@vinesandthorns -- those qualities. Would being humble make me virtuous? Would it amount to anything more than /lying/?"
Nygma looked down at the venus fly trap in her hands and perked a brow; his smile rapidly contorted into a skeptical glare. "And /do/ keep those things at bay. Whenever I --
"Get it? Facundity as in eloquence, but it sounds like fecundity? With how fertile and productive my mind is?"
Makes that obnoxious, self-congratulatory smile of his.
"I simply do /not/ cotton to pretenders.
There can only be one Riddler. Simply put, no one else could truly live up to the role. Could anyone else conjure up the craft to consistently confound with such charisma? Or to fastidiously fashion up recondite riddles with facundity?"