The infamous Harley Quinn. Side kick to Batman's nemesis The Joker.
Once known as Dr. Harleen Frances Quinzel.
Dr. Quinzel became fascinated with The Joker while interning at Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane and volunteered to be his psychiatrist. Almost instantly Harleen fell hopelessly in love with The Joker and helped him escape from the Asylum - multiple times. Harleen was suspected by the authorities for this and soon enough her liscence was revoked and she was placed in her own cell.
When The Joker is returned to the Asylum after a battle with Batman, Harleen is driven insane by the sight of the man she loved being so badly injured. This leads to her quitting her job and becoming Harley Quinn, The Joker's side-kick. Shortly after she becomes fast friends with Poison Ivy, who injects her with an antitoxin which gives her super-human strength, agility, and immunity to toxins.
Harley Quinn is seen as The Joker's accomplice as well as his on-off love interest. She is completely convinced that they are in love and going to spend the rest of their lives together - this is the reason she so easily looks past his abuse. She is also completely blind to the fact he holds no real affection for her.
Harley has total disregard for human life. The only lives she really cares for are The Joker's and her own. Though, she has stopped Poison Ivy from killing Batman in the past.
My twist on the Harley Quinn
People don't know the true story of Harley Quinn. People don't know that she wasn't always Harleen Frances Quinzel.
Growing up she went by the name of Fiona Gallagher. She raised her five younger siblings from the time she was fourteen because her mother left them and her father was a raging alcoholic.
Fiona was, for the most part, a good kid. Aside from dropping out of school, doing a plethora of drugs, and drinking that is. She was dedicated to her family, to the kids, and to keeping them together. She didn't allow anything to tear them apart.
However, when Fiona was twenty-one her mother came back into the picture and took the family away. She turned the kids against their sister. That was the final straw. Fiona left home, changed her name, and created herself a new life.
Fiona Gallagher became Harleen Quinzel. New hair, new home, new everything. She would never be seen as that girl from Chicago ever again.
Now Harleen Quinzel, she got her diploma and started college. With the ability to focus solely on her self, she not only succeeded but excelled. Harleen graduated at the top of her class and went straight to interning at Arkham Asylum.
At twenty-seven years of age Harleen is no longer the good Fiona Gallagher she used to be. In fact, Fiona Gallagher is dead in her eyes.
***Harley is a mix of both the comics and the animated series. She is a mix of the dangerous violence from the comics and the humorous quirkiness of the animated series.