#Kitrina Falcone

[leoruby-draws]

Posting some more art, these dealing with the other half of the superhero game, some villainous proteges! When the kids aren't helping Batman fight the bigger villains, they deal with the younger minions!

Duela Dent, Joker's Daughter, has a very confusing history despite the fact that she barely appears in any comics. And the few that she does appear in, she keeps changing looks and personality. I wondered if I should split her between her per-crisis and post-crisis self( her post would have elements of new52). It would be one way to deal with her. She's something of an antagonist to the batkids, tho its more light-hearted fun than any actual maliciousness from her. She's kind of the leader of this little gang.

Enigma, sidekick to the Riddler also has very few comic appearances. I thought she would make a fantastic enemy to tiny vigilantes, being a tiny villain herself. She's much more vicious than Duela, tho Duela keeps her in line a bit.

As for the Scarecrow 'distaff counterpart', she's spun from the Batman Family comic, where Duela was running around as all the villain's daughters. So I got the idea to actually make a 'scarecrow's daughter' oc, her name could be something like scaregirl or something. She's quite the creepy girl huh? OC's are pretty fun to make!

There's also Kitrina Falcone, Catgirl. Catwoman has been shown to mentored girls here and there but there's only been one catgirl to my knowledge. I thought her design looked interesting and obviously wanted to make a younger version for my au. I think she should be around Tim's age maybe? She's very playful and kinda selfish, like her mentor but not too malicious. The batkids mostly just find her a bit annoying (she keeps stealing random stuff off them).

Finally theres Cleo Cazo, daughter of the Ratcatcher. I just call her Ratgirl tbh. While I have read the comics for Ratcatcher, I have not watched the movie Cleo appears in (barring some youtube clips of her). So her history is more in line with the comics, considering her father has been in jail for years, she probably lives with her mother or other family. She's mostly harmless, and doesn't really have interest in fighting the heroes, she just wants to play with her rat friends and sleep. She seems to have some sort of narcolepsy disorder.

Anyways, that was a lot, hope you liked all that!

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Batman and Allies Tournament

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Dick trying to get Selina to un-cat-girl Kitrina but he's got no foot to stand on XD

Batman #704

Given that we don't see Dick trying to get Damian regular life stuff and normal kid school in pre new 52*, I am curious how he feels about this wrt Damian.

*I headcanon that Alfred's got some homeschool program going on in my fanfics, but its just a headcanon

[inamindfarfaraway]

Selina: Don’t ever talk to me or my sister or my other sister or my daughter or my semi-daughter or my street gang of semi-children or my husband or my stepchildren or my cats or my family’s pets ever again.

[diddle-riddle]

New Year’s Resolutions from the Rogues Gallery - 7

VII / Selina Kyle - Catwoman

1 - Get my own Stray to train, I miss being a mentor. 2 - Check on Kitrina Falcone from afar, I don’t want the kid to return to this line of business but I miss my Catgirl. 3 - Hang out more with Damian, the kid is a sweetheart. 4 - Help Eddie move to next step with Bruce, my kitten needs a little push to properly get with the Big Guy. 5 - Do the shovel talk with Bruce, not because we’re exes means he can escape it when dating my Kitten. 6 - Find a bigger hideout for Pam, Harley and I when we team-up and stay together. 7 - Steal that necklace with an emerald pendant I saw around Jezebel Jet’s neck over the Christmas gala at Wayne Manor. 8 - Get on the page with Dick and Babs: will they finally get married? 9 - Go shopping with Cassandra, that girl needs a woman who teaches her how to dress and do her makeup.

[pyroreadscomics]

Random question but: Does anyone know where the DC Wiki got the idea that Alberto was Kitrina Falcone's father? I'm not saying it's necessarily wrong but... I don't think it's mentioned in any of the comics she appears in, as opposed to her being Carmine's daughter (which, despite being shot down repeatedly seems to be what Kitty genuinely believes)

[kissingwookiees]

god i love when a show proves it knows the source material subtly… the penguin has all the falcones and maronis and johnny vitti… such a minor cast of characters but getting it right shows that they /know/ batman

[calciumcryptid]

Every day I am reminded of that one comic where the Gotham rogues play Poker so have a next gen iteration of it.

