? And once he knew that, then… what? A riddle wasn’t worth anything if everybody knew the answer. He would have the answer to the ultimate rogue question, and there would be nothing he could do with it. He would have an advantage over the Bat, but Nygma wasn’t anywhere as crude as his fellow Arkham inmates. He considered Batman his ultimate rival, a brain to match his own. In bringing Batman down, he would also end up unchallenged.
Which made killing him completely out of the question. Killing Batman not only achieved exactly the same thing -bored to death, committing crimes no one ever understood- but was also too plain and vulgar to suit his taste.
Nygma looked at the tied up crime fighter with a mix of contempt and annoyance. For the game to continue, Batman had to be out there, ready for Riddler’s next scheme. It was really a FISH PAL IN LAWN.
When Batman woke up, he was alone in the mine.