<strong>Player Name:</strong>Alessandra (Ali)<br/><br/><strong>Character Name:</strong>The Huntress<br/><br/><strong>Real Name:</strong>Portia de Luca<br/><br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Female<br/><br/><strong>Age:</strong>25<br/><br/><strong>Nicknames:</strong>N/A<br/><br/><strong>Profession:</strong>Mafioso/CEO<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong><br/><br/>There are two sides to Porta de Luca. Known for being protective and very serious, yet entirely capable at working a room and charming even the cold old order of the American Mafia. Analytical and observant, Portia naturally puts herself at arm's length from everyone around her. Be it family, Family, or associates. She has never been seen in a serious relationship.<br/><br/>The cold and calculative Porta dissapears the moment the Huntress comes out. Passionate, extreme, and utterly without fear. The Huntress fights fast, violent, and with an inner rage that often catches her victims off guard.<br/><br/>Portia despises the Mafia but views the only way of truly taking it down as from the inside. (Expanded upon in History.)<br/><br/><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Appearance Out of Costume:</strong></td><td><strong>Appearance in Costume:</strong></td></tr><tr><td>(http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/bb396/rubixon/portiadeluca.jpg)</td><td>(http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/bb396/rubixon/thehuntress.jpg)</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><strong>History:</strong><br/><br/>Giovanni De Luca was an Italian born assassin that became a 'made man' in the old country, only to be asked to move his new wife and young daughter to the United States. In a bid to aid an American Mafia that had been fading for far too long to maniacs and metahumans, the Cosa Nostra asked certain prized lieutenants to move and 'rectify' a situation had had gone from bad to worse.<br/><br/>With success in both Coast City and Bludhaven, Giovanni was promoted again and again until he orchestrated a seizure of power in both the buisness sector and in Mafia territory, becoming a major player in the American Mafia and a Don of his own Family in one day of bloody and cut throat actions termed 'Black Monday' by other families in the area.<br/><br/>Such a rise in power would not go unnoticed by the old guard of the American Mafia. When soon Giovanni de Luca came to Gotham City, it took the Gotham Mafia establishment too long to realize that the de Luca name was already there. In everything from the shipping buisness to fast food franchises, Giovanni's building empire was already a silent owner or part owner in a great stake of their city. With his unpredictable, shrewd actions in both violence and diplomacy amongst the other Gotham City Dons along with his success as a legitimate buisnessman, de Luca's power was only rising.<br/><br/>With the threat of a united Gotham Mafia under the overrule of de Luca, the diminished old power stewards of the Gotham Mafia made one last desperate move. On Christmas Day a group said to be ten deep burst into the de Luca estate in Gotham Heights, shredding both house and Mafiosos alike in a ruthless massacre dubbed Gotham City's most violent in decades. The Christmas Day Massacre had left the de Luca family extinct, save for a few cousins, and Giovanni's own daughter.<br/><br/>Portia de Luca was always a quiet girl. Silent, sweet natured, and bookish were always the way the girl was remembered by those in the de Luca crime family that remained to remember her. While distant relatives asked for the child, it was the man who took over for Giovanni de Luca's original line of work of assassations, Ian Goyer, that Giovanni left the girl to in his will.<br/><br/>Goyer was a British commando turned assassin first out of trick of fate, and later out of sheer financial and personal reasons. His training under Giovanni had mostly been operational, and by the time his old mentor's young daughter came to him had had learned infinitely more out of his love for his new profession. The moment Goyer laid eyes on the seven year old Portia de Luca, he knew what her purpose would be: He would turn her into a weapon, one which would be used to take vengeance on those who had taken her parents from her.<br/><br/>Portia de Luca had no childhood after that day. Her training began immediately and unrestricted. She holds a degree in Corporate Communications from the Sorbonne, and both a masters and PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics. She achieved this by the age of 22 while receiving training in secret from Goyer and Richard Dragon. Where her father was a quick minded and ruthless buisnessman, Portia de Luca has become a true master in the art and science of international buisness. Applying such radical approachs to buisness as the Theory of Constraints, Lean theory, and Six Sigma, Portia de Luca bought failing and crumbling buisness after failing and crumbling buisness only to turn downsize, raise product quality, and worker efficiency...and in turn cost efficiency of the bottom line. Sometimes called a 'corporate terrorist', the result was nearly inevitable, what buisnesses would assist her the most in her ultimate goals were kept while all others were sold off piece by piece to the highest bidder.<br/><br/>When Portia de Luca returned to Gotham City it was on the cover of Buisness Week and being covered by Bloomberg and CNN. Using the ultimate power broker of money, Portia used to the fact that she could make more of it than anyone else available to usher her return to not only the Gotham Mafia, but to the American Mafia as a whole. Now the majority owner but never direct mananger of multi corporations, Portia de Luca has turned her focus squarely on Gotham City's Mafia...and her quest to ruin it from the inside-out.<br/><br/>Taking on the mission given to her by her guardian and mentor Ian Goyer, Portia has decided a theatrical method of hitting the Mafia from the outside while secretly exposing and bleeding them from the inside by taking on the mantle of a former feared and dangerous enemy of the Gotham City Mafia: The Huntress.<br/><br/>She is neither villain or hero, merely a very dangerous and resourceful young woman on a fanatical quest for blood and revenge. A quest that can only end in her own death or the death of the Gotham City Mafia as it is known, or had ever been known. A fact she has willingly accepted.<br/><br/><strong>Note: </strong>The parallel between Portia's story and Helena Bertinelli's is not on accident. However, Portia is not a Helena clone. Instead she is more about half Helena (Huntress) and half Jason Todd (Red Hood). Minus all the crazy...not that she doesn't have her issues.