Charlotte Gage-Radcliffe

## Background

### History

House Ruby is one of the twelve major houses of Gemworld. They have been long standing allies of House Amethyst & even longer standing enemies with House Onyx. Their issues with them mostly stem from the fact that House Onyx habitually launches incursions across their disputed border. Nonetheless, House Ruby is on mostly cordial terms with the other nine houses.

Before its current Queen, House Ruby was ruled by Queen Ritora. She was the eldest child of the former King, having taken the throne when she was in her 50s after serving as his chief advisor for the past decades. She also possessed the blood power of her house, which she inherited from her great-aunt when she was 23. Shortly after becoming her house's Queen, her only son Rasam welcomed a daughter Hira after years of pregnancy difficulties with his wife, Lady Lesina of House Amber (cousin of her house's King).

Princess Hira was known as quite the firecracker throughout the realm. She didn't care much for the powers at play but knew that as the Queen's only grandchild that she would have no choice but to take the throne eventually. Nonetheless, she was very close with her grandmother. The Queen appreciated Hira's perspective as she saw things from an objective point of view & not just as a bureaucrat. When her grandmother passed away, Hira's world was shook. She made some debatable decisions but ended up with the best reward as a result.

### 2002 - 2013: Charlabel

Princess Charlabel is the only daughter of Princess Hira of House Ruby from Gemworld. Her father's identity has never been known with Princess Hira being quite adament about never revealing his identity & even dismissing those from her court if they challenged her authority. Only the High Queen & High King could make such a demand, and neither of them cared enough to ask. After Charlabel's birth, Princess Hira married Lord Saaeth of House Turquoise (cousin of High King Vyrian) & had a son by the name of Nikalus.

As a Blood Gem of House Ruby & the only Princess, Charlabel lived a charmed life. Though the stepdaughter of Saeeth, she was cycled back & forth through the two houses like her brother Nikalus. When Charlabel's grandfather passed, her mother became the house's Queen resulting in her & her brother spending less time at House Turquoise so that her parents could tend to their house's demands. But Charlabel did grow up frequently visiting House Amethyst & House Emerald, due to her House's alliance with the two. She made friends with Princess Amaya of House Amethyst, as well as the three Princesses (Emalyn, Emerie, Emanaia) of House Emerald.

When Charlabel was eleven, House Amethyst & House Opal went to war. There had always been tensions between the two, starting with their prince believing he should've been the one to marry High Queen Graciel. As more houses got involved & took sides, houses lost their leaders, their heirs & many others.

### 2013 - 2016: Charlotte Gage-Radcliffe

House Ruby was greatly devastated by the Dark War. Not only did their beautifully renowned fields fall into decay, but many lives were loss in the beginning months of the war. Among the casualties were Lord Saeeth & Prince Niklaus. Her brother was one of the first deaths of the war when a bomb went off as he was in the field with the workers. Saeeth lost his life on the battlefield shortly after. Though Hira was against it, her husband was adamant about being on the front lines with his men after the death of his son. He felt how could he properly expect them to do something if he did not stand with them. He was killed by Dark Opal himself after saving the life of another soldier.

Not willing to risk her daughter's death as their house was slowly destroyed, she used her powers to not only send her daughter to Earth but to also transfer the blood power to her. With no idea on how to get back home, Charlabel was suddenly stranded in the city of Metropolis. She was alone for weeks on the street & used her powers to get her food or escape some creepy people. One day, she decided to visit the playground & quickly became friends with a boy named Simon. The two played for hours until it started to get dark out. When Simon's mother came to get him ready to go home, she asked Charlabel where her parents were. The only answer she could give was "gone." That night, Charlabel accompanied Simon & his parents to the police station where they found no trace of her in the system.

Unfortunately, Charlabel had to go with child services for a few days before she saw Simon again. And when she did, his parents announced they had decided to take her in & give her a place to stay. She took on the name Charlotte Gage-Radcliffe, moved into their apartment in Metropolis' Little Bohemia & was enrolled at Metropolis Elementary. Luckily for Charlotte, she was placed in the same class as her new brother. In time, she found her groove with her new family & even revealed her powers to them. To her suprise, they were accepting of her but had her not use them as they were afraid of what others would do if they found out. Maybe it was her family's hesistance with her powers that made Charlotte get into world of superheroes. She quickly became obsessed with the ones across the bay in Gotham, as she found a fascination with them as they had no superhuman abilities. Her favorite was Batgirl & Charlotte soon became her biggest fan.

