#batgirl!cass

[gretahayes]

DC should announce a Black Bat and Batgirl mini, with Nightwing as a guest star, and confirm Cass is there but keep what role she's playing a secret and the Batgirl a secret too. People will wonder who the Batgirl is, theorize on whether it's Steph or Tiffany or an old Batgirl brought back or a new one altogether, or if Cass is the Batgirl. They'll assume Cass is Black Bat but keep their minds open to the possibility of it being a new character talking up the mantle.

DC releases the series. It's Batgirl!Cass and Black Bat!Tim, and the only in-universe explanation given is "sibling bonding trip". This is not set in Gotham, it's set in Bludhaven where they bother Dick relentlessly. They nearly kill a man and almost drive Dick to a breakdown because of stress/worry every issue. Steph shows up sometimes to laugh at them. It's silly and sometimes they discuss their trauma and bring up therapy but decide they're too cool for it

[onlycleverinmyhead]

I think what drives me crazy about how Bruce treated Cass in Batgirl 2000 after she kissed superboy is that David Cain trained her to be nothing more than a weapon, and part of Cass' growth is learning that she is a person but instead of helping her Bruce gets angry at her for doing what teenage girls do. I think his mindset is that a true crimefighter lives and breathes crimefighting, and he holds himself to that standard, so when he meets Cass he sees her as 'perfect, so why 'ruin' her with hobbies and feelings?

[spicy-apple-pie]

She got the part :) (the rat king)

Commission Info / Kofi

[ditzybat]

Dick, sighing: it’s hard being the only emotionally adjusted one in this family

Tim: LOUDDDD incorrect buzzer

Jason: you’re the most like Bruce out of all of us, and that man isnt exactly the poster child for emotional stability

Damian: I concur, while Timothy and Jason see their feelings as afterthoughts, and fear mine underminded - you, Richard, brood and suppress until the miscommunication blows up in your face, just like father.

Tim: exactly, the most expressive and normal one of our colony are the Batgirls… and that’s saying something

[starspilli]

batkids game night. they’re playing fortnite

(click for full quality <3 also available as a print!)

[thefriendlyneighborhoodqueer]

sometimes i think about how funny it would be if bruce had a slight english accent as a result of alfred being the only adult in his life for most of his formative years. that or he just says british slang instead of english.

this either drives his children insane, or they think it’s the most hilarious thing ever.

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Bruce: Can you pass the chips?

Dick: Sure, B. *passes over the potato chips*

Bruce: No, the chips.

Dick: ???? … yeah? here?

Bruce: NO! THE CHIPS! *gesturing wildly for the french fries*

Damian: Father, are you having a stroke?

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Batman: Alright, this mission is very important. It is imperative that everything goes to schedule. (shh-edule)

*red robin and red hood snicker*

Batman: *glare* As I was saying, it all must go to shh-edule…

RR & RH : *uproariously laughter *

Batman: *harsher glare* Is something funny?

RR: Oh nothing, B, don’t worry.

RH: Absolutely nothing wrong, “left-tenant”

RR & RH: *dying of laughter *

———

Bruce: *reaching the end of a long rant about responsibility and making sure you are keeping yourself and others safe* And what do you have to say for yourself??

Duke: … You sound like Alfred…

Bruce: *horrified look over coming him* … what

Cass: *furious nodding*

*Some time later, after B has been fished out of Gotham Harbor, which he jumped into after declaring that he “couldn’t turn into his father”*

Alfred: *reaching the end of a long rant about responsibility and making sure you are keeping yourself and others safe* And what do you have to say for yourself??

Bruce: *white as a sheet* … Sorry Alfie…

*Steph is heard furiously cackling in the background*

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anyways i just thought this was fun

[andstuffsketches]

girl who lives in a cave

[everwalldigan]

You know what would be really funny. If Jason had the most normal/conventional food taste out of his siblings (still very far from regular people’s “normal”), he’s stuck in the manor because of an injury and therefore has to witness the culinary WAR CRIMES his siblings consume for sustenance. Since there’s no Alfred to stop them anymore, they have been running rampant.

Jason: What. The fuck. Is that.

Damian, pouring out a green sludge into two cups: father and I’s breakfast smoothie, or did you hit your head hard enough to forget the concept of a smoothie?

