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In a perfect happy ending—

I like to think CarrieSue is the type of couple who’d keep ordering one big meal just to share lmaoo

She doesn't really click with me the same way Rebirth Barbara Ann did

1) I am of the belief that Barbara Minerva and Barbara Ann Minerva are two different characters cuz they're both just extremely opposite of each other for me to consider them the same person.

2) Personally, I think the way Rucka handled Barbara Ann in rebirth was more interesting and impactful to me than how Perez wrote Barbara

Perez's Cheetah is just a comic character of her time, cartoonish villain of the week who serves as an enemy and nothing more. And that's besides the problematic aspects of her lore (it was the 80s sadly).

Now to compare Rucka's Cheetah—

Barbara Ann is an innocent woman turned monster who mourns everything she had lost after falling victim to Urzkartaga's marriage, She resonates with me because I see a lot of myself and my struggles within her, In the way almost nobody believed she was a victim, In the way she was blamed for what happened to her, including Urzkartaga r*ping her, In how all of that manifested into this feral animalistic anger because she truly felt as though she was just inherently cursed to be doomed.

And the way her jealousy and envy towards Diana is framed? It's not just some 2-dimensional "I'm jealous of her so she must die" bit, it's actually more complex, the way I personally interpret it? She has deep envy towards how lucky Diana is, how everything seemingly comes to Diana while she has to work 10x harder just to get a fraction of recognition Diana gets.

When Cheetah and Cheshire got released? My love for this character only deepened because we also got to meet Barbara Ann beyond the tragedy she went through during rebirth, because it was like a middle ground between Barbara Ann and the Cheetah. I admire how smart and calculating she is while still encompassing that human kindness in how she treated Jade and Lian, I notice how she keeps being protective around women and people whom she perceives as children, And I think what hits so close to home for me was how her cannibalism was framed like a battle with addiction.

I just love how deeply flawed and complex she is as a character under Rucka's characterization, it hits that sweet spot for me that no other DC rogue could ever reach.