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[COLOR=ORANGE][INDENT][B][SUP][SUB][H3]Ω   C O N C E P T   A B S T R A C T:[/H3][/SUB][/SUP][/B][/INDENT][hr][/COLOR][INDENT][INDENT][i]Originally I had planned on playing Victoria Vale in [i][b]Gotham City Stories[/b][/i] but nothing ever came of the project before the Holiday Season hit. I feel like Absolute Comics could be a good medium to approach her as a dynamic character in her own right. Truthfully, this all chalks up to me wanting to play someone more clever and without any of the gadgets or superpowers— though make no mistake my interpretation of Vicki is not a damsel or without ability to defend herself.

Victoria Vale is a resident of Gotham City who has been more gritty and ruthless with her investigative reporting— while Lois Lane is out there winning Pulitzer’s Vicki herself is in Gotham trying to make sense of everything while she juggles all forms of investigation. She wants to know the story behind the man she has coined “The Caped Crusader” after he dismantled Carmine Falcone seemingly overnight, she wants to make sure Gotham is represented by the uncorrupt, and wants to relentlessly get involved. Using her connections in the GCPD, City Council, and even the Red Hood Gang she wants to make it her life to save Gotham. In many ways she and Batman are parallels of one another, an irony that is not lost on her.

Conceptually there are variety of stories I could utilize with the red-haired reporter and given I’ve never written noir from this angle before it could be fun. I think I could have her first story be a reflection of her career— when she first encountered Batman, when she interviewed Carmine Falcone, her cooperation with the GCPD, her stance as an ally to Batman, and so forth. It’d be a detective pulp sort of retrospective.[/i][/indent][/indent]
[COLOR=ORANGE][INDENT][B][SUP][SUB][H3]Ω   N O T E S:[/H3][/SUB][/SUP][/B][/INDENT][hr][/COLOR][INDENT][INDENT][i]The prospective story incorporates mentions of Batman and actual appearances of Katherine Webb (interpreted as a GCPD detective in this universe), Carmine Falcone, Harvey Dent, and other characters. 

I would also be open to writing the character in guest spots with the Batman player.[/i]

[hider=Timeline][color=c9b170][b]◼ 1994:[/b][/color] Vicki Vale graduates from an inner city high school in the borough known as “The Narrows”  in Gotham City.

[color=c9b170][b]◼ 1998:[/b][/color] Vicki Vale starts her career as a journalist, graduating with honors and ahead of schedule from the University of Gotham. Soon afterward, she comes across a low-level position at the Gotham Gazette where she mentors under senior reporters and correspondents like Thomas Blackcrow and Vic Sage.

[color=c9b170][b]◼ 2000:[/b][/color] Vicki Vale continues her investigation into the Falcone Crime Empire despite threats from local enforcers. Eventually her investigation causes her to become aware of a bat-like creature that is attacking Falcone’s operations— she would come to dub this creature as “The Caped Crusader” in an article speculating that Carmine Falcone’s paranoia was a telling sign of the state of his “empire”.

[color=c9b170][b]◼ 2013:[/b][/color] Current Arc
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