Sophie never really knew her dad. He never gave her a chance. Her mother had only known pills, took whatever she needed to get by, and hoped for the best. When she was younger, Sophie would try to imagine different parents. She'd daydream the hours away, convincing herself that she was probably adopted and her real parents would come to her. She created elaborate stories in her head, inspired after reading too deeply into tales of lost Russian royalty.
Maybe, like Anastasia, she might have been born a princess. Somewhere beyond the borders of her small town, there lay her own land to rule over. Perhaps that's why they left her with these people. Overthrown and chased from their castle, they sent little Soph to the only form of safety they knew. They would come back soon enough for her and soon she could be the queen her people needed her to be. That's why she kept her hair so long, there was something about princesses and long hair.AGED 17 • 8 JULY • ORLANDO, FL, USA
IT’S THE STATIC OF THE RADIO THAT BREAKS HER SLEEP, EYES CRACKING OPEN TO THE CROON OF BOB DYLAN AND THE HOT SUMMER AIR BLOWING AGAINST HER SKIN. AND IT SEEMS LIKE I’VE GOT TO TRAVEL ON, COMES THE RASPY VOICE, AND IT’S ENOUGH TO TIP THE CORNERS OF HER LIPS INTO A SOFT, REMINISCENT SMILE, ENOUGH TO HAVE HER TILTING HER HEAD TO THE SIDE AND STUDYING THE PROFILE OF THE GIRL. Pam IS TAPPING HER FINGERS IDLY AGAINST THE STEERING WHEEL, SUNGLASSES PERCHED LOW ON HER NOSE AND WILD AUBURN HAIR WHIPPING IN THE WIND, AND ROCKET SWEARS SHE’S NEVER SEEN A MORE BEAUTIFUL SIGHT. THEY’VE BEEN ALL OVER THE COUNTRY TOGETHER, HAVE WITNESSED THE GRAND CANYON AND THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE LIT UP AT NIGHT, THE FOUNTAINS OF BELLAGIO AND THIS, THIS RIGHT HERE, IS IT FOR HER. THE MONEY, THE TRAVEL, THE GLAMOR THAT CAME LIKE A PACKAGE DEAL? SHE COULD THROW IT ALL AWAY TOMORROW — HELL, SHE COULD THROW IT ALL AWAY RIGHT NOW — AND SHE’D HAVE ENOUGH. SHE’D BE THE FUCKING WEALTHIEST PERSON TO EVER EXIST, BECAUSE WEALTH WASN’T MEASURED IN THE SIZE OF HER WALLET OR MATERIAL POSSESSIONS, BUT RATHER IN THE LIGHT OF THIS GIRL’S EYES, IN THE FUCKING GLOW OF HER HAPPINESS, IN THE WAY SHE FILLED THE CRACKS OF ROCKET TO MAKE HER WHOLE.
"HOW MUCH LONGER?" sophie ASKED, SWALLOWING THE OTHER WORDS CONSTANTLY RESTING ON HER TONGUE, STRETCHING HER LIMBS OUT IN THE CRAMPED SPACE SHE WAS ALLOTTED, REACHING TO TURN THE DIALS OF THE RADIO SO HER HANDS DIDN’T DO SOMETHING EQUALLY AS RIDICULOUS AS THE WORD VOMIT SHE’D PREVENTED, LIKE TANGLE WITH PAM’S FINGERS ON THE CLUTCH OF THE CAR, LIKE BRUSHING HER THUMB OVER THE SMOOTH OF HER KNUCKLES. INSTEAD SHE PULLED THEM RESOLUTELY BACK, STUCK THEM UNDERNEATH THE PALE SKIN OF HER THIGHS TO SUBDUE ANY URGES, TURNING TO STARE AT THE BLUR OF TREES ZOOMING BY. “DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I COULD GO FOR THE GREASIEST BURGER.”
Maybe, like Anastasia, she might have been born a princess. Somewhere beyond the borders of her small town, there lay her own land to rule over. Perhaps that's why they left her with these people. Overthrown and chased from their castle, they sent little Soph to the only form of safety they knew. They would come back soon enough for her and soon she could be the queen her people needed her to be. That's why she kept her hair so long, there was something about princesses and long hair.
