Talia al'Ghul |
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Portrayed by Indira Varma |
Statistics |
Full Name |
Talia al'Ghul |
Age |
34 |
Height |
5'7" |
Build |
Tall and athletic |
Eyes |
Brown |
Hair |
Brown |
Factions |
Leviathan, League of Shadows |
Occupation |
Businesswoman |
Alignment |
Villain |
Claim to Fame
Miranda Tate, CEO of Trutina Enterprises, is an internationally successful business woman.
Reputation
As Miranda Tate, she is a wealthy and successful businesswoman. Though a recognized name, many might not know her face. In other circles, those who would know the name of the Demon would know that he had a daughter who follows in his footsteps.
Biography
As the daughter of R’as al’Ghul, Talia’s early years were spent traveling the world with her father. Her mother was killed by a rogue assassin when she was very young. The few memories she had of her mother were often overshadowed by her father in the background, but her death is quite clear. Talia was there when she was taken away, hidden in a closet. She did not see her mother’s death, but she heard the gunshot. She stayed there for hours, still hearing people in the house. Late at night, after she emerged, she found her father sitting on the couch. He had cleaned the blood and laid her mother on the table with a blanket over her to hide the gore. He had not searched for his daughter to ensure she was alright. Talia learned two of the most important lessons of her life that night. While her mother protected her, she was dead now. Her father showed her that surviving was up to her.
Things, strangely, continued much as they were. She and her father traveled, he trained her and expected her to excel and learn in the skills he thought most important for his children. Determined to make her father proud, she did all that was asked of her and more. She was smart and capable and proved more than up to the tasks set before her. Despite training Talia as if she were an heir, he made other plans and expected a man to take over his role. So it was that when she was growing into adulthood, but was still quite young, R’as took Bruce Wayne under his wing.
It was immediately apparent that Bruce was intelligent, cunning and driven. The perfect male protege for R’as. Helping to legitimize Bruce’s claim to take over the League of Shadows, he pushed Talia toward him in an attempt to seduce him and convince him to stay. Growing up solely under the influence of R’as, spending time with Bruce was something of a revelation for Talia. He seemed genuine and unwilling to play mind games. His purity of conviction and unshakeable morals pushed at Talia’s own understanding of her father and her place in the world. Either despite or knowing she was a pawn in her father’s game, she saw a future with Bruce. Whether he felt the same or not, the two became close before the ideological differences between him and her father came to a head and he left.
It was only later that she realized she was pregnant. She refused to reveal the father to R’as, despite his assumptions that it was Bruce. R'as insisted on raising the child.
Though she attempted to continue as she did before Bruce arrived in her life, Talia was changed. She continued to do her father’s will, but now something else slept inside her - defiance. The appearance Nyssa, of a sister she did not even know she had, only exacerbated that. They quickly bonded, but it soon became clear that Nyssa was truly an al’Ghul, for she had motives of her own. She attempted to use Talia as a weapon against R’as. The inner circle war was brutal and in the end Nyssa and R’as both ended up dead. Or as dead as anyone who knows of the Lazarus Pit could be. Talia came out alive, but completely changed. While she only relied on herself for most of her life, she now actively distrusted anyone offering trust or friendship. Even her memories of Bruce were suspect. Trust and love killed. She had proof of that.
Talia took up the mantel of her father amid the bloodshed. She had learned how to lead and what to do in his stead. Using his teachings she created Trutina Enterprises, which was merely a cover for Leviathan - what she envisioned the next phase of the League of Shadows to be.
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Character Details
A woman of many faces, Talia is a guarded person who keeps her cards close to her chest. Though outwardly personable - as honey catches more flies than vinegar - very few people actually know her or are welcomed into her personal circle. Those who are know her to be calculating and determined.
