Introduction
Barbara was born as an only child in an abusive, violent household. Her father, Roger Gordon, was a raging alcoholic with self-abuse issues. His drinking led to the death of Barbara's mother in a car accident when she was still a child, as well as his own a few years later. Barbara's uncle, Jim Gordon, adopted Barbara when she was ten years old, and introduced her to the world of law enforcement. Everything about the field fascinated Barbara thoroughly from the very beginning; she had unknowingly found her calling before she even fully knew what the term meant.
With a photographic memory and genius-level analytical skills, Barbara steamrolled her way through the school system, graduating from high school when she was sixteen years old. She started training in various martial arts when she was in middle school as an extracurricular activity which then expanded into a full blown passion. It took her only two years to graduate from Gotham University with a degree in Computer Science and Data Retrieval. In stead of actually doing something with this, Barbara started to work for the local newspaper as a journalist, for her uncle didn't want her to be out in the field yet.
Barbara desperately wanted to follow her uncle in his footsteps, but he simply wouldn't let her be a part of it in hope to protect her. Barbara, however, decided to go to the GCPD annual ball dressed as a female batman, an alter-ego she created secretly to fight crime. The ramifications of her dressing choice altered her life in ways she could never had predicted. That night, a masked villain had decided to drug and kidnap the billionaire Bruce Wayne from the ball, and Barbara had swung to his defense and taken the man down. After several trials and tribulations, Batman agreed to let Barbara aka "Batgirl" into the family and revealed his identity to her under oath.
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Barbara knew exactly when she first heard about the legendary Batman. It was her uncle, Jim Gordon, who dropped the newspaper on the table a few years ago. There was a picture of a man dressed in a bat suit and the title above it read: '"Gotham city crime rate lowest it's been in 15 years with Caped Crusader protecting the city." Barbara had been staring at the picture for a short while, and ever since then she couldn't stop wondering who that mysterious man was. It became an obsession.
It was shortly later when Barba joined the newspaper and she started doing some small jobs like interviews and writing a column. But she was never asked to write an article, especially not about the Batman. And as years passed by, also Barbara her curiosity disappeared. She respected the Batman and looked up to him, but the need to know who he was disappeared.. probably also because Barbara was getting older and therefore wiser, knowing that she doesn't have to know everything.
Now, many years later, her life had completely changed. Standing on the rooftop off a warehouse, Barbara stared down at the street beneath her. She was patrolling this part of the city alone, while Batman and Nightwing kept an eye on the other parts.
Being the only female in the trio of vigilante's, fighting to keep Gotham City safe from corruptions, Barbara Gordon had formed a close relationship with both the billionaire Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson , though she was closer to Dick than to Bruce for several reasons. Mainly because she spends a lot more time with Dick, both as Batgirl and Nightwing, and just during the day. He was one of her closest friends, if not the closest friend she had.