Superwomen of EVA Foes #3: Deadshot
"Second Impact left no part of the Earth untouched, and one of the places severely hit by its effects was Manhattan, New York, U.S.A., home to then-12-year-old Rebecca 'Revy' Lee. Looking back, she considered only one good thing to come out of the chaos of Second Impact, and that was the sudden flooding taking out her abusive father, though it did leave her orphaned in the process. Scrounging around to survive, she eventually stowed away on a freighter bound for Southeast Asia just to get away from the remains of her old life. She eventually ended up in the criminal's haven known as the small island nation of Roanapur, where she continued her scrounging to get by. During one run for food, she was nearly killed by a gang she'd stolen from, and would've ended up six feet under were it not for the intervention of one Floyd Lawton, a 'retired' American expat whose sharpshooting saved her life. Taking a bit of pity on the girl, Lawton reluctantly took her in and raised her to be his protégé; deep down, he felt Revy reminded him a lot of his estranged daughter, Zoe. It was under his guidance that Revy learned more of her 'guardian's' background, discovering that for three decades, Floyd Lawton was better known by a different moniker during his time as one of the most in-demand hitmen the world over. Eventually, Revy became just as much a crack shot as Floyd, to the point where he bestowed upon her a set of custom-built Beretta 92FS's when she turned 17.
Several years later, Revy learned all too well that a man like Floyd made all sorts of enemies, given his particular line of work. Coming home from running a small errand one evening, she found Floyd dead on the floor, the victim of a professional hit. Swearing revenge, Revy, after burying Floyd, removed an old footlocker from a compartment hidden underneath their apartment's floor, and extracted Floyd's old gear and outfit, intending to take up the alias he once discarded: Deadshot.
Once she got Lawton's old eyepiece and wrist guns upgraded thanks to some allies of hers in Roanapur, and after getting in touch with his old contact Noah Kuttler-the criminal information broker known as the Calculator-the new Deadshot began making a name for herself in the underworld as a highly-skilled hitwoman and assassin, unafraid to take on a job no matter its difficulty. Her travails eventually put her on the path of the organization that killed Floyd, allowing her to avenge her father figure's death by paying them back in kind.
Following that, she continued to receive jobs from clients all over the world. One such client would be Gendo Ikari, head of the U.N. special agency NERV, tasked with protecting the human race from the otherworldly monstrosities known as the Angels. Ikari hired her to come to Tokyo-3 (the location of NERV-Central) to deal with the influx of costumed vigilantes that had begun to appear in the city. Once in town, Deadshot found herself squaring off against the likes of Batgirl (secretly Mayumi Yamagishi, heiress to the tech and manufacturing empire bearing her family's name) and Green Arrow (secretly Maria Vincennes, one of NERV's Evangelion pilots). It would take the combined forces of the two heroines to defeat her, leading to her arrest. (Gendo Ikari would erase any evidence of his involvement with her being in the city.)
En route to the prison where she was to reside pending her hearing, custody would be unexpectedly transferred to U.S. CIA agent King Faraday, who brought her to the States, it being the first time in years she'd ever set foot on U.S. soil. Faraday then brought her face-to-face with ruthless government intelligence official Amanda "The Wall" Waller, who outlined two choices for the hitwoman: face a firing squad as the sentence for her crimes, or serve her time as part of Waller's specialized black ops team to earn her freedom. Smirking at those options, Deadshot willingly took the second one, and became one of the initial 'recruits' into Waller's team: Task Force X, colloquially known as the Suicide Squad."
*Author's Note(s)*
As seen in the Deviation I submitted, I decided to turn a version of Revy from Black Lagoon into the successor to DC's most (in)famous gunslinger, Deadshot. Having her taken in by the original was inspired by Luc Besson's Léon: The Professional.