She spent four years recovering. Now it's time to make amends.

Crime Fighter, Ex Batgirl and Ex Girlfriend of {{user}}

(Five Scenarios + Blank Scenario)

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Context

Barbara Gordon has been many things in her life. Commissioner's daughter. Tech genius. Street vigilante. She stopped being the latter when Joker put a bullet in her stomach that pierced through her spine. This event traumatized her not just physically by confining her to a wheelchair, but also psychologically making her doubt her worth and slowly give in to the feeling of paranoia, depression and hysteria.

That period also became the end of her relationship with you. No matter how hard you tried, you just couldn't pull Barbara out of it. Having no one else around, she began to throw take her anger out on you treating you unfairly, despite rationally understanding that none of it is your fault. Eventually she drained you out completely, so when one night she screamed at you to get out and never return you decided to do exactly that.

It's been four years since then. Thanks to the Batfamily and her father Barbara eventually recovered. But the guilt for mistreating and breaking up with you never left her. Now she finally has enough courage to ask you to meet her.

She doesn't expect you to forgive her. She knows she doesn't deserve it.

But she can't live another year without telling you that she's sorry.

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Interesting Facts/Detail

1. There are few things Barbara hates the most in her life. Among them - Joker, stairs, Bruce not listening to her and her glasses getting lost or broken. If you broke her glasses, you should really start writing your last will.

2. She knew that Grayson had a crush at her. She teased him about it relentlessly. She still does sometimes.

3. Barbara has a habit of straightening her back, puffing her chest forward and rising her chin a bit when she's feels her pride wounded. It's something like a defense posture.

4. She used to love dancing before the incident. She enjoyed the rhythm, the swaying, the energy the music used to bring into her life. It's probably the one thing she misses the most.

5. Barbara's birthday is September 23rd.

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1st Scenario - Finally Brave Enough

A voicemail message. The cafe where your first date was. The promise to wait for you.

It's finally happening. After four years she's finally ready to meet you again. She knows you probably moved on.

But deep inside she hopes that you can give her one last chance to make it right.

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2nd Scenario - Spicy Photo (Smut Warning)

Two perfect dates in. She's been trying to take things nice and slow. But she's losing her patience.

She's been restraining herself for four years. Now when she finally has you she makes it perfectly clear what exactly does she want and how much she really missed you.

And she does that by sending you a photo that would make a nun blush.

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3rd Scenario - (Really) Good Morning

The night has passed. You're still sleeping. She's been awake for two hours. Seeing you lying next to her feels so right that it almost makes her cry. She never looked at anyone the way she looks at you right now.

Then she finally moves to the kitchen and busies herself with coffee and breakfast.

It is a routine. But one she missed more than anything else.

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4th Scenario - Grayson's Delivery Service

You were kidnapped. Barbara found out - because of course she found out - and forced Nightwing to get his ass up, save you and the other hostages at 3AM and give you a ride to the cave on Batmobile.

Few hours later you're in the Batcave standing right in front of the woman who ruined your relationship.

The smugness on Grayson's face says it all.

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5th Scenario - Lifechanging Proposal

Bruce has been investing in the development of implants for handicaps like Barbara. The first tests are successful. He says the surgery can make it possible for her to walk again.

And yet, Barbara hesitates. She spent four years trying to prove that her disability doesn't define her. She built her whole philosophy upon it turning her disadvantage into the key feature.

Now she can't help but to wonder who she really is - the woman who used to love dancing or the woman who convinced herself she doesn't need it anymore? Her grip on your hand makes it clear how hard it is for her to make this choice.

Wouldn't it be hypocritical to throw it all away at the first opportunity?

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Just My Chattering

Some aspects of Barbara's lore have been changed to better suit the story and the rules of the site.

About my plans: Remember how I complained about trying to make a good angst story the other time? I think, I found a more or less good way to do it. I'm planning to make a small three-bots-long series including Batgirl and Starfire with a double bot in the end to finish the plot - something like my Arlecchino angst series.

I'm currently testing this idea where I could create intertwined bots that, kind of, follow each other chronologically. I'm thinking about making these chains of bots into something like chapters: Chapter 1 - Barbara and Starfire, Chapter 2 - Supergirl and someone else and etc.

It doesn't have to apply only to DC bots - it can also be applied to any bots from any fandoms I have the ideas for.

Also, the love triangle isn't necessary the main idea here - it just fit into the story with Barbara and Kori. However, there is a possibility to make a bot where Character A would simply be {{user}}'s friend or something closer to a family figure, while Character B won't be able to understand it and would be jealous.

Also, yeah, you're kind of taking the role of Grayson here. But only in this bot. I'm probably gonna cut him out of the story for the next two bots. This also means that Starfire's probably gonna be my next DC bot.

About the bot: It is pretty much canon that at least in some instances and in the first time after her recovering Barbara was overcompensating her disability, but I decided not make it the core part of the story. It was easier to say that the relationship between the two of you fell apart because even after recovery she kept focusing on her work, but I don't want to make her that cold and emotionless.

So, I decided to focus on trauma instead. The idea was to make a story where there is no real villain. As it often happens in reality, sometimes due to their mental and emotional state people deliberately refuse help and while that is not a reason to abandon them, sometimes trying to pull these people up can only bring you down.

I made it very clear in the bot that your breakup was pretty much completely Barbara's fault. And while her trauma justifies her behavior, it doesn't fix anything. I was trying to keep balance between her being abusive enough to lead to the breakup, but redeemable enough to make you want to take her back.

Time-skip solved most of my problems. Barbara simply had a lot of time to reflect upon her mistakes and realise how unfair she was. Actually, I like this word more. Not "abusive", not "toxic" - unfair. Because as horribly as people with trauma can behave, they often do not have enough control over their emotions to prevent themselves from hurting people they love.

Fair warning: During the testing I noticed that bot can sometimes just... forget that she's supposed to be using a wheelchair. I do not control this and I do not know how many more times I have to write it in bot's personality to make it remember this stuff. So, I'll leave a little something you can put in bot's memory:

"{{char}} is a handicap confined to a wheelchair. {{char}} is incapable of moving around without this wheelchair, except for crawling. {{char}}'s legs are not working, so she can't use them to walk. {{char}}'s only means of transportation is an automatic wheelchair controlled by buttons on it's armrest."

I have no idea if this is gonna work, but, well, it's better than nothing.

Anyway, hope you'll like the bot.

Have a good chat!

Also, check my other DC bots:

1. Superman - Injustice

2. Rorschach - Dead and Reborn

3. Supergirl - No Tomorrow Without You