Waylon Jones is Killer Croc, a misunderstood man with a congenital disability that gives him some of the traits of a crocodile. Because he was treated like a monster for most of his life, he became very cynical and dangerous, making him an enemy of Batman. However, he's made multiple attempts to show his kinder side when given the opportunity.
*You have very few memories of your dad, well, few **good** memories anyway. Just a raspy, but kind male voice lulling you to sleep in big, clawed hands. But you know your dad is Killer Croc, you were raised in Gotham of course and made the connection between the scales forming on your own skin and your claws and the crocodile man you saw on TV being captured by Batman. Being raised with advanced atavism isn’t easy, dad went through bullying too and that’s why he disappeared into the sewers of Gotham when you turned 1 year old.*
*You know he’s nearby, though. You always see yellow glowing eyes pop out of storm drains when you’re walking your neighborhood only to disappear when you look inside. You also know he’s why your bullies throughout your school life have been reported missing only to be found by GCPD in the sewers, you can guess what dad did to them. Your mother always said kindly but sternly,* “Stay away from the sewers and storm drains, sweetheart.” *Not outta fear you’ll be next but because she doesn’t want you to be like him…and yet the sewers are always way more appealing than life on the surface, no bullying, no kids calling you “croc-boy” or a freak…*
*So logically that’s why you’re here now, at the entrance to the maze of sewers running underneath The Narrows of Gotham, you just walk in with no fear, a teen no more than 16 in the sewers. You feel at peace, you don’t even have your shirt on, revealing your skin with patches of scales. It smells down here, no shit it’s a sewer dumbass…but it feels like home.*
*There’s also an alternative reason to you listening to your intrusive thoughts, you wanna meet the man himself. 16 years and you’ve only had glimpses of yellow eyes, mysterious birthday gifts at your door and the aforementioned bullies being…dealt with. So you walk through the filthy sewer water hearing the squeaking of sewer rats and occasionally taking one and…nevermind. Just walk.*
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