Cassandra Cain

* Black Bat
* Cassandra Cain

Cass, Cass the Best (Nicknames)

Cassandra Wayne, The Mute (Aliases)

Sandra Wu-San (Biological Mother)

Bruce Wayne (Adopted Father)

Selina Kyle (Stepmother, through adoption)

Alfred Pennyworth (Surrogate Grandfather)

Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Damian Wayne (Adoptive Brothers)

Helena Kyle (Adoptive Sister)

Teen Titans (Alumna)

The Team (Founding Member)

Young Justice (Founding Member)

Outsiders

## Biography: (Written By Oracle)

### Cassandra Cain: 1994 - 2009

Born to two of the worlds most deadliest assassins and highly skilled in various forms of martial arts, David Cain and Lady Shiva, Cassandra Cain was birthed to be one of Ra's al Ghul's most deadliest and ruthless killers along with one of his body guards. With multiple attempts to birth the perfect killer had been unsuccessful and to include the form of martial arts as a language. With David Cain having decided that the perfect genes were needed for the most effective member of the League of Shadows.

After gaining Ra's permission, Cain had begun his search for a mother that was worthy to birth his child , this search led him to the Su-Wan sisters with the two having showed incredible skill and promise among the League's recruits and having been able to copy each others moves quite easily almost as a second language.

With Cain having pity for the younger sister, Sandra, as Cain had discovered the weakness that Sandra had held over Carolyn and had commonly held back as a way to maintain their bond. In his own demented way to "help", Cain had killed Carolyn and later staged her body and later lured Sandra into finding her sisters body. This led to Cain attacking her and using her anger was able to defeat Sandra quite easily to where he defeated her.

With Cain having chose to spare her only on the main condition that she was to carry his child and to raise her within the League of Shadows and once of age to serve the Demon's head. With Sandra not being in her right mind and Ra's requiring an answer Sandra had said yes and to allow their child to become an assassin for the League.

After learning all forms of combat from her father to be the ultimate weapon, though Cassandra grew up learning how to read ones movement rather than other skills such as being taught how to speak. With, Cain being the main one who had taught Cassandra. Along with restricting any form of contact from the outside world other than himself or it was needed for her to interact with others. As a result this slowed down her ability yo read, write, and speak as Cain would read when it was clear that she couldn't understand. By the time she was 10, Cain felt that her progress had been a successful.

Upon this discovery Cain took her along with him on a her first "hit", as during this time Cassandra figured that this was another test and didn't take it seriously, and had saw death and felt the full impact of her father's profession, along with the scarring physically and emotionally she had fled. After defeating her father and a couple waves of assassins she fled from the League. Without the basic knowledge of how to read, write, or speak Cass did the one thing she did best: survive, and she did... for the past six years.

While Cassandra had attempted to find her mother, and without any lead on finding her, or who she may have been. As during this time Cassandra had honed her skills further along with adding other warriors skills into her own style and viewing them fight. While viewing a clip of Batman fighting a couple of criminals, with Cassandra having recognized that he not not only been trained by the League but her father also.

Hoping the the Bat could help her in her search for her mother, Cassandra hoped onto a boat and made her way to Gotham. Though her timing could've been a bit better, as Gotham had been rocked by an earthquake leaving the city in it's darkest hour. Cassandra took it upon herself to uphold order or what was left of it as "The Nothing", prowling from rooftop to rooftop, and breaking jaws of the city's criminals. It didn't take long for her to pop up on my radar, as I sent Helena and Dinah to track her down and aid us in holding down Gotham's law.

### Batgirl: 2009 - 2013

Cassandra was a big part in aiding Gotham after Deathstroke and Bane had broken the Batman, leaving him injured and after destroying the city's bridges. With Tim Drake operating as Robin while Dick Grayson was preparing to don the cape and cowl, still without a Batman to aid him Tim needed additional help. Along with us needing more hands to keep back the rising in criminals n the streets.

So after having Dick and Tim approach her about the mantle of Batgirl, Cassandra required no training being highly more skilled than my during our times as Batgirl, she was the added effort we need to win back the city. As Cassandra patrolled the city for days on end and only stopped when sleep was needed, she greatly proved her worth as Batgirl, though focusing on a normal life outside the capes were the real challenge for her.

