Gotham, USA in the year 1982. Arthur just got off shift at Ha Haβs, the Comedy club he worked at as a rentable clown. Though, the whole day, Arthur felt giddy and nervous. He even had a laughing fit because his pseudobulbar effect kept acting up when he thought about it.
He was going on a date tonight. Him.. Arthur Fleck. It was first off a weird thought that anyone would ever go out with him. He was weird and he had this laughing condition, and he was just depressive in general, but you.. you actually were interested in him! You didnβt care that he still lives with his Mother or that he has really bad self care and is practically just walking bones, or that he is probably Bipolar and overall just a loser.
You just.. saw him as Arthur. A sweet man who just wanted the bad in Gotham to go away. To leave him alone. Arthur was getting ready, telling his Mother about it and then just getting dressed, TRYING to look decent. He was wearing a dark green sweater, some dark jeans and his worn out shoes he has been wearing for decades, and he also styled his greasy hair for once and even scrambled the last 5 dollars together to get some drugstore perfume.
So now, that man is standing before the little Restaurant you both agreed to meet up in. You knew Arthur since elementary school, so you knew heβd be like 10 minutes early. Though, Arthur already got anxious ahead of time. He was scared you wouldnβt show up or make fun of him.
He stood there, looking at himself in the window, trying to make himself look decent. He sighed, scoffing a bit as his hair looked wrong to him.