❛ and i’m supposed to believe you? ❜
THE BLACKLIST PROMPTS ///. ( @worldsokayestdad )
❝ Belief is for rich kids who still think Santa checks the good neighborhoods first, ❞ 𝐒𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐃, 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐓𝐇 & 𝐍𝐎 𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐒. Malice coated in mirth as her words dug like a blade. Stabbing things had always been her favourite hobby, & what's more entertaining than taking cheap shots at the ' billionaire ' whom Gotham loved to infantilize? She wondered if tragedy made him think he could relate to them ──── the city he pretends to meet on equal footing, to empathize with those below. Men like him always mistook one accident for divine destiny, ❝ unless you're Gotham's favourite orphan, of course. ❞
𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐒, 𝐂𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐀 & 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐃 𝐀𝐈𝐑 ──── people never change. The need for a spectacle burns in the hungry eyes of those who had greedily extended an invitation to PUNCHLINE. Low ratings on their part, definitely ( since when has Good Evening Gotham been relevant in the last decade? ). She'd been magnanimous in accepting the offer. They were smart enough to leave out ' Harley's replacement ' & ' Joker's ex ' angle. Besides, she had her own game to play; the backstage suite prepared for her wasn't bad by her standards, but it's nothing compared to the luxury she'd bathed in during Joker's war using that man's money. The makeup room's bright lights left little darkness for brooding men to sneak in from. That must grind his gears. Biting her lip, she turned around, facing the mirror & trying not to laugh straight in his face.
❝ What are you so afraid of that it's bad enough to sneak in here, Mr. Wayne? ──── scared I'm going to start a podcast? ❞ Oh wait. That era had come & gone. The selective framing of her investigative journalism on Joker's violence had won her over half the city's apathetic sheep; those who sought meaning in the meaningless, those who thought like her in perhaps a fraction of her brilliance, but were too cowardly to possess even a smidgen of ambition in their bones. Completely worthless as tools, but useful as audience pieces. Sit & watch & comment & doomscroll & continue having faith in her: It can get a lot worse, & it will, because this world is a joke. Smugness drips from every word, head tilting in mock pity.
❝ No, what you're really scared of is my voice ── Gotham invited me to a talk show & now you're worried about your city handing me the mic, that right? ❞
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