Two-Face

The coin has decided...

## Bio

District Attorney Harvey Dent formed a triple alliance with Commissioner Gordon and Batman. They worked together to oust the mafia families and end the corruption spread throughout Gotham in a bid to make the city safe. Harvey had a dark secret, he had a minor case of split personality disorder in which he had a second much darker personality. However, the triple alliance had a tragic ending. Jack was unhappy with the strides Dent was making, so he targeted Dent, attacking him by setting an abandoned building on fire where Dent was then investigating, resulting in his face being permanently scarred. This brought his second personality, dubbed Two-Face, to the forefront. Harvey Dent and Two-Face essentially had an equal share in the body going forward. He also became obsessed with duality, the nature of 2s. Lastly, he makes most of his decisions by flipping a coin.

## The Head vs. The Tail

*“It felt so good, to fight back at the wrongdoers. It was then that my mentality started to split, I started to become two different people: a frightened coward and a ruthless fighter.”*

*- Two-Face explaining his double personality to Commissioner Jim Gordon*

Two-Face's dual identities are personified into two separate characters: The Head, the pure Harvey, and The Tail, the pure Two-Face, respectively. Clashes between the two personas have been shown to cause mental breakdowns, as one attempts to gain control of the other. Before showing symptoms of multiple personality disorder, The Head was in control. Two-Face describes that version of him as a "scared little boy", as the Head was in consistent contact with violence, that being Harvey's abusive father and school bullies. At age 12, he subconsciously created a persona, the Tail, to combat the Head's cowardice and use it to fight back at those who wronged him. Later, he became increasingly anxious and confused over who was truly the real Harvey. This prompted him to seek a therapist in the downtown core of Gotham, which helped him suppress the Tail's violent outbursts. This, in turn, gave him the ability to continue his life free of worry, until the tragic accident that caused his deformity. It was then that the Tail resurfaced, out of pure rage and hate over Batman, since he was there at the scene of the arson.

The Head, scared to death by the Tail and his constant demand to seize of it's control, arranged an agreement that Harvey will flip a coin to make the decisions between the two of them, as it is simply "fair".

## History

### A Business Deal with Max

*“I care for what is fair. Though I have changed drastically since those days, I still have my sense of proper justice in my blood.”*

*- Two-Face expressing his passion for justice to Max Shreck*

Two-Face made a business deal with Max Shreck in a secret hideout for mobsters in the residential complex. He found Shreck by searching through old police documents he had before the accident, and figured that he would be the perfect person to help him with his case. Two-Face contacted Shreck in hopes of him creating an alliance to help him take back Gotham's justice system and punish the "lazy" cops who are a part of it. Shreck happily agreed to help, even offering to spot-check Two-Face's file for any misconduct he may have done (while the Tail had gotten control, of course). They both part the meeting happy with their deal, and would extend their plans in a later meeting.

### The Second Meeting and Batgirl's Interference

*“What kind of sick joke is this, girl? You think you can just trespass onto someone’s property? You’re even dressed up like one of those hooligans! Do you realize who you’re idolizing?”*

*- Two-Face to Batgirl (unknowingly)*

A second meeting ensues between Shreck and Two-Face, this time at a warehouse Two-Face had invested in many years ago. Meanwhile, after receiving a tip from the underground, Batgirl decides to investigate and attempts to intervene. Two-Face didn’t recognize Batgirl as an affiliate for Batman, believing that she was wannabe heroine who idolized him. Batgirl attempts to convince the Two-Face that she scared Batman away and insists that she could be an asset to business. Two-Face sees past Batgirl’s antics and continues to become increasingly angry with the woman. After flipping his coin, it lands on his good side which reverts him back to a calmer state. He then explains to Batgirl that Batman is a false idol, backing his statement with the fact that he caused the “death of Harvey Dent” and that he is one of the main reasons why the natural order to Gotham’s justice system is corrupted. After a passionate speech, Two-Face apologizes to both Batgirl and Shreck and agrees to reschedule the meeting some other time.

### Saint Patrick’s Disaster

*“Then came, what seemed like a miracle. A resurrection…a second chance at life. That was when Harvey rose from the grave and exacted revenge on Gotham’s false idols.”*

*- Two-Face's speech to the party-goers*

After a mental breakdown in his warehouse, Two-Face decided to crash the St. Patrick’s Day ball. He came prepared with a message, a warning concerning both the corruption of Gotham’s system and how Batman was a part of it all. He notices that everyone around him was murmuring, which triggered him to pull a pistol, equipped with a silencer, and shoot it at one of the empty shot glasses on the table as a warning. The flip of the coin, after countless tails, turns to heads. This then prompted Two-Face to revert back to Harvey, stumbling on his words, slowly realizing the terrible situation he was in.

Batgirl then intervenes once more, this time drunken out of her mind. The tails portion of Two-Face took this as an opportunity to use Batgirl as proof of why the Gotham decorum was corrupted, mentioning her breaking into his warehouse. Batgirl mentions Max, stating that Two-Face was exchanging gifts with him, which prompted her to call him a crook.

