Francine Charles

## Background

### 1999 - 2006: Francine Charles

Francine, or Frankie as she likes to be called, was born to Daniel Charles & his second wife Lorraine. Both parents had a daughter from their previous marriage. Daniel would be left a widow after Sasha was killed by a gunmen who opened fire at a courthouse that Sasha was at with her work colleagues. A year later, he would fall in love Lorraine, a young woman that was forced to raise her daughter on her own. The two eventually get married & have a daughter together. Due to the large gap between Frankie & her older sister Sarah, the two didn't grow up together but Sarah did her best to look out for her.

At a young age, Frankie would be diagnosed with an illness that would lead to her having weakened muscles. Though she was able to get around, the doctors said she would have to resort to using crutches when walking around sometimes. When Sarah decided to transfer to the STAR Labs in Central City, the rest of the family followed suit. With the recommendations from her previous doctors & usage of Sarah's connections, Frankie was put with the best doctors in the area.

## Personality

Frankie is a friendly, sharp, woke & cool lass. However, she also is something of a workaholic & tends to work overtime many days of the week. Though she’s a good friend & means well, Frankie’s certainly not conflict-averse. If she doesn’t like something, it will most definitely be known. And if she thinks she’s right, she’ll escalate rather than back down.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Computer Operation:** Frankie is a solid computer security expert. She does intrusion testing, antiviral clean-ups, firewall programming, etc. She can also competently pitch in in a number of programming & system administration fields. She tends to code in Wisp (a Lisp evolution). Frankie has access to cinematic databases & software. These are often used in movies, TV series & comics to provide a faster, more visual depiction of magical-grade intelligence gathering. This allows for real-time data collating & analysis from CCTV & police cameras; matching photographs of faces against all-knowing databases to identify persons; tracking people whose face has been recognised throughout crappy CCTV footage; using cellphone relays to infer the phone number of a smartphone based on its exact location; precisely locating a smartphone with a known number; and rapidly finding similarities between random citizens, usually to explain why they have been targeted by the same criminals.
* **Medicine:** Frankie has stated that she knows some first aid.

### Weaknesses

* **Restricted Mobility**: Frankie suffers from muscular dystrophy, which is a degenerative muscles condition that started with her legs. Becuase of this, she occassioanlly has to use crutches when walking around, especially if she’s going out or has to stand for a long while. On most days, she can walk & move normally. On a good day, she can just use a cane. On particularly bad days, she’ll have to use a wheelchair.
* **Coffee Addiction:** As per tradition of any computer fanatic, she drinks a lot of coffee.

### Ratings

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

## Trivia

* Her roommate is Alysia Yeoh & their apartment is right off of Gotham University's campus.
* She is interested in robotics engineering & is thinking of taking some electives classes.
* She occasionally catches underworld rumours because she spends time in black hat hacking online discussions & is radiated a bit from there.
* Frankie is really good at playing several genres of video games.
* She also has to keep up with an exercise regimen to protect her leg muscles as much as possible.
* Her sister is working with STAR Labs to create a cyberimplant that will increase Frankie's quality of life.
* Frankie is bisesual, though in practice she’s mostly interested in women. But in actual practice, she doesn’t seem to get much action beyond drunken after-party one-night stands since she’s working all the time.
* She's had relations with Draya Cipriani, Harper Row, Carli Alvarez, Ariella Kent & Ashley Brooks (Luna of the Hex Girls).
* Something is believed to have happened between her & Tiffany Fox as well.
* She has a crush on Dinah Lance.
* Frankie is fasincated with the super-hero scene, particularly the Birds of Prey.

## Notes

* In the comics, LeTonya Charles is Cyborgirl.