Dawn Golden

## Background

### 1972 - 1997: Dawn Golden

Dawn Golden is the only child of Aleister & Mary Golden. Her father was a famous writer from Washington, DC & her mother was a member of one of Gotham's elite families. Both of their statuses launched their family into the public eye. Her parents was friends with many other socially important people, like Thomas Wayne.

During a family trip to Gotham, Dawn had met Thomas' son Bruce. The two played together in the courtyard while their fathers conducted business. They ended up getting into a scuffle after Dawn let his kite fly into the sky on purpose. After chasing her & falling into each other, Bruce stated that maybe she wasn't so bad after all. Despite this rememberable interaction as children, they never really saw much again as Bruce's parents died that same year.

After the death of her mother when she was fourteen, she left her family's amulet to Dawn to wear. As the only memento of her mother, Dawn wore the necklace faithfully & felt that it made her closer to her mother. Her father soon became cold & distant to her, no longer bringing her along on his trips & left her alone in the family mansion. But no matter how rude he was to Dawn, he continued to tell her that she had a greater purpose. Wanting to create some space between them, she decided to attend Gotham University for college.

Before Dawn was to start college, she decided to spend the summer abroad in Europe with some of her friends. While travelling in Markovia, she encountered her old friend Bruce & the two decided to catch up over dinner. The two soon fell in love, prompting Dawn to take the fall semester off to spend with Bruce. Things were good until a particularly bad argument led to Dawn breaking up with him & breaking his heart. Bruce left shortly after & Dawn moved to Gotham to start school. She hoped she would run into Bruce but learned from Alfred that he was still away.

Still known as a socialite, Dawn was at all important events. She wouldn't see Bruce again until the summer of '92. However, he denied her & said he was not ready to be in another relationship. She backed off, understanding his feelings but was visibly upset when he began dating Julie Madison. She then turned her back on society & continued on with school. After graduating, she decided to work to become a nurse for the elderly.

### 1997 - 2006: Dawn Golden

As life continued on & Dawn entered into her 30s, her father became ill & she returned home to take care of him. While nursing him on his deathbed, her father attempted to kill her, stating that her greater purpose was to be sacrificed so that he would could have eternal life. Realizing he had lost it, Dawn left the house & acted like the event never happened. She returned back to Gotham shortly after.

Dawn put all of her focus into her job as a nurse. Using her connections, she held an event to help raise money. During the event, Oswald Cobblepot invited her to dance but she politely declined as she was busy entertaining other guests at the time. Humiliated, the Penguin engineered her kidnapping. While leaving an event the next day, Dawn realized that her driver had been replaced by one of the Penguin's henchmen. Believing that her father had returned to exact vengeance on her, Dawn kicked the driver in the head, causing the car to crash. But another henchman arrived & kidnapped her. Instead of fighting, she allowed herself to be captured, as she believed that being kidnapped by an unknown assailant was better than suffering her father's wrath. Dawn was then taken to an abandoned house rigged with explosives. Just seconds before the building exploded, Batman arrived & saved her after hearing of her kidnapping.

While taking her to the police, Dawn told Batman about her father & told him that she needed his protection. He promised to end his influence over her. As Batman continued protecting her, he began falling for her again & started dating her again as Bruce Wayne. While on a date, the two were attacked by a group of men. Although Bruce did his best to defend her, the men still managed to kidnap her. She was taken to the sewers of Gotham, where her father strapped her to a table & began a ritual that would grant him eternal life. Again, Batman arrived before Aleister could stab her with the knife. When Dawn regained consciousness at the hospital, she revealed to Bruce that she knew he was Batman after hearing him talk to her when he believed her to be unconscious. Not wanting a repeat of Silver, Bruce tried to end the relationship but she refused as this encounter had nothing to do with them.

Though they managed to be a happy couple for some time, things eventually soured after Bruce became a depressed & violent man after the death of his adopted son, Jason Todd. He broke up with Dawn, swearing off partners (both romantic & crimefighting).

### 2006 - Present: Dawn McGinnis

Dawn returned to her single life but decided to leave Gotham to use her resources to help people around the world get better treatment. She visited various countries for the next five years before returning back to Gotham. When she returned, Bruce was as whole as he could be & provided her an apology. The two gave their relationship one more shot but they realized that it wasn't in the stars in them.

Dawn subsequently began dating Warren McGinnis, a research chemist for Wayne Enterprises' sub-division Wayne Chemicals. After a short courtship, the two were married & had a son Terry just a couple of months after the wedding. With a child now in the mix, Dawn sold her high rise apartment for a cozy home with Warren. Nearly eight years later, they welcomed a second child by the name of Matt. As of now, the Dawn resides in the Gotham Heights District with her husband & two sons.

## Romantic Relationships

* Bruce Wayne: Boyfriend (1990), (2005 - 2006), (2011)
* Warren McGinnis: Boyfriend (2011 - 2012); Husband (2012 - )

## Powers & Abilities

* **Medicine**
* **Multilingualism**
* **Wealth**

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** Unknown
* **Strength:** Unknown
* **Speed:** Unknown
* **Occult:** Unknown
* **Weapons:** Unknown
* **Range:** Unknown
* **Strategy:** Unknown
* **Combat:** Unknown
* **TOTAL:** Unknown

## Trivia

* She has a tattoo of a heart on her right ankle.
* After her mother's death, her & her father moved from Washington, DC.

## Notes

* She is a composite of Dawn Golden, Linda Page & Mary McGinnis.
* *Earth 44 Explanation:I incorporated the idea to make Bruce & Terry's mother have a formal relationship from Earth-27 & roysovitch. I found it very clever & much more interesting. It also makes their relationship more complex in a way. For his mother, I combined Mary McGinnis with Dawn Golden (college girlfriend from Pre-Crisis) & Linda Page (socialite & nurse girlfriend from the Golden Age).*
* Saint Eligius Home for the Elderly is based on Saint Eligius Medical Center, where Amina Franklin (another one of Bruce's love interest) worked.