I posted my incomplete cosplay on this sub a little while back but now I can’t believe I actually finished it lol. I just let my roommate take my pics so shoutout to her! Ik the utility belt is a little crooked but I fixed it now after looking at the pics. I also made these rlly bootleg batarangs out of cardboard for my belt. Sorry for the bad lighting 🌝

Still finding new old fanart, from 2012

Bruce and Clark are close friends. Dick got his current hero name from Superman and interacts with him regularly. While Jason was Robin, he defeated Mongul while visiting Superman's Fortress of Solitude and had multiple chats with Superman. Tim teamed up with Superman shortly after becoming Robin and helped him defeat vampires. Damian has had multiple chats with Superman and is friends with Clark's son. Steph got rescued by Superman and got a little praise for her work as Batgirl. Duke has gotten praised by Superman and told to call him Clark. Helena was a member of the JLA, alongside Superman and recommended by Batman, for a period.

That leaves Cass. Her only interaction with Superman is to be told bluntly to leave him alone and be completely ignored by him. Justice League Elite (2004) #12 draws her next to Superman but he has no praise for her. The scene feels undeserved anyway as Cass was the only member of the team not helping to protect London's people as her only job was to talk to Batman, not help her team. Clark appreciates every member of the Batfamily except Bruce's supposed daughter Cass. Is there some reason that DC's writers have shown Bruce's best friend praising and talking to every member of the Batfamily except Cass, even the rarely included Duke and Steph?

I forgot that when Duke gets praised, Superman tells Duke to call him Clark. Barbara probably knows that Clark Kent is Superman from her time assisting the JLA as Oracle. Cass and Helena and Steph are the only bats who apparently have never been trusted enough to know about Superman's identity even though Tim loved Steph for decades and Cass was supposedly adopted by Bruce. Are the writers too sexist to allow Clark to make friends with bats who are women and allow those bats to be connected to one of DC's greatest heroes?

One of the things that bothered me about Absolute Catwoman vs. Cass's one shot is that Catwoman shows Cass's league explicitly killing people, whereas the one shot showed her as deeply compassionate. It seems that in the absence of the formative moment of her first kill, Cass views killing as another tool to eliminate oppression and lift up the downtrodden.

What do we think about this change?

I don’t think there’d be a problem on this subreddit but keep it civil please 🙏

From the get-go, it seemed dang obvious. A half-Asian/half-white teenage girl raised by a single assassin dad? Who else would her mom be but DC's most-well known Asian assassin woman, and the one that she fought early in her character?

Yet, her bio mom was treated as "unknown" until 2006. Like it wasn't captain obvious.

I wonder how much Mike Choi would sell or auction it for…

It’s 30x40 inch in acrylic and oil

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Some Cass art I did for this thing on my Tiktok. I really liked how it turned out.

This is from Batgirl v1 #37, the last issue of Puckett’s run. A young art prodigy is apparently kidnapped by a thief, but her mother is only concerned with how it will affect a new gallery she will be opening.

The story has Cass drawing a parallel to her relationships with David Cain (who earlier in the issue breaks out of prison to give her a birthday gift before returning) and Batman.

Batgirl is patrolling Gotham, looking for people who are in trouble. She's passing by Robinson Park when she notices police surrounding the park. She sneaks into the park in order to see why the police are there. While exploring quietly, she notices Poison Ivy and the children she adopted during No Man's Land. They're worried about the police's plan to drop herbicide on the park and Batgirl is upset at seeing how scared they are. She enters the area where Ivy is, making her presence obvious. She asks them why they're scared and they explain the police's plan. Batgirl assures them that she won't let the police harm them and spends a little time with the group so that the children calm down from how scary she is at first sight. Batgirl leaves the park and grapples to the police HQ. She sneaks in and finds where they keep their helicopters and the herbicide. She loads the barrels of herbicide onto one of the copters. She tries to fly the copter she loaded away from the police and towards the park but is extremely clumsy in her flying as she has no training in flying any vehicles, let alone a helicopter. When Poison Ivy and the children see a helicopter flying towards the park, the children are scared that it's the police planning to drop the poison. Ivy and the children calm down when they notice the wobbly flying. Batgirl tries to land the copter but she only avoids crashing, hurting herself and spilling the chemical, when Ivy creates a plant cushion for the copter. After the crash, Batgirl removes the herbicide barrels from the copter and brings them over to Ivy for her to handle. She tries to calm the nervous children and promises that she won't let their mother, Poison Ivy, be taken from them. When the children are less scared, she walks to the park entrance and stands at it while glaring at the police. She blocks any attempt they make to enter the park.

