Thread: CANON/OC Profiles: Gotham City Politics

Name Edward Nashton Alter-ego Riddler, The Enigma Big Question P.I Nashton Age 30-ish Gender Male Affiliation Many had been forgotten and abandoned, formerly knew Trishell Boom estranged girlfriendsidekick, currently financial adviser for Wayne enterprise. Superpowersabilities Escape artist - like most grade A criminals, no judicial system can seem to catch him, and if they do, he's probably out of the paddywagon long before it reached the station. Only the super of crime fighters can catch a guy like the Riddler and place him behind bars too bad there's no such thing as a Super Corrections Officer well, at least not one the Riddler had met, so it won't be long before he's busted out and back on the streets. Gun Smart It's not often the Riddler is seen using weapons besides his staffed, but on occasions more rare, these days he can be seen with a pistol or two, and it would be wise to understand that he fully knows how to operate it. Enhanced Intelligence The Riddler is a genius, in every sense of the definition, he's not just smart, he's super smart, almost inhumanly so. Problems don't exist in Riddler's mind, as just looking at one can be simply cracked in a matter of minutes. And because of this, the Riddler often find it more interesting to create the problems himself, gaining him the title of Mastermind. Fit The Riddler is no mutant, nor is he an alien from space, so his strength and limitation is purely just a human male of his age at his highest prime. He's not a body builder, but he's agile and fit enough to hold his own when working with or against the supers. However, since strength is not his strong suit, he'd rather avoid hand to hand combat, often he'd rather avoid combat altogether, and would favor placing his victims in puzzled death traps where they'd have to use their brains to get out of. Appearance Edward has short, ear length auburn hair that's too red to be brown but too brown to be red. His eyes are a dark brown, and his skin is of a fair tan complexion. Due to recent circumstances, Edward doesn't try much to hide his identity, but one would always see him in his trade mark green and purple suit, complete with question mark bowler hat. In costume, he wears across his face a purple eye piece that, quite frankly, just pose for fashion, and another known accessory would be his purple gloves, which may switch to green at times. Edward is an average built six foot man with a debonair posture, yet he carries with him a cane that can extend into a staff when in battle the tip of it is bronze and hooked into a question mark. Bio Edward's problems started at a very young age, he was born into a broken home without stable parents his mother had abandoned him nearly at birth and his drunkard of a father was nothing less than abusive. Besides his poverty family life and homely upbringing, Edward was always an exceptionally smart child. During his childhood years, his school had hosted a competitive puzzle game having favors in puzzles and riddles of sort, Edward broke into the school and practice the puzzle ahead of time until he was completely perfect at it. When the contest came, Edward had won and received a riddle book that would then help feed onto his obsessions with puzzles and problem solving. As he gotten older, Edward became a master at mind games and riddles, excelling in his classes and acing tests this caused a burning scorn and jealousy from his father, who in turn would lash out with accusations of cheating, harshly beating him in the facade that he was keeping Edward from lying and cheating in school. Due to these beatings, Edward found himself with the compulsive need to be completely honest, so to keep from spilling his plans, Edward developed the strategy of explaining the truth of his crimes through riddles, which suddenly became obsessive, and now he can't even leave his own crime scenes without even dropping a single hint! When Edward grew older, he left home and joined the carnival, using his skills and performance to scam the carnival goers. However, this life was bland to Edward, and it wasn't long after until he gained his name as The Riddler, and begun divulging into the grit of Gotham criminals, serving as a messenger of sorts for the higher up to harass and confuse the authorities. The Riddler didn't stay in that life for long, soon breaking away from serving under those higher in Gotham's underworld, becoming a super villain of his own. Years he went living a life of crime, gaining the power and wealth of most costume freaks who were good at their jobs his name was heard amongst those like the Penguin, the Joker, Two Face, and Scarcrow along with many others. However, all of this was shattered during one fierce battle that put the Riddler into a coma for a year. Waking from his coma, the Riddler lost his memory and his compulsion for riddles, but he still kept his high intellect and boastful personality. At first Edward didn't know anything, not even his name, but gradually he's gaining back his memory of his past life, and though now that he doesn't live a life of crime, his new job as a private detective weren't always morally correct... for the suspect. More of a neutral than a hero or a villain at the moment, Edward made his first rebirth name in the public eye as P.I Nashton, than his former alias The Riddler he's no longer such a bad guy, even when he's starting to remember more and more about his past, he continues to show signs of never going back to villainy crimes, but his cynical personality and bigotry views on those less intelligent than him keeps him at arms length from being a true hero. Other Edward once knew Batman's true identity, but that went away with the many other dire information that had been lost during his coma however, he still keeps in contact with the caped crusader, and seems to suspect who the Batman really iseither by the memory itching at the back of his brain, or the fact that he's such a damn good detective, even Batman can't elude him any further. Today, Edward truly did take on the life as a good guy, mainly because his intellect get's a whole hell of a lot more attention when used for justice however, Batman, who had shown distrust towards him on many occasions, doesn't seem to believe him, he once even gave Edward his newly acquired question mark staff, though it was noted to have a mic and tracking device in it, so that Batman could keep tabs on him. A year living this normal life of good, Edward went through many careers, he once worked in forensic studies, but that was the last of his crime fighting days as he settled in a job of actuary, until eventually stopping at a stable career as a financial analyst. Edward still have troubles with lying, so he's in fact a rather honest guy, though he knows how to not say anything at all, he just can't utter a lie without showing some signs of obviousness or going into a hyperventilating attack so he tries to do as little incriminating things as possible, keeping his words, answers, and motives curt.