Joker: Hunted
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prose_alchemistTitle: Hunted
Author:jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: PG.
Characters: Arthur Fleck.
Setting: During the train chase.
Summary: He had never felt more alive.
Disclaimer: Joker belongs to DC Comics and Warner Brothers. I’m just playing with him.
Notes: Written for the prompt of “Dark Tone” atgenprompt_bingo.
The impact of the taxi barely registered. Stunned but intact, Arthur stumbled upright and kept running.
It was all going to end tonight, either way—but he was determined to end it on his terms.
Up the stairs, to the train platform, and then he was squeezing through doors that lurched closed on newly-made bruises. He didn’t feel that, either.
On the train a sea of clown masks greeted him, white plastic faces and flyaway green tufts echoing his new form. For a second as he caught his breath, the sight made his heart jump with something more than adrenaline.
I did this.
Then the detectives were pounding at the doors. Head tilting, Arthur watched them squirm onto the train… and smiled as his pulse quickened all over again.
This was a new kind of high, different from the rush of killing. When he took lives, he had been the one in control; but now he was a target himself, pursued like an animal.
He was finally wanted by someone—if only because they had realized he was dangerous.
It was a magnificent joke, truly.
For a man who meant to die that night, he had never felt more alive.
End Notes: The glimpse is very fleeting before the camera cuts away, but I’m positive we see Arthur’s lips begin to turn up in a smile when the detectives are boarding the train. I believe this is him at least subconsciously discovering that he enjoys the thrill of being hunted. It’s yet another reinforcement of the lesson he has learned: bad deeds will gain him more attention than good. Going forward as Joker, I can definitely see him thriving on being “wanted” in this way, whether by the police or eventually some iteration of Batman.
© 2020 Jordanna Morgan
Author:
jordannamorganArchive Rights: Please request the author’s consent.
Rating/Warnings: PG.
Characters: Arthur Fleck.
Setting: During the train chase.
Summary: He had never felt more alive.
Disclaimer: Joker belongs to DC Comics and Warner Brothers. I’m just playing with him.
Notes: Written for the prompt of “Dark Tone” at
genprompt_bingo.The impact of the taxi barely registered. Stunned but intact, Arthur stumbled upright and kept running.
It was all going to end tonight, either way—but he was determined to end it on his terms.
Up the stairs, to the train platform, and then he was squeezing through doors that lurched closed on newly-made bruises. He didn’t feel that, either.
On the train a sea of clown masks greeted him, white plastic faces and flyaway green tufts echoing his new form. For a second as he caught his breath, the sight made his heart jump with something more than adrenaline.
I did this.
Then the detectives were pounding at the doors. Head tilting, Arthur watched them squirm onto the train… and smiled as his pulse quickened all over again.
This was a new kind of high, different from the rush of killing. When he took lives, he had been the one in control; but now he was a target himself, pursued like an animal.
He was finally wanted by someone—if only because they had realized he was dangerous.
It was a magnificent joke, truly.
For a man who meant to die that night, he had never felt more alive.
End Notes: The glimpse is very fleeting before the camera cuts away, but I’m positive we see Arthur’s lips begin to turn up in a smile when the detectives are boarding the train. I believe this is him at least subconsciously discovering that he enjoys the thrill of being hunted. It’s yet another reinforcement of the lesson he has learned: bad deeds will gain him more attention than good. Going forward as Joker, I can definitely see him thriving on being “wanted” in this way, whether by the police or eventually some iteration of Batman.
© 2020 Jordanna Morgan