Genius |
Talia is an incredibly smart woman. Someone who is able to think down to the details and wrap her mind around large concepts, there is little that passes over her head. |
Martial Arts |
Growing up with the League of Assassins, Talia learned from a very young age the martial arts. Her father's training and learning from the fighters within the Assassins only widened her knowledge and ability. As an expert in both blades and hand to hand combat, she would be a world renowned fighter, however being known would defeat her purposes. |
Sharpshooter |
Much as she is incredibly skilled in melee weapons, this also extends to ranged weapons. Though a traditionalist, her father would not have left so large a gap in her combat education as to forgo training her in firearms. She is a crack shot and an expert markswoman. |
Tactician |
Though her father did not exactly mean to teach her how to execute plans large and small, it was impossible for her not to pick up on the way he commanded the League and, as his daughter, was able to see somewhat behind the curtain and all the deals and double deals he made. Not only that, crossing and double crossing is practically an al'Ghul family trait. If she didn't learn how to pick her battles and make solid plans (and adapt them) she would never have survived. |
Espionage |
Growing up with the League of Assassins, Talia learned very early on how to get the information she wants without showing too many of her own cards. Whether in business or otherwise, she has always been someone able to extract the information she needs. Though this mostly applies to her business prowess, she is also well versed in the more literal version of the word and knows how to conceal her own identity and hide in plain sight. |
Business Savvy |
Putting her tactical knowledge and intelligence to business, Talia is quite an adept business woman. As the owner of her own company, she is able to compete at the highest level and negotiate aggressively with other companies in order to ensure her owns standings. In fact, under her guidance, Trutina Enterprises is one of the top competing companies in the US. |
Peak Human Condition |
Due to her advanced training and a few dips in the Lazarus Pits, Talia is at the height of human condition. She is not a super human and she has no advanced abilities, but she is at the top of reflexes, strength and stamina as a regular human can be. |
Jane Doe |
Growing up, Talia has always know the value of a good nom de plume and hidden identity. As such, Talia has many aliases that will hold up under government and public scrutiny. |
Wealthy |
Ra's was a wealthy man and when he died, she gained access to it. On top of that, her own company makes billions of dollars. As such, Talia is quite wealthy and lives a very comfortable lifestyle. This gives her the ability to use money to bribe and make things go away that she finds annoying or not worthy of her time to strategize. |
Lazarus Pit |
Much like the rest of her family, Talia knows of the location of the Lazarus Pit and therefore is able to (and show people) how to bring someone back from the dead. Should she die, she also has a contingency plan to bring herself or those she cares for back to life. |
Femme Fatale |
As a woman in what was mostly a man's club, Talia learned to use her mind and her sexuality in order to get what she wanted. While that is not her main mode of negotiation, she accepts that sex often sells and should that be the price, she is willing to pay it. |
Leviathan |
As the head of an important company, Talia has assistants, aides, secretaries and various other lackeys to help her with more menial tasks or whatever else she wishes to get accomplished. Plus, with her father dead (for now), she fought to become a leader of the League of Shadows. Using her business connections, she has been steering the league's dealings and while she is committed to keeping to the general ideals of the League, she is also - at times - able to use them for her own gain. |
Resources |
As a powerful and wealthy woman with many contacts, Talia has a far greater ability and ease to get the things that she wants and needs with far less trouble than the average person. Cars, weapons, money, specialists, buildings - they're all varying degrees of difficulty, but all obtainable to her. |
Family Matters |
While given many opportunites and benefits growing up as she did, for those who know her true identity, it comes with many enemies and burdens. Many wish her dead or worse for her and her father's sins. While her many aliases and power are there for benefit, they are also there as protection and to hide her. |
Trust No One But Yourself |
The al'Ghul's didn't exactly have the best family dynamic. Love and trust were often used as weapons against each other to gain victories and Ra's was particularly thorough in his manipulations to ensure her as a perfect pawn. As such, she rarely trusts anyone - even her own family. All actions, to her, have alterior motives. |
The Bat |
Talia holds a true and deep affection for Batman. And, therefore, she holds a deep distrust for those feelings as well as for the man himself. He has the ability to talk her out of previously decided upon actions or cause her to act either too rashly or cautiously in her desire to prove herself better than him. Conflicted both by the man's ideals as well as her varying emotions about him, his involvment tends to cause butterfly effects throughout her well thought out plans. |
Only Human |
Despite the Lazarus Pits and the training, Talia has no super strength, no super endurance nor super anything. Sickness and poison can kill her just as easily as a gunshot can. She has to rely on her own wits and resources to keep herself alive. |
Criminal |
Talia has multiple underworld and criminal dealings. While she is quite good and pays many people to cover her tracks and keep her public identity clean, she is still the head of an international criminal ring and the head of a league of assassins. Given enough money and effort, that is the sort of thing that could be brought to light. Or held over her. |
Relationships
Image |
Name |
Relation |
Notes |
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Ra's al'Ghul |
Father |
Demon's Head |
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Jason Todd |
Associate |
Red Hood |
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