Some fan art wips from my sketchbook, first pic is death-stroke defiance #25 and second is Arkham knight riddler
Also yes the question mark is pink I ran out of the purple acrylic marker
I’m also working on my first long fanfic atm so yeah!!! I will probably do it in parts because I want it to be long. Once I get the parts rolling it I’ll probably make a master list too although hopefully in the future I’ll have alot to add in it!
During my recent trip to the ice-cream isle where I was looking at all the flavours, I was pondering about ice cream flavours that the riddlers would like so here’s what I came up with.
Content/Warnings: none it’s all wholesome
Zero Year
It’s either French vanilla or pistachio
Mostly pistachio for theme but I wouldn’t put it past him to dye a pint of French vanilla green
Although I’m not sure if the texture would be the same
He prefers his ice cream simply with the flavour and no toppings or mix ins
I feel like he would like banana pudding ice cream I don’t know why but yes
I don’t think he would like most chocolate ice creams like he would prefer the ones that use good quality chocolate and less sweetness, like yes it would be sweet but not overly so like the typical one
Arkham Knight
He doesn’t have time to eat ice cream he’s too busy plotting
Perhaps when the heat gets the best of him , then he will take a quick break to indulge
He prefers ice creams with the fruitier flavours to them or at least have some sort of real fruit in them
Sometimes depending on the flavour he would enjoy it with chocolate chunks within it
He’s got a sweet tooth for strawberry ice cream or even black cherry flavour
Even better if the strawberry icecream has chunks of strawberry with dark chocolate chunks
If it’s blueberry it’s definitely with lemon or some sort of cheesecake flavour
Deathstroke defiance 2016 (#25)
One word, macadamia nut
Okay it was two but he’s a nutty type of guy
Pistachio, macadamia nut, pecan you name it!
He’s also a coffe type of guy, so in ice cream form paired with chocolate or anything that compliments a particular blend he’s buying the whole stock
I think he would also like vanilla bean but it’s not always his first choice; it’s mainly for affogatos
Sometimes he would like mix ins in his ice cream but not always, if it’s fruit or chocolates or simply nuts yes but he doesn’t like sprinkles
Deathstroke Defiance Riddler #26 x gender neutral reader
Word count 3021
Context: The reader has been on a long hiatus from the criminal world. No one notices the reader has suddenly disappeared due to mental and physical health reasons, except one particular green-suited ginger man. Riddler notices after 2 years and uses his detective skills to investigate further out of his own boredom and mild curiosity.
Content/Warnings: Breaking into reader's home, Mention of crimes and heists, high stress levels, the reader cannot keep up with heist and to donation patterns as it is too frequent and too grand without having poor health, Reader struggles with their health and taking care with themself and takes it down a notch, lots crying, the reader has ISSUES with Riddler, lots of Riddler hate, reader struggles with constant negative talk towards them. Riddler makes the reader cry(not from pleasure, hes just a bitch in this one)
You hated Riddler a lot..... not because of morals, but because he was very unpleasant to be around. As if anything you said or did warranted a look or comment of disdain from him. You didnt even associate or interact with him since your first day in the criminal realm! Yet for some very reason, he felt oh so compelled to comment on everything you did, every time you succeeded in a heist, every change in your looks, every choice you made from the very kind of food you ate!
So when you had slowed down on heists, and started to isolate yourself from the criminal realm and practically cut off all contact with any remaining criminal colleagues you had. There were conversations about your well-being, whether you had left the criminal realm for a break or if you were no longer evil.
The truth was, you were still "evil", although not in the stereotypical way society would expect. You stole from the rich and used most of the money to help the people of Gotham who needed it most. You chose to help directly rather than charities because most business even non-profit ones always been corrupt. However, it didnt mean you lived as a poor person either, you could live quite comfortable with the money you had set aside. Keeping up the lifestyle of extreme fear and adrenaline was not exactly helping you or your health in the long term of your criminal career.
The copious amounts of stress you were under did not allow you to celebrate your victories anymore, you were in a constant fight or flight cycle and was losing a lot sleep. Eating less, coherently thinking less, and always internally panicking and rambling affected your heist performance. It wasn't until you had woken up in your getaway car before realizing you had started to perform your heists IN YOUR SLEEP as the last thing you had remembered was falling asleep at home… yet you had woken up in your getaway car with lots of cash in the back!You hadn't even thought this was possible, even so, without fail! You had no clue how long this had been happening for, and your mind would only tangle itself more and more stressful thoughts as you were quickly escaping.
