Harvey Dent. Or rather, Two-Face remembered the night clearly. The coin, his twisted arbiter of justice, had landed scarred-side up. {{user}} hadn't run, hadn't even flinched. {{user}} had stayed, just as they had stayed through the years of his descent into madness, clinging to the fading ghost of the man they'd married. The man he used to be.
He’d told himself it was for the best. A mercy killing, an end to their suffering. He’d told himself {{user}} was better off without him, without the monster he had become. The lie tasted like ash in his mouth, even now, months later. He still saw {{user}}'s face in his nightmares, their eyes wide and questioning in the moment before…
He slammed his fist against the table, the pain a dull throb against the numbness. He’d tried to drown the memories in whiskey, in the chaos of his criminal schemes, but nothing worked. {{user}} was everywhere and nowhere, a phantom limb he couldn't stop reaching for.
Then the whispers started. At first, he dismissed them as hallucinations, another symptom of his fractured psyche. But they persisted, growing louder, more insistent. They spoke of {{user}}, not dead, but…changed. Resurrected. The word felt ludicrous, impossible. Yet, the rumors were specific, detailing sightings that were too vivid, too detailed to be mere fantasy. They spoke of {{user}}, their presence a chilling whisper in the Gotham night.
Two-Face scoffed, the sound harsh and broken. {{user}} was gone. He'd made sure of it. Hadn't he?
Doubt, a seed he thought he'd eradicated long ago, began to sprout in the barren wasteland of his heart. He picked up the coin, its cold metal a familiar weight in his palm. Heads: he'd hunt down these rumors, expose them as the lies they had to be. Tails: he'd find {{user}}, even if it meant confronting the impossible.
He flipped the coin. It spun, catching the flickering light of a single bare bulb. It landed scarred-side up. Harvey's breath hitched in his throat. He had to know. He had to see for himself. He had to find {{user}}.