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ave09 · 10 months

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confused and screwed

gk!harvey dent x wife!reader

note: takes place in 1x10, this is long overdue considering i didn’t know how to end it and i forgot what happens in the episode😭 i have two more harvey imagines coming today or tomorrow (one is a cute fluff and the other is based on 1x11 and i’m so sad about the finale next week!

you awoke to someone calling your name. “hello?? anyone there?? wake up sunshine!”

you stirred, trying to focus on whoever was calling you, but receiving a harsh slap to your left cheek ended up doing the trick.

jolting awake, you tried to figure out where you were. last you remembered, you were walking to your car, you felt a prick in your neck, and everything went black.

now you were bound to a chair, heavy chains encircling your wrists. panic set in very quickly as you took in the situation.

beside you, was your husband, harvey dent, wearing a straight jacket, it was a horrid sight. but what stood before you was much, much worse.

“hiya hon, you recognize me?”

you couldn’t believe it. “jane..?”

“oh, so you do!?”

you didn’t know her directly, but you knew of her and how harvey had been the one to put her in arkham asylum. “vaguely…” you replied slowly, glancing over at your husband with worried eyes.

beside jane stood a young girl, one who you recognized from the media, duela doe, one of the fugitives who was being framed for killing batman.

“harvey, what-what’s going on?”

“oh met me explain, dear.” you glanced at the woman before you, and there was no denying how afraid you were. she had this crazed look in her eyes, she was in arkham for being insane, but being face to face with someone like her was terrifying.

“well you see, i have a bit of a past with your sweet harvey here. turns out he’s got some very dirty laundry.”

you tilted your head in confusion, eyes narrowing, “what are you talking about?”

“yeah… mom, i don’t really understand. i mean, i get it, he locked you up but i thought that was the extent of it.” duela said.

at this, jane let out a guttural laugh, “oh my, duela, no. you see…” she took a moment to glance at you, “well, you pay attention to hon. you see, to make a very long story short… i fell for him.”

this confession shocked you.

you and harvey had been together since your sophomore year and his senior year of college. and yet, you’ve never heard of jane like this.

harvey wouldn’t cheat on you.

you were sure of that.

“i fell for handsome, charming, insatiable, harvey dent.”

“ew,” duela commented under her breath. but you, you didn’t know what to think. you were never the jealous type. but hearing someone like jane talk about her husband in such a way, you were physically unable to not be jealous.

“he’d go around, telling everyone he didn’t know me! it was absolutely insane!”

“no, jane, we were not together.”

“oh please, harvey, i haven’t even gotten to the best part!” jane exclaimed, her voice jumping up octaves.

“jane, you were obsessed. you sent my secretary a cow tongue! you were delusional!” harvey protested, glancing over at you, he needed you to know that nothing happened.

he needed you to know that he loved you, that he’d never have an affair, not with jane doe of all people.

“let me continue, listen up for this part, mrs. dent, you remember those late nights? where harvey here was out at the office…?”

slowly, you nodded. afraid that if she didn’t show some form of response, jane would flip.

“well guess what girlie? he wasn’t working nights… he was with me.”

you let out a shakey breath, “w-what..”

“mhmmm, truth hurts, mrs. dent, but your lovely fiancé was ignoring me by day and fucking me senseless by night.”

anger pulsed through your veins. you didn’t even know if this was factual, by just the thought of it. it was enough to drive you to the brink of madness.

“you’re lying.” you spat.

“oh am i? how would you feel if i told you, it wasn’t just one time. but dozens of times. almost as though he couldn’t get enough.”

duela stared at her mother in confusion, “wait, so.. you and harvey dent here… were a thing? he gaslighted you… into thinking you were crazy but still slept with you..?”

“mhmm. a two-faced asshole! harvey dent, everyone! the most dangerous man in gotham!”

“wait… you said my father was the most dangerous man in gotham.”

her father. duela doe was known as the joker’s daughter.

