Post by Catwoman on Aug 15, 2022 12:11:52 GMT -8
Real Name: Selina Kyle
Alias: Catwoman, Irena Dubrovna
Age: 36
Species: Human
Group: Antihero
Physical Appearance:
Selina is a relatively tall woman, standing at 5'7" and weighing 125 lbs. As a lover of piercings and tattoos she has quite a few, include 5 ear piercings, nipples, a navel, christina & nose piercing. Her tattoos consist mostly of hennaa style tattoos, however besides those she has a tattoo of her daughter, Helena's, name on her left rib; "Maggie" on right rib; cat paw prints running up her right leg; "Gotham" tramp stamp; "☑ villain ☑ slut ☑ thief ☑ damaged goods ☑ mother ☑ crazy cat lady" on the side of her neck; a list of her favorite frienemies/clients on the back of her neck, which includes Oswald Cobblepot, Roman Sionis, Salvatore Maroni, Harvey Bullock & Harvey Dent; "property of the East End" on her right butt cheek; "meow..." on her mound; "fuck you" on the inside of her bottom lip; the goddess, Bastet, on her back; "no dogs allowed" on her right inner thigh and "Holly was here" on her left inner thigh.
Her choice of clothing varies between her different identities.
As Selina Kyle she tends to dress down and sticking to her roots as someone who grew up on the streets. The most expensive thing you would probably see on her in her day to day life is her necklace. Overall, she tends to dress as she puts it "like she's at home and nobody is looking". As a hooker this means that she usually doesn't have to make much adjustment for work from her usual attire.
As Irena Dubrovna she would typically wear a wig, which does the trick in making it impossible for people to identify her. Irena Dubrovna is never scene in anything that costs less than $400. Classy, sultry and poise, she is one of the Gotham's biggest socialite and never lets anyone forget it.
Played By: Jaimie Alexander
Personality:Selina Kyle always matches to the beat of her own drum. Always brimming with confidence and independence, Selina does what she pleases and screw anyone who doesn't like it. Her morals and principles guided only by how much it may benefit her. Even so, she does have a bleeding heart for the downtrodden and for those who don't have the means to protect themselves (especially children).Skills:
A social creature by nature, she has a way with words and is a natural flirt, whether male or female. It is said she could convince a blind man he can see. She's the type of person with who there is never a dull moment. She's known to have quite a tongue on her though and, unless lying would benefit her, she's always blunt and honest.
Selina remains a prostitute as a choice rather than out of necessity. She easily has millions in assets stashed, and could make much more money as a high end escort, but she chooses to be a prostitute as somewhat a service to her community, being a prostitute also generally helps her with networking.
While trained, Selina does favor wits over brawn. She considers a violent confrontation a failure and even if there's a fight she knows for a fact she will win, she prefers to defuse a situation with her charm rather than her fist and has no problem using sex as a weapon. To her, why make enemies when she can try to make friends to exploit later. Although admittedly part of her does like playing damsel as well, particularly if she knows Batman will save her ass, and she would even go to the extent of pretending to be scared to play up the drama.
While she generally loves the finer things in life, knowing what it's like to grow up poor, Selina just the same appreciates the simple things, and most days she would take a bowl of milk and cereal over steak. Her idea of fun can be first class dinner and spa treatment one day and another day can be smoking cigarettes/weed while playing cards with the bums beneath the Gotham bridge.
Selina end goal is to get rid of poverty and the lower class, which is why she became a thief to begin with. Even so, she knows that the weigh the city of Gotham is structured to always keep the poor poor, no amount of money can ever truly make difference without getting rid of the powers that be, which in itself is a never ending battle since there always knew sociopolitical secrets lurking in Gotham. So long as their are poor citizens she can never fully commit to the rich lifestyle she has managed to build over the years.
While not fully committed to any religion, Selina is a rather devout catholic and attends church whenever she can and does her penance regularly. She's a well known chain smoker. She loves junk food and milk and pretty much survives on both, although she does love to treat herself ever so often as Irena.
- Thief: Renowned as Gotham's city's greatest thief, it is said that there isn't a thing Selina can't steal.
- Feline Affinity: Selina has always had an almost supernatural affinity with cats, having adopted much of their traits and able to somewhat communicate and command them.
- Acrobatics: Taught to her at the carnival she worked at after the death of her parents, Selina's skills in gymnastics & contortion is second only to Nightwing. She is known to be able to walk across wires in heels with ease.
