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Happy Pride! From Young Justice 98 to you!

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Stephanie: I was calling you for an hour. Do you ever pick up your phone? Cassandra: Don't need to. I have an answering machine. Stephanie: You know those things just record messages, right? Despite the name they don't actually answer for you. Cassandra: ...Yeah. I knew that. Obviously. Cassandra: ...I have to go.

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Talking about dc characters and their parents again because I love them sm.

I think all the time of what Stephanie and Crystal Browns relationship could have been now if they didn’t write her out for literally no reason. Stephanie and Crystal were really starting to have such a good relationship in batgirl 09, and at the very end Crystal finally knows that Steph is batgirl. Steph having her mom around could have been another really sweet way to set her apart from the other bats. Stephanie’s mom is so important to her and she absolutely deserves to be a part of her support system. Let her talk out her stresses of hero life with her mom pleaseeeee.

Like look how happy Stephanie is when she finally gets to tell crystal about her life as spoiler. At this point Crystal wasn’t ok with Stephanie continuing as a hero, but I would have loved to see post batgirl 09 (if n52 never happened) Stephanie and Crystal getting to talk and joke over coffee about the other side of Stephanie’s life.

And if she knew about Stephanie’s hero life she could have gotten to know Tim and cass too! She’d finally get to meet Tim outside of his Alvin Draper persona, even if it was as Robin and not as Tim, and I think mama Crystal would be so kind to cass.

Dc please give me back crystal brown:(((

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You know those photos of little birds sleeping together on a branch, all cuddled up in a line? This, but its the Order of the Robins from Dark Knights of Steel, high up on some precarious ledge:

(The photos in question:)

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If you ask me, this above all else is the reason Bruce treated Stephanie the way he did. Stephanie's unassuming earnestness has a way of disarming people. She tends to worm her way into their hearts and coax them into opening up no matter how hard they resist just like she did with Cass and Damian. It's practically her superpower. Bruce spends a little time with her and finds himself trusting her with parts of himself he's never trusted anyone with before, he realizes she's got him lowering emotional walls he puts a lot of care into building between him and everyone around him and that, more than anything else, scares the shit out of him.

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Just made myself so so sad thinking about Aang's marble trick because from a physics perspective, keeping dense spherical objects afloat on an airstream is not trivial, and he's doing it in a tiny little space without moving his hands. Bending is usually very gestural. So. Everyone in the era of the show is, at best, impressed THAT it is airbending. But Aang's an incredibly young master airbender. He wouldn't be acting like this was the bestest trick ever if it didn't take at least some skill; he's a goofy kid but he's also a prodigy. I bet other airbenders were absolutely blown away (pun fully intended) at the level of precision and force and minimalism of movement on display and now there's no one who understands at all why he expects accolades.

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Okay not to keep rambling abt my Steph Bad Ending AU but I was thinking about it again recently bc I was listening to Kokopelli Face Tattoo which is like THE bad ending Steph song to me (also everyone should listen to it and think abt Stephie b).

An important part of this to me is that Steph’s bitter and mean and very very resigned about everything but to be very clear she does not start that way. She’s very much still does the whole ‘reversion of core characteristics’ thing for a bit where she has this mindset that the gang war and her death was just because she couldn’t just follow orders, and that if she just listens to Batman now, everything will be okay.

I don’t know if she still participates in the whole end of Robin (1993) Batman mindgame nonsense, but I’ve been leaning away from it. Either way unlike the canon timeline Steph doesn’t become Batgirl and doesn’t find her own meaning and self acceptance. Maybe an old wound or injury from Black Mask kicks up, or maybe she never actually healed enough to go out as Spoiler for long, or maybe she just waits a little too long and thinks a little too hard and doesn’t go out for one night, which becomes a week, which becomes forever. Point is, something doesn’t align and Steph waits on going back out.

I don’t know if she’d outright give up, especially if she did go back to Spoiler first like in the canon timeline, but I do think circumstances could conspire to make her wait, and I think if she waited long enough without the outlet for her self doubt and guilty feelings she could fall into the trap of thinking the best way to make up for what a fuck-up she is isn’t to put on a cowl and go out into the night, but to instead stay out of the way before she makes anything worse. I also think that sort of unproductive thinking would quickly make her spiral until she did outright quit.

Because of above I think it takes a long time for the bitterness to come. Like at first she’s just slightly anxious and mostly just very tired. And I’m talking years of this stagnation. By the time she’s able to properly wrap her head around it, by the time she’s able to get properly upset, it’s been way too fucking long to do anything at all about it. Like she has no outlet for her anger so it doesn’t go anywhere and she gets mean. Still blames herself more than anything. She’s also like.. weirdly relieved to no longer be a vigilante. Lots of wallowing in self pity in this timeline I think.

(Again huge disclaimer NOT a good plot for Steph that I’d ever want this is like speculative worst case scenerio territory here)

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padme's handmaidens are such an underrated concept. i mean, yeah you can call it women supporting women and leave it at that but like. its so much more intense than that. they basically created the persona of queen amidala together. they assigned her specific mannerisms and tone of voice and breathing patterns and all of them studied that well enough to play the role perfectly. they put all of the derangedness teenage girls put into discovering their own identity into perfecting mimicry instead & they did all that knowing that their role will always be to die in padme's place if it comes to that. idk what insane levels of devotion does it take to be like 14 and you've become so intimately familiar with your friend that you can quite literally become her. there's friendship & traumabonding and then theres "my entire life is dedicated to dying for this woman" and then there's that but with added identity fuckery and thats what the handmaidens have going on with the bonus point of being 14

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it's a weird emotion when somebody goes "doesn't this just shake you to your core and rewrite your dna and change who you are as a person" and your honest experience of it was that it was ok

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I'm going to frame this in my house

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apparently he was 12 when he became stuff of legends… 

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Yes the joker should die. There are also like a million other people who could do it and have it be satisfying for their characters that aren’t batman.

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