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| Real Name: Charise Carnes |
| Also Known As: Daybreak |
| Place Of Birth: Unknown |
| First Appearance: Batgirl Vol.4 #10 (2012) Modern Age Villain |
| Known Associates: Katharsis, James Gordon, Jr., Gretel, Bleak Michael, Bonebreaker, Mirror, Grotesque |
| Group Affiliation: The Disgraced |
| Base Of Operations: Gotham City |
| Grudges: Batgirl |
| Creators: Gail Simone and Alitha Martinez |
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| Charise Carnes and her younger brother Emil were born to William and Virginia Carnes, a rich and prestigious family in Gotham City thanks to her father's real estate dealings. He'd bought a large landfill on the bayfront of Gotham and enacted the state's biggest land reclamation right on top of it. William Carnes was no saint though, building his riches with muscle, bribes, and countless judges in his pocket. Charise was aware of her father's corrupt practices, but idolized him all the same. She never thought another man could come close to the admiration she felt for her father, until she met Trevor. He was a kind boy who was the first one she met that didn't seem to care about her family's riches. He certainly didn't, as one night he came to her house with knives and made Charise bind her parents and little brother up with duct tape, after which he took three hours to cut them to pieces "for the lulz", all while Charise was forced to watch. |
| Afterwards, reportedly no evidence was found that someone else had committed the slaughter, and so Charise was left as the only suspect. She was found guilty and sent to Arkham Asylum at age 18 due to prison overcrowding. Then there was a massive breakout at Arkham where some of the sickest murderers in the country took guards hostage and "played" with them. Charise survived, but had been forced to watch this brutality for two straight days. This was all what Charise had wanted however. After Trevor had killed her family, she'd realized that there were crimes that prison simply wasn't severe enough for as punishment. She'd hidden the truth of the massacre in order to get sent to Arkham, in order to learn "the craft of madness." She learned everything she could've wanted, especially under the tutelage of James Gordon Jr. while she was in Arkham. |
| Now reshaped as she saw fit, Charise used every one of her father's underhanded methods to get herself released from Arkham. She then set to work on saving Gotham from the madness and crime that had permeated it as Knightfall. As Charise Carnes, she would use her family's money to change Gotham for the better with community service programs and urban redevelopment; and as Knightfall, wielding the knives Trevor had used on her family, she and her Disgraced would use whatever means necessary to apprehend, torment, and kill all criminals. She would rule Gotham, and fix what civilization couldn't. |
