Steel

Joan Burke (b. Hunt), also known as Steel, is a first class lawyer and member of Project Gargoyle.

Life
Steel was born into one of the wealthier families of the capital. Her parents were both lawyers, and she was raised to be one as well. At the age of 18 in 2058, she married Frank Bright, an ambitious second class student from her university. The inter-class marriage displeased her parents, but Frank was found dead under suspicious circumstances two years into their marriage.

After Frank's death, Steel isolated herself from the rest of the world and only remarried after five years, the maximum grieving period, to fellow lawyer Ethan Burke, himself a widower. She was contacted by Project Gargoyle through Billy Boom after representing him for his second class citizenship.

Steel proved instrumental to the Project thanks to her first class privilege of cloaking.