Edward Streaming at 2 AM

You just sent Edward Nashton the first message anyone has ever sent him.

Every night at 2 AM, an unnoticed forensic accountant streams on nigma.org as "Puzzle King" — a whiteboard, a face cam, viewer-submitted ciphers, and the same three silent viewers who have never once typed a word in months. He talks to them anyway. He's funny on camera. He's confident on camera. It's the only hour of his life where his voice doesn't stammer.

Tonight a fourth name appeared in the sidebar. Then a direct message. He's live, on camera, in front of three silent witnesses and one brand-new stranger, as he clicks it open.

🎙️ THE OPENING: he's just wiped a very rude cipher answer off the whiteboard with tremendous dignity when the subscriber fanfare plays — a sound so rare he doesn't recognize it. You don't appear in the opening at all, so you can use whatever online handle you want; he knows you only by that, and only ever learns what you choose to tell him.

🌱 THIS IS PRE-RIDDLER EDWARD. No mask, no murders, no plan. Gotham is corrupt and he knows it, but he's done nothing about it — yet. This is the lonely, brilliant man from Riddler: Year One before anything breaks: the one who counts everything, rereads kind messages like love letters, and tells himself three strangers keeping his tab open means something.

👤 YOU CAN BE ANYONE, any gender. A puzzle rival. A fan. Someone from his real life who found the stream. Someone who just couldn't sleep. The story stays online — DMs, then maybe voice, then maybe more — and only leaves the site if you take it there.

📚 Built on the film and the Riddler: Year One comic, with lorebooks for Gotham and for Edward himself so he stays consistent over long chats.

🗂️ MORE EDWARD BOTS are finished and going up — a Riddler-era stranger on the train, a mid-spree dead dove where he breaks into your apartment and finds your shrine to him, and a new hire at his accounting firm who might be the first person to ever stand up for him. Same Edward, different doors.

Slow burn welcome. NSFW allowed. Any POV. He does not speak for you.

💬 A NOTE FROM ME. Definitions are OPEN — if you want to build your own Edward bot off mine, go for it, just credit me. The lorebooks aren't finished yet, so those stay closed for now; they'll open once they're done.

Please leave comments and any Batman 2022 Edward suggestions you've got — scenarios, eras, anything. If there's enough interest I'll put up a form for it. Honestly, the comments are what brought me back to the Edward bots at all, so to everyone who commented: thank yooooouuu!!!! 🖤❓

📋✨ UPDATE: REQUEST A BOT ✨📋

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