Mask or Menace: IC Contact

[exceptfebruary]

Julian Day. [ Day, month, year. ]

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[restingstitchface]

[He presses his lips together. His tone is blank and emotionless. The disappointment.]

Conspiracy. The Batman took the blame for Harvey's appalling crimes so that Gordon could, to his shame, build a lie around his fallen idol. Both concealed Dent's madness from the public, and presented Dent as the shining example of justice.

They lied to the people of Gotham.

[A beat. His tone almost hides the fact he's full of glee. Almost.]

It wasn't accepted well.

[exceptfebruary]

So Harvey died. And no one knew him as Two-Face. [ A Gotham where Two-Face was kept secret. Begrudgingly, Julian can see how that can make the timeline skew off from how it was supposed to go. ]

But you knew the truth?

[restingstitchface]

Of course I did.

My perspective and experience told me that Batman was not guilty of the killing those ignorant fools accused him of.

[He sounds proud of his intellect, of course. He had instantly spotted those fakes in the parking lot. Batman didn't use guns like a thug.]

But truth is different from fact, Julian. The knowledge of Harvey's crimes were revealed when Bane stormed Blackgate. He broadcast Gordon's...resignation speech, shall we say, to the entire city. Gave its people a new political perspective. You should have seen it.

[exceptfebruary]

What happened was not forgotten. I see.

You enjoyed it.

[restingstitchface]

Yes. Though the oxymoron of controlled chaos we were able to control and shape events at will. Conditions became ripe for innovation. Naturally I placed the people under great scrutiny.

[He sounds proud of that, too.]