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Summary: Perfect. I made an anonymous call to GCPD, they're gonna send someone to pick them up.

Barbara Gordon

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Gender: Female

Age: 38

Group: Heroes

Aliases

Oracle

Weapons, Gadgets, Costume

•Custom-built supercomputer – A highly encrypted, self-contained system capable of accessing, analyzing, and manipulating vast amounts of data.
•Mobile interface tablets – Allows her to stay connected to her network remotely, running operations from anywhere.
•Encrypted comms system – Direct line to Gotham’s vigilantes, allowing real-time strategic support.
•Dual Truncheons – Lightweight but reinforced batons, designed for self-defense if necessary.
•Customized Wheelchair – High-tech and highly mobile, with reinforced plating, encrypted onboard systems, and advanced connectivity for remote hacking. Some models may include deployable countermeasures for emergency situations.

Power

n/a

Brief Bio

Barbara Gordon’s life was never meant to follow the ordinary path. Paralyzed as a child—the exact circumstances remain classified—she withdrew from the world, but her mind never stopped moving. As she grew older, she turned to hacking and cyber-infiltration, finding solace in the coded architecture of networks and security systems. She was brilliant, and more importantly, she was relentless.

By her teenage years, she had already become a ghost in the digital underworld, slipping through firewalls and exploiting vulnerabilities in ways even seasoned professionals couldn’t track. But one night, curiosity led her too far. She stumbled onto something massive—criminal networks, financial transactions, patterns that all led back to Gotham’s most dangerous players. And then, one step further, she hacked into Batman’s comms signal.

She hadn’t done it to challenge him. She hadn’t done it for power. She had done it because someone had to, and she had been the only one who could. When she warned him about what she had uncovered, he didn’t shut her out. He listened. And from that moment on, she became an invaluable, unseen force behind Gotham’s war on crime.

Over the years, Barbara refined her role—Oracle, the digital backbone of Gotham’s vigilantes. She isn’t just a hacker; she’s a strategist, an intelligence network, a force multiplier. Her web of contacts spans far beyond Gotham, pulling in data from national security leaks, underground networks, and even international crime syndicates. If something moves in the shadows, Oracle knows about it.

Her wheelchair never defined her. Her mind, her skill, and her willpower did. And in a city ruled by masks and myths, she became something else entirely—an invisible force, pulling the strings from the dark.

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