FINALLY DREW SCAREBEAST (Well- A Rough Sketch Anyways) XD

FINALLY DREW SCAREBEAST (Well- a rough sketch anyways) XD

I tried tbh but ye, this is how I imagined Scarebeast for my version of Jonathan! I Drew Jonny boy and Danny as a height ref (Though, I accidentally drew Danny shorter than he should be-)

Some quick note rambles.

Danny's gonna be the shortest in the family till he hits 18 where he gets a late growth spurt bringing him up to Jonny boy's height. Fentons have late growth spurts while the Keeny family tends to have their growth spurt early on.

For Jonathan, transforming into the Scarebeast had always been painful. But the longer he remains in contact with Danny especially, the transformation becomes painless due to the ambient ectoplasm the kid generates turning Jonny liminal (Not to the extent of any other Amity Parkers or Jazz (who has the highest liminal level-) but it would take a while- even with Danny being around. Jack and Maddie have grown immune to ambient ectoplasm- doesn't help they have Hazzmat suits on all the time which stopped them from being as exposed-)

Jonny in Scarebeast mode can release its own strain of Fear Toxin. A sort of mix between all the versions Jonathan made of the toxin over the years that he's been exposed to personally (which is all of them- part of the reason why he managed to develop Scarebeast by accident). Not particularly the strongest but its effects can last a lot longer and even when given the antidote, it lingers from a week to even a month.

Jonny cannot fly as Scarebeast. He does like being up in tall places and would climb there, though.

DO NOT LET SCAREBEAST MEET MAN-BAT, IT WILL NOT GO WELL FOR ANYONE. Same goes for Goliath the Dragon Bat or, some of the Clayfaces, and, unsurprisingly by all means, Joker. Get's hostile if Ra's Al Ghul is near but won't outright attack. Scarebeast does get along with Killer Croc though despite not being part of his murder. Scarebeast is rather wary of Bane, Ivy and Mr. Freeze, though.

Scarebeast is very affectionate to the members of its murder when it thinks there is no danger. Might as well be an overgrown cat with mothering tendencies even when it's a crow. Will play fight with Danny when he's in ghost form. This applies to Ellie as well. It will try to fight Jazz when especially bored but doesn't go too hard due to sensing her being human- even if she's liminal.

Likes to lay on top of its murder members, especially Edward. ["I love you Jon but GET OFF MY FACE!" "Krrrrrrrr" "... Guess this is my life now."] Will gift its fallen feathers to them as well.

Some of the hideouts and bases Jonathan has included a huge straw nest somewhere for when he's Scarebeast.

I'm curious the dynamics between all of them, who are besties wit each other and who absolutely despises one another

Alright, let's break it down.

Firstly, I wouldn't say that any of them hate each other. Annoy to the point of insanity, sure, but at the end of the day, they're all still Riddlers. No one else in the world understands what it's like to be them.

Now that that's out of the way, Gotham, Dano, and YJ will beat ZY senseless because he is annoying and an absolute jackass, just like any group of brothers would.

Dano and YJ are nearly inseparable. They both know what it's like to be overlooked, not just in intelligence and accolade, but as a person. So, they lift each other up and are all the better for it.

Gotham is the kid-wrangler. He's one of the kids, but he's not? Like the other kids are unpredictable, but Gotham functions like clockwork.

Believe it or not, ZY isn't actually trying to make anyone angry. He's just an absolute attention whore compared to the rest of the gang, and it really shows. But it's all just to get a reaction, like most stuff he does.

Now, the babyiest of babies: Unburied. Like, he's not expected to do anything but be silly, and somehow everyone loves him for it. He's just a little guy.

Arkham, BTAS, and BTAA honestly don't care much what the kids do, as long as they aren't breaking shit or creating a national crisis. Arkham keeps to his workshop and robots, BTAS is keeping the party rolling, and BTAA is busy planning his next amazing heist. They generally don't fight, and are more likely to be diplomatic. Unless, it's ZY.

