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Damn.

I mean really...damn.

Yeah. Okay. So a whole new thing starts now huh?

So once more from the top, let's take it down.

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"Catlike, feeling herself in an inferior position, she overcompensated. She searched for something deeply personal, not just intimacy, vulnerability: She told him about her past.

It was true, what she’d answered when he first asked: She had no “origin” in the sense of one defining moment that made her Catwoman, but she hadn’t sprung out of the sidewalk at age 23 wearing a catsuit. She had a past. Now she told him what it was.
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And:

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“Same reason I left, Frank. We were a great team, but — training together like that, I never had a chance to see how good I was on my own. I had to find out how much of it was us and how much was me. Besides, settling down — 'til death do us part — we were what, twenty? It would have been a mistake.”

And:

"“Let’s get something straight: What I am, I am by virtue of my talent and personality and the choices they’ve led me to make."

I've been waiting for this ever since 'Times Gone By'. Hints have been handed out since 'Something Old.'

But if there's one truth about Selina, it's that she hates introspection, she hates thinking back. And if there's one truth about cats, it's that they never give out more than they absolutely need to, to anyone.

And so the thought of Selina's past became a feline version of Clark's bachelor party. They may hint it, and the story may come out in the end, but it would never be told to any of the characters.

Then came that closet.

Jason Blood has found no hellmouth quite like that closet, and frankly, i always thought that if he ever brought it up, Selina would tell him to open a portal into hell and send the entire closet through to the Underworld.

Then Bruce challenged her.

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But I still have to face up to the past and clean out that closet. It isn’t to prove Bruce wrong; he’s right: I don’t like looking back… and that’s exactly why it has to be done.
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Well hey, whatever gets us here right?

So now you've opened that Pandora's box. (And i dont mean the closet)

You're demistfying the Femme Feline Fatale.

You've crossed that line and you cant go back.

I kept thinking, what could have happened in Selina's life that makes her avoid thinking about the past so violently?

Personal tragedy is a given. The parents made sense, but Selina reacted in a differnet way to the loss of her parents that Bruce did.

See, Bruce made the death of his folks the defining moment in his life, that sent him on this holy crusade. He let it lead him conciously toward the night.

Selina did so, more subconciously, by coming up with a simple equation.

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I guess maybe I associated the wealth and the luxuries with the safety and the love and the home feeling I’d lost.
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Selina made the jump from wealth to family. She lost her family, she lost the wealth. he life since then has been leading either through choice or chance, toward reaquiring wealth. maybe it's because she thought, subconciously, in a way she didnt even realise till she started thinking back, that maybe if she got that one more trinket...

Maybe if she got that one more zero in her checkbook, she could have that family/security feeling back.

Yeah. Gotta hate introspection. I hate it too.

The thing is, in a way, it worked.

As a kid she had everything, then lost everything, and lost the family with it. She went to a boarding school, had no wealth, and at the same time, had very little in the way of family. Then she starts stealing, and gets a bit of wealth, and gets two friends in the process. (And that sure sounded like Natasha to me)

When she started the big time in Paris, she got a mentor, and a team. And in a business like that, a team's about as close as you can get to family without a wedding.

More cash=more family/security.

And now she's living with bruce, and if that kind of money doesnt give her the family/security feeling, then basically all of Selina's subconcious life has been a...

Anyway...

So why the cat mask?

I think it's because of survival. Bruce picked the bat to create fear, thus diminishing it in himself.

In much the same way, Selina picked a cat, again, more subconciously that in her mind because she like the independence, and the strength of will.

When ever my life gets turned on its head, I look at my cat, and i realise, that if this five pound ball of fur is smart enough to get over it and start from the top in less than a second, then I should be too.

Thus a soul mate is born.

But in any case, I could be completely wrong, and we havent gotten anywhere near Gotham yet.

So only one questions.
1) How much of this did She tell Bruce?

In any case, I am very much impressed with this work, because it breaks from the character tradition, of having one defining moment that made them what they are.

As Selina put it:

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You cannot sum up a human being’s existence in a sentence like a listing in the TV Guide.
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Amen.