Siren's Pull App.
Player Information
Name: Naima
Age: 23
AIM SN: billnaisciguy
email: nsawyerdymski@yahoo.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Yes
Currrently Played Characters: none
Conditional: Official Reserve Link: Boop
Character Information
General
Canon Source: Batman: The Animated Series
Canon Format: Animated
Character's Name: Barbara Gordon
Character's Age: mid-20's
What form will your character's NV take? Click
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities:
She doesn't have any super powers. However she does have a few notable abilities.
She's extremely intelligent, shown to be good with computers and able to hack things with out difficulty.
She's VERY strong for her size, able to take out men much larger than herself and hold her own in a fight fairly easily.
She's also an gymnist, it's mentioned several times she's taken classes and was very skilled
And while this isn't considered a huge ability, she is seen driving many of the Bat vehicles, which means Bruce trusts her driving abilities a great deal.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? Considering Babs doesn't become Oracle in the ainmated universe, I'd love for her to have the dormant abilities of being almost like a human computer. Baiscally she'd have an amazing memory, be able to analyze things very quickly, also if she had--- I guess you could call it an ability to manpulate or be sort of sympathetic to technology. She definitely wouldn't have access to these abilities at first.
EXPANSION ON THIS
After a bit of research HERP. She'd basically have "Technopathy", the ability to control technology with her mind. She'd be able to mentally interface with computer data, can operate tech just by touching or looking.
Limitations would be(Beyond the fact that she wouldn't be able to have access to this ability at first):
Cannot control purely mechanical objects, like steam engines.
She has to be within a close proximity to the object.
Initially she would have poor control over this. She wouldn’t be able to immediately hack or control anything beyond being able to get information more quickly from low security buildings, such as public libraries or schools.
Anything which was a “sentient” technology, for example something like a Transformer or any AI program, would be much more difficult to hack if not impossible.
Even after she did discover these powers, however, I don’t think she’d use them to their absolute fullest. She is a member of the Bat-Family, for her using powers feels wrong and almost like a cop-out. She prides herself on being self-made.
However, if at some point she decided she did need to use this, I would of course have a permissions post up and take up anything major with muns involved. However, none of this is guaranteed to work considering she wouldn’t exercise or test this power very often.
Weapons:
She will be bringing, her utility belt which will be carrying
Batarangs
Bolas
Smoke bombs
Rebreathers
Grappling gun
Binoculars
minicomputer
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History:
This covers most of it
Point in Canon: I am taking Babs from right after the conversation with her father in “Over the Edge” at the end of the episode. Before this point in canon Barbara has been working as Batman's partner for what can assumed to be a period of a couple of years. She has grown from merely being somewhat of a fangirl to being an integral force of the team. While she never had as many hang ups as the other members of the team, she did have a deep underlying guilt about never telling her father her true activities at night. After Over the Edge, in which she is poisoned with fear gas by Scarecrow and has a nightmare that Batman and her father fight each other to a literal death over her secret identity, she confronts that fear face on, trying to reveal to her father her secret identity. However, it appears that it isn't needed, her father knows, but doesn't want to talk about it. This is the point at which Babs is most comfortable with her role as both Barbara and Batgirl-- right before it comes crashing down during the Return of the Joker.
Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: N/A
Character Personality:
Barbara is a driven young woman. The only member of the batfamily who isn't a male and a part of Bruce Wayne's literal family, she had to work to be accepted as a member of the team. She wants to be taken seriously by her teammates, the police, as well as the enemies she fights. To add to her tenacity, for the first year or so of her crimefighting career she doesn't have the knowledge or the benefit of knowing Bruce Wayne is Batman. This means she had to get her weapons and supplies through her own means. She didn't pick up the cape and cowl for the spotlight, she took up her night job because she cares about her city and its people. She wants to help out and take part in any way possible.
She's a caring individual; her family is the most important thing, whether it be her biological family, or the bat kind. She's willing to put her life on the line for her teammates. She also carries guilt for not being honest with her father about her night time activities, however she doesn't want to risk Bruce's secret until she feels that the consequences would otherwise be completely dire. However, when she does tell her father i's shown that the trust between them is so great that he doesn't need to "know" that she's Batgirl nor does he need to directly approve of it.
Babs is an independent woman, while she works as a part of a cohesive team she shows multiple times that she doesn’t need Batman or any of her teammates to get a job done. But she isn’t anti-social in the slightest, she never loses sight of the fact that it’s best to work as a team. She also doesn’t want to be babied or treated as if she is a weakness rather than an asset. She believes with all her heart that she can help and if someone tries to tell her otherwise she will work her ass off trying to prove otherwise.
