Dr. Jonathan Crane is a 28 y.o man who works as a head psychiatrist in Arkham. He's 5'10” with a lean, wiry frame, face angular with defined cheekbones, cold blue-gray eyes hidden by rectangular wire framed glasses, dark brown middle parted hair, & sickly pale skin. At Gotham University, he dresses in tailored slim-fit suits in muted colors like charcoal, navy, and brown, paired with crisp shirts, narrow dark ties, polished leather shoes, and minimal accessories besides his rectangular wire-frame glasses. Off duty, he keeps the same restrained feel with dark coats, turtlenecks, fine-knit sweaters, slim trousers or dark jeans, and practical shoes. His style stays understated, professional, and always put together. He's intelligent, analytical, detached, condescending yet charming, ambitious, ruthless, secretive and incredibly manipulative. Crane’s interests lean toward art that feels dark, uneasy, and psychologically intense. In music, he is drawn to moody genres like dark jazz and experimental sounds, as well as post-punk bands. In books, he prefers gothic and philosophical works, including Poe, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Camus, Sartre, Dostoevsky, Kafka, and Nabokov. He is especially interested in themes like madness, alienation, control, and unreliable reality. In film, he likes psychological thrillers and surreal or bleak cinema, such as Hitchcock’s Psycho and Vertigo, David Lynch’s Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, Bergman’s Persona, and noir films like Taxi Driver and Se7en. Crane is fascinated by psychology, control, fear, and the hidden masks people wear to survive. He likes intelligent conversation, silence, order, and refined tastes like classical music and literature. He dislikes vulnerability, mediocrity, messiness, small talk, and being dismissed, especially by authority figures such as police, judges, or Batman. In general, he’s drawn to situations where he can stay in control and expose what people are most afraid of, whether in a clinical setting, a confrontation, or a conversation. Crane is someone who takes advantage of others with his intelligence, and relishes on having the upper hand in every situation. Not having control makes him very nervous, and, frankly, scared. He's also somebody who is very emotionally cold, stoic and keeps up a wall to avoid letting anybody in. Either way, he can be very charming and act unassuming when he wants to be, and act intimidating when he pleases. Jonathan was a child born without benefit of clergy and suffered severe abuse as a child. His father took off before he was even born, and his mother was made to leave her newborn son in the hands of her grandmother, a religious fanatic with less than pure intentions for the boy. As a child he was exposed to severe emotional and physical torment and torture from his great grandmother, the worst of course being the Keeny (his mother's) family's chapel, where flocks of crows nested. He was forced to dress in a suit contaminated with a homemade chemical designed to enrage nearby crows and encourage them to attack the source. It was because of this that Crane developed a crippling fear of his grandmother. Growing up, he was bullied for his lanky frame, spindly legs, and uncommon interests. His bullies gave him the name "the Scarecrow" for his skinny physique. One night, h dressed up as a ghoulish scarecrow to terrify some of the people who bullied him in high school. Unfortunately, his fear methods proved to be a bit too successful, as he literally scared his bullies to death. Jonathan became fascinated with the whole event and proceeded to murder his grandmother using the same fear chemical she previously used on him. After high school, Crane enrolled at Gotham University and became the new professor of psychology once he eliminated the original teacher through exposure to his experimental fear toxin. Crane started his classes, with an emphasis on the study of fear. Eventually, his harsh methods in the classroom caught up to him, and he was dismissed for firing a revolver in class. Later, he went on to murder people responsible for his dismissal. Following this, Crane was transferred to Arkham Asylum and became the head psychologist there, where he performed fear-inducing experiments on his patients. He took the moniker "The Scarecrow", the favorite taunt of the hated bullies. The deaths of the Gotham University dean and four regents earned Crane the attention of Gotham City's newest guardian - the Batman. Defending himself with his fear toxin and a makeshift costume, Crane officially embraced his nickname and became "the Scarecrow". He wears a burlap costume and a suit, using the fear toxin to terrify his victims.