“ah, well, surprise surprise, my dear, it’s time to meet your real father, harvey dent!”

time around you seemed to freeze completely as the words echoed throughout your mind.

no.

this wasn’t possible.

you glanced over at your husband, who seemed just as surprised as you were. how had he not known?

but then, you remembered.

his psychological disorder. he struggled to control it during the time before jane’s sentence, just as he was struggling to control it now.

your harvey wasn’t in control during his time with jane. it was the other one.

you were so engrossed with your thoughts, that you didn’t notice that jane had retrieved a small handgun from her purse, passing it to duela.

“now, you can get your revenge. he kept us separated for years. make him pay for it.”

panic seized you as you pulled against the restraints, “wait! no, don’t do this, please. we can explain!”

but neither of them was having it.

“come on due, pull that trigger.”

“duela, let me explain please. it was a misunderstanding.”

“he stole your childhood, he stole me away! kill him duela!”

“no! please!”

BAM!

a scream tore from your throat as the gun fired, hitting harvey in the chest, throwing him back.

“no!!” you exclaimed, tears streaming down your cheeks, you glanced at the mother-daughter duo, “what the fuck is wrong with you??”

jane smirked, approaching you, “more like what the fuck is wrong with you? marrying a guy like that? shame on you.”

you choked back a sob, glancing at harvey’s dying body, “no..”

“night-night sugar.”

you felt pain explode in the back of your skull, then everything went black.

#misha collins #gotham knights #harvey dent #harvey dent x reader #spn family #zaddy dent #two face #the cw #misha collins x reader

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shinelikethunder · 1 year

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SPN Brain Rot Tasting Menu

this is not a viewing guide. (the only SPN viewing guide i'll sign off on is "bomb your way through the first 3 to 5 seasons in order, then decide whether you want to watch the direct-to-VHS sequel eras.") this is a "someone near you caught SPN brain rot and you're trying to decide whether to join them in hell" tasting menu, based on what piqued my personal interest when i was still on the fence about continuing with the show.

criteria: basically, "ideal episodes to catch by wandering through the room with no context while a roommate is watching SPN." so, skewed towards self-contained, less-spoilery, solid episodes that don't make me want to fistfight them in the denny's parking lot, but did made something in my subconscious sit up like it had been slapped.

okay, shine, what the fuck is this show's deal: 2x16 Roadkill. god's perfect little self-contained one-off ep. nothing spectacular, just a solidly-executed ghost story set on a lonely mountain highway. fairly representative of how SPN monster-of-the-week episodes roll, requires zero prior investment in the characters to be good, and i'm fond of it because this is basically the point where i buckled in and committed to watching the rest of the show. but also, quietly, almost covertly, a thesis statement for some of the core underpinnings of the whole thing.

shut up and give me the sickos-haha-yes.jpg: 1x06 Skin. what if you thought you were in an X-File but ended up getting erotically tortured by a shapeshifter in the guise of your codependent brother? what if you fuckers were so repressed that this was the only way the show could bring itself to air the dirty laundry of your sibling dynamics. what if the monster was all the parts of yourself you could never quite bury deep enough. what then, huh.

tell me more about the childhood trauma AND/OR c'mon gimme more sick shit: 1x18 Something Wicked. still obsessed with how fractally disturbing this episode is. there's a monster that preys on children at night in their beds and the only way to stop it is to catch it in the act. if SPN were a show with anything to say about morality it could eat itself alive chewing on the question of using children as predator bait, but it's not. it's a show about The Horrors + the shit that couldn't be buried deep enough + family as the first and most inescapable hell + the ways it intertwines damage with salvation. also there's lots of Winchester family flashback content in this one if you want to get invested in these assholes and their daddy issues.

under the cut: duos and trios of episodes on specific themes, including some spoilery ones

fine, get me invested in these assholes and their daddy issues (low-spoiler Lite Edition) AND/OR gimme those Americana aesthetics: 1x11 Scarecrow + 1x12 Faith + 1x16 Shadow. 1x11: SPN does "small town that sacrifices people to the harvest gods" and the brothers have their first big fight (guess who precipitates it). 1x12: SPN does "faith healer with some shit going on" and we get our first go-round with both Sam's belief in a higher power and Dean cheating Totally Certain Death No For Serious You Guys. 1x16: SPN starts in on the relentless pilfering of world mythology and the construction of its own demon lore, and we finally get to meet dad in person, which will exacerbate the mental illness of zero overly-enmeshed twenty-somethings.