She could be called the one of the most down to earth of the Batfamily, for what little screen time we see of her, she is always the one who cracks jokes on their situations or who the villain of the night is. She keeps the perspective of "Yes this is a serious job, but we are dressed as bats, let's be honest.” She is a bit sassy and always sarcastic, ready to add levity to the situations they get into.
Though she respects the Batman, she isn't afraid of him. She'll point out mistakes first and as she gets to know him more and more as Bruce and not just as the Batman. Once she knows Batman’s secret identity she doesn’t see hum so much as his identity as the Batman but she see Bruce, and all the other masks as very real people. She doesn’t want to see those who she fights against or with as monsters or legends. She clearly has more of a realistic view of people the mostly insane situations she has to face.
She’s loyal to Batman above anyone else. While she may be head strong and sometimes not listen to what he says, she would stand by his decisions firmly. She doesn’t question his insane ideas and trusts him with her life and the lives of Tim, Dick, and the entirety of Gotham. She never questions his methods, his sanity or his morals. This becomes obvious especially when you compare her to Dick Grayson who clearly had clashes and run-ins with Bruce, which become even more clear towards the end of his career as Robin. Barbara, comparatively, is much more willing to follow his commands
On the other hand, Barbara is a Daddy’s girl. She’s extremely close to Jim and though there isn’t a whole lot elaborated on the history of their relationship, for example the fact that in the comic she is Jim’s niece, not his daughter, we can plainly see that they are very close. Once she graduates from college she’s shown working with her father in the Gotham Police Department. She admires the work that he does, and it’s show that when she’s done with the super heroing business, she becomes police commissioner herself, continuing the Gordon family legacy.
Though Babs was taught what she knows of detective work and investigation by Batman, and she does follow his tenants of logic based thinking and problem solving, she is largely emotion driven. The times her father is captured or put into some sort of trouble, she tends to want to jump in without first considering the danger that is involved. This emotional drive can make her extremely dangerous as she’s seen violating direct orders on more than one occasion. This also directly ties in with her own pride. She’s an extremely proud person who doesn’t want to be told that she cannot do something. Being ordered around too much can cause her logic to go out the window. Later in the series it seems that this immediate emotional reaction has been curbed somewhat and that is most likely due to Batman’s influence and training, however, that doesn’t mean she cannot be stirred to reckless action. All it takes is a push.
She’s extremely hasty when given the opportunity. She’ll jump into situations without looking, she’ll take on enemies she isn’t prepared for. She can think on her feet however she can become a bit overconfident in her skills. She can also be quite tunnel-visioned. When she sets her mind on a goal she will not stop until she has reached it. This can be an asset on the job or a hindrance. However, it does make her efficient when finishing tasks and she often sees how her small role in a larger plan is a means to an end.
All of this makes Babs a valuable team member in the Batfamily, a loving daughter and a force to be reckoned with. She is very different from the original masked duo in her thought process and how she gets things done, however this is what gives her her place.
Character Plans: I plan for Babs to first try and get her bearings in this new city. She's used to Gotham, sure, but she's also used to having her solid support base of the Batfamily and her own father. She'll be more than happy to find that so many people she knows are here with her (or-- you know... not so happy with certain others), however she's going to have the confusion of them being from a different Gotham than she knows. She'll have to learn how to deal with her teammates all over again, especially since they know a different her.
So in that way she’ll also be learning to adjust on her own. She won’t be too sure if she can trust these team mates who she “knows” but doesn’t, and she’ll be figuring out how to adjust without her own team around.
Appearance/PB: CLICK!
Though most times she’ll be out of costume
As a note: For any comic book characters who interact with her, they'll probably notice a few things immediately which are different. The most obvious being the fact that she is not wheel chair bound. Second, according to these sources: http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Barbara_Gordon_(New_Earth) & http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Barbara_Gordon_(DCAU) She is shorter than her comic book counter part by a whole five inches. I would also assume she's younger than her comic book counter part by a few years at least. However, it can be assumed that she looks the same in every other way.
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
[VOICE]
[Babs had made it a point to go through and check the archives of the weird cell phone device she had been left with. As the names scrolled past she hadn’t recognized many of them, but there were a few that she knew. Some she recognized too well. She decided to look up previous posts, videos, pictures, audio, anything she could find readily available over the network. They were all familiar… yet somehow different. Not the people who she had known back home. She sat there, staring at the small screen and praying that this was another hallucination, that she’d wake up in the Batcave and there would be Alfred, ready with tea and some witty quip about running into the fear gas again.
No. She couldn’t afford to break down. Not right now.
