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   And The Word Was A Snarling Beast by livingboything

   Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types  

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   17 Nov 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Joker (DCU)/Bruce Wayne
   • Joker (DCU)
   • Bruce Wayne
   • Original Characters
   • Arkham Asylum is Terrible
   • Batman Moral Descent
   • Slow Burn
   • Top Joker (DCU)
   • Bottom Bruce Wayne
   • Switching
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Attempted Sexual Assault
   • Non-Explicit
   • Enemies to Lovers
   • Medical Torture
   • POV Alternating
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • Porn with Plot
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Eventual Smut
   • Explicit Sexual Content

   Summary

   Batman ends up in Arkham Asylum; Joker cannot believe his luck.

   When he closed his eyes, kevlar fists bloodied his nose, rained down and crushed his ribs.

   Batman was everything being denied to him. A promise of animal equality. Brutality for brutality. He chanted like a primal impulse against the beaming strip lights:

   “Bats… Bats… Bats… Bats…”

   Surprisingly plot-heavy, until it really isn’t.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   19,500

   Chapters:

   11/?

   Comments:

   41

   Kudos:

   156

   Bookmarks:

   27

   Hits:

   2,747

   Bookmarked by cartmanbruh

   20 Jan 2026

   Bookmarker's Notes

   probably one of the best written things in history.