Nickname: Birdie
Species: Human
Gender: Female
First Appearance: "Sterling Silver" by Christine Morgan.
Other Appearances: "Double Date," "The Wedding," "Lead Me Not...," "Menagerie," "Hotwire," "Breeding Season," "The Scottish Rogue," "Dark Beauty Part One: Pursuit," and "Dark Beauty Part Two: The Institute" by Christine Morgan.
Created by: Christine Morgan
Mother: Lois Yale
Brother: Charles Winthrop Yale III, known as Chas (originally created by Christi Smith-Hayden, along with his partner Eric).
Aunt: Margot Yale
Uncle by marriage: Brendan Vandermere
Birdie comes from a wealthy, blue-blooded family, and has devoted her life to not living that way. Always a rebel, but smart enough never to do anything self-destructive, she thrives on making her relatives crazy. The only ones she gets along with are Chas and Brendan (and only him after his adventures on the skiff and subsequent change of heart).
She graduated from the Sterling Academy with a major in drama, after trying and rejecting or being rejected by several other haughty/snotty schools. While there, she became fast chums with Aiden Ferguson and also developed a lusty crush on MacBeth.
Most times, Birdie was seen at Aiden's side, ready to help and/or offer a bit of good humor when needed. Birdie's finest independent moment was when she wound up getting arrested after knocking her Aunt Margot into a glass-topped table during an argument over gargoyles. After meeting T.J. Lawton, the illegitimate son of Fox Xanatos, the two had a wild time kicking up some dickens in a bar with Brooklyn and Lex, and then stealing a Quarryman van. She also confronted Jon Castaway when the Quarryman leader's plans to create chaos on New Year's Eve 1999 were defeated, and revealed her smartass revenge involving a photo of him with a Snidely Whiplash moustache and a word-balloon reading "Curses! Foiled again!"
Birdie dated Broadway for a while but broke off with him for fear of corrupting him and ruining him for the eventual nice lady-garg that was bound to come along. She's also been interested in 23rd Precinct heartthrob Rick Alvarez. She is currently sharing an apartment with T.J. Lawton (Fox's illegitimate son), but their relationship has yet to be decisively established. She recently fulfilled her lust for MacBeth, and was told the story of his days as the pirate, the Scottish Rogue.
Her car is an outward extension of herself, being a wild 70's Pepto-Bismol-pink Mustang; she probably has a noddy dog in the back but this has never been firmly decided.
Birdie is flamboyant, mouthy, brash, brassy, disrespectful of authority,
and rarely takes anything seriously. She is also fiercely
loyal to her friends, an extremely talented voice mimic, and very resilient-
no weirdness can stun her for long.
As a human, Birdie is about 5'6 and full-figured, on the fine line between plump and fat, most of her weight in her hips, tush, and chest. She has short black hair worn curly with a dyed burgundy blaze in the front. Her ears are multiply pierced, she has a ring in her navel, and a tattoo of a rose where a low neckline can showcase it. She favors and punk/Goth clothing, mostly because it gets under her family's skin.
When Aiden transformed her into a gargoyle, Birdie became a rose-colored, bat-winged she-garg (and as gargoyles don't have navels, one might wonder what became of that particular item of jewelry).