#princeverse

Here's my version of the funny little riddle man! Argh! You can barely see his freckles! You can't see his rings! You can't see the insignia on his prosthetic leg! Aaaaagghhh! You'll have to zoom in to see a lot of the details, but it's worth it!

Some others things to note that I didn't point out in the little text boxes: -He let's his youngest daughter paint his nails. -He built his own hearing aid and prosthetic. -He needs his cane to walk most of the time.

Also I'm begging yall, ask me questions about my Eddie! There is so much lore I need to share and I left alot of open ends in this reference sheet!

How about your Edward and my Edward? I think they would be...awkward near each other but it would be funny XD

-Prince

@enygma-and-crow-show

Okay, this premise is so funny to me. Especially considering how different the two are. My Edward is always sick and covered in gauze and bandages — so when meeting your relatively healthy Riddler, the poor thing is so confused. A really amusing bonus to this is that my Eddie doesn’t know Scarecrow and Jonathan Crane are the same person.

Don’t mind this looking really sketchy, I was simply trying to remember how to draw full people instead of just torso up lmao. I should redraw this eventually, properly, without art block. Now I desperately want to make them interact more lol.

(^^^ my edward is ridiculously tall — both him and joker)

Disbanded!verse: “I can get past the fact that you married Doctor Crane who apparently is the terrorist known as Scarecrow. But what do you mean you aren’t constantly being drugged?”

Princeverse: “You didn’t know that? God, are you stupid? I thought you said you have access to all the Arkham Security Data? I’m just going to choose to ignore your last statement.”

D: “What part of ‘I am sedated daily and don’t remember anything substantial from the past three months’ makes you think I am capable of rational thought?”

P: “It’s common sense.”

D: “Oh, I’m sorry, let me just defy the effects of pharmaceuticals to figure out the secret identity of the man I barely know outside of work! Why didn’t I think of that first?”

Yes, I missed Day 3 of @originalficfest. It’s going up tomorrow, so for now I’m pretending I’m still on time with plot-relevant badass quotes from each of my WIPs. (To see funniest quotes from each MC, feast yer eyes here.)

The Storm Prince:

“She shrugged. “Learn or die. It’s the Grisha way.”

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““Just tell me this,” Artemiy said. “If you died tomorrow, could you live with what you’ve done?””

OMNI:

“Kiefer gazed at him for another moment before flicking the safety back on his pistol. “I won’t ask you to repent, Andreas,” he said coolly. “I want you to regret it as I destroy you. I will grind you into dust.””

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He pulled Joshua closer, afraid to let him go. “You don’t understand,” he said, panicked. “He’s my future.”

Rose’s eyes softened. “I understand,” she said. “Trust me.””

Outlands:

“I stared helplessly at Jacoby’s pale face, watching the life drain from his eyes. “I told you everyone you loved would die,” Arthur said. “It was not a threat; it was a promise.””

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“Whatever thing stood in the doorway was barely a person. It hunched over, black spikes protruding from its back, its fingers ending in sharp, black claws, its robes in tatters and barely covering its body. But when it lifted its head, it had human features, a face that perhaps long ago was handsome but now was covered in thick, black scars. In place of eyes it had dark, black pits, like Cecilia’s but utterly absent of fire, and in the middle of its forehead it had another hole that was black like its eyes, like it had carved out a place in skull. Prophecy is like having a third eye, Jacoby had said. Was this what he’d meant?

“Cecilia,” it rasped in a voice that sounded like ten. Cecilia made a sound somewhere between a gasp and a sob. “I came back for you.””

We Can’t Both Be Honest:

“Avery crossed her arms. “Aren’t you afraid of what I’m going to find?”

Percy kicked his feet onto the table and raised an unimpressed eyebrow. “Could I look you in the eye if I had anything to hide?””

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““Ever eaten asphalt?” REAPER asked, his voice distorted. “Have you wondered how Jean-Eduard felt, bleeding out on the street with his back broken?”

Avery lunged for her dad’s pistol and emptied it into her desktop tower.”

Grey City:

“Alexis searched Theo’s face for any hint of deception. It held nothing but guilt-wracked honesty. “No one must know of this,” she said fiercely. “Not even your sister. Not even the gods.””

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““I will not allow such intolerance to exist in my government,” Olivia declared. “By my powers as sovereign of the Dornagradian Empire, I formally dissolve parliament and call for new elections within three months. Furthermore I declare Chancellor Westsea and his supporters to be enemies of the Crown, to be persecuted to the fullest extent of the law on grounds of High Treason.”

“You can’t do that!” someone yelled.

Then he met Persey, Edward's younger daughter of two, who had, up until Edward adopted her, never had a toy in her life.

So one time, when Jonathan was out with Persey (Eddie and Ellie had ran ahead), Jon noticed Persey had stopped walking and was staring at something in the window of a store. When Jonathan peeked at what it was, he saw a doll with long black hair and a Gothic looking outfit. Persey mentioned that she had never had a doll before, and that she knew she was too old to have one at the age of 16. Jonathan, not wanting Persey to feel the way he did when she got older, took her inside and told her to pick out two extra outfits for the doll and grab the doll itself. While he was waiting, he noticed a small wooden rocking crow in the bottom shelf.

They ended up leaving the store, Persey with her doll who she had named Elizabeth and Jon with his crow buried in the bottom of the bag.

Behold! My version of Jonathan Crane! You'll have to zoom in to see the details but I think this turned out great! He only took 11 hours and 50 minutes!

Some other things I should mention:

-He has sun spots and moles randomly dispersed on his body, with two of them on his face.

-He let's his youngest daughter paint his nails.

-Eddie made his leg brace for him.

-He still works at Arkham Asylum at the moment.

As I have been slowly building my AU over these past few weeks, I've been thinking over how I want to present Jonathan Crane and Scarecrow. The most common iterations I see are either Scarecrow is his villain identity that is more of a mindset than anything (ex: Murphycrow) or Scarecrow is like an alter in a sort of D.I.D system (ex: Codotverse), but I had an idea (that probably isnt original) that I've found I really like! What if Scarecrow was something even more dangerous than that?

If you have been following my au, you would know that I have Jonathan's background as a mix of his Year One backstory and his (main) New 52 backstory in which his father experimented on him to learn about fear and when Jonathan had enough, he killed his father and was sent to live with his great grandmother Keeny, and he eventually killed her too. But ive beeb trying to think as to how to show Scarecrow and I think I have the answer. Scarecrow is an entity who can't control but can influence Jonathan and can temporarily take over Jonathan's body.

How is this possible? Well, in DC we know there are demons (Raven, Trigon, Etrigan) and there are entities (Enchantress), so what if Scarecrow was one too? What if Jonathan's mother was put in a forced marriage to Jonathan's father and wanted an escape, so she summond an entity in said attempt to escape? And that entity was Scarecrow who, as payment, made itself a part of little baby Jonathan who had just been born? Jonathan's father wasn't there to witness it, but Great Grandmother Keeny was, which is why she treats Jonathan so terribly. She is a Christian woman who believes her grandson is possessed by Satan.

So Scarecrow watched Jonathan grow up and he whispers thoughts and ideas to Jonathan, influencing him into doing things Jonathan would normally never do. Sort of like Venom and Eddie from Marvel, except Scarecrow can't leave until Jonathan forces him to or Jonathan dies, whichever comes first. And as Jonathan grew up, he kind of got attached to Scarecrow in a weird subconscious way. Even in Medschool, Bruce and Harley would notice this but never comment on the fact that it clearly was not a D.I.D thing.