That's when you knew you needed a break, you were doing too much in too little time for one person, you had a lot of money you saved up anyway. Perhaps it was time to take a year off and simply donate at a regular pace. It was better for you to keep up, both financially and mentally, with how you were getting these donations.
So you took the break, although you kept the heists simple and limited to 2x a year. You cut off all your criminal colleagues, although it was very few, as you had stopped talking to many long ago due to other reasons. You had lived privately in your cozy apartment, focusing on relaxing and other interests. You didnt think anyone would notice you were gone.... none of them ever reached out, considering you were not very close with them since you couldn't find much in common with them apart from being seen as a criminal by society.
None of them did notice.... for 2 years at least. You decided to continue your new method of donating for as long as you deemed, It was far healthier for you, and you were even thinking about making it 3x a year.
Riddler, however, had noticed your absence by now... eventually you would have been seen by him, whether it was when he was visiting a criminal colleague or simply within Gotham committing heists. You hadn't even shown up to any meetings either, and you always did...
So he used his detective skills, and within a month, he had found out where you lived, what your schedule was like, your digital footprint, and everything tied to you. He found your medical records, and he could infer from the time you had stopped associating with them to the time you used to. Your health was far better than before, but it was not good.
He chose to visit you in the summer night, he had chosen to visit during the more quieter .. hours of Gotham night. Slipping through the door without a peep or creak even heard, he slowly and quietly made his way around your apartment. Room by room your apartment told him more and more about the very criminal.. or ex criminal so he thought that lived here. However he hadn’t found you yet in any of the rooms on the first floor.
As you were blissfully unaware in your deep much needed slumber, footsteps had eventually gotten closer and closer untill they stopped suddenly. “Ah, I see you’ve been sleeping at this late hour… no wonder you haven’t stopped me.”
His gloved fingers glided across your face… just barely grazing over your cheek and the small tear on your soft cheek.
You had been in a bit of a gloomy mood the past week from the nagging thoughts in your head about an upcoming heist. Although your stress levels were far more lower compared to before, you had reduced your breaking point countdown to once or twice a year rather than every single week.
Riddler wiped the tear with his thumb and further inspected if there were any more tears he could possibly wipe away.“Now what could possibly make a person like you cry…. Or is it who made you cry?”
However, you didnt respond... as you were asleep. He removed his hand and continued to look around your messy room, covered in pieces and preparations of an upcoming heist.
He went through each piece of evidence of your intentions with precision and secrecy. With each piece, a new perception of why you may have been at such a distance with such secrecy. He occasionally glanced at you when you mumble some nonsense in your sleep and continued with his investigation.
There was rock hard proof that you had been committing heists but what Riddler couldn’t understand was why it was so far less than before. Why did you distance yourself so randomly and so quickly from everyone else?
That particular thought buzzed and buzzed in his head until he started to get annoyed with his lack of progress. Although... he found nearly all other things in your room that were half as interesting.
Despite the state of your room being a bit messy, your desk was very pristine and well-decorated. LED lights, cute stickers, and an organizer for some pens as well. What stood out to him the most, however, was that your computer was unlocked and currently in a chat with someone. Although no one was texting, it seemed you had just texted them from your computer over 1 hour ago.
When he decided to inspect closer and spend 5 minutes reading a days worth of chatting or moreso ranting, the nagging question in his brain was finally answered. You had distanced yourself not to quit, bit rather to shift your methods to be more manageable and healthy for your well-being in the long term. He could understand why you wouldn't have told anyone, especially with how much hes critized your over the tiniest things before.
Once he was satisfied with his finding he curiosity turned into nosiness. He started reading deeper into your chats, even going as far to read your chats with other friends. He didn't even care if it wasn't related for his reason of intrusion he was just doing it out of nosiness and to learn everything about you.
Minutes turned to hours, 2 hours to be exact of him going through the videos and texts you and your friends send to each other, analyzing them with a strange delight. He wasn't going to make it known he had entered your home, or went through your messages as you would probably give him the boring reaction of anger and surprise.
It was now around 3 am , and he was in your kitchen inspecting what sort of food you had in your fridge now with judgement. It was surprisingly empty. He knew you had enough money to stock a fridge so perhaps this was just a awaiting task. However whatever left in the fridge was well .... disappointing. After all he had taken it upon himself to bless you with his presence and interest in you after you had suddenly left 2 years ago. Not stocking your fridge for intruders was not good host behavior!
