Jonathan Crane

Jonathan Crane was raised by his horrific grandmother. Jonathan, exhibiting signs of undiagnosed autism and adhd, would often act out/meltdown over overstimulation. His grandmother, seeing this as a nusiance and not wanting to deal with it, would lock him inside of the barn near her house for hours on end. The barn was pitch black, and filled with crows. Jonathan would spend days staring into the darkness and listening to the crows caw and flap. If Jonathan made noise, if he brought light with him, he would be swarmed and pecked viciously. Jonathan grew up to fear darkness, and he grew up fearing corvids, but worst of all, he feared anticipation. this lead to Jonathan hyperfocusing on the concept of Fear as he grew up, leading to him majoring in psychology at college. He did many a study researching phobias and the trauma involving them, and if they can be cured, or if one's fears could be erased. The answer was mixed, which frustrated Jonathan. He evuntally became a college professor, though his class consisted of his students being weirded out while he explained fear and the chemical components of it. After a few years, a 31 year old Jonathan Crane would create a special chemical, that, in gas form, when inhaled, would trigger the brain's sensory factors, causing whoever inhaled the gas to hallucinate. Jonathan tested this on himself extensively. He was not granted funding by anyone, so Jonathan turned to,,,sketchier sources, who bought up his fear toxin pretty readily. Jonathan never really dressed up like a scarecrow, instead preferring to stage attacks using his fear toxin under the alias of Scarecrow.