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Quote from: Vector on July 12, 2013, 08:52:38 pm

Honestly, in the original Arkham Asylum strip's creator notes it says that everything about Batman is supposed to read "suuuuuuper repressed and gay" and part of the whole Joker thing is that he represents both the desirably intoxicating (pretty much everything that's forbidden or transgressive for men, basically) and that which we tell ourselves must be suppressed "for the good of society."  Hence why Batman never does a very good job of catching him.

IT'S IN THE NOTES

just do it already

I am telling you, the reason Joker does not reciprocate Harley Quinn's advances is because he would never betray his one true (obsessive, crazy) love, the Batman.

I maintain there exists a similar situation with Albert Wesker and Chris Redfield in Resident Evil.

Quote from: Vector on July 12, 2013, 09:05:44 pm

Hmm, asexual makes sense as well.  I'll take an explicit side of that too, thanks.

I've always interpreted Batman as so crazily dedicated to his role as Batman from a prepubescent age that whatever sexuality he may or may not have had is now hopelessly vestigial due to being fully dedicated to being Batman. Indeed, almost every regular human element of Bruce Wane ends up crushed under the force of justice that is Batman, to the point that there is no telling who has the better claim of being the dominant identity.

Quote from: Ross Vernal on July 12, 2013, 09:19:26 pm

Let's just assume you can cast Grease, and that it is magically non-flammable because you thought of "Gee, it sure wouldn't be fun to die screaming in a fire."

Unless pantxike thinks it'd be hilarious if it suddenly was flammable.

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good
evil

My vote is for Blue and Orange Morality. Maybe we don't have any reason to be good but neither do we have any reason to be evil. What we do have, is reason to have a worldview that is completely foreign to mortals. We're thousands of years old, we're an animated skeleton, we no longer feel hot or cold and it's likely we no longer feel pain and we're probably immortal and don't have to eat or sleep. Running around breaking things and killing people is very short sighted. But I don't see much point in saving damsels and helping old ladies cross the road when they're just going to be dead in a couple eyeblinks relative to us.

Let's take a third option.

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you are a female dragon, you still can't find your name in your memory.

Helchistrasza, Harbinger of cold.

Meaningful name
Name to run away from really fast
Bilingual bonus

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Destroy the inscription on the wall.

No! Destroy nothing. Whomever made it made it as a testament to our power and glory. We were so important to them that their future generations remember us that they made us a nice plaque and put our skeleton on display.

Whether they love us or hate us, clearly they view us as a creature of great importance. This is something we want to encourage. If we go around destroying monuments dedicated to us, that discourages them from building more monuments.

Break nothing. Test to see if we can speak. Explore the left and right runnels.