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IN CHARACTER
Name: Stephanie Brown
Fandom: Batgirl
Canon point/AU: End of her run as Batgirl
Journal: blondevigilante
PB: n/a
History: wikia profile

Presentation:
Stephanie is by all appearances a well rounded college student who is trying to find her way in this new world of adulthood. She goes to class, has friends, and lives with a loving mother. Fairly typical and fairly boring in all honesty, but then that's just on the surface. The real Stephanie Brown is far from boring and far from typical. She's daring, sarcastic, athletic, and has a slight issue with following the rules.

Oh yeah, and she happens to be Batgirl.

It was a long and very hard road to get to this point in her young life and now that she has this she refuses to let go. She knows and acknowledges her limitations but refuses to let her past define who she is as hero or as a young woman. There are plenty in the hero world who believe that she has no role to play in their world because of these past mistakes, but she takes pride in showing them how very wrong they are about that idea. The longer she sticks to her guns and more she proves herself the more those naysayers begin to have a tiny belief that maybe she can get the job done.

Maybe they just enjoy the fact that one of them has yet to be torn down by all the horror Gotham has tossed at them. Stephanie is bubbly, but not annoyingly so (unless you happen to be a jokeless member of the Bat family), open, and friendly both in and out of the cowl. She's only been wearing the cowl for a year, but she's familiar enough with this whole hero gig to know that it can suck the soul out of someone if they let it. Well, she's willing to stand toe-to-toe with Gotham's dark side and still smile in the morning. And maybe she can show the others that it's okay to smile too; that there is a way to balance the cowl with normalcy.

Motivations:
Steph's internal motivations aren't too different from what she tells the world. She doesn't fight for vengeance or for some form of global justice and harmony; she fights because she chooses not to stand idly by while people do bad things to the innocent. Yeah, she'd like world peace and all, but she'd also like kids to be able to play in the streets of Gotham without worrying some Mr. Freeze wannabe won't destroy their little world.

Not so very long ago Stephanie was one of those little girls only her wannabe villain was much closer to home - her father, Arthur Brown, aka Cluemaster. Because of his less than notorious lifestyle Stephanie had to work hard to prove to the heroic Gothamites (and herself) that she was more than the daughter of a criminal. Some were willing to look beyond this shortcoming, but others like Bruce Wayne, aka Batman, seemed to believe that genetics and upbringing were stronger than personal motivation. She took up the mantle of crime fighter to not just stop her father, but to prove she was more than him. Better than him.

Then she failed. And then she died.

For a year she hid away, content to let the life of Stephanie Brown fade away. The funny thing is just when you think you've forgotten the past, the past lets you know it hasn't forgotten you. Destiny was calling and Stephanie couldn't help but answer back. Heroing was in her blood and had a much stronger hold on her than any shame of the past. One year after she "died" she returned to Gotham and took up the mantle of hero again, but this time she was focused more on doing good than proving herself.

A year after returning home she became Batgirl under the mentorship of the first Batgirl, Barbara Gordon, aka Oracle. As Batgirl she's faced stalkers, crazies, her ex-boyfriend, and even the Batman only to let them all know through force of the fist or force of will that she was more than her father's daughter and that being Batgirl was her destiny.

SAMPLES

Thread:
Threatening to kill Damian
Hilarious Aftermath of Being De-Aged
A Log about Feelings
Log Condoning Abducting Children

Prose:
"You're kidding right?" Okay, so this wasn't the strangest thing to have happened to her since becoming Batgirl, but then again how did one judge being tossed into some creepy room and told to perform?

Since waking up in this place she had been given no real answers, but plenty of opportunity to train for something that was probably nasty given the weapon and skill stations they had set up like some freakish imitation of kindergarten. Peachy. Okay, so giving a show was easy, the question was how much she wanted to show. She'd been told about the death game, but that was crazy, right?

The faces kept looking.

Right. Maybe not crazy. So, think of O. She's prepared you for capture situations...sort of. There was a slight pinkish shimmer around the viewing room which meant force field or maybe projector. She was alone and well armed with a variety of tools. No way they would just leave people easy means of escape which meant those weird Peacekeeper guys would run in here if she tried something funny.

O would tell her to play along and keep her eyes and ears open, but O wasn't here. No matter, Steph was good at thinking on her feet. Taking up a familiar sized bo-staff she ran at a dummy hitting it in the chest with enough force to lift her up and over. Landing on her feet she quickly lifted her leg and kicked another dummy in the neck, letting it fall to the ground.

"Score two for the blonde in grey. Please remain looking unimpressed."

Not her best stuff, but she'd had a worse audience in the past.

You people have the wrong Bat.

What is your character scored:
Tim is a 10 and Babs is a 9. Steph would be between them maybe inching to a 10 because she's simply likable.

Strengths:
She's been trained by the Bat family and spent many years in gymnastics. Even with the training she's not at, say, Nightwing level but she can hold her own even against much larger opponents (most people are larger than her). She's pretty good with the whole detective thing and isn't one to shrink at fighting the hard and unwinnable fight. Extra bonus is that she can be fairly likable and Citizens just might like that can-do attitude. The Capitol maybe not so much.

Weaknesses:
She cares. Probably too much especially when it comes to those perceived as innocent. Since she's a fly by the seat of her pants kind of girl she often gets mixed up in things way above her head. She's not super with technology and sometimes being around Bruce throws her off her game.