Post by Trailfoot on Feb 15, 2010 18:24:21 GMT -5
Question Everything.
Renee Montoya was one of Gotham's finest, a detective with great skill and an exceptional rate of solved cases. In the Major Crimes Unit under Maggie Sawyer, she, together with partners Harvey Bullock and Crispus Allen, kept the streets safe.
It was during the No Man's Land that the events that changed her life would be set into motion. Renee's family was trapped in Gotham after the earthquake, fighting for their lives in a city dominated by criminals, where the police operated as just another group vying for territory. She met Harvey Dent - Two-Face - while trying to protect as many innocents as she could. The two of them worked closely together during that time, Renee always waiting for Two-Face's coin to come up the wrong way, for him to turn on her.
And help arrived before it did. Gotham was rescued, finally, by the actions of Batman and the future President Lex Luthor, and Renee returned to her work on the GCPD.
More than a year after the end of No Man's Land, Two-Face's coin finally came up scratched. Two-Face began a campaign of slowly destroying Renee's life, having her family and her lover harassed and outing her as a lesbian. Her family disowned her, and her reputation was badly damaged.
Less than a year later, her partner on the GCPD, Crispus Allen, was killed. The loss of virtually everything she valued sent Renee into a deep depression. She quit the force, took up drinking, and drove her lover away. She spent most of the Infinite Crisis in a deep fugue, barely aware when one day ended and the next began, until the man with no face shined a question mark through her window.
Vic Sage found Renee and drew her into his investigation of Intergang and the Religion of Crime, teaching her his unique methods of investigation while guiding her out of her life's low point. Together, they unraveled the truth of the Dark Faith, preventing them from doing terrible harm to the world. However, Vic had already been diagnosed with a terminal blood cancer, and, during that year, passed away. When he died, he passed on his name and mask to Renee.
Now, Renee Montoya is the new Question, seeking the truths hidden behind layers of lie and conspiracy. Wearing the faceless mask, she asks what no one else dares ask, looks where no one else dares look. That which hides behind lies, which tries to keep the answers from those who need them, are the targets of the Question.
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The Question is a human with no metagene. She uses a compound called beta gas, which changes the color of her clothes and allows the application of her faceless mask, to conceal her identity and frighten those who would hide truth from her. She is an expert detective, having learned both great deductive reasoning in her years as a police officer and inductive reasoning while working with Vic Sage. Her inheritance from Vic Sage leaves her with nearly-unlimited long-term resources and contacts, but without the ability to live in true luxury - something she likely wouldn't want anyway. The Question is immensely talented at staying under the radar.
Renee Montoya was one of Gotham's finest, a detective with great skill and an exceptional rate of solved cases. In the Major Crimes Unit under Maggie Sawyer, she, together with partners Harvey Bullock and Crispus Allen, kept the streets safe.
It was during the No Man's Land that the events that changed her life would be set into motion. Renee's family was trapped in Gotham after the earthquake, fighting for their lives in a city dominated by criminals, where the police operated as just another group vying for territory. She met Harvey Dent - Two-Face - while trying to protect as many innocents as she could. The two of them worked closely together during that time, Renee always waiting for Two-Face's coin to come up the wrong way, for him to turn on her.
And help arrived before it did. Gotham was rescued, finally, by the actions of Batman and the future President Lex Luthor, and Renee returned to her work on the GCPD.
More than a year after the end of No Man's Land, Two-Face's coin finally came up scratched. Two-Face began a campaign of slowly destroying Renee's life, having her family and her lover harassed and outing her as a lesbian. Her family disowned her, and her reputation was badly damaged.
Less than a year later, her partner on the GCPD, Crispus Allen, was killed. The loss of virtually everything she valued sent Renee into a deep depression. She quit the force, took up drinking, and drove her lover away. She spent most of the Infinite Crisis in a deep fugue, barely aware when one day ended and the next began, until the man with no face shined a question mark through her window.
Vic Sage found Renee and drew her into his investigation of Intergang and the Religion of Crime, teaching her his unique methods of investigation while guiding her out of her life's low point. Together, they unraveled the truth of the Dark Faith, preventing them from doing terrible harm to the world. However, Vic had already been diagnosed with a terminal blood cancer, and, during that year, passed away. When he died, he passed on his name and mask to Renee.
Now, Renee Montoya is the new Question, seeking the truths hidden behind layers of lie and conspiracy. Wearing the faceless mask, she asks what no one else dares ask, looks where no one else dares look. That which hides behind lies, which tries to keep the answers from those who need them, are the targets of the Question.
Powers
The Question is a human with no metagene. She uses a compound called beta gas, which changes the color of her clothes and allows the application of her faceless mask, to conceal her identity and frighten those who would hide truth from her. She is an expert detective, having learned both great deductive reasoning in her years as a police officer and inductive reasoning while working with Vic Sage. Her inheritance from Vic Sage leaves her with nearly-unlimited long-term resources and contacts, but without the ability to live in true luxury - something she likely wouldn't want anyway. The Question is immensely talented at staying under the radar.