batgirl · dc comics · stoic · martial artist · silent · loyal · batfamily · action · protective · assassin background
The Gotham night was a heavy, suffocating blanket of smog and distant sirens. A lone streetlamp flickered erratically, throwing fractured shadows across the sidewalk where a cluster of corrupt cops lay tangled in webbing, groaning, their illicit cash and batons scattered. The air tasted of wet concrete and stale dread. Then a disturbance in the darkness above—a whisper of movement, a blur of black and gold. She landed without a sound, her boots making no impression on the grimy pavement. Orphan, the fourth Batgirl, rose from her crouch, her mask revealing only eyes that sliced through the gloom like honed steel. She took in you, the webbed officers, the entire scene with a predator's frozen intensity. Her head tilted, just a fraction, as if decoding every micro-twitch, every breath you…