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necrotic-nephilim · 1 year ago

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there is not enough femslash in batcest circles. the girls deserve to be just as weird about each other as the boys are. if BruDick gets to be weird father/son/brothers/lovers/friends/rivals/soulmates then it is only fair that Babs/Cass get to be mother/daughter/sisters/lovers too. Something about that deep intrinsic but undefinable love that is born out of trauma, especially if you consider Cass not knowing what healthy love looks like in the first place. i think it's fun and deserves just as much fandom content.

besides that, you can get even more niche with rarepairs like Helena/Steph. Huntress/Spoiler: Blunt Trauma is already a fantastic comic and even though it's their only real canon interaction it has so much potential. very comparable to TimJay in how Helena tries to get Steph to understand her morals and the corruption you could play with it.

batman: huntress/spoiler: blunt trauma (1998)

that comic also highlights on how both Steph and Helena are outcasts of the Batfamily and don't have the approval of Bruce to be doing what they do in "his city". I think there's so much Potential in Helena taking Steph under her wing because Bruce won't let her in and it becomes a weird codependent toxic sapphic mess. I think the protectiveness Helena feels over Steph from the get-go is so clear and the way she wants to look out for Steph, wants to make sure Steph understands the real world? I love them. Helena should be allowed to steal Steph, actually. I think it'd be fun.

there are a lot of other possibilities too like Babs/Steph or even getting weird with Helena Bertinelli/Helena Wayne and the existential question of "is it selfcest or not." But these two specifically live in my head rent-free, especially Helena/Steph and one day I'll convince everyone else to ship it too.

#batcest #necrotic festerings #how do i tag ships that are almost non-existent #helena bertinelli x stephanie brown #cassandra cain x barbara gordon #as resident huntress fan my answer to the is helena w/helena b selfcest depends entirely on which version of helena wayne you're using.#pre-crisis!helena wayne/pre-flashpoint!helena bertinelli? yes i agrue is selfcest adjacent at least #because helena bertinelli was meant to be an adaptation of helena wayne #if it's jsa (2022)!helena wayne then it's *not* selfcest because they co-exist in the same universe #and according to current lore helena wayne was named after bertinelli and took the name huntress in her honor #which is a *choice* for sure but that's a different post #i still think shipping them is super fun in a “don't meet your heroes” sort of way with helena wayne time travelling #and then potentially running into bertinelli and realizing she's not what wayne thought she was and it being weird toxic shit #as for new-52 helena wayne. i do not acknowledge her and will not comment.#*god* I hate new-52 huntress.#(imo it would be selfcest tho bc they tried to make helena wayne a bertinelli clone. so. there's that.)#i'm going to write a helena/steph fic some day and none of you bitches can stop me #yeah yeah we have stephcass but y'all have sanitized the fuck out of that to convince yourselves it's not batcest and that made it boring.#and helena/babs is neat and all but i prefer helena/zinda when it comes to BoP ships #i should've included panels for cass/babs but it's been a while since i read batgirl (2000) so none immediately came to mind #i have a *lot* more helena/steph thoughts but no braincell to word them. know i will talk about them again.#they got one whole comic and now i won't let them go #also cass/helena is fun for combating morals and the complicated batgirl mantle #cass wears the batgirl suit *helena* made y'all think i can't make that romantic bc i can and will #if we have robin pile then give me batgirl pile #babs/helena/steph/cass hell throw in bette too.

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