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[color=414f72]T H E   B A T M A N[/color][/center]
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[color=54626e][sup][i][b]"People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy. And I can't do that as Bruce Wayne."[/b][/i][/sup][/color][/CENTER][table][row][/row][row][cell][center][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] C H A R A C T E R   P O R T R A I T[/color]
[color=414f72]C H A R A C T E R   P O R T R A I T[/color] [/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup][img]https://i.imgur.com/qxnVGSV.png[/img]
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[sub][COLOR=darkgray]Bruce Milton Wayne[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=darkgray]Caucasian[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=darkgray]Billionaire Industrialist[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=darkgray]Gotham City[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=darkgray]New Jersey[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=darkgray]USA[/COLOR][/sub][/center]
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[indent][sub][b][color=414f72] M I S C E L L A N E O U S[/color][/b][/sub]
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[i][b]ALLIES

ALFRED PENNYWORTH -[/b] [color=slategray]The Batcave's Man-at-arms. The faithful butler and father figure since Bruce's parents died, Alfred is still perfectly capable of upkeeping Wayne Manor and all of it's secrets - but he's slowing down. Despite his stubborn tenacity to serve, Bruce is more than aware that his old friend isn't long for this world and wants nothing more than for him to take a step back and enjoy the time he has left.[/color]

[b]LIEUTENANT JAMES GORDON -[/b] [color=slategray]Head of the MCU. Offered a demotion by the Mayor as a means of compromising following public scrutiny over his alignment with The Batman, Gordon was a phone call away from resigning out of a sense of integrity. Only when The Dark Knight convinced him otherwise did he accept the Mayor's terms. Now, the vigilante feels he owes it to his closest ally in the field to make their partnership even more worth the sacrifice.[/color]

[b]SELINA KYLE -[/b] [color=slategray]Owner of The Iceberg Lounge. Having worked with Batman to oust Oswald Cobblepot from power within the criminal underworld, the one-time Catwoman has briefly hung up her whip in an effort to run what was once the central hub of Gotham City's most illicit dealings. Dedicating her newfound resources towards setting up a supposed criminal empire of her own, Selina both acts as a crucial informant to the Bat-Family and as a silent protector of those victimized by her clientele.[/color]

[b]ADAM ANDERSON -[/b] [color=slategray]His honor, The Mayor of Gotham. A former city councilman and family man that successfully campaigned on traditional values and the re-establishment of order, Anderson's zero-tolerance policies brought him directly into conflict with the unspoken rule of the GCPD's allowance of vigilante justice. Promising to rid the city of both the influence of the criminal element and The Batman, the Mayor has graciously accepted the aid of Bruce Wayne as a financial benefactor since the beginning. Because despite his firm stance against his alter-ego, everything Wayne has discovered about Anderson seems to point toward a genuine soul willing to fight for the good of the city.[/color]

[b]COMMISSIONER RENEE MONTOYA -[/b] [color=slategray]Leader of The GCPD, founder of The GTO. While accepting the task of replacing Jim Gordon was difficult, Montoya is more pragmatic about her approach when dealing with the combined threat of Gotham's supervillains and it's plainclothes criminals. She knows that both need equal attention, so after working with Mayor Anderson to develop it, Montoya has established the Gotham Terrorist Oppression Unit to take the fight to the repeat offenders of Arkham Asylum and Blackgate. Along with Captain Bullock, the GTO's leader, she runs a tight ship to weed out the best of the best. While she hasn't any grievances with The Batman, she also doesn't outwardly condone his methods - and if ordered to arrest him or his followers, she'll do so without hesitation.[/color]

[b]ENEMIES[/b]

[color=slategray]The Joker
The Penguin/Oswald Cobblepot
Professor Hugo Strange
Two-Face/Harvey Dent
The Riddler/Edward Nashton
Mr. Freeze/Victor Fries
The Scarecrow/Jonathan Crane
Ra's Al Ghul
Talia Al Ghul
Bane[/color]

[b]OPERATIVES[/b]

[color=slategray]Nightwing/Dick Grayson*
Robin/Timothy Drake-Wayne
Redbird/Damian Wayne
Signal/Duke Thomas
Azrael/Jean-Paul Valley
Bluebird/Harper Row
Batwing/Luke Fox[/color]

*Protects the city of Blüdhaven, so is more of a reserve.

(These are all subject to change based on anyone applying for them.)[/i]

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[COLOR=DARKGRAY][indent][i]Following the senseless murder of his parents, a young Bruce Wayne made a solemn vow to wage war against the criminal and corruptive forces in Gotham City. Utilizing the vast family fortune that  became his own, Wayne traveled the farthest corners of the globe and learned from it's greatest masters in fields relevant to crime prevention, martial arts, stealth, engineering and detection. Returning home as a matured adult, he sought to use his acquired skills to the streets, but it wasn't enough to overcome his enemies. He needed an edge, a weapon that would transcend any normal methods of a crusade such as his. Inspiration came to him in the form of a creature that had terrified him as a child, making him realize that weaponizing fear itself was the key. Donning the terrifying cape and cowl to mimic that animal and adopting an arsenal of highly advanced gadgetry and vehicles to sell the illusion that he was more than just a man, Bruce Wayne became Gotham's nocturnal protector - [b]THE BATMAN[/b].[/i]

This version of Batman has been operating in Gotham City since 2008, and is roughly in his mid-forties. He was a founding member of The Justice League and remained with the team until their disbandment, seeing no desire to return. His history largely reflects that of the Post-Crisis/Rebirth continuities, where he went through his origin period and became a masked vigilante, made enemies of increasingly volatile opportunists and the insane, adopted several recruits into the fold and oversaw their training, built up an arsenal of some of the most advanced non-lethal technology and weapons on Earth, and firmly established himself in the world of business while also presenting the facade of a careless playboy. He's legally adopted Dick Grayson, Tim Drake, and Cassandra Cain as his children, and has a biological son in Damian. He considers Clark Kent a personal friend, but has largely remained distant since the former's retirement. He still believes that Jason Todd died the night that The Joker murdered him. And while he and Selina Kyle nearly married, they broke it off and have chosen to remain what they were - allies, enemies, and everything in between.[/indent][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=DARKGRAY][INDENT]Bruce will be driven by one of his worst habits: the fear that eventually, he'll lose everyone closest to him to violence. While he obviously has a rather large family of agents, Batman has become increasingly isolated from them and operates on his own in the field. This makes him vulnerable to behavior that could threaten everything he's built, particularly when his enemies seize the opportunity to make his life hell under the machinations of a mysterious third party looking to destabilize the well-being of Gotham's protector out of personal revenge. To do that, Batman will be put through a gauntlet of his worst foes, from The Riddler to Bane, Ra's Al Ghul, The Penguin, and eventually, The Joker, who still has yet to pay for the murder of the second Robin many years ago. And on the path towards that endgame, he'll be forced to come into conflict with those who bear his symbol to ultimately challenge this pattern of behavior.

Within that journey, my main goal will be to help reinvent some of his villains - or at least, steer them toward a natural evolution. Characters like The Riddler and Two-Face have remained stagnant for a long time, and I want to show what happens when they actually realize that their old methods aren't working. To a lesser degree, I want to see how much of Batman's own personal world can survive a sort of reckoning - what can remain whenever you have Bruce decide that his life needs to change.[/INDENT][/COLOR][/cell][/row][/table][hr][/COLOR]