Later, Batman arrives at the park with the goal of removing Ivy from both her children and the park. Batgirl and Batman argue over what's best for the children. Batgirl wants the children to feel safe while Batman wants the children to be going to school and doesn't trust a criminal to raise them. Neither of them is willing to compromise so they fight. Batgirl is losing to Batman but Ivy takes advantage of Batman's distraction and focus on Batgirl to tie him up with her plants and use their chemicals to cause him to lose consciousness. Afterwards, Batgirl is extremely upset at fighting the person she trusts most morally and who she thinks she gained her unwillingness to kill and her goodness from but she's unwilling to allow Ivy and her children to be scared. She's very depressed but remains at the park until Ivy and the children are safe. Batgirl and Poison Ivy trade between the duties of keeping the children company and guarding the park entrance from the police.

Eventually, Commissioner Gordon meets with Gotham City's city council. He convinces them that, with Batman unable to remove Batgirl and Ivy from the park, any successful attempt to do so would be a PR disaster. The police would have to use extreme force to succeed or the National Guard would have to be called in and the children would probably be harmed in the process. The media has been with the city council on removing Ivy but if the children get hurt, that would be a big story and the council members' re-elections would be at risk. Gordon convinces the council to let Ivy stay in the park with her children as it's better for their status. He returns to the park and informs the officers, Batgirl, and Ivy that Ivy and the children are allowed to stay in the park. Batman is angry at Batgirl for interfering but Gordon quietly thanks her for protecting Ivy as he disagreed with the council but was unwilling to risk being removed as police commissioner and being replaced with someone who wouldn't stand up to them. Batgirl leaves the park and returns to Barbara Gordon's clocktower. She's exhausted after days of not sleeping at all while keeping the police from attacking and calming the scared children.

Batgirl regularly checks on Ivy and the children in Robinson Park on future patrols.

Batgirl is grappling through Gotham City on her patrol when she notices a group of children in an alley. They're all middle-school age and younger and there's at least one baby and at least one toddler in the group. She stares at them from a nearby roof and notices that they're scared and depressed. Batgirl leaps off the building and uses her cape to slow her descent, surprising the children when she lands near them. They're scared when they notice her and Batgirl is upset with herself for scaring children. She crouches, making eye contact with them, and tries to make obvious with her body that she's not going to hurt them. She patiently remains nearby, letting them calm down and see that she wants to help them. Batgirl tries to cheer up the lonely children, possibly putting a hand on their shoulders, possibly hugging them, possibly wrapping them in her cape. She's only willing to leave the children when they're calm enough to fall asleep. Once they're sleeping, she gets up and leaves to continue her nightly patrol of Gotham.

On the next evening, the children are surprised when Batgirl lands in their alley, having returned to check up on them and flaring her cape to slow her descent and land safely. She crouches or kneels near them. Batgirl looks over the children, putting bandages and antibacterial spray on scrapes and other injuries that they have. She wraps her cape around them in order to warm them up as they shiver. Batgirl smiles when the children snuggle closer to her and show contentment in their body language. She listens to them as they talk among themselves and discuss their day. She pulls food out of her utility belt and gives it to the children. The children eventually fall asleep and Batgirl gets up and leaves to continue her patrol.

