Hiiii Mutuals I Love You All A Lot

hiiii mutuals i love you all a lot

becoming a fan of non-bat characters really will suddenly make the batfam seem insufferable and render 99% of batfics unreadable😭

"bruce takes in roy and shows him what a REAL father figure is" i think oliver should go tell bruce to shoot himself

Thinking about Batgirl (2000) so far [I just finished issue 44]

Cass knows who Alpha is. Who he is as Alpha but who he is without it. She sees people as a base level of good. People are never born evil. They are not born killers. She sees everyone as redeemable. She has a great length of empathy and compassion for others. Where a government agent could have been turned in, she gave him a ticket out of there. She gave him a chance to start over. Where she sees a man who has great capacity to do evil, she sees good. Alpha, without his memories, is a good person. A person who felt sick at the idea of having used a gun against someone else. Even when he turns against her at the sight of the bomb, she offers empathy and a second chance. She offers what she herself has been given.

Having a great capacity for compassion even for those many wouldn't hesitate to punch is admirable. An outstretched hand for a second chance, an Oliver branch, an open palm. The number of people she does good for simply by not fighting is amazing.

So many times, the fandom looks at the bats as violent forces who hit and punch their problems away. She is likely to first look for a different option. She said Alpha was dead. In a way, he was. He stopped being Alpha. Ergo, he was dead.

Her ability to fight, control a battlefield, and understand the next move of those around her is frightening and awe-inspiring, but her ability to read people. To see people and know people and offer the same thing she was given? To look for peace? That is something that everyone should aspire to be.

Cassandra didn't forgive herself for the person she killed when she was eight until she died and was brought back to life. Even then, she lives with that moment. With the reality that she killed someone. She couldn't find it in her heart to forgive herself, yet she finds it to reach out for peace with others who have comparatively done way worse. She has a death wish, but she will not impart that death wish onto others.

She is frightened on her ability to quickly move to murder agin. When she is hit with a token that drives the victim to come up with a scenario where they would commit murder, the others who were hit took minutes even an hour. It took her seconds. That frightens her. Even with the information that it can take seconds to drive someone to kill, someone who is so against killing holds the sacredity to life at such a high standard that she reaches out to others.

When she and Batman travel to capture Doctor Death, the first thing she notices is the people who are suffering, and she looks devastated. It's the first thing she points out when Batman asks her to report what she found out. What she knows. When she and Black Wind are talking about what happened to his home village, she holds great compassion and empathy. An understanding. She looks to prevent killing. She looks to listen in whatever way she can. She wants to help. To do something.

So when asked what Cassandra's greatest traits are? I would say her compassion to others and the deep amount of empathy that connects her to the world around her. They make her a better person and a better fighter. She is self-critical to the point of creating a hubris, but she tries to remain fair to others.

Oftentimes, throughout the Batgirl (2000) series, she seems upset and critical of Batman's choices. As if he isn't doing enough, as if he is failing the standard of the symbol the both of them wear. She doesn't voice in any form these criticisms (not yet), but it's there. It's there in the way she gives an agent a false identity to leave, it's there in how she hides what happened to Alpha, it's there in the outcome of the little girl and her their father, it's there in how she feels like she wasn't foing enough.

Cassandra will redefine what the Bat symbol means. She creates a new standard for it. She is so much more than what she is confined into being. She is doing much more than she seems to think she is. She has traded one abusive father for a hypocritical one. She is the worst of both of them but will be better than both of them. She is her mother's daughter, not that she knows it yet. She is so much more than a daughter. She is more than who is related to by blood or choice, but it has defined her. Her past, her present, her future.

'Perfect for a year, or mediocre for eternity'. She chose to be perfect and die because then she would be able to do the most good possible in that time.

Being Batgirl, embodying the symbol is who she is, but she doesn't forge anything outside of the mask. They are one and the same. She is Batgirl, she is Cassandra. She would be helping doing the best she could without the suit anyway. The suit doesn't make her who she is anymore than being Cain's daughter.

She is confined in Gotham. She is so much more than Gotham. She has the compassion and empathy to help the world if she wanted to. Gotham is one place, and she is one person, but in many ways, she is starting to grow beyond what Gotham can offer her.

She would make an amazing Batman. A better Batman. She wants the symbol because it's the mission she dedicated herself to. However, she is so much better than what the symbol offers. She is so much better than what David Cain, or Lady Shiva, or Bruce Wayne want from her.

She redefined herself, the symbol, and could redefine the future. One open hand and acts of empathy and kindness at a time. With a far share of action and kicking ass along the way.

idk if Tumblr will keep the boops going after today, but through the power of discord emoji, you can boop your friends in a server. or idk, paste them in someone's askbox.

I keep sending people "<3" cause I want to say nice things without know what to say

*BOOP* ME IF YOU DARE; COLLECTION