#repost since i BURIED the searchable tags last night

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Just read Dark Crisis: Young Justice 1 and 2 and my thoughts on all the Cissie King-Jones Disc Horse I saw floating around last night are:

Cassie is so obviously in her own alt world and that is so obviously a fake Cissie it’s not even funny. Practically every panel we see of Cassie she is begging someone for help finding the boys and they are rejecting her out of hand. Including Cissie.

To recap, in 1 + 2, Cissie:

After the boys go missing right in front of her eyes, goes and sits outside instead even pretending to help Cassie search.

She then makes an outrageous comment about their “fake dads” (even though Cassie just got done monolouging about how WW was “more than a mentor” to her, so Fitzmartian clearly knows how fcking out of pocket that is and I can’t help but think it was meant to be an intentional contrast.)

She then tells Cassie that the boys are “always fine” so she shouldn’t even bother looking and then leaves her. Reminder that moments before this interaction Cissie was worrying over if Cassie was ok because she looked kind of mad. Does this new Cissie sound like a someone who cares about her friends’ emotions?

Cassie then spends the next couple days going to every hero she knows for help and getting turned away, until she finally turns back to Cissie

Cissie tells Cassie she should be worrying more about the justice league than her missing friends and precedes to try and slander them, saying that they were never actually nice to her or anyone else, and implying that Cassie being such close friends with them is the reason that her and Cissie grew apart.

After this speech doesn’t get through to Cassie, she agrees to help her and then proceeds to let Red Volcano beat the shit out of Cassie while she does nothing to help

I understand that actual Cissie got literally three lines of dialogue (while she was quite literally in the background) and so Cissie fans are nervous that this is just a character assassination, but I think it’s ok to have the barest amount of faith that there is indeed a plot going on in this comic book. In my eyes, this is very clearly the case of some malicious entity, in control of everyone in this version of reality, desperately trying to get Cassie to stop searching for her friends. (It’s kinda a shit entity tbh, considering neither Bart or Cassie are really fooled for a second).

Also disclaimer: I’ve never read any of the YJ books. I would not be able to recognize Properly Characterized Cissie King-Jones if she slapped me with a fish. But I can recognize a lying bitch! I’m very confident in that.