Jade Nguyen

## Background

### 1988 - 1999: Jade Nguyen

Jade Nguyen is the product of of two master assassins, Lawrence Crock (aka Sportsmaster) & Paula Nguyen (aka Tigress). Though born on Infinity Island, she lived in Gotham up until she was twelve. The family still visited Infinity Island due to both of her parents being members of the League. Her dad took her & Artemis to live permanently at the League of Shadows after their mom was sent to prison. Their mission had went bad so instead of letting everyone get caught, her mom took the blame & let everyone get away, including their father. She also did it as she wanted the kids to be raised by one of them.

Their mom was the reason they never moved to live at Infinity Island as she wanted the kids to at least get some level of an education. Their father never cared for that & didn't feel they didn't need to know anything but how to fight. Both her & Artemis were subjected to emotional & physical abuse from their father but Jade got it worst as the oldest.

In 1999, Jade went to Ra’s al Ghul himself to ask if she could continue her training in one of the safe houses. He granted her wish & because Ra's himself permitted it, her father couldn't argue. Instead, Artemis got the full brunt of her dad’s abuse & training.

### 1999 - 2002: Shayshayr

Ra's saw great promise in her & sent the best to train with her in whichever safe house she was in at the time. She completed her first kill at fourteen & began to work closely with Deathstroke due to their fighting styles complimenting each other.

While on a mission in the summer of 2002, she stole a Cheshire Cat mask from the shop, something that would later become her signature look. She then started going by Cheshire, a name that fit her perfectly as she was constantly disappearing, sarcastic & enjoyed causing trouble for others. To fully emulate the character, she would kill many of her victims by slicing off their head as a nod to the famous line of the Queen of Hearts "off with his head." With her success & kill list growing, Cheshire easily became one of the League’s most infamous assassins.

### 2002 - 2009: Cheshire

As a member of the League, she also became a member for The Light as proxy when Ra's joined their ranks. Due to her skills as a master assassin, she was called upon a lot & was a high ranking operative.

She eventually employed Will Harper into joining the League, after previously telling him weeks before that he was the clone of Roy Harper. The two eventually began a relationship after his arrival at the urging of Ra's as he was still skeptical of the young man. He lost some of his suspicions when the relationship resulted in Jade's pregnancy. The League celebrated the pregnancy by marrying the two in an elaborate wedding.

Against her better judgment, Cheshire left the League at the persuasion of Will months after Lian’s birth. They went to Star City so he could finally talk to Oliver about anything. After he came clean to everyone that he found out he was a clone of the real Roy Harper & that he was still alive, he left with Oliver to find him.

## Romantic Relationships

* Grant Wilson: On & Off Lover (2003 - 2007)
* Thomas Blake: One Night Stand (2011)
* Will Harper: Lover (2007); Husband (2007 - 2009); Separated (2009 - )

## Personality

Cheshire has a true killer's instinct & is willing to go to any means necessary to accomplish her goals, whether it be through attacks, murder or blackmail. She has a dry sense of humor & treats her opponents like a cat would treat a mouse, allowing herself to be involved in playful banter to a small extent. She actually enjoys the prospect of killing but she is not without her own sense of duty, following the orders of her masters to the letter, despite how easy it would be for her to ignore them.

