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if I was to give Cassie another superhero name I would go with Cassius because Diana would go into detail about the Latin meaning and the historical figures that shared the name and young justice would make fun of her for just adding a couple of letters to her own name and I would find the contrast very funny

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Been doing dc stuff recently for funsies and once again i can't help but think that the fans who do not want superboy to move on from his 90s look but are mad that dc won't let kon age are hella ridiculous.

Like you're surprised that his character isn't developing while wanting the character to still resemble the period of time that dc won't let him develop past?? Letting Kon grow up means Letting him move past this.

Thats like wanting tim to be something other than robin but not wanting him to ditch the robin suit

Character design should reflect a characters progression through the story and all these designs tell me is that conner and tim will forever be part of the "we don't know what to do with them" generation.

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I never understood why DC fans ship Cassie with Rose.

There, I've said it. I just don't get it. I read their interactions, and the most I ever think is that Rose is jealous/envious because, from her perspective, Cassie has the "life" she wants.

For Rose, Cassie has many people who love her (whether romantically or platonically), people who truly value her, who would do anything to protect her.

As I see it, she (Rose) gives me the same vibes as Vanessa. They are two girls who, for different reasons, want to prove/obtain something but haven't succeeded (failing at it), and then they see another girl who hasn't had to go through as much to get/have what they want (in their perspective).

And that's simplifying both their stories as much as possible, more Rose than Vanessa, but that's how I feel their interactions are.

But seriously, I don't see any enemies-to-lovers chemistry between Cassie and Rose. In my opinion, if they're going to ship Cassie with other girls, they should do it with Cissie (though I only see them as Best Friends, sorry), Anita (I'm telling you, I can see them together), Jinny Hex (someone told me they'd be a good match and I stuck with it), and Potira (sue me, I saw chemistry!).

Besides, I feel like Cassie is always ready to tell Rose to screw off, like she's tired of Rose always belittling her or making comments that make her look like someone she's not.

For me, Cassie is someone who doesn't forgive offenses or comments she considers as such (and Rose's comments fall into this category). She is very proud; she has fought hard to prove she's worthy of Donna's legacy as Wonder Girl, that she deserves to be considered an Amazon and a student of both Diana and Artemis, and she wouldn't easily overlook or forget that.

Although it's my way of seeing their interactions, I believe there's a unilateral rivalry from Rose to Cassie (I've already explained why I think this is the case), and I don't think that would be romantic on Cassie's part (though from Rose, I can see why people would ship them, but it would be unilateral).

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you can rip tim and bart being mad scientist buddies out of my cold dead hands

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I think it would be neat if Diana kept her star earrings

And Donna has her moon ones back

And then Cassie can have some sun earrings

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Hot take.

Cassie Sandsmark: Neither butch, nor femme, but a secret third thing…

Delia*s Catalogue poster child

Evidence below

Granted, Teen Girl fashion *was* more androgynous, then. T-shirts, tanks, cargo bottoms... but the details made the difference.

Baby-doll cuts on the tees, flares on the jeans, the accessories...

*flashbacks to 5th grade of all the girlies wiling to commit murder for a wire-thin necklace with a lil' trinket on it from Claire's*

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DC Comic Girls by comicisky

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Boosting, the author from YJ 98 needs help. https://www.reddit.com/r/youngjustice/comments/1jaj2bf/peter_david_writer_of_most_of_the_first_fiftyfive/

Peter David had a campaign that ended a while ago, and it saddens me that it has restarted and that he and his wife are struggling so much. Sadly he is not the only comic writer suffering in poverty in their elder years.

Here is the NEW GoFundMe for Peter David.

Please help him out if you can.

And if you are also able to, consider helping William Messner-Loebs, The Flash (1987) & Impulse (1995) writer. His GoFundMe has stalled a lot.

It is sickening that they both have contributed so much to the comic industry only to not earn a single penny from the success they started.

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I think as a fandom we need to start drawing her more like Ellen

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Will always miss the pre52 dynamic of Artemis and Cassie , like why are they basically strangers now when Artemis trained her and was a good mentor for her :(

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He's the type of brother who tells their younger siblings they were found in the trash when they were a baby

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Teru and Akane character analysis

A scene which plagues my mind and I can't stop thinking of is that one scene when Teru and Akane go to help Kou and Mitsuba, and Akane tells Teru "can't you be a bit gentler with supernaturals?" Teru replied with "I'm always gentle though?" and then there's that pause. A pause from Akane which lasts 3 PANELS, and when he replies to Teru on the third panel, his face is hidden.

