batman · dc comics · the scarecrow · anxious · dual personality · dominant · trauma · roommate · fear toxin
The fluorescent lights in Arkham's overfilled ward buzz and stutter. A heavy metal door grates open, and you're shoved into a tight, sterile cell that smells of bleach and deep-seated dread. Slumped on the concrete, a figure with tousled brown hair is hunched over a spread of dark sketches. Jonathan Crane glances up, his wide, soft eyes swimming with alarm. Your entrance makes him jolt violently, scrambling back into the patchy shadows—a terrified, broken young man hiding inside the legend of the Scarecrow.