Over the years, her work as Cheshire has become a way to bury her feelings of doubt & insecurity, as well as a way of detaching her from her family. For a time, she felt unworthy of being a mother & believed it was best that her children were better off without her in their life.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Peak Human Condition:** Cheshire is widely recognized as one of the most deadly assassins, with some even placing her second to Lady Shiva as the deadliest female assassins.
	+ ***Acrobatics***: She is shown to be skilled in acrobatics, moving seamlessly & quickly in the air, as well as jumping from tree to tree through a forest without any difficulty.
	+ ***Hand to Hand Combat/Martial Arts***: Trained by her father, she became a member of the League of Shadows & a very powerful fighter. She was seen taking on the Titans with ease. She is also not hesitant in fighting much more powerful foes than her like Aquaman & Wonder Woman.
	+ ***Stealth*:**Cheshire has demonstrated the ability to disappear into the shadows at will with no-one being able to find her when she doesn't wish to be found.  She also is often sent by the League of Assassins to do infiltration. She also demonstrated stealth when sneaking past Artemis & Miss Martian while on watch duty & being able to follow Green Arrow without him noticing.
* **Deception**: Prior to the birth of her children, her loyalty was only to herself. She has successfully hid her true intentions on multiple occasions.
* **Intimidation**: Cheshire is a lethal & savage assassin. She brought fear to even her fellow assassins for her gleeful attitude in killings others.
* **Multilingualism:** She speaks fluent English, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese & many more languages.
* **Tactical Analysis**: Cheshire is a great tactical analyst, acting as a main strategist for her former team, Mayhem. She is calm & collected, often facing dangerous situations without losing her composure. She was shown to be able to execute a plan that incapacitated Starfire despite the latter superhuman attributes. She once executed a small plane crash by poisoning the pilots & staff members without setting foot on the airplane.
* **Seduction**: Cheshire is an attractive woman & knows to how to utilizing it. During her fight with Arsenal & Green Arrow, she often made sexual innuendos as a mean to distract & confuse them. She was seen to often utilize seduction on her mission to further her goal.
* **Toxicology**: Her most renown ability is her expertise in poison. She douses all of her weapons with different kind of chemicals so even if the weapon didn't deliver the lethal blow, the poison will. Her poisons are often very hard to detect as she is seen to be able to mix them with anything. She also uses poisons efficiently in different forms, like gases, to various different effects, like burning a piece of metal & including one that will not kill but deteriorate people's health. Due to her expertise, she claims to be immune to various poisons.
* **Weaponry**: Cheshire equipped many different type of weapons on her costume. She was seen with swords, throwing daggers, hidden knives, sais & so on.
	+ ***Firearms***: She has been seen using handgun with precision.
	+ ***Swordsmanship***: Cheshire carried several swords with her & seemed to be very proficient using them. Most of her fights will often involve her using one or two swords to attack.
	+ ***Throwing***: Cheshire is seen to able to use throwing daggers as long range weapons.
* **Claws**: Cheshire used claws since her training with the League of Shadows. She has sharpen her fingernails to the point that she could tear clothes or draw blood from her nails.
* **Cheshire Mask:** She initially stole the mask during a mission. After getting it upgraded, the masks not only protects her face from identification & injury, but also has a thermal scanner allowing her the means to track her prey. It has a built-in air filter so that she doesn't breathe in toxins or smoke.
* **Sais:** Her primary weapon of choice, especially for close ranged battles.

### Weaknesses

* **Her Children:** Though Jade was formerly known as selfless assassin, she'll sway from a mission if harm comes or is projected to come her children's way.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **Strength:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **Speed:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **Occult:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Weapons:** 6 - Expert / Advanced
* **Range:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **Strategy:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **Combat:** 6 - Expert / Advanced
* **TOTAL:** 153 - Threat Level 4 / Moderate Threat

## Trivia

#### General

* Jade is terrible at telling jokes. They usually are morbid or have some connection to her life as an assassin, which makes many people uncomfortable.
* She is major flirt.
* Her loyalty is to herself & her kids.
* She used to regularly poison her nails.
* She has been called "the most dangerous woman in the world," "one of the world's greatest poison experts" & one of the "most toxic individuals on the planet."
* Jade was recruited into joining the Wonderland Gang but she passed.
* Her alias, Anna Chaumont, is comes from her grandfather's name, Andre Chaumont.
* It is possible that Cheshire would sway from a mission if Artemis' life is on the line.

#### Relationships

* Jade didn't see Artemis after leaving until Artemis was on a mission with the Titans & Jade was working as an operative for The Light. Neither exposed their relationship at the time & Artemis purposely let her get away to avoid it coming out.
* Jade had relations with Grant Wilson numerous times during her early years with the League.
* Despite her & her father's animosity towards each other, he has broken her out of jail & she has saved his life more than once.
* Years after having her son, she discovered that Thomas Blake (the father of her child) is her second cousin on her mother's side.
* She has some history with Promise. When the two ran into each other in the field, Cheshire mentioned how she had not “seen her in awhile.” It's unconfirmed whether this is due to Cheshire's departure from the Shadows, Ivana's possible departure or an unrelated event.
* While Paula wasn't the most motherly, she did try to care for Jade & Artemis the best she could. After six years of prison, Paula was released but they would not have a real conversation until after Jade had Lian.

#### Will Harper

* She says that Will is the best lover she ever had.
* Will's obsession with finding the real Roy Harper led to Jade ending their relationship & leaving Lian with Oliver & Dinah to watch.
* A year later, Jade found him & accused him of obsessing over Roy. He refused, saying that she lost her right to backseat drive his life when she left him & Lian. Fed up, she called in every favor she had & eventually got a lead. Jade's tip brought him & Oliver to a Tibetan monastery, where they found a cryogenic pod with the real Roy inside. When they returned & were given a clean bill of health, Jade disappeared again.
* In 2012, Jade went to Blüdhaven to see Lian. When Will tried to stop her, she revealed she had given birth weeks ago & showcased the newborn baby on her back. After a long conversation, the two somewhat resumed their relationship & named the baby boy Oliver William Harper. Life was bliss for a few weeks before Jade left again, knowing her kids would be in good hands with Will.
* She's had a few rendevauos with Will over the years.

## Notes

* The most dangerous woman quote is from the Operative in *Aquaman and the Others* #7. Batman made the other comments. The first one is from *Batman/Superman Annual* #2. The second one, which is from *All-Star Batman Vol 1* #2, was in reference to her & Copperhead.
* Artemis & Jade being sisters is a nod to *Young Justice.*