### 2016 - 2017: Charlotte Gage-Radcliffe

Charlotte thrived over the next three years. She had secretly learned her powers, had a great family, got good grades & was now about to enter the world of high school. The only annoying aspect of her life was the greedy & creepy landlord of her family's apartment building. The landlord didn't care for much other than collecting everyone's rent every month & never made any necessary fixes to the place. Unbeknowst to the tenants, he had bribed the safety inspectors to ignore all of the building's issues, including the fire escape & the smoke detectors. Charlotte was across the street with her friends at the park when a large fire broke out in her building. Knowing her family was trapped, she used her powers to teleport in but quickly realized that she could not use her powers to teleport living things with her. With tears in her eyes, her family forced her to teleport out before they perished in the fire. Fourteen other people died in the fire. And all the landlord receieved was a six month sentence with time served.

For the next year, Charlotte was back on the streets alone. She used her powers to take out her frustration of not being able to save her family on criminals that crossed her paths. She eventually made her away across the water to Gotham, as she was set on seeing Batgirl in action. But upon arriving, she discovered that there had been no sightings of Batgirl in months. Charlotte decided to take it upon herself to change that so she made her own costume, complete with a utility belt & began using the Batgirl name. Her actions quickly caught the attention of master computer operater Oracle, who sent the Birds of Prey to discover who was masquerading as a member of the Bat Family. When she came face to face with them, they barely had a chance to talk before they were confronted by a gun-runner seeking revenge against the Birds. Charlie quickly leaped into combat, enjoying the chance to fight alongside the Birds, all the while talking as if she'd been their friend for ages. Unfortunately, Charlie was hit when she teleported in to take a gunshot intended for Starling.

Before they could react, Charlie teleported out of there & reappeared in Oracle's control room without a scratch on her. She revealed that this was not her first visit to her control room & that she wanted her approval to become the new Batgirl. Identifying Charlie as untrained & already in the process of training another Batgirl, she tried to talk her out of becoming a superhero. But Charlie refused & teleported away. Eventually Oracle was able to track down Charlie's last known address, the burned-out shell of Charlie's old apartment block. Oracle reached out to the young teenager, who revealed both of her families' fates. Maybe it was her mentor's tendancies of adopting orphans that got the better of her but Barbara decided to take in the stray teenager & give her a home with the Birds.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Blood Power of House Ruby:** Princess Charlabel inherited the blood power from her mother, who transferred it to her before sending her to Earth. She has not full mastered all of her abilities as she is still early in her studies of the occult & heroism.
	+ ***Teleportation***: Charlotte has the ability to teleport (or, as she calls it, "bounce") vast distances without error, or even needing to know the layout of her destination. She does so by appearing & disappearing in a burst of pink-red smoke, similar to the color of a ruby.
	+ ***Sensor Bypass*:** She possesses ability to bypass security systems, as she is able to enter Oracle's home without triggering any of the many alarms, a feat not even Batman or the Martian Manhunter have been able to achieve.
* **Noble Gemworlder Physiology**
	+ ***Accelerated Healing*:** Gemworlders possesses accelerated healing. She was once shot in the belly with a bullet & healed completely mere minutes later.
	+ ***Enhanced Strength***
	+ ***Enhanced Durability***
	+ ***Omnilingualism***: All members of the noble famly are branded with the citrine-of-tongues, allowing them to speak, read & understand every language to have ever existed.
	+ ***Sorcery:*** Like all other Gemworlders, Princess Ruby is a descendant of the Homo Magi race. In addition to her blood power, she can perform small magical feats if she has the aids of relics or extreme devotion.
* **Hand to Hand Combat/Martial Arts:** She has also learned to blend combat with her ability & is extremely useful in a fight able to engage multiple opponents across a room.

### Weaknesses

* **Power Limitation:** She is only able to teleport herself because no other living objects could survive bouncing. She can transport non-living things though.

### Ratings

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

## Trivia

* She hopes to take over as Huntress one day.
* Her father is Lord Suman of House Onyx. He had an affair with Queen Hira when he was engaged to Queen Selleme of House Sardonyx. After Hira discovered she was pregnant, she remained in the castle excpet to secretly meet up with Suman. Suman's father eventually learned of their relationship. Not only was he upset due to their house's longstanding tension with House Ruby but Prince Suman was also engaged. After speaking with Hira's father under the guise of a land dispute, the two were told to end their relationship & Suman was forced to rescind his right to the throne, thus resulting in him being ushered into House Sardonyx instead of vice versa.
* She is not aware of her father's identity.

## Notes

* Misfit's writer Gail Simone revealed she was unable to explore her origin before DC Comics started the *New 52* series. She explained that Misfit was born on Gemworld & a princess of House Ruby.