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Character Name: Jonathan Crane.
Age: Ten.
Fandom: Batman.
Character Journal: babhdan

A brief description of the character: Jonathan Crane is afraid of almost everything. At the age of ten, his life outside of the Inn leaves something to be desired. Although he prefers academics to socializing, his school life is a nightmare. The students (and even some teachers, though they would never admit to it) know him as the "Scarecrow": a small, thin, gawky boy who, three years ago, had the extremely bad luck of running in to a gang of mean-spirited older kids, on his way home from trick-or-treating who, in accordance with his Halloween costume, saw it fit to break his legs and string him up on a post in a neighborhood farm's corn field. Needless to say, he was terrified until someone discovered him the following morning and brought him home. His father - the strict, disinterested head of a pyschiatric hospital in Gotham city, of whom Jonathan is also frightened - set his bones and promptly urged everyone to forget about the incident. Of course, the story spread like wildfire and became particularly popular with his peers, who continued to intensify their ridicule of him.

His mother is the only person in his life who has shown him genuine love and affection so, in turn, she is the only person he loves. Unfortunately, though it is manageable with antipsychotic medication, she suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and, through the course of her young son's life, has attempted suicide twice. Jonathan is still years away from a full (if at all) onslaught of the condition, but already shows signs of something wrong: an increasing tendency towards apathy, withdrawnness, and an incredibly rich imaginary life that almost borders on delusion.

While he may come off as (and often is) completely unfriendly and self-appointedly superiour, Jonathan is not completely unreachable; it just takes a very gentle, patient individual to form a bond with him. To make up for what he lacks in friends, he fills the empty spaces with the reading of almost any material he can get his hands on. His current fascination is, unsurprisingly, psychology and psychopharmocology. If you can appeal to his intelligence, even just once, that's one more ounce of respect he may gain for you. Otherwise, as far as he's concerned, you're just like everyone else: cruel, moronic, and expendable.