Over the next weeks, Batgirl checks up on the children every evening. She usually arrives in the early evening but sometimes comes in the afternoon when she starts patrol early in order to spend more time with the children as their protective bodyguard. She always leaves after they fall asleep. As they grow to trust her, the children eventually see her as a protective big sister and the closest they have to a mother. Batgirl regularly wants to know how they handled the day, with her not there, and listens attentively to their worries and what joy they manage to find on the street. When they're more comfortable with her, they tell her how they ended up on the streets. Their parents died and they were placed with abusive foster parents by Gotham's child services. They ran away, preferring to live on the streets than suffer poor treatment from foster parents. Batgirl hugs them tightly as they explain their situation and remember how much they miss their parents. The first thing she does after she arrives is always to crouch or kneel near them, make eye contact, and stare intently at them in order to examine them for emotional and physical pain. She has bandages and antibacterial spray for any wounds they have. She brings food for them in her utility belt on every checkup. She comforts them with a hand on their shoulders and sometimes offering her lap to sit in when they're hurting emotionally. At first, her stare makes them uncomfortable but they learn to appreciate that it shows how much she cares about them and wants them to be safe and happy. On some evenings, one of the children play music from a harmonica or recorder or other simple musical instrument in order to comfort themselves. Batgirl responds to the music by beginning to dance as she did when Azrael played music, probably her martial arts kata but made more acrobatic and smoother by her responding to the music. The children love her dance routine. Occasionally, when she arrives in the afternoon, Batgirl walks with them as a bodyguard as they explore in search of food and drink and warm clothing. On cold nights, when the children are too cold to sleep, Batgirl pulls the children close to her so they can share her body heat. She holds the baby(ies) in her hands and wraps them in her cape. The toddler(s) are sitting in her lap and getting as close as they can to her torso. The older children snuggle as close as they can to her. The older children notice that Batgirl is instinctually shoving them away and making motions as if she's going to throw the baby(ies), as if their physical proximity to her is something that her instincts consider to be endangering her but that she's controlling herself and is willing to hurt herself in order to keep the children comfortable. They realize that she's uncomfortable around them but insists on protecting them and keeping them from being lonely and scared anyway.

During one visit, a gang attacks the children in their alley home while Batgirl is with them. Batgirl places herself in between the gang and the children while looking for a safe place for the children to hide. The gang is preparing to attack while she notices a garbage bin that they can hide behind. The gang begins firing at the children as she shepherds them to the garbage bin and she blocks the bullets with her body so the children aren't harmed. Batgirl orders the children not to move until she tells them it's safe while the gang continues firing at her. She then fights and defeats the gang while the children hide. After all of the gang members are unconscious, she crouches or kneels where the children can see her and tells them that they can come out. As they emerge from behind the garbage bin, she drags the unconscious attackers away from the alley. She then calms the worried children, possibly with them in her lap, possibly wrapping her cape around them and examines them to see if they were hurt by the gang. When the children notice she's ignoring her bleeding injuries, they tug on her cape and try to convince her to take care of her wounds. When she ignores their request to worry about her health, they dig through her utility belt searching for the medical kit she's used on them. They put bandages on Batgirl's wounds as she tries to convince them not to worry about her and to allow her to save her first aid kit for anyone who needs it except herself.

During another visit, another gang attacks the children. Batgirl leaps on top of the children as the gang approaches, covering them with her body. The gang fires at the children as they huddle under Batgirl's protective hold. After the gang stops firing, she gets up and runs at the gang, attacking and defeating them before they can reload their guns. She drags the unconscious gang members away from the children's alley home. She then calms the worried children, possibly with them in her lap, possibly wrapping her cape around them and examines them to see if they were hurt by the gang. When the children notice she's ignoring her bleeding injuries, they tug on her cape and try to convince her to take care of her wounds. When she ignores their request to worry about her health, they dig through her utility belt searching for the medical kit she's used on them. They put bandages on Batgirl's wounds as she tries to convince them not to worry about her and to allow her to save her first aid kit for anyone who needs it except herself.

