#i'd say joker is above all invested in keeping the status quo. what he does is not a mean to an end to get batman's attention

[badnewbie]

do you think fucking Batman would fix Joker? or make him even worse somehow?

#batman stuff #portrait of me provided by @artist-l-e back in 2018 #bet ya didn't think i had held on to this huh #anyway this is not meant to be a flippant response! i got caught up in trying to define 'fixing' #real answer: it depends on how you define what a fix would be #if you want joker to start holding different opinions about the world this would not fix him. if anything he'd be validated #if we're looking for practical output in terms of decreasing homicides i'd say it depends on if joker would regard it as a disruption #of the status quo or a continuation of it #i'd say joker is above all invested in keeping the status quo. what he does is not a mean to an end to get batman's attention #it's exactly how he wants to live his life. it's a conscious choice that he makes over and over #the dance with batman IS the meaning that he's given to his life #fucking could be part of the dance. it could also mean an end to it. i'd say it also really depends on what bruce's intention behind it is #personally i'd say no matter how they eventually get there there is no other end to their relationship than death #and then i got caught up in my personal opinion which resulted in the above comic: to me there's nothing to fix #i can't really regard him in terms of fixability because as is he serves the role in the narrative that i want him to play #the appeal of the joker is that he's an evil gay murderclown who is above all else happy #how could you fix a man who enjoys life this much?