Donna Cavanaugh

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

## Foxglove

### Donna Cavanaugh: 1989 - 2005

Born and raised during the grand restructuring effort that transformed the post-Manhanttaning Philadelphia into what would become known as "the Hub", Donna Cavanaugh had a less-than-happy childhood. Her parents' careers put them on different tracks and ultimately they chose to divorce with each taking custody of one of their two children.

Donna stayed in Hub City with her father while her mother and older brother Nathan moved to Star City. Donna would see her mother every other year when she would fly out to spend the summer in Star City. On years when Donna did not fly out, her brother would make the trip to spend his summer in Hub City.

On what would have been be the last year Nathan would make the trip to Hub City for the summer, Donna's mother was murdered when she was caught in the crossfire of a gang war. This would become a catalyst for the future life trajectories of both Donna and Nathan.

### Donna Cavanaugh: 2005 - 2012

In the wake of this tragedy Donna returned to to Hub City with an aggressive streak. She rebelled against her father (even more so than is common for teens) and frequent encounters with the law. Dropping out of school, Donna became involved in working for John Dee, more notoriously known as the meta-criminal Doctor Destiny. Among the gang supporting Dee was Judy Sullivan. She was a devout extremist follower of Dee's. Judy took Donna under her wing.

After Dream of the Endless reclaimed the Materioptikon, Doctor Destiny was captured and taken to Arkham while it was determined how much of their actions were caused by the psionic control of Doctor Destiny. As she had recently turned eighteen, Donna was also incarcerated.

Sharing a cell with Judy for several months, the two's relationship began to change. By the time of their release, the two were romantic. But over time, particularly during the stresses of living through the Cataclysm, Donna began to realize that Judy's darker side was not the creation of Dee as Judy began to abuse Donna.

After Judy broke Dee out of Arkham, Donna decided she wanted out. One day, while their crew was at a diner, Donna managed to slip away and tipped out the DEO to their location. A shootout ensued during which Judy ran out the back, trying to take Donna with her. When Donna fought back, Judy realized what Donna had done. Judy raised her gun to shoot Donna, deaf to Donna's protests. When a gunshot did ring out, it was Judy who dropped dead — shot by DEO Agent Greg Saunders.

### Foxglove: 2012 - Present

In exchange for testifying against Dee and his subordinates, Donna was allowed to finally put that dark chapter behind her. She learned to play guitar (turns out she's natural) and began a healthy relationship with beautiful young chef Hazel McNamara. However, as Donna moves further from her dark past, transitioning from a MeVids musician to a successful indy pop star, she has found she is something of a weird magnet as her life perpetually gets stranger and stranger. But she's getting numb to it.

### Supplemental Reports

* (*Submitted by Four-Eyes*) I have concerns that Donna may be joining the 27 Club (a list consisting of artists who died at age 27). Donna has a great deal of risk factors, including having contact with multiple Endless, living in close physical and personal proximity of paranormals and metahumans, having a history of drug abuse, and living in Gotham City — to name a few. As of the date of this entry (6/23/2016), Donna is twenty seven years old. The only way to disprove my theory is for Donna to still be alive on June 6th, 2017. I hope I'm wrong as I have now listened to her album and I gotta say, I'm a fan.
* (*Submitted by Gimmix*) Donna left a bouquet of her mother's favorite flowers, digitalis purpurea or "foxglove", on her mother's casket at the funeral. In 2012, while visiting her mother's grave while trying to rebuild her own life, Donna saw that wild foxglove had grown around her mother's grave. Donna would later recall this moment when adopting her stage name.
* (*Submitted by Gimmix*) After Donna resolved to change her life Greg Saunders helped get Donna back on her feet. He set her up with an apartment and entry-level job at the Gotham Gazette. Greg also taught her to play guitar after he found her playfully strumming on his guitar and discovered her "exceptional" taste in music. Donna had an ear for music and a good voice, but was delighted to find out she was also a bit natural virtuoso when it came to acoustic guitar and songwriting. Deciding to invest even more in Donna that he had already, moved Donna and Hazel into a larger apartment and built her a small studio in their spare bedroom.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* Master Guitarist
* Master Songwriter

### Weaknesses

* Drug Abuse
* Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 2 — Basic / Typical
* **Occult:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Weaponry:** 2 — Basic / Typical
* **Expertise:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Range:** 3 — Trained / Exceptional
* **Strategy:** 2 — Basic / Typical
	+ **TOTAL:** 26
	+ **RANKING:** Minimal Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* She is friends with Luigi Fusco, Thessaly Fusco, Barbie Hatfield, Rose Walker, Angie Aimes, Ellie MacKay and Suzy Linden.
* Jimmy Gordon is her dealer.
* She met Hazel during the opening of her restaurant. The two got to talking and drinking, waking up in bed together. Both thought it was just meant to be a one-night-stand, but Hazel liked Fox's music so she kept going to her shows and Fox couldn't get enough of Hazel's cooking. So after they kept waking up naked with each other, they decided to give love a chance.
* The baby growing in Hazel's body is influencing her to do its bidding.
* One of her songs is called "Dine and Dash."

### Notes

* Foxglove is a character from *The Sandman* series.
* In the comics, her last name was spelled Cavanagh.
* Her ex-lover Judy is composited with Judy Sullivan of *The Extremist* Vertigo limited series. In the comics Judy was one of Doctor Destiny's victims, made to kill herself.

## Network Files

Network Files Foxglove.pngNetwork Files: Foxglove

## Links and References

* Appearances of Donna Cavanaugh

1. ↑ Network Files: Foxglove
2. ↑ Network Files: Hazel McNamara
3. ↑ VOX Box: Fall From Grace 6
4. ↑ VOX Box: Fall From Grace 9