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September 13th, 2009
06:20 pm - Application
Character Name: Zoe Torres
Character LJ (if applicable):
Physical description (face, build, weight): Dark brown hair, brown eyes, olive skin, 5'7", 140 lbs, athletic with a side of curvy.
Age: 17
Codename (if using one):
PB: (If using one.) Michelle Rodriguez
Abilities: Uncanny aim, from slingshots and thrown rocks to guns. Deadly with grapes and a mad on for somebody. Fluent in Spanish.
Weaknesses and flaws: Overconfidence of youth, and an insatiable need to be accepted by a father figure.
Character location/Home: The Triangle, Star City
Alignment (villain, hero etc): Mostly heroic out of boredom; she could be swayed either way for the right price. (Hint: the right price is not always money.)
Team: None
Relatives (living/dead?): Floyd Lawton: father, presumed dead. Michelle Torres: mother. Edward Lawton: half brother, deceased.
Backstory: Zoe's mother was a prostitute when she was hired for the night by Floyd Lawton, aka Deadshot. They parted the next morning with Michelle paid with cash and coke for her time.
When she discovered she was pregnant, she stopped hooking and got herself off the drugs. She went back to school to get her high school diploma and found work in a diner. Unfortunately, a waitress salary was only enough to afford a run down apartment in the Triangle section of Star City. The area was a war zone with three rival gangs fighting over it. Lawton decided to do right by this daughter, and embarked on a lethal war on the local gangs that plagued the area. He realized a normal life wasn't for him, so he faked his death and convinced Green Arrow to patrol it more regularly. The area cleaned up well for a good many years, but now that the heroes are focused elsewhere it's falling back into its old ways with the gangs, drugs and prostitutes creeping back in.
His payment from work for the Secret Six was sent directly to Michelle, who used the money along with grants and loans to get through college and law school while still providing a home for Zoe. She refused to the leave the Triangle. After she passed the bar, she set herself up to practice for the people who stayed to rebuild the Triangle. Michelle will never be rich, but she gets by well enough.
Zoe was an average student through school; excelling in sports, failing at algebra, above average grades in English. It was in school that her uncanny talent for hitting what she aimed at was discovered. She was a killer pitcher for the soft ball team through high school.
She took to the roofs early, spending time looking down, finding ways to get around the neighborhood up high in secret. When she was fourteen, she spotted an elderly neighbor getting mugged one evening. From three stories up and using the small rocks and bits of brick from the rooftop, she drove the attackers away. Soon after, she began patrolling her neighborhood after hours from the rooftops. She joined a neighborhood watch program and came into contact with Detective Forbes, the police officer who had known her father. Never exactly a 'by the book' cop himself, he recognized that Zoe seemed to be showing some of the same traits as Floyd: the same moral ambiguity and lack of concern for the law. Just to see what would happen, he offered her the chance to taking shooting lessons at the local firing range.
Zoe's at a turning point in her life with her future stretching ahead with two clear paths, college or turning to full time neighborhood vigilante. Her efforts have not gone unnoticed and some of the people she's helped have been paying her small amounts of cash as both a thank you and an encouragement to continue. The older neighbors remember Floyd and what he did to clean the area up, and if there has to be violence to keep their neighborhood clear, they're all right with that. The cops aren't, though they hardly credit the stories that a girl is driving off the muggers and small-time dealers. When asked, Zoe flashes a bit of cleavage and denies everything.
Her mother is afraid of what will happen when Zoe becomes old enough to legally purchase firearms. She doesn't know that Zoe has already managed to get and learn to shoot a set of guns thanks to Detective Forbes. Zoe believes she bought a set of second hand weapons; Forbes is under a promise to never tell her where he got them.
Without Floyd to be a bad example or a father figure to provide some guidance, Zoe is literally running wild.
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