#cryptid rogues

due to recent changes to the story this rewrite is outdated and can no longer be considered canon

this is my rewrite of Jonathan Crane aka the scarecrow

BACKSTORY:

He grew up in a small religious town in Texas, He lived with his grandmother on a farm, pretty much the year one backstory with slight changes, notably him gaining a large deep cross shaped scar on his back and losing a large amount of his right cheek, later on he would become a psychology professor at a university in which he would eventually leave ending up in Gotham, he would do the same job in Gotham but upon an incident at his house he would end up tearing himself apart but be put back together and would spend the last year of his job slowly going mad till he got fired and became the scarecrow

MOTIVATION:

he wants to research fear in its entirety, he wants to see what makes people tick and how it makes them break, he researches his victim's fear for a "paper", he keeps researching and researching for a paper he wants to make, a syllabus on fear for his class not quite realizing he won't ever be able to make that syllabus

METHODS:

unlike most scarecrows this one doesn't use fear toxin, it's more of a street drug he occasionally makes for money, but instead he prefers to watch his victims for long lengths of time, preferring to instill paranoia of what is watching them till he eventually learns all of their fears and starts weaving their downfall, he will make scenarios forcing people into their worst nightmares, such as someone with monophobia losing all of their friends, family, coworkers, and jobs (and ability to gain a job) due to scarecrow's machination then to ultimately kill them in a brutal fashion to terrify everyone else

META HUMAN NATURE:

this version is a Meta-human (I will probably have to post that rewrite another day once I get past the characters for the world building) with his ability being more or less some form of body horror, he can become the phobioanax once stressed or afraid enough but can also go in-between, currently he has high blood pressure so he's stuck in an odd hybrid state resembling some sort of daemon (very on purpose) and the abilities themselves resemble a possession or parasite, such as grotesque limbs popping out from under his broken opened ribs or choking him to go through his mouth, it is painful yet bloodless, as for the phobioanax itself it's more of a kaiju based on religious trauma and a fear response

AUTHOR'S NOTES:

I wanted to make a scarecrow unreliant on fear toxin able to be terrifying all by himself, this version is based on paranormal horror to tie back into his background but due to him not being magic it's probably closer to some sort of body horror which works for this version meant to be terrifying in both a conscious and primal sense

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due to recent changes to the story this rewrite is outdated and can no longer be considered canon

this is my rewrite of Edward Nashton (yes I'm using "nashton") aka the riddler

BACKGROUND:

He grew up with his (alcoholic) father in Gotham being verbally and physically abused by him till he eventually grew up and got out, He would later become a radio show host getting popular enough to become a beloved game show host, but he ultimately got quietly fired after his letters were found by a janitor and later handed over to his boss, he would then enter a deep depression over losing said job and would become riddler once he realized that they took HIS show and replaced HIM just to cancel the show when it stopped doing so well, once he became the riddler in an incident with a bomb he got blown up and had to rebuild himself with rusted outdated technology looking more like some fucked chuck e cheese animatronic

MOTIVATION:

this version of riddler is fueled by his inferiority complex rather than a superiority complex, rather than proving his own intelligence he prefers to tear down everyone else, he feels powerless in his own situation and so he makes sure everyone around him feels worse in a worse situation, and yet he also wishes to preform (more on that in methods) to show that he still has value beyond his inability to escape his situation

METHODS:

as for his methods is rather gruesome even among the other rogues, he prefers to make a show out of his victims, he will research somebody until he gathers every bit of information on them and then he will kidnap them into some warehouse, there he will start a show hijacking radio waves on CCRTVs to show a live preformance of him slowly vivisecting somebody, as he torments them he'll use riddles as a passive aggressive way of making them feel worse, using their guilt, regrets, secrets, and fears as the basis of his riddles and everytime they refuse to tell the audience what they've done then he'll remove a piece from them, he'll vivisect them on live tv removing their skin, organs, limbs, and teeth all for the sake of tormenting them, ultimately they'll be left unable to do anything for themselves, more of a hunk of meat in extreme pain hooked up to so many machines they're barely recognizable as human

TECHNOLOGY:

this version will use his intelligence to torment and cut off, he makes machines that are capable of keeping people alive in extreme scenarios such as missing their heart and lungs, he also uses nano machines to turn inorganic material into cameras in the shape of eyes, you can tell when he's watching when you find eyes lacking irises in the corners of your house or behind furniture

AUTHOR'S NOTES:

I don't really have any problems with Riddler specifically that's not just a certain version so I was going in with making him a horror movie version of himself

sure he's far more "slasher" but I did want to incorperate his obsession with riddles in a threatening manner and yada yada yada

he is obsessed with riddles compulsively using them but he manages it mostly by making it torment others

due to recent changes to the story this rewrite is outdated and can no longer be considered canon

ok so this'll be my rewrite of the mad hatter aka Jervis Tetch, this one's gonna be short and simple and edited later on if I remember.

BACKSTORY:

pretty simple, he grew up in Slough, England. He lived in a poor neighborhood with an extremely neglectful mother (she was an opium addict), later on he would grow up becoming an alcoholic but was still a genius just one who couldn't hold down a job for very long. He would eventually start to live in Gotham where he would work for Wayne Enterprises until an incident with one of his inventions glitched and fried his brain thus becoming the mad hatter

MOTIVATION:

as would be implied he's an extremely lonely person who mind controls people in an attempt to have a relationship (platonic), thing is because of the way his tech works he ends up trying to replace human interaction with what's essentially playing with dolls and so he continues trying to mind control people to finally find one that can make him feel less lonely

METHODS:

he usually begins with manipulating the victim such as finding someone in a desperate situation (for example someone doing drugs while mourning) and becoming their "friend" through illusions and such, then once he has their trust he'll give them a mask, it's obviously (from our pov) a mind control mask that takes over the person, if a person attempts to leave he'll kill them and bake them into a pastry so that they can NEVER leave him.

