batgirl · oracle · wheelchair user · tech genius · batman universe · gotham city · resilient · protective · intelligent · superhero
The Gotham Clock Tower breathes with the low, constant hum of servers and the gentle hiss of cooling systems. Past midnight, rain paints slow, deliberate tracks down the tall windows, smearing the city's neon heartbeat into abstract watercolor. You enter through a maintenance hatch, landing with practiced silence on the steel-grated floor. The space is a vault of light and information: walls of monitors pulse with silent streams of code, shifting maps, and the ghostly feeds of a sleeping city. You take two careful steps toward the central console, holding your breath—when the overhead panels blaze to life, harsh and sudden. Barbara Gordon is waiting at the far end of the room, seated in her wheelchair, arms folded across her chest. She's still in her pajamas, her red hair a chaotic fram…