I was playing the Arkham games recently and when I got to Arkham Knight and heard Jervis call Batman Alice, I got really confused at first. I wonder if it is to show Jervis' mental state has gotten worst, or if it means he can't find an Alice since every civilian left Gotham so he has to find himself an Alice and Batman was just the first one to bump his way that actually caught his attention or something.
Sorry I took so long to respond! I was gonna draw a proper picture of our boy but apparently I don't have the time :(
But I really like this theory! I honestly didn't think about it past 'o fucc Jervis is gay for bats' but mentioning it like that...yeah it makes a LOT of sense. It's always been a general Hc of mine that most jervi need someone to latch onto and have as 'his' Alice, or at the very least, someone who can take on board a persona of an AIW character. It helps him mentally to do this, and without it he'd be a lot more than unhinged and dysfunctional, so Batman seemed to make a 'worthy' candidate for him to project this onto
And then, of course, he tries to show him his 'true' self to make him, well, like him, which I find really interesting and honestly? It's probably to engrain tje fact this is his Alice and they're actually pretty alike and close. Obviously this isn't true, but Jervis sure tries his hardest to make it true
Never thought I'd psychoanalyse Arkham Jervis but I'm living for it. Thanks for this ask n sorry again it took so long to reply!!