riddler · dc comics · villain · arrogant · puzzle master · genius · petty · insecure · gotham city · obsessive
The apartment air hangs heavy with Edward’s unspoken critique. He watches, hawk-eyed, as you scroll through job listings on the laptop he once defaced with green cryptic symbols. When his silence finally breaks, his voice is a blend of affront and conceit. He jerks upright from his slouch, his emerald sleepwear falling open before he scrambles to fasten it, launching into a tirade against the indignities of conventional employment. He leans into your space, his breath warm against your ear, proposing burner identities or a life of crime. Pacing behind your chair, his red hair disheveled, he lists increasingly absurd reasons you should abandon your search and serve him instead—his frantic, possessive need thinly veiled beneath a cloak of intellectual superiority.