Cass

“I dont kill... but I dont Lose.”

Information

Always Ic/Not a social creature/Do not touch.
Birth Name:	Cassandra Cain
Aliases:	Kasumi One who is All Batgirl The Nothing Black Bat
Age:	Late Twenties
Classification:	Human
Identity:	Secret
Citizenship:	Tibetan
Place of Birth:	Tibet
Occupation:	Vigilante Member of Batman Inc
Height:	5'5
Weight:	127 lbs
Marital Status:	Single, disinterested
Personality: Quiet, distant and collected, she is a woman of very few words unless they are needed. However when she does speak, it is unwise not to take heed. With maturity has come a greater ease in speaking to and gaining friendships with her peers. However with body language as her first tongue and actual words being her second, she is occasionally prone to using the incorrect word when addressing something. Yet this does not take away from who she is as a person, passionate about her work and relentless in her actions; truly she is the daughter of the Dark Knight, even if it was a long hard uphill battle to gain that recognition.

Accolades

" Weak. Without focus you're nothing. And that's what you really always wanted me to have-- nothing. But you never asked me what I wanted. I Wanted to read. I Wanted to talk. I Wanted a Father. I Wanted a Family. I Wanted to belong somewhere!"

Martial Arts Master~ Cassandra was born with the very purpose in her genes to be the apex of combat ability a human could obtain, trained nigh at birth by the very best of assassins and martial arts masters in the world; along with metahumans. At the tender age of eight, she could outclass a military special forces member in single combat. She has ingrained in her muscles the memory and mastery of all fighting arts both known to the public and unknown, while continuing to learn with every new fight. She has invented her own styles and techniques, such as the 'Falling Leaf'; a nerve technique fast and strong enough to incapacitate a dozen metahumans in the blink of an eye. Cassandra can also learn new styles through simple observation, even in the middle of battle.

Her greatest personal accolade is the twofold defeat of the very best martial artist in the world, Lady Shiva. The first battle being long, drawn out and even till the very end. While the second battle after both had improved over several years of time, ended in a mere five moves in favor of Cassandra. This earned her Shiva's title of 'One who is All', marking her as the best martial artist in the world.

Master Assassin~ Cassandra is a masterful practitioner of all forms of the killing arts, both known to the world and those kept in the very closest of confidence. Using these talents she has no issue with walking the fine line between starting and stopping a heart. Something she has done as a scare tactic on more than one occasion These talents also extend to stealth, pressure points and subterfuge.

Skill before Power~ While she is wholly human , Cassandra's combined talents make her more than a match for even high tier superhumans. She has defeated heroes such as Supergirl and beings like Bizzaro, without the need of kryptonite or other weakness exploiting tools. She has broken Super Boy's nose with the strength of a single chop, and singlehandedly defeated the brotherhood of evil.

One of her lesser feats includes the incapacitation of several CIA agents who had just finished firing at her, who were within feet of each other; before the farthest man was even aware the men around him had been defeated. This extended even to the men standing face to face talking to each other, she was simply fast enough and able to multi-task her bodily actions; defeating one after the other before any even had the opportunity to change facial expressions.

History

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Abilities and Weaknesses

" I've been avoiding you. It's... your background. The assassin training and all that. It's just... my childhood's so normal. I mean, Batman and Nightwing had some rough stuff to deal with growing up, but... but you -- you were raised to be that guy down there, and you turned yourself into one of us. That's... pretty intimidating." --- Tim Drake

Peak Human Conditioning~ Cassandra represents the greatest fighting weapon ever conceived. She possesses apex level strength, stamina, speed and agility exceeding the finest human athlete. She has the dexterity and movement ability to wall jump repeatedly, scaling up between skyscrapers that someone as skilled as Red Robin could only grapple to scale. Even though she has the body reading talents to dodge gunfire before bullets are even fired, she has shown the ability to dodge even the bullet from a sniper rifle fired at a distance. This was assumedly due to sheer awareness of her surroundings, as the distance between her and the gunman was much too far for her to hear the shot let alone read his body.

