Perhaps I Found The Girlfriend I’ve Been Looking For All Along

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this is going around twitter and i thought it'd be a fun little thing to bond over

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thinking of the differences in cass and bruce regarding their no-kill rules, and how cass’ rule is better in regards to the batman persona and what it stands for. death and bruce have an awful relationship, to say the least. he has gained nothing from death and murder, in fact it affects him so much that all he can do with death is just sit in its presence forever, without ever working through it (he literally refers to death as ‘a curse constantly hanging over him’ i mean that is not the most accepting mindset). with cass though? she can actively process death and even accept that it has happened. she isn’t like bruce, because she uses others dying to make her intense love and empathy stronger, while bruce just uses it to fuel anger and an onslaught of repressed negative emotions (which we all know can only last you so long before your whole body just gives out). i mean, the second bruces parents died, he separated the concept of murder from his life, (even though that is literally impossible, minhkhoa, ra’s, talia, selina, and basically anyone who has been in a meaningful relationship with bruce has pointed this out. i mean even a ghost martha wayne has told bruce there’s no avoiding death, only going through it). however, with cass? she literally was a murderer. one of the many reasons cass vows to never kill is because she actively sees herself in murderers, and thinks they all have the capacity to be redeemed, while bruce barely has an idea how to even process murder, let alone accept it or the people who do it (thinking of how he straight up denied that cass killed anyone, or was even capable of doing it, even with video evidence shown right in front of him, and im not even gonna get into the whole jason todd thing). cassandra could be a better batman simply because she can look death (specifically murders and murderers) dead in the eye and accept it, something that bruce cant even do. basically what im getting at is that, ironically, cass’ backstory of her being a murderer allows her to use the batman persona to its full unfiltered potential, something that even bruce is aware of. anyways here’s my cass should take up the batman mantle propaganda!!

I'm chewing on this like it's a five course meal thank you so much for this analysis there's so much to go through.

You're so right about their different mentalities like Bruce was ultimately a victim and his drive comes from both never wanting anyone else to suffer like that but also never wanting to be a victim again himself. And if does mean that his various complexes around death and crime can sometimes be very harmful to people he should be trying to save! Batman is a symbol and an ideal and no one, not even Bruce can truly live up to it.

Meanwhile Cass views herself as the perpetrator, the responsible party instead of a fellow victim tricked into killing a man. And her projection while again not in anyway perfect is definitely better for those around her than Bruce's because it's full of empathy and a belief for change. The heartbreaking part is that she's no less fucked up over the concept of death imo, she just directs it all inwards. Every life lost is a tragedy that Bruce and Cass both carry on their shoulders. The difference is Bruce views anyone who takes a life as having sacrificed a part of themselves they can ever get back, of ruining their life regardless of circumstances. And we really do get to see frequently in comics how that standard ends up harming innocents even as he tries to do good. Meanwhile Cass... Does actually hold quite similar views but she also stubbornly refuses to believe it's true for anyone else just because she cannot escape it being her own personal truth. They killed but they can change. They killed but they can turn their life around. They felt bad for a second there, I saw them. I'm going to help them because of that.

Part of it definitely comes down to the thematic cohesiveness of Cass's Batgirl run compared to Bruce's... Everything. But ultimately yeah Cass best Batman for multiple reasons and you can fight me on this.

VOTE CASS GUYS!

She was completely mute and didn’t understand any type of language (spoken or otherwise) for the first 17 years of her life! She has extreme dyslexia and a whole bunch of mental shit going on as all the Bats do!!!!

She also has autistic traits!!

If THOSE TWO are working TOGETHER? Yeah, the world is ending, pack your shit

The scariest combo in the batfamily is Black Bat with Red Hood,I’m never changing my mind about this.

If I see RED HOOD and BLACK BAT walking towards me, I’m out. I’m turning my gps on,come get me cops.Please come pick me up Commissioner Gordon I’m scared- they are hunting me in a dark alley in which I can’t even see them and my soul is about to leave my body

I understand the appeal of wanting every adult hero to instinctively adopt teenage Peter Parker, but can it really beat the hilarity of acknowledging that at 15 Peter was 5'10", unusually buff, went by a moniker with Man in it, wore a creepy full face mask, and had a tightly guarded secret identity and probably a Queens accent thick enough to have come out of a jello mold, and adult heroes reasonably responded to him by going, “Wow, this grown man is an immature asshole for no reason.”

“But if you forget to reblog Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.”

Doing a Mary one. Click here to see the Freddy poll results.

I don’t see very many variations of Mary’s name, but I did Freddy and I thought I may as well do Mary cause there definitely are a few different names the fandom uses for her.

I didn’t put a Mrs option cause it felt like it implied that she was married to Captain Marvel/shazam 🤢

I’ve been thinking about the “turned into children” trope that we batfam enjoyers love, and one that I really like is the justice league turning into children. Bruce from before his parents died (see: a little piece of shit), Diana from before she learned about the outside world (see: really confused bc men??), Oliver at 15 (see: also little shit but for entirely different reasons) and so on and so forth… BUT then we have captain marvel who’s already technically a child, so I present you the idea:

Billy doesn’t turn into a child, and stays in his adult form. He has to take care of the league, because the world can’t know that they’re children (duh), but he’s having a really hard time seeing as he’s also a child. No one questions why he’s not a child, because you know, they’re not league yet. But once they’ve transformed back (they keep their memories), they start running tests (both magical and scientific) on him to find out why he it didn’t effect him, but find NOTHING. In the end they deem that maybe captain marvel is just immune to reverse aging spells.

And this is where I present to you yet ANOTHER idea:

One day one of them (whoever you like) sees billy transform and assumes he was hit with a reverse aging spell. Cue Billy having to dodge actually explaining how he’s a real child and why the reverse aging spell didn’t work on him

Damian, standing by the fireplace: I'm sure you're wondering why I asked you all here today.

Damian: We are all in agreement that Stephanie should be part of this family. However, with both father and Stephanie strongly opposed to her being adopted, there's only one recourse open to us.

Damian: One of us will have to marry her.

Damian: Obviously I'm exempt due to my extreme youth, but the rest of you are either of marriageable age or close enough to at least get engaged.

Damian: Would anyone like to volunteer? Richard?

Dick: did you seriously call me away from a crime scene to ask me to marry my little brother's ex

Damian: I'll take that as a no. Duke?

Duke: well I'm not of marriageable age either and I like just met Steph so I feel kind of weird about this whole thing-

Damian: Understandable. Jason?

Jason: lol no

Damian: I don't know why I asked. Timothy?

Tim: Damian this is really weird for me too, she's my ex and we already decided we're better off as friends and I'm sure you mean it in like a marriage of convenience kind of way but it'd still be super uncomfortable for me to ask her something like that and-

Damian: Disappointing answer. Cassandra-

Cass, holding up her phone: oh I proposed while you guys were talking

Damian:

Dick:

Tim:

Cass: *phone beeps* she said yes. We shall have a spring wedding.

Damian: Excellent work Cassandra.

Cass: thank you