SCARECROW REWRITE
due to recent changes to the story this rewrite is outdated and can no longer be considered canon
this is my rewrite of Jonathan Crane aka the scarecrow
BACKSTORY:
He grew up in a small religious town in Texas, He lived with his grandmother on a farm, pretty much the year one backstory with slight changes, notably him gaining a large deep cross shaped scar on his back and losing a large amount of his right cheek, later on he would become a psychology professor at a university in which he would eventually leave ending up in Gotham, he would do the same job in Gotham but upon an incident at his house he would end up tearing himself apart but be put back together and would spend the last year of his job slowly going mad till he got fired and became the scarecrow
MOTIVATION:
he wants to research fear in its entirety, he wants to see what makes people tick and how it makes them break, he researches his victim's fear for a "paper", he keeps researching and researching for a paper he wants to make, a syllabus on fear for his class not quite realizing he won't ever be able to make that syllabus
METHODS:
unlike most scarecrows this one doesn't use fear toxin, it's more of a street drug he occasionally makes for money, but instead he prefers to watch his victims for long lengths of time, preferring to instill paranoia of what is watching them till he eventually learns all of their fears and starts weaving their downfall, he will make scenarios forcing people into their worst nightmares, such as someone with monophobia losing all of their friends, family, coworkers, and jobs (and ability to gain a job) due to scarecrow's machination then to ultimately kill them in a brutal fashion to terrify everyone else
META HUMAN NATURE:
this version is a Meta-human (I will probably have to post that rewrite another day once I get past the characters for the world building) with his ability being more or less some form of body horror, he can become the phobioanax once stressed or afraid enough but can also go in-between, currently he has high blood pressure so he's stuck in an odd hybrid state resembling some sort of daemon (very on purpose) and the abilities themselves resemble a possession or parasite, such as grotesque limbs popping out from under his broken opened ribs or choking him to go through his mouth, it is painful yet bloodless, as for the phobioanax itself it's more of a kaiju based on religious trauma and a fear response
AUTHOR'S NOTES:
I wanted to make a scarecrow unreliant on fear toxin able to be terrifying all by himself, this version is based on paranormal horror to tie back into his background but due to him not being magic it's probably closer to some sort of body horror which works for this version meant to be terrifying in both a conscious and primal sense
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