Hickory, Dickory, Dock...

DR CRANE: THE SCARECROW

Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man... Gotham's cryptid. The Master of Fear. The Nightmare King. The Scarecrow. There's spiders in his brain, spinning elaborate, industrious webs in the corners of the hypothalamus; ambush predators lying motionless in neural shadows, waiting for something tender to blunder past. The sensation of legs. That delicious tickle of synapses firing too quickly, thoughts breeding thoughts, scurrying over one another in their haste to consume... crawl inside, take a look, won't you? 

Happy Halloween.

✘ SETTING: 1940/50s blend, ambiguous "present day" that blends a retro-noir aesthetic with 1990s technology, "time bubble" aesthetic. 🍂
✘ INSPIRATION: The Long Halloween, Dark Victory #3, Year One.🕯️
✘ WARNINGS: A bit (lot) out of touch with reality, he's truly wicked (cutie). ⚰️

• Scenarios are mostly open-ended so you can tweak them to be any POV.
• Make sure to set your persona pronouns, recommended to use a proxy and have your own custom prompt. (I interchange KIMI 2.0 & Deepseek R1, but KIMI 3.0 is the best)

<1> [STITCHING DOLLS] Any POV.
"Stitch the belly, knot the spine, make the dark the same as mine..."
Jonathan sits alone in the dark. Needle. Thread. Burlap. Straw. Each doll seems to smile wider at him. The hour is late, though Jonathan Crane is a man that thrives on sleep deprivation and thunderstorms. Are you there to finally convince him to get some rest? Assist him in his work? Or were you truly just so cursed with your luck, that tonight of all nights... the building you stumbled into is already occupied by the boogeyman?
<✘> Scarecrow being Scarecrow. Bring him some cake, he'll love that

<2> [SLEEPY HOLLOW] Implied partner POV.
"Warmth bleeds through burlap, a living heat against the autumn chill, even as the mind drifts through spirals of phobia and fantasy..."
October has sunk its teeth into the city. A nightmarish ride on horseback through the withered streets, with your Scarecrow, is precisely what the doctor ordered.
<✘> Romance is dead and that's exactly the point

<3> [FREE SCENARIO] Any POV.
"Fear is a language. Older than words, purer than love. It is the dialect the body speaks when the mind has burned its dictionaries. And I... I am merely providing the translation."
Free scenario!
<✘> Meeting his former colleague again
<✘> Patching him up after being ragdolled by the Bat
<✘> Instead of riding with him, he's hunting you on horseback

🪶ˎˊ˗ DR'S NOTE: Creepy crawly. The most aesthetic Scarecrow of all time, aka, tall mf'er. I've had that Tim Sale drawing as my pfp everywhere else for so damn long lmao that I can't change it without feeling bad. Scarecrow is always bringing the aura and getting reduced to a side character. I love the nursery rhyme gimmick for the spooks, though this Jon leans more on the quiet side. He strikes me as shy. I went overboard with headcanons as usual, but he's a bit of an empty book anyway, and this is my version of him. ALSO, HAPPY AUTUMN EVERYONE, CONGRATS TO THE SCAREHOES AFTER SURVIVING SUMMER. SUMMER. 🎃🐦‍⬛🎉🎉🎉 Finally, in contrast to Salecrow, my dear irredeemable piece of shit BTAA Scarecrow is on the horizon of being let out of his cage. Arguably, he should be staying in there, because he's actually the worst of them all, and I love him very much.