"SKIN AND BONES,", SHE SAYS. WHAT ELSE IS A 13 YEAR OLD SUPPOSED TO SAY TO THAT QUESTION? SHE WASN'T LIKE THE OTHER KIDS AT HER SCHOOL AND SHE KNEW THAT. SOPHIE KNEW THAT NO MATTER WHAT, SHE WAS DIFFERENT.
"ARE YOU SURE YOU'RE MADE OF JUST THAT?"
HE ASKS AGAIN. SHE DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING, THAT'S HOW SHE KNOWS SHE'S SURE. HER UNCLE IS A HARD ASS, SAYING SOMETHING WOULD DEFINATELY MEAN SHE ISN'T SURE. AND SHE IS. IT'S THE EASIEST WAY TO EXPLAIN IT. PERHAPS IT REALLY CAN BE THAT SIMPLE, BUT THE PENSIVE PARTS OF HER THRIVED FOR A DEEPER MEANING. SOPHIE BROWN DOESN'T LIKE SIMPLE, SHE LIKES INTRICACIES, FAVOURS HISTORY AND LAYERS BUILT UPON EXHAUSTING LAYERS AND GETTING LOST IN THE COMPLEXITY OF THINGS THAT OTHERS DON'T SEE, THAT THEY POSSIBLE DON'T DEDICATE THE TIME TO. THE WORLD ISN’T BLACK AND WHITE, NOR IS IT THE GRAY MATTER IN-BETWEEN. IT’S — IT’S AN ARRAY OF COLORS, A CANVAS THAT’S NEVER FULL, A STORY WITH MULTIPLE ENDINGS AND — WELL, THAT’S HOW SOPHIE SEES EVERYTHING. MULTIFACETED, ORNATE, EXTRAVAGANT, EVER-EVOLVING.
"WHAT ABOUT EMOTIONS?"
THE CONTEXT OF THAT QUESTION IS SOMETHING HER TAUGHT HER TO IGNORE. SOMETHING SHE COMPLETELY IGNORED FROM HIM. SHE WAS LIKE HER MOM, IN THAT SENSE. SHE'D SEE THE WORLD AS VIVID AS THE COLORS HER MOM SPLASHED AGAINST THE CANVAS - BROAD, SWEEPING TROKES OF AUBURNS AND GOLDS, CRIMSONS AND EMERALDS. SHE WISHED THERE WAS A WAY TO ANSWER IT WITH WORDS, VOCABULARY AS RADIANT AS THE SWIRLS OF PAINTS COATING THE STAINED, WEATHERED BRICK, BUT NOTHING CAME.
IT WAS THE SCARIEST MOMENT IN HER LIFE, IF SHE WAS BEING HONEST WITH HERSELF, BUT SHE COULD ALSO FEEL THE FISSURE THAT SHE'D FINALLY BE AT PEACE. IT'D BEEN 5 MONTHS SINCE THE LAST TIME THEY WERE HERE, BUT IT WASN'T THAT BAD. SHE'D GIVEN UP SCHOOL TEMPORARILY, FRIENDS, AND A LIFE FOR HER MOTHER, ALONE. HER MOTHER DIDN'T CARE BUT WHO WAS GOING TO BE THERE FOR HER? HER OWN DAD DIDN'T CARE.
"NO EMOTIONS, THERE'S NO ROOM FOR EMOTIONS." SHE LOOKED AT HER MOTHER, AND WALKED OUT.
• Her mother, Crystal, is a drug addict [painkillers]. She suffers from depression and steals pills from her aunt and uncle. Sophie doesn't tell anyone about this thus to believing that she's able to fix her mom.
• Sophie doesn't really seem herself as someone who likes a specific gender, she doesn't tell people unless it's asked because there's no reason why converse this out of nowhere.
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Stephanie Brown was born the daughter of the Cluemaster, one of Gotham City's third-rate villains. Stephanie's father spent most of her childhood in prison or away from the family, and though he claimed to be "rehabilitated upon his return to Gotham", Stephanie was furious to discover that he was actually returning to crime without his need to leave clues behind. She decided something needed to be done. Stephanie tailored a costume for herself, and called herself the Spoiler. She knew where her father was hiding out, found out his plans, and left clues so that the police and Batman could stop him. Robin (Tim Drake) tracked her down, and she joined in on the capturing of Cluemaster.