Can you tell I have no clue how poker works?

[inamindfarfaraway]

There's Selina Kyle and Holly Robinson as well, if you want a character with that trauma in Gotham! They've both been protective mentors, protectors and gang leaders to the homeless children of the East End (the area containing Crime Alley) at different times in canon, running the Alleytown Kids/Strays, while Jason has never done anything of the sort to Crime Alley kids in canon.

im also at a point where if someone tries to derail criticism about how male characters are often gifted trauma in fandom from the female characters with actual trauma in canon with “not my fault those female characters aren’t popular/interesting” instead of. reflecting about why they’d rather make up shit for a dude than care about a woman. with just. straight violence.

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When Bruce and Dick were both Batman at the same time, Bruce told Dick to take care of Michael Lane and Kitrina Falcone. It's kind of annoying because Dick and Damian were running the show in Gotham, but Bruce was still the one giving orders. Dick even referred to Bruce as the boss.

Batman #704

Azrael (Vol. 2) #14

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(Batgirl #23 2016)

*squints* Is this supposed to be Kitrina Falcone, but Hope Larsen forgot her name, or is it a sister/cousin of Kitrina with an overlapping life goal?

(Cmon why ISN’T this Kitrina? Kitrina reappearing right at this point in DC comics could only have led to even funnier shit going down given Bruce and Selina’s wedding is right around the corner)

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Batman and Allies Tournament

[havendance]

Dear Tony Daniel, I'm sorry for doubting yo. You wrote a fun Batman arc with Helena and Babs showing up to play supporting roles and also Selina and Kitrina Falcone and now I have to go read Morrison come back and write Batman RIP revisited. Sigh.

[inamindfarfaraway]

Inspired by this awesome, hilarious series by @jasonsfavoriteginger, here are my ideas for what the Catfamily (all living in Gotham, happy and on good terms, as seen in my Catfamily Chronicles fanfic series) would do for a presentation night. The Batfamily are importantly also present.

Selina Kyle: Security Update Recommendations. A list of exploitable flaws and weaknesses that she has personally found and demonstrated in the security systems of the Batfamily’s various locations; and genuinely good suggestions on how to fix or compensate for them. The locations are Wayne Manor, the Batcave, Dick’s flat, one of Jason’s safe houses, the Clocktower, Team Batgirl’s Firewall (Batgirl Steph forever! Read her 2009 run if you haven’t to know what this is) and Duke’s Nest. Every slide has photos of her breaking into the spaces clearly labelled with her precise actions, step by step. She maintains a helpful, nonjudgmental tone and straight face throughout. However, the text (which she does just not read aloud, because that’s boring) becomes increasingly sarcastic and mocking, and the content and fact that none of the audience knew about any of these break-ins until now speak for themselves. Afterward she takes in the Batfamily - on a spectrum from shaken to disturbed to terrified - and finally breaks her composure. She laughs so hard she cries. Bruce sheepishly asks her if she can give a similar presentation to the Justice League. The design is simple and classy, elegant black text on a purple background, which helps the mostly nighttime or otherwise dimly lit photos of her in black Catwoman costume stand out better.

Maggie Kyle: How To Look After Your Mental Health. The text is literally just very useful advice with a positive, encouraging tone and the articulation of a psychologist who has herself spent a lot of time in therapy. But in contrast to Selina, Maggie frequently takes a pointed tone and casts knowing, deadpan looks at members of the audience regarding their poor coping mechanisms and self-care, much as Alfred often does. The last slide has ‘Don’t make me call Harley’ in a smaller font size underneath ‘Thank you for your time!’. The background is white and the text, in the nondescript default font, and a range of soft, wavy patterns on the slides are calming shades of blue.

Holly Robinson: My Top Ten Funniest Spying Stories. Her job in the Catfamily is to hang around on the East End streets gathering intel. She is a gossip and anecdote queen. She and Babs have regular meetings for literal and figurative tea, this is canon and you can’t change my mind. The design has a gold background with black Comic Sans text.

