Barbara Gordon

Miss, Doctor (Titles)

Babs, Babise G, Barb (Nicknames)

Jimmy Gordon (Brother)

Carrie Kelley (Adoptive Sister / Paternal Cousin)

Teen Titans (Founding Member, Alumna)

Birds of Prey (Founding Member, Leader)

Outsiders (Member)

## Biography: (Written by Oracle)

### Barbara Gordon: 1987 - 2002

I'm Barbara Gordon. Most people either call me Babs or Barb, being the daughter of one of Gotham's best cops, Jim Gordon and Sarah Essen-Gordon, with my younger brother which we don't really need to discuss and my younger cousin and surrogate sister, Carrie Kelley. While at night I would hear my parents talk about their shifts while horrified I was also interested about their jobs, for as I long as I can remember was my interest in all thing computers but not just computers but code.

Once I had turned eleven, I had self trained myself into becoming a hacker that aided in various causes, I took up the role of an hacktivist before it was used more normally, though I was called a "White Hat" type of person once I had reached my teens I spent my time in the back of my dad's car hoping to hack into the GCPD servers (which for good purposes I promise) though I had found out that there hadn't even been an active call or crime scene, instead having meet with an urban legend instead.

I hadn't said anything for the following weeks, just as Carmine Falcone and Sal Maroni were arrested due to the charges provided that actually tied back to the crime bosses. After that my dad was promoted from Sergeant to Lieutenant. The following months later the Gotham Gazette had gotten a photo of the "Bat" and just like that everyone had seemed to become obsessed over this new vigilante.

After a lot of convincing my dad to sign me up for self defense classes. As I had studied a video of Batman having fought a group of criminals, with the discovery of needing something besides just basic karate I had made up a lie about some after school activities I had enrolled in three other martial art classes (Aikido, Stick-Fighting, Judo) at the Wildcat Gym.

Once the news broke out that Batman had gained a boy wonder, I figured that it was time to show them how a girl gets it down, so I switched out an karate belt for an utility belt.

### Batgirl Begins: 2002

Batgirl had started off with nothing to it's title I'm sorry to say. After spending a week crafting my own costume (with an mask, cape, and utility belt) and with the guts to complete it. But I started off stopping low ranking crimes at first as a way to attract the efforts of the Dynamic Duo, while I did stop some crimes here and there it still didn't really do anything in the grander scheme I still made waves. With my biggest bust being stopping a small gang running through the Narrows, and after a week of staking out their hideout I decided to pay them a visit. Though I took a hit her and there and a couple of broken ribs it still got me my first bust.

More often than not me and the dynamic duo kept to ourselves with the rare instance that we'd be able to work, I tried to convince Bruce to let me work with him, though it was like talking to a stone wall. Robin, seemed to have another point of view on the other hand as he let me tag along on a couple patrols with our biggest bust being a drug deal happening near the docks, by the time that Bruce had arrived he looked impressed and revealed that he knew my name before and Dick left.

The following day, Dad and Mom had told me about a grant into Gotham Academy, Bruce and Dick had revealed their night jobs with Bruce having finally agreed to train me.

### Batgirl: 2002 - 2009

After being granted the chance to prove myself as Batman's second teen protege and giving me a couple more lessons in hand to hand combat along with actually helping Bruce with the servers on the Bat-computer, and while Bruce seemed on the fence to help with his gear it turned out to be for the better instead. That and a updated body armor which... actually fit me exactly which is... something, onto my first break as Batgirl with me having found the locations of Penguins new arms smuggling plot. Along with finding the corrupt cops who had helped him in keeping it away from the public found near the Iceberg Lounge, though that didn't stop the rise of new super criminals.

But that my friends isn't important as I had fought off Killer Croc off while Bruce and Dick were out of town along with helping Supergirl with a Intergang deal that made it's way into Gotham along with helping the founding steps of the Teen Titans, that and I even had a team up with Wonder Woman in stopping both of rogues from teaming up. All in all my time while donning the cowl was quite eventful. But that's not what caused my to take a step back from the role, it was actual The Joker.

Having nearly killed me, caused me to realize how truly dangerous he was along with help of his new sidekick, Harley Quinn, though even that didn't put a needle in my time as one of The Bat's proteges as I helped put the new clown duo away, though Dicks's distrust had of Bruce and his mission as a whole caused a split between the two, having quit the role of Robin and breaking our relationship as he left for Bludhaven in hope of his new identity. A couple months later however, Bruce had taken in street orphan Jason Todd and had him begin his training to fill in the role of the empty spot as Robin.

