‘Working class’ Batman. Basically just non-billionaire bats. Identity unknown - just a man who grew tired of the oppression of the 99% and the impotency of ‘protests’ and ‘movements’ and decided to take a far more head-on approach. His concern isn’t particularly the petty crime that riddles Gotham’s seedier neighbourhoods, but more the punishment of the men responsible for the systemic oppression that has created neighbourhoods such as these in order to line their already grossly fattened wallets. Sort of a Robin Hood take on batman but far less charming and far more violent. 

His main ‘villain’ for the first arc will be one particular Fortune 500 CEO who will find his life and luxuries torn down around him as The Batman - emphasis on The, as this bays is more a force of nature than a singular individual - tears his assets asunder and redistributes his wealth among those who have actually earned it. The CEO should have a semi-sympathetic angle but still portrayed as an ultimately callous, compassionless, and pseudo-sociopathic man who would rather see the masses starve and suffer than risk losing the extra ‘0’ from the end of his annual octuple-figure bonus. 
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[CENTER][sup][color=ADD8E6]"Witty Quote"[/color][/sup][/CENTER]
[INDENT][INDENT][i]This is a Batman who decidedly does [b]not[/b] come from the immeasurable fortune at Bruce's disposal, and had to come about his tools and skills in a far more realistic way; hard work and luck. He didn't train with the League of Assassins; he didn't fund his arsenal through a global industry company's R&D department; he can't house his lair in a spacious cavern beneath his castle-like property and outfit it with the most complex and intelligent computational equipment. He doesn't even [b]have[/b] a car.

