Orphan breaks my heart because she has no swag. Like okay the big pants and the hood are fun and maybe they would work if she was like a solo hero in an action film but as an ensemble cast member she looks like Background Assassin #3. Even Tim’s “the Drake” persona looked like less of red shirt. She doesn’t even have a logo. Like Black Bat was stupid but it also served campy superhero vibes. And obviously nothing can beat Batgirl. Batgirl was so perfect because it was so clearly a derivative of Batman’s costume that showed her allegiance to him and marked her as a Gothamite even when working with other heroes but still had the unique full mask with the stitch mouth that made her easily recognizable and all together cuts a shadowy mysterious figure that is immediately visually interesting. Orphan gives me absolutely nothing. And the name sucks.
My headcanon/ideal version for the future has always been Cass as Batman with her civvie id being trust find baby (and philanthropist ofc) Cassie Wayne and for Steph becoming Batwoman and her civvie job being either a doctor or a nurse (influenced by her looking up to Leslie/Crystal) and I JUST NOW realized that’s literally Thomas and Martha
Can we talk about how Cass refers to herself as "manipulative" in Batgirl #5? Like, it struck me as so weird for a second because in my mind it didn't fit how David had trained her. She was a weapon, not an infiltrator... until I remembered how she killed Faizul.
It wasn't just with her superior skills, David dressed her up as a cute and harmless little girl to get close to her target and Cass is putting that act of manipulation on herself.
You don’t know how desperately I need the Justice League to pull up to the Rock of Eternity cause they need the help of the all powerful and all knowing Champion of Magic, only to see a kid playing with toy cars making “vroom!” noises and to face the realisation that this is the person who can control all magic in the world
Please reblog to make sure everyone is equipped!
To my knowledge, when Cass was orphan she was basically the only person in the BatFam that wasn’t an orphan.
Like, sure both her parents are horrible, but they were both perfectly alive and you still had the audacity to call yourself Orphan while being in a family of actual orphans
Fuck yeah, that’s badass
Cass, coming back from her fight to the “death” with Shiva: “I lived bitch, and so did Shiva”
Babs: “I’m so happy you’re alive! but we really gotta unpack that later…”
So we've had "skill issue," we've had "lock in," we've had "where we droppin' boys" but I put forward that if there's any one piece of borrowed internet slang Cass would get constant use out of in her day to day crimefighting career it would be "I lived bitch."
Having depression and autism plus hyper fixations is crazy cause whaddya mean I was sobbing uncontrollably unable to leave my bed this morning but now I’m jumping around and squealing with joy cause I read a cool comic book???
Stephcass is a good ship bc on one hand you have a girl who was suicidal since the tender age of 8 and on the other hand who have a girl who won't be suicidal out of pure spite
Bruce is NOT Stephanie’s dad but she does hate him in a way that only a daughter can hate her father.
Cass: It's just an axe wound, what's taking so long? Steph: [stitching "Steph wuz here" into Cass' back] Nothing.
She/HerAutistic, queer, and (according to all the unfinished fics in my docs) an aspiring fanfic author!
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