During the events of "Knightquest", Cluemaster broke out of prison, along with Czonk and The Electrocutioner. Stephanie learned of the breakout on the news. Her mother, suffering from depression, was struggling with an addiction to painkillers. Steph decided to don her Spoiler outfit and go after her dad. She ran into Robin, and he let her work with him, although they got separated.
Spoiler next bumped into Robin when he was teamed up with the Green Arrow (Connor Hawke) to take down a street gang selling guns. She told him that she didn't think it was fair that he got to have all the fun, so she was going to become the Spoiler more often. She insisted on coming with the two of them as they took down the gang, flirting with Robin as usual. There was no time for that, however, when they went after the real leaders of the gang the following night, as Robin was enraged over the death of a fellow student, Karl Ranck.
Steph went to the funeral, unaware that Robin was there (with his girlfriend) in his civilian identity. That night, Spoiler met up with Robin, telling him that she was going to be Spoiler more often, and would help him go against the boy who shot Ranck. They were in over their heads however, but thankfully Batman turned up, saved their necks and ordered Stephanie to go home.
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When his father discovered his secret identity, Tim was told to hang up his cape, and he did. He was forced to live a normal life for a time. During one day after school, Stephanie attempted to surprise Tim with a visit. Unfortunately as she arrived, she caught a female classmate of Tim's attempting to put the moves on him. Assuming yet again that Tim was being unfaithful, Steph broke off ties with Tim and angrily decided to put her attention elsewhere. Creating a homemade Robin costume, Stephanie sneaked into the Batcave and demanded that Batman train her as the new Robin. Despite his past belief that Stephanie was an inept crime fighter, Batman accepted her, put her through several months of intensive training and made her a costume with the same modifications as Tim's. As Robin she patrolled with Batman, and for a time seemed like a capable replacement for Tim. Unfortunately, for disobeying his orders on two missions, Batman later stripped her of the costume and told her that she was done being a hero because he couldn't trust her in the field.
In an effort to prove her worth to Batman, Stephanie stole one of his long-range plans for dealing with the entirety of Gotham's criminal underworld. Since this plan was predicated on the involvement of "Matches Malone" (who she did not know was actually one of Batman's alter egos), it quickly spun out of control. The result was a citywide gang war (Batman: War Games), in which Stephanie was captured by the Black Mask, who tortured her to get information about Batman. Although she escaped and made her way to Leslie Thompkins's clinic, she had been severely injured by the villain, and died in a hospital bed as Batman sat beside her.
Batman later found evidence that vital medical treatment that could have saved Spoiler's life had been denied by his longtime trusted ally, Leslie Thompkins, who had fled to Africa in shame. When confronted by Batman, Thompkins, in tears, claimed that she willfully withheld treatment to Spoiler in the hopes that Batman would see the violence he caused and give up his mantle. Batman has personally exiled Leslie from the United States, informing her that if she ever returns he will make sure she is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
During the events of "Knightquest", Cluemaster broke out of prison, along with Czonk and The Electrocutioner. Stephanie learned of the breakout on the news. Her mother, suffering from depression, was struggling with an addiction to painkillers. Steph decided to don her Spoiler outfit and go after her dad. She ran into Robin, and he let her work with him, although they got separated.
Spoiler next bumped into Robin when he was teamed up with the Green Arrow (Connor Hawke) to take down a street gang selling guns. She told him that she didn't think it was fair that he got to have all the fun, so she was going to become the Spoiler more often. She insisted on coming with the two of them as they took down the gang, flirting with Robin as usual. There was no time for that, however, when they went after the real leaders of the gang the following night, as Robin was enraged over the death of a fellow student, Karl Ranck.
Steph went to the funeral, unaware that Robin was there (with his girlfriend) in his civilian identity. That night, Spoiler met up with Robin, telling him that she was going to be Spoiler more often, and would help him go against the boy who shot Ranck. They were in over their heads however, but thankfully Batman turned up, saved their necks and ordered Stephanie to go home.
