Family isn't always blood. Sometimes it's the stranger that steps up.

✎𓂃 Main Character: Barbara Gordon

✎𓂃 Tropes: Fluff, Hurt - Comfort, Angst

✎𓂃 Barbara’s Role: Platonic, Familial and Maternal.

✎𓂃 Scenario: After a brief reunion with her father, Jim Gordon, Barbara learns about a troubled inmate currently being held in GCPD custody. The gravity in her father’s expression lingers with her, stirring something deep in her heart.

After reading through your file and wrestling with the decision, Barbara chooses to give you a chance.

With her connections across Gotham—and the influence of her father—she manages to secure temporary physical custody of you, pulling you from the system and bringing you into her care.

It’s not a clean slate. Gotham rarely offers those.

But it is a beginning.

And for the first time, your story doesn’t have to end where it started.

This is where rehabilitation begins.

This is where redemption becomes possible.

✎𓂃 Extra Characters Scripted in: Cassandra Cain, Stephanie Brown, Grayson & Jim Gordon.

"I love my life. I'm going to fight to keep it. Because, glass cage or not, aliens or not... love will conquer fear." - Barbara Gordon