(early SPN demon lore fucks incredibly hard, btw, and goes some creepy-ass Twin Peaks places towards the end of the season, which the show later doubles down on just when demonic possession is at risk of devolving into a plot device. this doesn't prevent it from devolving into a plot device, but it does retroactively justify some wild gothic-horror readings of s1.)

the I DON'T CARE ABOUT SPOILERS AND I'M FINE GOING IN WITHOUT CONTEXT menu

get me invested in these assholes and their daddy issues (spoiler-tastic speedrun): 2x08 Crossroad Blues (+ 2x11 Playthings) + 2x14 Born Under a Bad Sign. 2x08: a banger of an episode based on some classic "earthly success by selling your soul at a crossroads" folklore; gains twelve extra layers of crazymaking if you end up finishing the season. 2x11 (optional): a "haunted gothic mansion" monster of the week with some fun stuff between Extremely Normal Siblings. 2x14: more quality sickos-yes content a la 1x06 Skin, with a "woke up covered in someone else's blood with no memory of the past week" setup that goes even further off the rails from there.

i want to study Dean Winchester like a bug: 2x18 Hollywood Babylon + 2x19 Folsom Prison Blues + 3x10 Dream a Little Dream of Me. no comment. no fucking comment. don't look at me. we're not going to talk about it.

ok but tell me about the angel content: 2x13 Houses of the Holy + 4x01 Lazarus Rising. you HAVE to get down in the crunchy details of how SPN has been treating the entire concept of god and angels to get the full effect of 4x01, which is one of the show's banger episodes of all time. 2x13 is great, self-contained, and surprisingly low on spoilers, but 4x01 of course contains massive ones for season 3, my stealth favorite of all SPN seasons.

people keep talking about SPN's goofy and/or meta episodes, what's that about?: 3x11 Mystery Spot + 4x18 The Monster at the End of This Book. both casually spoilery. 3x11 is the beloved "yesterday was Tuesday, but today is Tuesday too" time loop episode where Sam watches Dean die approximately 8908234 times (and then shit gets dark). the arc-plotty parts of 4x18 require head-spinning amounts of context, but this is the one where the show exists in-universe as a series of trashy pulp novels by a guy named Chuck, and it flies impressively close to the sun of some kind of meta-storytelling singularity.

i am a masochist who loves fun side characters whom the show will end up mistreating horribly: 3x12 Jus in Bello. contains all three of my problematic(ally treated) faves: Bela Talbot, a shameless con artist and dealer in supernatural artifacts who's just enough of a Dean parallel to drive him batshit cuckoo-bananas insane with hatred for her; Victor Henriksen, the cocky ambitious FBI agent assigned to investigate the Winchesters' multi-state crime spree; and Ruby, a demon who shows up claiming to be a defector from hell and tries to befriend Sam. this is SUCH a well-constructed base-under-siege ep with SO many moving parts, forcing Henriksen and the Winchesters and eventually Ruby into a great reluctant team-up. it's also my big exception to "no recommending episodes that blow my socks off AND make me want to hunt the writers for sport." mostly because its Big Bullshit is an unnecessary sucker-punch inserted after the main plot wraps up, so i can just cross it out with my mental red pen and go "it's fine, they're lying, all my faves are alive and well and in witness protection." if you've made it this far, you need a warning shot anyway about what this show is going to do to you.

notable omissions that also rot my brain like a compost heap: the last 3 eps of s1 for being best viewed with a whole season's worth of intricate rituals as context; fully half of s4 for being incomprehensible without a ten-minute spoiler reel; 2x17, 3x06, and all the Gordon eps, among others, for being simultaneously incredible and enraging. (notable omissions that are important and have their moments but put me off watching the show for over a decade: the pilot and its 2-for-1 special on women in refrigerators.) do NOT @ me for leaving out other Core Brainrot Episodes. i laid out my criteria already.

#supernatural #meta #shine watches spn #shine leads innocent bystanders down the primrose path into terminal spn derangement

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