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Other characters currently played: Azula, Sandy
Character name: Dr. Harleen Frances Quinzel AKA Harley Quinn
Age: late twenties
Canon: Harley Quinn (New 52 Universe starting in 2013)
Canonpoint: Issue 3 of Harley Quinn Rebirth
Background: DC Wiki covering from childhood up to her team up with Powergirl
Wikipedia article that expands upon it some more.
Aside from working with Power Girl, Harley also has a mini series in which she has worked along side Wonder Woman (Her idol from childhood), Zatanna, fought and then teamed up with Green Lantern Hal Jordan, and even traveled in time and space to an alternate history meeting a team of super heroines during world war 2 called "The Bombshells." and in that alternate history she found Hitler and harangued him into killing himself just to get away from her.
After her team up with Power Girl, Harley decided it was too difficult for her to juggle work, managing her apartment building AND fighting crime, so she created a team of girls and one guy called her "Gang of Harleys" who act as heroes for hire going out and fighting crime and corruption. The Gang of Harley's have even had to save Harley from one of the people who auditioned for the team and didn't make the cut. Harley was kidnapped by "Harley Sin" and the Gang had to chase her to a evil lair on an island to save their leader.
With the Gang of Harley's helping balance out her life, Harley finally had time for love, dating the son of one of her tenants. Unfortunately due to his criminal past and her getting aggressive with the Mayor, he was arrested and transferred to Arkham, causing Harley to stage a daring rescue where she finally confronted The Joker. Unable to resist his calling her out, she locked herself in his cell with him and fought him hand to hand, even going so far as to bite his lip off when he kissed her. Proving to herself once and for all she was over him she beat him to the ground and then chose not to kill him because that's what he would want. Unfortunately her boyfriend still had to go into hiding for awhile so she returned to New York heartbroken but with a new sense of self confidence (Which led to her getting a new hair style)
Shortly after that adventure Harley picked up a new stalker named "Red Tool" who was insane and doing his best to court her which almost got her killed. She made amends with him however and he has now joined her list of allies...which was good because a zombie type outbreak hit Coney Island shortly after that (During the DC Rebirth) and she needed his help to fight her way through the streets. He was bitten and in desperation she hacked off his arm to save him, later sending him via catapult to a hospital. After that incident he has not returned her calls. Having survived the Zombie invasion with her friends and family in tact and trying to get her life back on track yet again, we pick up with Harley shortly after the dust has settled, contemplating her life and where she wants it to go.
Personality: I’ll start with what I feel is the largest and most important aspect of her personality; her obsession. Obsession is what drove young Harleen Quinzel to study hard, work her butt off and graduate top of her class from Gotham University (though being very intelligent certainly helped). It's what led her to creating the criminal persona Harley Quinn so that she could better understand the Joker and eventually fall in love with him. And her obsessive love for the Joker led to her committing countless acts of violence towards others. Even now that she’s broken away from her downwards spiral of self destruction, her obsession is still a significant part of her personality and current lifestyle.
For example, she discovered an animal shelter where over fifty animals were going to be euthanized in 24 hours because they had not been adopted out. Rather then just adopt one of the creatures, and be satisfied with that she had to adopt ALL of them. And when she could not do so legally, she impulsively broke into the shelter after dark and stole all the creatures taking them home with her. "Harley is a woman searching for an identity and purpose in her life. For example, she created a criminal persona while working at Arkham Asylum, she filled the role of the Joker's air-headed accomplice, and as a member of the Suicide Squad, she became the ruthless criminal psychopath that the team wanted her to be. After the Joker's most recent attempt on her life, Harley began her greatest transformation yet.”
This new Harley Quinn is more thoughtful and compassionate then her previous personas, the kind of person who goes out of her way to rescue animals from abuse or who runs directly into a burning building to rescue the people no one else can. She even tries to offer psychological help to those she sees suffer from similar aliments to herself and has begun talking other criminals through their problems and advocating for them to seek help. Examples of this include Redtool and Harley Sin, who themselves became obsessed with Harley and who Harley vowed to help through the correct psychological recovery.
And when it comes to people she loves and cares about, such as Poison Ivy, she will go to any length to protect them. Harley literally catapulted herself from New York to Gotham City and broke into Arkham Asylum (her least favourite place in the world) to rescue Ivy, risking incarceration, running into her old trigger (Joker) and worse all to try and win Ivy her freedom.