As he was making some toast, he heard some ruslting from your room.... and then the bedroom light had turned on. You had awaken...
After 30 minutes from what Riddler heard was the tap and shower running to get ready for the day, you had popped out in the darkness, with your usual hair styled and baggy clothes. Despite freshening up it was clear you had spent the majority of the night before crying as per your recent texts to a friend and the fact there were tears on you cheek when Riddler found you asleep.
As you hobbled out towards the kitchen, you saw him in YOUR KITCHEN MAKING TOAST. You weren't sure if you were alseep or not considering how odd and random it was but the second you saw him you screamed before you registered who it was and you regained your composure, albeit more grouchy and annoyed now. "Get OUT". You said with a tone that was infused with venom and disdain.You weren't sure why exactly he was here as he normally doesn't reach out to you EVER outside of group settings.
Riddler turned to look at you and gave you a good lookdown before flashing you a mocking grin and said, "Well someone's not a morning person... did your slumber get interrupted by your pathetic tears?".
When Riddler said that it had only made you more angry, you did not need his attitude and you certainly didn't want to deal with his presence ever again. You were about to respond before he spoke again. "You know...I knew it was odd that you had disappeared so suddenly and for just over 2 years... but I didn't expect you to be this much of a mess... seems you were just as weak as I thought."
His smug face as he said each insult only added to your anger, you HATED this man with all your heart. One could even say you were his number one hater apart from the bat himself. He was just SO ANNOYING and so negative and he was literally FINDING YOU just the repeat the same negative things over and over and over like a broken record. You had tried everything, you had distanced yourself, you have given him the silent treatment you had even fucked with his ocffe order when buying for the group.
But this was something new and not in a good way... it was as if all the pent up anger you had for him joined togther for a very angry yet communicative speech of hatred towards him."Did you really find out where I lived, break in, go through my stuff to find out why you don't see me anymore JUST to make fun of me? Don't you have evil plans to well.. plan? What kind of person spends this much time on making fun of someone?!?!? Seriously its 3 AM!?!? I DONT WANT TO SEE OR TALK TO YOU WHY CANT YOU UNDERSTAND THAT!!! GO AWAY YOU FREAK!!!"
You exclaimed with the anger of a 1000 people, and the venom clear with every word you spoke. Each word filled with hate and frustration untill the near end where you broke down in tears... again... not even 1 hour after youve woken up you had started crying again, although this time it was because of Riddler and not your own stress from heists.
Riddler's stupid smile paused when he saw your transition to tears, you had cried yourself to sleep last night and doing it just barely an hour into being awake today! Maybe you were a mess... although he did admit to himself it was 50% on him. Whatever you were crying about last night had nothing to do with him at least. He awkwardly at his toast in your face as you broke down in tears while simultaneously trying to complain about him while crying. It came out quite mangled, a mix of unintelligible words mixed with sniffles and wails. Your neighbours could probably hear you from the thin walls and probably thought you were going through it again.
It was only until you had awkwardly left to go find a tissue for your leaking nose that he put down the toast and followed you as if his presence didn't raise your blood pressure to unhealthy levels of anger. He kept a bit of distance just incase you decided to take out of anger in other ways. Not that you ever did you knew the short term sucess of physically harming him would be met with even worse violence inflicted upon you in a matter of days. "You know.... you shouldnt let what I say to you affect you so much...everyone else handles it just fine and you should too. Its not my problem that you cant handle a little comment."
You gave him a angry glare at his snarky yet strange and poor attempt at diffusing and downplaying the situation by blaming you. How classic. You sniffled loudly and you were about to lunge forward in an attempt to attack him given your losing your marbles at this point.
"Actually, I think I’ll just leave for now ! Even I can take a hint of when I'm not wanted ... or Moreso loud speech of hatred..."He said in a cowardly, defensive tone as he beelined for the door. Making you cry and then leaving when he has to face the consequences.. great way to start the morning!
TIMESKIP TO THE SAME DAY BUT AROUND 11 PM
It was nearly midnight, and you had spent the whole day trying to calm down and reflect on your wild morning. You were much more calm after he left.. but you'd randomly start crying during the day if you thought too much about it. He was right though, you shouldnt let him affect you to this point... but it gets to a point where its not even out of hurtfulness, its simply frustration to have to hear such things no matter how much you distance yourself.
