Turns Out that Today Marks the Sixth Anniversary of Casstoons...

[espanolbot]

Unfortunately I don't have anything actually prepared, so instead I thought that I'd post some parts from both Cass' and Steph's series' in memory of the characters that inspired the series.

First off, an early bit of Cass and Steph interaction from Batgirl 21










They arrive at the Babscave, and she tells them what's the buzz and tells them what'sa happenin',


Cass goes into the holodeck training room... then comes out of it again,


And from such tiny seeds friendship is formed...

And from the final issue, number 24, of Steph's series, here are her hallucinations induced by the Black Mercy powder her dad dosed her with. These are apparently the plans for Steph's series if it had been allowed to continue, rather than getting cancelled for Barbara's new one.














Well, I guess with Steph and Cass disappeared into the aether, none of these things will ever come to pass. Kind of... unfortunate that both the Eurasian Batgirl and the potential African American Batgirl have BOTH apparently been erased from continuity though.

Ah, Casstoons began on a note of fandom rage, only right that it be remembered with one.

EDIT: Fixed images, hopefully. *grumble*

Comments

[espanolbot]

Cass had implictly been fighting for a full ten hours straight, smashing first all of the practice dummies, before just punching and kicking the walls, floor and ceiling. Steph suddenly stepping in front of Cass while she was in the "zone" caused Cass to come to such a sudden stop that it made her throw up, partly from the strain of such a sudden halt and partly out of her realising she could have smashed Steph's head in by accident.

Later on in the issue Cass has a mini-nervous breakdown as she goes full force against the semi-intangible villain, the Shadow Thief, but she ends up punching him so hard it stops his heart after Barbara turns off his powers. This was while Cass is fighting him on the Clocktower's roof, so she wasn't able to realise he had turned into a regular bloke until AFTER she'd hit him.

Her basically killing the guy by accident shakes her to the point that she can't revive him, basically because she's having a panic attack, but Steph is able to save the day by giving him basic CPR (implictly she learnt it due to her mum being a nurse, while Cain wasn't really in the business of teaching Cass basic first aid as it wouldn't be useful to her as an assassin). This causes Cass and Steph to have a moment, and is the point where their friendship actually begins properly.

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Rapid crash from an adrenaline high that's gone on *way* too long is my guess.