DUNGEON
name: Dungeon
real name: Rashida (African for 'Righteous') Jenkins
Ht: 5'9 Wt: 110 lbs.
powers: none
origin:
Her father having been a proud member of the Black Panthers, Rashida and her little brother Raziel ( Aramaic for 'My Secret') were raised to standards mugh higher than other children in Los Angeles, CA. They were both also trained extensively in the fighting arts. When not training his children, Rashida's father would often interact with inner-city L.A.'s community, talking to the gangs and trying to convince them to stop killing each other.on the day that Dungeon Graduated from high school, she arrived home to find her father and brother murdered, with gang markings all over her house.
story:
At the funeral, Dungeon was approached by a mysterious man who claimed that he was part of an organization dedicated to improving inner-city Los Angeles. He told Dungeon that his foundation would provide her with the neccessary equipment anf funding to wage a one-woman war on L.A.'s gangs. The thirst for revenge drove her to accept the offer.As she continued her crusade against the gangs, she eventually realizes that things are not always what they seem: her father was a well-respected man in the gang community, and the gangs had neither the jurisdiction nor the gall to make an attempt on his and his children's lives. In fact, Her father has been trying to unite the gangs against a force that threatened to eliminate the inner-city community altogether...and that force bears the name of the company that sponsored her. Dungeon is forced to confront the fact that she may have been working for the very forces she sought to destroy...and that the body she saw that fateful day might not have been of her brother.
created by:
JuQuan Williams
art by:
Elizabeth Chengjuquanw@umich.edu