Cassandra Cain (Orphan)

# Cassandra Cain

## Cassandra Wu-San Cain

Black Bat

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## History

### Early Life

Cassandra was born to her father David Cain and mother Sandra Wu San better known as Lady Shiva in Nanda Parbat where she would also receive training. From birth Cassandra was predestined to become a highly lethal weapon capable of outperforming even the most experienced of hired killers the likes of which had never been seen before. Being one of many experiments to be trained in martial arts from childhood as a way to inculcate them which included the likes of Krav Maga the primary fight style which was mixed in with Capoeira and Jiu Jitsu which took up a majority of her training. Selected for its brutality and extreme effectiveness against many opponents, Cassandra would also receive training in being able to predict body language to help her counter close quarter combat moves. However during a bladed training session with David Cain as a means to prove a lesson to her about taking her training seriously she would have her larynx slashed which permanently muted the girl.

Not all of her childhood had been tragic though, having day’s where her mother had occasionally visited without the intention of hard training but instead lessons on literacy. The issue of having the ultimate weapon could have been severely crippled if they could not even read a sign to point them in the right direction towards the intended target. These were still harsh lessons that only ended in pain should she fail to understand and translate what she had read to a report with the most common being slapped and the harsher steaming along the lines of being hit with wooden surfaces such as her head being slammed onto a desk. The constant neglect combined with the fact that her father isolated her from human contact with anyone who was not granted permission had a grave effect on the young girl's mind, specifically in the Amygdala which caused her to have an emotional struggle almost everyday. Her face eventually became vacant with emotion due to her having issues properly displaying it since the age of seven, everything changed however when Cassandra turned eight.

When she turned eight her birthday gift was decided to be her first field test that was to be the first of many, being contracted by David on a man going by the name Faizul who was a “Bookman” (A Shadow Information broker who would sell collected information on various gangs in Gotham under the guise of a simple librarian) located in Gotham. Being sent to the crime ridden city she used the alias of Kasumi while under contract, spending days in the city as she scoped out the area posing as a simple child hanging around the library. On July tenth of that same year she would follow Faizul to his downtown apartment, careful not to attract too much attention to herself as she passed through crowds and streets. Striking the man at midnight, how she went about her kill was simple. She planned to exit through a hallway window and shimmey herself alongside the ledge and architectural structure of the building until she was able to drop down into the balcony.

Once down she would easily go through the sliding door and while he was asleep in his bed enter the apartment, her recon before striking proved to be bountiful as she discovered that Faizul had taken medications for heart palpitations alongside a pacemaker as a recent surgery. She had multiple ways to go about this naturally of course such as the classic overheating the stove or swapping the medication with sugar pills to overload his blood pressure was also an option and that’s exactly what had happened. Having snagged herself up a bottle of sugar pills from a doctor themed candy set that she found in a dollar store. Forcing them down his throat while she carried out the hit order as she was told to, however something had struck a nerve with the girl. As after she had taken the man’s life she simply stood there with her mind filled with thoughts of what she had done. Being trained for a scenario is one thing but actually taking part in such an act was another especially if it was taking a human life.

Her mental state began to break down as she fled from the scene with saliva covered hands as she muffled the screams and cries for help with them. Refusing to confirm her kill or even report back to David or Lady Shiva let alone travel back to them, the face of Faizul embedded itself in her mind for days and came to haunt her as it was burned into her memory permanently. Once she had left the apartment complex Cassandra made her way to the Gotham Ghetto where she would spend the rest of her time to age twelve as an orphan living in Gotham’s streets.

### Teenage Dreams

While most of Cassandra’s time as a thirteen year old had been uneventful it would not mean her skills went to waste. Having nothing but time to waste she kept up her physical abilities when necessary with such examples being an attempted mugging or whenever someone chased after her never killing as she couldn’t bear to live through the same mental breakdown and shut down again. Her time was spent as nothing more than a petty thief and pickpocket amongst the area she sheltered herself in, finding a hideout in an abandoned building where she set up a basic sleeping area and storage. It wasn’t until age fourteen that Cassandra was discovered by Jason Todd or Red Hood who was also with Helena Bartineli as she was found along a shipment of illegal immigrants, being discovered stealing various cargo to sell for money back onto the streets of Gotham. Retreating back to an abandoned and dilapidated apartment building Cassandra to rest, moments later The Batman would have tracked her down and broke into her hideout pinning her to the ground.

Striking against the nightmarish predator of Gotham only to be met with some form of chivalry with Batman actually wanting to speak to the young girl much to her own surprise. Once being let go of her entrapment she immediately started a fire via a candle being kicked over to a stack of the old dried out newspaper to distract the Bat, flipping over him once he went to shield his eyes from the bright orange hue that illuminated off of the fire. This effort would prove to be in vain however as she was immediately ensnared with a gadget that anchored her to the ground which resulted in her head being banged onto a broken glass window, injuring her severely. However instead of leaving her in such a state she was once more taken back by what Gotham’s savior did next fully expecting him to stomp what little vigor remained out of existence was instead replaced with an act of kindness and an apology. Being gifted a roll of gauze to patch up the gushing wound that had found its way to her head while also accepting the fact that escape was unachievable.

With haste she would have grabbed a piece of paper and pencil offered prior to the escape attempt, sketching out the figures of Lady Shiva and David Cain in an act to get him to leave her alone with her prompting him to leave shortly after she finished the drawing of the two. Denying this gesture Batman instead had sympathized towards Cassandra with a story of how he had injured his own head via someone striking him enough to cause a skull fracture only to be cured by magic offering the same way of healing to her along with the fact of the building being able to crumble at any time or being struck down by a construction crew. This would leave Cassandra in a state of shell shock as she couldn’t make up her mind whether or not to go with him or stay out in the cold with her gash being left vulnerable to infection and other unwanted symptoms. Begrudgingly Cassandra agreed, leaving with the Dark Knight and her old life behind to begin a new chapter that hopefully wouldn’t inflict misery onto the young girl. Spending time under the care of the Wayne family caretaker she would make an attempt at trying to adapt to a regular life.

Starting with the development of hobbies, reading struck the girl first, Mathematics after as a way to compensate for the lack of social skill gifted to her by her father. Unfortunately this was short lived once Gotham became a No Man’s Land filled to the brim with criminals looking to terrorize the innocent. Fleeing Wayne Manor, Cassandra embarked on a new journey in an act to make amends with the sins of the past she would attempt to join the ranks of the few willing to uphold justice.

## Powers and Abilities

### Skills

* **Expert Martial Artist and Hand to Hand Combatant.**
* **Peak physical of human conditioning.**
* **Able to read body language and anticipate opponents' actions.**