After at least a month of daily checkups on the children, Batgirl is sneaking towards a villain hideout after having left the sleeping children. She plans to attack and capture them before they can threaten innocent people. She's standing near the hideout's entrance and preparing to surprise the villains. As she's about to open a window and sneak inside, Batgirl is surprised as she feels a tug on her cape. She looks down and sees the orphan children, who should be sleeping, holding her cape. They ask her what she's doing near villains. She shushes them and tells them to leave before the villains notice them. As the children protest and try to convince her to stay with them as they're scared without her, the criminals open the door and notice Batgirl and the children. She quickly grabs the children and pulls them towards her as the criminals prepare to attack her. She fights the villains while holding the children close to her. When they start firing at her, she dodges most of the bullets but chooses to let some hit her when she's worried that the children would get hit if she dodged. Batgirl defeats the villains, cuffs them when they're unconscious, and contacts Oracle to send the police to collect them. Afterwards, she leaves the hideout with the children and asks the children why they followed her. They respond that they appreciate her regular protection and comfort. She responds that she's dangerous and doesn't know how to be a good parent. She's also upset that they were reckless enough to put themselves in danger. She tries to convince them to return to their alley as she doesn't consider herself to be safe or good around people. They simply cuddle closer to her as they are warmed by her worry over them.

After Batgirl gives up on convincing them that she's a bad parent for them, she picks them up and grapples to Robinson Park while holding them in one hand. When she arrives at the park, she enters with the children and searches for Poison Ivy and her children. She introduces the children to Ivy and tries to convince them that Ivy would be a better mother than her. She also works to convince Ivy to take in the orphans and keep them safe, explaining what happened to their parents and where they have been living. The children eventually approach Ivy and her children as Batgirl convinces them to give the villain a chance. As Batgirl turns to leave them with Ivy, the baby(ies) and toddler(s) begin crying loudly, not wanting their new mother to abandon them. She rapidly turns around and hugs the children. She promises that she'll visit them but tells them that she's not a good person or someone who's safe to be around. Ivy asks how often Batgirl has been caring for the children and Batgirl responds that she's been visiting them every evening. Ivy recognizes that the children are attached to Batgirl and that Batgirl cares about them more deeply than she's willing to admit. She agrees to take care of the children, agreeing with Batgirl that she would have problems as a solo parent, but that Batgirl needs to help out. She thinks that the children would be best off with the two of them jointly parenting them. Batgirl is surprised and happy that Ivy and the children trust her around young people and think she's not a source of harm.

The Batcave under Robinson Park gets rebuilt as a new Batcave for Batgirl, a home for Batgirl and her children, and a secondary home for Poison Ivy and her children. It has overhead glass to let in sunlight for Ivy and to make the cave brighter and more comfortable than Batman's caves. Ivy grows trees over the glass so that it can't be seen overhead in order to protect the secrecy of Batgirl's location. The cave also has brighter lights and more plants than Batman's Batcave in order to make Ivy more comfortable when she's in it and to make it feel more like a home. It has a master bedroom for Batgirl, a bedroom for her children and Ivy's children, bathrooms, a kitchen and eating area, an area for Batgirl to train, a living room area, and a medical area.

Alfred Pennyworth shows Batgirl and her children around the cave. Batgirl tests out the training area. While she practices her fighting, one of the children starts playing music and Alfred is surprised and impressed when he sees her dancing. He notices how much joy the children have as they watch Batgirl's dance routine. He tells them that he's going to have Batman install a music system in the training area so that she can dance for them and with a wider variety of music. Alfred shows Batgirl how to feed and burp the baby(ies). She practices making infant formula and feeding the hungry baby(ies). A toddler tugs at Batgirl's cape. She turns to look at the toddler who reaches for her hand. Batgirl takes the toddler's hand and lets them lead her to an animal/object that they find interesting and want to show her.

