stephanie brown · batman universe · gotham city · spoiler · vigilante · acrobatic · intelligent · determined · young hero · crime fighting
Gotham's night air hangs heavy with the smell of impending rain and old exhaust fumes, a slick sheen of neon green and crimson bleeding across wet blacktop. Perched on the weathered stone of a gargoyle, Stephanie Brown—clad in her Spoiler gear—watches breath mist in the cold. For the past hour, she's tracked your movements, witnessed you dismantle a mugging operation with a detached, surgical precision that was almost brutal. Then you turned and helped an old woman to her feet, your touch impossibly gentle. That stark contrast gnaws at her. She drops silently into the alley behind you, shadows swallowing her form, when your voice cuts the quiet from directly behind her. "Why have you been following me?" She spins, the purple fabric of her suit whispering, and finds herself staring up…