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Application
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Stephanie Brown | DC Comics (re-app) (right account this time)
Age: 26
Contact Info:
Other Characters: N/A
Character Information
Name: Stephanie Brown
Canon: DC Comics
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Canon Point: Detective Comics 981
Background Link: here
Inventory: here
Personality:
When we’re first introduced to Stephanie she seems to have a positive (or at least neutral) relationship with both of her separated parents. This is key in understanding her future actions: she begins with trust and love for both her mother and father, and is comfortable with her life in the suburbs split between the two of them. While she has the instincts to be afraid when she walks in on a room full of low-tier villains, she trusts her father enough that she doesn’t immediately turn and run. Even given enough evidence to realize that her mother is in on the plan, she really wants to trust her mother when she finds herself at the house again. However, given that she does not return again afterwards she is clearly realistic about her parents’ involvement in the plans against her life.
She has some physical prowess even before being run off from her own home, as shown when she breaks into and then escapes from her father’s home. She leaps over a table, climbs a bookshelf stocked with nothing heavier than cans of soup and slips through a ventilation window all under gunfire from her own father and his friends. Although the transition from girl-on-the-run to masked vigilante is not shown, we see that at least some of her athletics come from a childhood of recklessness. She was a daredevil child who never seemed overly bothered to break a few bones.
She is confident enough in herself and her knowledge of her home to walk alone at night between her mother and father’s house, a distance which must be somewhat considerable to warrant her father dropping her off by car. It also takes a certain amount of confidence and gusto to put together a superhero getup and stand up to the man who both raised you and pointed a gun at your head. When she decides to cut and run out of Gotham it isn’t cowardice that drives her, but a bitterness towards the city that took her family from her and turned on her when she needed it most.
While she may not generally be the untrusting sort, Steph is incredibly careful, especially when it comes to her own survival. In fact, she is quicker to trust Catwoman who at the very least doesn’t want her immediately dead than Batman, whose reputation is good but allegiance is in question. Not even the friendship of the younger people under his care is enough to convince her that he’s someone she can trust without getting proof on her own. In truth it isn’t any trust in Batman or his cause that brings her back to the battlefield when she would have fled, but a trust in her new friend Harper. It’s Harper’s words in combination with a stranger’s assistance that shame her into coming back to finish what her father started.
Harper’s initial opinion of Steph is that she’s spoiled, self-centered and a jerk. While it may be true that she’s had a comfortable life and is perhaps a little bit spoiled (pun not intended), she never argues the point. She understands why someone like Harper might think the worst of someone like herself, and doesn’t hold that against her. She does however return Harper’s attitude with her own – she isn’t someone who lets people walk all over her, however much she might understand why they’re trying to.
Most importantly, Steph is clever. She’s smart enough to fake unconsciousness while the villains are revealing their entire plan, despite the alarming new knowledge that her father is planning to destroy the city. She manages to activate one of his smoke bombs and escape, gather the resources she needs and survive on her own in a hostile environment for months with no help or contact with her parents. Her street smarts and confidence are backed up by a more academic intelligence, evidenced by her relatively successful blog and her ability to use twitter to schedule a rescue from Batman. While she may not be able to talk an online audience onto her side, she is more than capable of gathering and sifting through information effectively.
Having realized that both of her parents have turned against her, Steph’s response is not one of helpless despair but determination. Being told by her father that she’s a disappointment is a sharp blow, and she becomes set on proving herself to him. While this may seem likely to turn her into a villain, from start to finish she works against her father. If she ever had any intention of joining her father in her work, she wouldn’t have published his plans online the moment she got the chance. Instead her attempts to prove herself are more linked to her own self-worth, and an attempt to cope with new knowledge about him. She ties to hold on to what’s left of their relationship and consequently her own childhood. It’s only once she’s attained the approval she so longed for that she realizes she doesn’t need or want it. She finally turns on him just as he turned on her, determined to make her own way in the world.
Flavor Abilities: N/A
Suitability:
Stephanie is being re-apped with memories along with the canon update! She will now have knowledge of four different timelines aside from her own and honestly just kind of gives up. Other people are taking notes, she can live in whatever messed up moment she finds herself in.
RP Samples:
Prose and also Dialogue
REVISION REQUEST
Welcome back! Most of your application is fine, but we would like to see an expansion of the personality section detailing how Stephanie's canon update would have affected her personality.
Please reply to this comment with your revisions within three days or your slot will be forfeit.
REVISIONS
Then Batwoman's father turns on them, and Tim is apparently killed saving some thousand people from robot-assassination. Steph's entire perspective is changed. Tim was the one who made her want to be a vigilante, who made her believe that Batman's crusade was a good thing. With his death she begins to focus more on the cost. Questioning Batman starts to form a rift between her and her friends, who are devoted to the cause. She becomes depressed and angry, and finally runs away.
Tim returns, of course, and convinces Steph to rejoin the team. She never really trusts Batman again, though. She views everything with a more critical eye from this point on, even Tim. Her temper seems to be a little closer to the surface, though she doesn't act on it as rashly as she did when she ran away from the team. In a lot of ways she ends this emotional roller coaster at roughly the same place she started it: analytical, quick to anger, slow to trust, longing for little more than a chance at normalcy.
ACCEPTED
A small police station. Unfortunately for any who might look, any weapons that may have been there have been cleaned out. There's a small area with three cells, and the keys are available in the room. Indeed, they can't be removed from the room, immediately dropping onto the floor and taking anything they're in with them when it's attempted. There's also a morgue here--not too large, but it's clean. The rest of the building is functional (the water works, though it's cold) but not very interesting. The atmosphere is rather cloying, though. "ALPHONSE ELRIC, DAY ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY FIVE, TRAVELLING NORTH-WEST, IF ANY ASSISTANCE IS REQUIRED CONTACT @LELRIC ANY TIME" and "ALPHONSE ELRIC, DAY TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY TWO, CONTACT @LELRIC FOR ANY ASSISTANCE." are written on one of the walls. A large red crossed-out circle (Ⓧ) is drawn on the drawer of one of the bodies, along with a charcoal drawing of a mask. A a rough map of the Entrance area has been drawn on one of the walls, along with this warning: "An anomaly has been trapped in the bathroom in the fire station. Avoid if possible, and use caution if you have to pass through or spend the night. DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR. @standardissue" The fire station (242) and the fast food place (248) are both labeled as such, with an X on 241 with the note: "You are here."
The atmosphere only grows more suffocating here the longer you stay; if you try to stay too long (longer than one OOC day), you'll be forced to leave. Similarly, at 7PM, you will be forced to leave and not allowed to take shelter here.
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Re: ACCEPTED