MIND CONTROL:

the way the mask works is that it shoves wires through someone's eyes and into their brain, it'll target the areas that produces dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin that way they'll never WANT to leave him, it also targets the hippocampus and cerebellum to directly control memory and movement, the wires will also shove into other parts of the brain and down into the entire nervous system but the previously mentioned parts are the most important. The mask also has hooks on the inside so it can't be removed without tearing off the person's face, if done anyways then the person will be left as a paralyzed vegatable unable to even move.

AUTHOR'S THOUGHTS:

this version of the mad hatter is meant to be more "culty" with his manipulation and control methods, one of his direct inspirations was the psychological horror film midsommar

I wanted to make him an extremely threatening and "dark" villain without resorting using SA or such as I view that as incredibly lazy and unnecassary

if you have any thoughts on how to make better please state in the comments below or reblog

due to recent changes to the story this rewrite is outdated and can no longer be considered canon

this is my rewrite of victor and Nora fries aka Mr and Mrs freeze

BACKSTORY:

victor and Nora fries used to live in a quaint home in the Serbia part of the USSR, Victor was a scientist who began helping in the at the time Soviet space program while Nora was a ballerina, they had a son named “mikhail” in this time before Victor and Nora moved to Gotham ending up leaving their son behind, now they’re cold based villains working together

MOTIVATION:

actually very simple, they hate living in Gotham and want to go home back to their son (he’s dead now) using the cold in an attempt to break out properly but only ever getting so close

METHODS:

Victor and Nora both use a cold gun in this scenario causing blizzards and untold amounts of damage from their sudden cold snaps and hail

COLD GUN:

their tool of choice is a gun that shoots liquid nitrogen to freeze objects, they also managed to make blizzards suddenly with a tool they refuse to tell people about

AUTHOR’S NOTES:

in this rewrite I didn’t do much but mostly change their crimes and motivation

I wanted to give Nora a bigger role and to be honest I’m sick and tired of freeze always wanting to save his wife

due to recent changes to the story this rewrite is outdated and can no longer be considered canon

this is my rewrite of Darius Chapel aka music meister

BACKSTORY:

He grew up in Dresden, Germany till going to Gotham in his young adult years, he would be a street preformer till he eventually gained some success as a musician preforming at concerts and such, one day during a concert a gang fight would break out ending in the crowd getting shot and otherwise panicking and Darius himself getting shot, in a moment of panic he would scream and learn that he had a mutant ability of which was to control others through his voice

MOTIVATION:

after the incident Darius would quickly go mad with power soon gaining a god complex from controlling others with his voice alone, he came to the conclusion that he's better than everyone else and thus uses his voice to prove that point again and again and again

METHODS:

He typically just uses his songs to start large scale riots in the streets as a sort of "performance" causing untold damage and death in said large scale mass hysteria, he can also use his voice to kill but he more often than not prefers to just have the people do it themselves seeing himself above such dirty work

VOICE:

ok so I have to explain how his voice actually works, here he uses resonant frequencies to control and harm, he can go into a certain pitch that causes intense discomfort to cause riots and other pitches to destroy buildings or if he decides to be loud enough cause internal bleeding from said frequencies working on the bones of his victims, typically if he does decide to go with the bone route it's not pretty, more of a type of inverted springlock caused by sound, but otherwise he uses his voice to get people to do what he wants

AUTHOR'S NOTES:

ok so with Darius I decided he didn't have to be too complex, none of the villains really are but still, he's the music guy so have him on a god complex easy enough

as for his voice some inspiration for it was actually the illusion discs from the fnaf books and a larger inspiration was the false hydra from dnd so you can imagine what horrors he brings in his wake

due to recent changes to the story this rewrite is outdated and can no longer be considered canon

this is my rewrite of Oswald Cobblepot aka the penguin

BACKSTORY:

Oswald grew up in Bologna, Italy during the late 1890's, he would grow up bullied for his appearance but extremely rich, he would later join his family Business as a banker but would end up immigrating to America in the late 1930's moving to Gotham in 1940, there he would gain a wife and two kids despite his appearance, he would remain rich with a family he loved till one day driving home on an icy road they would hit black ice ending up in a car accident killing his wife and kids while leaving him permanently disabled

MOTIVATION:

after the incident he would live in an empty home with nothing but his riches and social status, there he would decide that he would garner power so that he could never lose such things ever again, he would do this by becoming the feared mob boss the Penguin but getting greedier and greedier for the sake of not losing his criminal empire and to never lose again

METHODS:

this version of penguin doesn't stray too far from the original so he usually does mob related crime such as extortion, fraud, insurance fraud, identity theft, drug manufacture, drug trafficking, murder, second degree murder, assassination, plans to assassinate, black mailing local government, black mailing federal government, and the like

AUTHOR'S NOTES:

I personally don't have any problems with penguin, sure I'm not too interested in mob esc. villains but penguin in my opinion is one usually done well

note while the other characters hint at when they're from despite penguin's entry directly telling you when his life took place

it doesn't mean shit