Poison Ivy - Batman
Character: Pamela Isley (more commonly known as Poison Ivy)
Series/Fandom: Batman franchise
Deviance: 1
Age: Twenties, I assume
Gender: Female
Species: Plant-woman! She's like a hybrid of a plant and a human.
Canon Used: OKAY, I am going out on a limb here and taking her from as much established canon as I can because none of them are comprehensive on her character. But that's more like background stuff! As far as her reality and continuing adventures, she's coming from the comic book Harley & Ivy so that they can keep having their lesbian adventures. So I'm taking background from the animated series and the comics. If you want to know which ones, I can tell you? But dammit, 40 years of material is a lot.
Appearance:
So because we have 40 years of material, Ivy's appearance is pretty variable. So I'm taking her appearance from Harley & Ivy for simplicity. She's a pretty hot girl no matter what canon, though. In all of them, Ivy is not short of curves, coming off as quite the seductress. She has bright red hair (uh oh, it's another ginger) and green eyes to go with it. In this canon, she also has green tinted skin from the chlorophyll. She wears normal clothing on occasion, but more often than not, she wears a strapless forest green leotard/bathing suit and long, matching evening gloves and boots.
The grumpy one
Psychology:
So, you take Diva, take away the trauma, add some being a man hater, and you've got Ivy.
I'm serious.
But Kisha says I have to write more than that, so let's try this again.
Ivy is an unstable woman. Of course she is, her first love betrayed her and turned her into a plant-woman. What a jackass. So Ivy is embittered not only to men, but to humans in general. She is more affectionate to plants, so you could say that she's more plant than human. Over time, she's even associated herself more with being a plant than being a human. Her plants are her children, and anyone hurting a plant will send her into a rage. So because of that, he doesn't bond well with people, but she can tolerate them. Enough.
But more than that, Ivy knows that she can use people. She has a femme fatale kind of personality despite her dislike for people. She can be seductive and coy, and she's certainly not shy with herself. Ivy often kisses men to intoxicate them with her pheromones and poisons, and obviously has no problem with it. She also quite likes her revealing outfit! Her lack of shyness is demonstrated particularly in some other incarnations of the series where only a few leaves cover her gentalia, or in one, nothing at all. She knows how to manipulate people, not only with her poisons, but with her femininity.
Her favorite thing, obviously, is plants. Plants are the things that she loves most, and it's because of that she becomes a criminal at all. She wants to save the plants of the world, not caring at all for the human inhabitants. She works to preserve the plant life of the world, and bitterly hates anyone that works against nature. Thus, anything that is not enviormentally friendly is her enemy. It's rumored that she and Al Gore are bff, though.
But her kindness to plants isn't necessarily limited to plants. In certain conditions, she can be very kind and maternal to humans, even if it's a rare occurence. The best example of this is Ivy's best, and only human friend, Harley Quinn. Go to the history for more about that. Yet, despite the attachment she sometimes feels for humans, it doesn't change one thing despite: Ivy is bitter and vindictive. She's the kind of person that holds a grudge, and she does so for a long time, or at least until she feels that she can actually forgive them. Which could take a long time. But for the select few that aren't plant harming douchebags, she gets pretty attached to them! Like, to the point of jealousy if they are checking out another person. IT'S NOT GOOD TO CHECK OUT PEOPLES' MANMEAT, HARLEY. So she's a jealous, vindictive, bitter bitch, really.
She is intelligent, though, and quite the accomplished toxicologist and botanist, if not for the, you know, crazed super villain thing. She acts calmly and rationally, and is a skilled tactician. She's the brains of Harley and Ivy's partnership, definitely. Because of those intelligent things, Ivy suffers from those usually character traits that come from being intelligent. She's arrogant, irritated by things she considers trivial, and focused to the point of obsession on her work.
Other Skills/Abilities:
Because she's a supervillainess, Ivy has a variety of abilities, all related to plants and the toxins in her body. SO HOW ABOUT BULLETS, I like bullets.
∙ Pheromone Control: Ivy is able to insta-seduce men by giving them a kiss. This doesn't work on women, though, only men! When she gives them a kiss, it puts them in a unaware state, of sorts, making them susceptible to Ivy's suggestions because of the pheromone. They do remember the events, but they're completely under her control while it's active.
∙ Immunity: Ivy is immune to all poisons, bacteria, viruses, you name it. Complete immunity.
∙ Toxins: Because of being half plant, Ivy has a variety of toxins are in her bloodstream, skin, etc. Touching her can deliver these poisons, but they're not fatal. However, her blood is fatal, nearly instantly.
∙ Chlorokinesis (LIST OF SUPERPOWERS, AWESOME): Ivy is able to control any and all plants using only her mind. She can make them insanely large and powerful, able to crush bones if she wants. As long as it's a plant, she can manipulate its size, shape, or movement.
Ivy is also very intelligent, having once been an accomplished doctor, especially with botany and toxicology. She's also a strong physical fighter, but not of superhuman strength. She has the strength of an athletic woman.
Other Weaknesses:
Surprisingly, in terms of physical weaknesses, she doesn't have any extraordinary ones. So, as such, she is susceptible to severe injury like...getting her head cut off.
History:
Dr. Pamela Isley was a young, beautiful botanist from Seattle. Pamela had rich, but distant parents, so in some manner to impress them as well as make a name for herself instead of using her parents' she decided to go to a prestigious college and study botany. She was intelligent and looked to be quite promising, but she was naive. Pamela fell in love with her professor, and Dr. Woodrue used this to his advantage. He used Pamela for his experiments, and it was these experiments that made Pamela what she is. The toxins in her bloodstream made her sick, and once her professor ran away from the police, she was in the hospital for six months. She was obviously pissed, became mentally unstable, but got another boyfriend. But God must have hated her, because then her boyfriend got in a car accident. Pamela dropped out of school and went to Gotham City, taking on the name of Poison Ivy after threatening the city. Of course, Batman wasn't cool with that shit and tossed her ass in jail.