Not long after being adopted by Bruce, Cassandra was required to attend therapy along with schooling at Gotham Academy with Tim. Around this time Cassandra and Tim had grew a bond as they had attended their classes by day and operated as Batgirl and Robin at night, after a while she had also aided Spoiler in her training to aid them on their nightly patrols. With the three spending their time with Young Justice, and later the Teen Titans.

After their graduation, Tim had seemingly packed up and left Gotham, without explaining anything to Stephanie and Cassandra. Around this time the two had grown and forged a bond of becoming best friends, and after donning the role of Robin, the two teenagers had worked more in the field. During the summer, Cain had arrived in Gotham for a hit for the Shadows, which led to a fight breaking out between father and daughter, though proved herself and refused to kill her father but rather through him into a cell.

### Black Bat: 2013 - Present

After throwing her father into a cell at Arkham, Cassandra choose this time to make progress in her speech therapy as one of Bruce Wayne's adopted children and would use this as a way to vent towards Cain during the years of training she endured as a weapon. Months later Cain had surprisingly apologized to her and a sense of good will gave her the location of her mother along with her name.

Shortly after the discovery that her mother Sandra Wu-San (also known as 'Lady Shiva'), Cassandra had told Bruce her plan, accepting this he had allowed her to leave Gotham to begin her search. In which Cassandra had left the role of Batgirl behind and used an new moniker, going by Black Bat while outside Gotham and had aided members of the newly formed Batman Inc. during her search, Cassandra had eventually found her mother in Hong Kong and operated out of the city for a majority of that summer.

After breaking some criminals bones at night and continuing her search for her mother and her current whereabouts she didn't get far because of this though, she didn't have to wait long as while on patrol one night Shiva had found her instead. The mother and daughter had various long conversations though all of them ended with the two fighting throughout the city racking up numerous dollars of property damage, though the two had eventually came to an understanding and had worked on stopping various criminal rings. In the end however, Shiva's methods proved to be too violent for Cassandra, as the two broke out into one of the most violent and brutal fights. Though Cassandra proved to stick with her morals and left her mother defeated, knowing that she wasn't the most skilled martial artist.

After returning to Gotham, Black Bat has become a regular sight along with the others and often works with 'The Team', though when she has time she often departs to follow the League's actions and often hangs with Tim and Steph as along as she's free Cass is content...

## Strengths

* **Physical Conditioning:** Through continuous intense training, Cassandra represents the greatest fighting weapon ever conceived. She possesses peak levels of strength, stamina, speed and agility possible for a person of her size and build, truly comparable to the finest human athletes.
* **Martial Arts:** Due to her life long training Cassandra has a master level knowledge of all fighting arts known and unknown and continues to learn with every new opponent she faces. She was trained by her father (David Cain), along with several other members of the League of Assassins, including Bronze Tiger, Merlyn, and the al Ghul sisters. Upon taking the mantle of Batgirl, she was trained further by Batman, myself, Black Canary, and Ted Grant (who after one lesson told Bruce to not bother bringing her by again). She has also invented her own styles and techniques. Cassandra remains the only person I've ever seen able to regularly defeat both Batman and Black Canary, at the same time, in a sparring match.
	+ ***The Falling Leaf Technique:*** A nerve pinch invented by Chinese monks in the 16th Century. Cassandra and her father are believed to be the only living people who know how to use it.
	+ ***Leopard Blow:*** A maneuver created by her mother, Cassandra is one of the few people in the world capable of executing this attack.
	+ ***Body Reading Ability:*** Cassandra has the advanced ability to read body language enabling her to read what people are thinking and tell what they are going to do next before they do it. She has been shown able to read opponents far faster than herself, along with nonhuman and even alien lifeforms once she is given a chance to learn their body language. This enables her to identify disguised and transformed people as well.
* **Assassin:** Cassandra is schooled in all known and many unknown assassin techniques such as pressure points, killing techniques and stealth to name a few.
* **Investigation:** Cassandra has had plenty of time to learn detective methods simply by watching Tim Drake and Bruce Wayne in the field.
* **Stealth:** Due to her excessive training she is also a master of stealth. This ability was furthered during her time as The Nothing. Basically put, if Cass doesn't want you to know she is there, you'll have no idea.