You had taken it upon yourself to have a movie night in your living room. You felt significantly at peace and happier with your favorite snacks and bundled up in cozy thick blankets and pillows as you watched one of your comfort movies. It was silent.. peaceful... just how you liked it.
Untill you had fallen asleep.... then the front door was fiddled with and Riddler had broken in again... He was holding a gift basket however... and his face was no longer displaying a stupid grin but rather a face of nervousness. As if he was hoping you were asleep and wouldnt see him.
The second he entered the living room his face softened with a small smile. He found your movie night attempt quite silly looking with you asleep on the couch with your snacks surrounding you rather than being placed upon the coffe table infront of you. You were also very close from falling of the couch too.
He carefully stepped towards you to check if you were fully asleep, once he confirmed you were fully asleep he quietly and with ease cleaned up the snacks that were about to spill entirely because you had fallen asleep with them on the couch. He turned of the movie and he paused to take in your face.
There were no tears this time, perhaps you had calmed down from you little outburst on him earlier this morning. Though he doubted that ypur feelings towards him were the same.
He adjusted your sleeping position with gentleness and caution to not awaken you so you weren't about to fall off the couch and hit your head on the coffee table corner. Riddler tucked you in and adjusted your pillow before looking at your sleeping face again. It was very unlike him, even if he was specifically showing some form of kindness when you were asleep it was nothing of the nature you thought he was capable of.
Just before he was about to leave, he made some space on the coffee table for a piece of a paper with a riddle on it along with the small gift basket.
By the time you had awoken the next day, you had read the riddle with initial anger before confusion took over as you saw the gift basket.
The riddle read, "I am invisible but essential, and without me, you feel burnt out. What am I?".
Beside it stood an accurately curated green and purple gift basket. It was small but not in quality and actually seemed very well thought out all pertaining to the theme of rest.
There was a sigh of relief that you didn't even though you were holding in when you understood what he was trying to say. He was not apologizing per say, you didn't expect him to ever apologize to you let alone muster it up. But you knew he knew when he was in the wrong and at least acknowledging that you needed rest and not to be around him was a hopeful start. You also knew it was related to his treatment towards you because of a snarky little comment at the bottom of the page that read, "P.S, when I visit again I expect your attitude toward me will become more respectful with my newfound ... manners towards you."
Maybe things would get better after all during your break... just maybe..
Context: Characters mentioned below with a gender-neutral reader during a sleepover
Content/warnings: implied non-consensual drugging(scarecrow's fear toxin to the reader), alcoholic beverages consumed, baking, sleepover activities, stealing(as a crime and not like stealing someone's food), intellectual debates and competitive gaming and platonic
Riddler (Zero Year)
Sleepover? More like a competition for anything ever!
He's actually quite the video game nerd, so when he finds out you play video games...
Well, the whole night will be spent playing against each other, round after round
Eventually, it gets to a point where you are just losing game after game, and then Riddler decides to spare you any further embarrassment
Riddler (Arkham Knight)
sleepover? No no no... this is a watch Riddler work kind of sleepover
Will ignore you and your desperate pleas, even if you try to tempt him with popcorn and horror movies
Eventually, he's had enough of your begging; it's far too distracting
You use the sleepover to essentially make it a form of self-care on his self-care-deprived self
eating, skincare, resting, he doesn't realize until you've put a face mask on him
Will attempt to get back to his work, but in the end, he succumbs to your kindness
He does not fall asleep until 4 am, but most of that time was spent unwinding by attacking villagers in Minecraft and accidentally 'hitting' your character when you were on half a heart
Riddler(Deathstroke Defiance 2016 #25)
One thing is for sure: you two are going to play a very intense game of Uno
Fights will occur, and feelings will get hurt
The two of you will place bets, and because it’s a game of chance, Riddler could actually lose
When he does lose a game, he gets cranky and starts adding rules in his favour, but that fails
Pillow fights occur because surely he can beat you at that, right?
