Pamela Isley

## Background

### 1976 - 2006: Pamela Isley

Pamela Isley was born in Gotham, the only child of a wealthy family. Unknown to the outside world, her father regularly abused her mother & Pamela was forced to watch. Every time he hit her, Pamela's father bought his wife's forgiveness with flowers & her garden would grow. Pamela regularly accompanied her mother to their garden, never asking about her mother's bruises. Her mother explained that she liked gardening because the flowers listen to her & if she stayed very quiet, they speak back to her.

As her father continued to abuse her mother & buy her flowers, Pamela learned that flowers could manipulate people. She also learned of human cruelty when her father eventually murdered her mother, stating he had enough of her disobedience. He buried Pamela's mother under her own garden, allowing her body to feed the very flowers she planted. After her father was arrested, he was found guilty of domestic violence & murder then sentenced to life in prison. Pamela was sent to live with a relative that also lived in Gotham.

Two years later, Pamela was admitted into Gotham University with a scholarship & used her family's wealth to pay for the rest. She began studying botany, but soon fell in love with Marc Legrand, one of her teachers & they started a relationship. Together, they began creating designer drugs, doling pheromone pills out in order to study their effects. The University learned of her activities & when Legrand put all the blame on Pamela, they tried to have her expelled, Luckily for Pamela, she already used her pills to get the Dean under her thumb & was able to secure her enrollment & get Legrand fired.

After getting her two doctorate degrees, the Dean secured Pamela a job at Wayne Enterprises at their Research & Development site. She helped to develop pharmaceuticals and cosmetic applications, but she had greater aspirations. Using her pheromones to get a meeting with the CEO Bruce Wayne, she presented him with a business project that would cut his advertising division by 100%. The business could use pheromones to target clients but Wayne refused her pitch, saying it was basically brainwashing. He terminated Pamela on the spot.

Not willing to let all her research go to waste, she stole what work she could but ended up doused with her own chemicals. The chemicals changed her, making her immune to poisons & viruses, giving her command over all plant life & connecting her inexorably to The Green, as well as giving her innate control of pheromones. Turning to crime, Pamela adopted the alias of Poison Ivy.

## Romantic Relationships

* Selina Kyle: Lover (2010 - 2011)
* Harley Quinn: On & Off Lover (2010 - 2018)

## Powers & Abilities

* **Chlorokinesis**: Semi-mystical connection to the plant world through a force called the Green. She was able to manipulate and animate plants, using roots to form supports for a tunnel. She controlled an entire tree to come down on Clayface, ensnaring him in its branches. She once brought a whole skyscraper down with giant vines.
	+ ***Pheromone Control***: Ivy is known to be able to seduce men and women alike, often using pheromones to do so, but even without the pheromones, her beauty is still an asset that can she can use to seduce.
* **Toxikinesis**: A deliberate overdose of plant and animal based toxins into her blood stream that make her touch deadly. Ivy can create the most potently powerful floral toxins in Gotham City. Often these are secreted from her lips and administered via a kiss. They come in a number of varieties, from mind controlling drugs to instantly fatal necrotics. Her skin is toxic as well, although contact with it is usually not fatal.
	+ ***Toxic Immunity***: Immunity to all toxins, bacteria, and viruses.
	+ ***Skin Pigment Manipulation***: By reducing the intensity of her poison, she can give herself a normal skin tone, allowing her to move around in public without being recognized.

* **Science**: Doctor Isley was a renowned scientist with a career in Gotham. She's always had a fascination with plants and they have been the major direction in her life even after her accident. Her knowledge of botany allows her to better manipulate her plants.
	+ ***Genetics***: Isley has an extensive knowledge of Genetics and was even able to splice plant and human DNA, creating hybrids she referred to as "sporelings".
	+ ***Toxicology***: Her specialization in Botany was Toxicology, at first she used her knowledge for perfumes, make-up and medicine. After her accident, she used her knowledge to grow thorny plants and poisonous traps for her enemies.
* **Seduction**: Pamela Isley has always been a beautiful woman but she never used her looks or talents for personal gain until she became Poison Ivy. She taunts her trapped opponents with their human desires and can even infatuate thugs to her cause through her plants or her own means.
* **Hand to Hand Combat**: Her athletic abilities have grown over the course of her career. She has learned a limited style of martial arts fighting, is proficient at climbing and leaping, and is a strong and fast swimmer.

### Weaknesses

* **Mental Instability**: Poison Ivy has been committed to Arkham Asylum on a regular basis. She speaks to her plants, finds extreme rage towards males &at a certain point sought out the destruction of the human race so only she &her plants would live. She has also been described as having "seasonal affective disorder", a mental condition that causes her emotions to change with the seasons, from manic (spring) to euphoric (summer) to apathetic (autumn) to depressed (winter).

### Ratings

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

## Trivia

* Harley once called her puddin' by accident so Ivy didn't talk to her for three days.
* Her, Harley & Selina were in a polyamorous relationship during their time as the Gotham City Sirens.
* She must be regularly exposed to sunlight or she will shrivel & die like any plant.
* She does not like Silken Spider, Dragonfly & Tiger Moth.
* She has kissed many heroes. Some of them are Batman & Superwoman.