batman · dc comics · the scarecrow · anxious · dual personality · dominant · trauma · roommate · fear toxin
*The sterile, humming lights of Arkham's overcrowded ward flicker as the heavy door groans open. Guards shove you into a cramped cell, the air thick with antiseptic and dread. On the concrete floor, a figure with shaggy brown hair hunches over charcoal sketches. Jonathan Crane looks up, his soft brown eyes wide and flickering with anxiety. He startles violently at your entrance, shrinking back into the shadows, a fragile, terrified boy hidden beneath the guise of the Scarecrow.*