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Her deaths being unknown to everyone makes me so sad but her first one especially because she just doesn’t care to think twice about having died of course she wouldn’t divulge to anyone else

RIGHT like in canon Babs is aware of her first death and tells Steph who reacts with appropriate wtf ness. My theory is that when Cass came back from her fight with Shiva she gave the most detached mission report she could, which Babs later listened to in horror. Babs then makes the decision not to tell Bruce the full story, because he's been doing a shit job at parenting recently and is at the point of his spiral where he's only going to get worse. So as far as the others are aware, Cass fought Shiva and won. That's all they need to know.

Her second death she wouldn't even tell Babs about. Not because of the death, but because of the shame she feels at what came directly after. Shiva can joke about that part, Cass feels like she deserves the brand of killer whenever her mother chooses to mention it. But no one can find out about the death that happened right before it. They can't see her as a victim, not when she ended that day by killing her mother. She fought Shiva and won. Again. That's all they need to know.

Sometimes I wonder if she gets tempted to talk with Steph and Damian and even Jason about their experiences in the afterlife. Because from what she gleaned it was different for each of them, and she wonders how it would compare to hers, if she could figure out the pattern of what certain people experience.

(Why Damian got trapped in hell at one point and she felt peace every time she died. That's not fair. No one should be in hell but if someone is, then Cass should be burning right alongside with them. How could the universe get that key fact so wrong?)

Bruce talking to her one night, when he's very tired and the painkillers are getting to him after a rough and fruitless fight, about all the ways he failed the children he was responsible for. Jason's death, Steph's death, Damian's death. None of them deserved it, and he knows he can never make up for the failures. He was supposed to protect them.

Cass listens and nods along and never once thinks to bring up her own deaths. She wasn't a child, stopped being one at the age of eight. It wasn't his responsibility, Bruce is supposed to protect the kids but Cass is supposed to protect everyone. It's not even about sparing him the additional guilt, she simply doesn't think he has anything to be guilty for and it doesn't cross her mind that he would think differently. He knows Cass isn't like the others, knows she's trying to be good instead of born with it. It's just different. Her deaths don't matter, not like the actual children.

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as fun as it is for cass to keep things from people because its not a big deal to her its so sad to imagine her doing it bc to her it's not something that would matter to anyone else

Imagine how long it would have taken Babs to convince Cass to come to her if she got injured, because by that point Cass was so used to just powering through everything. Cuts and bruises and broken bones, it doesn't matter it'll heal eventually. It's just pain, not even as bad as bullet wounds. She has to keep running.

At one point during No Man's Land she gets knocked into a sharp sheet of metal while trying to save innocents amidst a shootout. Babs almost has a heart attack when Cass shows up at the tower with blood soaking through half of her shirt. But Cass is so confused by her reaction because it's literally fine. She stopped the bleeding, the gash is big and uncomfortable sure but she can still move. It'll heal eventually, why does Barbara look scared. She keeps acting like Cass is hurt but the bleeding has clearly stopped, Cass is definitely going to live. What's the big deal?

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style hcs for the batgirls?

I'm very bad at fashion in general but for Babs I loved her 90s look. A lot of sweaters, shirts and jeans, vests and tracksuits when she's not feeling like dressing up at all. A lot of green in her wardrobe but also greys and blues.

For Cass: Black. Black tops black jeans black loose pants black boots sunglasses. A grey vest she sleeps in. I do think everything she wears looks very expensive and fashionable but if you told Cass this she would just stare at you like 😐 OK. I like to think she's basically tried every type of fashion possible at one point or another just figuring out her individual style. But in the end nothing beats the simple black fashion she was raised in. She just upgraded her wardrobe.

For Steph: Jeans and flannels. And a vikings jersey she always wears on days when there's matches. She does have purple and gold in her wardrobe but she also has blue and red and green and white. Probably the most even mix of colours out of the trio. As she gets older she wears less layers, ending up matching Cass from time to time with simple tops and jeans.