It feels to me like he wanted to say something in response to Teru, but he decided against it. And this entire scene just had me analyzing both of their views on supernaturals and what being 'gentle' really means.

Teru has been exorcising supernaturals his entire life based on one idea: they don't belong on the near shore. It's as simple as that. No matter who or what kind of supernatural they are, they can't be good if they're sticking to the near shore.

Not only does he think that they're unstable and can hurt people, but he also believes that they simply should not exist around humans, no matter how they behave, because they're like ticking bombs.

Teru's mindset comes from his sense of obligation and responsibility that has been placed on his shoulders since his childhood. He 'hates' supernaturals but his hatred is general towards all of them. He doesn't hold a grudge or 'bad feelings' towards a particular supernatural, and he doesn't hate one of them more than the others.

This all fits really well with his 'selfless' image. He's not the type of person to hate based on personal agenda. He's only doing his job, and he's said before that none of it came easily for him, and he just had to get used to it.

If he hated supernaturals based on a personal feelings and grudges, then it would be easier for him to be an exorcist since he gets to fight them whenever he wants. But Teru doesn't really get any joy out of being an exorcist. To him it's just a chore or a job, no more, no less.

The most we've seen him do towards supernaturals out of personal feelings is using them as 'stress relief' with either him hanging Akane to the ceiling or fidgeting with a mokke. He lets out his pent up stress on them when he reaches his limit, but he doesn't 'exorcize' them out of stress.

Supernaturals just happen to be the reason behind his stress and misery, so he uses them to calm himself. But at the same time, he won't let his feelings show in his exorcisms. That would be unprofessional.

The only times we've seen him get emotional during exorcisms were when exorcizing Kou, and when he was fighting Amane right after. He was fighting Amane with an intent to kill, not to exorcize.

His exorcism of Kou, on the other hand, was done not only to save Nene, but to free Kou and prevent him from doing anything that he'll regret. Hanako has said at before that exorcism is like a 'release' to a supernatural, and Teru is very much aware of that.

That is why Teru told Akane that he's 'always gentle'. He's doing them a favor. He's freeing them. He's not just killing them. That's the difference.

Akane, on the other hand, views things differently.

As much as Akane says he hates supernaturals, we've seen that this 'hatred' is usually fueled by some kind of reason. When he expresses hatred towards supernaturals it's often accompanied with 'this is why I hate supernaturals' and a reason on why he PERSONALLY dislikes them.

Of course, that doesn't mean that Akane's hatred is not 'general'. He does in fact express hatred towards all supernaturals. but his hatred is also usually accompanied with a justification. A reason.

"Number 7 is a pervert." "He's a murderer." "You saw what he did to Ao-chan, didn't you?" "This is why I hate supernaturals, they're all like this." "They're all like that."

Akane always has something to back up his hatred. It's based on personal agenda. Unlike Teru, who dislikes supernaturals merely for their existence, Akane doesn't view them the way an exorcist would. He views them a way a human who's been constantly inconvenienced by supernaturals would.

And this difference between the two really shines through in this arc. When they were discussing the new timeline with Nene, Teru was constantly referring to Amane by name. He called him "Yugi Amane". Not "No. 7".

Akane's first instinct, on the other hand, was to think "a murderer becoming a teacher? What has this world come to?" He also kept referring to Amane as "No. 7".

Teru viewed this world as a completely different world. Amane is a human here so there's no reason to dehumanize him. Meanwhile, Akane kept making connections between both the new and the original worlds. he couldn't separate them as 'our world' and 'the world created by supernaturals'.

Teru was already disconnected from the new world, but Akane only thought of it as 'it's a bit different, but it's still us.' Even more so because he's one of the clock keepers.

So when Teru started accusing the clock keepers of trying to control their lives, Akane's first thought was 'I don't think they're as tyrannical as you make them out to be.' He says he hates them, and he does in a way, but he always needs a justification.

And with all the time he spent with them, he couldn't find a justification on why he should accuse the clock keepers of trying to hurt them. He couldn't find it in himself to think badly of them. 'Just because they're supernaturals' didn't work for him. Not in this case, at least. But that's a good enough reason for Teru to not want to remain in the new world.

Now moving back to the scene that had me making all this analysis in the first place: what was up with that long pause from Akane, and what was the significance behind hiding his expression in that scene?

Well, for one, it could just be that he simply didn't agree that Teru was being 'gentle' when exorcizing supernaturals. Their general ideas differ when it comes to supernaturals, despite their mutual 'hatred' towards them. Akane humanizes supernaturals to an extent. He doesn't know where to draw the line.

Teru, on the other hand, believes that being gentle means exorcizing them quickly. And Teru is no hypocrite. We've seen him exorcize Kou quickly before he managed to hurt Nene.

Others may not view that as gentle, but one time when we REALLY saw Teru being not-gentle at all was when he was fighting Amane. And Akane saw that too, and he was watching with a horrified expression. That's what Teru is like when he's 'not gentle'.

But is all of this really a good enough reason to warrant that long pause from Akane? Yeah, he's had to deal with Teru's antics on many occasions as a half-supernatural, but he's been taking it pretty well as far as we've seen.

But this pause feels like it means something more. Something personal.

Now moving on from here, all my ideas are mere speculation as I feel like there's not enough evidence to back them up. But what if Akane was feeling a gap in Teru's methods when it came to him personally?

He's a half-supernatural, but also still a human. Teru's treatment towards other supernaturals purely stems from his sense of responsibility and obligation, but what about the way he treats Akane? Considering that this scene comes shortly after Teru punched him over the timeline change, this can be a possibility.

He can punch Akane, but he can't exorcize him. He can call him a supernatural, but he can't exorcize him. He can zap him with his sword BUT HE CANNOT EXORCIZE HIM.

And where's Akane left in all of this? He's not one of the humans Teru is forced to protect. He's not one of the supernaturals that Teru has to exorcize simply because it's 'his job'. He's just left hurt, stuck in between. And this may also be why he had the idea that Teru hates him at some point.

But that changed. They were starting to get along, they became friends somehow. But it all came crumbling down when Akane unknowingly hurt Teru by betraying him. He expected Teru to just blindly trust him, but he hugely underestimated Teru's trust issues.

Akane's reaction to receiving the order from the clock keepers, his reaction to Teru telling him that he 'let him down', his reaction to Teru saying that his mom is alive here but he still wants to return to the old timeline, and his reaction to Kou's death all show SO MUCH guilt. He feels so bad and he probably thinks he ruined what they had.

But at the end of the day, Teru once again protected Akane when it came to it. He doesn't hate him, he just felt awfully betrayed. But Akane is still a human and his friend, there's no way he won't take a blow for him.

So what was Akane thinking in that pause? I personally believe that he was starting to feel conscious of how Teru treats him personally compared to other humans or supernaturals, since he never seemed to follow the same pattern with him.

He treated him differently, and with all the built up guilt, and the way Teru referred to him as 'clock keeper' not long before, it's possible he was starting to think that Teru has come to hate him for real now because he isn't 'gentle' with him the way he is with humans, but he also doesn't treat him the way he would a supernatural, who he exorcises for solely his job and for people's safety.

The way I see it, he was probably just thinking 'he probably doesn't only hate the supernatural me, but the human me too now.' Teru saying that he's 'gentle' with supernaturals was just a proof for him, because Akane doesn't feel like he's gentle with him personally.

Teru just punched him, not for 'stress relief' because he's a supernatural, but because he was disappointed in 'Aoi' as a human. Referring to him as 'clock keeper' instead of 'Aoi' was just to rub salt in the wound. He didn't expect his friend to betray him like that, and he decided he wasn't worth calling by name at that moment. He dehumanized him out of disappointment and hurt.

It's not that he called him 'clock keeper', it's that he didn't call him 'Aoi'.

This is all just a speculation though, and with the scene clearly implying something, I assume we'll get some clarification later on down the line.

Whatever went through Akane's head was definitely angsty though and I don't know if I managed to fill the last puzzle piece, but I tried my best.

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I love them all so much TwT

Diana, Donna, and Cassie

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New headcanon: Everyone forgets that Bart's grandfather on his mom's side is the Earthgov president. So, anytime Bart mentions that his grandfather legalized something they're just like "Barry Allen legalized that?"

Bart: My grandfather legalized embezzlement in the 30th century.

Kon: Barry Allen legalized embezzlement?!

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I wish the Wonder Family got as much attention and development as Dc's other super families. It just never feels like any writer on the main title is ever all that interested in using them and they rarely ever get titles of their own. We also don't see Diana interact with them much. Even in the current run, where the Wonder Girls have been featured heavily, they are rarely with Diana herself. She tends to be isolated from her sisters or only interacts with characters the current writer has created, who then usually disappear whenever a new writer takes over.

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tim bird motif this tim bird motif that. what about cassie bird motif. how about we talk about that

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I yearn for Cassie to be a leader of a team again bc it was just such an iconic thing for her and a large part of her character for a long time. The one thing TT3 did was eventually making Cassie the leader.

I could talk for a (probably) really long time about how being a leader affected Cassie’s character but I don’t have the time to get into that right now