It was time to put what she had learned to the test, she flips on the audio option; safer than video at this point. Her voice is all the confidence she can muster, a trick she had learned from Bruce. You’re your wits about you.]
This isn't exactly where I wanted to go when I left my house this morning. I’m not looking for the “what this place is” or “where am I”. I’m pretty sure on the basics of this place, but I'm just more looking to get some info.
[She pauses because this, in her mind, could be giving up too much information anyway.]
Has anyone here heard about Gotham? It's my home town and… well I'm looking to get in touch with people who may know it too.
Third Person Sample
This place-- well, it creeped Babs out. Maybe not the city itself, but how she arrived here, how casually many people were treating it.
You're stuck here. Might as well get used to it.
Wasn't exactly an enticing situation. Especially for someone who didn't like to admit defeat. Still, she had to keep in mind the training she received, the lessons she had learned, not only from her father, but from Bruce. There were no problems. Just solutions she hadn't found yet. Lord knows she'd feel so much better if he was here right now. Not that she needed him in order to make decisions, but Bruce was the type of person who wouldn't freak out at a situation like this.
She had tried to think this out, just like he would have. The first thing that popped into her head was "Scarecrow", especially considering her recent brush with him. But no... this wasn't a nightmare--- or like any dream she had experienced at all. There was no purpose to locking her up here, nothing seemed to be trying to drive her to insanity or lull her into a sense of security. So this wasn't like anything or anyone she had faced, this was something new and different. She'd have to rely on the tried and true advice.
Learn and adapt.
That's what she had learned growing up in Gotham. Don't get used to anything, because everything could change at any moment. She had her feet swept out from under her so many times, both literally and metaphorically. Her father being framed for a crime he didn't commit, finding out about Dick and Bruce's other lives, her own "death". No, she didn't get used to "normal", but she still fought for it every night. She didn't want to have to resort to what she did at night. Not that she didn't enjoy it, enjoy the thrill of taking down someone like the Joker or Two-Face. Even taking out a common mugger was a thrill, knowing she could change things in her city, this place she called home. Maybe it wasn't the best place, there were certainly a laundry list of things she'd have changed if given half the chance, but it was hers.
Well, she was on her own. She couldn't say she was used to being alone, to not having back-up. However, she could handle it. She was ready. She had been ready to jump head first into so many impossible scenarios before, she was ready to jump into this one as well.
Name: Naima
Age: 23
AIM SN: billnaisciguy
email: nsawyerdymski@yahoo.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Yes
Currrently Played Characters: none
Conditional: Official Reserve Link: Boop
Character Information
General
Canon Source: Batman: The Animated Series
Canon Format: Animated
Character's Name: Barbara Gordon
Character's Age: mid-20's
What form will your character's NV take? Click
Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities:
She doesn't have any super powers. However she does have a few notable abilities.
She's extremely intelligent, shown to be good with computers and able to hack things with out difficulty.
She's VERY strong for her size, able to take out men much larger than herself and hold her own in a fight fairly easily.
She's also an gymnist, it's mentioned several times she's taken classes and was very skilled
And while this isn't considered a huge ability, she is seen driving many of the Bat vehicles, which means Bruce trusts her driving abilities a great deal.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? Considering Babs doesn't become Oracle in the ainmated universe, I'd love for her to have the dormant abilities of being almost like a human computer. Baiscally she'd have an amazing memory, be able to analyze things very quickly, also if she had--- I guess you could call it an ability to manpulate or be sort of sympathetic to technology. She definitely wouldn't have access to these abilities at first.
EXPANSION ON THIS
After a bit of research HERP. She'd basically have "Technopathy", the ability to control technology with her mind. She'd be able to mentally interface with computer data, can operate tech just by touching or looking.
Limitations would be(Beyond the fact that she wouldn't be able to have access to this ability at first):
Cannot control purely mechanical objects, like steam engines.
She has to be within a close proximity to the object.
Initially she would have poor control over this. She wouldn’t be able to immediately hack or control anything beyond being able to get information more quickly from low security buildings, such as public libraries or schools.
Anything which was a “sentient” technology, for example something like a Transformer or any AI program, would be much more difficult to hack if not impossible.
Even after she did discover these powers, however, I don’t think she’d use them to their absolute fullest. She is a member of the Bat-Family, for her using powers feels wrong and almost like a cop-out. She prides herself on being self-made.
However, if at some point she decided she did need to use this, I would of course have a permissions post up and take up anything major with muns involved. However, none of this is guaranteed to work considering she wouldn’t exercise or test this power very often.
