littlemissonewhoisall

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He needs to look on the bright side. At least it's not Impulse.

Random Funny Batman… Stephanie and Duke Sass the Joker

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Anyone calling her a Mary Sue doesnt understand shit, lol. A huge part of her story is how there are so many problems she is incapable of solving.

Kind of thinking about the insane disadvantages Cass has as a character.

Like you're not only neurodivergent, you probably have intense chronic pain AND you can't read.

Not to mention you'll probably face racism and you're probably gay on top of that, holy shit girl. 😭

And yet I still see some people call her a Mary Sue, lmfao.

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Cass has no limit to her menu.

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next batgirl issue cass will be hallucinating a member of the batfam and i have 2 guesses for who it will be/who i want it to be:

steph. the most obvious answer because cass has a habit of hallucinating her ‘gal pal’ in times of stress and also i wanna make it a hat trick. the only reason i could see this NOT happening is that it’s way too obvious. like literally everyone and their mother is expecting it. also it’s a little too soon to be bring any main batfam members into the story

my second guess is: azrael. brombal is obviously very well read on cass’s history and def knows he exists and their friendship. so i could see him bringing azrael back to the forefront. especially bc the hallucination has to do with cass’s past and he was one of the first ppl she had met. i could also see this being a good fake out for everyone expecting steph

i wouldn’t mind it being duke either but i think he’s new enough that it wouldn’t make sense for him to be someone having cass confront her past

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Jason pulls the trigger but the burger is already gone, Cass ate it before the bullet could leave the chamber

They should interact more

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I dont agree at all about Cassandra. She fights tooth and nail against having a normal identity, that's a big part of her character arc. Cass's whole thing is that the guilt of her actions means she feels like having any kind of life not devoted to saving people regardless of the toll it takes on herself is not an option. The only reason I think she might not be a hero without Bruce is that I'm not sure she'd SURVIVE without Bruce giving her a cause to throw herself into.

i genuinely believe that if not for bruce, dick and steph are the ONLY batkids that would have taken up crimefighting.

dick’s entire origin story is filled with rage and despair, he watched his parents fall to their deaths and learned that they had been brutally murdered because of something that wasn’t even their fault! his pure rage fueled his creation of robin. even if bruce hadn’t taken him in, i can tell you that he would have gone after his parents’ killer himself, and probably wouldn’t have stopped trying to rid gotham of crime even as he matured and grew a sense of empathy towards all victims. dick was already the angry robin, it only makes sense that he would have done something even without the cape.

no matter what anyone else says, jason was NOT violent. he loved being robin with all his heart because it gave him magic. it is clear to me that he hated the thought of harming innocent people especially through his time at ma gunn’s place because of his resistance to the thought of being turned into a hurting machine like the other boys. and yet as soon as bruce takes him in, he becomes just that: a child soldier. if bruce had not taken jason in, i think he would have been much happier. he knows that the deaths of his mother and father, while tragic, are not something he needs to avenge, and all he looks for afterwards is food and a roof over his head. he is not a character built on revenge, he is introduced to the concept by bruce when he is trained to defeat evil with his fist rather than his words. jason would have been an amazing teacher if he wasn’t red hood, and he would be able to help people in crime alley just the same, by providing support and a good foundation for them to accomplish things.

tim drake did not want to be robin. the only reason he ever became robin was because he needed to protect everyone who faced the wrath of an angry bruce. he is an observant person and he noticed how much harder bruce was hitting after jason’s death. he knew that bruce needed someone else out there with him to stabilize him and prevent him from doing something he’d regret. tim tried to get dick to fill that role, but when he refused tim took it upon himself instead. he’s responsible like that. tim drake most likely would’ve been a successful businessman if he wasn’t a cape because of his smarts and ability to read people.

steph is the only other robin i believe would have still worn a cape if not for bruce. she found out about her father’s wrongdoings and immediately her sense of justice told her that she needed to stop this from happening. she would be unable to stop herself from trying to protect innocent people with or without bruce, just because of her absolute need to do the right thing.

cassandra and damian are similar in the fact that they were raised as human weapons and weren’t allowed to be their own individual people. i firmly believe that they would have managed to break free of their oppressors even without bruce’s existence for talia to rely on in regards to damian. after so much time spent fighting and being used, i think they would have tried to find an identity outside of this. they probably would’ve have ended up as similar people to the ones they are with bruce in the picture, but i doubt that they would have continued to fight as much outside of absolute necessity because of the bad memories surrounding it. if they did fight, it would be in self defense and for themselves, not in accordance with what someone else wanted them to do.

