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DC's Orca (My Version)

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DC’s Orca (My Version)

(Orca's Fictional Character Biography):

Grace Bailey attends Gotham Gate College and quickly becomes fascinated with the ocean. She receives a PhD in Marine Biology and Bio-Medicine and takes a job at the Gotham Aquarium. She is a very charitable person who funds an after-school program involving trips to the ocean for underprivileged youths. She also volunteers at a local soup kitchen and takes care of homeless whenever she can. Dr. Bailey is later involved in a tragic car accident that leaves her paralyzed and completely dependent on a wheelchair for mobility. She continues to work at the Gotham Aquarium until it is supposed to be closed for lack of funding.

Grace experiments with spinal cord tissue regeneration using Orca spinal cord tissue. The gene therapy studies and human experimentation that she was conducting is deemed too controversial and results in her loss of funding. It is implied that Grace used a chemical formula that she derived from an Orca in the Gotham Aquarium on herself and that this is what caused her to transform into The Orca. She is able to easily switch between being The Orca and her regular appearance as Dr. Bailey. Although she is apparently still paralyzed as Bailey even if The Orca is fully mobile. The Orca begins a crime spree in Gotham City by stealing a valuable diamond called the Flame of Persia from rogue millionaire Camille Baden-Smythe. After the theft, Batman becomes involved.

Orca's dedication to what she perceives as justice conflicts with Batman's attempts to see that everyone is entitled to legal protection even if he dislikes them personally. Orca aims to sell the diamond and use the proceeds to help fund several projects for underprivileged people all across Gotham City. After her attempt to sell the diamond back to Camille Baden-Smythe fails with the discovery that she had originally stolen the diamond in the first place, Orca attempts to kill her. Camille's security force shoots Orca several times, mortally wounding her. After an extensive underwater chase — Batman using an aquatic wetsuit — she begins changing back into Dr. Bailey in an underwater cavern, telling Batman that the only way that she can survive is if he gives her the rest of the chemical formula that turned her into Orca in the first place, and that this would permanently transform her into Orca.

Although Camille tried to forbid Batman from giving her the formula, arguing that such an action would make Batman responsible for everyone she would subsequently kill, Batman states that every person is responsible for their own actions, as well as that he refuses to allow anyone to die. Having ingested the formula, Orca swims away, resolved to continue her current career. It is revealed that the jewel was then sold to its original owner and that the money was used to build a new recreation center near the aquarium as well as to "...gentrify a derelict waterfront tenement." Orca is not seen again until she appears as a prisoner in the Slab during the Joker’s "Last Laugh" riots. She is able to escape during the riots with King Shark.


Powers and Abilities

Orca has enhanced strength, speed and endurance, although her strength has not been enhanced to the point where a trained fighter like Batman would have significant trouble with her on land. Her main advantage lays in her exceptional swimming abilities, allowing her to be at complete ease in water, able to swim underwater for long periods without taking a breath, forcing Batman to use an aquatic costume to effectively confront her on equal terms.
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