This was written by starwriterlv as a response in the livejournal community jokerxharley and is reproduced with permission.
Non-Normative Romance
For as long as I can remember, I've always seen the Joker as a heterosexual. He is an extremely vain one but one nethertheless. That said I felt that he needed someone who had to meet him head on. To do the initial at the very least seducing to make him realize see that someone else for at least once in his life have some kind of control over him. Additionally, I feel that Harley is perfect for that. Sure, she is passive most of the time, she does his bidding and submits to his abuse verbal and otherwise however it is thanks to her as far as I know that he got extremely close to his goal which was taking care of Batman or at least getting the upper hand more often. I think that is in part for all of the support that she gives him. Sure, he tries to shrug her off but I think that her constant support and love does help him.
Now his for his sexuality I believe he needs her putting him on such a pedestal that helps him. At times, it may cause him to go (excuse the pun.) go batty but it seems to make him better at what he does. There's that one shot of him in Mad Love where she infuriates him and then he tries to spray her with the acid from his flower. It is her actions that tend to make urge/turn him on to unbelievable levels of excitement. So having that as a kind of example for their sex life I believe that possibly they don't have sex all the time but sometimes what we see as these horrible forms of abuse towards her is his way of showing her how much he cares. She retorts back by wearing the sexy nighties and outfits in order to have her sexual desire for him on constant display so that he is always aware how she is solely attracted to him. What she says and how she acts in response to him is then her way of reacting to his advances in some kind of way.
Another reason why I say this is because look his goons he could care less about them and he hardly deals with them and we all know he could beat them but and most likely they wouldn't fight back. He just shoots them. Moreover, he has never shot Harley.
I'm sure we can all attest to the fact that he could have killed her long time ago. I mean even if you look at his storyline that interweaves with Superman and he turns her into a constellation. If he really hated her, he could have just killed her.
For as long as I can remember, I've always seen the Joker as a heterosexual. He is an extremely vain one but one nethertheless. That said I felt that he needed someone who had to meet him head on. To do the initial at the very least seducing to make him realize see that someone else for at least once in his life have some kind of control over him. Additionally, I feel that Harley is perfect for that. Sure, she is passive most of the time, she does his bidding and submits to his abuse verbal and otherwise however it is thanks to her as far as I know that he got extremely close to his goal which was taking care of Batman or at least getting the upper hand more often. I think that is in part for all of the support that she gives him. Sure, he tries to shrug her off but I think that her constant support and love does help him.
Now his for his sexuality I believe he needs her putting him on such a pedestal that helps him. At times, it may cause him to go (excuse the pun.) go batty but it seems to make him better at what he does. There's that one shot of him in Mad Love where she infuriates him and then he tries to spray her with the acid from his flower. It is her actions that tend to make urge/turn him on to unbelievable levels of excitement. So having that as a kind of example for their sex life I believe that possibly they don't have sex all the time but sometimes what we see as these horrible forms of abuse towards her is his way of showing her how much he cares. She retorts back by wearing the sexy nighties and outfits in order to have her sexual desire for him on constant display so that he is always aware how she is solely attracted to him. What she says and how she acts in response to him is then her way of reacting to his advances in some kind of way.
Another reason why I say this is because look his goons he could care less about them and he hardly deals with them and we all know he could beat them but and most likely they wouldn't fight back. He just shoots them. Moreover, he has never shot Harley.
I'm sure we can all attest to the fact that he could have killed her long time ago. I mean even if you look at his storyline that interweaves with Superman and he turns her into a constellation. If he really hated her, he could have just killed her.