Summary: He was just trying to return the world to the way it was meant to be-- chaotic.
A/N: Firstly, I'd like to thank SoldierToger and memyselfandi89 for their reviews. I'm happy to hear that people like this, and it's giving me incentive to actually write the multi-chapter Batman Begins fic I have in mind (though it's nothing like this collection). Secondly, I've only got one more planned vignette left, and I'm hoping to finish it before the New Year. Eeek, I'm running out of time. Fortunately, this was the one that scared me the most (you try getting into the Joker's head). I have to give Avenged Sevenfold props for creating "Beast and the Harlot" which reminded me of Babylon and consquently gave me something to write about via the Joker's point of view... not that I actually have much about Gotham. Finally, the title uses the adjective form of "fell", which suggests cruelty, evil, and danger. I don't want to spoil the end too much so I'll talk more at the end.
--Hana Li
Disclaimer: I don't own Batman, the Bible, or the universe (or any theories relating to it).
Fell City
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"And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."
- Revelations 17:4-5
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Some men killed for money or God. Others killed out of anger or duty. A few had no reason. The Joker was not like any of these men. He had his reason– the cops might not see it, but it was there: he killed to show the truth.
Why was Everybody fixated on order and civilization when ENTROPY was the natural state of the Universe? a gigantic Explosion created the universe– ironic if oNe considered what explosions normally did. If one believed that a hiGHer power– which was really another attempt at introducing order into a world ruled by CHAOS and chance– was in charge, entropY still existed, for everything that happened since the dawn of time would have been subjected to his/heR/Its whims.
humanity was not the rational, civilized higher life form IT thought it was. Look at a baby, the "purest" form of mankind. It's motivated by impulses, a DEEP-seated hunger It seeks to satiate– the same hunger that drives animals to riP each other apart. When pushed far enough, the greatest advocate of peacE would kill. At its core, huMANity was a killer.
That was what the Joker wanted to sHOw. Gotham had falLen long before His arrival, and the only way to live was to embrace one's fell STATE. One Day, Batman would realize that he couldn't eliminate the anarchy, that he– and everyone dEAR to him– would be felled by the anArchY. And if he didn't, well, the Joker would just have to remind him.
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A/N2: Not that I need to justify my writing, but I intentionally broke grammatical rules, in the spirit of the Joker. Still, the vignette is rather coherent. The Joker struck me as one of the those guys who leaped over the line between genius and madness, hence the references to thermodynamics, the Big Bang Theory, the ultimate fate of the universe, and the Id. I'm not quite sure I got into the Joker's head. It's too scary of a place for me to even peek into, but I kept thinking about Alfred's words, "Some men just want to watch the world burn." That was why I chose to write about anarchy. One more thing before I spill all the secrets of this piece and make my author notes longer than the actual fic itself, I really wanted to allude to the Joker's return and the things he would do to Batman in the future (comic fans ought to know what I'm talking about).