When his father discovered his secret identity, Tim was told to hang up his cape, and he did. He was forced to live a normal life for a time. During one day after school, Stephanie attempted to surprise Tim with a visit. Unfortunately as she arrived, she caught a female classmate of Tim's attempting to put the moves on him. Assuming yet again that Tim was being unfaithful, Steph broke off ties with Tim and angrily decided to put her attention elsewhere. Creating a homemade Robin costume, Stephanie sneaked into the Batcave and demanded that Batman train her as the new Robin. Despite his past belief that Stephanie was an inept crime fighter, Batman accepted her, put her through several months of intensive training and made her a costume with the same modifications as Tim's. As Robin she patrolled with Batman, and for a time seemed like a capable replacement for Tim. Unfortunately, for disobeying his orders on two missions, Batman later stripped her of the costume and told her that she was done being a hero because he couldn't trust her in the field.
In an effort to prove her worth to Batman, Stephanie stole one of his long-range plans for dealing with the entirety of Gotham's criminal underworld. Since this plan was predicated on the involvement of "Matches Malone" (who she did not know was actually one of Batman's alter egos), it quickly spun out of control. The result was a citywide gang war (Batman: War Games), in which Stephanie was captured by the Black Mask, who tortured her to get information about Batman. Although she escaped and made her way to Leslie Thompkins's clinic, she had been severely injured by the villain, and died in a hospital bed as Batman sat beside her.
Batman later found evidence that vital medical treatment that could have saved Spoiler's life had been denied by his longtime trusted ally, Leslie Thompkins, who had fled to Africa in shame. When confronted by Batman, Thompkins, in tears, claimed that she willfully withheld treatment to Spoiler in the hopes that Batman would see the violence he caused and give up his mantle. Batman has personally exiled Leslie from the United States, informing her that if she ever returns he will make sure she is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Stephanie has graduated from high school, is a student at Gotham University, and is living with her mother still. Cassandra Cain has become disillusioned following Bruce Wayne's apparent death and gives Stephanie the Batgirl costume. After operating as the new Batgirl in Cain's costume, Stephanie is confronted by Barbara Gordon, who was notified of her activities by Dick Grayson. Barbara tried to reason with Stephanie to get her out of her vigilante activities, as she still sees Stephanie as an impetuous youth along with still remembering her role in causing a city-wide gang war and her near-death experience at Black Mask's hands.
However, a new type of recreational drug is hitting the streets of Gotham known as "Thrill," which they discover was manufactured by the Scarecrow and Black Mask. Both women find themselves needing each other to stop this drug trade. Stephanie eventually confront and defeated Scarecrow, which impresses Barbara and shows that she now has the maturity for the responsibility with actions and remarks of capable of facing her fear and failures,and allows her to continue on as Batgirl. Barbara later takes a job as an assistant professor at Stephanie's school in order to continue to keep in contact with her. Barbara also handed Stephanie an unused costume which was designed for her to replace Cassandra's tattered costume.
However, a new type of recreational drug is hitting the streets of Gotham known as "Thrill," which they discover was manufactured by the Scarecrow and Black Mask. Both women find themselves needing each other to stop this drug trade. Stephanie eventually confront and defeated Scarecrow, which impresses Barbara and shows that she now has the maturity for the responsibility with actions and remarks of capable of facing her fear and failures,and allows her to continue on as Batgirl. Barbara later takes a job as an assistant professor at Stephanie's school in order to continue to keep in contact with her. Barbara also handed Stephanie an unused costume which was designed for her to replace Cassandra's tattered costume.
Powers
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as batgirl
CV TIE-INS
They both have the same initials and last name.
They're both blonde and American.
They both had mothers who suffered with depression and was addicted to painkillers. At the same time, they both trust their mothers without the knowledge that her mother is on her father's side.
They both had fathers who have served time in prison.
They both maintain a relationship with Barbara Gordon, Tim Drake, and Bruce Wayne.
They both wear a lot of purple.
AbilitiesLike the rest of the Batman family, Spoiler has no superhuman powers.
Strength🔒 Excellent stealth abilities 🔒 moderate acrobatic 🔒 Hand to hand combat abilities (which were later honed by training with Batman)
ITEMS🔒 Average strength for college girl in good physical condition.
🔒 invisibility device
🔒 batsuit 🔒 Batarangs 🔒 grappling hook 🔒 gas bombs 🔒 laser torch 🔒 collapsible bo-staff 🔒 The Compact
