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| Bio: | Name: Barbara Gordon Age: 30 Birthday: January 21 1979 Secret Identity: Oracle Aliases: Amy Beddoes Team Affiliations: Birds of Prey, Bat Family, Justice League, Seven Soldiers of Victory (formerly), Suicide Squad (formerly) Occupation: English Professor, KSU/Freelance Computer Programmer/High-Tech Vigilante Mother: Thelma Gordon (nee Thomas) - Detective, Major Crimes Unit, GCPD - Deceased Father: Roger Gordon - Detective, Major Crimes Unit, GCPD - Deceased Uncle/Father(adopted): James "Jim" Worthington Gordon - Commissioner, Gotham City Police Department (GCPD) Aunt/Mother(adopted): Barbara Eileen Gordon (nee Kean) (Divorced) Cousin/Brother(adopted): James Gordon Jr. (Estranged) Friends: Bruce Wayne, Cassandra Cain, Dick Grayson, Tim Drake, Alfred Pennyworth, Dinah Lance, Helena Bertinelli, [more to come] Fandom: Batman Point In Fandom Taken From: Same point in continuity (if not a bit after, mixed in) as Cassandra Cain. Housing: 4 bedroom (computer room/operations hub is hidden behind a walkin closet) - the place has both an elevator, and a training area which is reinforced against sound. There is a voice and DNA opperated system that can alert proper channels (Bruce, Dick, Tim, Cassie, Dinah, Helena, etc) should something happen (such as an attack. It wouldn't be the first time!) There is a password to get the system to work. Skills: Skilled martial artist, Genius-level intellect, Superb hacker, Skilled detective, Photographic memory. She has extensive skills with eskrima fighting sticks, small firearms, and batarangs; she customarily keeps a pair of eskrima sticks stored in the armrests of her wheelchair as a contingency. Oracle maintains control over the twelve technologically advanced satellites that were created by Lex Luthor during his tenure as President of the United States. She is a skilled hacker, capable of retrieving and dispersing information from private satellites, military installations, government files, and the properties of Lex Luthor. Prior to being crippled, Oracle had trained in Judo and Karate - earning brown belts in both. The Origin: Blessed with a quick wit and a thirst for knowledge, Barbara Gordon is a true daughter of Gotham. Growing up in a metropolis of both sparkling wealth and crime-ridden slums, from a young age Barbara found herself surrounded by contrasts. Born to Roger and Thelma Gordon in late January 1981 - Barbara was raised in Warren, Ohio. At the age of four her mother was killed in an automobile accident, leaving Barbara in the sole care of her father. After a time - unable to cope with his wife's death - Roger began to drink, and by the time his daughter was ten had become an alcoholic. Refusing to get help - despite his daughter’s pleas - Roger Gordon died on the operating table of the local hospital after falling from a ladder while intoxicated. Roger's death left Barbara in the custody of her father's brother - James Gordon, a police lieutenant in Gotham City, Illinois. Despite all that had happened, Gotham City held an intrigue for the young girl. Over the years her father had been drinking, Barbara and her best friend Marcy had been fascinated by superheroes - creating new heroes, pretending to be them - thus when it became clear she was moving, Marcie gave her - as a going-away present - a plush they had made of one of their creations, called simply "Batgirl." The girls had looked up everything they could about Gotham's local hero: the names of his gadgets, how they worked, fighting styles, the works - information Barbara stored away easily with her photographic memory, information that would become useful in the future. Gotham City and her new family were quite a change from life back in Ohio, but she found herself adjusting to it, and finding that life with the Gordons was better than she had expected. Eventually they adopted her and she fit in so well that one would have thought she'd been born to them in the first place. Her aunt and new mother's name was also Barbara - thus to stem confusion the younger Barbara went by Babs instead - sometimes "Junior." While the family was there for her, her new father turned into one of the greatest staples in her life. A police lieutenant, he would bring case files home with him, storing them in the small office he kept in the back of the apartment. At the age of 13, Barbara would sneak in to look at the files - seeing them as puzzles that could be finished if the pieces were fit together correctly; unfortunately it was not to her uncle's liking, so instead of going about it the obvious way, she would sneak into the office by night after everyone was asleep and read the files... And then one night he nearly caught her - it was a night that would change her life - the night she found out her dad worked with Gotham's Dark Knight - Batman. While Jim Gordon didn't know Barbara was there, Batman did - warning her in a note he'd dropped not to get caught, because Gordon would get angry. After that Barbara began preparing. Martial arts, city plans, track and gymnastics, Barbara pushed herself to the limit, not just in athletics but also academically. By the time she'd reached high school she was already two years ahead of others her age - having skipped two grades in lower school. She joined the Gotham Central High School gymnastics and track teams - the only freshman running track - and found that she was not only out performing her female classmates on the track, she was beating the boys. By the time she was a junior she'd started attracting attention and realized that she could