Kitrina Falcone: Catgirl’s Guide to HARDCORE Escapology! This is an excuse to brag about her most impressive feats of escaping places and people, including Selina back when they first met, under the thin veil of an educational lecture. The majority of experiences she draws on to showcase different skills are from her time as Catgirl. But some are not. Some are from her adventures as a juvenile delinquent before meeting Selina, and they paint an extremely concerning picture of her childhood. Not that it wasn’t already known to be bad, but still. The Batfamily at least have never got this much detail on how much danger she was in before. Her confident, cheerful, conversational manner doesn’t falter once and she completely ignores the audience’s attempts to follow up on casually mentioned incidents like, oh, you know, the time her uncle and previous legal guardian nearly drowned her by tying her up and throwing her into the sea in a box chained shut. Normal teenager stuff like that. The backgrounds are black with bright pink text and flashy transitions.

[francisofgotham1]

This is amazing! You were able to combine Selina’s backstory into a consistent narrative, which due to the nature of comics, is near impossible.

However, I would like to add something to it, if you don’t mind.

The reasons for Selina stealing are actually much more selfless than they first appear. She has a younger sister, Maggie Kyle, whom she has to raise due to their parents’ neglect. Thus, she turns to stealing as a way of providing for herself and Maggie. Eventually, it becomes more selfish, but she has better intentions in the beginning.

Moreover, she serves as a mentor/caretaker to Holly Robinson and the “strays” of Crime Alley (orphans from Crime Alley). She taught them how to fend in the streets, including how to protect themselves. Holly learned so much from her that she became Catgirl. Later on, she takes Kitrina Falcone under her wing. Thus, while she is “the bad guy”, she has a strong potential to be good permanently.

And it is this potential that brings Bruce to her. He sees this potential, and not only wants to bring it out more often, but also wants her to see it for herself. It’s really quite beautiful.

Thank you again for your thoughts and your art!! I hope we see her more in the future!

I’ve only done some light reading on Selina, but even so, details on her past seem few and far between. Maybe there’s a reason, maybe I just haven’t looked hard enough, whatever. Someone can enlighten me in the comments. What I do know, however, is that she’s eluded to have experienced some form of abuse as a child. Now, this research came on the heels of brushing up on the rest of Batman’s rogues’ gallery and I gotta say, abuse as a backstory comes up a lot. And I’m just sitting here, like, “There are so many unique people in this world with unique traumas and hurts that this feels almost cookie cutter.” Am I wrong? I just wanna be more specific and explore problems more intimately. So… Selina Kyle. What to write for her backstory? I thought a lot about who she is as a character present day—her playful aloofness, her decision to become a cat burglar, breaking rules as if they don’t exist, always on the run, never settling down with anyone long term, stealing nice things for herself—it led me to this backstory: When Selina was a child, she was horribly neglected. Her father was almost never around and her mother was depressed, anxious, under the influence of alcohol quite often, and wished she never had a daughter. Selina found that it was always easier to live as though she were invisible. If she never got caught making a mess or being noisy or causing problems, her mother would never get mad at her, or even a acknowledge her, and neither would her father if he ever showed his face. She never received birthday gifts—or if she did, they were pitiful—and all of her attempts of reaching out via gifts to her mother and father were rejected. She was never loved and grew to believe that the only way she would ever feel cared for is if she just took care of herself and only herself. She was good at being invisible, and so she became good at stealing. She treated herself to nice things whenever she felt like it, and she rarely ever got caught. She never made close friends. She never really fell in love. She built up walls so high that no one could ever break them down… until she met Bruce. Suddenly, here was a guy who could consistently catch her red-handed. Who told her she needed to stop robbing people. Who believed she could be better. Who saw her. And even though she kept double-crossing him, escaping his grasp, and escaping justice, she found that it was a little bit harder to return to crime every time. She had always found him attractive… but the longer they chased each other around Gotham, and the longer he showed that he wasn’t going to ignore her or give up on her, the more that attraction turned into a deep feeling that Selina had never felt before. True love. She was scared of it. She didn’t know what to do with it. It was completely the opposite of everything she had ever known, and she secretly didn’t think she deserved it. After all, she was a criminal. She was a “bad guy.” Someone who stole from others for pleasure and profit. And yet Bruce believed she was a good person deep down. He believed she had the capacity for change. And in time, he would find himself falling in love with her too. By the end of their story, naturally, those walls had come crumbling down and they had each learned how to love again, something they both thought would never happen to them. 💜