- Martial Arts: Trained by Wildcat, Selina is skilled in boxing and street fighting.
- Peak Condition: Selina is in near peak physical condition for a woman. While not as strong as the men, her speed, agility and reflexes are unmatched.
- Escape Artist: Selina has yet to come across a situation she can't escape from somehow. Her ability to escape unlikely scenarios surpasses even Batman's.
- Seductress: Selina is a master as seduction and sexual pleasure and can usually get anything she wants using such as a weapon.
- Street Smart: Selina considers her greatest skill to be her street smarts. Having grown up on the streets and still an active part of it, she knows Gotham better than anyone. There are very few things or people in Gotham she doesn't know, and the few she don't know, she can easily get information from due to years of networking she has done.
- Bilingual: Selina speaks English and sign language.
- Leader: While she doesn't take took fully to be a crime boss, Selina does have a couple dozen loyal goons and henchman in her back pocket she can rely on.
Equipment:
- Catsuit: Made of a flexible shock absorbent material, Catwoman's suit provides her both flexibility and protection, enabling her to endure great amounts of blunt force attacks when worn.
- Claws: Catwoman costume is topped with metallic claws, capable of tearing into wood and enabling her to scale walls.
- Whip: A 12" bullwhip, which she would typically use for fighting and grappling.
- Caltrops
- Bolas
- Motorcycle: As Catwoman Selina would ride a modified BMW R Nine T Highway Fighter.
- Guns: Although she prefers not to use them, Selina knows sometimes you need to bring a gun to a gun fight and keeps a few guns around in case. As Catwoman she would keep a Ruger LCP handy just in case.
Weaknesses:
- Human: Punch her, she will bleed.
- Fickle: Like a cat, Selina Kyle is as fickle as they come. Her loyalty at the end of the day is only to herself, and she lives by survival at all cost. She knows very well when to fight or flight and when flight doesn't work she has no problem begging if it means living to see another day. Most people by now know never to fully trust her.
- Immorality: While she usually tries to stay on the straight and narrow, Selina at the end of the day prefers to keep her moral compass open. She will lie, steal, cheat and kill when necessary.
- Batfamily: Selina herself would admit she has a soft spot for Batman and his family.
History:Born the daughter of Brian and Maria Kyle, Selina once had a model family. Alas, an affair between the couple would mark the downfall of the perfect little family. Her father would start drinking, which would result in him abusing her mother. Her mother, unable to live with her infidelity and the abuse had killed herself when Selina and Maggie were six and two, respectively. Her father, unable to live with the guilt of driving the woman he loved to suicide, would start drinking even more, until eventually two years later drinking himself to death.
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.
Selina began working as a prostitute in the East End to get by. She watched over an underage girl named Holly Robinson while working for their abusive pimp Stan. After a particularly aggressive beating from Stan, Selina passed out near the Immaculate Virgin Mission, a nunnery where her sister Maggie served as a nun. She was sent to the hospital, where she was visited by Detective George Flannery. He took pity on her and told her of Ted Grant, a man who could teach her how to fight and defend herself. She met with Ted and he agreed to train her. By time she as eighteen she had become more than just a run of the mill petty thief and would begin aiming her sights higher with high profile robberies. Although she hadn't come up with the name, she became quite renowned as the Catwoman. Overtime she begin to have more and more run ins with the infamous Batman. The two shared a connection that could only be described as cat and mouse.
She had been twenty when she found out she was pregnant. Although her job as a prostitute meant it could have been anyone, including a few of Gotham's infamous villains, she was confident the father was Sam Bradley due to him having been the only person she had unprotected sex with. Although she had taken a plan B, the pill did not take, and her stance against abortion had led to her resolving to go through with the pregnancy. Sam unfortunately had died before she had even gotten to her second trimester, leaving her a single mother. Nevertheless, she had garnered enough wealth as Catwoman to give her daughter the life she deserved without issue.
While she had intend on retiring from her life of crime, things would go south when at two her daughter had been abducted by the villains, Film Freak & Angle Man. She had spent years trying to locate her daughter, before grief drove her to fall into old habits to help cope with her grief. Eventually, six years ago, she had made the decision to become Catwoman again.
Additional Info:
- Has a daughter, Helena Kyle.
- While she's confident her father is Sam Bradley, due to his untimely death she never got around doing a DNA test and so there does exist a small chance Penguin, Black Mask or Sal Maroni, amongst other no names, could be her father.
- As Irena Dubrovna has a net worth of about $2.5 million.