#cassandra craft

[wanderingmind867]

I can't believe The Phantom Stranger hasn't had a good ongoing series since the 70s. How!? The man had such a good supporting cast! Doctor Thirteen and his wife Marie, Cassandra Craft, Deadman, there were a group of teenagers he knew in the early issues, etc. And even his villians aren't talked about enough. Tala and Tannarak are some pretty cool villians. This evil british/egyptian sorcerer and a demoness from hell. Those are some interesting villians. There was many directions you could have taken the stranger, i feel. But he's just a supporting character at best nowadays, which is a shame.

[dailycrippledcharacters]

Cassandra Craft (DC)

[Image Description: From the official comics. Cassandra, a white woman with long white hair whipping around her face. She has white eyes and her mouth is open in a scream. End ID.]

Cassandra is blind.

[somewherefornow]

PHANTOM STRANGER & MADAME XANADU in PHANTOM STRANGER (2012)

[momachan]

"Storm clouds of doom gather overhead, as if a parliament of dour executioners were called to judgement on frail humanity in these final, ember hours of all we hold dear. Good evening, ladies. Good evenings, all here gathered."

Seven Soldiers Of Victory; Book One. "A Box In The Beginning."

[radroller]

Seven Soldiers: Zatanna #2 “A Book in the Beginning”

Written by Grant Morrison, Illustrated by Ryan Sook and Mick Gray

[eliah]

[nerdybitch]

I love reading those little write-in's at the back of comics where people wrote to the authors, and I'm reading the 70s Phantom Stranger run and- MY HEART

[horsechestnut]

Bat Kids!

(Designs based on Wayne Family Adventures. It was the best place to find a consistent design for all of them in the same art style.)

New Stephanie Brown Expansion Pack

[whenlovetriestoleave]

geraldine viswanathan by emma craft for polyester styling by britt theodora, makeup by cassandra lee, hair by davey matthew

[a-rainbow-girl-detective]

I made some things!!!

[ectonurites]

a teeny tiny cass sketchbook i quickly made last night

[wanderingmind867]

Following the Crisis, god revokes the Phantom Stranger and Destiny's powers, terrified of having them make humanity equal to him. Intimidating the other gods of the universe into not giving the stranger and destiny any sanctuary, the only place they can safely hide out is with Madame Xanadu at her in greenwich village.

This would be the backstory for the solo book about the stranger, destiny and madame xanadu fighting for answers that the universe seems to be desperately hiding from them. This series would feature all the phantom stranger's old supporting characters. Doctor Thirteen and his wife (who are still skeptics, but who still try to help the stranger find answers), and Cassandra Craft (who successfully manages to score a job with Madame Xanadu, learning magic and serving as her assistant).

But the book would eventually lead to the creation of a team like the justice league dark (and that team might become the focus of the book instead). I don't know if they'd go by that name explicitly (we may use a different name not so explicitly associated with the Justice League), but they'd come to exist. A team of five initial founders, who pursue answers to all their troubled existences together. These five founders are as follows:

The Phantom Stranger: Twin Brother to Destiny, god punished these two for being too intelligent, granting man knowledge that made god fear they would eclipse him in power. As punishment, he killed their whole community and wiped their memories. Then he cursed the stranger to wander the earth forever, never having a home ever again.

But now the stranger is freed from the curse. He remembers his past, although he's lost most of his powers. He's now just a simple magician with the same amount of strength as a mortal like zatanna, but he's still on the hunt for answers as to how to regain his lost powers and take revenge on god.

Destiny: Twin Brother to the Phantom Stranger, god punished him just the same way he punished the stranger. Except instead of cursing him to wander the earth forever, Destiny was cursed to never leave a musty old house at the edge of infinity. From that house he would read and guard the cosmic log. He would never be freed of it, as god had him permanently shackled to the book.

But Destiny is finally free of the log. His shackles are gone, and he's free of that horrible house! But just like his twin, he's lost his many great magical powers. He's pretty much just a normal mortal again, but that doesn't mean he's stopped looking for answers. He will get answers as to what god did to him and his brother, and as to how they can get their powers back.

