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“steph is so ethereal beautiful darling this issue” okay yes true real but THATS HOW CASS SEES HER??? THIS IS HOW CASSANDRA CAIN SEES HER BEST FRIEND IN THE WHOLE WORLD WHATEVER I DONT EVEN CAREEEEEE😭😭😭

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The woman of wonder

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to be mourned is to be loved is the platitude and religious words whispered between heroes. It is the prayer young heroes make as they jump off their first building or into their first fight wondering what would happen if they were to fail. Would their name be etched into the history of heroes? They murmur as alien worlds crumble under their fingers. They reassure at funerals, grief is love with nowhere left to go. Mourn, my friend so they know you love them, your love will follow them into the next. It is the words of those returned "You mourned me?" and devastated "I loved you". It is the movement of desperate civilians who cannot fight but they can love and mourn when those heroes fall. They are said at makeshift gatherings, at rallies and protests, in congress, at services, to graves and statues. It is told to desperate teens who lose mentors and heroes and friends and parents and those they didn't even know they could lose. It is told to the next generation as a life line so this crashing tidal wave grief doesn't turn them into the next grave to mourn. It is the last thought of a dying hero who recites the words they all so often say, reassured those they loved will mourn and grieve and love and live even as they rejoin those who came before them. to be mourned is to be loved.

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cassandra cain. smiles. yay.

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imagine you're barbara gordon, your 24-25ish you've been paralyzed from the waist down because men fucking suck. You've established yourself as one of, if not, the most powerful information brokers in the world and here comes this teenage girl. she can't talk, she's fucking deadly, she learns new weapons in minutes and suddenly your in charge of her. You're arguing with batman not even for fun but because you've seen how his teaching ends (re: your boyfriend/ex/best friend/dick) but he has a point, this girl needs a mission, she needs something that you can't give. You don't know this girl but you want to. You're batgirl - or you were. She is batgirl now, your oracle now and your okay with that you are. but sometimes you miss the sky and now your a mentor/sister/mother and your not quite sure what to do.

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I think my favorite dynamic in batgirl 2000 is early Bruce & Cass, he's the only one she doesn't have to hold back against, their kindered spirits, Bruce is trying to stop her from making his mistakes, he's actively instilling his same harmful mindset, that's Cass and her not-quite father who still manages to fuck up, she's walking in on him and Barbara arguing about her well being, he wants her to succeed, he's actively telling her she failed when she did more then what should be possible and she can't understand a word he's saying and doesn't give a fuck about his opinions. Neither of them know how dear the other will become to them, not really. He's over estimating her, he's underestimating her. She's saving him and hes there watching her, he's in denial she likely killed a man as a child. Their just two blobs on a page, doing their best and still managing to crashout

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Cassie & Tim who defied expectations and didn't struggle for power and instead found balance in leadership. Cassie who looked Robin and decided that was the kind of hero she wanted to be. Someone who doesn't sit around and worries and prepares. Tim who thinks Cassie is the best thing since sliced bread, who goes to her to temper his wild theories. Who he knows he can share the burden of leadership with, who he can share anything with.

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This is such an interesting pannel to me because Cassie is projecting on Tim hardcore right now. Because Tim is having a heart to heart with his dad at about that time. Jack doesn't even know who tim is and yet tim seeks him out for advice. And tim drake never doubting himself? Never worrying? that's like his favorite hobby, the man is endlessly paranoid.

It seems like Cassie is picking out the traits that she wants for herself and is projecting them onto her ideal hero. Or at least one she thinks she can compare to, this is still pretty early in Cassie's where she has a hard time believing she could live up to Diana's and Donna's legacies. So she picked Tim who is the ideal sidekick (or at least seems like it) and someone she admires but still can reliably compare herself to (because she knows he's a little freak.).

She's using this idealized version of Robin to explain to her mother that's who she wants be. She wants to be more independent and worry less and really show that's she starting to grow into herself. And it comes across here so well as she was literally seeing what she would look like as a grownup (this is from sins of youth) and really stepping in to wear Donna's costume for one of the first times with confidence.

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Just a friendly reminder that Tim Drake after being aged up in Sins of Youth sought out Jack to spend time with him. He got to have what was probably his first drink with his father and talk about Jack's expectations from young hero's, what Jack expected of him. This was the only way Jack Drake would ever see his son grown up and he wouldn't even know who he was. This was the only time that Tim got experience his father seeing him as an equal. Jack fully admitted he thought tim was the greatest kid ever to this 'stranger' but wouldn't ever get the chance to fully fix his relationship with his son. forever stuck in the cycle of not enough and to much back to not enough. Jack Drake would never know he got to see his son all grown up even if it was just for a few moments.

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When with YJ tim takes painful measures to make sure he never point out anything that could even be remotely obvious. Because every time he does a teammate will look at him and go 'ah yes you truly have been trained by the worlds greatest detective!' and the entire team finds it hilarious every. single. time. Somehow they even managed to get red tornado in on it

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Kon studying something in university that he doesn't really care for because he thinks that what he's supposed to do. And for a good while there he didn't think he would ever get to this point, and he almost didn't. So he just accepts that maybe this monotony is what life is supposed to be, he's playing his role in society and he's coming to terms with that.

Cassie bursting in stage left, and telling him fuck that. he is alive and young and life is something that he should enjoy. To change his major to something that interests him or if college isn't for him drop and find out what is. they do not fight the worst of the worst to go home and be miserable, they deserve better than that.

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*if you've deleted and remade your blog with a different url, that's a change in url; if you had X url, changed to a new url, and later went back to X, don't count X twice

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thinking about how cissie just became a celebrity athlete after young justice,, an icon of our era

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edit: Guys. I said having melanin to speak of instead of just "are you poc" for a reason

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rereading lpod just makes me sadder that so much of tims origin has been muddled through interpretation cause what do u MEAN the character who catalogued bruce’s grief and violence in the wake of jasons death to try and convince dick to return to robin is now a stalker who followed batman around for years. so much of tims character was driven by his own logical necessity. someone had to show dick grayson how bruce was spiralling. someone had to be robin again. someone had to hold things together.

retroactively changing things so tim was a turbo-stalker jason fan with actively abusive parents who hate him misses the point. he knew dick grayson before he knew batman. he only knew batman in the wake of jasons death. he did not view bruce’s actions as aspirational, and he did not know jason as robin, only as a ghost.

like ig him being an actual intense batman fan changes dynamics for storytelling purposes but foundationally tim drake was conceived to be an ordinary person who achieved the extraordinary. that’s the entire point!! im rattling the bars of enclosure again because this kid didn’t even care about photography before he chose to take action like come on

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Pink pony club by Chappell Roan is sooo Cassie and her mom