Kyle, Selina

Selina Kyle, alias Catwoman, is a thief and long-time love interest of the first Batman. She is a costumed adventurer who's been both a super-hero and super-villain. Beginning her career as a thief and enemy to Batman, she later turned to crime-fighting and became part of the Batman Family.

## Selina Kyle

### Relatives

Brian Kyle (father, dead), Maria Kyle (mother, dead), Maggie Kyle (sister), Don Falcone (grandfather)

### Affiliation

Batman (Lover), Bat family, Gotham City Sirens

## Physical description

### Species

Homo sapien (formerly), Homo sanguinum (human vampyr, nosferatu)

### Eye color

Green (formerly), Red, Blue (through shapeshifting)

## History

### Early Years

Selina's early life was defined by tragedy. When she was just a girl, her brutalized mother Maria committed suicide and her violent father Brian drank himself to death soon after. Selina was separated from her younger sister Maggie when remanded to the Sprang Hall Juvenile Detention Center, an abusive state home for orphaned or delinquent girls. Eventually, she escaped the Center and tried pickpocketing the crowd at a carnival outside Gotham City but failed. She was caught by the man who ran the place, and he offered her to join the carnival. Selina agreed and soon she learned the art of contortionism, gymnastics, magic and trickery. Using her new learned skills, Selina also improved her pickpocketing skills. When the owner of the carnival died in a tragic accident, Selina decided to take her chances on the streets of Gotham, surviving as a petty thief.

### Birth of Catwoman

Selina met an acquaintance, Bruce Wayne, at the wedding of Johnny Viti, a member of the Falcone Crime Family. The pair instantly hit it off, though Selina was unaware of Bruce's identity as Batman, or that he was the man she fought on the streets of the East End years earlier. Catwoman attempted to once again rob Carmine Falcone's penthouse that night but was interrupted by Batman and the two were forced to flee. Falcone placed a bounty on both the Bat and the Cat, offering one million dollars to whoever could kill either one of them. When the Holiday Killer first struck in Gotham, Catwoman began her own investigation but was soon discovered by Batman. She offered her assistance in resolving the case, which Batman reluctantly accepted.

Catwoman followed Batman from a distance as he unraveled the mystery, while in their civilian identities Selina grew closer with Bruce - until he fell under the mind control of Poison Ivy. Catwoman realized Ivy was responsible and rescued Bruce from her clutches. She later jumped in to assist Batman while he was fighting Scarecrow and the Mad Hatter. Catwoman joined the other 'costumed freaks', led by a newly-turned Two-Face, in confronting Falcone for control of Gotham City. This led Batman to question where her allegiances truly lied, to which Catwoman responded that she was on the same side as always: her own.

### Vampyrism

After being informed by her contacts about an exhibit at the Gotham Museum of History from Transylvania with a valuable diamond known as The Cat Selina decided to make an attempt to steal it. When she found it in the lid of a stone sarcophagus, she made an attempt to free it. Unfortunately, she underestimated the strength of the acid as it ate through the stone lid and as Catwoman tried to remove the gem, the sharp edges cut her through the gloves. Selina's blood seeped through the openings from the acid and dropped into the corpse inside it. Unbeknownst to Selina, the stone container held the remains of Vlad Basarab III Dracula himself and her blood had resurrected the most infamous nosferatu of all. Once he was awakened, Vlad proceeded to drain Selina of most of her blood; the combination of her beauty and his horrible loneliness motivated him to make her his new bride.

After being left at the crime scene, the police officers had arrived, having been alerted by the museum's security system. Having handcuffed her without properly checking out, Selina had arisen has a new nosferatu in their police cruiser. After, her reviving as a vampyr, Catwoman mesmerized the two men so she could quench her new craving for their blood. Having fed, Selina answered her master's call for more blood and found by unfortunate chance (depending on whose perspective) found Holly Robinson. The new "bride" mesmerized Holly and led her to Dracula.