Ruby

Gotham City: Shadow of the Bat

I really, really want to join as a cop so baaaaaaaad. Ruby why do you do this to me?

@Blue Demon

Oh, you wanna be in on this, Blue lovely. I know you're a fellow Gotham fan. You'd have fun with this one.

Gotham City: Shadow of the Bat

GCPD

Name: Hope Sandoval

Age: 31

Alias: Detective Sandoval
Mrs. Mob

Appearance: With an above average height of six-foot-one, Hope cuts an impressive figure, or at least an impressive silhouette, if not an immediately intimidating one. And to be sure there is something to be intimidated about and it isn't the badge on her suspender straps nor the gun at her hip, but her physique which, thanks to frequent trips to the GCPD gym and a strictly governed dietary routine, is impressive. While she doesn't have the rippling, chiseled rock solid build, there is clear musculature to be found especially in her arms, and only a trace amount of body fat down with her thighs and calves. She needs the physique in order to keep up with those who have the advantage of masks, tights, and toys. Nothing against those types, of course, but just because the city has had its share of guardians doesn't mean she's going to sit around and sip on coffee and grow idle.

Hope keeps her hair short as it is a hassle to keep it in a ponytail or just out of the way of her eyes in general; it's for function and not fashion. More often than not she's attired in navy slacks, a button down top, and a navy suit jacket, though in her down time she's known to let her hair down, so to speak, and take on more casual outfits such as turtlenecks and jeans. Her face has a scar on her right cheek, a reminder of a moment gone horribly wrong; though it's healed now, no one in this line of work comes out unscarred. Hope is just fortunate that hers is more physical.

For reference's sake

Skills/Abilities: As with any member of the GCPD, Hope is skilled with her sidearm, though she definitely prefers not to have to use it for anything other than intimidation; in a pinch she serves as a fine marksman with pistols. She's taken self defense classes and while not an exceptional offensive fighter, if someone makes the first move in a fist fight - which she often allows them to do - she can more than hold her own within reason. As a detective her greatest strengths are her deductive reasoning and her keen eye, both of which come into play when she's investigating various crime scenes; ideally she'd sweep them clean before certain sorts decide to drop in and share their supposed expertise on the matter. She's a smart woman, but she can't always compete with people that literally have computers on speed dial.

Weaknesses: Hope has a tendency to let cases consume her which comes with the side effect of her no longer being able to think rationally or logically, and those in the know have exploited that in the past, subtly manipulating her into jumping the gun and jumping to conclusions in order to cause mistakes to be made. Fatal or otherwise. She has a fear of rats, which comes into play mostly when snooping around in less clean parts of the city.

History: Hope is a Gotham City lifer, someone who was born there and someone who was well aware she will most likely die there. She can only hope it's in doing her part to at least make her home a better place. Her mother didn't have a glamorous job, working for pennies at a diner in the heart of the city; but Hope respected that, she loved that her mother put up with terrible customers and even more terrible schedules just to make sure Hope didn't have to go hungry. Of course, her father did his part as well. Hope's father was a book keeper, an accountant, and that's all Hope ever knew him for. That, and his always nervous manner of speaking, as if he had to say things fast for some reason.

It wasn't until Hope joined the GCPD fresh from the Academy that she learned just what it was her father did for a living. In her first year on the Gotham beat, Hope was involved with a raid on a mob business; they were using an upscale restaurant as a front for their illicit activities, and the person in charge of the books for the restaurant was none other than her father. He was taken into police custody where he squealed quickly, giving up the names of his employers. This only led to the mob putting out a hit onto him and his family.

The hit came as expected, and her father was the first to go. Her mother was under police protection and put into witness protection and told to leave Gotham. When the hit came for Hope she survived and retaliated, but at the cost of the hitman missing his main target, Hope, and instead taking the life of an innocent, Hope's then girlfriend.

Needless to say, Hope harbors no love for the mafia or any of their activities and was all too willing to cooperate with the vigilanties. Her view was that if Gordon said they were okay then they were fine by Hope. Though now with Gordon retired and the Bat seemingly missing, Hope is willing to take it upon herself to keep things safe on the street level.

@Fabricant451

Awesome, approved. Keep in mind Hope would have access to GCPD and all that entails: everything from phone taps to stake outs to helicopter support to SWAT to...you name it. All of this will be yours to NPC as necessary, and appropriate. Even the Bat signals. And if she was part of Gordon's MCU, she can access Gordon for information/advice via text, or discrete meetings--just because Gordon is retired, doesn't mean he's gone anywhere, or stopped caring.

Post your CS to the Character tab when you get a chance. And when I get a chance, I'll make a roster and update it. ^_^

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Oops, I was making a female Nightwing so I'm glad I saw this!

@Kae

Could always do your own CS for it and make me choose between the two.

Gotham City: Shadow of the Bat

Sure, sure, and that's a possibility too. I'm just looking for the official explanation from the GM. Besides that, I'm sure he'd have different fallbacks depending on if it was a temporary disappearance sort of thing, or if he thought he was walking into death...

@ProPro

The official explanation?

Read and find out, I suppose.

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Awesome! I'll try and get a character up sometime tomorrow or later tonight, then. I'm quietly looking at Tim Drake (my BABY) as Red Robin instead of just the Boy Wonder.

But I'm also looking at an OC GCPD officer/detective... might do both. *SHRUG* Aaah.

