Post by Jay on Jul 30, 2015 17:28:06 GMT -5
ELIZABETH KATRINA CRANE
THE SCARECROW
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- Parents: Jonathan Crane and Adianna Baudelaire
Siblings: William Crane (Jonathan's Son)
Raziel Lawton (Adianna's Son)
A G E: Twenty Five
S P E C I E S: Human
F A M I L Y:
S E X U A L I T Y: Bisexual
O C C U P A T I O N: Criminal Mastermind.
F A C E C L A I M: Twigglet
A B I L I T Y:
Chemistry: Elizabeth had always been a whiz at chemistry, though out high school she was in AP Chemistry and worked hard to maintain a hundred in the class. With that being said Elizabeth knows her way around chemicals, they are a big part in her life and she has even created a new strand of Fear Toxin.
Violent Dancing: She had a more toned down version of her mother’s heavy hand to hand combat training, and she was also trained in the art of Violent Dancing, the fighting style that her father developed. The style is based in part on the crane style of kung fu, which makes use of the full body. Elizabeth loves it, it’s a good work out and highly efficient way to taking someone down when she has to get physical.
Gymnastics: Due to the above ability she learned how to be fluid and she was naturally bendy, she inherited her mothers double jointed flexibility.
Intimidation: She uses a variety of toxins that cause her victims to hallucinate that their phobias have come to life. But apart from that Elizabeth can be rather intimidating by herself, mostly everyone knows who her parents are and she sometimes uses the ‘Crane’ last name as a weapon, words are mightier than actions sometimes.
Psychology: When she was put into a private home school she rejected it and wanted to go to public school. She enjoyed studying people, and finding out how to use them. Being as Jonathan is an expert in the field; she’s picked up quite a few things like his love of the study of anxiety disorders. Being who she is, she is a walking textbook on the study of fear, and can recite the name and description of nearly every known phobia. While she is brilliant she tends to keep quiet about it, because no one likes a show off.
The Art of Deduction, She's no Sherlock Holmes by any means. Well maybe in a past life she was. But she can tell a lot about a person by how they walk, or how they drink their coffee. It's not nearly as refined as she would like it to be, but she is happy enough to make people uncomfortable when she can look at them and tell them what they were doing no even an hour ago. Now she uses this for evil more often then not. Using it to bully people into doing what she wants them too.
Manipulation: Elizabeth is a manipulator. She has figured out a good way to get information and make her way in life by being bad. She blackmails people into being on her side when she needs them. She can get some sort of dirt on almost anyone with enough time.
P E R S O N A L I T Y:
- Elizabeth appears to see no point in exercising self-control or following morals. She is somewhat of a hedonist. She is intelligent enough to know the consequences of her actions and the fact that her actions are wrong, however, She just doesn't care. When it comes to morality, she displays pure apathy. It seems that the only thing she cares about is indulging herself, and constructing a satisfying self image of herself. She is shows an indifference or joy in others pain, She is very much a sadist, and she is also extremely narcissistic. She considers herself a god, and will do everything in and out of her power to show off that she can control everything with a breath.
Her negative emotion reactions tend to persist for unusually long periods of time, which means she is often in a bad mood. On the other hand once someone gets to know her they find out that as a person Elizabeth is not someone to be trifled with, however she can be swayed to feel more comfortable around you, and act more 'friendly.' towards you.
She does show slight care for her friends and family. She enjoys a good game, or a fun puzzle, however she tends to come off uninterested in a lot. She is always listening and using information.
Taking over as Scarecrow has only brought out her sadism and apathy more. She get's a sick sort of comfort out of hurting people, it makes her feel stronger then she really is.
H I S T O R Y
- Elizabeth was the second born, her brother William being the oldest, was born and three o’clock in the morning on December Fifth, and the Gotham General hospital. Her birth was normal, her father however didn't show up, given the fact that he was a married man. She was taken home from the hospital a few days later and life was calm for Adianna Baudelaire, and her out of wed-lock daughter. The two, Adi and Jonathan, had met during one of Jonathan’s night out as Scarecrow, only she was after one of his ‘business partners’. The two argued he fear toxined her and she put a gun against his head, and well two years later here they were, Jon having an affair, and Adi having his child. Funny how things work. Liz's childhood was an interesting one, while her last name was Crane, she couldn't use it, because no one was suppose to know that she was Jonathan's.
