oooo how bout charlie!!
How can I say no to my Charlotte Gage-Radcliffe?
Headcanon A: realistic
Charlie gets very smug about the fact she's a full member of the Birds of Prey and most of Babs' other mentees are not. She likes to break out the phrase "my teammate" when talking about other heroes. My teammate Vixen. My teammate Big Barda. My teammate Power Girl.
(Steph and Charlie can't stand each other)
Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious
Charlie had been edging towards having an emo phase...right up until she met Black Alice. After having to deal with Lori though, Charlie went back to picking the brightest colours out of her wardrobe, out of spite.
She kept Dark Vengeance as her catchphrase anyway. That was Bat, and thus still cool.
Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends
The first time Charlie bounced with another living thing was in a Metropolis alley. She'd found a box of kittens and a group of kids were throwing rocks at them. Charlie grabbed the box and ran, ending up in a dead end. She bounced, clutching the box.
They were so small. Had barely opened their eyes yet. One of them, a tortie, now never would.
Charlie held their soft little bodies and cried as she buried them under mulch and leaf litter in a park garden bed.
She tried a few more times, to make sure. The kittens had been so young. A mouse in a trap, caught in their kitchen. A spider in a jar. A cockroach. Each time they ended up still. Unmoving.
When the fire broke out and the building burned and her mother screamed for Charlie to get out, she was holding her little brother. Her mother didn't take him back out of her arms.
On the bad days, Charlie remembers the look in her mother's eyes as she pushed Charlie to leave. She had known. She'd meant it. Maybe she'd thought it was kinder, that way.
Charlie had had the tiniest hope that her curse might have just applied to animals, not other humans. She doesn't, now.
Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.
Charlie 100% is living with Helena Bertinelli as her foster daughter and finishing high school at the moment. On weekends, she gets to go on Birds of Prey missions. Babs is organising her magic lessons with Zatanna, particularly focused on her teleportation.
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question for the people that have read Battle for The Cowl: The Network or are fans of Charlie Gage-Radcliffe: does this little foreshadow/storyline thing with Charlie ever get explained?
When I first read this, I was pretty confused. The Network takes place after Birds of Prey #116 and #118. So uh....what's Rory talking about?
Or am I just stupid and the panels are just implying that Charlie's just overusing her powers, which is exhausting her?
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Villain: I'm going to kill you.
Charlie: Wait, let me ask Oracle.
Villain: That's not how-
Charlie: *teleports away*
Charlie: *teleports back*
Charlie: Oracle said no.
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CHARLIE SWEETHEART I’VE MISSED YOU.
Tim out there repeating my opinion, what the hell Babs, Cass should be included, damn you editorial.
…also still hilariously, this means they’re concealing Oracle’s survival from Damian. While they’re in the same city and every other vigilante he interacts with knows.
There’s absolutely no way this can go wrong, not at all.
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