His name was Prank. He had fought destiny as long as he could. And once Batman left Gothem he knew it was ok to give up. If Batman could give up so could he. Batman had saved him once when the Joker had gotten jealous that Batgirl had joined forces with Batman. Joker saw this as Batmans way getting a sidekick and the idea fascinated the Joker and Prank was born.
Prank started life as Frank Smith class clown, Frank never felt like he fit in well and his pranks used to land him in the principals office an awful lot. One day after picking on the pretty new girl Barbara Gordon just once to often he made up his mind to get her attention. To do that Frank decided to go to an open mike night at a comedy club. He was so bad that he got booed off stage. While he sat nursing a Pepsi to get over his humiliation a man came up to him and told him that he thought he was pretty good. That man was Joker.
Those first few weeks at Joker's were some of the happiest times Frank had ever known. Within Joker's insane world Frank felt understood a feeling he never experinced in the outside world. His joke's where funny. His outlandish pranks were a source of pride to the Joker. In fact he was often encouraged to go bigger. Bolder, brighter, more. He fit in perfectly until the day he refused to do as the Joker instructed. The day he was told to kill Batgirl.
To die for one's art was one thing but to kill just because you could was well wrong. Yeah they might go to jail for what they had done but better to goto jail for pranks then for murder. Even as a young kid Prank knew that. And so when the Batman offered him an out he took it. He went to the treatment the courts appointed him. He took the meds they prescribed and life for Frank pretty much evened out.
His parents always assumed that what ever caused their baby boy to misbehave was well fixed. Frank never had the heart to tell them that he fought against Prank daily. Maybe if he had someone would have gotten him better help. But he never did and court appointed treatment came to an end. Frank fought the good fight for years on his own. The tools he learned in treatment and the meds he took helped him to defeat Prank daily. Then it happened, Gotham took away Franks meds, and without the drugs to help him Frank watched helplessly as Prank grew stronger with in his mind.
By this time Frank was old enough to seek treatment on his own in the only places he could afford. Dr Harley from the free clinic was so nice to him. Frank almost felt that she understood his problems that she felt for him. And as nice as that felt Prank grew stronger. When Dr. Harley was committed to the asylum for the insane herself Frank grew even more afraid. While seeing her hadn't stopped Prank from getting stronger talking about Prank's latest scheme's stopped him from acting them out. And Dr. Harley said that was the most they could do without the drugs which Frank couldn't afford. And now because of that annoying Huntress even that he couldn't have. But the worst blow to Franks shattered mind wasn't the day that his Dr Harley went away it was much earlier then that. It was the day Batman ran away.
Dr. Harley never wanted to discuss it. She said that dwelling on it kept him locked in the past. And maybe it did. Who was to know for sure. Franks new doctor Dr. Strange really liked talking about it and the day Joker abandoned him. It wasn't his fault it was Batgirl. Joker had gotten to her any way. Maybe if something had happened to her when Prank was supposed to hit her with the giant gum ball she might have survived. If she had she might have stopped. If she had stopped then the Joker wouldn't have shot her. So in actuality it was all Batgirl's fault. And becuase of that Prank was awake.
And Prank had a few folks to vist.