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You said in a post a long while ago that someday youd talk about how jervis lost his job, would you be able to share now please? im very interested in the Jervis Lore™️

Haaaah, yeah I had been planning to tell it in comic form but… that's not really feasible right now :x

(Cut because long)

So in short form:

Dr. Tetch has a pretty sweet job in the R & D section of Gotham U Hospital, working with degenerative neurological conditions

He also has a whopping case of burnout and deep contempt for the academic political system, ie begging for grant money

He has made all these devices, programs, prostheses, that he KNOWS could help so many people RIGHT NOW, but it might be decades before they're 'proven' safe, if approved at all

to say nothing of costs and accessibility

Anyway.

Jervis does not have much of a social life and likes to stay after work and tinker with his own projects (using company resources)

ofc he gets caught eventually

Another researcher walks in on some Very Experimental rabbit surgery, assumes Jervis is actually working, meaning all his results would be compromised by him screwing around with… whatever all that stuff is

they argue, and the other researcher threatens to report him, Jervis's temper hits boiling, and his colleague ends up with emergency fire axe to the chest.

Jervis has a glorious moment of triumph before returning to reality and panicking

And decides the best option is to try and fix it…the body's still fresh enough to accept the electrical stimulus from a chip…all he has to do is make the guy 'quit', right? Drop off a signed letter of resignation, then into the incinerator he goes. No one has to know. (He deserved it, after all.)

Look, just because you might be genius at your specialty doesn't mean you can plan for shit in a pinch

One saline drip, a lot of tape, clean labcoat and a series of chips to keep the lights on in this corpse for a few more hours and voila

He might not fool a real person, but if he can fool the security cameras…

Turns out he definitely can not fool a real person. Luckily, he has another chip and more tape!

So now Jervis is running a corpse and an intern. At least the live one requires less…manual effort.

He only vaguely knew the guy, he thinks he miiiight know who his supervisor is, he's got a lot on his mind…

He's lost.

The hospital is less busy this late but far for deserted, and even with scouts to look for clear routes Jervis just keeps…panic-adding anyone who even breathes near one of his party members.

Now there is a small army of zombies, including one who is losing function, having leaked saline and gore all over his previously clean labcoat, and one freaked out doctor with his mind stretched every which way, and people are noticing, and he's out of chips, this wasn't supposed to happen at all

In the meantime, Bruce Wayne has gone to follow up personally on Jervis's grant proposal and found A Mess

Jervis is quickly found by Batman

Jervis (who is far from being a hardened criminal at this point) surrenders, exhausted

Epilogue:

This was not a theatrical crime - he got his moniker from the papers because what the hell else are you gonna call a guy who has, as a random selection, four (4) tea sets, thirty-five (35) different teas, framed Tenniel prints and a dodo/tea cart hybrid automaton (that bit a cop) in his personal office

His options: a long hard road to recovery or some really interesting bad influences

Take a wild guess. Didn't hurt that that endorphin rush after the kill felt pretty great

It takes him a little while to get going but by the time he makes his Proper Introduction he is fucking Owning It

#this ask made my day thank you #asks #doxxed0367 #C009 #crime-wise? a little anticlimactic maybe #the man's a late bloomer

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