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Published: 2024-02-23 22:24:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 259; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 0
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Nash had a rough childhood, just like the rest, but his was much closer. He grew up in extreme poverty. After his father drove his mother to suicide, Nash spent from about eleven to sixteen suffering from chronic malnutrition, leaving his smaller and weaker than he should have been. His father's abuse, physical, verbal, and sexual, increased during this time, up until his death early in Nash's sixteenth year.

After this, Nash discovers and makes a pact with a supernatural entity, the Anthropomorphic Personification of Lust. Things start looking up for a while. Nash puts all of his old life behind him, and starts moving forward.

Old scars remain. Nash suffered from an eating disorder, brought on by long years of semi-starvation, was both paranoid and delusional, and has a complicated relationship to touch. Nash has a hard time maintaining strong emotions, did not make friends easily, and found it difficult to make connections among his peer group. He is extremely self centered; a leftover survival instinct. He speaks tactlessly, and has problems with authority. Nash was often apathetic towards the suffering of others, but had a developed, yet twisted sense of justice. He often found himself using the people around him, Lusts influence making manipulating people much easier.

Nowadays, Nash is much better. He's put on weight and height, but doesn't bother much with muscle. He's often found at marches, sit-ins, and especially riots. He's a familiar presence in the local queer, disabled, and punk communities, and has gathered something of a cult of personality around himself, to the point that he is never lacking for a place to sleep. Nash embraces the transient lifestyle, and never stays in one place for very long. He still uses people, but doesn't usually leave them worse off. He knows how to wash the damn dishes.

Nash gave up being the Riddler long ago, and no one important ever figured out it was him. He knows the Bat knows, but just figures he doesn't care as long as Nash behaves.

The cane has become a necessary mobility aid, rather than a weapon. Lingering effects from malnutrition during the onset of puberty has left Nash with a weakened heart and lungs, and abnormal bone growth, mostly in the pelvis and femurs. Nash can no longer run very far, but the powers granted to him as a Host of Lust make up for that, he feels.

Nash knows that, when he eventually dies, he will become a demon in Lusts circle of Hell, but isn't really bothered by this. He is looking forward to torturing his father's spirit forever.

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