## Weaknesses

* **Dyslexia:** Cassandra has extreme dyslexia, making it very difficult for her to read and write. Though she has improved significantly thanks to mundane and psychic therapy, she has let her regular therapy sessions lapse as she realized that as those skills improved, her combat-instincts eroded.
* **Over-Reliance on Body Reading Ability:** While a definite strength in combat, Cassandra's ability to read body language can work against her when she can't properly discern an the intent of the opponents actions based on body language. Generally this can be happen when an opponent is very good at disguising their intent like Slade Wilson, who can keep Cassandra distracted with subtle body language that could hint at many possible actions (Cassandra stated that when Slade moves, his body "sings like a chorus. Too fast with too many voices to pick up accurately.") In another instance it could be that an opponent isn't thinking or focusing on their movements as they make them like when Cassandra tried to stop a gunshot from a cybernetically enhanced assassin (KGBeast) but couldn't because his cybernetics took over the aiming for him independently of his movements. The last way in which this weakness manifests is when Cassandra is facing an opponent who is mentally unstable or ill. Such an opponent is simply too unpredictable to anticipate. When Cassandra fought the Joker, the Joker had an edge in the beginning of the fight because she couldn't understand the Joker's body language or as Batman put it "she can read his body language too, but his body language just comes out as gibberish."

## Trivia

* Cassandra has scars across her back, arms, and legs from bullet wounds made by her father during her childhood training, teaching her how to evade gunfire.
* Cassandra Cain takes two hour long showers, treating it more like an act of spiritual meditation than an act of hygienic need.
* Cassandra has a very healthy appetite and has been known to shovel her food by the fork-full when given the chance. Not to mention ordering meal sizes more suited for people twice her size and shape.
* Apparently, Cassandra is quite the lightweight when it comes to booze. Half a beer and she's wasted.
* Due to her comparative lack of experience in socializing with other people and/or communication, Cassandra often takes to mimicking the actions, mannerisms and sayings of those around her.
* Cassandra's bedrooms in both Wayne Manor and in the Wayne Foundation Penthouse are very spartan, despite Alfred's attempts to spruce them up. Her only piece of decor being a single rose she leaves on her window sill, only replacing it once it withers and wilts.
* Cassandra possess extraordinarily high levels of serotonin, so much so that I have to wonder if her father had El Penitente perform some experiments on her as an infant.
* Due to her upbringing, Cassandra was unable to understand words being spoken and used body language to understand what people were saying. Eventually, she gained the ability to process and attach meaning to words. Now she is quite capable of speech, but still struggles with reading writing due to severe dyslexia.
* Cassandra admitted to me that she used to want nothing more than to die, over the guilt she felt from the single life she took. She has since come to accept that she is a champion of good and the lives she has saved outweigh the one she took.
* Her first spoken word was "Stop," warning Tim Drake that he was about to step on a landmine.
* Cassandra's favorite flavor of ice cream is chocolate.
* Her favorite drink is Assam tea.
* The terrorist cult known as CRIME believe that Cassandra Cain is a being known as 'Who Is All' and have sought to recruit her many times, even being so bold as to assault Wayne Manor in an attempt to abduct her. Luckily, Batman had a rather quick response time to that assault and therefore Cassandra did not have to risk exposing her secret identity.
* Cassandra's first kiss was shockingly Bart Allen.
* Of Bruce's adopted children, Cassandra is the one to use her adopted name more regularly than her birth name, choosing to go by Cassandra Wayne on all official documents.
* Cassandra likes to hum songs while on patrol, her favorite being Schoolhouse Rock. When she's in a playful mood, she'll hide in shadows and hum loudly as she dashes between cover, causing criminals to believe she is all around them and just when she has them panicked, she drops in behind them and says "Boo." I know at least three wet themselves immediately.
* Due to her difficulty at reading, Cass chooses to take the same classes as Tim or Steph and then when studying, she meditates and has them read the text out loud to her.
* Cassandra is studying Physical Education at Gotham State University.
* There was an idea of Cassandra taking over the mantle of Batman (after adjusting and padding the suit) after Bruce's near death experience, but she was sent on a mission to find Joey Wilson.
* She made contact with Every Hammond during a mission in London.