Beast Girl

"*Some things are beyond our control...*"

**Beast Girl**, (real name **Eleanor May Carter**, born August 2nd 1992), is a Metahuman - Martian hybrid (Originally 1/4 Martian, but now 3/4 Martian with blood transfusion) with shape-shifting abilities, and one of the five founding members of the The Team, alongside Robin, Aqualad, Kid Flash and Superboy. She was originally born in Gotham City, but moved to Washington, D.C when she was fifteen years old, with her mother, whom was one of Wayne Tech's best programmers and head designers; Lorraine Susan Gentry, a gentle giant auto-body mechanic step-father; Stephen Henderson, and artistic, but very anxious and emotionally sensitive younger sister; Samantha Henderson.

## Appearance

Before her Martian blood transfusion, Eleanor was a young adult very pale Caucasian girl with short fiery ginger hair and long bangs swept over the right side of her forehead, green eyes and freckles under her eyes.

After the transfusion with Martian Manhunter's shape-shifted blood, Eleanor's skin became a malachite green complexion with sharper green eyes and dark green streaks in her still ginger hair, and she adopted pointed elven ears. For some time she took a somewhat monkey-like form, during which she had dark green fur and a prehensile tail.

## Civilian Wear

In 2010, Eleanor's civilian attire consists of a white polo shirt, with black buttons, under a dark grey hoodie with black sleeves and a spider design. Black khaki pants and dark grey sandals.

In 2016, her civilian attire has changed to a black t-shirt under a dark grey turtleneck sweater under a black trench coat with violet trimmings. Still the same black khaki pants, but shortened to 3/4 lengths, and black boots.

In 2018, TBA.

In 2020, TBA.

## Superhero Attire

As Beast Girl, Eleanor wears a black single-piece, shorty-style uniform with red and green accents, which morphs to fit her anthropomorphic animal forms.

## Personality

Beast Girl is kind, generous and compassionate, good to have around during a crisis as she knows how to remain calm and take control of the situation until it is resolved. Beast Girl is very caring and nurturing to others, however she has a habit of neglecting her own needs while giving to others. Throughout her life, Beast Girl shows to be very intelligent and loves to learn.

Beast Girl tends to wear her heart on her sleeve, she feels anger intensely and joy quite well, but her sadness is silent and hardly, if ever, marked by tears. She hardly lets her rage control her and cheerfully remarks on the things that make her happy, but hardly says a word in her sadness, though it is visible to everyone. However, though she may feel sad, she never gives in to despair, always looking for a solution the right way. Her determination and little regard for pain can make her a powerful force to be reckoned with.

Alongside, Beast Girl is gracious and well-mannered, knowing just the right things to say and do. Although she doesn't look it, Beast Girl has high moral standards and doing the right thing is important to her, along with being a loyal friend and a faithful partner, gentle but not passionate.

Although strong-willed and loyal, Beast Girl is a good listener and can view others problems with empathy, clarity and a balanced analysis, seeing both sides while showing respect and caring.

In short, Beast Girl is generally frank, fairly sociable, but preferring peace at any price. She can be too self-effacing, modest and patient, and run the risk of being exploited by others. She may appear to be innocent and naïve but she is actually quite streetwise and astute - she can read others well, but often keeps it to herself.

## History

Originally born in Gotham City, Beast Girl's childhood life was anything but ordinary. Before she turned fifteen years old, Beast Girl mostly grew up being raised by an abusive, alcoholic father; Elliot Preston Carter, and a strong and stern mother; Lorraine Susan Gentry, alongside her younger sister; Samantha. When Beast Girl turned 8 years old, her mother divorced her father and left home to Metropolis, where her mother met a gentle giant mechanic named Stephen Henderson and Stephen became Beast Girl's step-father. Just after her 9th birthday, Beast Girl was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, a neurological disorder that is within the Autism Spectrum, which Lorraine picked up since Beast Girl started speaking and walking on her own.

