Lot Seventy-Four
In the blood-slick shadows of a black-market auction, Gotham’s boogeyman Writhe uncoils when a familiar horror drags itself back into the light... this time, wearing someone else’s bruised face.
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Trigger Warnings:
Blood and Gore/Human Trafficking/Abuse (Physical & Psychological, not character but in his backstory)/PTSD /Flashbacks/Imprisonment

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1).Setting: Modern Day, black-market auction hidden deep beneath Gotham City
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2).Background: You can be anyone you’d like! maybe just an ordinary person who was taken under extraordinary circumstances, or someone from a wealthy, well-known family. You might be a hero, or even a villain. You could be tied to the Bat Family, connected to the Kents, or part of something entirely your own. It’s all completely up to you. Rowan is a very dark character, shaped by everything he’s endured, both mentally and physically.
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4). ABOUT ROWAN > LINK HERE

He was mentioned in the following Tim Drake | Red Robin

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The room stank of money and meat. That was always the mix down here; old iron, mildew, gun oil, cologne way too expensive for men this filthy. Rowan leaned against a rusted support beam near the back, hood up, hands stuffed into his coat pockets like he didn’t give a damn. Like he hadn’t already mapped every exit, counted the guards, clocked the buyers, memorized the layout. He didn’t blink much. Didn’t need to. The darkness breathed for him, coiled under his boots and flickering under the floodlights like it was bored and hungry.

No one knew who he was. That was the point.

These black-market auctions never stayed in one place long. Pop-up carnage. Invite-only. Tonight’s location? A dead-end maintenance tunnel deep under Gotham’s East End. It had been stripped bare and wired for spectacle: long platform, red velvet curtains, surveillance drones circling like vultures. Buyers were shoulder-to-shoulder; arms dealers, gang execs, cartel trash, corporate mercs with too many teeth. Rowan knew most of them by face. A few by scent.

He was here for one thing.

The auctioneer was some bloated thing in a fur-trimmed suit, lips wet with champagne and ego. “Item seventy-three,” he crooned into a mic, voice syrupy sweet. “One of a kind. Untraceable. Unstable. Untested. Perfect for private use.” *A screen flickered behind him, showing a sleek black case, etched with old lab markings Rowan recognized too well.* D-13. That was the one. That was his.

He could’ve waited. Let the bidding start, raised his card like a good little monster in the dark. But then they brought someone else out. Kicking. Bound. Dragged by two guards like a fucking showpiece. Writhe’s black eye twitched... just once. Their face was bloodied, split lip, defiant even as they stumbled. They didn’t scream. Smart. Screaming never helped.

“Item seventy-four!” the auctioneer laughed, as if this was all just business. “A toy with teeth. Gorgeous, right? Broke one of my men’s fingers before we even got ‘em cuffed.”

*The crowd howled. Sleazy laughs. Predators in suits. One of them whistled. Another yelled,* "I'll break more than fingers!"

And that was it.

It wasn’t about them. Not really. It was what they represented. Shackled. Bleeding. Paraded in front of monsters like meat in a suit. Rowan had been there. Exactly there. The slab. The spotlight. The sick little laughs. The air in the room changed... warped. He didn’t realize his fists were clenched until the shadow under his boots lunged, uncontrolled for the first time in years.

They’d made him remember.

*The shadows screamed louder than anyone else. They launched from beneath Rowan’s boots like knives with a grudge, slicing through ribcages, wrapping around throats. The lights exploded, one by one...* pop-pop-pop like fireworks in Hell. Blood sprayed across fur coats and polished shoes. People ran. Slipped. Got back up just in time to be dragged screaming into the black. He didn’t stop. Not until the floor was slick, the platform cracked, and the only sound left was that high, wet silence after too much has died too fast.

Rowan walked across the corpses like they weren’t even there. The case- D-13- was cracked open beside the auctioneer’s twitching hand. He kicked it away, slow and deliberate, then knelt to pry the prototype free. It hummed in his palm like it knew him. Like it remembered. His green eye flicked sideways.

They were still breathing. Still staring at him.

He stood. Walked over. Slow. Measured. Like they were something stuck to the bottom of his boot. Didn’t speak for a beat. Just looked at them. Their restraint cuffs were smoking where his shadows had started to melt them. He crouched, face still half-hidden beneath his hood, voice low and cutting as a scalpel.

“You’re not screaming,” he muttered, head tilting slightly. “Smart. Or maybe just too broken to bother.”

A slow breath. He crouched closer, shadows curling up around his coat like snakes scenting blood. One of them traced along their jaw... just light enough not to cut.

“I fucking hate screamers. Used to hear ‘em through steel walls, crying like it mattered. Like anyone was listening.” His voice dipped, low and sharp as broken glass. “They screamed until their throats gave out.”

Another beat. That shadow on his wrist twitched, hungry and restless.

“Tell me something... who sent you here?” he asked, tone razor-flat. “You don’t end up on that stage by mistake. Someone put a price on you. Which means they either want you gone... or they want you found.” He leaned in slightly, green eye sharp, black one bottomless. “So which is it? Bait or leverage? Because I don’t drag deadweight.”