Here have a drabble for my AU where Zsasz takes the blame for Martin’s ‘death’.
Blackgate had been nicer. Better food. It had been fun. The first day he got there he did what one is supposed to do find the biggest and baddest dude there and kill him. Sure he got put in solitary for it but it was only a few days and he could handle that a few days just thinking on things. Making escape plans that he might have carried out if he had gotten too bored with Blackgate. It was not to be after two months the higher powers for some reason decided he belonged in Arkham.
Arkham was not part of the plan. Blackgate enabled him to still feel relatively free, sure there were bars but he didn’t feel trapped but Arkham was oppressive suffocating. That first week he snapped and killed an orderly, at Blackgate they didn’t care that he killed the occasional shitbag, Arkham was not Blackgate.
They kept him heavily sedated most of the time and he hated it, it fogged his mind when he needed it to be sharp. They kept him in a straitjacket after he killed that orderly. Victor became withdrawn. Quiet. He was trapped.
Only a few come to see him, mostly the Girls and Wendell, the only family he seems to have besides his grandmother, he forbade her to come to see him like this, a caged freak. The person that should have come to see him has yet to come, probably guilt keeps him from coming. Victor doesn’t understand why he made the decision to take the fall for Penguin, it just felt like the best course of action at the time.