“I suppose not in the end, but it doesn’t need to be brought early. We all end up the same, but we get to do different things while we’re here. It’s about making the time count.” She was trying to keep her face neutral, but for a second Harleen’s face twitched at his words. “I’d say that would classify you as a narcissist, but you are effective in your methods no matter how…. skewered they seem.” It was her turn to shrug noncommittally. “So if there’s no God, you then fill the job that he would have.”
“Reason.” She repeated. “I’m not condoning what you do, but you have an interesting way of thinking. Did you know that?” A really, really interesting way of thinking. He was making her wonder more things than she in all her other years of living. Batman wasn’t a hero. He was just as crazy as the Joker, but people accepted him because his methods were more conventional. It wasn’t fair at all. Harleen shook her head, a smile growing on her lips. “Harley? Huh. I think I like that. Dr. Quinzel is the name I earned, but Harleen always seemed so stuffy. Harley is different.” It was the name of a different kind of woman, one that Harleen had never been. “Don’t worry,” she chuckled. “My feathers aren’t white.”
“The saying goes ‘only the good die young’....” his tongue flicks out over his lower lip “I suppose that’s why bats isn’t buried yet.” he replied, eyes trailing from her momentarily. “--not that I want him dead.” he corrected, lifting an index finger as his gaze snapped back to her, shaking his head. “...no, no. I quite like the batman.” not in the means that he would ever want to befriend him, but he was smart, interesting. He was so much more fun that toying with all the cops and regular kids on the street.
A small smile curls at his lips at her words. He leaned forward some, growing closer to her “It’s an peculiar thing when the mad start to make sense, isn’t it?” he questioned, arching a brow, voice low as he watched her with steady eyes. “...--I like to think I see the world for what it really is, all the sane--all they do is hide under a blanket of misguided hope. It’s when your eyes open and you see the shadows for the monsters that they really are...--it’s then that you finally see what a sick, dark joke the world is.” he nodded curtly, leaning back again. It gets a little more satisfaction out of the fact that she likes the new nickname than he should and even more when she claims her feathers aren’t white. “Harley suits you best I think.--oh? And what color are they?”