duke is complicated, because while he does have a great sense of justice and is also a meta, i don’t think he would have continued to pursue the path of a vigilante for very long. i haven’t read a ton of stuff with duke, but i think i can safely say that he would have taken a step back from everything to support himself and take care of his parents after what the joker did to them. he probably would have taken up a career that involved aiding people in a more peaceful way, similar to jason.

anywho thanks for coming to my ted talk :)

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The idea that goes around that Bruce saw Cass as a soldier in Batgirl (2000) makes no sense because he shows multiple times that he cares deeply about her. Did y'all forget all the fucking dialogues in the comics showing just that? Did you miss Bruce going through his usual "OMG I'm a terrible father I don't deserve to be in her life, I only bring her misery!" thinking? Like, he's clearly not helping her having a normal life, he is teaching her to be like him, to be dedicated body and soul to the mission, and it's not great, but it's not seeing her as a soldier, more like a second mini him. The most hurtful thing he did to Cass, in Cass' eyes, was trying to give her a normal life and stop her from being Batgirl, which Barbara agreed on. Like, can we stop saying Bruce views his kids as soldiers because he trains them, has expectations for them to be good people and let them fight crimes, while having difficulties with his emotions and communications? The principle of a soldier is that they are meant to be easily replaceable, but he cares about his kids, and they want to be doing this shit! They hate when he tries to make them have a normal life because he is scared they are hurting!

"I thought Cassandra was just like me."

"Maybe being Batgirl is doing her more harm than good. She grew up surrounded by violence and brutality. And all I've done is to surround her with violence again."

"He just wants you [...] to be happy."

"He's worried that being Batgirl is bad for you... That the constant exposure to violence and evil was preventing you from healing the emotional harm you suffered as a child."

"He just worries about you, my dear. He doesn't want you to get hurt."

"I know for a fact that Master Bruce is immeasurably proud of you-- and grateful for all that you've done."

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Cass being able to mock ppl is so important to me because that is what David Cain tried to keep from her. She got her voice and she quickly got to work being a hater. Cassandra Cain, I love you.

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I do think it's very funny that batgirl Shiva tells Cass that killing isn't her nature right as WFA Shiva starts asking Cass if she's willing to kill the Joker to stop more from dying. I find Batgirl Shiva more in character but at this point there's a strong argument to be made that Cass is basically Shiva's blorbo. She likes putting her in a box and shaking her because Cass's response is amusing/fascinating. Sometimes your blorbo needs to be challenged into growing as a person via supporting and caring for her as she asserts her identity and sometimes she needs to be challenged by facing the grim reality of her past and her current work and choosing to carry on regardless. Shiva's willing to do both solely because she gets a kick out of it. They should start a third series and let her put Cass in a Saw trap. It's enrichment for both of them.

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The current Batgirl book is just the story of an Autistic 24-year-old with mommy issues having a quarter-life crisis.

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Hello american friends! If you have not called your senator and asked them to oppose the confirmation of RFK jr you absolutely should.

Of all of trumps stupid appointees he's the one we have a real chance of stopping.

https://stoprfkjr.com/ makes it especially easy, they'll give ya numbers and a short script.

Go do it. Go!

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I really wanna get excited for this, but with the Victor situation being what it is, it kinda puts a damper on things for me

The Fantastic Four: First Steps | Official Teaser

Hm, in theory I should really like this as retrofuturistic superhero stuff is my jam, but it left me feeling cold? Still looking forwards to Superman more.

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this has been discussed before but reducing female characters to the girlboss braincell holder in the name of combating misogyny in fandom is ironically also a form of misogyny

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this is kinda along the same vein as my last post about this and not being a hater when i say it but i do think it’s so funny how easily i can tell when someone hasn’t read cass comics in fanart or fanfics of her. like she’s always cute and precious or whatever. guys this girl is a freak weirdo

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…Thinking about Cass and Babs again. About how Cass left a message telling Barbara she was like a mother to her. Barbara who tries so hard to care for this girl but can't quite relate to her due to their completely different lives and sometimes accidentally being condescending. Cass who sometimes thinks Barbara is trying to vicariously live through her, yet they love each other, they are not mother and daughter in the soft and fluffy sense but they are mother and daughter in the messy and cracked yet still lovely ways. Cass has fallen asleep listening to Barbara's words and Barbara has felt a lightness in her heart when Cass smiles. Not quite mother, not quite daughter, but family nevertheless.

Yeah, I'm so normal about them.

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David Cain goes on drunken rants in the comment sections of "body-language expert" Instagram accounts about how they could never truly read body language because their brains are tainted with spoken language and his daughter could beat all of them at rock-paper-scissors.