#* ch. study .

WHAT'S THE CRIME: harvey's tireless pursuit to uncover and punish corruption amongst gotham's most powerful eventually catches up to him. one evening, while leaving court, dent suffers an attack. due to the building's high security precautions, guns are not allowed anywhere near the premises --- though a bullet wound might have been preferable to the acid. the attack affected the left half of the face, neck, chest, forearm and hand, leaving these areas deeply scarred.

this is the catalyst to harvey dent's fall from grace. the DA had already been battling the ghosts of undealt childhood trauma and anger management issues. these allied with the stress and pressure of his new position as gotham's district attorney only caused his downfall to be more severe. harvey had been disfigured as an intimidation technique and those who had ordered the attack would never be properly punished. they'd never suffer like he had suffered.

WHAT'S THE MOTIVE: harvey dent, once gotham city's handsome defender had now become the face of the city itself --- and he vowed to do that which the lawful mechanisms given to them could never do ( THE LAW IS BLIND AND NOW SO IS HE ). judge, jury and executioner, post-attack harvey trusts no one. everyone is a possible offender and dent decides those who live and die with a flip of a coin ; the cruelty and randomness of the universe finally applied to those who truly deserve it.

it's no use trying to reason with him. it does not matter if the crimes committed were out of fear or desperation. it does not matter whether it was an accident, a mistake, how much you truly knew or understood about what was being done, harvey ( two-face ) dent will flip his coin regardless. that gesture cannot be corrupted, cannot be bought, LUCK ALONE IS FAIR. and he will not hesitate applying violence to those deemed guilty. the instrument with which he applies justice is a gun. he's never be as cruel as those who targeted him.

WHAT'S THE SENTENCE: two-face's mood fluctuates violently between the charming, cocky poster boy he once was and a bitter violent brute who knows no mercy. it is a facet that has always been there, buried deep in harvey, occasionally bubbling up to the surface in smaller and healthier ways. this new way of life, this NEW HARVEY is profoundly unhappy. he has lost all hope for kindness, for change...all gotham can hope for is total extermination. burn the foundations down and start over.

*     most logically speaking, akane should think of exorcists as sources of danger, taken that he is a supernatural, even if only a ‘part-time’ one - but honestly ?   he doesn’t.   it mostly ties into the fact that he prefers to live his life normally, as before - which led him to ... pretty much trying to ignore his situation, as much as it’s possible.  to put it simply, he doesn’t see them as a threat, most of the time.  then again, we don’t even know if he even can be exorcised, as he’s still a human ? would that just be murder ?

*     putting aside akane’s situation, i feel like he’d think positively of them - he detests supernaturals because they don’t take the importance of life seriously.  /  since exorcists get rid of them, he’d at least approve of what they do.