Okay here is the big long Emile Dorian post — here we go!
So Doctor Emile Dorian was a renowned geneticist and biologist specializing in CRISPR / transmutation. He was a scientist celebrity of sorts, known for his miraculous work with curing many previously untreatable diseases and his unparalleled love for cats — until he was fired and exposed following many scandals.
Firstly, his involvement with unethical scientific experimentation on animals was discovered, along with records of him selling his CRISPR technology to the US military industrial complex, which resulted in many deaths from failed attempts at creating a super soldier, and even more deaths following the creation of a successful one. But that’s a story for another time.
After he was fired from his position as head scientist, he became a recluse, retiring to a lab built on a secluded island and was not seen in the public eye again. Behind closed doors, though, his experimentation did not cease. Instead, it had only just begun.
Using all the skills he accumulated throughout his career, he channeled them all into perfecting his transmutation through experimentation. now that he doesn’t have the SPCA and Gotham Medical Board breathing down his neck, he can do whatever he wants!
After years of failed experiments, he gets comfortable enough to use his technology somewhat freely, even transforming himself into his favorite animal: a cat!! Kinda just for fun. Eventually, Dorian made his magnum opus: Tygrus, a being made from the perfect mix of animals. Dorian hailed Tygrus as his ultimate achievement, and, though unspoken, his son.
But after Dr Dorian discovers Batman, that all changes. Dorian thought Tygrus was the most advanced splicing if DNA that the world had ever seen; but one look at the Bat, and he became entranced. The Batman of Gotham was obviously manufactured by someone using genetic technology, but the level of skill and advancement is so far above his own. And Dorian needs to know how they did it. He needs to capture this beast and figure out its secrets, even if it means he must tear it apart by the seams. He sets out on a quest to capture and reverse-engineer the biology of the Batman by dissection.
Tygrus, however, is incensed. He was once Dorian’s favorite — his creation, his pride, his son. But now he’s just another failed experiment, like all the rest, and Dorian now treats him as such. Once a magnum opus, a sight to behold, but now indistinguishable from a horrid, deformed lab rat, abandoned by his creator and father. Just another failure. He vows he will destroy this Batman for taking away his father’s love if he ever gets the chance. Then he’ll love him again.