Yours Truly

by Flamist.Rika

As a new threat to Gotham City's troubled livelihood steps into the foreground, a young woman struggles to figure out how to move on with the shards of her now shattered life in a new place, as a young man brings with him a dastardly plan to bring the city they both just arrived in to the only place it belongs; on it's knees.

1. Prologue

Yours Truly

Prologue

Gotham City. A city of sins and secrets. To some it was a city of refuge; a city of dreams. And to others? It was a prison as their lives were wrapped in a vicious cycle of debauchery and drugs they wouldn't pull themselves from.

Home to the elusive vigilante 'Batman', who came at the shining summons of a spotlight that gave the image of a bat to the clouds and the night sky. Soon to be home to a new threat; a man named Bane who came from the east. And now the permanent prison of a woman named Zamirah, who hailed from the west.

To an outsider who would see their stories unwind and intertwine like yarn fallen from a basket, it would seem a cliche scenario. The Hero, the Villain, and the Woman. As always, they would assume that the Hero would defeat the Villain and save the Woman. But it was different this time.

What would you do, if I told a different tale?

The one of a woman, cast out from all she's known, branded for something she didn't do and banished to a place far more savage than her own homelands? The one of a man, struggling to gauge his own worth in a city his family built where he could barely manage to understand his own destiny? Or perhaps you'd like to hear the story of a man who devoted himself to a "just" cause, ended up betrayed by the same person he devoted himself to?

Confused? All of these people have one thing in common; Traditions.

Traditions to uphold, for the 'Hero'. Traditions to break, by the 'Villain'. And traditions to resign to, by the 'Woman'. And then? If they go against these?

Will they find the 'peace' or the 'end' that they all so desperately seek?

But not all stories; start with something so big and heavy. Sometimes the biggest things that pave our future is just the courage to travel a path barred to us.