Gotham City has a new siren 🖤
Melantha Sinclair AKA Nightbloom
Songbird belongs to @geastherat
Character Summary: Singer, guitarist, bartender, and thief. Melantha Sinclair wears a few different hats. Though she likes to come across as tough and unrelenting, inside she’s soft and caring, sometimes going out of her way to help others during her exploits, mostly the homeless and especially women who have had to make ends meet the hard way just as she has and still does.
Personal Name: Melantha Anna Sinclair
Vigilante Name: Nightbloom
Age: Around her early 30s
Gender: Cis female
Sexuality: Bisexual/Pansexual
Height: 5’
Appearance: Long, layered, inky black hair, shaved at the sides. Amber eyes and a lot of dark eye makeup. Black lipstick. Pale skin with a beauty mark on her left cheek and a large scar on her right cheek. Ears pierced twice each with a chain connecting them. Left nostril pierced. Right side of lower lip pierced. Skull tattoo on right upper arm. Barbed wire tattoo around left upper arm. Night-blooming jasmine tattoo on left hip/side. Crescent moon tattoo on top of left thigh.
Place of Birth: Gotham
Date of Birth: November 27th
Face Claim: Joan Jett
Voice Claim: Demi Moore
Singing Voice Claim: Tatiana Shmayluk
Current Occupation: Part time bartender/musician
Hobbies: Playing guitar, singing, writing music
Talents: Can play guitar, bass, drums and piano. Hand to hand combat. Skilled with knives. Was a gymnast as a child/teen.
Powers: Can spit poison that has paralyzing effects. In large doses it can be lethal. Uses this poison on her knives during combat.
Family:
Father- George Sinclair (Deceased)
Mother- Emily Becker-Sinclair (Deceased)
Love Interest: Tyson Nielsen
Jason Todd/Red Hood
Roy Harper/Arsenal
Dakota Thoghairm/Songbird
Other Important Relationships: Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn (childhood friends), Pamela Isley/Poison Ivy (was a mentor/friend of sorts after she got her powers), Laika Leo St. Joseph/Diamond (Met at a fight club and became good friends)
Personality: Ever the troublemaker, she has a bit of a mouth on her that tends to land her in hot water. Brash but at her core she’s kind and caring. A loyal friend.
History: An only child, Melantha grew up under her parents' thumbs. Their expectations for her were high as they wanted her to be a success in life. This meant lots of piano lessons, gymnastics, and studying throughout her schooling. As a teenager she began to rebel as most teenagers do. Getting in with the wrong crowd, smoking, listening to rock/metal music. At the age of 17 her parents were both killed in a devastating car crash, leaving her to fend for herself. After squandering what money was left for her on a rockstar lifestyle, she ended up homeless. Desperate to provide for herself, she sold her body to science. She was used as an experiment in gene splicing a human with night-blooming jasmine which led to her getting her powers. Afterwards the lab considered her experiment a failure and refused to pay her, leaving her to adjust to her new biology with the help of Pamela Isley. She continued to live on the streets, stealing to get by, selling her body in a different way, holed up in an abandoned warehouse. Eventually she met Tyson Nielson who gave her a new lease on life. She now had a place to stay, a job as a part time bartender and she even got to play music at the bar she worked at. Unfortunately their relationship went south after about a year and she ended up back in her warehouse abode. Enter Jason Todd. Though the two never live together, they end up having a deep and meaningful relationship for a couple years. He introduces her to the vigilante life and they end up working together with her as Nightbloom. Sadly, their relationship doesn’t last either. Jason ends up breaking things off with her when he realizes that he’ll never be able to give her the life she deserves. They remain friends and allies. After the breakup she ends up getting herself back into trouble with Harley Quinn, running around Gotham, stealing mostly but still helping the less fortunate when she can. She ends up meeting Songbird during a robbery she’s participating in with Harley and the two eventually grow rather fond of each other. Finally Melantha gets the home and relationship she deserves but that doesn’t stop her from reoffending here and there.
