Lazlo Valentin

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

## Professor Pyg

### Education

Multiple Doctorates in Medicine, Psychology, & Chemistry (Markovian Medical Academy, Ivy University, Gateway University)

### Occupation

Underworld Surgeon
Gang Boss
Terrorist

### Marital Status

Widower (Unity Kinkaid, Wife, ~~Deceased~~)

## Physical Description

### Lazlo Valentin: 1960 - 1980

Lazlo Valentin was the son of a butcher and a schoolteacher in Markovia. Not much is known about his childhood other than he worked for his father as a teenager and did exceptionally well in school. At fourteen, Lazlo left home and began attending the Markovian Academy of Science. Six years later, he had attained a medical license.

### Lazlo Valentin: 1980 - 1989

After school, Lazlo ended up working as a surgeon in the hospital of the Markovian border town of Dunrecht. It was here that Lazlo met people involved in a local new age movement promoting the healing effects of the local cache of meteorite. In his spare time, Lazlo began researching the meteor fragments. His published works were largely ignored.

However, mere months after the Manhattaning, Dr. Valentin moved to the States and received an expedited citizenship at the request of the Department of Defense. He was installed at Gotham State University as a professor but also worked at Arkham Asylum as an on-call, in-house surgeon. It is believed that he was commissioned by shady individuals in the D.O.D. to conduct meteor rock experiments on patients in Arkham.

it is likely during this time that Lazlo became infected with his meteor-sickness either after an accidental exposure to a prototype of his Spyral mind control or prolonged residual contamination.

### Lazlo Valentin: 1980 - 1994

Lazlo married one of his students, Unity Kinkaid. Lazlo became a stepfather to her two children Rose and Drury. Lazlo and Unity would later have a child of their own, Janosz ("Johnny"). When Unity graduated from medical school with a degree in psychiatry, she began working at Arkham. Afraid she would discover his work in Arkham, Lazlo ceased his work at the asylum and opened up his own clinic in Gotham, on Miagani Island, not far from Amusement Mile.

### Lazlo Valentin: 1994 - 2001

Continuing his research from his clinic, Lazlo sedated vagrants that he found in the alleyways. When he needed 'healthy subjects', he would go to Amusement Mile and find suitable candidates he would discreetly dose with an emetic before he would graciously offer to treat them at his nearby clinic. When this practice was discovered by his government employers, Lazlo was told the risk of exposure was too great, particularly with the Batman running around Gotham.

Lazlo closed down his clinic and began to work from home, transforming a room in the basement of Kinkaid Manor into his laboratory. Lazlo was able to convince his wife that this room was off-limits due to specific clauses in his government contract.

While working on refining a mind control toxin from Kryptonite, Lazlo was given a steady supply of meteor fragments from what would later become the DEO. However, they also sent him a Dreamstone which had been discovered and mistaken for a piece of meteor rock. Almost right after Lazlo received the Dreamstone, Lazlo's wife had a mental break and his life (and research) would take a drastic turn.

### Supplemental Reports

* (*Submitted by Four-Eyes*) Much of Lazlo's research from 2001 to 2006 revolved less and less around meteor fragments while becoming increasingly obsessed with a green rock which we now know is a Dreamstone. But which Dreamstone? Due to it being described as an emerald in appearance, I believe it to be the Dreamstone known as the Eagle Stone.
* (*Submitted by Radar*) During his employment with the DOD, Lazlo Valentin secretly worked with Dr. Barton Mathis as well as with engineer Jervis Tetch. All three are now rivals and would go on to become violently deranged in their own right. This cannot be a coincidence and it seems likely that all three may have been exposed to the same chemicals. Another theory I have considered is that all three have been intentionally driven mad as a way to discredit them should they reveal their secret ties to the U.S. government.

## Arkham Files

### Medical Profile

* Patient is in fair health with elevated cholesterol levels, presumably from a diet made of bacon, pork, and ham almost exclusively.

### Psychological Profile

* Patient's blood work shows he has survived an overdose of an unidentified neurotoxin which has left him a brain-damaged schizophrenic with delusions that his "surgeries" unlock a person's "perfect" form.
* Patient has increasingly rare bouts of clarity.

### Behavior Profile

* Patient should be kept locked in his cell at all times as he is prone to attempt performing impromptu "surgeries" on staff and patients (See #11-5683, #11-7812 #14-8421).
* Patient is a Security Threat Group Leader & as such, contact with other "Circus of Strange" members should be kept to a strict minimum.
* Patient has had documented altercations with patients Anton Schott (#58111), Thomas Elliot (#60903), Jonathan Crane (#61505), & Victor Fries (#68373) - According to this patient, the altercations were only "medical discussions".
* Patient has several property/contraband rule violations (Collection of objects to use as crude surgical instruments and crafting pig masks).
* DAILY CELL SEARCHES & STRIP SEARCHES RECOMMENDED
* **Threat Assignment:** High
* **Treatment Ranking:** 6-Hostile
* **Intake Interviewer:** Dr. Roy Westerman
* **Assigned Patient Coordinator:** Dr. Simon Hurt

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* Meteor-Infected Physiology
	+ *Enhanced Resilience*
	+ *Telepathic Immunity*
* Genius Intellect
	+ *World-Class Surgeon*
		- *World-Class Neurosurgeon*
		- *World-Class Plastic Surgeon*
	+ *World-Class Chemist*
		- *World-Class Neurochemist*
* Expert Engineer
* Accomplished Opera Singer
* Skilled Knifefighter & Knife Thrower
* Criminal Mastermind
* Small Army of Loyal Dollotron Minions

