City of Light: Cass Gets A Boyfriend... Another One

[espanolbot]

Cass is having coffee, when a random diner empolyee decides to hit on her.








Embarassing romantic upset number one: finding that the girl you like is severely dyslexic and unable to read the note you sent her.

Wait, does the fact that she got a cheque mean she can no maths? Hm, I think I read elsewhere Cass just hands over a bunch of tens and twenties at random and they work out the change for her.

Anyway, considering Cass' boyfriends tend to have the lasting power of an unrefridgerated carton of milk, she happens to be single at the time so she takes him up on it.













Mickey Rourke seems to have taken time out of promoting Iron Man 2 to play Cass' dad here. Weird that this fear of intimacy hasn't appeared anywhere other than this mini series, huh?

Anyway, Javier decides to send her some flowers to make up for whatever slightly he assumed Cass felt he'd done.

Yeah, people make a lot of weird noises in this storyline. Batman spends two, three issues going Grrmph for example.

Wait, doesn't this invalidate the part of her origin where seeing someone killed in front of her make her run from her father and become the littlest hobo?

Anyway, Javier vanishes from the story as actual plot occurs, but we're left with these two panels as City of Light concludes.


Wow, look how enthusiastic she is. Why does Bruce hanging out in the background make it look like he made her go out with Javier again?

Anyway, Javier evaporated after this storyline, only to be semi-replaced with Tim. Who Cass was apathetic about unless off her face on Evil Juice. And then there was Sal, from Beechen's mini series, who also vanished after THAT mini was over.

Unless Cass is dossing at his house at the moment or something.

char: batgirl/cassandra cain

Comments

[majingojira]

Wasn't Cass supposed to only communicate with her father through "The Language of Violence"?

Eh, this is actually better than that overall. Prevents developmental brain damage.

Darn you National Geographic and your sciency ways destroying my comic book science!

[espanolbot]

Aw, but Cass is all about the developmental brain damage. :( The brain damage is what makes her cool and not a generic kung fu character.

[majingojira]

Not that kind of developmental brain damage.

Nat. geo had a special on "Wild Children," the kind "Raised by Animals" and stuff.

In actuality, it's humans seeking identifiable contact and following an animal around in liew of human contact that they've lost. It's happened with breeds of Monkeys and Dogs.

She can still be illiterate, but a silent/worldess upbrining would rob her of speach completely. She'd react to command words from authority figures, but that's it. Other examples boil down to "17 year old in Kindergarten" sort of developmental problems.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

To be fair, Cass didn't have much of a vocab before a telepath reorganized her brain. Off the top of my head, the only words she knew were yes, no and stop, and stop only came after a certain amount of stress.

She did understand complex situations though and how to convey them. She explained how Cain was her father without words.

[mad]

Yes, this. Cass is in not equivalent to children raised by animals, as she had human contact and would have learned and understood lots of complex and abstract things, she just didn't have the verbal speech for it. It wasn't just the lack of speech that made her great at reading body language, it was also the way Cain raised her and the things he taught her.

[majingojira]

Actually, Speach is directly related to those other things.

Brain all inter-connected 'n stuff.

Like I said: DAMN YOU, SCIENCE!

[mad]

Which things?

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

When science and awesome meet, science always sucks dirt. Always!

It's proven science!

[bluefall]

She wasn't raised without language, though, is the thing. She's not actually a wild child. The closest comparison would be to a person born completely deaf, trying to adapt to verbal communication after eighteen years of sign language.

Yes, this is total nonsense, there is no "language of violence," it's not possible to duplicate the sophistication of verbal communication solely with body language. Nevertheless, that is Cass' premise: that body language is an actual language for her, sophisticated enough to convey ideas like love, parenthood, the identity of a former master, a reluctance to interact with an absent third party, whatever. Hence, her language centers are perfectly functional, hence, she can process abstract and complex concepts.

Math would still be a hell of an uphill battle, though.