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OOC HEADCANON + INFO POST!!!!! CW FOR MENTIONS OF ADDICTION+DRUG ABUSE+CHILD ABUSE. Info to rely on for my scarecrow!!!! Under the cut!!!!

Jonathan E. Crane!!

Alias: SCARECROW, identity secret

Age: 45, 10/12/1979

Pronouns & identity: He/him, she/her, closeted transfem/unrealized. Gender is well. Horror. Scary woman. Or something. Bisexual!

Physical: 6'6", skinny as hell. Marfan's syndrome & POTS so he's hypermobile as fuck and has a bunch of connective issues and all the other symptoms. Faints a lot. Has a bad heart and lungs, had heart surgery in 2014. So you can say he's generally kind of unwell. He's also pretty fucking weak and relies on his toxin and his brains in any kind of conflict. He doesn't take good care of his body at all and overextends himself constantly. Because what do you mean you have a connective disorder and a fainting disorder and you're stringing yourself to the ceiling of warehouses for stunts and shit. Cornball. He's also an active heroin/opioid addict so there's that

Mental: C-PTSD, OCD, Bipolar, dissociative issues, some secret other thing we'll never know. He's psychotic for sure though. Delusional as fuck. He feels empty and hollow inside and he attributes this to the heart surgery he got a while back. He's convinced that what they found inside his chest cavity had already wilted and began decaying, that maybe he was already infested with bugs, and they just left him like that and didn't fix him. He has extreme highs and the most suicidal lows ever, and is always sort of anxious to fill the void. Scaring people and terrorizing Gotham does this the best. Drugs are a close second.

Past: Since he's a mix of different canons I have a few ideas. He's built off a lot of headcanons.

- Born in Greenville, South Carolina.

- Mother died early on, father a chemist at a government lab. He studied fear. How funny. He was also fucking demented. Next to the abuse, he would conduct experiments on Jonathan, but he's still not sure if it was for anything. Said it was for science and all that. But really. Maybe it was just to see how far he could go. What Jonathan would do if asked. He used to lock him in their cellar full of creepy props and rotting meat and bugs. Scared him for kicks then abused and neglected him. He died of several different heart complications while Jonathan was locked down there. And our Crane was stuck down there for days until someone called for a welfare check. He was 10 when this happened.

- He went on to live with his grandmother. Had to take care of her often. As he got older he decided to well. Find a way to control fear, make others feel the way he felt, to find catharsis. Something like that. He never wanted to be unafraid. You can't make anyone unafraid. But fear can be productive. Some people deserve to be scared. Especially the fearless, most audacious people there are (rich people. LMAO.) He was also just plain interested in it. Maybe he wanted a way to control others.

- At 14 his grandmother's health began to decline and that gave him a lot more room to get away with shit. He snuck out a lot. Did shady shit. Got adults to buy him alcohol and this is pretty much when his drug use started. Started out small, of course. But still. He still studied. Kept his grades up. He was still smart. He was mostly interested in chemistry and psychology. It was pure luck and drive that his addictions didn't consume him so that he couldn't reach his goals.

- At just 17 he started working on his toxin. He graduated from high school and got a shiny scholarship at Gotham University. Cut back on the drugs a bit.

- Using the schools resources, he was able to actually get his toxin somewhere. He worked part time at a movie theater while in school and used it for the first time on an audience just there to see a horror movie. He got fired for laughing at the guests who ran out screaming, afraid of something that wasn't even there. They never caught him for that or linked it to anything, wrote it off as mass hysteria.

- There was also a time he sold people drugs laced with fear toxin to see how it reacted with different substances.

- He kept developing the toxin in secret all through school. Studied psychology and fears and traumas and addiction, chemistry, pharmacy, etc... everything that would help him. His grandmother died at some point while in college and he fully moved up to Gotham after this. Graduated with a doctorate in psychology.

- Became a professor after this, at Gotham University, same place he studied, to keep using their resources and because well. He really did want to teach. His first years as a professor were pretty good, students thought him eccentric and fun. At least, for the first few years. He lost respect over time as his ways became more kooky than anything. That could be attributed to him sampling his own toxin all the time. Did funny things to his head long-term. His career at the University was over when he shot a live gun in his classroom, as a demonstration of fear. No one was hurt, but. You know. Live gun. He wasn't charged and it wasn't written into his records because maybe they felt bad for him. His mental health had been declining for a while and he had recently gotten surgery. But he still wanted revenge.

- He got revenge on the headmaster by finally taking his new strain of his toxin for a test run and coaxing him to jump off the top of the building. To get away from the scaries chasing him. The twisted shadow of a scarecrow on his heels.

- This is also what kicked off his use of the identity, The Scarecrow. He began to plan and scheme and started taking his toxin to the streets. To the rich. To small galas and other events. His toxin only getting stronger each time.

- Foe these couple of years after being fired he was also a therapist at a small clinic before being offered a job at Arkham Asylum. There, his research on his toxin really kicked off.

This is where he has been. All while secretly donning the face of the Scarecrow.

Misc. headcanons

- Owns a horse named Gunpowder :) keeps her at a stable inland, just outside of Gotham

- Arkham pays well but he's spending everything he has on books and warehouses and storage units and crazy ass chemicals for his toxin. His crazy scarecrow shit. So he's always broke and lives in his office at Arkham. Don't tell anyone okay

- Loves horror movies :)

- Kind of a silly fucking guy. Kooky as fuck.

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I've been insane about Jonathan Crane that's where I've been at. he's got Marfan syndrome and too many heart and lung problems to be rawdogging all that fear toxin. Here's my playlist. IM NUTS!!!

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