### Weaknesses

* Dietary Restrictions
* Mental Illnesses
* Pig Mask (becomes irrational when it is forcibly taken)

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 3 - Trained / Exceptional
* **Occult:** 4 - Expert / Enhanced
* **Weaponry:** 4 - Expert / Enhanced
* **Expertise:** 6 - World-Class / Superb
* **Range:** 3 - Trained / Exceptional
* **Strategy:** 4 - Expert / Enhanced
	+ **TOTAL:** 65
	+ **RANKING:** Moderate Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

#### General

* When he's in Arkham he's housed in the Solitary Confinement.
* He used his government connections to send Drury Walker to a military school when he started to misbehave.
* He helped with removing Selina Kyle's heart.
* He works for Amanda Waller's Spyral program. He managed to clone a Pyglet (or possibly his own stepdaughter), creating a baby with a stable genetic sequencing which tested likely for a psionic aptitude. This clone became Ivy Walker.
* Rumor has it that Barton Mathis was once his disciple and/or partner but the two had a falling out when Pyg's madness drove him to attempt to perform one of his surgeries on his daughter Mathilda, resulting in Dollmaker cutting Pyg's face and fleeing.
* The green Dreamstone Lazlo came into contact with was actually the Imagem from Subsidiary Reality-I, and not the Eagle Stone as Velma hypothesizes. The Eagle Stone is currently in the possession of the new Dream of the Endless.
* His Sub-Reality counterparts include:
	+ Lorenzo Valentine from Sub-Reality D.
	+ Count Lazlo Valentin from Sub-Reality G.
	+ Regina Valentin from from Sub-Reality K.
	+ Luciano Valentino from from Sub-Reality R.

#### Rose Walker

* He gave Rose the nickname "Em the Gem" after he became obsessed with a mysterious rock that had the same color as Em's eyes and he was contracted to study. The government believed it was Kryptonite, but he knew it was not and didn't share that info with his government handlers.
* After leaving an open door to his lab Rose activated the mysterious stone. When Rose touched it, she found herself drawn into a vivid fantasy story that lasted for hours until her stepfather got home and knocked the gem from her hand. As he did so, there was a powerful shockwave that threw both stepfather and stepdaughter aside. Moments later, as Lazlo got to his senses, he saw laying beside his stepdaughter was her perfect doppelgänger, dressed in armor (well as much "armor" as females tend to get in fantasy settings). Startled by this, Lazlo drugged the duplicate and put Rose in her bed, counting on her recalling the dream and assuming she had fallen asleep. The ruse worked as Lazlo studied the dream clone. When he learned the clone was indeed the same girl as Rose, on a genetic level and even the fingerprints, Lazlo gave the original Rose the emerald again as she was sleeping, pulling Rose into another vivid dream. When he pulled the stone from her hand, Em remained sleeping but another duplicate appeared, startled and confused, allowing Lazlo to drug her as well for study in his lab. This continued for a while until there was no less than twenty-six clones all of which were kept sedated by Lazlo.
* Fearing a revolt, Lazlo Valentin reached out to Jervis Tetch. Both men agreed Rose was the 'master clone' and the key to controlling the 'Pyglets'. Without concern for his stepdaughter, Lazlo sedated Rose and took her, and her many dream clones, to the lab of Jervis Tetch. However, when Lazlo saw that Tetch's experiments were hurting Rose, Lazlo changed his mind. While Lazlo and Jervis were arguing about stopping the experiment, Rose saw her chance to to escape and seized the opportunity. Rose managed to free an arm from a restraint and grabbed the emerald.
* Rose used the emerald to start returning her duplicates to their places of origin, as Lazlo and Tetch attempted to wrestle the emerald away. As the emerald was pried from her hand, having saved as many dream-selves as she could, Rose used her last moment with the emerald to banish it elsewhere. Enraged by this, Lazlo and Tetch both turned on each other while Rose slipped into a coma. After that everyone were taken to DEO custody.

#### Pyg

* He originally went by the name Pygmalion, but it was later shortened to Pyg and he became more associated with swine.
* He came into contact with a chemical weapon which messed him up. Amanda Waller's further machinations turned him into the psychopath he is today.
* He became leader of Circus of Strange, a group of criminals that celebrate their deformities and abnormal behavior. Under Pyg's protection and direction, these freakish felons abducted 'normies' for Pyg's cruel experiments, many of these resulting in the victim becoming a 'dollotron' or 'Pyg Doll' which involved having a doll face grafted over their own and usually accompanied with a lobotomy that turned the victim into a mindless drone for the Circus' devious desires.

### Notes

* Professor Pyg's Patient number and birth date (#77666) is a nod to his first comic book appearance: *Batman #666*, in July 2007.
* His knife throwing skills and singing opera might be a nod to *Batman: Arkham Knight* video game.
* His brothers Niko and Lev are the father and uncle of Sasha a.k.a Scarlet. In the comics, they have no relation to each other.

## Gallery

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## Network & Arkham Files

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## Links and References

* Appearances of Lazlo Valentin

1. ↑ Network Files: Lazlo Valentin 1
2. ↑ Arkham Files: Professor Pyg
3. ↑ NFX: Drury Walker
4. ↑ Oracle Files: Selina Kyle (2/2)
5. ↑ VOX Box: Dream a Little Dream 1
6. ↑ Network Files: Ivy Walker
7. ↑ E27 Journal: Gotham Underworld
8. ↑ VOX Box: Dream a Little Dream 2
9. ↑ Network Files: Rose Walker 1
10. ↑ Network Files: Rose Walker 2