Years passed and Ivy grew bitter and hardened, taking on the identity of a criminal rather than a doctor. She escaped the asylum and went to a remote island in the Caribbean to live alone with her plants. Of course, that wasn't going to work out, since it got firebombed as weapons testing. Ivy returned to Gotham with a vengeance, wanting to punish those responsible. But Batman foiled her again, oops. After this, she dedicated herself to purifying the world for plants, one city at a time. Since Gotham was the worst in terms of pollution, this seemed like a good place to start.
In the Asylum, Ivy became familiar with the other super villains, but she didn't like any of them, save for one. A girl by the name of Harleen Quinzel was the Joker's sidekick, known as Harley Quinn. But even then, there wasn't any kind of relationship until Ivy happened to stumble upon Harley after a catastrophic earthquake. Ivy found her under a pile of rubble, almost dead. Ivy nursed Harley back to health, and found out that her lethal injuries were from the Joker. Ivy, remembering her bad past with men, saw the Joker and Harley's relationship as abusive. Because of that, Ivy approached Harley, but Harley was, and still is, hopelessly in love. So, unfortunately, she wasn't able to convince her, but they did become friends.
Ivy at least offered Harley a place to stay. Since they were best friends by then, they bought an apartment together and decided to occasionally team up to commit crimes. They still get caught by the Batman almost every time (Since, contrary to popular belief, Batman is super campy and not GRIMDARK), but they always have cells close to each other, aww. So Harley and Ivy get to go on lesbian adventures!
Reality Description:
dun dun dun, Ivy lives in the terrible Gotham City! As a neat thing I found, here is a map of Gotham City.
Gotham City is located in New Jersey in DC verse and is a shithole because of the rampant crime and super villains. Gotham is a big, booming city, but the city itself seems like a dark and gloomy place. There's a variety of villains, but there's a small variety of heroes too. The most notable, of course, being Ivy's most hated enemy Batman and his associates. The main business and powerhouse in Gotham is owned by Batman's alter ego Bruce Wayne, so the city is normal enough, mostly. There's the usual big city things in there. Ivy herself switches residences quite often from the apartment she shares with Harley to the Arkham Asylum where all the super villains hang out when Batman catches them. Of course, they end up escaping eventually, but whatever.
Ivy's only human friend is Harley Quinn, also known as Harleen Quinzel. They share an apartment together, like I said, and they are best friends forever and probably lesbians. But this is the only person that is important to Ivy!
First Person Speaking Sample:
{Ivy appears on the Plane, and right away, there's something absolutely, purely disgusting about this place.
There are not enough plants. This is not cool with Ivy, so she stands with her arms crossed, looking around with distaste.}
...This place is terrible. It's dead. It's even worse than Gotham!
{Which is quite the feat.}
There's hardly any plants at all, and the ones here...not good at all. Poor things, the starlight must be bad for them. But that can be fixed, at least.
{And the plants are most important, but she looks to the stars with a softer expression} It sure is pretty, though...
What kind of place is this? It's nothing like I've ever seen before. The stars are so much prettier here. Without a city to block out the lights...it's beautiful.
Third Person Writing Sample:
"...Come on Red, you're not still mad, are you?"
Ivy sat at her desk by the window, not looking back at Harley. Yes, she was mad. She was pissed. Her face certainly showed that as she delicately pruned her precious plant. It was set in an expression that showed nothing but utter loathing, and it looked like she had eaten something terrible and it was causing her considerable pain rather than being upset at Harley.
Again.
"I thought it was dead, come on Ivy, don't be mad..."
Her face twisted up even further at the word dead. She had been cultivating that plant for years. At least! Even if it was only like two weeks, it felt like years. She had grown it from a little seed, watered it, trimmed it, everything...! Just for Harley to go dump the poor little thing in a trash can where it wasn't able to survive until Ivy had found it. Sure, she had been testing a few new serums on it, but it would have gotten better. It just need time to recuperate instead of getting thrown in a filthy and polluted dumpster.
She almost wanted to cry thinking about it, but instead, she had settled on being upset. It was easier and not as alarming to Harley. Despite that small bit of caring, she was still having fun imagining putting Harley in an iron maiden, drowning her, or making her sit and listen to terrible music for hours. In fact, that last one sounded pretty good, so she chuckled darkly.
"You've been sulking for two days now! It's not that bad, I mean, cheer up! I got you a present!"
A present was the last thing that Ivy really cared to have right now, especially from Harley, but her expression softened a bit as she turned to look at Harley. She was taken aback by Ivy's expression, so Ivy shook her head, looking with disinterest at Harley to see what that present hidden behind Harley's back was.
"Well, what is it?" she asked simply, wanting to get it over with to return to taking care of her new plant.
She did so carefully, but Harley pulled out a small, potted plant from behind her back. The terracotta was riddled with bright paint and rhinestones, a personal touch from Harley, of course, but there was a small, but bright red foxglove haphazardly planted inside.
"It reminded me of you!" Harley said with a big, stupid grin on her face, of course, and Ivy couldn't help but shake her head and laugh. Out of all the plants to be similar to, foxglove was probably the last one she would have picked. At least it was better than the last apology present. Ivy glanced back to her desk, looking at another small, colorful pot.
That one was filled with poison ivy, of course.