Why can’t real life cities be 10 mile tall gothic metropolises with red and black and skulls and statues of weeping saints everywhere
Can confirm
Also this works surprisingly well with the “Gotham is Chicago while Metropolis is NYC” theory (though isn’t Gotham canonically in southern New Jersey?)
come to chicago we have:
the council of owls (on the library downtown)
carbon and carbide
goth target
wayne enterprises
you can study here but it’s at u chicago so. not worth it, probably.
our normal streets
the shadow realm (lower wacker)
the forbidden zone (lower lower wacker)
public art with threatening auras
one of our many fine gothic revival apartment buildings (i picked this on bc it’s red and black)
newspaper building and chewing gum building
i could go on but you get the point, yeah? chicago’s got some incredible broody architecture. we’re lucky to live here.
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