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Fear’s embrace is the only kind I know.

Fandom:

Batman (Post-Crisis Comics)

Relationship to canon:

Alternate Universe where Batman is not human. Fandom-blind friendly.

Genre(s):

Horror (some Slasher, mostly Cosmic). Character Study.

Rating and Warnings:

PG-13 Canon-Typical violence and supervillain behavior (kidnapping bystanders, testing drugs on animals, being super obsessive about and lowkey down bad for your nemesis, ya know how it is). Very brief mentions of gore.

Character(s):

Bruce Wayne | Batman (POV) Jonathan Crane | Scarecrow

Relationship(s):

(One-Sided) Bruce Wayne/Jonathan Crane Can be read as either Gen or Pre-Slash.

Lenght:

4,362 words. One-Shot.

Summary:

Roses are viscera red...

Scarecrow is a man who cultivates fear as his chief crop, and this desolate township farm, far from the violently vibrant Valentine's Day festivities in Gotham, is his natural habitat.

...Violets are bruise blue...

Tonight he will study Gotham’s mysterious protector. While nobody knows what the nightmarish creature actually is, Scarecrow knows all that matters: the Batman can feel fear.

...I'm terrified, and you should be too.

A little tough love, a stripping bare of pretense. Pearly fangs, a lashing tail, wings darker than a black hole; Batman is a being of terror, and Scarecrow intends to show him what that terror feels like.