I know we're all caught up in the euphoria of Tate Brombal's Batgirl run but I unfortunately have to remind you that at this very moment Tom King is giving us some of the most dogshit Lady Shiva writing ever.
Seriously, what is this? She wouldn't say that. You can tell this man has no respect for her characterisation in The Question (1987).
I think Stephanie would be a master of improvised weaponry. She hit Tim with a brick once, I think her speciality should be how she'll use anything. Rake on the floor? Sure. Thrown out book as a distraction? Fine. Dumpster burger? Gross, but it'll buy her enough time to tackle her opponent.
Counter take: Mary’s deadname is Billy and Billy’s deadname is Mary.
Like they both didn’t remember each other’s real name cause they used nicknames.
So the other’s real name always floated around in their head but they didn’t remember where they heard it. So they went “fuck it” and renamed themselves that.
new cap marvel take: Billy & Mary both trans. didn't recognise each other on being re-united bcos both had transitioned and changed their names.
It's still sinking in that The Owl House was about a girl running away to a fantasy world, all because of the ripple effects of losing her father at an unfairly young age — only to eventually learn that the fantasy world itself was made of the bones, and the flesh, of a loving father who'd protected his child with one of his final actions, before dying and giving life to that fantasy world. And eventually, in his truly final action, even giving life to Luz herself. Luz ran away to the Boiling Isles, all because of a single book that her dad gave her — and unknowingly, she spent every day walking over ground that embodied parental loss. A world that was born from a parent's death, a parent who had to leave their child far too soon — and not just any child, but Luz's own new best friend, in all of this new magical world. And King and Luz were only ever brought together because of their fathers' deaths — before they even realized they had anything in common to grieve. Before they realized a reminder of that grief had been beneath their feet this whole time.
But, at the end of the day... their fathers both gave them parting gifts. Their fathers both gave them the key to come of age in a world full of people who'd care about them — maybe not the only world where they could've been happy, but a world they wouldn't want to imagine missing. Their fathers gave them the chance to meet each other. To understand each other. And, ultimately, to heal and grow up together. Until the ground beneath their feet stops feeling so heavy, like grief — and starts feeling lighter again, like a gift, and a happy memory.
what if instead of cassandra cain it was cassandra pain and everything was the same
Tags from @zorilleerrant and this is fucking genius
Idk about you, but it’s very important to me that Cassandra Cain has a scratchy and sore sounding voice paired with an accent that is completely unique.
Like, that girl was homeless and wandering the US for around 9 years! Pairing that with the fact she didn’t use her voice often/at all for the first 17 years of her life then of course her voice will sound weird from the disuse!
Cass’ backstory is so wild cause istg you could make up the most insane shit and I’d be like “David Cain when I catch you”
like ‘David gave Cass every poison on earth so she would build up immunity to them all’? I’d buy that being cannon.
‘David made Cass box a kangaroo’? Did she win?
Honestly I’d believe someone if they told me David made Cass hunt for dinner like in the Stone Age or smth
Anyway I just know cass lore dropped randomly would go hard
"I was born a wound"
This line holds such a wealth of meaning. Because it is both - Cass was born to be hurt. Born to be abused and mishandled and made into something that would tear herself open, tear others open. Cain didn't know it, maybe Shiva didn't know it, but they made a child to give her pain.
And. Cain stole something from Shiva, took from her in a singular moment of weakness, and that memory cannot help but haunt her still. Cass is the moment, given legs and arms and a soul, Cass is that pain walking upright, haunting her all over again. The moment Cass was born, Sandra could never be hurt again, not truly, until all these years later where she has one wound she can never guard. Cassandra the thief, the assassin, the murderer, to take first from her mother before she'd take anything else at all.
Cassandra the innocent. Because she would not be a wound if she could not bleed.
Billy, whose parents died from being crushed by rocks in a buried tomb, watching as the wizard is killed by a massive rock falling onto him: oh…
Stop making Captain Marvel stupid. He’s silly not stupid. Say it with me: Silly not stupid
Made that meme from Squid Game with Cass. But changed the mood a little
Don't be afraid, little Cass, you'll never be alone again
She/HerAutistic, queer, and (according to all the unfinished fics in my docs) an aspiring fanfic author!
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