Finally, let it be said. Telltale doesn't hate any of them. He's just got that classic Riddler complex of 'everyone is an idiot except me'. When looking through the lense of age, though, it makes his own past faults and successes so much more apparent. He sees himself in every single one of them, in a way that he may not be entirely comfortable with. However, again, in classic Riddler fashion, he can't let any of them see his true self, have to keep up the illusion.

So, he'll deflect with sarcasm, cruelty, and witty quips, hoping they get a better ending.

phew.

get it, got it, good.

(Apologies for constantly sending stiff in your ask box. I honestly have nothing better to do and I have too many ideas.)

That being said... Here's a new idea I'd like to share cause I have nothing better to do with it besides trying to draw it and I thought, hey, this can fit in this au possibly.

Danny being afraid of Professor Pyg not just because of the Dollotrons he makes but he gets flashbacks to his own vivisection whenever he's near the guy. Professor Pyg literally lobotomized his victims and sew doll masks to create his Dollotrons, his idea of perfection. The worst part about dollotrons is that they're alive.

I see Dollotrons as souls stuck in living tombs, here. The only way to free them is if one destroys the vessels to allow the souls to finally be at peace rather then suffer inside their former bodies, constantly wailing for help as they watch on, never to be in control again. What made those bodies them have been erased with the use of chemicals and surgery. Their mind and body is not theirs anymore. They're Professor Pyg's now.

For ghosts/halfas/liminal's to see such a thing will cause such a visceral reaction of wrongness emanating in their cores. Cause by all means, the Dollotrons should be dead with such a disconnect the body and mind has with the soul. But nope. These Dollotrons will be considered abominations. (I imagine Danny having a similar reaction to Garnet from SU when she saw the gem shard fusions in a way cause like, in some ways, the dollotrons are most like Halfas like him. But more twisted)

Danny makes sure to keep his interactions with Pyg to a minimum. Everyone notices and doesn't blame him. Even the Joker is put off by Pyg (in Arkham Knight). Joker!

[Just more possible interactions and world building (?) for this au I guess... I really need sleep TwT]

Add this Pyg a**hole to the list of villains for Danny to go feral on.

Original piece by the epic @sadlittleman

The Lock-up episode of children's show BTAS really said "you know these villains who are seemingly never redeemed or improving? Well they're actually being horribly mistreated and abused in the mental institution that's supposed to help them by the American Police/Prison System made into a completely unsympathetic character :)" and made a more effective point about the state of most mental health institutions and the police than most things today.

I love this episode because it shows without a doubt that batman cares about these peoples lives and WANTS them to improve. He doesn't even humor Lyles bullshit, he just beats his ass up whilst telling him he has no compassion (based batman).

Because no matter how shitty people like Scarecrow(who has no explicit sad backstory in btas)are, they are still just people and need to be treated as such if they are to improve. You cannot expect someone to get better by treating them like vermin with no hope of change. They are in a mental institution. They are supposed to be treated with care to have any chance of rehabilitation.

Not like Lyle Bolton wanted to help them or see them improve anyway. He just wanted to feel powerful by abusing helpless people he had control over. And that's why people don't like Lyle Bolton while they do other villains. He isn't a fun concept. He's real. He represents a real issue. People like Lyle Bolton are real. As I'm writing this very post my father is watching a YouTube video in the living room from one of them. Abusers in positions of power complaining about being "censored" by the liberal media and how "those types" of people aren't people and don't deserve to live.

The entire trial scene is so hard to watch because even though the patients of Arkham are clearly being abused and threatened in front of everyone, no one (except Bruce) seems to notice. If Bruce hadn't instigated the patients freak-out, they never would have said anything about the mistreatment they were receiving from the very place that was supposed to help them. They literally end up huddling together, shaking in fear as Lyle, barely being able to be restrained, screams at them about how they're scum that deserve to be beaten to death. There's a theory that Scarecrow not only escaped to get away from Lyle Bolton, but to get help for the other inmates as well. And if that was the intention, well, I'm glad he succeeded.

The only unrealistic part of the episode is the fact that Lyle actually got punished.

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