Bioluminescence

Honestly, this one's pretty rad, and we haven't really talked about it yet.

First, her eyes are straight up glowing. Even Rapunzel's aren't doing that, despite the magic glow right there. Casting Cassandra almost entirely in the shadow while Rapunzel is in the light is what this story is all about. And I know this art was made before they'd decided whether or not Cassandra knew Gothel was her mother and was just biding her time. (From what I understand, as of writing "Challenge of the Brave," they still hadn't fully decided.)

But she is able to come up with traps, she was able to prove one of her friends' innocence by carrying out a whole investigation, she came up with multiple inventions on her own even though some of them already existed (without her knowing), she quickly figured out where Pascal went to in the Pascal's story episode, among other things.

Barbara: Yeah I've known that for a while now.

Dick: We just started.

The whole room stops, and Tim stares wide-eyed at the jar before backing away in slight disgust

Tim: What is that? Aren’t you supposed to be on bed rest?

Bruce: Your spleeeennnn

Tim: What?

Dick: What.

Bruce: You got sick last month, and it was bad… I felt bad… spleen…

Jason: *turning to Tim* You were missing your spleen? When the hell were you gonna tell anyone?!

Tim: Slipped my mind, anyway, how did you find out?

Bruce: I go into the League of Assassins servers and whatnot from time to time ever since Damian came into the family, no biggie

Duke: And you...?

Bruce: Infiltrated them about two hours ago to steal back your brother's spleen?

Bruce: Yes

Steph: Are you on drugs? You sound like you’re on drugs. What did Alfred give you?

Bruce: I don’t remember, something for my broken ribs

Cass: *standing up and leading Bruce to sit down in a chair* How many?

Bruce: Three, not a big deal. Anyways, spleen. *grins widely*

Jason: Wait... you infiltrated the League of Assassins while high

Bruce: *looks confused* What, like it's hard?

Damian: *had left the room earlier, is now back with a glass of cold water* Baba, please drink

Bruce: *takes glass and ruffles Damian’s hair* Thank you, baby, you’re so good to me. I love you so much *starts kissing his cheeks while Damian weakly tries to escape*

Dick: … *only slightly jealous* I’m calling Alfred

Rather than have said man rape a fifteen year old and then say it was totally her fault and she was the evil one actually.

it's always someone else who sings while im left waiting in the wings~

Jason: Except for the look, the texture, and the taste.

Damian: Maybe the store bought kind, but I make my own, so it’s not even real fakon. It’s faux-fakon. "Faux-kon."

i kind of talked about this when i made my post about fandom and ai, but it's hating on the easiest sources of media that turns a lot of people away from fandom initially. when they come in with an appreciation for a piece of media and constantly get backlash because it isn't good or that it's the "comic for babies", that doesn't make them feel like they could contribute at all. that's insulting. nobody likes to be insulted.

is that to say that there isn't valid criticism about wfa? no. but simply saying it sucks does a large disservice to new batman fans that were able to learn about more obscure characters from a source that wasn't a lot of money. we can have mature, reasonable discourse and not just pushing anyone down that likes it.

this is just so personally annoying to me, because i only got into batman because i read wfa, then my comics love grew as i spread out. the people who like wfa will continue to like the batman canon as they find more of it in whatever they pursue, but if you nip their enthusiasm in the bud then you will never see them do that.