Zoe Torres

Get out. Now. (GK)

2013-03-28T16:23:54Z

It had to happen. They'd pissed off too many people, tried too hard to bring some justice to the Triangle. Zoe thought they were making progress, but it was a losing game. With her last breath she would damn the heroes for leaving the poor in the Triangle to the mercy of gangs. She'd damn Green Arrow the most.

And now, maybe Deadshot for giving them hope to begin with.

Barricaded in an empty tenement, Zoe reloaded her wrist-mounted guns as she gazed at GK across from her, then reloaded her 9mm. Any movement or sound from them brought a rain of gunfire from the gang outside waiting to pick them off. There would be no rescue, none that she could see happening. One of them might make it out, if she provided GK the cover to get away.

She handed him the 9mm. "Get ready to run."

zoe_torres @ 2011-05-16T00:35:00

2011-05-16T07:15:03Z

Zoe sat in a diner just on the other side of Union Ave, indulging in a quiet moment between lunch and dinner with pie. She loved pie. The diner itself didn't have much to recommend it, but the bakery they ordered from was outstanding.

She was on her second slice with a third cup of coffee and turning pages the pages of a thriller when she felt a prickling sensation run down her spine. Without seeming obvious about it, she looked around the place. No more than a dozen people were around her, all busy with their conversation and food. All but the old man at the end of the bar. He was idly stirring a cup of coffee and watching her.

She stared back at the old pervert with an 'are you serious?' expression. It seemed to amuse him. He chuckled at her animosity, picked up his cup to walk over to her booth and slide himself in across from her.

"I'm not interested," she said flatly. "Go away."

"Kid, you always talk before you know what's going on?"

"I know what's going on. You're about six blocks from the corner pick ups."

"Glad to hear it. I got a job. You interested?"

Zoe narrowed her eyes and looked at him. /Really/ looked. He was older, but not as old as she first thought. The graying hair and the lines bracketing his eyes gave his age a few years when up close she figured he wouldn't be much older than Michelle. He had a guarded look in his eyes that she associated with people who'd seen too much.

"I don't know what you're talking about," she finally said. "I'm not a hooker and I don't deal. Go away before I get mad."

"It's not that kind of job, but I can see you're not in the mood to listen." He took a card out of his pocket and slid it over to her. "Here's my number. You get curious, call me. It pays well and it comes with perks."

Now Zoe got curious, but not about the job. She wouldn't put it past Angie to test her by seeing if she could be bought. Although, sending Creepy Pervert Guy seemed like a dumb way to go about it.

She didn't touch the card. "Don't hold your breath."

He chuckled again and maneuvered out of the booth. Before he got a step away, he leaned back in to whisper at the top of her head. "Tell your mother an old friend says hello."

The surprise made her slow. By the time she turned around, the diner door was swinging closed.

Zoe and what the Rooftop saw

2010-08-28T19:33:17Z

The last week in the Triangle had been quiet. Far too quiet for Zoe's liking. She wanted to take credit for it, but she suspected it had nothing to do with her and she hated that. Especially when there were whispers of something going down soon. She was anxious to

She moved from rooftop to rooftop, looking down, collecting small chunks of brick as she did. Her prized possessions, the secondhand set of guns Detective Forbes helped her buy, rested comfortably in worn leather holsters under her jacket. They weren't her weapon of choice when she lurked through the neighborhood, but she liked the solid feel of them.

Shadows on the rooftop across the street and down at the corner drew her attention. Zoe took cover behind a utility shed and waited for something to show itself..

zoe_torres @ 2010-08-28T02:35:00

2010-08-28T09:29:31Z

Testing.

Application

2010-02-17T02:19:57Z

Character Name: Zoe Torres
Character LJ (if applicable):
Physical description (face, build, weight): Dark brown hair, brown eyes, olive skin, 5'7", 140 lbs, athletic with a side of curvy.
Age: 17
Codename (if using one):
PB: (If using one.) Michelle Rodriguez
Abilities: Uncanny aim, from slingshots and thrown rocks to guns. Deadly with grapes and a mad on for somebody. Fluent in Spanish.
Weaknesses and flaws: Overconfidence of youth, and an insatiable need to be accepted by a father figure.
Character location/Home: The Triangle, Star City
Alignment (villain, hero etc): Mostly heroic out of boredom; she could be swayed either way for the right price. (Hint: the right price is not always money.)
Team: None
Relatives (living/dead?): Floyd Lawton: father, presumed dead. Michelle Torres: mother. Edward Lawton: half brother, deceased.

Backstory: Zoe's mother was a prostitute when she was hired for the night by Floyd Lawton, aka Deadshot. They parted the next morning with Michelle paid with cash and coke for her time.

When she discovered she was pregnant, she stopped hooking and got herself off the drugs. She went back to school to get her high school diploma and found work in a diner. Unfortunately, a waitress salary was only enough to afford a run down apartment in the Triangle section of Star City. The area was a war zone with three rival gangs fighting over it. Lawton decided to do right by this daughter, and embarked on a lethal war on the local gangs that plagued the area. He realized a normal life wasn't for him, so he faked his death and convinced Green Arrow to patrol it more regularly. The area cleaned up well for a good many years, but now that the heroes are focused elsewhere it's falling back into its old ways with the gangs, drugs and prostitutes creeping back in.

His payment from work for the Secret Six was sent directly to Michelle, who used the money along with grants and loans to get through college and law school while still providing a home for Zoe. She refused to the leave the Triangle. After she passed the bar, she set herself up to practice for the people who stayed to rebuild the Triangle. Michelle will never be rich, but she gets by well enough.

Zoe was an average student through school; excelling in sports, failing at algebra, above average grades in English. It was in school that her uncanny talent for hitting what she aimed at was discovered. She was a killer pitcher for the soft ball team through high school.

She took to the roofs early, spending time looking down, finding ways to get around the neighborhood up high in secret. When she was fourteen, she spotted an elderly neighbor getting mugged one evening. From three stories up and using the small rocks and bits of brick from the rooftop, she drove the attackers away. Soon after, she began patrolling her neighborhood after hours from the rooftops. She joined a neighborhood watch program and came into contact with Detective Forbes, the police officer who had known her father. Never exactly a 'by the book' cop himself, he recognized that Zoe seemed to be showing some of the same traits as Floyd: the same moral ambiguity and lack of concern for the law. Just to see what would happen, he offered her the chance to taking shooting lessons at the local firing range.

Zoe's at a turning point in her life with her future stretching ahead with two clear paths, college or turning to full time neighborhood vigilante. Her efforts have not gone unnoticed and some of the people she's helped have been paying her small amounts of cash as both a thank you and an encouragement to continue. The older neighbors remember Floyd and what he did to clean the area up, and if there has to be violence to keep their neighborhood clear, they're all right with that. The cops aren't, though they hardly credit the stories that a girl is driving off the muggers and small-time dealers. When asked, Zoe flashes a bit of cleavage and denies everything.

Her mother is afraid of what will happen when Zoe becomes old enough to legally purchase firearms. She doesn't know that Zoe has already managed to get and learn to shoot a set of guns thanks to Detective Forbes. Zoe believes she bought a set of second hand weapons; Forbes is under a promise to never tell her where he got them.

Without Floyd to be a bad example or a father figure to provide some guidance, Zoe is literally running wild.