#if you think you are unforgivable or inherently evil just remember: cass would probably get oracle to forge another identity for you

[batboopp]

to me, the most brilliant moral that cass had taught herself during Puckett’s run in Batgirl 2000-that she had almost known instinctively- was that every single human life is so insanely precious, no matter how bloodstained that life might’ve been. it’s no wonder that despite the guilt that tore her heart open, she still lived that year before her fight with shiva to the absolute fullest. that despite her death wish, she still went out of her way to eat good food and smile and joke with the people she loved because those people mattered. it’s no wonder that she still took the time to lean against balconies and stare at the stars, that she wanted to feel the sun in her face and to take care of flowers, all because she was evolving and she hadn’t really had a chance to just be alive, without constantly running from something. how, despite everything, despite cain, shiva’s promise of death, and the guilt from all the blood on her hands, cass can not imagine treating any life like it’s worth less than nothing.

Just cass’s mantra that defined her very being since she was on the run from Cain that, even if you did bad things, you deserve the life-and chances that comes with that life-to do good, to be better than you were yesterday. you just have to want it, you just have to choose it before the person you once were. you deserve to live and to live fully, even if you have to sacrifice everything you’ve ever known, because the life you could live beyond that is worth every risk. the future deserves be seen and experienced by you, and not what the people in your life made you. you did one bad thing, but you’re not.