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😭😭😭
she really has been trying! she's worked so hard!
cass's face in the second to last panel... my heart, i cant
Look. I'll be honest with yall. It is not impossible for me to imagine a story that gets us to this point, with cass fulfilling her mother's death wish, and still satisfying me as a reader that you've kept to the themes of the story --
And this! Again, super interesting because it's such a good inversion of Cass, raised to be something and choosing to be someone
there is Interesting Stuff Here that is being introduced but it's not going to get follow through that *actually* reflects Cass's story up to this point and does justice to any of the complexity that this carries for her --
"Because... you care about everybody. And everybody dies."
😭😭😭 CASS
cass seeing steph as she's dying is, as kep put it, 'some soulmates level shit'
"Now you have a *family*"
"There's a blazing inferno of rage inside you, Cass. You've been bottling it up for years, terrified of letting it out. But you and I know there's no one else on Earth with as much *right* to feel angry."
aaaahhhhhhhhh
"No one's forcing you to do this."
A) cass's face, ouch
B) why are the ears on Batman's cowl so small. I realize this is not important given the emotional gravity of the scene but WHY
knowing how much batman means to cass, her disobeying the spirit if not the letter of his request to spend time with steph is ... a lot
aahhh gosh... just this one small moment gets my whole heart, just the way bruce's crouching down
(for context, cass is clearly upset by what's happened at the crime scene they are at but hasn't said so)
Cass tossing David Cain on the ground like the garbage he is is SO satisfying holy SHIT
also like.... fuck.... knowing how important not killing is to Cass, even making that threat at all, regardless of whether she would actually follow through, is a Huge deal... fuck
Cass tries SO HARD to save people ... Bruce saying it was right not to put herself at that high a risk... it's So Much
I love seeing Cass interact with Dick, I have so many feels about Cass's worries about doubting Batman and whether he was capable of killing someone now, and I love how well that works paralleling Bruce's angst over whether Cass had been capable of killing as a child under Cain
cass's little pouty frown at the end there... she's so SAD this is not allowed... she's gonna miss steph... my heart...!!
and we return to the adorable shenanigans of steph and cass
cass.... her snark powers have grown...