After an hour, you two would get bored and probably talk very passionately about your interests for hours on end before you both fall asleep
Killian (spies in disguise)
After you pester him to join, he's doing so with the least amount of interest
He's barely paying attention to the movie; he doesn't even touch the snacks, and frankly, he's more interested in silently judging you and your pjs
He's only entertaining this whole thing because he can't fall asleep, and your ranting about the movie might actually help him fall asleep from how boring it is
Occasionally, he will speak, although it's mainly questions or judgmental comments about the movie
Lance Sterling (Spies in Disguise)
He knows a thing or two about sleepovers, and he knows how to throw one
Because he's the social butterfly, the sleepover is much more fun than just two people
You will be wide awake the entire time with many fun shenanigans and snacks
Plus, his house is like AMAZING and HUGEEE to play hide and seek in, despite how childish the idea may seem, it's actually really fun when you have a 1000 hiding spots
He curates the night to actually be quite memorable and fun with all the activities!
He Cheng (19 Days)
He's not interested at all; he's far too busy to do something like that
He would just make one of his men participate in his place
That is, until he can't fall asleep because you and his men are being loud
He walks by the living room near midnight to see you and his men clearly baking cookies near midnight
He decides then to watch at least, and then take a finished cookie just to 'make sure' they came out right and weren't poisoned or anything
After that, he will make everyone go to bed; it's too late for him to be smelling cookies when he's trying to sleep
Darkness (Legend 1985)
He finds the idea silly, such a childish human thing to do
It does not mean he won't entertain it, though, and to great lengths
If you were to have a 'sleepover', it would be a very luxurious one
He would particularly be interested in picking your brain about what a ‘human sleepover’ is
What movies, what activities and comparing them to his own idea of one
He would enjoy late-night talks with you and engage in very long, meaningful conversations about pretty much anything with you
Le Chffire (Casino Royale)
He wouldn’t be there in the first place but if he were, he’d be bored
No he does not want to watch a movie and he’s TIRED
So yes, he will unwind but not in your way(unless his way is your way)
Besides, he doesn’t need to stay up more than he usually does, he loses enough sleep already
So, during the time he doesn’t feel sleepy, he supposes he can teach you a thing or two about poker
Why not throw in a few drinks while he’s at it to liven things up
In fact, maybe have some dark chocolate-covered strawberries by as he teaches you
After all learning poker is a hard skill
Steven Obanno (Casino Royale)
Will subject you to many deep and even philosophical talks
A few hours go by, and you two have practically talked about every single thing ever, and the snacks aren’t even touched
Will bring up the philosophical ship of Theseus paradox
Many arguments and passionate intellectual debates will happen throughout the night, and you may or may not start pillow-fighting over your arguments about hypothetical situations
Eventually, the two of you are over it, tired and lying down, feeling all giggly at your own squabbles
Will settle down with some tea before finally falling asleep
Tuco Salamanca (Breaking Bad)
He would be down
although he might mistake a sleepover for something more wilder
Whatever peaceful yet fun night you had planned, Tuco replaced it all with more adventurous and exciting activities
Turns out, Tuco knows how to have fun when it's not about creatively hurting people!
You two will still do a few of the activities you had planned, but he just makes it so much more fun
Although it does end in Lalo being awoken by how loud Tuco and you were both laughing when you showed each other your attempts at drawing each other
Black Mask (general)
A slumber party is fine… although it would be alot more fun if he changed it up a bit
Since the goal is to stay awake… why not play a few games
Its a lot easier to stay awake when your hiding in god knows where as he’s trying to find you
Or when he found you and your running all over the place before he catches you
Twister sounds a lot more fun at 2am compared to 9 am….
Once you two are tired out only then you two will probably watch a movie although you both wouldn’t know how it ended because you both fell asleep
Uvogin (Hunter x Hunter)
Who was he to say no to a sleepover?
You brought beer? Even better! Now he doesn't have to steal it from some random grocery store :)
Hope you don't mind, he brought ice cream!
Will expect you to have some sort of activities planned after all, you invited him over
But the second you put on a movie hes bored out of his mind and he makes it very clear he is not interested in watching some boring movie
But if you run out of activities because he was far too bored for nearly all, he doesn't mind basking in silence or just silly dilly dallying around with you
Might try to drag you out for some late-night stealing, after all, a sleepover doesn't mean it has to be STRICTLY in the home, right? At least to him, he thinks that
Scarecrow (Dark Knight Trilogy)
He may or may not treat you like a test subject for his fear toxin
Will play along until you fall asleep
He's not interested at all, though and the only reason he'd say yes is to treat you like a test subject without your knowledge
Have fun having nightmares though
Unless he doesn’t see you as just some test subject, he would probably participate with mild interest
