Heart of Straw Master Chapter List
Title: Heart of Straw
Verse: Dark Knight
Characters: Bruce Wayne/Batman, Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow, Rachel Dawes, Jim Gordon, Alfred Pennyworth, ensemble cast/villains
Pairings: Bruce Wayne/Jonathan Crane, slash
Rating: Mature, may contain adult situations, language, violence, sex
Plot: After Jonathan has a psychotic break and again becomes the Scarecrow, broken hearted, Bruce has no choice but to let the authorities commit him to Arkham, knowing that it will break him irretrievably. Bradshaw does what he can to help Jonathan but as predicted the confinement in Arkham has rendered the young doctor catatonic. Bruce is inconsolable believing it to be all his fault that the incident happened in the first place. It was his job to care for the man and he failed to protect him.
A month into Jonathan’s stay at Arkham, with his identity now known by the public as being the man who terrorized Gotham as the infamous Scarecrow, Bradshaw calls Bruce with what may be salvation. A new DID treatment by a Swiss doctor who claims that he has a cure for the rare disorder. It’s radical and it’s dangerous but it’s the only chance Jonathan will ever have to be released from the asylum back into society as cured.
The procedure supposes that the underlying cause of all DID is extreme trauma and that no matter how medicine “manages” the condition the underlying cause will never change, will never go away, therefore there is always a chance for relapse. This doctor proposes that if the original trauma was removed then the patient’s personality would develop as it was normally meant to.
In the past, the only way to affect memory on that massive a scale would be high level electro-shock therapy, that while effective, is nothing short of a non-surgical lobotomy. The doctor instead advocates precision radio wave bombardment of the brain. It would be targeted at specific memory centers and would erase all memories while leaving knowledge intact.
Ok, this is my foray into slashing Bruce/Jonathan. I started this right after Batman Begins. This is the second part of the story in which they are in an established relationship. Again, you will get bits and pieces, chapters as I complete them. You have been warned.
PREFACE I PREFACE PRT II CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 5 CHAPTER 6 CHAPTER 7 CHAPTER 8 CHAPTER 9
Verse: Dark Knight
Characters: Bruce Wayne/Batman, Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow, Rachel Dawes, Jim Gordon, Alfred Pennyworth, ensemble cast/villains
Pairings: Bruce Wayne/Jonathan Crane, slash
Rating: Mature, may contain adult situations, language, violence, sex
Plot: After Jonathan has a psychotic break and again becomes the Scarecrow, broken hearted, Bruce has no choice but to let the authorities commit him to Arkham, knowing that it will break him irretrievably. Bradshaw does what he can to help Jonathan but as predicted the confinement in Arkham has rendered the young doctor catatonic. Bruce is inconsolable believing it to be all his fault that the incident happened in the first place. It was his job to care for the man and he failed to protect him.
A month into Jonathan’s stay at Arkham, with his identity now known by the public as being the man who terrorized Gotham as the infamous Scarecrow, Bradshaw calls Bruce with what may be salvation. A new DID treatment by a Swiss doctor who claims that he has a cure for the rare disorder. It’s radical and it’s dangerous but it’s the only chance Jonathan will ever have to be released from the asylum back into society as cured.
The procedure supposes that the underlying cause of all DID is extreme trauma and that no matter how medicine “manages” the condition the underlying cause will never change, will never go away, therefore there is always a chance for relapse. This doctor proposes that if the original trauma was removed then the patient’s personality would develop as it was normally meant to.
In the past, the only way to affect memory on that massive a scale would be high level electro-shock therapy, that while effective, is nothing short of a non-surgical lobotomy. The doctor instead advocates precision radio wave bombardment of the brain. It would be targeted at specific memory centers and would erase all memories while leaving knowledge intact.
Ok, this is my foray into slashing Bruce/Jonathan. I started this right after Batman Begins. This is the second part of the story in which they are in an established relationship. Again, you will get bits and pieces, chapters as I complete them. You have been warned.
PREFACE I PREFACE PRT II CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 5 CHAPTER 6 CHAPTER 7 CHAPTER 8 CHAPTER 9