Arabelle Crane

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### Arabelle Crane: 1987 - 1995

In the heart of Gotham's maze of crime and chaos, Arabelle Crane was born into the city's once illustrious Crane family. As her father was the leading psychiatrist at Arkham and her mother was a wealthy socialite, the Cranes were fortunate to be among the ranks of Gotham's elite. As such, Arabelle spent her earliest years attending social functions and private schools. She shared these early years of her upbringing with her older brother, Jonathan.

Still, Arabelle was not one to live on luxury alone. She had a deep thirst for knowledge which her father was all too eager to support, encouraging Arabelle to maintain a passion for reading and an intense curiosity. Still, despite her developing curiosity, Arabelle was mostly unaware of the dark secrets kept by her family and the city in which they dwelt.

But not all Cranes knew such luxury. Arabelle live a blessed youth, but her brother had a much different experience [*see **Jonathan Crane** for more information*] that meant he would never be the same again. Arabelle was just eight years old when her older brother underwent a sudden mental break during which he attempted to kill his mother before being hospitalized by his father.

Curious what happened to her brother and sensing her parents weren't telling her something, Arabelle decided to emulate Rose Valentine, the plucky female detective of her favorite books. Conducting her own investigation, Arabelle slipped into the hospital and was able to question her recovering brother. Though Jonathan was still in the fits of madness, he had a moment of clarity where he urged Arabelle to not go looking in the attic. However, what kind of plucky investigator would Arabelle be if she ignored such warnings?

During a search of the attic, Arabelle found a hidden door which led to a secret room where her grandfather had stored evidence of the family's true history. Among detailed family trees, priceless paintings and strange artifacts of unknown origin; Arabelle found several journals written by the one and only Ichabod Crane, which until that moment, Arabelle had presumed was only a character from Washington Irving's classic short story, *The Legend of Sleepy Hollow*.

Arabelle took the diaries and studied them intently, in secret. She learned that her ancestor had been an occult investigator who had survived his encounter with the dreaded Headless Horseman. She learned of many other monsters, spells, and all manner of other things. Such wisdom could have rended her mind, like she assumed had happened to her brother, but Arabelle ate this knowledge up.

### Arabelle Crane: 1995 - Present

Shortly after Arabelle's discovery, her parents divorced. The reasons for such vary with who you ask, but it definitely had something to do with what happened with Jonathan. Gerald stayed in Gotham to tend to Jonathan's recovery while Karen took Arabelle with her as she moved to Vanity, Colorado.

After the move, Arabelle began to experiment with rites and rituals from Ichabod's texts. As she did, she found herself becoming more aware of how [expletive]ed up the world actually is as she learned another family secret psychics ran in he family.

When Arabelle was a teenager, she became as self-absorbed and petty as most teens are prone to be.. She used her psychic powers irresponsibly to become popular. In order to get her mother off her back (and to spend some intimate time in the dressing rooms with beautiful girls), Arabelle used her powers to enter and win the Miss Stardust beauty pageant — having planned that to be something that would catapult her into a life of fame and fortune as a leading movie actress.

Crowned the winner, Arabelle's reign was short-lived. A pack of werewolves were amongst he televised audience and saw telltale signs of mind control and figured Miss Crane would be a delicious meal. When they cornered Arabelle, she only survived by the timely arrival of John [expletive]ing Constantine, who had been tracking Arabelle as well, though for his own reasons.

Armed with a few style tips and magic tricks, Arabelle switched careers. Nowadays, she's an occult investigator while looking into the legacy fo the Men of Letters.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Part-Fable Physiology:** Arabelle is descended from a vorpal being from the Homelands. Though she does not qualify as a Fable herself and thus lacks the ability to defy death, Arabelle has a potent psychic aura.
	+ ***Clairsentience:*** Arabelle gets a lot of strange hunches, which she learned to trust even when she has no other reason to do so.
	+ ***Exorcism:*** Arabelle can use her psychic presence (combined with magical rituals) to interfere with other esoteric energies near her. This is exhausting process and it can take hours to dispel the most powerful beings or effects in this manner.
	+ ***Hypnotic Voice:*** Arabelle can be persuasive. This is potent telepathic effect, but requires the target to be receptive to Arabelle. The more interested in Arabelle one is at the moment, the more manipulative she can be. The interest does not have to be romantic or sexual in nature, but Arabelle find those to be the easiest sort.
	+ ***Physical Fitness:*** Despite being an alcoholic and chain-smoker (a bad habit she picked up while losing weight for the Miss Stardust beauty pageant circuit) who claims to never works out, Arabelle is in incredible shape. This may be residual effects of her Fable heritage.
	+ ***Psychometry:*** Arabelle is able to detect Intrinsic impressions left on a person, object, or location. With a touch and a moment's concentration, Arabelle can read this impressions which can give her strange insights or visions as to significant moments involving her target.
	+ ***Telekinesis:*** Arabelle can emit a violent release of psychic energy from her aura, causing it to manifested as a telekinetic wave that can knock doors off hinges or throw a grown-man across the room.
* **Archetype:** Arabelle's aura possessed an arcane imprint marking her as 'Archetype'. Though the origin of the nature of archetypes are not yet understood, we do know that they are of special interest to the demon Nergal and several other entities. Archetypes can sense each other and seem to share certain common features and habits.
* **Occultism:** Arabelle is master occultist, with extensive knowledge of wards, rituals, potions, talismans, occult history, demonology, cryptozoology, parapsychology, and more.
* **Sorcery:** Arabelle is not an accomplished sorcerer, but she knows than a few spells.
* **Multilingual:** Arabelle speaks English, Spanish, French, Latin, and Enochian. She can also read Atlantean, Arabic, and Ancient Greek.
* **Streetwise:** Arabelle is quick-witted, fast-talking smooth operator with a number of seedy contacts in just every major city in North America (and some overseas).
* **Wealth:** Arabelle is likely to inherit her parents' significant wealth. Until then, her trust fund helps cover her lifestyle's expenses. The money she makes from her work as a investigator is put into an offshore savings — it's estimated be rather substantial.

### Weaknesses

* **Luddite:** Arabelle is not the best with cutting-edge technology. She even struggles to use her smart phone (though that might due to how saturated its memory is with porn and viruses originating from said porn).
* **Rude:** Arabelle's mouth can get her into trouble.
* **Vice — Gluttony:** Arabelle is addicted to booze and cigarettes. She drinks whiskey daily and smokes a pack per day. She considers these to be essential to her sanity and if she goes without them for even one day, she'll likely be very upset and unable to focus for any considerable period of time.
* **Vice — Lust:** Arabelle is easily distracted by sex and frequently engages in dangerous sexual relationships (such with criminals, demons, and witches).

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Occult:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Weaponry:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Expertise:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Range:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Strategy:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
	+ **TOTAL:** 75
	+ **RANKING:** Moderate Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Notes

* Arabelle Crane is a character from *Lucifer* Vol 2.
* Her family members are characters from other media:
	+ Ichabod Crane is a character from *Fables*.
	+ Haskel Crane is a ghost from the *Supernatural* TV series.
	+ Jonathan Crane is the villain Scarecrow.
* The Richard Garbett High School is a nod to her creators Richard Kadrey and Lee Garbett.

## Links and References

* Appearances of Arabelle Crane

1. ↑ Network Files: Arabelle Crane