brec bassinger, she/they, nineteen ➜ ➜ ➜ the real enemy is out there, but they don’t stand a chance against COURTNEY WHITMORE and their COSMIC STAFF. better known as STAR GIRL, this VIGILANTE/JSA MEMBER won’t be caught off guard.
hi ! hello! my take on courtney is mostly based on her pre-new-52 portrayal w/ a bit of characterisation/plot taken from the new dc universe show, stargirl (please watch if you haven’t it’s so cute .... ) i’ll be keeping spoilers for the show minimal as i’m also not actually caught up yet ! this is vvvvv brief bc i didn’t want to ramble but anyways like this n i’ll bother you 4 plots ^.^
age: 19. height: 5′5 abilities: kick boxing, gymnastics weapons: cosmic staff + cosmic converter belt.
courtney elizabeth whitmore -- it’s her mothers last name. her father? not even worth the breath to spell out his name. he was a low life, gambling crook of a man that abandoned courtney and barbara on christmas day when courtney was only six -- - and like most kids, it left her with some pretty severe daddy issues.
courtney grew up with spunk in sunny california, she was a gymnast aiming for nationals and she sure as hell wasn’t popular, but she did have a few close friends -- which was all thrown in the dumpster when her mum married some dude named pat!! and moved her out to nebraska
courtney hated pat, her new step-dad. and she hated nebraska even more. picking more fights than she could handle, getting detention on her first day -- she was just not fitting in.
so she tried to get herself out .... by digging up dirt on pat to convince her mum to divorce him and move them back to cali. and boy did she find dirt -- that pat used to be a super hero.
no-- not a hero--! a SIDEKICK. and to a 15 year old no less!!! who was now dead ... courtney “ borrowed “ the gear of the late star spangled kid, and went on a joy ride around town ... to unwittingly discover a super villain organisation in their infancy stages of a global plan to take over the world.
pat gave in and let court take over the star spangled kid mantle -- and later the stargirl title after starmans retirement -- and she saved blue valley from the wrath of the dragon king.
she’s currently a member of the justice society of america, holding the legacy titles of both starman and the star spangled kid. whilst no longer considered a junior member, she’s often looked down upon as a kid due to being one of the youngest members.
courtney for the most part is your standard all american teenage girl. down to the frizzy blonde hair and braces. she wasn’t born with any powers, and became a super hero out of selfish means. however, she continued to fight due to her intense desire to save people and often laments that she’s unable to help people until they’re in danger.
although she’s got no innate power when separated from her staff and belt, she can commune with her staff and summon it across small distances due to the vast amount of cosmic radiation she’s been exposed to.
