#janet|character

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@strategiic continued from here.

Janet raised an eyebrow curiously, eyeing the discarded mugs that littered the desk. Lifting one hand, she stifled the yawn that escaped her own mouth. Paperwork was important and time consuming, but the repetition of sign this, initial here, reject or accept this proposal became tedious after a few hours, and it was edging on seventeen now.

Her own office mirrored Tim’s; mugs littered spare spots where forms and various other papers didn’t fill, and the towers of completed, and yet unfinished forms had a handful of pens and pencils scattered across them. She was tired, it was almost undoubted that her son was as well. “Go to sleep, Timothy. Your work will still be her in four hours.”

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Janet Drake: CEO of Drake Industries. Wife of Jack Drake, mother of Timothy Drake.

Jannat al Ghul: Daughter of Melisande and Ra’s al Ghul, older sister of Talia al Ghul, heir.

Status: deceased.

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FC: Nur Fettahoğlu

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@goldentemplariumcrow liked for a Janet starter.

The reviews for the law firm were... sparse at best, but in this case, Janet figured that discretion was the better part of valour. She and jack hadn’t been happy for ages, and the company was hers in law, staying married to him was a less than wise decision. She had let him go on to Argentina, and she had come to New York. The reviews this place did have good, and somewhere outside of Gotham was best.

She stood outside the building, running one hand down the front of blouse, smoothing out a handful of the wrinkles and she lifted her purse onto her shoulder, a quick check of the inside pocket enough to settle her nerves as soon as her fingers touched on the cool metal. Habits died hard and the comfort of knowing she had a weapon in case she needed it was good. It was high time she divorced Jack-- the difficulty working out a separation agreement wouldn’t get any easier. With one last look around she stepped into the building.

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@redwinefangs​ continued from here.

“And when the Court of Owls comes for you?”

Janet might not have liked Bruce Wayne, but even she could admit that her abilities to do this alone would be... unlikely. She needed the help, she just didn’t need the bat costume.

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If your character had one thing to say to their parents before they died, what would it be? (Janet)

//I don’t know if this is before my muse, or their parents die, but I guess it works both ways.

There are a lot of things Janet wishes she could have, or would have told her mother before she died, and things she wishes her mother might have told her. Janet had never been as much like Melisande as she had her father, and there are times she regrets not spending more time with her mother. 

In hindsight, Janet wishes she could apologize for the way things went, and the way she left home. There’s a part of Janet that I think, resents her mother for dying, because she had been a neutral point, for as stubborn as Ra’s and Janet were, Melisande had always been able to get them to talk. She had been human in a way that Ra’s had lost, and Janet had never quite been as naturally.

Her father is more complex. There’s more anger there; they had not parted on the best terms, and they had always been too alike. And the truth is, she does die, and nothing is resolved between them. It’s only when he brings her back that things slowly start to get better. In future, she wants to make sure that he knows that she does love him, and that she understands better now why he did what he did, and why he is like he is. (There are days she thinks that her father was a better parent than she was).

She wants to repair the relationship between them most days. Resentment and strained relationships could be fixed, and he was her father in the end. He was some of the little family she had. 

She left not because she hated him, but because they were too similar, and yet not similar enough. He had drawn away from her and Talia in the wake of Melisande’s death, and they had done nothing but fight for months. Leaving had been the best choice, but it had never been hatred (she still carried the throwing knives he gave her, and she makes sure to keep them in pristine condition. they were the best she’d ever found and not even the anger she carried had been enough for her to get rid of them out of spite).

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how does janet feel about the batfamily's no-kill code ??

Maybe it was the exposure to murder at such a young age, or maybe I was just that she had never been the most moral person, but she thinks it’s ridiculous. Not all lives were made equal. And while a lot of the petty thieves in Gotham didn’t need to die, ones like the Joker who didn’t care who he hurt, or how many people he died- that actively tried to do harm? Killing him would do more good for the world than ill.

She hasn’t actually killed anyone in years, but she keeps knives up her sleeves and in her purse in case she ever has to, and there’s no part of her that regrets that, or is guilty about it. 

Leaving the League had been the best possible decision, but had she stayed, eventually she would have taken over because she’s good at it; if you know what to do, it doesn’t have to hurt or be a long process. A sharp blade to the right places and they would be dead long before they could die of slow, agonizing things like disease or blood-loss and then the terrible things they did to people would end too. 

The justification that all crimes are equal, and that it’s not their place to judge who lives and dies, while she can understand it, she doesn’t agree with it. It’s not like the legal system was just and unbiased after all.

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janet's views on wayne enterprises ??

Janet is very much of two minds when it comes to Wayne Enterprises: she respects it (and Lucius Fox, because there’s no doubt in her mind that he’s the primary reason it’s as successful as it is). It’s done a lot of good in Gotham; their CEO speaks out against corruption in the city, and it has programs in place to help make the city better, and to give opportunities to people. She may not like Bruce Wayne, but the company itself is fine.

However, it’s also competition against Drake Industries, and there’s no small part of her than wants to see it crumble, leaving a vacuum for her to take over. It’s large enough, with enough connections that Janet knows she’ll never be able to outright buy it, but it doesn’t stop her from expanding DI to try and rival WE.

She’s glad that Gotham has it; certainly in a city so corrupt as Gotham, a company with a CEO that doesn’t have underworld connections is a miracle- but she does not like Bruce Wayne, and while she can respect his company and what they’ve done, she does not respect his decision to dress up like a bat and punch criminals.