Author's Notice
Have you ever seen someone and thought that kid will grow up to be a supervillain? Have you ever met someone who reminded you of a supervillain or a superhero from the pages of comics? I'd like to take a moment and explain, those thoughts are in fact irrational. This book takes D.C. characters and gives them a twist unlike 'most anything around at the moment. As much as these characters try to fight it the darkness is within them, it's in their blood and they will never be rid of it. These characters lead normal lives, there is always a part of them that tells them 'you're not normal.' This story is 100% false, made up, not based on anything in our world.
That said I would also like to state my belief that no book is completely made up. As long as there are stars in the sky and advancing science, anything is possible. I believe if something is impossible in one dimension, it could very well be possible in another. That means humans, as far as I know, on my world's Earth can't fly. Humans on D.C.'s and Marvel's planet Earths can. Now don't jump off buildings thinking you can fly and don't take this book literally. It is, after all, just a story.
Introduction
Everyone has a secret. Secret talent, secret truth, shared secret, singular self-knowing secret. Everyone has a secret. What about the secret of one's birth and the destiny tied to it? Not talking about aliens, still humans here.
Legacy Theory: A child born with one very powerful parent and the other average parent will almost always take after the powerful parent because the child will see the average parent as weak while the powerful parent for better or worse is a god in the child's eye therefore only through a near miracle will the child ever take after the normal parents regardless of the circumstances which cause the child to see the one parent as powerful, that child will covet that parent and as the case may be despise the average parent as is possibly human nature in the matter.
In a world where people think all that means is a villain's offspring is destined to be a villain, follow in their parent's footsteps, what do you do with these children? Gotham City answered that question with compassion. They created a program to influence, to push these kids towards the light. Son of Scarecrow gets to work at Arkham. Son of Two-Face gets to work at the DA's office. Riddler's son goes to the GCPD crime lab, earning his place as a forensic scientist. Jay Todd, we'll meet him later. Some have secrets beyond the secret of their superbad biological dads.