To anyone who says that Steph & Cass should stay Spoiler & Orphan over being called Batgirl because those are their ‘original’ ‘unique’ identities that they ‘created for themselves’ I ask of you have they ever gotten a solo or ongoing under the names Spoiler & Orphan?
Unless you can show me a Spoiler or Orphan solo that I’ve somehow missed its Batgirl or bust for me
I will honestly never understand people who prefer Steph & Cass as Spoiler & Orphan over calling them Batgirl because the Batgirl title represents hope & change & second chances & redemption to Steph & Cass while the Spoiler & Orphan mantles are firmly tide to their abusive fathers
Young teacher, Cassandra, is in for a bit of a surprise when she comes to the wrong door looking for the mother of an underperforming student. The dark, mysterious woman who answers the door toys with her, telling her, “I have many… but none in school.” She waves her magic ring in front of Cassandra’s face, mesmerizing her and then inviting her in to keep her company. Glammed Cassandra puts up no fight when the Vampiress strips her out of her clothes and pushes her down on the bed. She kisses her way up her body to her neck but it isn’t time for that yet, she must be primed and full of sexual energy first. She slides down between her legs and licks her pussy. Even amidst her fog, Cassandra is overcome with pleasure and has an intense orgasm. The Vampiress slides her way back to her neck and finally lets the teeth out to take what she wants.
Rejuvenated, the Vampiress isn’t done playing with her new toy. She feeds Cassandra just enough to turn her and make her a permanent playmate. One of the disciples she’s mentioned earlier. Cassandra’s eyes spring open and her teeth come out for the first time. She is filled with a strange new energy as she hungrily goes for her mistresses mouth with passionate kisses. She pushes the Vampiress down and pulls off her panties. She licks her pussy hungrily until she’s returned the favor of orgasm to her maker. They kiss frenetically with their newfound partnership.
Well I promised a Cass tonight for Pris, and heres a Cass.
Cass is one of my favorite of the Batfamily. Maybe my third behind Dick and Damian. She’s one important character. And her Black Bat costume is my favorite bat costume.
Im going to have to revisit her and draw her more often, so I can do her better justice
But til then, this what I made right now! For my bud, Priscylla!
I’ve been reading nothing but Nightwing angst the past week. Those fics that have Dick crumbling under the weight of his eldest daughter syndrome and then the rest of the family has to take care of him *chefs kiss*
Image: three panels from Batgirl 2000 issue nine, zooming closer into Cassandra Cain’s pensive face each panel. In the last Lady Shiva’s reflection is visible in Cass’s iris.
Cass’s thought boxes read: “I’ll never take another life. Not even hers. So I’ll pretend to go all out… and then I’ll die.
I don’t have to do this. I can still study Batman’s method. I can be good enough for the costume. I can be…
Mediocre for a lifetime.
Or perfect. For a year.”
This page is directly after Shiva offers to re-teach Cass the body-reading skill she recently lost. The one that made her one of the best fighters in the world. The condition was that one year later, Cass engage Shiva in a death match.
Cass chooses perfection.
I have never seen any work of fiction so perfectly encapsulate a teenager’s relationship to the concepts of death and forever. The need to be good at what you do, to be exceptional. The way being a prodigy can get so tied up in your identity that you’d self-destruct to get that lost spark back.
Cass is struggling with guilt over the one life she took as a child, but doesn’t come up here. It’s a subtler part of her arc, that’s mostly discussed by other characters. Here, in this moment, she’s thinking about herself. About how she wants to live.
Cass understands death more intimately that most people around her, but that doesn’t mean she can really grasp her own mortality the way an older character can. It doesn’t mean the downside of Shiva’s offer is going to feel real.
I want a Batman story where he starts off as a cheerful and a bit socially daft guy. Where Bruce Wayne is a complete goof and hopelessly romantic fool. He tries to court Talia or Selina with the extravagance and thoughtfulness of a man with the means and mind to try to give his love the most fantastically romantic time ever. He’d be so proud and happy for Dick and his team of superheroes, and all he can imagine is the good they’ll do when they become the next Justice league. Even the criminals in Gotham aren’t too violent, just people looking out for their own.
Then Jason comes into his life, He loves this child so much. The kid adores Alfred and follows him around like a duckling and is quietly delighted with all the toys, books, schooling, ect. that Bruce can provide. He’s smart, studious, sassy, curious, and adorably enthralled with magic (magic!Jason) practically a prodigy but still playing little pranks here and there. He can imagine Jason fitting in very well with Justice league dark if he wants to follow his big brother’s footsteps. Though that plan doesn’t quite play out as he’d hoped.
(I’m just so done with Jason only ever being destined for death and nothing more, and the death of a child being treated like no biggie or a goddamn joke. That shit should be goddamn traumatic and serious.)
However Jason is mercilessly murdered by the Joker, then Barbara is paralyzed, Talia doesn’t want anything to do with him, and Harvey well…Harvey went insane chasing shadows before killing himself. Bruce then starts to spiral into his dark and broody, emotionless, cold and calculating Batman. Turning paranoid and controlling, because if he could have planned for everything then he would have prevented the worst from happening to the people he cared about.
I want Batman’s closed off and harsh personality be a result of his life getting to a point of falling apart instead of the insanity of “dead parents” because frankly I’m sick of those damn pearls. I get it as a motivation to start being a hero but the rest of why he’s a dick to his allies and so damn standoffish about being in control all the time shouldn’t be tied to that. I think it should be a process of him losing his hopefulness to the thoughtless acts of cruelty later down the line.
Give me a batman that starts with everything to lose, a hopeful man who believes that people can change for the better if they were given a proper chance. That goodness is inherent because superman who has all the power to do anything still decides to do good. A batman who thought people were only evil because of desperation, or needed/wanted something but is proven so wrong that it slowly breaks him, into the batman we’re familiar with.
(the kind of batman that lashes out at Dick, ignores or doesn’t care for Tim and Steph, beats & banishes Jason from Gotham, and makes contingencies & plans to be able to take out his JLA friends)
Maybe even have the parents be secretly not the best people. I’ve been thinking about Martha Wayne being a high ranking member of the court of owls, and his father sharing a hand with Hugo strange to make Arkham asylum a hell on earth.
Lemme know what you guys think because frankly I kinda hate how toxic Batfam is and I really don’t care for trying to pretend it’s a good time to be with the kind of batman we have. Straightup fanon gooddad!Bruce is so far away from what Batman is, I can’t imagine them being the same person at all. At least with this kind of timeline I feel like it could possibly work.
