What good is a joker without an audience? / Joker, war, and the weight of all that laughing.

I believe this is my first really *Mature* fanfic. This is a little vignette about the aftermath of the bathroom murder suicide in Stanley Kubrick's seminal Vietnam War epic Full Metal Jacket. This piece also shows I am also big into the idea that religions and whatever deities you worship can peacefully coexist with each other. You'll have to figure it out as you read the story.

A short stream of concience. Joker’s body may have made it back to the World, but his mind never came home.

After the death of Gomer, Joker pays his respects to his friend.

Joker finally returns home from the war to his parents and his best friend Marcie. but just how much has the war affected him? horrific nightmares, troubling therapy secessions, and falling for his best friend are just a few of the situations Joker has to come to terms with while trying to fit back into society. eventual Joker/OC