Just then, Jim Gordon, one of the ball’s attendees, decides to stop the intervention. Two-Face turns to look in the general direction of the familiar voice, and saw an old and trusted friend of his. Before he could converse with Gordon more, Dick Grayson, dressed up as Batman, arrives just in time to deal with the madness. Two-Face, mistaking him for the real Batman, dismisses him, as he believed that there shouldn’t be a reason for him to be at the ball. The Batman stayed silent as he triggered the lights to burst, leaving only the moonlight to trickle through the windows, mildly illuminating the room. Two-Face was visibly upset, repeatedly asking what Batman wanted from him. He started to have another mental breakdown, confused by the words that were being said towards him. He couldn’t bare to tell the difference between what Harvey Dent has done and what Two-Face has done. After punching Two-Face in the jaw, Batman uses zip-ties to bound the man’s hands together, and hands him over to the commissioner for interrogation.

### Reunited with An Old Friend

*"Harvey, what happened? Why do you blame Batman? It was scum that did this to you...criminals..."*

*- Jim Gordon interrogating Two-Face after the crashing*

Gordon takes Two-Face to the police station, after the ruckus he had caused. The other officers, shocked by his sudden appearance, both by his scars and how he ended up in the hands of the commissioner. Two-Face couldn’t bare look at his former colleagues, ashamed at what he had done, he couldn’t believe how he had let this darker side of him take over his whole being.

The commissioner sat him down in an interrogation room, asking about why he blamed Batman for his affliction, assuring him that it was criminals that caused the accident. Two-Face, still shaken, stated that Batman was there and watched him burn. He then questions why he was still alive, going back to his former belief that he had rather have died then to have people see him in this condition. Two-Face realized that things would have gone much better if he didn’t let the tails side of him gain control, but it wasn’t like he had a choice.

He then explains to Gordon that he had suffered a lot of mental health issues as a child, starting with the constant abuse from his father, the absence of his mother, and the bullying at his school as he was seen as a coward. It was until one day that he snapped, and punched in a “snot-nosed kid” in middle school. It was then that he started to rely on this “courageous” side of him, so much so that he confused himself with who was the real Harvey. After moving out of his father’s apartment, he sought out help from a therapist in downtown Gotham, learning several techniques to suppress his violent urges, one of them being to “lock it up away and chuck it into a nearby river”. From hearing this, Gordon promised Two-Face that he would make sure that he got the help he needed to regain his mentality. Two-Face expressed his gratitude towards Gordon, telling him that he was glad to have a friend as forgiving as him.

With the interrogation finished, Gordon then sent Two-Face to Gotham General Hospital, knowing that there was a man sane enough to not be stuck in the Arkham, under police protection for treatment.

### Hoodwinked by Scarecrow and James Gordon Jr.'s Proposal

*"Yes Harvey, you are progressing very well. It is the opinion of your doctor that this...experimental drug...shall help you in such progress."*

*- Scarecrow (disguised as Johnathan Crane) to Two-Face*

It had been almost a month since Two-Face was admitted to the hospital under Gordon's orders. Progress was going well, until the 14th of April, when an estranged doctor named Crane had entered the psychiatric ward after seeing Harvey Dent was being treated there. He admitted himself into Harvey's room, claiming that he was filling in for his usual nurse. Internally, the Head believed that this was a sign that Harvey was improving, and that this is the next step in his recovery. Crane had slipped a new medication into Harvey's system, which was secretly a liquid form of fear gas, revealing himself as Scarecrow.

Harvey then started to hallucinate, seeing such horrors as the Tail in it's physical form (an exact duplicate of Harvey, but skinless), drowning in the Gotham river and being verbally and physically abused by his father, Mr. Dent. Two blows to the head with Mr. Dent's belt was enough to knock Harvey out cold, prompting Scarecrow to kidnap him and escape the hospital by letting fear gas spread throughout the building.

After the hallucinations fade away, Harvey wakes up in Scarecrow's lab, where he is interrogated by the doctor himself. Unable to answer his questions due to the absence of his coin, he trembles while strapped to the operation table. Suddenly, an unexpected visitor arrives. James Gordon Jr., the son of the Commissioner, comes in to recruit both Scarecrow and Harvey to "burn down the city" and make it anew after tracing them both to the labortory. Scarecrow was made interested at the proposal, but Harvey was not having it. After being tossed his coin by Gordon Jr., which laid on the table next to him, Harvey was able to make the decision to take the district attorney route, and convince the two men that the situation was wrong. He explained that the city has a heart and veins, it is the innocent people who live within it is what keeps the city alive, but it is on it's death bed because of criminals who should've been locked up a long time ago. Harvey, though showed sympathy towards Jim Gordon, blamed the police who were dependant on Batman and his posse and slacking off. Instead of taking away everything the city has, Harvey proposed that all three of them would bring the Bats into the light and show the city how much of a threat they really are. Gordon Jr. and Scarecrow both were satisfied of the idea, and they all agreed to round up as many people in the city who sided with them in order to make it all a reality. As Gordon Jr. left, Scarecrow let Harvey free as he finished his research on him.