The little girl oddly understood more then she let on. So for the first seven years of her life, her last name while legally Crane, was Lawton, seeing as that was who her mother was with then, the union also brought Liz a little brother Raziel,4 years younger then her. That was until Rose found out about said affair, opening up Liz to obtain the Crane last name finally. At first she wasn't so keen on it because she had been Lawton so long. But eventually and with her mother's prodding for 'respect' to her father she took the last name, though she had problems with writing Elizabeth Lawton down for the longest time after the change. When she was Eight her and her brother Raziel ended up in an orphanage for a short time due to her mother getting caught and well her 'father' Floyd not being around. Liz however was taken from the orphanage by her legal guardian. Rose actually signed the papers for her to be released into their care since Jonathan was unable too for one reason or another. With the Eight year old in tow she returned home to introduce her to her half brother and father at long last.
Elizabeth was a good kid, she never did anything that would get her grounded or really yelled at. She felt she was there on borrowed graciousness, so she did her best to stay out of trouble. She adored William and would quietly follow him around most of the time, it wasn't until she started public school did things start changing. She had always had private tutors but suddenly she was being forced to interact with other children, which brought on bullies. Elizabeth wanted to watch the normal people, and under the guise of wanting to make friends. Academically she excelled, she was grades beyond what she should have been. She could do things other kids couldn't, but socially she was a bit more reserved. Did she have a problem with bullies? She wouldn't call it that. People tried and they would find their toy's heads in the desk, so all in all She could take care of herself. But then everything changed with an appearance of a boy named Spencer. He found that out the hard way. He kept bullying her, pushing her, so she finally snapped back at him, he took her bag and tried to run off with it, unfortunately the young boy didn’t expect her to tackle him and punch him in the mouth a few times. She got her bag back and the bully was left crying that a girl beat him up. But that didn't end their feud, Spencer decided one day to cut her braid off. Liz was furious she decided to make his life hell, she started to intimidate his little friends to leave him, and made sure no one would talk to him, soon she started to replace his homework with wrong answered copies. Getting him in trouble with his parents and the teachers, it was only after she let William destroy him did Spencer finally get the message and left her alone.
She turned into the silent cruel kid, in her attempts to ruin Spencer, but that was okay with her. She was two faced and she only got better at it over the years. In high school she could pass as a sweet smiling girl. Never a cheerleader though, she saw how it was with William and decided to just stick to her books, even if Rose thought she should try out, given how flexible she could be.
That was the year she was torn apart again. Rose and Jonathan fought so often she thought it was normal, then suddenly Rose was whisking William off and she couldn't go, she had grown attached to William, almost co-dependent on him. However she couldn't argue with her Father, and she couldn't risk the violence she saw aimed at William and Rose being aimed at her so she kept her mouth shut and hid in her room most of the time, she was old enough to take care of herself, and almost old enough to get a job, two years and she would be able to sustain herself she would be sixteen.
However being alone, Even when Jonathan was there it was like she was alone, he wasn't a stable person, was terrible for a fourteen year old girl. She started sneaking out at night, getting into trouble and landed herself in Juvenal Detention once or twice, it ended in her getting hit both times. Though she did deserve it, she knew how he was, she shouldn't have gotten herself caught. That's when she decided she needed to learn or she would get beaten if she was caught again. So she learned, she learned all she could and after nearly exhausting herself for five years she could say she wouldn't get caught again. She had also picked up a knack for her Father's trade while she was learning, she learned all about his toxins and how they worked.
When she was twenty she applied for Gotham university, she got in, it wasn't a pretentious college like she knew Jonathan would want her to go too, but it was a college in Gotham. She could stay close, she didn't want to think about if she tried to leave Gotham. She didn't fancy the idea of him getting worse and killing her or something for trying to leave like Rose and William did. She missed William greatly, but she couldn't contact him because Rose wouldn't give her the number. Every so often for years after they left she would send messages to his phone, even though she knew that they would be off, and he would never see them.
During her years in college she started to prefect her craft of Manipulation and started to blackmail her teachers into things. Grades, money, anything she wanted them too do. It was Gotham after all everyone had secrets. She even slept with a few to make secrets when she couldn't find any. She found a love for blackmail and decided that was how she was going to run Gotham, sitting on top of blackmail and intimidation.
It started little mobsters, police officers, little things, then came higher members of the mob. The people who meant something to people. When they didn't budge with blackmail they budged with fear toxin. Then came political heads, once she got the money she needed she went to the underground, she made deals, proved she could do what she needed too, even launched a few scares on Gotham. It was wonderful, soon she was just as known as Jonathan was as Scarecrow.
O T H E R
- Elizabeth is terrified of hospitals, though she wouldn't say she was scared of anything, she also regrets not keeping in contact with Raziel, and regrets not trying harder to find William, though she knew it was for the best, so Jonathan couldn't find them.
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