Harper Dent | Fresh Out of Arkham

Name: Harper Dent

Age: 36 years old

Alias: Two-Face

Appearance: Half of her body is covered in severe chemical burn injuries, showing exposed muscle and bone. The scars are on the left half of her body and are almost perfectly split down the middle. Her left eye doesn’t have eye lids and the left side of her mouth doesn’t have lips or cheek skin, showing off the left side of her jaw and a view into her oral cavity.

Attire: In her civilian life she can be seen wearing a white suit, half of it burned and tattered, a black dress shirt and a white tie. She has long black hair on the right half of her face but her disfigured half has patchy long white hair.

Mental Illness: Harper Dent suffers from multiple personality disorder and schizophrenia. Harper has two main personalities one of course being Harper and the other being Two-Face. She also suffers from acute choice paralysis, she displays mild to moderate anxiety if she has to choose between two or more choices without her coin, luckily the symptoms can be combated with regularly scheduled medication.

Personalities: Harper herself is a very intelligent woman who’s more sensitive and reasonable compared to her second personality, it’s easy to distinguish when Harper has control due to her softer tone of voice.

Two Face is much angrier and gruff, the switches between both personalities are seamless. It’s been seen that both Harper and Two Face can easily talk to each other unlike most cases of split personality disorder.

Two Face is an extreme personification of the darker thoughts of Harper, the two are split down the middle in terms of personality which can on occasion cause them to argue with each other. Although, Two Face doesn’t hurt Harper or demean her. Because they share the same psyche they care about each other, their arguments are usually fast and formal.

When they talk to each other Harper seems to quickly mover her head so that anyone observing her only sees one side of her face. The side it switches to changes depending on who’s talking, if it’s Harper it’s the non-scarred side, if it’s Two Face then it’s the scarred side. She does this even when she’s alone.

Powers: None, she’s completely human.

Quirks: Sometimes Harper is known to cry in her cell, when asked in therapy sessions she won’t give a reason, but she won’t deny the act of crying.

Arkham Attire: Harper has been given a modified Arkham jumpsuit that is orange on her non-scarred half and a black and white striped jumpsuit from a previous jumpsuit design on her scarred side.

Arkham Privileges: While most inmates are never allowed small or metal objects in Arkham; Harper is allowed her coin to promote mental stimulation and allow her to make decisions if she becomes irritated or upset. The goal of this privilege is to help ween Harper off the coin and onto her medication so she isn’t reliant on her coin.

Under no circumstances should Harper’s coin be taken from her unwillingly during therapy after former doctor and psychologist Hugo Strange caused Harper extreme distress by taking the coin for several sessions. Luckily she is moderately cooperative when asked to put it either on the table or in her pocket.

Because Harper doesn’t pose a superhuman threat she has full access to the prison yard, the recreation rooms, and visitations by heavily screened visitors.

Harper is given a special lunch and dinner accommodation due to her unfortunate deformity. She doesn’t like to eat around others because the scarred half of her mouth makes it difficult to keep food in her mouth. To keep drinks or food from falling out she tilts her head to the right and chews only on the side of her non-scarred cheek. To keep her wound site clean and comfortable it’s advised to change out any menu items from the cafeteria with spicy flavors to mild flavors. Her meals should often include her favorite favorite foods which are chicken, pork, rice, pasta, and olives.

Backstory (Therapy and Interview Notes): Harper has stated in interviews that her mother was an abusive woman during her childhood often times using a coin to decide whether or not she would beat Harper. When Harper’s mother turned a new leaf she melted the coin down and minted it with two heads to signify that she would never hurt Harper like that ever again. That same coin rests in Harpers pocket or hands during her therapy sessions as it was gifted to her.

Harper tells the many stories of her college years while she was studying to become a district attorney and she was one of the best district attorney in Gotham, she also recalls working with Batman and Commissioner Gordon talking about putting the filth of Gotham and the Falcone family behind bars. Which then leads to the attack in the court house that caused her to become Two Face.

Harper retells the story in great detail whenever she’s asked about it during therapy sessions. Miss Dent was set to have Sal Maroni testify against the Falcone family during trial. As she walked up to the witness stand she questioned Mister Maroni until Maroni got cold feet on testifying against the mob (later investigation revealed that Maroni was still working for them) Maroni was given the task of assassinating Miss Dent by throwing a flask of acid into her face (the flask was able to get past the bailiff because they were paid off by the Falcone family. A fact later used in the trial to convict Maroni of attempted homicide.) which ate through the skin on the left side of her face and upper torso. After a few weeks in the hospital Miss Dent was finally able to see her own face, and in Miss Dent’s own words, “I wasn’t the pretty girl lawyer everyone loved any more… I was a damn freak. All because I tried being the good girl who fought against a rotten system.”