Pamela Isley

Poison Ivy

Pamela Isley

## Biography

### Early Life

Pamela Isley was born on June 19th, 1983 in Gotham City to Sylvia and Sam Isley. Her father was a brilliant biologist who found employment designing chemical weapons for Gotham’s Criminals. Sam rented out elaborate greenhouses, which became Pam’s playground. Once, while playing in one, she pricked her finger on a venomous leaf that should’ve killed her within minutes. When she showed no reaction to the plant, Sam began doing experiments on her, and discovered that Pam’s touch was deadly.

The toxins from the plant took root in Pam’s body, causing her to be shunned by everyone, including her own mother, all except her father. He withdrew her from public school and kept her isolated, teaching her how to harness these abilities. He discovered that her touch was not deadly - she had become able to release a pheromone from her skin that was venomous, and he taught her to control it at will.

He continued experimenting on her, until her mother discovered the experiments. Sam killed her and buried her in the greenhouse. As the experiments continued, Pam found a connection to the plants and flowers, she described it as if she could  hear them speaking to her, as she was developing an intrinsic connection to them.

One experiment became too much for Pam, and she passed out. Believing her dead, Sam began trying to bury her alongside her mother. Pam rose from the ground and blew him a kiss that left him paralyzed - and soon, dead. She buried him in the greenhouse and went on the run.

She was eventually tracked down by the state, and feigned ignorance over her parents’ deaths. She gained his inheritance and used it to finish out high school, college, and then graduate school.

She went to Gotham University, where she studied botany under Doctor Jason Woodrue, a renowned scholar. At Gotham University, she gained a secret lover in the form of Bella Garten, another student at the top of the botany class. At first rivals, they became lovers during a late-night study session and a few glasses of cheap wine.

Bella and Pam were both selected to go on a research trip to the West Bank of Palestine, where a grove of ancient olive trees had been preserved. It was believed that these olive trees contained plants that had immense healing properties. Upon examination, Pam heard the same voices from the tree, but louder this time.

She and Bella snuck into the grove that night to visit it. A drunken Woodrue stumbled upon them. After sending Bella away, he tried to force himself on Pam. Pam planted a poisonous kiss on his lips, causing his skin to shed into wood and foliage. He leaned against the base of the tree and should’ve died, had one of the flowers not fallen into his open mouth.

### Poison Ivy

Pam escaped into the night, as Bella found Woodrue and the students returned to the United States. ARGUS began searching for Pam, but with little luck. There were reports of women matching her description across Asia and the Middle East. A few years later, a woman named Lillian Rose applied for a job at Gothcorp.

This was Pam, of course, under an assumed identity. She used pheromones with the power of seduction to weasel her way into a job at the company, where she continued her botanical research. During this time, she decided she wanted to test her plants on the mentally disturbed, and tricked her way into a job at Arkham Asylum.

At Arkham, she developed the hots for a certain blonde-haired psychiatrist, who didn’t share the feelings at the time. Pam secured grants for the famous Botanical Gardens, where she secretly laced the flowers with a chemical concoction that made the inmates putty in her hands. Some of the guards, Aaron Cash in specific, grew suspicious of “Lillian Rose”, and upon investigating her background check, discovered it didn’t all add up, and she was fired.

In retaliation, Pam staged a breakout, using the laced plants to control prisoners into rampaging out the front gates. She waited for them outside, wearing a leafy crown and emerald-green ensemble, introducing the world to Poison Ivy. When Batman and Robin arrived on scene, she planted a kiss on Batman’s mouth, turning him on the Boy Wonder, allowing her to make her escape.

Pam went on the run, eventually joining up with the Light's Injustice League, where she was defeated by the Titans and wound up in custody at Belle Reve, where she was recruited to the Suicide Squad on a mission with that aforementioned psychiatrist, now going by Harley Quinn. They were sent after Jason Woodrue, who now called himself the Floronic Man, as he had holed up back in Palestine and was refusing to let go of the tree.

Woodrue recognized Ivy, and attempted to sacrifice her to the Mystical Green, and placed her inside of a giant plant pod to kill her and give her power to him. When Ivy went under, Pamela Isley was killed, but a new body was born for her from the Green, giving her the ability to physically control plants. She burst from the pod, completely naked and Harley gave her a big kiss on the lips.

Ivy abandoned the Suicide Squad and disappeared again. She spent months learning to harness the new abilities the Green had given her. She took up a base in Slaughter Swamp, and was caught there when No Man’s Land occurred. She ended up moving to Robinson Park, where she and Harley created a safe haven and cared for civilians in a new garden of Eden.

She’s become somewhat of an antihero, occasionally teaming up with Harley and Catwoman for a not-so-good not-so-bad night on the town.