While she does still have that dark side to her, these days she usually only reserves her excessively violent tendencies for other criminals; from creatively dispatching various hired guns who tried to kill her for a bounty, to killing and maiming some local street thugs who were stealing trash cans. When Harley lets her destructive side take hold she is shockingly dangerous to anyone in her path with little concern for societal boundaries and consequences. But she has made progress on teaching herself to temper that wild and impulsive attitude, surprising even her closest friends. For example, when confronted for talking loudly in a theater, Harley didn't respond with violence, but instead apologized for her rudeness and politely escorted herself out."
It all comes down to Harley’s own internal moral compass. Depending on her mood she might show compassion, such as when she spent most of her Christmas Day trying to heal a broken family. Alternatively, she might become more violent, such as when she violently forced an airport staff member into a small suitcase in retaliation for her lost luggage.
Harley Quinn is inspired by the heroics of great women such as Wonder Woman, whom she idolized as a child, or even Poison Ivy, one of her closest friends. These figures have inspired her to be a better person and make a difference in the lives of those around her. One attempt at this was when she discovered an amnesiac Power Girl, Harley crafted a new Superhero persona for herself and told Power Girl they were best friends and a crime fighting duo. This idea was impulsive and thought up in a very short space of time but Harley threw her all into it and actually managed to make it work until Power Girl’s memory returned.
And this is what leads to her wish to become a hero. Harley feels good when she’s helping people, inspiring her to established a gang of hard working and slightly unstable volunteers willing to fight crime and clean up the streets for a fee. And when people can’t pay her in money she’s even been shown to accept more humble and personable forms of payment because at the end of the day it’s about doing what’s right, not about the paycheck (though she does like that bit very much also).
Wish: "I wanna be a big time hero!" Part of Harley's goals since she was little was to do some good in the world even as far back as when she was a nerdy kid being bullied. She idolized Wonder Woman and tried to fight evil like Wonder Woman would...unfortunately by almost strangling the bully and hanging her from a tree using a golden lasso. It is in this line of thought that Harley wishes to be more like the heroes she looks up to, Wonder Woman and Power girl being examples.
And so Harley will be granted a life much like the heroes she looks up to including a secret identity, evil arch nemesis, side kick, extra ordinary abilities, and of course...plenty of merchandise. While her normal life may have shades of all these things this will also include earning her the respect of other "real" heroes and even a seat on The Justice League someday.
Passive ability: Wonder Woman's Deflecting bracelets: Summoning a Wonder Woman costume complete with amazonian bracelets Harley has the ability to deflect attacks from herself and people standing directly behind her. This acts as a buff to her agility and defense specifically when it comes to deflecting shots with her wrist gauntlets. Obviously it is not a perfect shield however and she will not be able to deflect everything, often taking damage the more she tries to deflect.
Active ability: Flower Crowns: Harley has the ability to summon one flower crown that heals basic cuts, scrapes and bruises. On a full soul gem Harley can summon three crowns before she is both exhausted and her gem is darkened enough to be concerning. Also the flower crowns might cause people who suffer from allergies to sneeze so...sorry about that. The flower crowns do not work on Harley and she can only summon one at a time.
Weapon: An oversized magical mallet.
Sample: Here
Revised Personality
Date: 2016-10-03 08:00 am (UTC)Her big heart can cause her to act irrationally such as the time she used a catapult to try and fling herself all the way from Brooklyn New York to Arkham Asylum in Gotham City to rescue her best friend Poison Ivy. She was willing to risk life, limb and sanity to rescue Ivy. Even after having made so much progress putting that place behind her. And she would take risks like that every day for any of her close family and friends. This does however prove to be a difficult task as she is constantly making friends and growing her family.
Another example of her big heart would be how she treats animals. On her first day back in Brooklyn she ran across a man mistreating his dog and promptly rescued the poor pooch. Later she adopted over fifty cats, dogs, bunnies and birds just to spare them from being euthanized, and even later still she spent a large chunk of her own savings to purchase a swarm of birds from a pet shop only to set them free. Harley cares deeply for animals to the point where she can’t stand to see or even think of them sad or in pain. And she’s willing to go above and beyond for them.
