User blog comment:RoninTheMasterless/Leviathan's Creed/@comment-8556753-20160331144547/@comment-9803708-20160331205501

Thanks, Red. I really want to take Earth-53 in different directions, and Ras Al Ghul is undeniably a villain, so I wanted to paint in such a way that maybe his perspective makes sense for someone over 800 years old. Think of how cynical a person should be if they experienced centuries of what humanity had to offer over the course of actual centuries. People today get depressed just reading about it: He lived it!

Shiva is like Elektra, Talia, Nyssa, and Lady Shiva rolled into one. She has inherent passion to perfect herself, and that mostly expresses itself physically, in terms of possesing raw combative skill. However, she does want to identify with a cause worthwhile, and devote herself to an ideal bigger than herself, and maybe find her way into the history books, but she is conflicted with what she feels her nature is when she realizes she's Al Mualim's daughter, and essentially Earth-53's "Black Sky" That's why she identifies with Knight Owl so much.