Jun 23
Knightfall Part One.
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Knightfall Part One.
ᴊᴇᴀɴ-ᴘᴀᴜʟ ᴠᴀʟʟᴇʏ. ᴀᴢʀᴇᴀʟ.
Normal.
That’s all he wanted to be.
Too bad he’d never really know ‘normal’. His father had always been religious. Some fancy church about a dead saint from ages ago. His father always rambled about being a knight on the eve’s he wasn’t soaked to the bone in booze or off his gourd on some drug or other.
Jean-Paul learned to be quiet, be small, from a young age. To keep his grievances to himself. In high school people called him a creep. He was tall, like almost unnaturally so, with thick glasses and muscles he’d never worked for but he never talked. Jean-Paul spent most of his time in the library or computer lab. He was good with computers, not so much people, then his dad was gone and his head was loud loud loud and he was him but not himself.
A second voice spoke in his head now and it claimed to be an angel yet hated the stories of the saints. At least that’s what Jean-Paul believed since reciting those stories was the only fucking way to shut that ‘Angel’ up so he could focus on his job. On college. There were nights Jean-Paul didn’t remember but felt the lingering ache of.
Fresh bandages and bruises scattered across the fair flesh of his body like he was fighting a war. Little had he known he was. That angel forcing control over his body and acting as an anti-hero of sorts for an order he’d come to hate. The Order of Saint Dumas. At some point Batman had found him, he’d found Azreal before Jean-Paul you see, which wasn’t good.
Batman believed him unstable and uncouth. Lacking training yet somehow being able to keep up in a fight. Jean-Paul was used to being looked down upon but oh how Azrael fumed at it. Then he- they were Batman. They killed someone and the guilt rooted into Jean-Paul so deeply it might as well have been an ancient tree.
Bruce did not know they were two instead of one so his anger was to Jean-Paul. And the blonde was used to it. To the anger directed upon him. The dissent. Again Azrael hated it. Hated that Jean-Paul was meek as if Azrael did not understand what he’d been through.
At one point Jean-Paul thought to end it. End the shared mind, the lack of control over his own body, the condescension from internal and external forces. Yet he didn’t. He couldn’t when the Order still stood. The Order that’d stolen his childhood, his father, and his free will. So he stayed and made a deal with the Angel. They would take down the Order of Saint Dumas and prevent it from rising again.
UNO!
Bruce: Ha! +4 take that
Talia: *clicks her tongue * I feel that you bribed Luke to give you all the good cards.
Luke (Luke fox btw): One why would I take a bribe when I can just hack into his funds whenever. And two why not give myself good cards?
Kate: +2. Take that you son of a bitch.
Jean-Paul:… +4 I will remain undefeated at this game
Luke: +4 oooh sorry B
Talia: HAHA! Should’ve saved that +4 now hey.
Bruce: Hey! You are suppose to be on my team!
Luke: Bruce I told you already there are no teams in uno!
Jean-Paul: He’s just jealous because he’s not on our team.
Bruce: *nods* Kate: GO FISH!
Talia: It’s uno
Kate: you know that explains a lot. I thought they just called the game that. I mean no one’s ever said anything before?
~5 minutes later~ Jean-Paul: OH FUCK YOU!
Bruce: I THOUGHT WE WERE ON THE SAME TEAM. AND YOU DO THIS!
Jean-Paul: KEEP GOING ILL RIP YOUR DICK OFF!!
Talia: Okay please don’t he’s still my husband.
Kate: I love Friday nights with you people
Helena: HEY BITCHES! Guess who brought wine for Friday nig- God damn what happens. I left you people for what 20 minutes and Bruce and JP are fighting like siblings.
Luke: Long story I think next time we should all just go clubbing or something
Talia: BELOVED! Put the sword down. No that does not mean you get to pick it up!
Helena: Great now I bet uno is going to be banned just like monopoly!
(lol it’s my favourite headcanon that these 5 are just the best of friends. Like Talia and Bruce in a relationship. Bruce Kate and Jean-Paul all siblings with each other. Luke and Helena bring chill but fun fives. I just think they are all just super fun together!)
Under-appreciated bat family / ally to draw
Luke Fox (Batwing)
Kate Kane (Batwoman)
Harper Row (Bluebird)
Basil Karlo (Clayface)
Barbara Gordon (Oracle/Batgirl)
Jefferson Pierce (Black Lightning)
Tatsu Yamashiro (Katana)
Jean-Paul Valley (Azreal)
I will be drawing one of them! Probably solo, maybe not