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[color=lightgray]O R P H A N[/color][/center]
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*Points at self, gives thumb up.*[/b][/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]
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[color=lightgray]C H A R A C T E R   S U M M A R Y[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup]
[sub][COLOR=darkgray]Cassandra Cain[/COLOR]
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[COLOR=darkgray]Gotham/Blüdhaven & The League of Shadows[/COLOR]   [b]|[/b]   [COLOR=darkgray]Chinese[/COLOR][/sub][/center]
[indent][sub][sup][sub][h3][b][color=black] N O T A B L E   A B I L I T I E S   &   T O O L S[/color]
[color=lightgray]N O T A B L E   A B I L I T I E S   &   T O O L S[/color][/b][/h3][/sub][/sup][/sub][/INDENT][sup]_________________________________________________________[/sup]
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[indent][sub][b][color=lightgray]   A B I L I T I E S[/color][/b][/sub]
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[COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ Body Reading[/b][/color]
Cassandra's mother tongue is not Mandarin, nor English, nor any other spoken word on the planet; it is movement. Physicality. Body language. Cassandra can read what people are thinking through the most subtle muscle twitch, predict their next action through body language to a level of near pre-cognitive accuracy. It is so instinctual, so fast, she does it before even consciously registering it's happened. While it's not perfect, and it lends Cassandra to an over-reliance on it, it makes her difficult to fool, incredibly perceptive, and one of the most formidable opponents on the face of the Earth.[/color][/sup]
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[indent][sub][b][color=lightgray]   T O O L (S)[/color][/b][/sub]
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[COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ Grappling Hook[/b][/color] 
Her most useful tool, stolen from the League, and the only thing she couldn't leave behind when she came to the Titans: thick-yet-flexible tensile wire attached to a strong and stable hook. Capable of entry, escape, climbing, combat, apprehension, snares - the things Cassandra can do with a length of rope and a bit of metal on the end would make many of her peers go green.[/color][/sup]
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[indent][sub][b][color=lightgray]   S K I L L (S)[/color][/b][/sub]
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[COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ Physical Conditioning[/b][/color]
Cassandra's intensive training throughout her lifetime has turned her into one of the finest fighting machines ever to walk the Earth, a near-perfect weapon in human form, possessing levels of strength, stamina, speed and agility that put her in the top percentiles of humanity.[/color]
[COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ Acrobatics[/b][/color]
Combat and physicality were not the only training regimens Cassandra was instructed through; she also developed her agility and gymnastics, making her incredibly nimble and dextrous as well as powerful.[/color]
[COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ Lockpicking[/b][/color]
Self-taught during her short stint as a vigilante, to aid her investigations and getting into places certain people - morally upstanding or otherwise - would rather she didn't.[/color][/sup]
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[indent][sub][b][color=lightgray]   T A L E N T (S)[/color][/b][/sub]
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[COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ Stealth[/b][/color] 
A combination of Cassandra's 'first language' and the training from her father created an incredible awareness of her [i]own[/i] body and its movements, and this awareness was only honed further - until it became an almost preternatural aptitude for stealth, silence, and secrecy.[/color]
[COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ Martial Arts[/b][/color] 
Lifelong training has lead to mastery of physical combat and the fighting arts. Inheriting knowledge and ability from her mother and father, observing the operations of the League of Shadows, witnessing Batman and others in her travels; there is no form of battle she is not familiar with, nor cannot apply herself - to [i]incredibly[/i] painful results.[/color]
[COLOR=darkgray][color=lightgray][b]◼ Assassin[/b][/color] 
Cassandra's darkest gift, and alongside the blade lodged in her body, the surest touch of David Cain: Cassandra analyses and knows, innately, unconsciously, [i]unwillingly[/i], how to most effectively and efficiently kill any given individual around her at any time. It is hard to ignore.[/color][/sup]
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[COLOR=DARKGRAY][indent]Born to David Cain and Lady Shiva, Cassandra Cain was cursed before even conceived.

She never knew her mother; left in David's care, she knew only one truth: combat. Deprived of a home, a family, even speech itself, Cassandra's one and only language was movement, physicality, the body itself. David was obssessive in adminstering her training, slowly crafting her into the perfect warrior, the One Who Is All, an assassin to surpass all others prophecised by the League of Shadows. At only eight years old, David Cain sought to test his experiment, and Cassandra was given her first target.

The hit was...easy. Ruthless. A mere game to the child Cassandra, unaware what she was doing, unaware there was any other way whatsoever; but as she watched the man die, as she read the muscle spasms, the limp limbs, the life leaving his skin, she saw death as he saw it, came as close to it as she could without dying herself - and she was horrified. The game was over, the illusion shattered. Death was [i]wrong[/i]. Every fiber and nerve ending in her body felt the sin of what she'd done, and by extension the evil of her father and everything he was training her for. What was an eight year old to do, trained for a purpose now abhorrent to her very essence, unable to return to a father she now despised? She did the only thing she could do; she ran away.

For nine years, Cassandra was homeless and on the run from her father and the forces of the League of Shadows. She ended up - as so many of the world's strays do - in Gotham, bringing assassins down upon her; luckily, the Batman was no stranger to Ra's forces, and his timely intervention saved Cassandra twice over. Seeing in him how her skills could be used in defence of the defenceless, in the pursuit of what was [i]good[/i] and [i]righteous[/i], she was inspired, and began operating as a solo vigilante herself: [b]Orphan.[/b]

With Batman looming over Gotham and Blüdhaven, David Cain turned to less direct methods to destroy his errant daughter; following her activities across the twin cities, he ensured wherever she went, corpses were left in her wake, sometimes of those she saved, but more often of those she apprehended. David knew implicating Cassandra would bring Batman down upon her head, and he was right; the two were drawn into a fight with each other across Gotham, David watching from the shadows, waiting for the perfect moment to strike to eliminate two obstacles to the League in one fell swoop. 

When he made his move, he could not have predicted the outcome; Cassandra abandoning her fight entirely to throw herself upon her father's sword, sacrificing her life to save Batman's. David, despite himself, was surprised at Cassandra's capacity to outmatch him, and equally surprised at how deeply grieved he was for the mortal blow he had struck upon his own daughter. 

Batman easily subdued David, and realized they had been played by the assassin. Shocked and impressed by Cassandra's ability and her willingness to sacrifice herself for the life of another, he took her into his intensive care, narrowly managing to save her life and then nursing her back to health - though ultimately unable to remove the span of her father's blade that remained within her chest. 
Once Cassandra had been stabilised and back on her feet, Batman realised she needed more guidance than he was able to provide, as well as friends, mentors - a proper support structure. A [i]family.[/i]

The Titans were the obvious choice.
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[COLOR=DARKGRAY][INDENT]I've written a lot of Batman in the past, but even in those stints, never approached the Bat-[i]family[/i]. While I have my own Robin Ranking like any Bat-fan would (and we can argue about that later), Cassandra herself has intrigued me for a while because of her potential for [i]separation[/i] from the Batfamily, someone desperately trying to redeem herself from terrible origins that she had no say in, but feels guilty for anyway. One of the best examples of how Batman can inspire others, I want to explore her mutism, her conflicting natures, her aspirations, the ties to David Cain, Lady Shiva, Ra's Al Ghul, and the League of Shadows (especially how it puts her cross-counter to Damian), and also position her as an outcast and almost taboo figure within the Titans, where rumours about the corpses left behind her during her stint as Orphan follow and haunt her just as doggedly as the mystique and awe around being entered and entrusted by Batman himself.[/INDENT][/COLOR][/cell][/row][/table][hr][/COLOR]