Josephine MacDonald

## Background

### 1989 - 2013: Josie Mac

Josephine "Josie" MacDonald is the second child of Joshua & Jasmine MacDonald. A few years prior, they had a son named JJ. Josie was quite fascinated with her brother, always following him around whererver he went & trying to hang out with him when he was with his friends. He always tried to get rid of her but his mother told him that he had to look out for her.

When she was twelve, JJ convinced Josie to let him go off alone so she remained at the park with some girl she went to school with. That would be the last time anyone saw little JJ with the police never finding him or giving the family any answers about the disappearance. His disappearance was hard on the MacDonald's, especially Josie who felt responsible for letting her brother go off alone.

Months after this tragedy, Josie discovered that she had the ability to pyschically read inaimate objects & pick up "messages" to help her find things & people which are lost. Josie began using her powers to help other kids in the neighborhood, becoming a local teen legend though all of the adults dismissed it as teens being teens. When she was fifteen, her neighbor's daughter had gone missing. Josie secretly tried to use her powers to help find her but because she could only read inanimate objects, her powers were useless for the case. Feeling inadequate, Josie acted as if her abilities disappeared.

Some years after graduating high school, Josie decided to join the police force to honor her brother & the tragedy that Gotham went through for the last year. During her training as a cadet, her mother lost her long battle with cancer, leaving Josie & her father alone. Though it was another tragedy for the family, it brought the two much closer.

As a beat cop, Josie was recognized for her quick thinking on the job with many stating she would make detective in no time. Unfortunately, Josie happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. She got herself into quite the pickle when she accidentally intruded on the wife of Mayor Hady in the middle of an affair with a male stripper. Due to embarrassing the mayor & his wife, Josie was moved to the Missing Persons department.

### 2013 - 2019: Josie Mac

Now in Missing Persons, she was partnered up with Oscar Castro. Most people described Castro as a tired officer but in reality, he was just waiting out his final years of retirement. Within the first week of her job, she was given the case of Anthony Antonelli III, the grandson of one of Falcone's lieutenants. As she began investigating into the young boy's disappearance, she was approached by the infamous Dark Knight who warned the young officer to be careful as other powers than the mob were at play. But Josie couldn't let the case go as missing cases were always soemthing that struck a nerve with her. In the process of her investigation, two attempts were made on her life, with the second one ending up Castro getting injured. The third attempt was made on her father, who was injured so severely that he had to be placed in the hospital. But none of this stopped Josie.

It took some time but with the help of Batman also investigating, they discovered that it was Two Face who was behind the kidnapping. Two Face & Anthony Antonelli had some bad blood between them due to Antonelli double crossing the criminal on a deal that went south a few months ago. While the grandson was saved & Two Face was captured, he did reveal during his interrogation that he was not the who made the attempts on her & her father's life. While Batman believed him, Josie didn't & figured he was just a criminal lying his way out of another crime. Josie let it go with Two Face's arrest until Batman approached her a week later with evidence that it was Anotelli's lawyer who ordered the hits & the reason behind the sour deal with Two Face. With Batman's help, she brought the lawyer to justice.

With Josie's first & sub sequent cases going so well, it was hard for the politics to keep Commissioner Gordon from rewarding her determination & encouraging her to take the detective's exam. The next year, Josie was transferred to the MCU as a junior detective & Castro finally got his retirement. Her personal life was also going well as Josie became romantically involved with a newcomer in the city by the name of Jordan Rich. Things went well between them for the first several weeks until she saw Bullock bringing the man in handcuffs into the precinct. When she asked what was going on, Bullock broke the news that Jordan Rich was really Jordan Reynolds, a former ex cop who got caught by Gordon back in Chicago. He made his way to Gotham, used Josie as a cover & attempted to assasinate Gordon in revenge. Josie swore off dating for awhile after this.

### 2019 - Present: Josie Mac

In recent years, Josie has since transferred to the Organized Crime Unit & has been partnered up with Sgt. Marcus Driver. Driver had previously lost his former partner after they had been frozen to death Mister Freeze during one of his bank robberies. The two got along quite well, with Josie even telling him about her psychic abilities.

## Romantic Relationships

* Jordan Rich/Jordan Reynolds: Dated (2017)

## Powers & Abilities

* **Criminology:** Josie has worked in the Missing Persons Unit, Major Crimes Unit & now the Organized Crime Unit during her time with the GCPD. Her tenure in these different department gives her a wide knowledge on various crimes & how different criminals operate.
* **Hand to Hand Combat:** Though cops are necessarily trained to fight, most officers in the GCPD take the recommended combat classes due to the high amount of crime & volatile people in the city.
* **Investigation:** She is a great detective & would've made the rank much sooner if it wasn't for the politic of things.
* **Psychic Link:** Josie possesses the ability to pyschically read inaimate objects & pick up "messages" to help her find things & people which are lost.

### Ratings

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

## Trivia

* Josie became an officer with the GCPD in 2010. She was moved to Missing Persons in 2013 & then the MCU in 2015. She has been with the Organized Crime Unit since 2019.
* She is partnered with Senior Detective, Sgt. Marcus Driver.
* When she was on the MCU, a former childhood friend of hers blackmailed her into helping them beat a framed murder charge or they would expose her powers.

## Notes

* In the comics, she was romantically involved with Jim Corrigan, the corrupt crime scene investigator that shot Crispus Allen.
* Her birthday is a nod to her first comic appearance, *Detective Comics #763*, that came out in December 2001.
* Her address is a nod to her first comic appearance & one of her co-creators, Judd Winick.
* In the comics, her father was killed.