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hi! i do :)

here’s his full reading guide vvv (there might be a few comics missing, but this should be everything major)

the new 52

batman 2011 - zero year arc (appears in 21, 30 and 33, but story itself is 21-34)

batman 2011 - endgame arc (appears in 35, 37-19, but story itself is 35-36, annual 3, 37-40)

we are robin 1-6

robin war (robin war #1, grayson 15, detective comics 47, we are robin 7, robin: son of batman 7, robin war 2)

we are robin 8-12

rebirth

batman: rebirth

batman 2016 #1-6

all star batman 1-5 (supporting in my own worst enemy story, main in the cursed wheel)

night of the monster men story (batman 7, nightwing 5, detective comics 941, batman 8, nightwing 6, detective comics 942)

all star batman 6-9

dark days: the forge

dark days: the casting

new talent showcase 2017 "role call"

batman and the signal 1-3

detective comics 982-987

batman and the outsiders 2019

batman secret files: the signal (kinda mid but essential or whatever)

batman: urban legends 18-19 "main role"

rise of the power company "dynamic duo"

the power company: recharged

bolded are the ones i’d consider necessary! @casscainmainly also has a fantastic guide for his character pinned !

oh thank you! he is my carrot on a string getting me through anatomy studies or smth. here's another one for you:

hi, not at all! i understand why a lot of people have the cass using asl headcanon, or even see her as mute, but to me its just a complete misunderstanding of her character and often comes from a place of racist stereotyping instead of genuine representation.

cass is not mute. she didnt know any spoken language growing up. she grows up only reading body language and her brain processes body movement as a language on its own. sign language is its own language, (and for the sake of simplicity im going to be refering to asl), but cass had no basis of a language, so asl would be incredibly complicated for her to understand (in her early batgirl days at least).and we do see when she does learn how to talk, she enjoys talking (albeit short and stunted sentences). shes likes being snarky, she likes being sarcastic, she likes making jokes and finally explaining how she feels about things, and even in the new 52 reboot, she really enjoys reciting shakespeare with basil karlo. she didnt have a choice in these things growing up, david took it away from her, but now as batgirl and with people like babs + bruce shes able to learn and express herself.

a lot of people who dont know much about cass will see that she grew up not knowing how to talk, and jump to "well, shes mute" because its the easier option to portray instead of her fumbling her way through a sentence or trying to understand the way she talks. they read that she knows body language and will portray her using asl because they misunderstand both her disability and asl as a language.

there are ways to write a cass who knows asl, and i do think its something she'd learn eventually as a way to communicate silently on missions or in a tough situation, but a lot of people aren't writing about it in that way. when im scrolling ao3 for cass fics, im trying to find cass fics written by people who read cass comics. its why i have soooo many tags filtered out that dont even have to do with cass. a huge majority of fics that have the mute cassandra cain or cassandra cain uses asl tag is fics where cass is only a secondary character, if that. ones where she'd only show up to hug her brothers and sign that she loves them and leaves the story.

and since i couldnt really find a way to transition into this, im shoving it here. there are a lottt of (mostly unintentional, but still harmful) racially stereotypical headcanons in the batman fandom, from tim drake being east asian because hes super smart and often meek in fanon, to jason being latino because he was poor and angry. but cass, being an asian girl, and being portrayed as silent and docile (fanon cass's entire character being about loving her brothers, being bruces favourite, how she could never disappoint them, how she gets along with all of them. etc) is just. racist. the people who write cass like this are tryinggg to insert diversity and representation into their works but it just comes across as gross and uninformed.

I GENUIENLY DONT KNOW... like why are we complaining about her having a cute little nickname from her family??? girl who grew up without a name now given multiple ??!!!??////

I LOST THE SPOILER

*cries*