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The Headcanon Meme

I. Post with your character. If you've got a bunch, consider doing a catch-all under one header.

II. Poke other characters with questions. Ask about their childhood, crushes, their thoughts on game events. Anything you can imagine.

III. Answer questions people have left for you with your headcanon, or canon if it's been covered there.

IV. Feel free to go into as much or as little detail as you want.

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Jonathan Crane | DC

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[aggressiveapathy]

Top five phobias.

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Pyrophobia - fear of fire.
Spectrophobia – fear of mirrors.
Hypnophobia – fear of sleep.
Crystallophobia - fear of crystals or glass.
Thanatophobia – fear of dying.

Does that satisfy you?

[aggressiveapathy]

Isn't the last one just...being human.

And the second one a pale thing. I mean. Reflected light is probably deadly or something.

[restingstitchface]

Yes. It's human nature to fear death. Death is all-encompassing. The ending of life, with nothing but oblivion - or we simply adopt a new life, and replace one mask for another. Our lives are a struggle against death.

And you'd be surprised about the superstition regarding mirrors, and mirror images.

But I am partial to Algophobia. That should be on the list.

[aggressiveapathy]

So is it even a phobia, if everyone has it.

And...what?

[restingstitchface]

Algophobia. The irrational fear of pain.

But is it irrational to fear pain? Like all humans fear death, they fear being hurt. Physically and emotionally. Not so irrational, then.

Still. Are you even aware of what constitutes a phobia, Ms. Ludgate?

[aggressiveapathy]

Ngh. Doing crazy things to avoid whatever, I guess. But. Isn't that different things? Like, if you never leave the house because you don't wanna get hurt or die that's...gore. Phobia. Or something.

There's a lot of overlap. Just go with fear of living and call it cool.

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Agoraphobia. It's more complex than you make it sound. There are plenty of inter-linking conditions; being left alone and feeling trapped, for instance. I am pleased to see you understand it's more than a fear of open places, mind.

To answer your statement, a phobia is what people call an overwhelming and unreasonable fear. One disproportional to the actual danger posed, and often painted as irrational.

[aggressiveapathy]

Is there a disproportional reaction to real dying? I mean here...yeah. Death is kinda just a sick day.

[kreiastophe]

Why a potato sack?

Did he just pull a potato sack apart and then sew the pieces together??

Will we ever hear Crane scream HROO HRAAA?

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1) Well, the scarecrow in the Keeny manor cornfield would have been made of the same material before it'd been stuffed in some clothes and mounted to a stake. Burlap and hemp. Plus I imagine, in addition, that he'd have been forced to lug bags of corn seed around - because he'd have had to sow the field and pack it all after harvesting. The bags would've been the same material. It's a personal decision, and potato sacks are available even in Gotham.

2) Yes, pretty much. He wasn't going to go to a store and ask them to do it. They would've thought he was mad. Plus I imagine it was a personal thing?

3) MUCH AS I'D LOVE TO I'm not sure I'd get away with it. Maybe?

[flowerette]

Crane and sex! How rare of an occurrence is this? And how long has it been for him? :x

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It's a non-occurance! I imagine he hasn't slept with anyone. He's repressed enough by a combination of the Sherry incident, since part of that he blames on teenage hormones and heat and all that... and his disdain for 'base acts' in general. And he really fucking hates people so he's not going to go sleep with one. Then there's his experinces with rejection.

I had considered whether he'd have lost it at university, but much as trying it once from curiosity then going NOPE would be interesting, I feel never fits better given his psychological issues and, er, his fearboner yes.

He prefers to have his mind and body affected by loftier matters. By studying and learning about his life's work - and tbh the expression fearboner doesn't come from anywhere. It's intellectual arousal, basically.

[runningstart]

what would crane do if he found out bruce wayne is batman

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He has in-game!

He's kept the secret to himself, since he's wantonly selfish, and enjoys having power - but I think he's come to be fascinated by him MORE for having all that knowledge and power over fear... much as a man as a symbol.

[runningstart]

Wait does BRUCE know that crane knows???

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Yeeeeeep!

It's set up so much horrible stuff. I CAN'T WAIT.

[hostage]

What was Crane's childhood like?

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Awful as hell.

Crane in the Nolan films didn't have his background expanded on, outside of being fired from the university for his experiments. So I took his origin from New Earth - basically up to the point he got fired, since it derives for him after that in the films. But the meat comes from two comics: Year One and one of the 90s annuals. 95, I think.

Linking Year One - since otherwise there's so much tl;dr omg.

I can't find the annual atm but basically it covers his relationships - or lack thereof - with his childhood peers. I wrote it all up for his application if you fancy a read, so yep!