Body Language Literacy~ Unlike most, from birth Cassandra was not taught how to speak with words. From birth till eight years of age she knew only the language of the body, it is her first language while actual talking is her second. Instead, the parts of her brain normally used for speech were trained so she could read other people's movements and body language and predict, with uncanny accuracy, their next move or even several moves depending on the skill of said opponent. It is similar to Lady Shiva's ability, though hers was taught from birth. It enables her to identify disguised/transformed persons, identify what they are thinking through their body movements. It even allows her to dodge gunfire with ease, by following the shooter's aim, trajectory and time of trigger pull from multiple armed opponents, letting her evade before the triggers are fully pulled. This talent even extends to guns with automatic fire and weapons with wide blast radius, range seems not to matter either as she has dodged magnum fire an inch from her face. She can even dodge point blank automatic fire while engaged in close quarter combat, a feat done against Deathstroke several times. She has shown the ability to even read inorganic bodies, such as cyborgs and psychic monstrosities.

Inhuman cognitive functioning~ While she is wholly human, her unique and torturous upbringing forced her mind to grow in a completely inhuman way. Thanks to this she can do multiple peak human actions simultaneously (Such as running at peak speed while carrying peak weight, utilizing peak senses and peak reaction time, all at the same time), which adds up to the equivalent of a metagene class act; as corrupt united states government agents who studied her unique ability came to discover. Such a feat is nigh impossible even by the greatest of humans and even most metahumans, as one generally must lessen strength to apply agility; or lose precision to apply speed. Yet she can act with her full power while utilizing her full speed, precision and still keep alert and reflexive. Even fellow true masters such as her mother Lady Shiva, Batman and Black Canary can only partially utilize this, and even then only when under dire duress, though they lack any real control over it; for Cassandra it is not even something she has to think about.

Inhuman Endurance~ Cassandra has shown to hold endurance and survivability that simply outstrips logical human reach. Having survived being electrocuted, beaten, caught in the full explosion of a cruse ship and then nearly drowning. Another example is when she fought for four days and nights against lady shiva's three best of her 'Circle of six' (the other three having aligned themselves with Cassandra.) During these four days she did not sleep eat and most importantly had not a drop of water, as she was literally on the run and fighting nonstop the entire time. It was only as the fourth day drew to a close that she grew fatigued enough for -any- of the assassins to even land a single blow on her.

Nervous System Control~ She can control her nervous system enabling her to deaden her body to physical pain, control her emotions, and even her bleeding rate. She can even simulate a state of death, where her vitals cannot be picked up by medical equipment.

Strengths~ Cassandra possesses the apex human strength level of a woman her age, size and weight, who engages in intensive regular exercise and combat training. Cassandra is capable of press lifting at least twice her own weight and can lift 230 lbs while running. She has the sheer physical power to shatter a masterful blade, wielded by her equally masterful mother; with a strike from her fingertips. She is immune to most toxins, venoms and poisons.

She is able to completely ignore the shock and trauma of being shot stabbed or hit, as seen when she was stabbed through the heart by 'The Mad Dog' and still managed to knock him unconscious; before bloodloss not shock temporarily killed her. She was able to continue fighting at full strength, even after having taken several assault rifle rounds to her abdomen thighs and shoulders; though only until she passed out from blood loss.

Weaknesses~ She is vulnerable to mental suggestions via some foreign narcotics, particularly psychotropics. Though this has been lessened considerably with time. Cassandra also has extreme dyslexia, making it very difficult for her to read and causing her at times to use the wrong words when speaking.

Equipment

Utility belt~ Explosives, toxins, smoke pellets, flashbangs, throwing blades, batarangs, batgrapples, wrist and knuckle blades, emp devices.

Shadow belt~ She owns a belt of Thanagarian origin that allows her to transform into and travel intangibly as a living shadow. Cassandra has fine tuned it to allow parts of her body to regain substance, allowing her to destroy things from the inside.

