Blake shook his head. The Joker. There were kids at St. Swithin's who had nightmares about him.
"It was a mixture of things. My childhood was a long, sad, boring story. And Batman being out there and fighting the criminals that had usually skirted around the law and it just blew my mind."
He took a sip of his water, then set the glass back down. "I wanted to help people. I wanted to do what Batman did but without having to wear the cape. And then Batman disappeared, but my dream didn't. I was determined to become a cop."