Jason, scooting his chair away clutching his water bottle to his chest: yeah I dont know what nuclear reactive, Gotham harbour concoction you so flagrantly bestow the title of “smoothie” on but keep that shit FAR away from me

Tim: *sits down next to Jason, cracks open a can of energy drink and pours it into a glass, pouring milk on top until it reaches the brim*

Jason, with tears in his eyes looking at Dick for help:

Dick: *shrugs, shoving a fistful of dry cheerios into his mouth*

Jason: *turns his horrified gaze to Cass*

Cass: *grins at him toothily with two heaping plates of a full English breakfast sitting in front of her. He has no idea where she got it from. She is using a set of utensils for each plate.*

Jason: *stands up calmly* maybe I should stop looking for the unstable bomb I lost in the manor the other week *walks out of the kitchen, a few moments later a shrill scream is heard*

[fantastic-nonsense]

pack it up babes, this run is going to kill me

[ashoss]

watching batwheels and i love them

[apollo-arts]

I LOVE YOU CASSANDRA CAIN!!!

Some quick Batgirl art because I’m so excited for her new run!

[theflashjaygarrick]

Cass is so fun as a character because she fulfils the 'gruff but with a heart of gold' trope in a way that normally is exclusively used for male characters. Cass can be abrasive, and asocial, and off-putting. She is better than everyone, knows it, and she is not afraid to say it loudly to your face. She tried to help Babs feel better after seeing her cry, and decided the best way was to simply throw Nightwing out of a window (it's okay, he was fine).

But Cass is also someone who loves deeply and cares so much. About everyone. She has strong moral convictions to never kill not because she's scared it would push her over the edge but because she values people's lives so much. Because she believes everyone can choose to be better, and they deserve the chance to make that choice.

She isn't sweet and friendly and someone who always manages to get on with people, but she also isn't a cold ruthless assassin. She is a tough, broken person who finds something to protect in everyone. Someone who can frankly be a jerk (and can be difficult for some people to get along with) but who would risk her life time and time again if it meant helping someone. Cass is a hero through and through.

Anyway, I just love Cass.

[onlycleverinmyhead]

I’d like to think Bruce got Batgirl! Cass and Robin! Tim to work together a lot so that they could learn from each other.

Cass is a good teacher, she and Tim fight and after each duel, she positions their bodied and repeats the movements slowly to show him exactly what he did wrong. At first Tim thinks he isn’t getting better, because he basically went from losing to Cass in 0.5 seconds to losing to Cass in 1.1 seconds but then he fights a non - Cass person and absolutely slays 

 Tim is a bad teacher at first. He’s one of those people who knows a subject so well that they treat complicated shit like it’s trivial. and he talks fast, very fast (autism). In their first lesson, while Tim is walking Cass through a crime scene he’d created , he’s showing her a broken clock and indicates this is a clue for the time of the murder- only to realize she can’t read clocks, he decides to skip the mathematical principles and focus on the “simple parts” so he starts explaining how long hand changes number every five minutes, but like, it doesn’t stand still then moves every five minutes, it’s always moving at a pace of 2pi*d/60 (in/ minutes). d, being the diameter of the clock in inches of course, and 60 because there are 60 minutes in an hour, fun fact!  the division of the hour into 60 minutes and of the minute into 60 seconds comes from the Babylonians who used a sexagesimal system for mathematics and astronomy, isn’t that cool? and the short hand is 12 times slower than the long one cositmoveseveryhourandtherearetwentyfourhoursinadaybutit’sdevidedtotwosegmentsoftwelve except for military time that’s 24- and then he notices Cass’ eyes are glazed over so he just, brings a big clock and starts moving the hands himself, to indicate five minutes, ten, twenty, all without saying a word and Cass gets it. Tim buys her a big clock for her room and she likes to just look at how it moves. she likes clocks, clocks are cool.

 while teaching Cass Tim learns to teach in her language.

[allthegothihopgirls]

anyways i think bruce historically takes the batboys on an annual fishing trip which they all hate so so so much. it gets to the point where it's only tim accompanying him, because unlike dick or jason, tim would simply disintegrate from guilt if he stayed home.

then cass comes along and bruce thinks "oh no well there goes my fishing trips. all of the boys hate them anyways... and it's not like i can take a GIRL fishing."

cue bruce and cass, alone next to some dinky old river with nothing but their fishing rods and an esky full of cold beers, wearing a matching pair of fuckass fishing hats, both religiously applying sunscreen and bug spray.

[ditzybat]

Kon: guess who I hooked up with?

Tim: i dunno man, who?

Kon: Black Bat!

Tim:…

Tim: you hooked up with my sister…?

Kon: …I didn’t know she was your sister!

Tim: I’m a bat, Bat is in her name!

Kon; oh my god… Batman’s gonna kill me

Tim: and I am going to break through your TTK and castrate you

[ultravhasart]

Presenting Cassandra Cain!