not become a hero if she became well known - it was this that the training had been for, she wanted to be a hero, not for any high and lofty goals or for revenge, just to make Gotham a safer place - the fact that her father - now the Gotham City Police Commissioner - refused to allow her to become a cop only pushed her towards it more. Working from the idea that she needed to get out of the spotlight, in her junior year of high school - at the age of 15 - Barbara "suffered" a "ripped tendon" which took her off the track team. She began taking private instruction in martial arts from her sensei and her grades started to slip from her prior A's to average grades. She retooled her wardrobe - going for a more conservative look to blend in and be overlooked - and at the age of sixteen she graduated from Gotham Central High. Two years later her mother would file for divorce from her father and move away - taking her younger brother with her. After graduation, Barbara enrolled at Gotham State University (GSU) and was one of the youngest members of the Freshman class. Having gotten a work-study position her freshman year at the university library, Barbara spent her second freshman semester and entire sophomore year abroad. Having received a scholarship, she studied library and computer sciences in London, Paris and Madrid before returning home and breezing through her bachelors and master's degrees. Post-grad life was not as difficult as she thought it might be as the job offers started coming in. With her father once again refusing to allow her to go to the Police Academy, Barbara (who had become her father's unofficial partner when he brought home cases) took a job as Head Reference Librarian at the Gotham City Library, and largely forgot all about being a super-hero. But that would not last long... One very fortuitous night, at a costume party, chose to base her costume on the hero she and Marcy had created - one that was fitting for Gotham; she made a female version of Batman's costume and planned to go as Batgirl. Unfortunately (or fortunately as you might look at it), this party was crashed by one of Gotham's many roaming criminals... Not even thinking Barbara's self defense and gymnastics training seemed to take over as she protected some of her friends from the goons and kept them at bay until the police arrived... and that's when she realized it. And Batgirl was born... It wasn't an easy job at first - taking on the heights of Gotham skyscrapers by night and working at the library by day, but in taking down several small gangs on her own she soon caught the attention of Batman and his young partner Robin. She was young, headstrong and good at what she was doing - and despite the attempts by the Bat to dissuade her from her nightly activities, the lesson just didn't take. It wasn't long before her identity - which she had purposely kept from the Dynamic Duo - was unraveled by the master detective. The reveal wasn't as surprising as some would have thought. Having proven herself through her solo work, Barbara became part of the team - the "bat family" if you would. Eventually Bruce and Dick had a falling out which led to the much younger Dick Grayson (Robin I) taking up the mantle of Nightwing, spending more time with the Titans and eventually leaving Gotham for Blüdhaven. Barbara stayed behind. Batman eventually took on another young man to the mantle of Robin - Jason Todd's death hit everyone very hard and not soon after there would be even more. Realizing that her place in the world of super-powered heroes was minimal, for a time Barbara retired the mantle of Batgirl, but unfortunately this retirement would be permenant. A victim of a vendetta against her father, Barbara was paralyzed and assaulted at the hands of the Joker. Her spine severed and her body broken, in the aftermath of the attack, she fell into deep depression, grief stricken it took her months to get out of it. She left Gotham for a time - training with Richard Dragon - honing her martial arts abilities (using an escrima), upper body strength and targeting skills with both firearms and batarangs as well as weapons skills. She focused herself on her mental abilities - her computer skills. Her aptitude for and training in information sciences provided her with tremendous skills that could be deployed to fight crime. In a world increasingly centered on technology and information, she possessed a genius-level intellect; photographic memory; deep knowledge of computers and electronics; expert skills as a hacker; and graduate training in library sciences. All these things she put to use through her new role as an information broker for heroes - under the new mantal of Oracle. Since taking up her new mantle, things have progressed to the point where she has become a key member of both the JLA and the Bat clan. when the Quake hit Gotham, she took in a group of children - one of whom was Cassandra Cain. She has taken on the role of mentoring the newest Batgirl while keeping up her own duties, keeping her thumb in many different pies. She is a member - and co-founder - of the superhero team known collectively as the Birds of Prey, consisting of Oracle herself, Black Canary (Dinah Lance) and the Huntress (Helena Bertenelli). At the same time, her on-again-off-again relationship with Dick Grayson - the one she has had for years is somewhat in limbo. Not like this hasn't happened before. She is currently teaching English at the local university. More information: http://www.canarynoir.com/main.php?page=oracle | |||||||||
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