[b]Character:[/b] Zatanna Zatara 
[b]Age:[/b] 24 
[b]Appearance: [/b]

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[b]Powers/Abilities:[/b] As a member of the Hidden Ones, Zatanna is genetically gifted with great magical talent on a largely intuitive level. Even Big Z doesn't know her own limits, though she admits once one realizes they can alter reality, finding a true 'limit' might just be asking for it. The vast majority of her magic comes as verbal spells; simply magical commands spoken backwards, as a nod to an old stage trick of her father's. 

[b]Weaknesses:[/b] Anything that inhibits consciousness.

[b]Backstory/orgins: [/b]

Zatanna Zatara had a happy childhood. Even after her mother died, her father gave his only daughter a magical upbringing filled with adventures and travels and miracles most people would never get to see in their entire life. 

Then one night it would all be over. The father gone from a Parisian hotel room without a trace; a bitter irony for the great escapist's daughter. Though famous, John Zatara's fortunes had always been modest at best. His great treasure, the stage magician and adventurer was so fond of saying, was her. 

But now all that remained to her was what possessions she had with her then, her wits, and every lesson her father had ever taught her. And her magic. Parisian police never could explain how they lost the famous magician's daughter, or what became of her. They would look, but the thirteen year old girl was determined to find answers, and no mortal law enforcement officer could assist her in that. Only get in the way.

It would take well over a decade of traveling and learning and adventuring, but eventually Zatanna would find the witch Allura, and confront the woman who had cursed her father and interrupted Zatanna's life at such a young age. Combat was fierce and physical, but in the end it was Zatanna who'd survived it, and then only with magical assistance from her mother.

It was that assistance that would lead to her mother's punishment from the Hidden Ones, her original crime of giving birth to a halfling having been overlooked on the promise of good behavior. When the herald of the Hidden Ones informed Zatanna should return to the Hidden One's city, she declined out of hand. When the herald informed Zatanna her mother's case 'could be' greatly helped should Zatanna herself return to the Hidden One's city and submit to her natural place in their sacred society, Zatanna become even more determined not to go, find her father, and then find another way to help her mother. 

Step one? Moving to Gotham City, the last place her father was reportedly seen.

[b]Arc ideas: [/b]

[i]Southern Comfort[/i] - Zatanna rushes down to the southern gulf coast to see an associate about magical items 'lost' during a recent super-sized hurricane. Just finding food and water becomes hard enough, but when the lost items appear in the hands of a self proclaimed Voodoo God even an assist from an old friend fresh from the swamps may not be enough to save the day.

[i]Chicken Soup for the Magical Soul[/i] - Big Z makes the biggest purchase of her life in Gotham City, and immediately comes down with a terrible cold. It isn't long before coincidence goes out the window, connecting her ever increasing illness to her recent purchase. Can she even make it to her next dose of cold meds, let alone unravel the mystery in time?

[i]Chicken or Beef?[/i] - A nice date with a nicer guy is interrupted when what appears to be a monstrous oriental styled Demon rips through the Korean BBQ restaurant, and the date taking place there. Able to save the guy and innocents, but not the date, Zatanna becomes determined to find an explanation. But sometimes explanations don't come easy, and the very act of seeking can come at a terrible price.