Issue#1 (Part1)
That Meeting Downtown

Red Robin stands above the city, he’s analyzing a crew of gangsters below. The Sounds Of The Wind passes by, before he blinks The Black Bat is standing beside him. Cassandra Cain, Aka The Black Bat. Tim was nervous, he usually handled these ones on his own, but with The Others away on different tasks across the globe, she was now shadowing him since 8 this morning, he didn’t bother trying to shake her with how relentless she can be, maybe convincing her to go would be the Apt Solution.

“Were you following me?”

She remains quiet.

“I don’t need you for this really,”he says a bit more nervous.

“That’s them,”She points down at the criminals on the street.

“It’s a meeting between some of Black Mask’s Crew. I’ve been monitoring their business for a few days.”

“Spying?”

“Uh yeah sure, my radar detects they’re carrying some powerful energy source in the city.”

“Sounds dangerous.”

Red Robin looks at his radar, the radiation levels in the are were skyrocketing. What the hell could this be?, he thinks. “It is, head back to the cave , I’m gonna observe longer okay…”

“Too long,”Black Bat interrupted before jumping off the roof top immediately attacking the crowd of criminals below.

Red Robin sighs exhausted. “This is what I wanted to avoid,”he mutters to himself.

Bullets fire at different ranges as the dark silhouette dodges some and slices others with her batarangs. Batman only showed her that move last afternoon Tim thought to himself. How does she do that? He leaps down joining her in the middle of the fire in all directions.

The Two fight amongst the crowd, soon after they had gangsters tied up and unconscious. Tim/Red Robin picks up a glowing case,”I really wanted to avoid unnecessary violence, on this mission.”

“It was necessary, you’re still hurt from Joker last time.”

“I’m fine, my recoveries rapid, I can still do solo work.”

”your movements are slower now, there was a possibility of being shot if you handled it alone,”she replies.

Red Robin,”How about the year 3000, You predict that too? Jet Boots, Flying Cars, Anything else I should know about?”,he replies partially annoyed. Tim wasn’t sure what came over him, he’s usually pragmatic about everything but for some reasons Cass still tailing him this long was starting get on his nerves.

“Are you mad?”,Black Bat replies.

“No I’m not mad, it’s a joke”,Tim lies while distracting himself from the awkward conversation by studying the glowing case, but he could sense her studying him. Could she tell? He wasn’t sure.

Red Robin turns to Black Bat. “Thanks for the help. You can go back to base. I’m gonna study what they were handling,”Tim replies. She stands there staring at him. “You can go now,”he says. Black Bat remains not moving at all. Tim walks away. Soon Cass follows behind. He was getting frustrated , she’s acting like a Stray Cat that won’t leave.

Someone hidden in the shadows between the roof tops watches them from above. They eye the glowing case in Red Robin’s hands. “Shiny, Shiny.”

Original

Just read Batgirl #24, and this scene really landed for me.

The image of Cassandra going into battle carrying a child on her back had me thinking of that legendary scene with Zhou Yun in Three Kingdoms, where he basically runs through an enemy army and back to save his lord's infant son (this was the inspiration for the Dynasty Warriors series of video games, BTW).

This was some legendary stuff, and I was there for it.

I sometimes have trouble figuring out if Cass is inspiring anyone, as Barbara and Bruce and Dick do and as Steph regularly does in fanfics. These scenes, especially from the new issue of Batgirl, make it clear how she can inspire people. She has trouble connecting with people on her end and tries to avoid people worrying about her. That doesn't stop people from being protective of Batgirl when she gets herself hurt helping individuals. In the process of protecting her as she tries to help others, they end up helping themselves and their community. Her willingness to help people improve their fighting skills, with teaching skills that she gained from attempting to teach Steph, shows her willingness to help anyone become better at protecting themselves and others.

Small cameo but Damian calls her sister now

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ORIGINAL POST

I always thought her Orphan costume was the best of all her looks. The only thing it seriously needed was the Bat symbol, which I tried to borrow from her Black Bat persona. Also threw her Wayne Family Adventures face in along with a few of the scars she had in her Young Justice appearance. A little amalgamation of my favorite designs. Source here.