[EVENT] Lavender's Blue [open]

[snowblindmods]

Characters: anyone and everyone
Location all around town
Date: Night 180
Summary: Kill the sinners or run for your lives.
Warnings: Horror, potential gore and death. Please note more specific warnings in subject lines!

close we will live, dilly dilly
and when we die
both in one grave, dilly dilly
close we will lie

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[srsbat]

[A part of him trying to be snuffed out is screaming about how wrong it is to feel this way, to look forward to annihilating what he considers scum, to watching them die, to feeling the relief of a finality.] I know. I should have ended it on many occasions.

When you're gone, Norfinbury can go back to the way it should be. [There's no hesitation in his advance forward. He's intent. Convinced.] It's over. Don't move.

[The seriousness is in the way his shoulders straighten, in the way he raises his fists. He doesn't need to have any weapons to break the Joker.] I'll make it quick.

[harlequinofhate]

Then come at me, baby!

[Joker spreads his arms invitingly, then something the Bat said clicks.]

Norfinbury!? What does Norfinbury have to do with us!?

No!

This dismal burg is the one making you batty, Bats!

[He scrambles backwards.]

THAT'S NOT FAIR!

[srsbat]

[When the Joker hastily falls back, Bruce gets the strangest sense of satisfaction. Not the usual satisfaction of fear, but the satisfaction of hopelessness. Stepping on a child's sandcastle right as they are about to finish. Crushing dreams.] It hasn't ever been about fairness, Joker, especially not with you.

I'm giving you what you want. [His advancing doesn't stop, but it's not quick. He's taking his time.] Me killing you. That's what you've always been after, isn't it?

[harlequinofhate]

[Joker's glowing eyes sweep through the room, looking for his weapons or anything else he might be able to bludgeon this monster with.]

I wanted to be the one that finally made you snap. I just wanted you to see the joke and laugh, man!

[He draws back a step.]

This is only funny if I am the reason you snapped! That's the game! That's the point! The whole enchilada!

You can't let this big computerized heck-hole ruin our fun. C'mon, Batsy, fight it!

tmw bruce and joker take turns helping each other in a game

[srsbat]

There's nothing to fight. This is how it should be, how it always should've been. This is how it should have ended. [But, strangely, he does pause momentarily. An itch in the back of his mind like something is wrong, amiss. When you think you're supposed to be doing something, but can't remember what it was.

Then his advancing starts again.] Come quietly, and this will be as painless as possible.

The joke's over.

Magical

[harlequinofhate]

No!

[Joker dives to one side to give himself space. The sudden movement sends a wave of nausea through him and he hacks blood up on the floor.

If the Bat doesn't kill him, this damnable, unshakable illness will.

It's not funny.]

IT CAN'T END THIS WAY, I WON'T LET IT!

[He starts crawling on all fours, groping urgently through the shadows. His weapons are here, with the Bat's things, they have to be.]

[srsbat]

You've sabotaged this town enough. [The weapons are there with Bruce's things. Usually, he's not quite so discombobulated and off his game, but the heavy presence of the town is not really letting him think about much else except murder.

He continues his pursuit of the Joker without letting up, though he still goes at a slow, easy pace. Intimidation. Towering over the man scrambling to get away.]

Removing you with the others means those of us left can find a way to leave.

[harlequinofhate]

[Joker stops crawling when he finally is able to wrap his fingers around the haft of the fireplace poker. Its weight is familiar in his hand.]

More loonies will just come ya big galoot. Our hostess has a population quota to meet, remember?

[He waits for Batman to come into striking distance.]

[srsbat]

[Though completely true, this rationality doesn't seem to reach Bruce like it should. His advancing doesn't cease. One boot lands between the Joker's ankles, the other on the opposite side of one leg.] This town has made me realize I should have done this a long time ago.

Before so many people were hurt.

sorry about the lateness!

[harlequinofhate]

I've been telling you that for years but you never listened! Maybe you'll get a change someday, handsome, but not today.

It doesn't work for me.

Comedy's in the TIMING

[He swings the fireplace poker into the side of Batman's knee with all the panicked strength his arms can muster, intent on toppling the larger man over.]