#teausday spolers

[jewishcissiekj]

OK so a few things about Cassie's two pages in Wonder Woman #800:

Cassie dreams about herself in her YJ days. She looks back to that as her idea of herself. Call that repressing her 00s trauma, wanting to be who she was once, whatever you will, it actually explains the way she's acted since 2019 YJ. If that's who she wants to be, who she feels like, of course, she won't move on. Of course, she'll stay in her Wonder Woman fangirl phase. She doesn't see herself as the person shaped by Kon's and Bart's deaths and everyone leaving her and leading the Teen Titans & Young Justice. She sees the Wonder Girl before Donna's death, before things got complicated. Yes, it's really just a nice callback to the early 00s and to that time in Wonder Woman's history, but it CAN mean much more, and I choose to believe it does.

Who chooses Cassie to view herself like that? The writers. Out of universe. So if that's how writers view her, and Wonder Girl from 20 years ago, that's how she'll be written. And that's how she's written in Trial of the Amazons (essentially from the same writers). Where did her character development go? Great question, they just don't want to deal with that. Character regression at its best, from the very expert writers of DC Comics.

Cassie and Diana's relationship is SO hard to define. Mentor and mentee? No, and Cassie said it best in DCYJ, somehow. It's just so much more than that. Mother and daughter? yeah, but actually no because Donna is the sister of both of them. Sisters? No, not really, it feels like there's too much difference in experience and age and it just doesn't work as a general term for them. However, it does work at certain points. See some post One Year Later Wonder Woman comics that describe it like that. Friends? Yeah...? I mean, they are. and that's how the story describes them. "It's always been easy to love my friends." I don't hate that approach, but it lacks. However, it describes their relationship in recent years pretty well.

Lastly, on a more positive note about Cassie's character, I'm so glad she believes Diana & her and defeat Darkseid together because hell yeah. They can. Fuck power scaling, watch them defeat Darkseid with the power of FRIENDSHIP. Sisterhood, even. We love to see it.

And, of course, the pages because I won't rest until every Cassie fan out there sees them: