Batman Audio Drama Series: World's Greatest Detective - Season 1, Story 4 - "Temporal Beloved"
moorenarration for Desdemona Cassandra Powers
Character Description
Desdemona Cassandra Powers is a renowned businesswoman born and bred in Hub City, Illinois. She is callous and possessed of heartless ambition, believing herself to be untouchable. To be fair, she’s not exactly wrong in this regard. Many a person has disappeared at her command, though she obviously doesn’t advertise this. She is familiar with Bruce Wayne from when he was a child and she was just starting out, and sees him as simply another obstacle to topple over or outmaneuver.
Powers will stop at nothing to assert her dominance in all facets of life. Her husband Sherman has since lapsed into drunken, unfaithful acceptance of this fact. Derek, her teenage son and heir apparent, privately rankles at every bit of his mother’s overbearing personality save for her peerless ambition. He’s inherited that in spades, but she cannot see past his unimpressive exterior to realize that.
The Voice
Medium to low, mid-40’s. American accent.
[hastily] Don’t mind him, Brucie. Derek’s a very bright boy, top of his class - with my genes, that’s to be expected. But… ah… he’s a little impetuous, you understand.
[disgusted] Laying down on the job again, Sherman? Why can’t you have the decency to do that in a gutter like all the other low-lives?
[into ‘phone] This is Powers. Talk to me. [BEAT, delighted] Oh, it’s almost done? Excellent, excellent! Everything’s coming up roses! I’ll tell Mister Abbot to head over with the finishing touches at once. He’s in the garage now and will be en route shortly. Now, as for our “friend”… [dark chuckle] Give him my “thanks,” would you?
