evil jpv anon here >:) oh he needs 2 be in that basement so bad.... I wonder how soon after endo hit the street that he got scooped up, if he was another path of rescue for Jason or Tim that got snuffed out before anything could come to fruition. I don't think Huntress, Batwoman or Selina would have been against working with him, not if it meant saving others.
Dehumanization has two ends and for so long in his life did he deal with the first that being treated gently and like a treasure is so foreign. Urban legends had him working as a hospice worker during the day and I wonder if as he's bathed and scented with rosemary oil in some dark basement lit by candlelight and prayers if his mind wanders to his patients. Did he make them feel so unclean when he bathed them like his captor does to him? Did he make their final moments worse with his presence when he meant the opposite? He has never so desperately wanted to be alone, and yet he hungers for companionship when granted that wish.
Jean-Paul means "humble and gracious", and his captor loves to tell him how god said the meek will inherit the earth as hands run through his hair. He lets Azrael lead more often, floats off into the abyss as he wonders if it would have been better to be in St. Dumas grasp again over this. He should be thankful, at least this way the only life getting ruined is his own. St Dumas would have him kill, would puppet his body again until all the progress he had made is gone.
Except JPV is selfish because at least their touches are brief, their expectations clear. If he killed people then someone would have to notice, right? Someone would have to come stop him - they wouldn't keep him there. In the basement that is not so sure.
Time is a mortal invention, his captor says, it's not something JPV should be concerned with. Jean-Paul often misses his life before, when he was in college and naive. When the worst thing was trying to find a convincing fake ID so he could rent a car. He brings the last part up one time, wondering if something so mundane might finally break this fantasy that JPV is anything but a thing in need of repentance.
"Don't be silly," his captor says, face blurry without his glasses even as Jean-Paul squints, "I'll never let you leave."
anon! ur so right im rotating him in the basement in my miiiind. His captor BATHING him stop that's everything washing his hair, shaving him. We can only dream.
Also Azrael fronting when he's not in the midst of combat 😍choosing to spare JPV that. How does AZ feel about all of this. Would love if the captor is also enamored with them if Az embodies the unfeeling hand of god that the captor would expect from the angel of death. Az sitting in silence, not saying a word. The captor being able to TELL when it's JPV vs when it's Az just by the look in Jean paul's eye. JPV trying to bargain with his captor and Az stonewalling. JPV is so alone and desperate for comfort that Az fronts enough to tell him to stop taking the body, to give up and let Az front for the rest of the time in the basement, even if it's forever. That's what Az was made for, after all, to be the angel, to do the hard things. JPV is a soft human vessel he shouldn't have to go through that. Az trying to be merciful and shoving JPV down deep but that only makes Jean Paul panic. And it pisses their captor off, he tries to draw Jean Paul out, first with pain and prayer and penance and then when a firm hand doesn't work with softness.
so obsessed with this the layers are infinite 😫jean paul is the perfect human idol for some freak's basement. put him through a thousand tortures