Weapons:
She will be bringing, her utility belt which will be carrying
Batarangs
Bolas
Smoke bombs
Rebreathers
Grappling gun
Binoculars
minicomputer
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History:
This covers most of it
Point in Canon: I am taking Babs from right after the conversation with her father in “Over the Edge” at the end of the episode. Before this point in canon Barbara has been working as Batman's partner for what can assumed to be a period of a couple of years. She has grown from merely being somewhat of a fangirl to being an integral force of the team. While she never had as many hang ups as the other members of the team, she did have a deep underlying guilt about never telling her father her true activities at night. After Over the Edge, in which she is poisoned with fear gas by Scarecrow and has a nightmare that Batman and her father fight each other to a literal death over her secret identity, she confronts that fear face on, trying to reveal to her father her secret identity. However, it appears that it isn't needed, her father knows, but doesn't want to talk about it. This is the point at which Babs is most comfortable with her role as both Barbara and Batgirl-- right before it comes crashing down during the Return of the Joker.
Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: N/A
Character Personality:
Barbara is a driven young woman. The only member of the batfamily who isn't a male and a part of Bruce Wayne's literal family, she had to work to be accepted as a member of the team. She wants to be taken seriously by her teammates, the police, as well as the enemies she fights. To add to her tenacity, for the first year or so of her crimefighting career she doesn't have the knowledge or the benefit of knowing Bruce Wayne is Batman. This means she had to get her weapons and supplies through her own means. She didn't pick up the cape and cowl for the spotlight, she took up her night job because she cares about her city and its people. She wants to help out and take part in any way possible.
She's a caring individual; her family is the most important thing, whether it be her biological family, or the bat kind. She's willing to put her life on the line for her teammates. She also carries guilt for not being honest with her father about her night time activities, however she doesn't want to risk Bruce's secret until she feels that the consequences would otherwise be completely dire. However, when she does tell her father i's shown that the trust between them is so great that he doesn't need to "know" that she's Batgirl nor does he need to directly approve of it.
Babs is an independent woman, while she works as a part of a cohesive team she shows multiple times that she doesn’t need Batman or any of her teammates to get a job done. But she isn’t anti-social in the slightest, she never loses sight of the fact that it’s best to work as a team. She also doesn’t want to be babied or treated as if she is a weakness rather than an asset. She believes with all her heart that she can help and if someone tries to tell her otherwise she will work her ass off trying to prove otherwise.
She could be called the one of the most down to earth of the Batfamily, for what little screen time we see of her, she is always the one who cracks jokes on their situations or who the villain of the night is. She keeps the perspective of "Yes this is a serious job, but we are dressed as bats, let's be honest.” She is a bit sassy and always sarcastic, ready to add levity to the situations they get into.
Though she respects the Batman, she isn't afraid of him. She'll point out mistakes first and as she gets to know him more and more as Bruce and not just as the Batman. Once she knows Batman’s secret identity she doesn’t see hum so much as his identity as the Batman but she see Bruce, and all the other masks as very real people. She doesn’t want to see those who she fights against or with as monsters or legends. She clearly has more of a realistic view of people the mostly insane situations she has to face.
She’s loyal to Batman above anyone else. While she may be head strong and sometimes not listen to what he says, she would stand by his decisions firmly. She doesn’t question his insane ideas and trusts him with her life and the lives of Tim, Dick, and the entirety of Gotham. She never questions his methods, his sanity or his morals. This becomes obvious especially when you compare her to Dick Grayson who clearly had clashes and run-ins with Bruce, which become even more clear towards the end of his career as Robin. Barbara, comparatively, is much more willing to follow his commands
On the other hand, Barbara is a Daddy’s girl. She’s extremely close to Jim and though there isn’t a whole lot elaborated on the history of their relationship, for example the fact that in the comic she is Jim’s niece, not his daughter, we can plainly see that they are very close. Once she graduates from college she’s shown working with her father in the Gotham Police Department. She admires the work that he does, and it’s show that when she’s done with the super heroing business, she becomes police commissioner herself, continuing the Gordon family legacy.
Though Babs was taught what she knows of detective work and investigation by Batman, and she does follow his tenants of logic based thinking and problem solving, she is largely emotion driven. The times her father is captured or put into some sort of trouble, she tends to want to jump in without first considering the danger that is involved. This emotional drive can make her extremely dangerous as she’s seen violating direct orders on more than one occasion. This also directly ties in with her own pride. She’s an extremely proud person who doesn’t want to be told that she cannot do something. Being ordered around too much can cause her logic to go out the window. Later in the series it seems that this immediate emotional reaction has been curbed somewhat and that is most likely due to Batman’s influence and training, however, that doesn’t mean she cannot be stirred to reckless action. All it takes is a push.
