Jean-Paul Valley

* Azarel
* Jean-Paul Valley

Sons of Batman

## Biography: (Written by Oracle)

### Jean-Paul Valley: 1985 - 2009

As a way to conduct a perfect heir to Ra's al Ghul, Simon Hurt had sought out a League of Shadows member, Jean-Paul Valley a skilled member to conceive with a female member along with various enhancements, along with numerous educators and athletes. Deciding to name the child Jean-Paul Valley Jr. as Jean-Paul was trained from birth to become an elite assassin and rise among the ranks, while at first his training was going well the constant exposure to various chemicals to condition his body he slowly began to go into insanity much like Ra's. Deciding to rather stow Jean away until a later time he sent Hurt and Jean away to a secluded Shadows camp within Santa Prisca there he had Hurt continue his training along with his father being put through constant trials to stable his exposure to the various chemicals. It didn't take long for Ra's to allow new recruit, Bruce Wayne to be nominated though it failed however, along with numerous plots by the League of Shadows being foiled by his alter ego, Batman. Choosing to burn Gotham down along with breaking Batman, Ra's began to begin his plan, having his top members to begin their training to bring Gotham to it's knees.

Though, Ra's plan was stopped in the tracks after the Joker had kidnapped Jason Todd and would later kill him after months of torturing him after reviving him and beginning Jason's brainwashing process before finally being deemed worthy with the final part being to erase Jean-Paul's memory and sending him to Gotham seven months prior. Arriving in Gotham, Jean-Paul would apply at Wayne Tower and would "stumble" open a spare batsuit in Bruce's office. It took a while for him to earn Bruce's trust to which he was able to do and was granted the role of Batman after his fight with Bane.

### The New "Batman": 2009

I don't have much to go off Jean-Paul's time under the cape and cowl though what I do know is he started off as the Bat quite easily and able to handle the constant hours wrangling criminals in along with the new League of Shadows presence. It didn't take long for the memory swipe from the League to slowly become undone this led to Jean-Paul having taken this out on an unlucky criminal which landed him in the hospital. While he attempted to hide the blood stained uniform after a patrol it didn't take long for Bruce to notice the sudden change inn methods caused by his replacement.

After convincing Dick to talk some sense into him Dick followed Jean on a patrol to see if the stories were true about this new Batman, Dick later conformed this after seeing Jean-Paul cripple some looters. After Dick had stepped in Azarel broke Dick's nose before throwing him into the sewers before going back onto the prowl. Safe to say Bruce got the biggest told you so from us, though Jean-Paul didn't willing give up the role of Batman and avoided us for the following weeks.

Though Dick had donned the role of Batman and would later find Jean-Paul holding a gang hostage, the two would break out into a fight one that resulted in Jean-Paul following into Gotham Harbor though that didn't mean he completely disappeared.

### Azarel: 2009 - 2016

Upon viewing Dick's time as Batman and bringing it back from the abyss he also continued to monitor the new Robin hoping to lure the duo out and to take what he believed what rightfully was his, this led to him later hunting and violently beating Bane to prove his worth, after briefly defeating him Jean-Paul used Bruce's tiredness to escape. None the less Jean-Paul stayed out of out sights for the time being, we later found out that it was Jean-Paul that helped get Dick back to the Sub-levle of the Batcave after his show down Red Hood, coming to realize that he can't be Gotham's hero and rather allowed Dick to stay as it's Dark Knight with Dick having gained Azarels mercy.

About a week later he would come across Batman while hunting some criminals as the two would stop a drug bust, after offering him a chance to redeem himself from his past actions to which he agreed to quickly having given him leadership to the recently formed Sons of Batman, and allowing him a chance into the inner circle, while he's chosen to don his role as a vigilante, we often keep an eye just to be sure.

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