#gothamverse

So, @nostalgic90s has a very infamous twinleska fanfic, Young Blood. And in chapter 1, there's a situation Jerome and Jeremiah get into with a lady named Rosalie. And Jeremiah does some very not-so-nice things to this woman, and I just-

I found a song.

That makes me think SO MUCH, of Jeremiah's perspective of the whole thing.

https://youtu.be/5oj8PeI_lsw?si=mCBHH7obQeQx4ovF

(Of course, it's Florence and The Machine-)

Let me elaborate.

Firstly, this line just reminds me,

"He's looking at Rosalie and imagining himself gouging both her eyes out with a spoon."

This is obviously just a runalong with the title of the song but it makes me think.

Anyway-

Rosalie had been flirting with Jerome for a while before Jeremiah met her in person. He finds her to be, 'kind of pretty', in his words, when they first meet.

"Pretty little thing stopped me in my tracks,"

She tells him that there's rumors about him and Jerome, and how close they are. Sex and blah blah, they get into a spat.

"She told me not to step on the cracks,

I told her not to fuss and relax."

Of course Jeremiah tells her to back off.

"I said, "Hey, girl with one eye

Get your filthy fingers out of my pie"

(Jerome's the pie :])

Jeremiah also hates the fact she has blue eyes, because Jerome has, 'an affinity for people with blue eyes.'

"That's why you sleep with one eye open, oh"

He basically proceeds to threaten to kill her younger brother, and forces her to cut her face from the right eye to her chin.

"I took a knife and cut out her eye,

I took it home and watched it wither and die"

She calls him the devil. (Of course.) And after the assault there's whispers at the circus of a silent attacker who targets around at night.

"Oh, my reputation's kind of clouded with dirt"

Of course the family is violently traumatized, I'm sure especially Rosalie, after the attack happening at 4 AM,

"But now she sleeps with one eye open

And that's the price she'll pay."

And if you know how Florence sings, you know you can almost FEEL the rage in her voice. And I think it really screams Jeremiah in the moment of jealousy and anger.

New year, new hyperfixation /j

I aim to become insufferable regarding these funny little men

These goofy guys

The silly man and his little talk show