And here I am to try my hand again with another DC submission. Admittedly, my last attempt was a miss because I completely forgot about the legacy character thing. This time though, I think it'll be more successful, if only because this isn't what I'd consider a major character. However, she is someone I find intriguing. Hope it's alright. 
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[hider=Lady Shiva][center][b][h1][color=Black]L A D Y   S H I V A[/color][/h1][/b][b]Sandra Wu-San[/b], 33 (b. 1935)
[i][sub]Vigilante based in Gotham City, New Jersey
Active since approximately Fall, 1967[/sub][/i]

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[color=999999]Lady Shiva is an interesting kind of character. She's probably most often known as a villain in Batman's rogues gallery, but she was originally an antagonist for Richard Dragon way back when. She's another who has had shifting loyalties throughout her many appearances; she's played plenty on both sides of the morality spectrum and her only true allegiances are really to herself. She's not what you would call an A-list character, but she has had some very important roles in some equally important storylines over the years. I gravitate towards her because her history dictates she can played a number of different ways and I like her skill-set.

Originally, Sandra Wu-San's only purpose in life was to hunt down the person who murdered her sister. After that business, she went on to become a famed martial artist and assassin-for-hire in an effort to satisfy her death wish; Sandra lives for the thrill of combat and actively seeks out life-or-death scenarios. For this roleplay, I want to sort of re-do her origin a bit. In her past, she'll have spent a lifetime honing her skills and worked as an assassin-for-hire for a short time in different parts of the world, all the while traveling and picking up leads to find the murderer who killed her sister, Carolyn Wu-San. In her search, she's been hired by multiple nations and private organizations to covertly kill their enemies, but she's only been using them to finance and further her own personal hunt. At the start of the roleplay, she returns to Gotham City on a lead and retires from the life of hired assassin in order to become a vigilante using the name Lady Shiva. This not only satisfies her inner need to experience the thrill of combat, but also brings her closer to finding the person she's been looking for. Of course, her vigilantism in a city full of these types draws attention from eyes yet unknown.

The really interesting part about this is that Lady Shiva is a prominent woman character in her comic book history, but putting her in the 60s provides a nice foil to her search efforts and overall infamy. She's a woman of Asian descent returning to a country already hot in racial and sexist tensions as it is, so she probably wouldn't be famous for her skills or as highly sought after in the criminal underworld as she was in the comics. Some might not even appreciate being saved by a woman no matter the situation and the police would likely put more effort into hunting her down considering her status. Basically, I want to explore what life would be like for a foreign woman living in America during this time in spite of her high-level martial ability and the fact that she's hunting down a killer, something that's a bit hypocritical in and of itself.[/color]

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Though Lady Shiva has no superpowers, she does possess an almost superhuman ability. She is described as a martial arts grandmaster having successfully mastered multiple arts, including forgotten ones. She is most notable for using her body alone to dispatch her opponents, but she has also been known to use weapons, especially swords, in situations as well. She is unique in the fact that she was raised to speak the language of the body first and spoken language second. Basically, she was raised to understand movement and physicality on a much deeper level than any normal person would understand. Due to that, she is also proficient in acrobatics, but her main ability is to read her opponent's body language in such a way that she can anticipate their moves beforehand and counter effectively. In her comic history, this has allowed her to overcome just about all of the hand-to-hand combatants she's ever faced with Batman even mentioning that she's probably the world's greatest martial artist. In her comic history, she was only ever defeated by Cassandra Cain--her daughter--in single combat though many DC characters have survived their duels with her. 

For the purposes of this RP, I'll be playing her as a high-level martial artist, but not the level of world's greatest or anything. She'll be able to hold her own against common NPC enemies and the like, but she'll have trouble against some of the marquee characters if she's ever faced with one as an opponent.[/hider]
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- Straight, double-edged short-sword
- Throwing Knives[/hider]
[hider=Rogue's Gallery]
Considering her history as an antagonist, Shiva does not have a rogue's gallery of her own, but Batman would be the closest thing to an archenemy. Black Canary has been both friend and foe so that relationship could go either way as well. The Bat characters in general would be considered her enemies, but this roleplay could go either way with that and I'm fine with having her go against them or join them depending on the situation.[/hider]
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I'll create an NPC for her soon if this is accepted[/hider][/color]

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