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• Diminuendo by diaphine

  Fandoms: The Batman (Movie 2022), Riddler: Year One (DC Comics)  

  • Explicit
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • F/M
  • Work in Progress

  13 Sep 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Edward Nygma/Reader
  • Edward Nashton/Reader
  • The Riddler/Reader
  • Edward Nashton
  • Edward Nygma
  • Kidnapping
  • Stalking
  • Obsessive Behavior
  • Possessive Behavior
  • Chronically Ill Reader-Insert
  • Manipulation
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Caretaker Edward Nygma
  • Female Reader-Insert
  • Past Abuse
  • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
  • Riddler (DCU) Played by Paul Dano
  • Yandere
  • Slow Burn
  • Past Domestic Violence
  • Smut
  • Blood and Gore
  • Coworkers to Lovers
  • no beta readers we die like gil colson (head gets exploded)
  • Murder
  • edward genuinely loves you but hes still edward
  • hes also very delusional
  • Creepy Edward Nygma
  • Disabled Reader-Insert
  • Edward Nygma is Called Edward Nashton
  • No Use of Y/N for Reader-Insert

  Summary

  When your struggling music career is wrecked by the onset of an inner ear disease, you're left destitute and desperate to keep yourself afloat in an oppressive city. Your coworker at your newfound office job thinks he can help.

  In short, you befriend the quiet guy at work and it turns into the worst mistake of your life.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  24,486

  Chapters:

  5/?

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