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Edward Nigma | The Riddler ([personal profile] questionauthority) wrote2010-12-25 01:56 am

Riddle 014: Christmas Angst [Voice/Action]

[Edward comes downstairs on Christmas Morning, wading through the sea of cats that had seemingly filled up the house. Coming across a bunch of presents beneath the tree in green wrapping paper, he smirks. He takes a look at the note, tossing it backwards and tearing into his presents like a little kid. He pulls out his cane. A new revolver. A Rubiks' Cube. And... Batman's utility belt? And a working bat credit-card with the name "Bruce Wayne" on it. He chuckles, sliding it into his pocket and pulling the belt on. But as soon as he snaps the belt around his waist, he feels... strange. Different. He remembers...

Bang! His father keeling over in the alleyway. His mother screams.

BANG! His mother tumbling down, pearls flying everywhere. Rain falling down. Masking Edward's tears on that fateful night.

He looks at the gun beneath the tree once again and his eyes widen in fear. This is the kind of weapon that took his parents away from him... With a sudden, vehement motion, he hurtles it out the window into the snow. He then stands straight. Resolute. A stern look on his face. Eddie knows what must be done. He strides back upstairs. Puts on his best green suit. Black sunglasses he's picked up in town. His trademark bowler hat. He marches back downstairs and out the door, examining his new Riddler-Mobile in the driveway. It's elaborate. Tricked out. It'll get the job done. He climbs in, fastens his seatbelt, and tears off down Anderson Lane.

He takes note that there is a phone installed within the car's console, and he picks it up, speaking with a much gruffer, throatier voice than usual.]


Enjoying your Christmas, Mayfield? Some of us aren't. Some of us have had innocent people taken away. Forever. By whom, you might ask? Nothing more than a common criminal. A miserable, unrelenting, unforgiving coward with a gun, who thinks he has something to prove. Who thinks he can strike fear into the hearts of innocents. Well. Now it's my turn. To all you criminal scum of Mayfield. Your days are numbered. And to those hardworking innocents, trapped and frightened? Your new guardian has arrived. 

[He is vengeance. He is the night. He is Edward Nigma, the Goddamn Riddler. He'll be patrolling around the town in his new Riddler-Mobile, and will be looking, just looking for people to punish. You can also speak to him via the carphone.]

[identity profile] puzzlerprince.livejournal.com 2011-01-01 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
...in any case, it's none of your concern.

[identity profile] deaths-heritor.livejournal.com 2011-01-01 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
I rather think it will be my concern when some madman shows up at the door demanding to see you for whatever crimes you committed just now.

[identity profile] puzzlerprince.livejournal.com 2011-01-01 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
Why so quick to jump to conclusions, Susan?

[identity profile] deaths-heritor.livejournal.com 2011-01-01 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
You've told me, actually.

[Susan doesn't jump to conclusions so much as she makes them uncannily accurately. Whatever criminals he just confronted were hopefully the type that dealt with mundane crimes like fraud.]

[identity profile] puzzlerprince.livejournal.com 2011-01-01 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
That--- I---

[He pauses, shutting his mouth. Damn it, why does she ALWAYS win.]

...he had a gun.

[identity profile] deaths-heritor.livejournal.com 2011-01-02 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
All the more reason for you to have stayed well away from him.

[identity profile] puzzlerprince.livejournal.com 2011-01-02 11:00 am (UTC)(link)
He was killing people. I'd felt... compelled to stop him.

[identity profile] puzzlerprince.livejournal.com 2011-01-03 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
[He looks a bit uncomfortable, but...]

Yes.

[identity profile] deaths-heritor.livejournal.com 2011-01-03 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
[She's so surprised her prediction was so accurate, but she doesn't show it.]

Well, then. Warn me whenever he comes to seek revenge and I'll leave the house for the two of you to squabble.