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thecruellestmonth · 4 months

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I know that Steph's death was retconned to have been faked and that she only haad a near-death experience—and, yes, I prefer this version of events because while it's extremely doubtful that Leslie would ever pull this stunt, it's at least morally correct for Bruce Wayne's loved ones to lie to his face and mess with his ego—

But I'm not on board with saying that Cass reuniting with Steph in death was just a "hallucination". No, Steph wasn't among the spirits of the dead. But I like the think that rather than Cass having a close encounter with a spirit of the dead, instead Cass as a spirit of the dead visited Steph's dreams.

In dreams and death, the line between the reality where Steph survives and the almost-reality where she died is blurred. But love and comfort and bonds between souls are the only things that are truly real.

#Stephanie Brown #Cassandra Cain #Cass and Steph #The other theory I like is Death Of The Endless adopting Steph's form to comfort Cass.#Was going to say ''delusions'' in the Buddhist-ish sense‚ but I didn't want it to be taken as the mental health sense.#Was also going to mention the ''delusions lf the material world'' but I didn't want it to be taken in the Gnostic sense exactly.#Feel like a lot of Buddhism is framed as western Gnosticism. Won't argue against that here. But it's not... accurate either...#Not me getting metaphysical lr whatever in the tags. The DCU doesn't have some strict cosmology.#It's just that hippie power of love mush. The non-denominational feel-goodism popular across focus groups.#That's what this post is about.#In dreams and death #the line between the reality where Steph survives and the almost-reality where she died is blurred. Here the borders and the illusions of t #yet love and comfort and bonds between souls are the only things that are truly real.

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