She’s extremely hasty when given the opportunity. She’ll jump into situations without looking, she’ll take on enemies she isn’t prepared for. She can think on her feet however she can become a bit overconfident in her skills. She can also be quite tunnel-visioned. When she sets her mind on a goal she will not stop until she has reached it. This can be an asset on the job or a hindrance. However, it does make her efficient when finishing tasks and she often sees how her small role in a larger plan is a means to an end.
All of this makes Babs a valuable team member in the Batfamily, a loving daughter and a force to be reckoned with. She is very different from the original masked duo in her thought process and how she gets things done, however this is what gives her her place.
Character Plans: I plan for Babs to first try and get her bearings in this new city. She's used to Gotham, sure, but she's also used to having her solid support base of the Batfamily and her own father. She'll be more than happy to find that so many people she knows are here with her (or-- you know... not so happy with certain others), however she's going to have the confusion of them being from a different Gotham than she knows. She'll have to learn how to deal with her teammates all over again, especially since they know a different her.
So in that way she’ll also be learning to adjust on her own. She won’t be too sure if she can trust these team mates who she “knows” but doesn’t, and she’ll be figuring out how to adjust without her own team around.
Appearance/PB: CLICK!
Though most times she’ll be out of costume
As a note: For any comic book characters who interact with her, they'll probably notice a few things immediately which are different. The most obvious being the fact that she is not wheel chair bound. Second, according to these sources: http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Barbara_Gordon_(New_Earth) & http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Barbara_Gordon_(DCAU) She is shorter than her comic book counter part by a whole five inches. I would also assume she's younger than her comic book counter part by a few years at least. However, it can be assumed that she looks the same in every other way.
Writing Samples
First Person Sample
[VOICE]
[Babs had made it a point to go through and check the archives of the weird cell phone device she had been left with. As the names scrolled past she hadn’t recognized many of them, but there were a few that she knew. Some she recognized too well. She decided to look up previous posts, videos, pictures, audio, anything she could find readily available over the network. They were all familiar… yet somehow different. Not the people who she had known back home. She sat there, staring at the small screen and praying that this was another hallucination, that she’d wake up in the Batcave and there would be Alfred, ready with tea and some witty quip about running into the fear gas again.
No. She couldn’t afford to break down. Not right now.
It was time to put what she had learned to the test, she flips on the audio option; safer than video at this point. Her voice is all the confidence she can muster, a trick she had learned from Bruce. You’re your wits about you.]
This isn't exactly where I wanted to go when I left my house this morning. I’m not looking for the “what this place is” or “where am I”. I’m pretty sure on the basics of this place, but I'm just more looking to get some info.
[She pauses because this, in her mind, could be giving up too much information anyway.]
Has anyone here heard about Gotham? It's my home town and… well I'm looking to get in touch with people who may know it too.
Third Person Sample
This place-- well, it creeped Babs out. Maybe not the city itself, but how she arrived here, how casually many people were treating it.
You're stuck here. Might as well get used to it.
Wasn't exactly an enticing situation. Especially for someone who didn't like to admit defeat. Still, she had to keep in mind the training she received, the lessons she had learned, not only from her father, but from Bruce. There were no problems. Just solutions she hadn't found yet. Lord knows she'd feel so much better if he was here right now. Not that she needed him in order to make decisions, but Bruce was the type of person who wouldn't freak out at a situation like this.
She had tried to think this out, just like he would have. The first thing that popped into her head was "Scarecrow", especially considering her recent brush with him. But no... this wasn't a nightmare--- or like any dream she had experienced at all. There was no purpose to locking her up here, nothing seemed to be trying to drive her to insanity or lull her into a sense of security. So this wasn't like anything or anyone she had faced, this was something new and different. She'd have to rely on the tried and true advice.
Learn and adapt.
That's what she had learned growing up in Gotham. Don't get used to anything, because everything could change at any moment. She had her feet swept out from under her so many times, both literally and metaphorically. Her father being framed for a crime he didn't commit, finding out about Dick and Bruce's other lives, her own "death". No, she didn't get used to "normal", but she still fought for it every night. She didn't want to have to resort to what she did at night. Not that she didn't enjoy it, enjoy the thrill of taking down someone like the Joker or Two-Face. Even taking out a common mugger was a thrill, knowing she could change things in her city, this place she called home. Maybe it wasn't the best place, there were certainly a laundry list of things she'd have changed if given half the chance, but it was hers.
Well, she was on her own. She couldn't say she was used to being alone, to not having back-up. However, she could handle it. She was ready. She had been ready to jump head first into so many impossible scenarios before, she was ready to jump into this one as well.