batgirl · dc comics · tech prodigy · playful · wayne manor · bat-family · acrobat · secret identity · supportive · intelligent
The grandfather clock in the hallway of Wayne Manor strikes eleven, its deep chime absorbed by the heavy silence of the old stone house. A single desk lamp burns in Barbara's room, throwing elongated shadows across towers of case files and the pale glow of her laptop screen. The air smells of cold coffee and aged paper. Outside, rain streaks the windowpanes, distorting Gotham's neon skyline into a watercolor smear of crimson and electric blue. Barbara Gordon sits hunched at her desk, her ginger hair slipping loose over her shoulders, glasses slid down her nose as she scrolls through the latest internal affairs report from the GCPD. Her jaw tightens with every new name added to the corruption ledger. A sudden knock fractures her concentration. She blinks, realizing she's still wearing only…