Harley usually has the best of intentions, but her reactions are often over the top and excessive. One day she was acting as psychologist for an old woman in a nursing home, the woman explained to Harley that her family never came to see her anymore and it was making her feel suicidal. Harley’s response to this was to drive a bulldozer through the families house, wreck their personal possessions, kidnap them in the trunk of a car and then lecture them on how terrible they had treated her. Really all she needed to do was call the family and set up a meeting to discuss things but she decided a more traumatizing and aggressive method was acceptable.
On the flip side when she can apply her psychological expertise to a situation and actually help someone she does. At one point she was kidnapped by a stalker who intended on keeping her locked in a cage in his home until she loved him. While Harley could have easily escaped his grasp or beaten him senseless, instead she spent the night talking to him, persuading him to turn himself in so he could get proper help for his obsessive behavior. She saw a part of herself in him and gave him all the sympathy and help she wished she’d gotten once upon a time.
Of course she may be a big hearted lover of all things great and small, but she is not by any means a pacifist. She can turn incredibly violent especially when her life is in danger such as the time a bus full of escaped convicts were chasing her through a hardware store.
Her merciless nature can also be seen in a series of assassinations she performed alongside her friend Sy Borgmen. They systematically tracked down and killed several retired KGB spies and assassins, including in one case an old man in a coma who Harley very messily dispatched. He was ultimately harmless in his current state but Harley wasted him rather then wasting time with the morality of her assassination.
Despite her usual boundless confidence Harley does allow herself to get overwhelmed at times, usually by stress and trying to do too many things at once. Among her responsibilities include working two different jobs as a psychiatrist, participating in a roller derby team, maintaining the apartment complex she oversees, and fighting crime and injustice in her own neighborhood wherever she sees it.
With all these balls in the air it’s understandable something would have to fall by the way side and in this case it was her attempt at having a social life out side of all those activities. The stress of it all finally got to her when she failed to make a dinner date with a handsome young man she was fancying and it drove her to tears.
Harley’s impulsive nature has often put her at the center of trouble as well, including attempting to jump the grand canyon on a motor cycle. Someone remarked “You’d have to be insane to try that.” Sure enough she stole his motorcycle and would have given it a shot if she hadn’t been stopped by Ivy.
A much larger example of things getting out of control because of an impulsive choice she made was when Harley found the famous heroine Power Girl unconscious, she opted to take the woman home to try and help her.
When she discovered Power Girl had lost her memory Harley immediately hatched a plan to convince Power Girl they were best friends and crime fighting partners. This lie was perpetuated over an entire adventure that took the girls to the farthest corner of space and back. An entire intergalactic adventure sparked off all because Harley decided on a whim to lie her way into a friendship with a super heroine.
Re: Revised Personality 2
Date: 2016-10-03 06:14 pm (UTC)She is a woman searching for an identity and purpose in her life that much is true. When she wanted to try and better understand the criminals of Arkham Asylum she created a criminal persona and tried to mingle with them. When she fell in love with the Joker she played the part of his air headed accomplice. During her time with the suicide squad she was the ruthless criminal psychopath that the team wanted her to be, and after she escaped all that and the Joker tried to kill her one too many times it became time for her to construct a new persona for herself.
This new Harley Quinn is more thoughtful and compassionate then her previous personas. The kind of person who goes out of her way to rescue animals from abuse and the kind of person who runs directly into a burning building to rescue the people on the top floor when no one else can. She even tries to help fix others who have let their obsessions get the better of them by trying to get them the psychological help she needed such as a stalker who kidnapped her and wanted to make her fall in love with him. Instead of pummeling him she talked him through his problems and got him to agree to seek professional help and turn himself in for the crimes he’d committed.
And when it comes to people she loves and cares about like Poison Ivy, she will go to any length to protect them. Such as the time she catapulted herself from New York to Gotham City and broke into Arkham Asylum to rescue Ivy after she had been captured. Harley was willing to return to her least favorite place in the world, risk incarceration, risk running into the Joker and worse all to try and win Ivy her freedom.
She does still have that dark side to her however, but these days she usually only reserves her excessively violent tendencies for other criminals. From creatively dispatching various hired guns who tried to kill her for a bounty, to killing and maiming some local street thugs who were stealing trash cans when Harley lets her destructive side take hold she is shockingly dangerous to anyone in her path.
