Post by The Scarecrow on Jul 5, 2008 19:22:36 GMT -5
Jonathan Crane || The Scarecrow
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Cannon or your own: Canon
Copyright: DC Comix!
Characters civilian name: Jonathan Crane
Code names/Aliases: The Scarecrow, Fear
Class: Rogue
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Gender: Male
Age: Early 30's
Apparent Age: Early 30's
Hair: light Brown
Eyes: Blue
Height and weight: 5'9"/ 170
Appearance: Tall and gangly pretty much sums it up.
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Powers:
Obsessed with the power of fear, he uses it as his main weapon. Everything from the way he dresses to his choice of hideout is designed to play on the fear factor. To enhance the experience of fear he has produced several varieties of his fear gas which is a toxic compound that causes people to go insane with horror and sometimes even die. Their worst nightmares manifest themselves as if they were reality.
Crane has developed his own personal style of fighting, “the violent dancing” which takes advantage of his long extremities. It resembles the crane style of Kung Fu the famous Chinese martial art.
By the means of mutation he was able to transform himself into a murderous creature called “the scarebeast” which possesses incredible strength and endurance and also the ability to produce a very powerful fear toxin.
Learned Abilities:
Hes a decent fighter, when he has the upper hand.
Equipment:
Fear gas and containers he uses to spread his fear to his prey.
Weaknesses:
Being human, any serious injury can kill him. His fear of Bats.
Background:
The Scarecrow, aka Jonathan Crane, is first introduced as a professor of psychology who liked to frighten birds as a child. Fascinated by the psychology of fear, he realizes he can use the emotion to manipulate others and becomes a criminal donning the costume of a scarecrow, a symbol of fright.
In 1989 the Scarecrow's history was greatly expanded on in Batman/Scarecrow #1. When Jonathan was growing up he was often bullied and picked on by the other kids. They would call him “scarecrow” on account of his skinny body and long extremities. He was not quite the popular kid and in high school he took his revenge on the bullies that had previously made his life miserable. During the senior prom he shot and killed one of the students. Then dressed as a scarecrow he causes Bo Griggs, the leader of the bullies, to crash his car. This leaves Bo paralyzed and his girlfriend Sherry Squires, who had earlier rejected Crane, dead.
Crane finds that he takes tremendous pleasure in scaring people. Fear becomes an obsession of his and he moves on to become a psychology professor at Gotham University. However, he gets fired from his position for harming a student during a demonstration of his theories. He chooses to take the persona of the Scarecrow and use the emotion of fear as his main weapon to take vengeance on those responsible for his dismissal from the university.
Personality:
The Scarecrow has been portrayed both as a true mastermind, a genius, and a lunatic. He has been able to devise intricate plots which have caused Batman to suffer extensively. Yet he's also been shown as a mumbling lunatic who has a fixation with nursery rhymes, such as in stories written by Jeph Loeb.
His obsession is fear and the way people behave when they find themselves under its influence. His motivation seems to be the scientific search of knowledge on that matter and he will go to any extent to prove his theories. Experimenting on humans and causing them irreversible trauma and even death is not beyond his methods. Some of his crimes have been caused by his need of money to continue his research.
Since Batman has been able to beat him by facing his worst fears, The Scarecrow, as many of Batman's foes, has developed a fixation with Batman. He's dead set on killing the masked vigilante.
Because of his unstable personality, every time Crane is apprehended, he is put into Arkaham's custody. He has been shown as being comfortable, to a certain extent, in the asylum, even stating that he finds it to be a much more suiting home for him than the outside world would be.
Other:
Hes single, ladies.
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Brief Sample Roleplay
"N-NO!!! PLEASE!! STAY AWAY!!"
A fell voice shrieked loudly in the hell on Earth known as Gotham. Her screams and shouts would have been easily heard.....if anyone was around, that is.
"There is no need for you to shout so loudly, my dear. No one can hear you..."
Scarecrow's chilled voice silenced the woman's screams as he appeared from the already dark darkness. His hands clasped together behind his back. The mask of a Scarecrow was worn as he walked up to the frail woman."Hmm, There is no need to be afraid either." He hummed. The woman's eyes widened in the slightest bit of hope.
Jonathan grinned under the mask as he raised his arm to her, as a seemingly gentle greeting till he quickly sprayed her with a fresh dose of his special fear gas.
She coughed horrifically and got to her knees as a sign she had breathed everything but oxygen.
"Ok, now is the time to fear." Scarecrow grinned as he began hearing the woman scream so horribly, all other kind of noises phased into her shrill terror. Who knew what she was seeing. We will never know.
Taking a small bow to the fallen woman that he had been meaning to silence, he made his way out of the empty street of Gotham, and returned to be the tall, gangly man known as Jonathan Crane.