Bonus hcs for the guys: Dick wears jeans and a leather jacket and looks amazing in it. They all try and pull off the same look except Duke but none if them look as cool as Dick does and it annoys them so much. Duke doesn't like Dick enough to try and mimic him, he has his own style of jackets and hoodies and jeans, lots of red and black and white, with a little bit of yellow and orange. Meanwhile Tim is still trying to pull off the leather jacket without making Steph laugh at him. He gives up and sticks with tracksuit tops and band t shirts eventually. Damian also wears tracksuits with hoodies but actually expensive and stylish whereas Tim's are like. Very average teen boy even though he's in his twenties.

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So funny how Dan Didio literally fought a fictional character and lost. Not just a big iconic one like Dick Grayson, where he couldn't even kill him off because everyone hated the idea that much. With Cass he actually got as far as executing his terrible idea, and it sucked so bad that everyone from casual fans to non comic readers was like wow this is dogshit. And he had to amend his attempt to kick her out of the batfamily and retcon it as brainwashing, because his editorial push for what direction to take her character sucked that much. That's so embarrassing no wonder he tried two more times to erase her from existence, she's concrete proof that he absolutely sucked ass at his job. And he failed there too because almost 20 years after the first attempt at destroying her she's back as Batgirl with a well written and well received solo series and he's just known as that guy who was in charge when DC made like 70 bad decisions all one after the other. You fought a battle against lines on paper you had complete control over and lost not once but three times. How does he not get laughed out of every room he enters.

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everyones trauma is fairgame but the last time someone brought up cass killing a man she crashed out in ways unknown to man

Jon: So that thing you said about Batgirl being able to hurt Supers? Can confirm now you weren't lying.

Kon: Dude, what did you do?

Jon: I don't know I thought we were just bantering. She asked me what it was like being stuck under Braniac Queen and I said it probably sucked as much as being forced to kill like she was. Next thing I know I'm lying on the ground with my ears ringing and she's fighting the entire League as they try to calm her down.

Kon: Oh man, yeah that was a really bad move. Did she win?

Jon: One human against a Green Lantern, Aquawoman, and Batman. No magic or physical boost except this weird rage she had at me mentioning her killing.

Jon: Kon, of course she won.

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The age gap between Babs and Dick vs the rest of the batkids has me convinced that neither of them ever get the memes or slang the younger ones are referencing.

Tim, with Steph filming: You know, I'm so hungry I could eat the Flying Graysons.

Dick, quietly: What the fuck did you just say to me?

Tim: Wait, no, Dick it's a tiktok thing. It's a meme. Dick why are you walking towards me I wasn't serious. Steph! Steph stop filming! Call Cass!

Bruce, sitting next to Babs facing Cass and Damian: So the altercation that happened yesterday was due to Cassandra teasing you for not knowing the third most common style of Kalaripayattu, just the first two. I believe she called you "newgen" and you felt this warranted physical violence as a response.

Damian:

Cass:

Babs: I'm going to be honest. I get the implication but neither of us understand why exactly the insult is worth a fight. What does it mean?

Cass: You're Oracle. You know the Internet but not this?

Damian: It seems your bias is washed, Cassandra.

Cass: You fucking take that back!

Babs: Completely unhelpful. Thank you both.

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cassandra cain in a suit….

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Hey do u know of a reading guide for Batgirl(2000)? I started reading it a while ago (getting into comics) and it’s really good but I know I’m missing a lot of context

I do indeed! The great thing about Batgirl 2000 is that it's pretty self contained, the only story you really need to know beforehand is her introduction during No Man's Land, but even so there's still one or two crossover issues.

Dailycasscain has a great reading guide for Cass in general that goes over all the key issues before her solo along with what each crossover is during that solo. Officer Down is alright, I don't think it's hugely necessary to read for Cass as long as you know that Gordon got shot and they think Selina might have done it. But I'd definitely recommend Bruce Wayne Murderer/Fugitive as she and David Cain are pretty key to that even if it doesn't become clear how until the end. Plus I just really like it lmao.