Before I go deciding, though, would there be a character limit in place? Or just however many we know we can handle? Because I do up to 4, but I normally like staying at 2. I have no problems with limiting it to 1, though, it just means I'll have to see which one I'm more drawn towards. D;

@HalfOfLancelot

There is a limit of one character for each player at the start of the game, if only to keep options for new folks wide open even after the game's been going a second or two.

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You're not the only one who thinks it'd be fun, really. Since, um...

The New Robin

• Name: Kuroko Rayne
• Age: 14
• Alias: "The All New, All Different Robin!"
• Appearance: A half-Japanese teenage girl with the build of a gymnast. She's not exactly tall and has a slim frame, and she accents her short, black hair with a dyed red streak. During the day she tends to dress in a tomboyish fashion, mostly wearing shorts and t-shirts. As her version of Robin, she wears a colourful leotard of red, green and yellow, alongside a similarly coloured cape and thighhigh boots. Her gloves have fins sticking out of them for deflecting knives and the like, and around her waist and thighs she wears rudimentary "utility belts", although obviously they're nowhere near as extensive in terms of utility as Batman's own belt. In an effort to conceal her identity, she wears a simple domino mask.
• Skills/Abilities: Kuroko is a skilled gymnast, and in her civilian identity will often (rather truthfully) boast about being the best on the school team; whilst she's obviously not superhuman, she's still able to pull off feats of agility most regular people can only dream of. Whilst this means her fighting style mostly consists of tumbles, leaps and dives, she actually has a strong grounding in unarmed combat, having been taught martial arts from a young age; she's not world class or anything but she can still hold her own in a fight despite her age. In imitation of the other Robins (and, naturally, Batman), she wears a set of rudimentary utility belts; these include such things as a grappling hook, smoke pellets, pepper spray, itching powder and stink bombs. Her gloves have weighted knuckles to add additional force to her blows, and are finned to help her deflect knives and the like. Unlike the other, official Robins, she's not exactly a detective; whilst she can put two and two together when presented with the evidence, she doesn't think to go out of her way to look for leads and clues.
• Weaknesses: Despite her enthusiasm, Kuroko is still new and inexperienced when it comes to costumed crimefighting. Really, she hasn't exactly thought this through all that well, and if she's not taken under the wing of a more experienced hero there's a rather good chance she's just going to get herself killed.
• History

  Kuroko has always been a fan of superheroes for as long as she can remember. It seemed like even the dark, gloomy city of Gotham could be brightened up by the existence of costumed crimefighters, even if the city's main defender was the grim, menacing Batman. Even if Gotham was a far darker place than Metropolis, home of her favourite hero Supergirl, it always seemed like with Batman, Robin, Batgirl and the like around things would get better.
  
  Maybe things had to get worse before they could get better, though, since despite having a relatively normal life for most of her childhood, tragedy struck her family around five years ago. It started off rather innocuously, really, with her father not showing up on time once work was over one day. He was a cop, and one of those in the GCPD who wasn't corrupt, so Kuroko and her mother assumed he'd just been really busy that night. But then the night rolled over into day, and there was still no word from him... Soon enough, they found out that he was dead, killed during one of the Joker's many schemes. It wasn't like it was an uncommon thing to happen in Gotham, really; Joker-related incident were probably one of the leading causes of death in the city after all, but... Really, even with that knowledge it still hurt. She and her mother grieved for some time, and even after Batman sent the psychotic clown back to Arkham they found no real comfort in the fact.
  
  Eventually, they managed to move on as best they could, but neither of them could really forget what had happened. So when it was announced that the Joker had died during his latest scheme, and that Batman had disappeared following this, Kuroko realized something: with the two most terrifying men in Gotham gone, there was little left that was going to hold back an upsurge in criminals taking advantage of the situation. Someone needed to do something about it, and... Well, she should've realized that someone else would, but she couldn't help it. Swinging into action with wild abandon, she quickly threw together a costume and decided to put her athletic skills to good use in holding back the tide of crime... And since she wasn't sure if there was currently an active Robin (and having been aware that there had been more than one Robin), she decided to take up the identity for herself. She really hasn't thought this through, but she's going to give it her all and do whatever she can to keep the city safe!

I know her being half-Japanese is kind of a minor, non-essential detail buuut I thought that since I was using Ame-Comi Robin as her appearance it was only fitting. XD Anyways, hope she looks okay. ^^;

@Rin

Approved. Go ahead and post her under the Character tab.

Gotham City: Shadow of the Bat

Hiya! You got room for another? :o

@HalfOfLancelot

We're not even close to capacity--especially considering we have no accepted characters yet.

Gotham City: Shadow of the Bat

Still finna make a Renee Montoya type. In that she's not Renee Montoya but is pretty much Montoya in that she's gonna be a GCPD detective and such

@Fabricant451

Look forward to seeing the sheet. =)

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I was thinking a male version, if you'll allow, not sure I'll make him a Beaumont or not though.

I've been good. I missed you! How you been?

@Xtreme

Works for me. I don't mind gender-flipping.

I've been good, too, thank you. ^_^

Gotham City: Shadow of the Bat

@Ruby Do you have a preference whether we use pre-New 52 or New 52 for canon character backgrounds, abilities and what have you?

@Ultimate Spidey

I'm fairly well versed in both, so no, I don't have a preference.