But she has made progress on teaching herself to temper that wild and impulsive attitude, surprising even her closest friend Poison Ivy when it looked as though Harley was about to murder some people in the theater who were telling her to shut up during a movie. Instead Harley apologized for being so rude and politely escorted herself out.
She is a woman in conflict, and a woman searching for purpose and identity. Inspired by the heroics of other great women like Wonder Woman or even Poison Ivy she wants to be a better person and make a difference in the lives of those around her. One attempt at this was when she discovered an amnesiac Power Girl, Harley crafted a new Superheroic persona for herself and told Power Girl they were best friends and a crime fighting duo. This idea was impulsive and thought up in a very short space of time but Harley threw her all into it and actually managed to make it work until Power Girl’s memory returned.
And this is what leads to her wish to become a hero. Harley feels good when she’s helping people and to that end established a gang of hard working and slightly unstable volunteers willing to fight crime and clean up the streets for a fee. And when people can’t pay her in money she’s even been shown to accept live stock and food as payment because at the end of the day it’s about doing what’s right, not about the paycheck.
Re: Revised Personality 3
Date: 2016-10-03 07:17 pm (UTC)For example, she discovered an animal shelter where over fifty animals were going to be euthanized in 24 hours because they had not been adopted out. Rather then just adopt one of the creatures, and be satisfied with that she had to adopt ALL of them. And when she could not do so legally, she impulsively broke into the shelter after dark and stole all the creatures taking them home with her. "Harley is a woman searching for an identity and purpose in her life. For example, she created a criminal persona while working at Arkham Asylum, she filled the role of the Joker's air-headed accomplice, and as a member of the Suicide Squad, she became the ruthless criminal psychopath that the team wanted her to be. After the Joker's most recent attempt on her life, Harley began her greatest transformation yet.”
This new Harley Quinn is more thoughtful and compassionate then her previous personas, the kind of person who goes out of her way to rescue animals from abuse or who runs directly into a burning building to rescue the people no one else can. She even tries to offer psychological help to those she sees suffer from similar aliments to herself and has begun talking other criminals through their problems and advocating for them to seek help. Examples of this include Redtool and Harley Sin, who themselves became obsessed with Harley and who Harley vowed to help through the correct psychological recovery.
And when it comes to people she loves and cares about, such as Poison Ivy, she will go to any length to protect them. Harley literally catapulted herself from New York to Gotham City and broke into Arkham Asylum (her least favourite place in the world) to rescue Ivy, risking incarceration, running into her old trigger (Joker) and worse all to try and win Ivy her freedom.
While she does still have that dark side to her, these days she usually only reserves her excessively violent tendencies for other criminals; from creatively dispatching various hired guns who tried to kill her for a bounty, to killing and maiming some local street thugs who were stealing trash cans. When Harley lets her destructive side take hold she is shockingly dangerous to anyone in her path with little concern for societal boundaries and consequences. But she has made progress on teaching herself to temper that wild and impulsive attitude, surprising even her closest friends. For example, when confronted for talking loudly in a theater, Harley didn't respond with violence, but instead apologized for her rudeness and politely escorted herself out."
It all comes down to Harley’s own internal moral compass. Depending on her mood she might show compassion, such as when she spent most of her Christmas Day trying to heal a broken family. Alternatively, she might become more violent, such as when she violently forced an airport staff member into a small suitcase in retaliation for her lost luggage.
Harley Quinn is inspired by the heroics of great women such as Wonder Woman, whom she idolized as a child, or even Poison Ivy, one of her closest friends. These figures have inspired her to be a better person and make a difference in the lives of those around her. One attempt at this was when she discovered an amnesiac Power Girl, Harley crafted a new Superhero persona for herself and told Power Girl they were best friends and a crime fighting duo. This idea was impulsive and thought up in a very short space of time but Harley threw her all into it and actually managed to make it work until Power Girl’s memory returned.
And this is what leads to her wish to become a hero. Harley feels good when she’s helping people, inspiring her to established a gang of hard working and slightly unstable volunteers willing to fight crime and clean up the streets for a fee. And when people can’t pay her in money she’s even been shown to accept more humble and personable forms of payment because at the end of the day it’s about doing what’s right, not about the paycheck (though she does like that bit very much also).
Revised powers
Date: 2016-10-04 05:10 am (UTC)