Madame Xanadu: Born Urania Kothari, the woman who'd become Madame Xanadu was originally just a romani woman in europe. Her mother was a skilled sorceress, and she was the product of her mother's brief affair with a demon. She never had any real interactions with the demonic side of her family, but she did learn magic from her mother. And her half demon heritage meant her magic skills were somehow even more powerful and potent then her mothers. She was a skilled sorceresses and dealer with the cards.

But one day, she fell in love with the child of a priest. When the community found out, her mother and her love were both burned alive. Urania was almost killed too, but a god took pity on her and saved her by giving the gift of immortality. He also gave her a new identity as a fortune teller in colonial america, allowing her to blend in and escape her fate. Now she uses her magic powers to help all those desperate souls who come to her shop.

When the phantom stranger and destiny are stripped of their powers, only Madame Xanadu is willing to take them in. She allows them to continue their quest for knowledge from her store. She's their immortal guardian, ensuring god doesn't touch them and harm them before they can get answers. She's also the closest thing this team has to a leader.

Cassandra Craft: Cassandra Craft was a blind girl with the power to sense things and see them the way they truly are. A psychic of the highest order, Cassandra was the first person in centuries to befriend the phantom stranger and try travelling with him. He tried to reject her by faking his death, not wanting her to hold a candle for him (an immortal wanderer who could never return her love).

Cassandra and the Stranger have moved on from any romantic attraction nowadays, but they're still very close friends. And when the stranger lost his powers, Cassandra sensed it. She felt something strange happen to her friend, and she trailed his psychic emanations all the way to madame xanadu's shop. She insisted on helping the stranger and destiny discover their fates, and she successfully scored a job as madame xanadu's assistant. And meanwhile, she's in training to become a powerful sorceress in her own right.

Deadman (Boston Brand): Boston Brand was a circus performer gunned down in his prime. But instead of being allowed to rest, some eastern deity named rama kushna forced deadman to stay on earth and hunt down his killer. They wouldn't let him have eternal peace until he did that. So for years, deadman was forced to hunt down his killer, all in the hopes that he'd finally be allowed to have some form of eternal rest.

But the funny thing is: even after he finds his killer, rama kushna refuses to let him rest. No, they turn him into their virtual errand boy! Trapped on earth doing inane things for a god is not how Boston Brand wanted to spend his afterlife, but here he is! Sometimes he's downright suicidal, just wanting to have rest. But since he's a ghost, he can't even have that! No, he's cursed to wander earth forever, always invisible to the naked eye. He's seen so much…and he just wants some goddamn rest.

So when he heard about the stranger and destiny being stripped of their power, he decides he wants to at least check on them and try to help them (seeing as the stranger had helped him multiple times in the past). But Rama Kushna wouldn't let him visit them, since they wanted to stay in the good books with the god who cursed them. But deadman could care less about rama kushna, at this point. He goes to see them anyways!

But in going to see the stranger and destiny, rama kushna exiles him too. Nanda Parbat will never be open to him if he continues aiding the stranger. But deadman could care less. At least the stranger seems to care about him! Rama Kushna is the jerk that's kept him eternal rest for decades! They can go to hell, for all he cares!

So these are the five founding members of the justice league dark (or whatever i would want to call this team). They'd meet other people in the supernatural world too (etrigan might become a member later, for example), but these would be the core five. The ones we always see. A tight knit team of people just looking for answers, and a sense of peace.

[darcyolsson]

will herondale vs jace herondale?

ooooohhhhh...... atm it's jace but probably only bc i read tmi most recently lol. i love them both though, i understand people who dislike the "asshole with a heart of gold" trope but i'm not strong like that i fear!!!! i WILL eat it up every time

i guess what i really appreciate about jace is that, unlike will, he's genuinely just Like That. when will worked through the problems that forced him to behave way he did he pretty much immediately dropped the act, but when jace worked through the issues that made him overcompensate for his lack of self-worth he did Not stop. instead he went "i might as well commit to this bit for life" and i have to admire him for that. most unserious man on the planet and for that he is getting my 1st place price ribbon 🎀 mwah

[kitty-gray]

"if we remember this very small detail from TMI—" GIRL DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU'RE TALKING TO???

[momachan]

"It's safer in the workshop. You were followed. I can hear his footsteps in the grass. And it's you he wants, Zee."

Seven Soldiers Of Victory; Book One. "A Box In The Beginning."

[eliah]