✨Nina!✨

Sat down to sketch something new (which I'll only finish after the thesis)

Commission for @black-cats-crossing !!

Im not confident about the drayton art lol do NOT make fun of it PLEASE 😭😭😭😭 hes very dear to me i promise ill draw him bjtter in futue

ok this is not gonna be coherent but like:

Edward being everything enjoys about wonderland but as a person. the riddles, the wordplay, the games, the whimsy, being finely dressed, being nonsensical….even outside of wonderland stuff hes intelligent, great with technology, someone who values and appreciates the mind…Jervis's specialty

someone who would also 100% appreciate Jervis's more eccentric gestures of affection

and on Edwards side of things, god the brilliance of Jervis's tech…listen riddler stole that vr game from the government and likely modified it but jervis BUILT THAT DREAM MACHINE HIMSELF!! and i know Edward was like "OH?" when he found that out. Someone else who's technologically brilliant?? who enjoys his riddles and playing games?? Who's clever and cunning?? WHO BATMAN HIMSELF REFERRED TO AS BEING BRILLIANT??

and i saw this post where in the comments it was mentioned that a lot of eddies canonical partners have been the dominant type and well. Jervis is the mind control guy. Not that he would ever mind control edward, goodness no, (i will elaborate in another post if this get enough attention maybe) but what im saying is post-MAAH/PTD jervis seems to have gained some confidence lol (see Trial and Worry Men) YALL GET WHAT IM SAYING RIGHT-

also this part probably comes from me getting on the riddlehat train from the idea of them reforming together but lord...them helping/supporting each other through their issues....eddie helping jervis with his confidence (bc hes been like repressed for like several decades of his life) and jervis loving edward even when he isnt ""perfect"" or trying to help with his compulsions im just 🥺

plus ive been imagining a possible crazy slowburn...OUUGHGHG

ive even been thinking of a post-reform au with jervis owning the clothing shop and edward doing his PI detective work BC I FOUND OUT THAT PI RIDDLER WAS ALSO PAUL DINI??? but just hjdaasdjaasljhdsda-

ouughhghgh my mind is a whirlwind of riddlehat yaoi and if these obnoxious bastards dont fucking calm down im gonna have to start making them pay rent for how much real estate their taking up in my brain, ESPECIALLY JERVIS-

(i also noted that in the inbetween here, the bright colors against his more neutral palette almost gives off the effect about how *unusual* this outfit initially comes off as, as it doesnt quite fit jervis's typical palette. that of course changes post-date, where now his colors match his eccentric outfit, and to put him in civilian clothes would be the offputting much up, because he sticks out like the rest of the rogues)

Jervis Tetch becoming The Mad Hatter is the result of someones Weird Repressed Nerdy Father having the Average Gothamites Midlife Crisis™️ and deciding to become an eccentric criminal about it