Lazlo Valentin (Arkhamverse)

***Lazlo Valentin** has a character file in Arkham Knight.*
**Lazlo Valentin** was a scientist with schizophrenia and obsessive perfectionism.

## Arkham Knight

### Bio

Lazlo Valentin was a gifted scientist who suffered a schizophrenia break causing him to develop a deranged new persona named Professor Pyg.
Pyg formed the Circus of Strange and began touring the country, leaving a string mysterious missing persons cases in his wake.
An obsessive perfectionist, Pyg uses identity destroying drugs and invasive surgery on his victims to create genderless lobotomised humans known as Dollotrons.

### Attributes

* Gifted scientist and chemist
* Obsessive perfectionist
* Skilled knife-thrower
* Amateur opera singer

### Audio File 1

**Professor Pyg**: Ladies and gentlemen! Boys and girls! The Circus of Strange is coming to a town near you. Never before have such a host of talented performers gathered in one place to amaze and entertain! Be astounded by Big Top! Is it a man? Is it a woman? Who knows? But I guarantee it’s the most gigantically grotesque assortment of flesh you have ever seen! Be dumbfounded by the acrobatic oddity that is Siam! Stare open-mouthed as these conjoined triplets defy the limits of the human body and its imagination! And last but by no means least; be stunned and horrified by the combustible wonder that is Phosphorus Rex! Folks you gotta see it to believe it! Come and join us and you’ll never look at the world the same way again!

### Audio File 2

**Professor Pyg**: Janosz, my dearest son. My perfect child. I make these recordings so that you are not alone, so that you know daddy loves his son. Daddy loves his little Pyg. The circus has travelled far and we have brought joy to many sad people. They join us now, like a big family. Growing week by week. Now they feel no pain, they know nothing of misery. I call them my Dollotrons. To each new home, we move at night, finding a fresh patch of earth to inhabit, Secret places in forgotten parts of town, ugly wastelands where the locals stumble unawares into our candy-stripe tent. The Dollotrons are the first to greet them, with open arms and perfect faces. The climax of the show is when I take them to see mother. I tell you, they are amazed by my imagination; confounded by dexterity, as each is transformed into a beautiful work of art. But mother is hard to please. She wants more, always more. Never satisfied, always driving me to work harder, to obtain perfection. And I will. Night has drawn its curtain yet again and the circus moves on, our numbers swollen, to a different patch of earth. On the dark horizon the building tops glimmer, the heat and smog of industry shrouds a den of criminals and beasts. Gotham is her name. Janosz, I tell you, the circus has come home.

### Audio File 3

**Professor Pyg**: My dear Janosz, it is time you learned the truth about your mother, your real mother. I remember not her name or how she found me, wallowing in that pit of despair. Like an angel, she swept into my turvy world, dragged me screaming from the shapeless chaos and wrapped me in her arms. She was a beauty, Janosz. A masterpiece. Perfect in every way. Until mother goat found her. Imagine my horror when I emerged from that dreamy soup and discovered what she’d done. Placenta face, gorgon smile, ribbons of ruptured flesh. The nails had done their work, but by then my seed was already sown. Your life already begun. Mother would have killed you both, had I not stopped her, saved you from her rage. Day and night I worked, month after month, sculpting her loathsome clay to recapture the beauty that saved me that night. The night of your creation. She clung to me as you grew, as I toiled to make her right again. But nothing pleased mother goat. Nothing. I did all I could to fix her, to make her perfect. But by the time you came along, I couldn’t even look upon the spoiled canvas of her face. I couldn’t let that be the face that greeted you in this world. I had to end it, Janos, for you, for Mother. She left me no choice.