Edward Nygma

## Biography

#### Early Life

Edward Nashton was born not out of a desire of a child, but out of a feeling of needing one. Neither Alexander nor Millie ever felt a love for children, but because everyone else they knew was having one and constantly gushing about how wonderful they were. When he was born the two felt nothing and as the years went on, they started to care less and less about the young boy, sometimes even forgetting to feed. Eventually one of their friends, Abagale Goodman reported the two to child protective services. His life outside of home was not better, he did not want to be bullied, like so many of his peers were, so he never did anything noteworthy, he never raised his hand in class, he never did good in any tests, even though he most of the time he knew most of the answers, just so no one would ever notice him. The only joy in his were riddles, he enjoyed doing riddles more than anything and spend every penny, every dollar he could find on puzzles, Rubik’s cubes, puzzles, riddle books.

#### Becoming the Riddler

When Edward managed to graduate high school, his desire to not stand came to bite him back in the butt, with his GPA not being high enough to get him into college. This send Edward into a spiral of depression, and he started gambling, but much to his surprise, he was good at it, and he lost very few games. Thanks, to his exploits Edward, became quite wealthy, but that wasn't what Edward loved most about his luck, the thing he loved most was the fame it brought him, the thing he tried to avoid so much as a child became one of the best parts of his life as an adult, and with his newfound fame Edward's ego started to grow. When he first started gambling Edward wouldn't talk much and after winning he would just take his money and go, but now you couldn't get him to stop talking and after winning he would insult his defeated opponents with a riddle, so everyone started calling him the Riddler. However his gambling career would last long as many casinos would start getting closed, and their owners would turn themselves into the police. These owners would bribe police officers who discovered this, how could these same people turn themselves in, well he was walking down the street, everyone was talking about this, and whilst listening in to their conversations, he got his answer. These powerful and corrupt people turned themselves was because of the Batman, a grown man dressed up as a bat and punching criminals scared these people so much that they went to jail, just so they could escape him. This inspired Edward, this "Batman" was the talk of the town and Edward wanted that fame, so Edward embraced his "Riddler" nickname and bough a green business suit and green top hat who he painted a question mark onto and commissioned and cane with a question mark, he even started telling that his last name was Nygma. With his newfound inspiration, Edward started his career as a costumed criminal. He would rob banks, set buildings on fire, and after every crime, he committed he would send the police a letter. These letters, one solved would give the police a clue at the location of his headquarters, he would sign these letters with the name "The Riddler". These letters would stump the police and were only solved by the world's greatest detective, Batman. Once, Batman solved the riddles, the police send a swat team lead by James Gordon to his hideout, and an old casino in the south of Gotham. Once, Riddler was captured, the court deemed him insane, and he was sent to Arkham. Riddler much like every patient at Arkham didn't last very long, and he broke out frequently and returned to committing crimes, however, although he was a criminal Edward was happier than ever and his wish to be known by Gothamites everywhere was granted.

## Trivia

* Riddler hosts his own game show, which is like Jeopardy, but the contestants are villains and there aren't thousands of dollars to be won. The show is relatively successful, though most of the big rogues don't care much for it.