Paul was a lowly civil servant in Gotham City. He had read much in the press about Gotham's most prominent industrialist and socialite Bruce Wayne as well as the controversial feats of the masked urban vigilante Batman. Paul referred to Batman always as Gotham's Dark Knight, and he was beginning to become curious about vigilantism work.
Paul studied all kinds of law texts at the Gotham Library, and he mostly investigated the detailed developments of law and order and civics management history in Gotham City. Paul became increasingly curious about how Gothamites were obsessive over social etiquette but very sensitive to vigilantism discussions. Gotham's true maniacs, anti-social walking criminally insane terrorists such as Scarecrow (a masked psycho wielding a deadly hallucinogen as a fear toxin against pedestrians) and Bane (a chemically-enhanced super brute), comprised the only dividing line between law and crime, and the work of the Dark Knight (vigilantism) was considered unreliable and untrustworthy because of this perception.
Paul however understood something about the Dark Knight that others did not. Paul studied so many court records about criminal insanity proceedings that he became very conscious of the various levels of intricate detailing was involved with prosecuting criminal insanity. Paul understood that in order for the brooding Dark Knight to balance good with evil, he had to skirt both sides of the jurisprudence line dividing law and crime. Paul decided he wanted to so the same thing.
Paul became obsessed with the Dark Knight and stopped following the activities of Bruce Wayne altogether. He fashioned a red-and-white superhero outfit for himself and started calling himself Paul of the Thousand Weeks, and for exactly one thousand weeks, Paul assisted Batman's crusade for vigilante-related sanity though not in unison or in allegiance (only in deed). After the thousand weeks were over, Paul began a reign of maniacal/hysterical crime in Gotham City. He robbed supermarkets, created food-fights at fancy restaurants, wrote libellous claims on the Internet, and assassinated a GCPD police officer and governor's assistant. This criminal wave lasted for exactly six weeks, before Paul was apprehended by the Dark Knight and incarcerated in Arkham Asylum. Batman reported to the press that he hoped people would remember the miraculous Paul of the Thousand Weeks and not the imploding Paul of the Villainous Six Weeks. Would vigilantism profit from this drama?
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