Batgirl || Barbara Gordon

Aliases: Batgirl, Oracle, Amy Beddoes
Date of Birth: 4/30/1922
Place of Birth: Ohio
Age: 25
Known family: Roger Gordon (father, deceased), Thelma Gordon (mother, deceased), James Gordon (uncle/adoptive father)


Hair: Red
Eyes: Blue
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 126 LBS
Legal Status: Adult
Affiliation: Hero
Occupation: Former student, Librarian, Secretary at GCPD, moonlights as Detective
Powers: N/A
Abilities: Skilled martial artist, Genius-level intellect, Superb hacker, Skilled detective, Photographic memory
Weapons: Various blunt objects, hands, body, staff, batons

What's hidden behind the mask:

Personality: Barbara is a fiery red head in every sense of the word. She has a terrific outlook on life, and likes to maintain her optimism, even when living in a place like Gotham. She prefers to keep the mentality that people are basically good, but terrible things happen to them to make them do bad. However optimistic, she is also relatively realistic. She knows that some people aren't good, and those people are dangerous. As such, she makes it her mission to do what she can to keep them behind bars.

With the fire comes the fury. When spurned or scorned, she can be quite a force to behold. It takes her a while to get to that point, however. She keeps the anger at a low simmer, but when she starts to boil is when she is at her most dangerous. Not because she's ready to snap, mind you, but because she can hold onto that anger for longer than you'd want her to.

She is able to keep a smile on her face even in the face of misogyny, as is common in her field. She desperately wants to be a detective, same as the man she calls father, but because of her sex, she is often laughed at and kept in the stenographic pool. Her father, especially, keeps her there for her safety. She pays no mind to safety, and is unafraid to do what she needs to. She is mostly unafraid of anything.

History: Barbara Gordon was born the daughter of Roger C. Gordon and his wife Thelma in the suburbs of Ohio. Even as a young girl, Barbara wanted nothing more than to be a police officer. She would put on a police hat and run around her neighborhood "arresting" the other kids for breaking the law. At this precocious age, the seeds of Barbara's future crime-fighting career began to ferment.

When Barbara was 13, her mother and father were tragically killed in an automobile accident (due largely to her father's drinking problem). Barbara adjusted as well as she could. After the accident, her uncle, James Gordon, adopted the orphaned Barbara. She was moved to Gotham City where her new father worked as a police captain. Suddenly, her dream seemed closer to reality. James paid for her self defense classes, and she snuck off to learn a bit more in the world of martial arts. It was deemed improper for a woman to be so fluent in fighting, but she wanted to have an edge in combat.

By the time she was graduating high school, the war broke out. Now more than ever, it seemed there would be chaos. With men being drafted into the war, she hoped she could get her chance to be a detective. She studied, learned all she could about the law, and got a job as a secretary at the police station to get as close as she could to the action, in hopes that she would be noticed and considered for a job as an officer.

Then her father was promoted to Commissioner. What should have been her golden ticket turned out to be her roadblock. Jim refused to put his new daughter in harm's way. Not after her parents had died so tragically. He allowed her to keep her job at the police station, but encouraged her to find work as a librarian to escape from the horrors the police station could bring.

Today, she lives on her own, hiding a secret from her father. If there is just one more unsolved case filed at the station, she will take care of it herself. She has more than enough brains and more than enough talent to be able to track down murderers and thieves, and she isn't afraid of going outside the law to do it. Like an animal in the night, she could slip unnoticed into some of the shadiest parts of town. No one pays attention to the women, after all.

She has begun calling herself Batgirl. An inside joke with only herself has turned into an alias and a mask.
Other: Barbara has not made her costume yet, but she is well versed in disguises.