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"I don't kill... but I don't lose, either." ![enter image description here](http://i2.listal.com/image/1909995/600full-malese-jow.jpg "enter image title here") **Casandra Cain-Wayne** **Alias** - Blackbat; the "One Who is All", formerly Batgirl **20yo** Cassandra stands at 5'5" with naturally black hair (though in recent years she's been experimenting with highlights) and brown eyes. She is biracial, half Caucasian and half Chinese. Her body in slender and fit due to constant training and exercise. Cassandra has scars across her back from bullet wounds made by her father during her childhood training. **Occupation** - former Leader of the League of Assassins; former member of [Titans East]; Vigilante --- **Personality** Cassandra never learned to talk, let alone read and write, until she was 15yo. And though since changed, mostly due with the aid of Lucius Fox, Cassie still doesn't speak all that much. Her words are usually short and to the point. Criminals are most likely to receive her foot or fist to the jaw rather than words of warning. Cassandra is a badass and she knows it. She is one of a handful who can say they've defeated Lady Shiva. Batman may be able to defeat her now, but with his advancing age that's bound to change sooner or later. --- **Skills & Abilities** *Peak Human Conditioning:* Through continuous intense training Cassandra represents the greatest fighting weapon ever conceived. She possesses peak level strength, stamina, speed and agility comparable to the finest human athlete. - Cassandra possesses the peak human strength level of a woman her age, size and weight, in addition who engages in intensive regular exercise and combat training. Cassandra is capable of press lifting at least twice her own weight and can lift 230 lbs while running. Her strength makes her capable of swinging uninjured with a grapple. *Martial Arts:* Due to her life long training Cassandra has a master level knowledge of all fighting arts known and unknown and continues to learn with every new opponent she faces. She was trained by her father (David Cain), along with several other members of the League of Assassins, including Bronze Tiger, Merlyn and Alpha. Upon taking the mantle of Batgirl, she was trained further by Batman, Black Canary, and then by Lady Shiva. - *Dragon Style Kung Fu* is a Chinese martial arts form and is one of the many techniques used in the art of Wushu. The movements of the Dragon Style are based on the mythical Chinese dragon. - *Hand-to-Hand Combat (Advanced):* Cassandra is schooled in all known and many unknown assassin techniques such as pressure points, killing techniques and stealth to name a few. - *The Falling Leaf Technique* is a nerve pinch invented by Chinese monks in the 16th Century. Cassandra and her father are the only two people who know how to use it. *Body Reading Ability:* Cassandra has the advanced ability to read body language enabling her to read what a person is thinking and tell what they are going to do next before they do it. She has been shown able to read opponents far faster than herself, along with non humans and even alien lifeforms once she is given a chance to learn their body language. This enables her to identify disguised and transformed people as well. *Investigation:* Not on the level of other Bat Family members, Cassandra has had some training *Stealth: Due to her excessive training she is also a master of stealth. **Weakness** *Dyslexia:* Cassandra has extreme dyslexia, making it very difficult for her to read. --- **Equipment** - Blackbat's costume is a modified version of her leather Batgirl outfit (see pic below). She now wears a domino mask and exposes the rest of her face and head. Her cape is now severely torn, looking ragged and almost smoke-like. Her hands are wrapped in bandages rather than her former scalloped bat-gloves. - Like the other members of the Bat-Clan, Cassandra also wears a yellow-pouched utility belt which contains grappling hooks, batarangs, mini-explosives, tracking devices, a hand-held computer, binoculars, PlastiCuffs, and smoke pellets. However, Cassandra rarely uses any of these devices. - On occasion, Cassandra equips herself with a katana sword for those more extreme missions. - Batcycle --- **History** Cassandra Cain was born on the snowing night of January 26, 1994 in Tibet. For six years from the time she was 8yo Cassandra somehow survived on her own on the streets of the United States. When she was 15yo Cassandra stumbled into Gotham City. In February of 2009, while looking for shelter within an alley, Cassandra happened upon a mugging. The young girl dispatched the three thugs with ease saving a young couple from a brutal beating. A couple weeks later, she would find herself in a similar situation. Both time Batman had watched from a nearby rooftop. Eventually the Dark Knight would invite her to join him on his crusade for justice. Batman would soon learn Cassandra's origin when her father transmitted a video of the then 8 year old girl killing a businessman. Nevertheless, Batman continued to accept Cassandra after she takes several bullets to save the life of a hired assassin, proving her devotion to protecting human life. Cassandra Cain was conceived in a *business deal* between David Cain and Sandra Wu-San. David's goal was to create the ultimate weapon and perfect bodyguard for his master, Ra's al Ghul. Sandra agreed to Cain's bargain in order that she might go on to become the unstoppable force of nature known as Lady Shiva: creator and destroyer. Shiva's hope for her child was that she might one day grow to be the one force that could stop her reign of destruction. Trained by her father to be the ultimate weapon, Cassandra was not taught to speak. Instead, the parts of her brain normally used for speech were trained so she could read other people's movements and body language and predict, with uncanny accuracy, their next move. This also caused her brain to develop learning functions different from most, a form of dyslexia that hampers her ability to read and write. When she was 8 years old, Cain decided his experiment had progressed far enough for him to test Cassandra's abilities in the real world, and took her to a hit; the target being Faizul, a 'book man' in Macau. At the time Cassandra had no idea what she was doing and believed it was only a game (an interpretation in keeping with her own reaction to what happened, and matching the interpretation of Alfred Pennyworth, an expert on children who saw a tape of events). After striking a deathblow, she "read" the target as he died, and saw death as he saw it. In addition to scarring her emotionally, she realized murder, like her father's profession, was wrong, and she ran away from her father. Despite her notable handicap of being unable to talk, read or write Cassandra did remarkably well. Capable of understanding others' intentions due to her ability to read body language she was a more than capable listener, even if she couldn't reply. It was this trait that made her one of the Batman's most loyal and trusted followers. From going undercover in Madras with Batman to saving local heroes from the mob, Cassandra continued to impress as the new Batgirl. Especially when, despite Batman's warnings, she went face to face with a meta-human and won. She even managed to, despite her restriction to Gotham City, make it on the reserve member list of Young Justice. Cassandra's first kiss was with Conner Kent/Superboy, and they even went on one date... just one date. Time would pass and a rift would form between Cassandra, Batman, and the extended Bat Family. She would finally discover who Batman really was, billionaire Bruce Wayne. Cassandra had never asked who he was under the mask, but once she found out it somehow changed things for her. Then, Cassandra was abducted and injected with a mind-altering serum by Deathstroke and her father which made her leave Gotham. She joined Deathstroke's [Titans East] and fought against Young Justice, and then took her (rightful?) place as head of the League of Assassins. She would eventually be rescued and injected with a counter-serum. And then, there was Batman's on again off again relationship with Catwoman. Cassandra just couldn't understand why her mentor would lower his guard and fall for the likes of Selina Kyle. Disillusioned, Cassandra turned in her Batgirl uniform and left Gotham. In time her relationship with the Caped Crusader and the others would be healed, at least somewhat. Bruce Wayne was her adopted father and she had too much respect for him to totally cut ties with him. And, to much loyalty. Cassandra makes Hong Kong her home and base of operations. Under the guise of the Blackbat, she represents the Dark Knight and continues the fight for justice. --- ![enter image description here](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/CassandraBlackbat.jpg "enter image title here") --- **Story Arc** I like other player's ideas of the Court of Owls, No Man's Land, and the League of Assassins. I wouldn't mind doing something involving the Justice League. I don't know exactly what yet...

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