Throughout her childhood, Beast Girl was bullied by the other children in her schools, because she was different, as she always found companionship with animals instead of people. During her young teen years, Beast Girl had a habit of running away from home, to express that she wasn't happy with her life in Metropolis. So, to help stop this habit, Lorraine and Stephen decided to immigrate to Washington, D.C, because Lorraine was transferred by Wayne Enterprises, by Lex Luthor, to become one of the head researchers in Project Cadmus. Beast Girl was skeptical, because of Lex Luthor, but Samantha was more than happy to agree, as she wasn't a fan of superheroes, like Batman and Superman.

July 4th, 2010, Beast Girl was walking down the streets when she found that Project Cadmus was on fire. Worried for her mother's wellbeing, Beast Girl joined the three male sidekicks; Robin, Kid Flash, and Aqualad, to help her mother get out of the building and discover the secrets that a simple genetic research facility is truly hiding from the public.

## Powers

* **Anthropomorphic Shape-shifting:** Beast Girl has the ability to shape-shift into any animal she has seen and made meaningful contact with while still maintaining her original green color. This extends to extraterrestrial animal life, as long as she has studied them. While in an animal's form, she gains its strength, agility, and modes of movement, such as speed, flight, and flexibility. However, she loses her human capacity for speech and she is only capable of shape-shifting into anthropomorphic forms of the animal.

* **Enhanced senses:** Beast Girl's senses are more keen than the average human, enabling her to track through scent from a considerable distance, as well as hear certain things from a distance and demonstrate Seismic Sense.

* **Empathy:** Beast Girl's primary metahuman ability is her empathy; the psionic ability to sense the emotions of others, allowing her to gain insight into their thoughts and intentions, and even experience their own feelings. This also enables her to sense the mental state of others, as she has shown to react on Superboy's anger when he was using Shields.

* **Sensory Scrying:** As an extension of her empathy, Beast Girl is capable of seeing through the eyes of other animals and people, as well as hearing and feeling, as if they were her own, which give her empathic insight of the situation.

## Abilities

* **Martial Arts/Parkour:** Though not the most physically talented of the Team, Beast Girl is nonetheless a fairly skilled and proficient hand-to-hand combatant, having received at least some degree of physical training.

* **Taming:** Due to her connection with animals and empathic abilities, Beast Girl is capable of taming the angriest and most hostile of beings. She has demonstrated this skill as she was able to calm the animals infused with Kobra-Vemon and reason with Gorilla Grodd.

* **Genius-level Intellect:** Beast Girl has shown since she was a child to have a genius-level intellect and can solve riddles and puzzling crimes committed by the most skilled and intelligent criminals and psychopaths, like Joker or Riddler. Due to her intellect, Beast Girl has self-taught detective skills, and was able to deduct that Robin/Nightwing was Dick Grayson and Batman was Bruce Wayne with a simple glance.

* **Multilingualism:** Like her paternal grandfather, Beast Girl has a talented gift for foreign languages. She speaks English natively, but she has shown to be almost fluent in French, Atlantean, Spanish, German, Japanese, Swahili and Russian. She has also shown some knowledge in Sign Language. She can also understand Korean, Mandarin and Zulu.

## Equipment

* **Bio-Suit:** As a gift from Martian Manhunter, Beast Girl wears a Martian Bio-Suit that shape-shifts and responds to her mental commands.

* **Eskrima Sticks:** Beast Girl's primary weapons.

* **Shuriken Stars:**

* **Tri-bo Staff:**

## Weaknesses

* **Headaches/Migraines:** Due to her empathic sensitivity, Beast Lass suffers from occasional headaches, sometimes migraines, depending on the intensity.

* **Astraphobia/Brontophobia:** Due to her sensitive nature and sensitivity to noises and the atmosphere, Beast Lass is deeply terrified of thunderstorms to the point that she freezes on the spot and collapses in tears.

* **Camera-shy and Crowds:** Due to her shyness, Beast Lass is not a big fan of cameras or crowds.

* **Depression and Anxiety:**

## Quotes

"*Just because you have super-strength, doesn't mean the battle will always be yours to win. There will be someone, out there, stronger than you. Superman learned that lesson a long time ago.*"

"*Silence of the owl. Cunning of the fox...*"

"*Don't beat yourself up about it.*"

"*Megan... Do you truly believe your friends, your family, are that shallow?*"

"*Hey, Klarion! If you want the Helmet, you'll have to go through me for it!*"

"*I guess only time will tell.*"