Prompt Post - Part Ten
I am REALLY, REALLY SORRY about taking so long, guys, and about not being around much recently. I've been busier than I have in a while, and it just kept slipping my mind between uni applications and volunteering and all sorts- for some reason I thought we were much further off a new post.
If there is anything I haven't responded to, as of now, I'm ( Read more... )
He can keep his new life as long as he goes straight. No killing. Be one of the good guys. Scarecrow agrees, and he enters the reality of Earth-16 as a young teen-aged Jonathan Crane. Somewhere around fourteen preferable. Through circumstances, he's picked up by the league and becomes part of the YJ crew. He doesn't remember his time on any other earth, but he is aware that if he kills anyone, he's going to die.
Bonus: Crane creeps everyone out. They're afraid of his too-advanced-for-a-healthy-teenager psych skills. Anyone who can correctly profile Batman's complex psyche is surely a person who can fuck with your head.
BonusBonus: Crane uses his too-advanced-for-a-healthy-teenager psych skills to troll people hardcore.
Repost from part Nine.
I'm re-posting this so I can fill it. It might be a while though, so feel free to add your own story to this. In the mean-time, enjoy my Teaser Trailer!
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“Oh?” murmured Aqualad, interested despite himself.
“Like?” scoffed Speedy.
“Oh, you know: The KKK, The Black Panthers, The NRA, The IRS… I think they’re all jackasses, to be honest.” Scarecrow’s voice is so ineffably calm it takes nearly a minute for his words to fully translate for both Aqualad and Speedy.
“…You enjoy pissing people off, don’t you?” Aqualad mutters incredulously, just loud enough to be heard in the hallway.
“It’s a hobby of mine I do enjoy, yes.” admits Scarecrow, smiling a serene, invisible, and altogether too large, smile.
Speedy laughs silently, grin stretching his face wide.
There will be moar... eventually.
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This story is a story about the man who mastered all fear, and did inflict it upon others in the name of Justice.
It's not always a nice story, and the Hero of this story is not always that heroic, but... This is the story.
“Dorothy: Weren't you frightened?
Wizard of Oz: Frightened? Child, you're talking to a man who's laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom, and chuckled at catastrophe... I was petrified. ”-The Wizard of Oz”
This is how this story starts:
Wake up, Jonathan Crane. S’ time to start over.
Wake up. Wake up, Johnny-boy. Put your feet on the ground. We need to leave, right now.
‘What time’s’it, then?’
‘’It is three in the morning. ‘’
You have ‘bout five minutes to do this, so hurry it up. Reach under our brick-pillow-thing and grab the togs we made out of that reject pile of shirts no one wanted. Hasn’t that always been our life Johnny-boy?
‘Now’s not the time for insults, ‘Crow.’
Sorry. But hurry it the fuck up, Johnny-boy, we have to go.‘’I agree. The ( ... )
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This is why the story starts ( ... )
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This is more of how this story started ( ... )
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And he's Alfred's nephew. Expectations.
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I think it's because of all the P. G. Wodehouse I've been reading...
Hmmm, I totally didn't notice the parallel worlds structure thing... Could you possibly point some of it out to me?
Yeah, I've always really liked Scarecrow for some reason. I have some ideas about what all he can do...
*Maniacal Cackle*
Ah, yeah, I read Alfred's name on the Bat-wiki and was all like "WUT!?!?!?! Hmmmmmmm... I can work with this", so now I have Expectations tooo...
Cockney accents are annoying, but it'll be a while before we get to see one...
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Alfred would spend three days in London, meeting his great-nephew. He would eventually pose the question “-So, would you like to come home, to Gotham, and live with me?” He can’t quite hide the notes of hope in his voice; his face is closed enough to put off the average pre-teen.
Johnny is not the average pre-teen. Johnny can read people like books. ''We can now, anyway.'' He wasn't always able to, but Jonathan Crane spent his (previously villainous) life figuring out how people work. It’s one of the not-very-many things he still knows how to do; it’s not a conscious thing anymore, but Johnny can- and does- still do it. Instinctive, like.“Yeah. I would like that.” Johnny’s voice is soft, sort of hopeful, hesitant and shy ( ... )
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This part of the story is about Wayne Manor and parts of why Gotham is the way it is ( ... )
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Bwah-hah-ha!
Archibald Jensen Arkham died during the eighth year of construction, when he accidentally-on-purposefully slit his own throat with a pearl-handled straight razor. Both razor and house would change hands within the family many times, and both would finally come to rest in the hands of one Amadeus Arkham ( ... )
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Wayne manor was built on a low incline, approximately twenty miles away from the accursed Arkham site. It sat above massive limestone caverns, which sit over massive-er ancient lava flows. The place is cool beans ( ... )
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Successive regimes of the 19th century responded to such pressures with a combination of halfhearted reform and repression. During this time, the weaker branches of the Wayne family were subtly encouraged towards warmer, more enlightened climes. Russian serfdom was abolished in 1861, but its abolition was achieved on terms unfavorable to the peasants and served to increase revolutionary pressures. Between the abolition of serfdom and the beginning of World War I in 1914, the Stolypin reforms, the constitution of 1906, and State Duma introduced notable changes to the economy and politics of Russia; however, the tsars were not willing to relinquish autocratic rule, or share their power ( ... )
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This part of the story is about how Alfred, Bruce, Johnny and Dick came to live with each other ( ... )
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Alfred and Johnny stepped into the mud room, and the three boys- Johnny, Scarecrow, and Doc- smelled the house. Scarecrow carefully picked out and identified the smells. Doc identified what each smell meant, and quickly relayed the information to Johnny. Johnny would decide what to do with the information.
Flour, butter, eggs, bacon, meat, blood, soaps, sour milk, soot, Gas- from an oven, a big oven, carpets, dusty, empty space- too much empty space, expensive perfumes, colognes, dirty laundry, different kinds of hair gel with masculine scents, hair wax, silver polish, Tung oil, sawdust, water that’s underground, bat guano, ammonia, medicines, sterilization, strong solvents.‘’This is a big house, but almost no one lives here. There are, at most, two people that live here. They are all men. Women sometimes come here, but they don’t stay. One of the men knows how to cook well enough, but one of the others cannot cook at all. Some one who lives here is very wealthy, and doesn't mind showing ( ... )
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