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1. BOOK INTERLUDE: The Arkham Years by Achillex10

   Fandoms: The Batman (Movie 2022), Superman (Movie 2025), Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types, Batman: Arkham - All Media Types, Arkham Asylum (Comics), Batman: Arkham (Video Games), The Penguin (US TV 2024), Justice League - All Media Types, Justice League: War  

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, No Archive Warnings Apply, Rape/Non-Con
   • F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M, Multi, Other
   • Work in Progress

   27 Mar 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Rape/Non-Con
   • Oswald Cobblepot
   • Joker (DCU)
   • Bane (DCU)
   • Pamela Isley
   • Scarecrow
   • Victor Fries
   • Victor Zsasz
   • Hugo Strange
   • Jeremiah Arkham
   • Bruce Wayne
   • Clark Kent
   • Jim Gordon (DCU)
   • Original Characters
   • Arkham Asylum (DCU)
   • Arkham Asylum Treatment
   • Arkham Asylum Staff Being Terrible (DCU)
   • Implied/Referenced Torture
   • Aftermath of Torture
   • Aftermath of Violence
   • Heartbreak

   Summary

   They said Arkham Asylum rehabilitates.

   Most people in Gotham know what happens to the ones who go in. They know the names that come back out changed, hollowed, rebuilt into something the city no longer recognizes. They know not to ask what happens in between.

   This is what happens in between.

   Not every story begins with a hero. Some begin with a man on a concrete floor, in a darkness so complete it has weight, learning for the first time in forty-three years what it means to have nothing. No empire. No city. No one. No name that makes other men step back. Nothing but the prayers his mother taught him in a language the walls don't understand, and the faces he holds onto in the dark because they are the only light left and he is terrified of what happens the day he can no longer find them.

   Whatever went into Arkham, what came out was not the same.

   Series

   • Part 3 of A Crimson Legacy

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   31,791

   Chapters:

   7/?

   Kudos:

   4

   Bookmarks:

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