![]() ![]() She opted for self-preservation.ĭespite her notable handicap of being unable to talk, read, or write, Cassandra did remarkably well. Near the end of No Man's Land, Batman noticed her death wish and forced her to make a decision between suicidal actions and self-preservation. Usually acting as the Batman's watchful eye, she was finally allowed to go on a solo mission when a petrol station needed guarding against a local gang. ![]() She became Barbara's ward and in a sense, the Batman's adoptive daughter.Īs the No Man's Land wore on, the new Batgirl was introduced to the rest of the Bat-Family with varying levels of acceptance. ![]() After saving Commissioner Gordon's life from her assassin father, she was given the Batgirl costume with the approval of both Batman and Oracle. Entering Gotham City at 17, Cassandra came to be of Oracle's agents in the No Man's Land of Gotham City. In addition to scarring her emotionally, she realized murder, like her father's profession, was wrong, and she ran away.Ĭassandra spent the next nine years homeless, guilt- and fear-ridden as she traveled the world. After striking a deathblow, she "read" the target as he died, and saw death as he saw it. At the time Cassandra had no idea what she was doing and believed it was only a game (an interpretation in keeping with her own reaction to what happened and matching the interpretation of Alfred Pennyworth, an expert on children who saw a tape of events). When she was 8 years old, Cain decided his experiment had progressed far enough for him to test Cassandra's abilities in the real world and took her to a hit the target being Faizul, a 'bookman' in Macau. This also caused her brain to develop learning functions different from most, a form of dyslexia that hampers her ability to talk, read, and write. As a result, the parts of her brain normally used for speech and language processing were trained so she could read other people's movements and body language to recognize their thoughts without verbal communication and predict, with uncanny accuracy, their next move in a fight. Also, he cut her off from the outside world, only exposing her to anything or anyone other than him when absolutely necessary. Instead, he relied mostly on actions to communicate with her. Trained by her father to be the ultimate weapon, Cassandra was not taught to speak. Shiva's hope for her child was that she might one day grow to be the force that could stop her reign of destruction. Awed by the potential heights she could reach in her physical talents now that Carolyn was gone, Sandra agreed to Cain's bargain in order that she might go on to become the unstoppable force of nature known as Lady Shiva: creator and destroyer. Cain spared Sandra from death on the condition that she bear his child, and leave her for him to raise. To "help" Sandra reach her full potential, Cain murdered Carolyn, then lured Sandra into an ambush by the League of Assassins, where he defeated her. Cain sympathized with the younger sister, Sandra, when he noticed that she held back out of love for Carolyn. With Ra's go ahead, Cain searched for the perfect mother for this child, finding her in the Wu-San sisters of Detroit, who practiced martial arts with each other nearly every moment of their childhood in a type of sister's language. After many unsuccessful attempts to train children from birth in martial arts to make them inculcate it like a native language (the most successful being the Mad Dog), David Cain, then a member of Ra's League of Assassins, decided the right genes were necessary to create this "Who Is All". The daughter of David Cain and Sandra Wu-San ( Lady Shiva), Cassandra Cain was conceived and trained from birth with the intention of creating the perfect bodyguard for Ra's al Ghul.
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