Things I want to write: a fic where Joker jokingly (haha) promises to stop killing & maiming if Batman will date him properly, never expecting Batman to say yes, and Batman - never expecting him to follow through - agrees. Now they’re dancing around each other and getting closer and closer. Joker is terrified he’s losing who he is and everything that makes him unique, and Batman is terrified that he actually could look past every awful thing Joker’s done and feel something romantic for him. The Batfam are horrified - outwardly because they think Bruce is martyring himself (again) by pretending to love Joker to stop him committing atrocities, inwardly because they can fucking smell that these codependant toxic idiots are falling for each other. Everything is complex and painful and ugly and the Joker is jittering out of his skin with the urge to just go apeshit and torture someone to death to return to a sense of normalcy, but he refuses to let himself so long as Bruce keeps loving him, because that would mean he loses.
Things I have no time to write:
a fic where Joker jokingly (haha) promises to stop killing &
maiming if Batman will date him properly, never expecting Batman to say
yes, and Batman - never expecting him to follow through - agrees. Now
they’re dancing around each other and getting closer and closer. Joker
is terrified he’s losing who he is and everything that makes him unique,
and Batman is terrified that he actually could look past every awful thing Joker’s done and feel something romantic
for him. The Batfam are horrified - outwardly because they think Bruce
is martyring himself (again) by pretending to love Joker to stop him
committing atrocities, inwardly because they can fucking smell that
these codependant toxic idiots are falling for each other. Everything
is complex and painful and ugly and the Joker is jittering out of his
skin with the urge to just go apeshit and torture someone to death to
return to a sense of normalcy, but he refuses to let himself so long as Bruce keeps loving him, because that would mean he loses.