Allison Burns

## Background

### 1992 - 2014: Allison Burns

Allison Burns was born in the Otisburg District of Gotham. Both of her parents worked as chemists, allowing the family to live a comfortable life. Most of her childhood was particuarly uneventful until the 2008 earthquake that shook Gotham. Not only did the Burns lose their house in the outcome, they also lost their jobs due to their places of employment being destroyed. Like many other Gotham residents, they struggled to find work again as Gotham rebuilt itself.

With the loss of two incomes, the Burns family was forced to move into a smaller place in Crime Alley. Her parents looked for months but couldn't find any work, leading to them looking in less than savory places not too far from their residence. Just a bit south of Crime Alley was The Bowery, a neighborhood under the watch of the Bowery Town Massive. The close proximity to the mob family led to Maxwell & Vera Burns to get jobs working for the gang as their personal chemists.

Allison remained blissfully ignorant to her parents' occupations, believing the two had just gotten another job at a lab. But reality soon settled in. One day while coming home from high school, Allison was greeted by firemen & police officers in front of her house. When she demanded to know what was going on, she was told that her parents had created a drug lab in the basement. Due to unsafe precautions, a fire broke out. Two bodies were recovered in the house fire but the damages were so bad that they had to use their teeth for a DNA confirmation.

In the aftermath, Allison went to live with her Uncle Arnold. Her uncle worked as manager for the band Scare Tactics, meaning he was on the road a lot. So they prompted for Allison to get homeschooled & she went along with them on the road. After graduating high school, she moved into her uncle's vacant apartment in Gotham while she figured out what she wanted to do in life. It took two years of waitressing for Allison to decide to enter the police academy.

### 2014 - 2018: Allison Burns

Allison did well as an uniformed officer. She held that position for four years before she became a Junior Detective in the Major Crimes Unit. Upon joining, she was assigned Sgt. Andrew Howe as a partner. Allison enjoyed working with Howe as he was normally the one behind the wheel with her riding shotgun, scanning the streets of Gotham for signs of trouble. Unfortunately, trouble was much closer than Allison thought. Maybe it was her parents' former occupation but Howe thought Allison wouldn't care much for his extracurricular activities. In one day, she witnessed him participate in shakedowns & even look the other way for Two Face when offered the right price. He attempted to bring Allison into the fold but she did not want to end up like her parents. After pretending she was on board, she reported him to Commissioner Gordon as she she stated she wanted no part in his antics.

While Gordon & a few other comended her bravery in sticking up to a fellow & senior officer, many people in the departments felt Burns did not look out for her brother in blue. She quickly got a reputation for being a rat not only with the police force but even in the streets. Unwilling to take the hostility, she asked Gordon for a transfer. He used some of his pull & was able to get her transferred to Central City Police Department.

### 2018 - Present: Allison Burns

Allison fit in much better in her new enviornment. Not only was the police department welcoming but Central City was nice change of pace. That was not to say the city did not have its own crime (i.e. Captain Cold, Mirror Master, Weather Wizard) but it wasn't as if she was walking the streets of Crime Alley anymore.

One of Allison's first cases was when Chief Davit Singh assigned her to look into the missing blood samples from the CCPD evidence room. When she asked why he would assign a newcomer to the job, he said he believed it had to be one of his officers & knew that she would not look the other way when the truth came out. Though she was hoping it would be a "big old mix-up," Allison & her partner Detective Morrow discovered it Ramsey Rosso, the Assistant Medical Examiner that was stealing the evidence to experiment with the properties of blood.

During her time with the CCPD, Allison has not only become good friends with her partner Morrow but with Crime Lab Director Barry Allen, Forensic Specialist Kristen Kramer & Det. Patty Spivot. The five would frequently meet at a dive bar known at Press Box, where they would sometimes be joined by Barry's wife Iris & her co-workers.

### Ratings

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

## Notes

* Maxwell Burns is Attica, a character from the *Wildstorm Universe*.
* Vera & Arnold Burnsteel are aquaintances of Doctor Fate.
* In the comics, her parents worked for the Falcone Family.