You were a psychologist, but one day you got fired. After that you stared experimenting with fear on humans. Soon enough you stopped doing it for research and started doing it for fun. You lived in Gotham, but it didn't live up to your expectations...
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Fear Toxin:
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Background: Unloved by your mother and abandoned by your father, you lived mostly with your great-grandmother who was a religious zealot, who tormented you in her care. Punishing you for the slightest misdemeanour, she would lock you in a church where you would be attacked by crows.
At school, you were also bullied by other students both for your awkwardness, lanky gait and for your uncanny resemblance to the character Ichabod Crane from The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow. The bullies, who dubbed you "Scarecrow", frightened you, but you refused to give in to your tormentors and vowed to turn the tables on your attackers and make them fear you.
One day, you secretly watched your great-grandmother and discovered that she laced your clothes with a substance to get the crows to attack you. Finding a library, you learned all you could about all types of sciences, particularly chemistry and developed your own version of his great-grandmother's mixture; testing it out on one of the bullies at your school.
Delving even further into the workings of the human mind, you discovered how to manipulate the fear response in his intended victims and took your revenge against the bully ringleader; dressing up as a scarecrow and armed with an array of chemically-tainted smoke bombs, caused the high schooler to crash his car while driving; resulting in him killing his girlfriend and paralyzing himself from the waist down.
As an adult, you became an expert psychologist; specializing in fear, and acquired knowledge of how certain combinations of chemicals could affect the human psyche. However a few months later you got fired for injuring one of your clients.
You'll see what happened after that in the next chapter.