Black Claws~ Similar in nature to the claws worn by Cat Woman, these retractable weapons are a part of her new Black Bat outfit. Forged of a nanocarbon composite, they let her shred through even automatic gunfire with the same ease as flesh and bone.

Black Spectre~ Fashioned by the same technology that powers Batman's powered suits, her unit is powered and uniquely tailored to work alongside and aid her mental strengths. Tied into her spine and cerebral cortex, it allows a 1:1 ratio of body movement to suit movement. This allows her to fully utilize her action prediction ability without any lag in action due to weighted armor. Due to the armor moving in sync with her brains commands, she never actually feels the armor's weight, because it moves right when she does. Allowing her to function at her peak as if she was wearing just her own skin.

It also holds a unique visor that covers her eyes completely. Enhancing her vision and allowing her a more indepth view of her opponent, inside and out. As well as the usual thermal, night vision and the like, it also holds a sort of x-ray vision. Letting her see past armor and other things that might hinder her from seeing an opponent's movements, as well as creating a real time archive of movement data on anything she sets eyes on. This supplements her own memory, and allows her to read movement even from beings that are so otherworldly or inhuman that she normally would be unable to. Such as beings of energy, or magic, who lack definitive structure or musculature.

The various 'soft' areas of her suit, are created not from a cloth, or kevlar weave like one might think. Instead they are made of layers of microplates, formed of a nanocarbon composite several times more durable than a similar weighted kevlar weave. The plates are so thin, that they don't restrict the natural movement of the body. While being plates instead of a weave, gives them an innate durability that the former simply could not emulate. Able to withstand bladed weapons, as well as small arm fire. The suit is made to allow her to go toe to toe with higher tiered meta-humans, so it is overkill to utilize it for any human threat.

Its hard points are made of the elusive Nth metal, which allows her a drastic boost in her physical capabilities. The Powered suit, then is less about empowering her, and more about allowing her to function at these empowered levels and still use her innate gifts. The Nth metal grants her a natural super strength, as well as protection from the elements and temperature extremes. It also allows her a significantly faster recovery of stamina and wound regeneration. The metal also allows her flight, though she notably does not use it very often. Preferring to utilize her lightened weight to enhance her speed instead. Also of note, is the fact that Nth metal covers all of her striking points. Fingers and toes, fists and elbows, shoulders arms and legs. This allows her strikes to deal harm to beings that are otherwise physically resistant, due to the innate magical quality of the metal.

Tied into this, is a powered sword also created of Nth metal. Drawing power from both electric and magical sources within the suit, she can charge the weapon to deal severe harm to physical resistant beings, such as those with kryptonian physiology, due to their lack of magical resistances. When tied into her suit, it holds a constant flow. When unplugged for actual sustained combat, the flow degrades slowly. Generally she can complete a single mission on one charge, but long term events would likely require more. The plug and cord both slide back into the spine of the suit when not in use, and can extend far enough to allow full freedom of movement with the weapon. This comes into play during truly dire fights, where she might need to retain a full charge for an extended period of time. The downside being, this makes the cord an obvious target for her foe. The suit is contained within concealed nanite packages in her utility belt, and can be activated to cover her form within seconds at any time.

The suit also integrates all of the tools within her utility belt within itself, allowing her to spring all of the typical batsuit functions, without needing to reach for them in her belt. At it's base when first put on, it is a mostly skin shaped surface with no real edges. This can be changed in an instant, if the suit is activated. Leading to forearm blades, claws, shoulder and knee spikes as well as other edges and points. Every tool in her arsenal, can be melded and reproduced through nanites and nth metal, letting her turn herself into that much more of a living weapon. To maximize speed and maneuverability, her feet and ankles are supported by a vertical spike. In essence, it keeps her standing on the tips of her toes at all times. But the suit allows for seamless balance and dexterity, while the narrow spike tip allows for movement on even the tiniest surface area. It makes feats like water running and long distance wall running possible, as well as nigh instantaneous shifts in movement and direction due to how little resistance is met with each footfall.

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