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Still Better than Black Keys.
Chapter Thirteen.
Lancer.
True Identity: Jonathan Crane.
Other Names and Aliases: The Scarecrow, Master of Fear, Pharaoh of Phobias, Squishy.
Gender: Male.
Alignment: Chaotic Evil.
Attribute: Human.
Likes: Books, Reading, Psychological Torture.
Dislikes: Bullies, Strong Beautiful Tall Men.
Natural Enemy: Batman, Superman, any Robin, any Batgirl, Larfleeze, The Headless Horseman.
Parameters:
Strength: E
Endurance: D
Agility: C+
Mana: B
Luck: D
Noble Phantasm: C
Biography:
Born in the deep south of the United States, Jonathan Crane was abandoned by his father at birth, and his mother died shortly after. Crane was raised by his religious fanatic grandmother, a woman who would often hit the boy and lock him in a barn with crows to punish the evil she perceived in him. The local children would also mock and harass him, making fun of his gaunt figure and shy behavior. After discreetly arranging the deaths of his grandmother and one of his tormentors, the now adolescent Crane fled to Gotham City after graduation, landing a teaching position at a university. While a highly talented professor in Psychology, his strange mannerisms, increasingly unstable behavior, and reclused lifestyle led to even more scorn from his new peers and students alike.
Killing a colleague and securing his prized book collection, Crane turned to the life of crime as the Scarecrow, a figure dressed in a straw filled ragged costume, a symbol of poverty and fear, selling his services as a killer for hire. Batman, the urban vigilante, stopped his criminal scheme and sent him to the Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane. Crane would escape reclusion several times, being foiled by Batman and his allies over and over, which made him develop an obsessive hatred and fear for him.
There is no consensus on the circumstances of Crane's death; while some historians say he was murdered by the Joker so he could secure Crane's fear toxins in a plan to drive Superman insane, others say the Crane killed by the Joker was just an impostor posing as him.
Class Skills:
Magic Resistance: E
Lancer had no major encounters with magic during his human life, granting him a very low rank in this Skill.
Territory Creation: A
Despite being no Caster, Lancer might have qualified for that Class as well, and retains a high degree on this Skill. An enthusiastic academic of fear and psychological stress, he is rather apt at settling laboratories where to perform twisted experiments on humans and the development of his macabre fear toxins. These laboratories are also equipped with plenty of deadly traps set for anyone who would break into them without Lancer's authorization.
Personal Skills:
Martial Artist: D
Often bullied and harassed because of his physical weakness, Lancer trained himself rigorously in the Crane style of kung fu during his teen years to compensate. While his scrawny physique hampers him by lacking enough bulk as to be highly effective, he's still proved to be a brief match for the Batman in martial arts, and adrenaline bursts make him able to stall enemies stronger than him for short spans of time. He combined these arts with a 'bizarre violent dancing' inspired by the story of Sleepy Hollow's Ichabod Crane, making him an unpredictable whirlwind in close quarters combat. For long reach Lancer relies on the weapon that merits his inclusion in this Class, a very long scythe used to behead his adversaries.
Animal Dialogue: C
The ability to communicate with animals and extract information from them or making them do your biding. While in Lancer's case this Skill is limited to birds, it's still fairly effective. A skilled self-taught bird trainer, Crane would often employ murders of crows, ravens, magpies and other birds, including ones rigged with bombs to explode, against his enemies.
Spreading Terror: The Scarecrow's Revenge: A
The main and most popular element of Scarecrow's legend was his resourcefulness in the creation of means to spread fear and horror in a mass and personal scale. An urban terrorist and accomplished mental manipulator, Lancer can reduce hardened men to gibberish whimpering wrecks with a few lines of dialogue, and create intricate death traps to break others mentally until their bodies are sliced or cleaved apart by the weapons placed in the trap. A master of kidnapping for baiting, once embarked in a campaign his obsession turns him nearly unstoppable, regardless of the physical damage he may absorb.
Lancer's favorite weapon is his patented Fear Gas, an airborne toxin that causes violent reactions of irrational fear in others. This gas can be distributed in a plethora of ways, from canisters of aerosol to Lancer's favored skull shaped bombs. Whoever inhales it will experience constant hideous, augmented visions of their personal nightmares and phobias. Failing this, Lancer can also emit soundwaves that strike at the brain and release fear impulses by hitting the hilt of his scythe against the floor; the devices to broadcast the signal are stored within the weapon, and the waves can be stopped by breaking the scythe. The fear brought upon Lancer's victims can render them defenseless against deadly attacks, cause cardiac arrest, or simply prompt them into suicide. A ranked Bravery and Willpower are necessary to overcome both means of fear diffusion; however, Lancer also has access to another variety of gas that takes all manners of fear away from its targets. It can be used to give allies A ranked Bravery or to make enemies suicidally overconfident, all the better to lure them into traps and ambushes.
Noble Phantasms:
Scarebeast- Sublimation of a Violent Dream: C
Through experimenting a new formula on himself while working for The Penguin, Crane once developed a serum to transform oneself into a hulking, rampaging, Berserker-like brute nicknamed the Scarebeast. Accessing this Noble Phantasm grants Lancer A ranked strength, C+ ranked Endurance, and a B ranked Mad Enhancement to brutally pummel enemies with his bare hands and feet, but also implies a tremendous mana pull on the Master and takes the Territory Creation and Animal Dialogue skills as long as the Noble Phantasm remains in use.
The Yellow Ring- Chosen of Fear: B
Briefly, after the Batman rejected the Yellow Power Ring marking him as Earth's representative for the Sinestro Corps, the ring attached itself to Crane, who found it a delightful tool in his task of spreading terror. The ring is one of the most powerful weapons in the universe, able to create any hard light creations the user may think of, and while wielded and powered it can bestow flight, near invulnerability, powerful force shields, enhanced speed, and an empathic link with the Guardians of the Sinestro Corps. However, the ring will soon find Crane an unsuitable host and abandon him, leaving a short window of time for use of this Noble Phantasm.
Summon: "Are you afraid of what you are summoned? You have nothing to fear but fear itself. Of course, I am Fear, but I'll be needing a lab assistant regardless..."
Start of Battle: "Cower! Cower in fear!"
"Your fight or flee instincts should be kicking in right now. My clinical opinion? Flee!"
Victory: "Hroo! HRAAA!"
"Commencing the report on this test subject's reactions to the experiment…"
"My diagnose is… death from fear! Hya ha ha ha ha!"
Defeat: "So! I know fear again…! Excellent, excellent…!"
"Doctor Crane is not right now… But, if you would like to leave a message…?"
"Please… Don't hit me anymore…"
Defeat by Noble Phantasm: "Y-You bully…!"
Noble Phantasm Activation: "I will show you Fear… in a cloud of mist!"
Extra Dialogue:
"Were you the first man to ever experience fear, First of Heroes, First of Kings?" (When you have Archer Gilgamesh or Caster Gilgamesh.)
"A dark crusader of the night, a knight in shadows, huh…" (When you have Assassin Kiritsugu.)
"I once dealt with the League of Shadows. They betrayed me and left me on my own before the Bat. I cannot say I have a very high opinion of you." (When you have any Assassin Hassan.)
Birthday: "The anniversary of your birth? And what of it? Those dates hold no real meaning whatsoever."
Event: "Oh, so many have gathered at that spot. Master, this might be an unique chance to gather data on a massive crowd…"
Holy Grail: "Ridiculous. I'm a man of science. I have no time to ponder on such mystic foolishness…"
To be Continued.