Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow

## Jonathan Crane

Scarecrow DCWW

Insert Scarecrow quote or description of who Scarecrow is here ~ Adrian

## History

### A Cursed Childhood

Johnathan Crane was always obsessed with fear as long as he could remember, it began in his childhood with his father’s abusive and psychotic tendencies to terrorise his own son. Often coming up with the most fear inducing scenarios for Johnathan to be thrust into and torturing his son psychologically and sometimes physically for days at a time. leading to a very understandably emotionally and mentally unstable Johnathan.

Years after his father’s torture began Johnathan came to the realisation that if he could control fear, fear would never control him, which was the beginning of Johnathan’s obsession and his career and study path which he began taking a keen interest in even at that young age. Unfortunately as Johnathan was young and his mother had passed on there was nothing he could do about his father and so he just dealt with it until at 18 he left for college and studied for his Doctorate in psychology more specifically fear.

### Start of his Experiments

As well as studying, Johnathan also picked up a part-time job as the GCPD as a profiler and consultant which he was able to get due to the Crane’s notoriety and his proficiency in psychology, despite not being fully qualified at the time. After Crane had completed his PhD and learnt everything he could about fear, he had all the tools to master his own fear so it could never control him again. Then Crane decided to amp up his experimentation to the next level… why stop at controlling your own fear? With all Johnathan knew about fear he knew it’s power, why not control the fear of others?

Crane immediately began experimenting with the fear and specifically the chemicals of fear, which was handy as Crane had a knack for chemistry and was a genius in it as much as psychology. Fear in others was becoming a big passion for him where he performed experiments on his own father, whom he had come back to to torture and experiment on to advance his knowledge with the bonus of revenge mixed in there, after Crane’s experimentation, caused his father’s death in a rather gruesome heart failure after causing him to experience hell on earth for multiple months straight.

### Becoming The Scarecrow

After that murder Crane went on to teach psychology and some chemistry at his old college where he worked for multiple years before his mental instability began getting worse and he found himself subconsciously at first manipulating and frightening his students before he began doing it consciously, seeing how he could frighten them as subtly as possible before the board found his notes and had him fired. That threw Crane into a rage, he took his perfected formula and tormented the teaching board for a day straight before the GCPD stopped him.

Crane having escaped the GCPD took on the mantle of the Scarecrow, creating his own villain while simultaneously repurposing crane industries for his sinister experiments.

After Crane had created his persona as the scarecrow, Ra’s al Ghul approached him asking him to attack the GCPD for payment, Crane was happy to be paid to do what he had always wanted to, ever since he’d quit his job there Johnathan wanted to attack the GCPD for his own personal vendetta, he had been treated rather poorly as a consultant and sort of bullied by the officers there, it had caused him a great deal of stress at the time and he was personally lavishing their tortured screams, To Johnathan there was no better feeling that standing over a person who had wronged you as they beg and writhe in pain, and with Ra’s new funding he could take his work to the next level.

## Powers and Abilities

### Abilities

* Master Martial Artist
* Swordsman

### Powers

* Darkness manipulation
* Blood Magic
* Flight
* Intangibility