Poison Ivy

Dr. Pamela Lillian Isley was a very promising botanist before an undisclosed accident turned her into the villainess Poison Ivy. Ridden by madness, she believed herself to be the mother of all plant life, until recently, when she had a very suspicious change of heart.

Background

 * Pamela Lillian Ivy is born in Seattle, daughter of wealthy but emotionally distant parents.


 * During her whole childhood the girl shows glimpses of geniality and creativity, but grows increasingly withdrawn and shy despite her uncanny beauty.


 * Now a woman Pamela is enthralled by academic pursuits and has never had a boyfriend. She immerses herself in advanced botanical biochemistry in college, proving to be a exemplary student with an unusual affinity for the world of plants, maybe for her lack of touch with the world of humans.


 * Seduced by her college professor, Dr. Jason Woodrue Pamela is forced to become part of a twisted experiment, being injected with a deadly plant-based poison, which causes her physiology to dramatically transform. Nearly dying twice from the poisoning, Pamela also loses her ability to ever have children.


 * Woodrue abandons Pamela and flees from the authorities while she is hospitalized. After she is released from the hospital, she develops pronounced mood swings due to what her lover has done to her.


 * Even though she tries to resume her college career and even finds a new boyfriend, Pamela's mental state deteriorates further when her boyfriend dies in a car accident after suffering a mysterious fungal overgrowth, the first manifestation of her plant-based powers.


 * Deciding she needs a fresh start elsewhere, Pamela drops out of college and moves to Gotham City. At that point, Pamela's psychotic mentality finally overcomes her: She takes up the identity of Poison Ivy and adopts a revealing green one-piece costume to booth. After her first clash with Batman the woman becomes one of his most fearsome enemies.


 * For some reason Poison Ivy suddenly finds herself dragged into The Labyrinth. While at first she is confused as to why she is there the A.I. quickly explains: Poison Ivy does all she does out of love and worry for the unchampioned vegetative life of Earth, and she goes to great lengths to protect what all other heroes ignore completely, sacrificing her joy and own life for it. The Labyrinth views Ivy as a heroine in it's logical train of thought, and so it proceeds to torture the woman. It shows her a world where there is only The Labyrinth, computer-like efficiency, no space for evolution or beauty, just patterns and perfectly well-thought fractal art. People don't mate, they clone, they don't love, they get check for genetic compatibility, there are no plants, just huge machines that work as the lungs of the world.


 * Ivy returns home and she has to cope with the side-effects of her nightmares alone. After this experience Ivy decides to embrace her side as a "heroine", realizing that while humans are noisy, messy and non-grateful to Earth, the worst threats to her plants and life in the planet are the super-powered villains and things who would see -all- life destroyed, not only vegetation like Ivy protects.

Personality

 * COMPASSIONATE & NURTURING: Pamela was a withdrawn girl, despite her unearthly beauty, and her first love was the same man who seduced, drugged and almost killed Pamela, turning her into Poison Ivy. Her second boyfriend was killed by Ivy's developing powers. These tragedies made Pamela have thing for the damaged and victimized. The planet, polluted and ignored by it's children, Harley's abusive and psychotically relationship with Joker, a weeping child or a crippled dog, all are under Pamela's ever-growing compassion's care. She won't attack or hurt people she perceives as such, and will help if she can, even if it costs her life. At the same time she will protect the disfranchised and innocent, Ivy will always care for them if she can, making her somewhat of an unsung heroine.


 * VENGEFUL & VIOLENT: Pamela Lillian Ivy was an intelligent, incredibly talented and beautiful woman, but Poison Ivy is what remains after all the abuse and heartbreaking. Whenever someone hurts those under her protection Pamela can feel the blinding rage creeping behind her eyes, and those thoughts of how easy it would be to kill the abuser. And yet, she is just now fighting those feelings off, hard as it might be. It gets hard and sometimes Pamela wishes to just be a villain again, but as she progresses in her new path, more and more people depend on her sanity, no matter how hard it might be to resist the urge to reap the bad seeds away.

Logs

 * TBA...