This is a Batman devoid of the origin that has been plastered upon the collective public psyche; indeed, this is a Batman devoid of any concrete origin whatsoever. This Batman feels more like a force of nature, the result of a terrible imbalance finally righting itself, an incorrect equation breaking its own shackles to produce its own solution. Batman has always been a protector, but never one who has taken up war against the systemic roots of the crime wave he rails against night after night. Bruce always felt to me like he came from the top and worked at the bottom level to build a better city from the foundations; my Batman will come from the bottom, and strike at the top, to collapse a corrupt ruling class and set the dominos falling. [/i][/indent][/indent]
[COLOR=1E90FF][INDENT][B][SUP][SUB][H3]C H A R A C T E R   M O T I V A T I O N S   &   G O A L S:[/H3][/SUB][/SUP][/B][/INDENT][hr][/COLOR][INDENT][INDENT][i] I want to play a Batman who feels like a mythical figure or an urban legend rather  than a costumed superhero. In the era of late stage capitalism becoming increasingly dystopian and the public awareness/conversation of societal conditions growing and morphing into righteous anger, I felt like the timing was appropriate for a Batman who was less iconic comic-book superhero, and more walking avatar for the coming class revolt. The infallible and incorruptible sense of Justice that is so core to the character remains intact, as does the concept of protecting the city he loves to rekindle the flame of Gotham’s heart, but the well-trodden origin story is gone to afford an extra dose of mystique, and the mission at hand is one that takes aim at a far wider-scope problem. [/i][/indent][/indent]
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[hider=GCPD Street Officer, James Gordon][img]https://i.imgur.com/52HPTkg.png[/img]
[indent]A nearly-new officer to the GCPD, James 'Jimmy' Gordon is a beat cop on some of Gotham's worst streets, with a hard exterior but a heart of gold. Trying to uphold justice - [i]true[/i] justice, not [i]legal[/i] justice - in a city barely acquainted with the concept, James struggles with the ethics of 'police work' when many of his colleagues are agents of oppression themselves...but he cannot see a better way to protect his neighborhood. The rise of The Batman will rock that belief to its core.[/indent][/hider]
[hider=GCPD Detective, Harvey Bullock][img]https://i.imgur.com/L6jDp4x.jpg[/img]
[indent]A veteran member of the GCPD, Bullock has both the intelligence and the pedigree to have risen far above his station as Detective; however, his curmudgeonly and lazy nature, combined with his reputation for a combative attitude and his clashes with the higher-ups - particularly current GCPD Commissioner, Gillian Loeb - has hindered his career making any real progress, and instead he works the cases no one else wants. His new partner, green-around-the-gills Jimmy Gordon, is an unwelcome change to his routine, but the two will need to draw on each other to face into the oncoming storm.[/indent][/hider]
[hider=GCPD Detective, Renee Montoya][img]https://i.imgur.com/jSQGqZn.png[/img]
[indent] A well-intentioned detective surviving in a system that lives on bad intentions. On the take but feeling like she has no other choice, the arrival of a force striking at those that sign her paycheque and pad her pocket is unwelcome, but will soon illuminate just how truly shackled she is. [/indent][/hider]
[hider=GCPD Detective, Crispus Allen][img]https://i.imgur.com/weteX9e.png[/img]
[indent] Montoya’s partner, also on the take, and lazy because of it. Seeing the system as beyond hope he has given up thought of ever changing it, and instead has allowed the tide to wash over and swallow him up. His attitude towards organised crime is practically live-and-let-live, and he pursues his cases only out of obligation and Montoya’s nagging. [/indent][/hider]
[hider=GCPD Medical Consult, Dr. Leslie Thompkins][img]https://i.imgur.com/YgNdaEQ.jpg[/img]
[indent] GCPD’s resident medical consult and pathologist, no stranger to the evils of her city as she inspects the results of it daily from her silver slab in the morgue. Not on the take, but simply because those bribing her colleagues think she isn’t worth anything - any evidence is covered up by beat cops or discarded by those meant to collect and catalogue, and desk duty officers are happy to amend any reports as desired. [/indent][/hider]
[hider=GCPD Police Commissioner, Gillian Loeb][img]https://i.imgur.com/FQ9Me5Q.png[/img]
[indent]The leader of the Gotham Police, and a thoroughly corrupt man quite happy to let his officers ran rampant as little more than a state-funded lynch-mob at worst and a private security and enforcement company for Gotham's most wealthy at best. His already inflated salary is padded further by stipends from Gotham's organised crime families, a fact widely known but rarely spoken. Those who did speak ended up dead.[/indent][/hider]
[hider=Assistant District Attorney, Harvey Dent][img]https://i.imgur.com/lXLhEUd.png[/img]
[indent]A young and ambitious attorney making his name as newly-appointed ADA in Gotham City. Adapting to the slime of Gotham's so-called 'justice' system with frightening ease, he has drawn attention from all the wrong people for his ability to slide into an amoral, money-driven persona, and his future in Gotham is looking very bright because of it.[/indent][/hider]
[hider=CEO, Antarctic Industries, Oswald Cobblepot][img]https://i.imgur.com/KTflHa7.png[/img]
[indent] Gotham’s richest man, de facto head of organised crime in the city, and work-shy leader of a company inherited from his father. The Cobblepot legacy is well-known in Gotham, the family single-handedly funding vast swathes of the city’s development in the past, but Oswald has taken an otherwise respected name and turned it into a synonym for lazy and bloated corruption and crime. [/indent][/hider]
[hider=Chief Financial Officer, Antarctic Industries, Warren White][img]https://i.imgur.com/bFiiUNU.png[/img]
[indent] Oswald Cobblepot’s right-hand man, a shrewd and cunning mind fit for both business and crime (for what little difference there is), and the man who actually runs the Cobblepot company while Oswald is content to remain mostly a figurehead with one of the USA’s largest fortunes. Happy with his salary and his power within the corporation while being able to operate behind Oswald, he has perhaps grown complacent, and incapable of preparing for the oncoming storm. [/indent][/hider]
[hider=Lead Jeweller and Founder, Félin-Bijou, Selina Kyle][img]https://i.imgur.com/JUc5raP.png[/img]
[indent]Selina Kyle[/indent][/hider]
[hider=Reporter, Gotham Gazzette, Victoria Vale][img]https://i.imgur.com/e1TW9Lm.png[/img]
[indent]Victoria Vale[/indent][/hider]
[hider=Editor-In-Chief, Gotham Gazzette, Jack Ryder][img]https://i.imgur.com/OOYg2Gw.png[/img]
[indent]Jack Ryder[/indent][/hider]
[hider=CEO, Sionis Industries & Janus Cosmetics, Roman Sionis][img]https://i.imgur.com/4P85EFg.png[/img]
[indent]Roman Sionis[/indent][/hider]
[hider=Chief Operations Officer, Sionis Industries, Victor Zsasz][img]https://i.imgur.com/OczGxOV.png[/img]
[indent]Victor Zsasz[/indent][/hider]
[hider=CEO, Hightowers LLC, William D. Sommers][img]https://i.imgur.com/7l95Lo7.png[/img]
[indent]William D. Sommers[/indent][/hider]

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