not to be a little bitch but 90% of cassandra cain fans are literally so wrong
things that define cassandra cain: her endless capacity to forgive
that’s it, that’s all you need to know
if you’re writing cassandra with a grudge against her parents, if you’re writing her as vindictive and cruel, you’re wrong
she’s a lean, mean fighting machine, but she accepts you for you, knowing that you can change— and hoping that you do
she is not just ballet slippers and knives and a fashionable black bobs, she is more than most of those aesthetic posts convey (though beautiful and i love them so much). she is blood on her hands and the understanding that it will never come off and accepting that. she is dirt and grime and hair cut by a knife in the middle of the night just to keep it out of her eyes. she is the bat symbol without any of the vendetta
she is forgiving and merciful and she deserves to be written as such
@ dc she is not an orphan.
she has never been one, not in heart or spirit. she has always known her father and she knows what he did wrong and she does not hate him even though he treated her wrongly. she knows his cruelty and she knows his sin, but she still forgives him. she knows her mother and she is not resentful for being left behind, because she understands that it was never meant to be. she knows her mother’s sins and she does not forgive them, but she still gives her the chance to change. she does not blame either one of them, though she does not make
and if that is not enough, she is bruce’s daughter and barbara’s protegee, she is a sister to tim and dick and, in some convoluted way, jason.
she has always had a family. she is not an orphan. she was never one, not in the slightest.
and i just fucking hate the way fandom portrays cass. and though im so happy that cass is back and she’s not terrible or that ooc
there are just things that are so wrong for her character and i remember the first time i saw cassandra cain with her round face and dark brown eyes and flat nose and her thick eyebrows and her skin a shade darker than bruce’s or babs’ and i remember how she taught me that people can change. they can.
and that sometimes the hardest thing to accept is yourself
every time i saw her in rebirth and i see her perfectly pale skin and her eyes that change to blue every so often, every time i see a pale kpop/chinese celeb cast as her with their perfect aesthetic and their pale skin and their pointed noses, i feel something in my heart, a twinge, something sad and desperate, because i remember when she looked like me and i remember when she taught me how to forgive.
for every person you have ever hurt, she loves you still. cassandra cain loves you for all your mistakes and i don’t want to have to remind you of that
i’m so tired of seeing her confined and cleaned-up and resentful and bitter in fics. i’m tired of seeing her stripped of her agency and her love for the world. she deserves better.
