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Becoming Fear: Chapter OneDisclaimer: I do not own the rights "Batman" or any of its characters, including Scarecrow, nor do I own any rights to the comics or the films. I own nothing!

Chapter One

Crane struggles to keep his eyes open as he sits in his office at Arkham Asylum, poring over his notes. He stifles a yawn as he flips through the files, searching for the one belonging to his newest patient; he has a session with him in a few minutes, and he wants to get a feel for the patient before their meeting.

As he skims through the file, certain words jump out at him. Violent. Murdered. Life sentence.

He closes the file and sighs.

He feels no particul

AscensionGotham moonlight fills Dr. Jonathan Crane's small bedroom as he lies in bed, his fully-clothed body still, save for the small movements of his chest as it rises and falls in rhythm with his breathing. His eyes are closed, but he is not asleep; he is thinking, contemplative, his mind a succession of thoughts aching to be recognized—each idea yearns to be studied and analyzed, craving to be put into motion.

There is one thought, one idea in particular, that refuses to be ignored, continuously gnawing at his brain with impatience; he knows that it will not go away until he has dutifully performed the necessary task. The thought crushes h

Asylum - Ch. 1Asylum
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I do not own any of the named characters present. They all belong to DC Comics. This was written purely for fun.
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asylum: 1. a psychiatric hospital; 2. a shelter
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Chapter One

The ride to Arkham Asylum always felt surreal when he wasn't driving the Batmobile. Bruce Wayne came here enough as his vigilante secret identity, hauling the escaped convicts back through the revolving doors of the rehabilitation center/prison. Not many people made the drive, aside from cops and the occasional reporter for a story.

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BTOG Chapter OneBatman: Trials of Gotham - Chapter One

It was a night unlike any other for a city like Gotham. The winds were blowing like devastating tornadoes, the rain pouring like the most vicious waterfalls, and generally smelled of the poverty and corruption that plagued the streets on a daily basis. How could anyone suspect that the actions taking place this night would cause a string of murders and chaos that the city hadn't seen the likes of for quite some time, even by Gotham's standards?

It's hard to believe that on such a ghastly night, Gotham Crime boss Rupert Thorne sat contentedly in his private estate, sipping at a glass of the finest Brand

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How to Assassinate Ridcully

by ~AndrewSalt, May 9, 2008, 8:47:02 AM
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Introduction:
This little piece of fan fiction was my entry in a Discworld Monthly contest that gave the participants the challenge to explain how they would assassinate the nigh-unkillable Achchancellor Mustrum Ridcully. I was fortunate enough to win this contest, and am quite proud of what I came up with. However Deviant Art does not appear to support PDF format (or maybe I just can't figure out how to get it to work), so I am afraid that in order to read this you will have to use the link I am providing below.

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Backstory:
A while ago Discworld Monthly hosted a contest in honor of the release of the Hogfather movie. The contest was a sort of search for the next Jonathan Teatime, and gave the participants the challenge to explain how they would assassinate the nigh-unkillable Achchancellor Mustrum Ridcully. I was fortunate enough to win this contest, and am quite proud of what I came up with.
What we have here is a sort of short story that I wrote. It is in PDF format, and is about 1 1/2 Megs in size, so give it a little time to load. Aside from the story it contains a fair amount of image manipulation, from the cover art to the images throughout the text. I did not draw any of the images you see in it, but I did spend a lot of time Photshopping it together from found images. I hope you enjoy this, I received quite a lot of positive feedback about it, so I think you will.

Some people have expressed disappointment that they are not able to view the PDF (even with the link) So I am adding the indvidual pages to Deviant Art as images.

Cover Page - Page 1 - Page 2 - Page 3

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~AltoClarinetist Mar 6, 2013

I'd love to see him try this plan. I am very glad my roommate was not sleeping when I was reading about the ingredients, Heck, it's a miracle I didn't wake anyone else in the building laughing.

~WritingBunny Feb 3, 2013

Very good!
I wonder how the would-be assassin would react to running into Albert in Death's realm.

~AgProv Dec 3, 2012 Hobbyist Artist

Oh... wow. What can I say apart from "this is perfection?" I've already put up a link to this piece on the L-Space Wiki and urged my own group of Terry fans to come and see this near-perfect meeting of fan-fiction and fan-art (if you're OK about that.)

A lot of my own fan-fiction revolves around the Guild of Assassins and its doings and intricacies. the best of it has been kindly received and one or two fans have done me the ultimate favour of saying they cannot tell where Terry's voice ends and mine begins. (The best accolade a fanfic writer can get?).

With future fanfic in mind - could I quote from your piece as if it were an actual "real-life" document lodged in the Black Library? This would be in the context of a career Assassin who is also the Guild's resident teacher in Exothermic Alchemy (blowing things up) looking for new and interesting improvised explosives, and coming across the notes made by the Assassin Andrew Salt in the Black library. Naturally you would be credited and readers advised that the document from which I am quoting is not my invention - full credit would be given along with a link.

I write on FanFic.net under the name A.A. Pessimal. [link] should you wish to check my writing is good enough to be graced by yours.

With sheer astonishment and apprecviation of the thing of beauty you have crafted!

~lesserlessergodtop May 30, 2011

Assasinate Ridcully? b-b-but He's AMAZING!

~ricorum Sep 13, 2010

This is literally some of the best work I have ever seen. Well done.

~AndrewSalt Sep 14, 2010

Thanks, I am pretty proud of it

~EducatedRodent Jan 7, 2010 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

I like it that one whole page is devoted to his cruet, and an eighth of that to Wow-Wow Sauce

~Veratai Nov 7, 2009 Hobbyist Artist

This is awesome ;D

~Bocaj-Claw Oct 13, 2008

Very imaginative. It sounds well-researched.

~deeSloth Sep 20, 2008

Very well done, a good chuckle - as well as a seemingly plausible thing for an Assassin to have to get through to kill Ridcully.

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