There's also War Games which is... Complicated. It's a big narrative block in both Steph's entire story and Cass's motivation for leaving Gotham to go to Bludhaven, plus Steph's death greatly impacts her and watching her try to save Steph during War Games helps add to that. Personally I'd only recommend reading Steph's Robin issues and then issues that feature Cass, because the torture Steph goes through before dying is just gross and unpleasant and you can get the gist of the plot without reading all that. It's not a good story at all, full of racism and sexism, and Leslie is character assassinated in it.

I do have an ongoing list of every single story she's either in or is referenced in, but there's a lot there that's definitely not needed for people just getting into comics and would probably just be more confusing. Is it fun to see Cass teaming up with a bunch of female heroes in two issues of Wonder Woman? Definitely. Is it worth trying to figure out the whole lead up and context and plot to this crossover just for her cameo? Eh not really.

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So in your Killer Cass AU, you still have the fight with Shiva happening, only it fucking breaks Cass and makes her finally commit fully to never killing again. And I'm thinking about her line in the comic - "I don't kill, but I don't lose either," and can you imagine her flipping it in this AU? "Sorry Shiva. I don't lose... But I don't kill either." This just occurred to me and I'm fucking screaming about it.

I love this AU btw, and your Cass stuff in general is amazing <3

Yessss I love that idea. During their first encounter in this au Cass would simply knock her out with a cheap shot like she did in canon. And her internal monologue at that point would just be "Sorry, can't afford to lose yet." But then after she dies a year later at Shiva's hand and comes back, the rematch wouldn't be a triumphant all out battle with Cass finally cured of her death wish and would instead be more... A horrifying fight where Cass is reevaluating everything about herself from the past ten years of killing. Every move she goes for she now knows the full consequences if Shiva doesn't block well enough. It would end in a tie, just like in canon, both of them too exhausted to continue. And instead of "I'll kill you." "Not tonight." it would be "Sorry Shiva. I don't lose... But I don't kill either."

The tone of that sentence would be completely different from canon. Not a personal success over her demons but the catalyst to those demons finally consuming her as she hits the lowest point of her life. A horrifying "What have I done." instead of "I know exactly who I am and what I stand for." Shiva would be a little disappointed but hey at least she got a good battle out of it.

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If you don't mind, I have a weird question: does Cass have a middle name in any DC canon? I'm pretty sure the answer is no, but I am curious.

She does not! Unless there's an obscure single issue or TV show mention that I'm missing, Cass doesn't have a canon middle name. The most common headcanon I've seen from fans is that Bruce offers to put Martha down as her middle name on the adoption cert, and a slightly more obscure headcanon is that Shiva gave her Carolyn as her middle name. But as far as I'm aware those are both very much fanon. (I don't think the Shiva one actually COULD be canon since I'm pretty sure Cass doesn't even have a birth cert, and there's no real time and place Shiva could have given it to Cass.)

So for canon, no. For personal headcanons, it could be nothing or anything. Realistically it probably never crossed her mind but who's to say she didn't find the name Gertrude really nice and decide to add it onto her goverment ID? They're all technically fake documents anyways, she might as well have fun with it.

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Duke thomas did not don the cuntiest yellow n black superhero suit on patrol just for DC editorial to say that someone else is gonna be the first gay meta human in Gotham. Don’t worry mr. thomas. I saw your Chanel boots

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do people know how important the name "Cain" is to cass's character and the symbolism behind it?

General fandom I'd say no but most Cass fans certainly do! While I headcanon her as going by Cass Wayne myself I've seen some really great meta on Cass's name and I'm gonna use this ask to promote them.

This meta by casscainmainly examines Cass's relationship with her surname and what we can glean from canon about how she feels towards it. One of my favourite DC and Cass blogs on this site, this had me nodding my head and cheering even though I'm a Cassandra Wayne truther through and through

And then there's this meta by amillionmagpies which goes the etymology of both of Cass's name and the context surrounding both Cassandra and Cain that her creators might have drawn from. And even if they didn't it's still super cool and very detailed.

Thanks for the ask!

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I feel like this is less of an opinion poll and more of a batman trivia question 😭 it's like asking who Tim's dad was or who the first members of Young Justice were. Like there's a very clear right answer.