JONATHAN CRANE.

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portrayal.

•     my jonathan crane is not based on a single source material. in fact, i would say he is my own take based on various sources like the movies, some of the comics, etc, but does not necessarily follow the events of any of them.

•     by default, i will be writing jonathan in timelines set before he starts getting known under the alias ‘scarecrow’ and while he’s still working as chief administrator and a psychiatrist at arkham asylum, in other words before the public knows he is a bad guy.

•     as far as my personal portrayal, i am going for a more ‘realistic’ approach, if you can say that. as in, similar approach to how they tackled the joker’s character in the 2019 movie.

•     i am most familiar with the nolanverse scarecrow / jonathan, so i will likely take a lot of inspiration from that movie more than the comics.

biography.

when jonathan crane was a child, his mother died in a fire when he was four years old, and his father, who was a scientist, became obsessed with researching the emotion of fear, blaming himself for not having the courage to save his wife. unable to use proper test subjects, jonathan’s father ended up using his own son as his guinea pig. as part of the experiments, jonathan was locked inside a little dark room against his will while his father examined the effects on his son. one day however, during one of the experiments, his father experienced a heart attack and died, leaving jonathan still trapped in the pitch black test chamber. his father’s employers at the university became concerned about his prolonged absence, and eventually, police were called to investigate. when they arrived at the crane's household, the cops spotted the test chamber and were horrified to find jonathan alone down inside, having survived days of starving and being completely terrified. the fear didn’t stop, as he was taken in by his grandmother on his mother’s side, who would abuse him on the daily.

as a result of this, he was traumatized most of his childhood, and, similar to his father, ended up developing an obsession with finding a way to gain control over fear. becoming a psychiatrist specialized in phobias, anxiety disorders and psychopharmacology, jonathan didn’t wait long until he started putting his degree to use, and began using some of his patients as test subjects to develop a project that he would later call "fear toxin". the gas, when inhaled, would cause his victims to hallucinate about their worst fears.

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