Cassandra Cain I Am The Dog Animatic
happy birthday to my beloved blorbo... this is late to cass cain week because as you can see it is a behemoth and i spent 2 weeks on it. first time making smth like this but phew the things i would do for cass. Song is I Am the Dog by Sir Chloe
if you wanna read me yapping about every choice i made for these frames it is under the cut!!
I'm not going to be pulling each frame for this because that would be so much so Ill go by lyric :]
head underwater / hand in a fist
I start with cass post shiva fight after she wins and then immediately go all the way back in time to the act of violence that put cass on her suicide mission in the first place
hard to describe something ill never miss
baby cass is holding that mans throat in her hands, the most prominent mark on her chest is his blood / adult cass is holding her mask in her hand, and the most prominent mark on her chest is the bat symbol
i am the dog under your couch
this wolf is a reference to the mark of cain symbol which im...pretty sure is a wolf? its really shittily drawn and not a lot of references but whatever. she is being partially covered by the mark of her father.
gnashing teeth and open mouth
remember that time where cass conquered a pack of dogs (or wolves?) and then ate a cow raw. this is that
shouldn't have clawed my own way out
this is pretty self explanatory
loving you's my only house
OK! that one scene where we see cass's birth and it says the first sound she heard was her mother and the second was a gun shot? that made me terminally insane. this is that.
then we go through a fast montage of cass's important parental people in her life in order david/babs/bruce/shiva. we end with the scene we opened with in the beginning, zoomed out, and cass seems happier. yay!
Back with another list for you guys!!!
Weird things Captain Marvel has done
Carved his entire mission report into a slab of stone for Batman
Sat on the couch in the Watchtower rec room without moving or blinking for 2 hours straight before going home whistling
Tried to lick the sun cause he was curious what it would taste like
Carried a child (Freddy) on his shoulders for an entire mission
Wore a top hat for a day and when asked about it was very confused about why he was wearing a top hat
Fell asleep in space for 5 hours, just floating around (he only woke up when he bumped into the moon)
Sweat an actual, real bullet
Swallowed a bag of chips whole (like, he didn’t even open it up)
Accidentally turned his hair into cotton candy then absentmindedly ate it (bald Cap became a meme)
Didn’t have have his lower body for a week and didn’t say why (like, from the waist down it was just fucking gone)
You know the Billy Batson brain rot is strong when bully starts auto correcting to Billy
THISSS! But imagine he just starts picking up even more cause of past champions and the gods in his head.
So Captain Marvel starts muttering phrases in dead languages and no one can keep track of it, probably not even Billy!
Billy slowly starts picking up just little common Spanish expressions that Rosa used often after living with them for a while. Batman’s conspiracy board on Marvel just got even larger.
Stop making Captain Marvel stupid. He’s silly not stupid. Say it with me: Silly not stupid
Captain Marvel gets kidnapped and put under a magical truth spell except it’s the Marvel & Billy Are Separate People AU so the kidnappers don’t get any info on his (Billy’s) secret identity
Kidnapper: “Alright Marvel! What’s your real name?”
Captain Marvel: “Captain Marvel”
Kidnapper: “what??? No! I mean your real name!”
Cap: “my real name is Captain Marvel”
Kidnapper: “what?! Ugh nevermind. How old are you?”
Cap: “I’m supposed to keep count of that?”
Kidnapper, getting more frustrated by the second: “just- just give me a rough estimate”
Cap: “at least a few million years, though I was asleep for a few thousand”
Kidnapper: “…”
Kidnapper, moving on: “well, where do you live?”
Cap: *shrugs*
Kidnapper: “you can’t just shrug! Where do you live?!?!”
Cap: “the rock, I guess”
Kidnapper: “the rock- WHAT IS THE ROCK?”
Cap: “basically a big cave”
Kidnapper: “YOU LIVE IN A CAVE???”
everyone in the jla is shocked when a group of aliens bow down to billy as he's the champion of magic and they also use magic
To me, Dick Grayson is straight in the way the male English teacher you thought was gay actually has a wife and kids.
A/N: As promised! I'm not sure how many people saw the original bit of the game, but shoutout to @monachosis who was the first on interacting with this post!
No one expected Billy to survive, is the thing.
As one of the smaller kids on the street and with little strength to speak of, he'd never gotten to keep the nicer hideaway spots in the city.
He hadn't been able to stay in homeless shelters much either; They'd always ask why he was alone or they'd try and call social services on him.
His odds had been stark, laid out plain like that - small and weak and with no way to find a reliable place to eat or sleep.
Billy wouldn't have bet on himself either when the first wave hit.
But he does.
Survive that is.
Squished under a small pocket in a demolished building, a little lean-to he'd dug out for himself with his ratty backpack hugged to his chest and just about all his clothes on for warmth, he'd been too deep down, too difficult to reach, too insignificant a target when the whole world went to hell.
Billy remembers that first night in flashes. Remembers waking from his uncomfortable dozing to screeching tires and screams.
The bits of the sky he'd seen through the gaps between crumbling concrete and rebar had glowed a dull red, and there'd been an awful, thick stench of burning petrol in the air.
A car accident. He'd thought so simply at first.
But it had kept happening. Louder and louder and all over the place.
Desperate screaming and things breaking and this raw, savage sound in the background accompanying everything - Billy remembers that he'd thought of the dog he'd seen once, with rabies.
All slavering and thoughtless and violent to anything and everything that came close.
Just like that, but everywhere and instead of the way the dog had let him be when Billy had gotten far enough, whatever it was, was attacking everything.
Billy remembers shaking, hands clasped around his nose and mouth, with shallow vents between his fingers for air, lungs heaving rapid and shallow.
Had it been instinct, then? Something prey-like in his hindbrain telling him not to make a sound.
His heart gone rabbit-quick, slamming against his ribcage.
More and more screaming, people begging and a wet tearing all overlayed by that awful, awful savage sound filtered down to Billy.
His mind had gone blank.
How long he'd stayed like that, Billy hadn't known, but eventually the sky brightened - dull red fading to black then purples and then lightening to blue sky and Billy had stayed like that until the bits of the sky through the gaps stung to look at and everything was getting uncomfortably warm.
Billy remembers thinking later or trying to think anyway that he'd made the right choice, so to speak.
Getting out would have taken precious minutes and would have left his back to open air as he leveraged himself out.
Plus, he'd had no idea what was out there. He wouldn't have been able to help anyone.
Hiding had been his best bet.
Like a coward.
Billy had dug himself out of the building's remains, telling himself that and stepped out into a world completely changed.
She/HerAutistic, queer, and (according to all the unfinished fics in my docs) an aspiring fanfic author!
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