Onto the matter of Dick, I had visited in Bludhaven to visit and hopefully patch up our pretty sour break up only to find him in the middle of a struggle to find himself besides spending the last couple of years fighting crime behind a mask and body armor, to which I had Clark meet up with him and tell Dick the story of a Kryptonian hero who embarked out to find himself outside his family's identity. Apparently that had worked as Dick had called Lucius the following week to ask for a new suit and so began the career of Nightwing.

All things must come to an end however as during the fall of 2007, Joker had kidnapped Jason on a unauthorized mission and led to him torturing Jason for the following fie months while we all drove ourselves crazy trying to find him, eventually the winter of 2008 Joker had held a demented pool showing Gotham if they wanted him to live or die. I guess we figured the outcome as Jason's bloodied body was pinned on the Bat-signal an hour later, not only that but Ra's had began his plan to kill and replace Bruce once and for all by having Bane try to kill him plunging Gotham into total despair.

While me, Dick, and whatever was left of the GCPD attempted to hold the line against lawlessness along with the help of Huntress, it's clear that we needed more than brawn and some detective work as I had set up in the Clocktower, a failsafe base if anything Batcave, as I began my time as Oracle...

### Oracle: 2009 - Present Day

Onto the matter of me being Oracle, as I saw that maybe being Batgirl hadn't been useful as Gotham feel into decay, I had taken up the role of Oracle gathering Helena, Dinah, and Cassandra under my wing and with my knowledge of computer servers being a bit rusty but came back as time had passed, I got a handle on the whole super-computer thing. Now and days I'm an information broker not only for The Batman but The Justice League, Teen Titans, Titans, Birds of Prey, and the superhero community as a whole so I'm kinda a big deal.

## Strengths

* **Athletics**
* **Computer Operation**
	+ **Computer Hacking**
* **Dancing**: I took up being a ballerina as a young girl.
* **Driving**: I can drive a car as well as any bat vehicle with mad skill.
* **Genius Level Intellect**
	+ **Business Management**: Thanks to Bruce showing me and Dick the ins and outs of business I'm quite handy with the matter.
	+ **Eidetic Memory**: With constant training from Bruce and my Dad I can recall something from months ago.
	+ **Multilingualism**: In addition to English, I'm also fluent in Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin Chinese.
* **Indomitable Will**
* **Interrogation**
* **Intimidation**
* **Investigation**
* **Law**: Both me and Dick gained our law degrees.
* **Leadership**
* **Lock Picking**: I'm skilled at manipulating locks. In my early days as Batgirl Dick was the one who showed me how. I keep at least one lockpick hidden in the lining of my cape.
* **Martial Arts**: Being the daughter of a police commissioner, Dad has had me take self-defense since I was six. And with some Bat training I'm skilled in Judo, Mauy Thai and Eskrima.
	+ **Boxing**
	+ **Eskrima**
	+ **Judo**
	+ **Karate**
	+ **Muay Thai**
	+ **Tae Kwon Do**
* **Psychology**: I currently a degree in Forensic Psychology.
* **Throwing**: I am accomplished at throwing Batarangs.

## Trivia

* My favorite colors are green and purple.
* I take my coffee with amaretto creamer.
* My favorite drinks are water with lemon (boring, I know) and if I'm in need of alcohol you can't go wrong with sex on the beach.
* My favorite fruits are raspberry, cranberry, and cucumber. For veggies: vegetables: potatoes and cauliflower.
* My all-time favorite meal has to be my mom's salmon with lemon, mashed potatoes, and vegetable medley... though Dick does a pretty good job at replicating this.
* My favorite guilty-pleasure snack food has got to be popcorn drenched in butter... or maybe a simple snickerdoodle cookie.
* Hmm... It's really hard to write trivia on yourself.
* Barbara likes to refer to herself as a "ginger goddess," is extremely competitive with other computer experts (such as Kara Zor-El, Felicity Smoak, or Tim Drake), and is prone to saying "kick in their teeth" which she describes as her favorite part of being Batgirl.
* My friends point out that I've got some sort of issue with Koriand'r. That's simply not the case... at least anymore. I've made peace with my feelings about her. I won.
* Oracle joined the Justice League in 2012 nominated Batman. But her membership is not acknowledge by ARGUS because she has never showed up to a meeting of the League in person.
* She tried to record her first visit to the Batcave. Batman quickly discovered it and took the recorder.
* She helped with creation of Caper - the superhero dating app.
* She likes to play video games and is always destroyed in multiplayer by Audrey Spears.
* She fabricated CJ Gennaro's identity.

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