An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: DCU (Comics), Teen Titans (Comics), Young Justice (Comics)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Cissie King-Jones/Cassie Sandsmark, Cissie King-Jones & Cassie Sandsmark, Kon-El | Conner Kent & Cassie Sandsmark, Tim Drake & Cassie Sandsmark, Anita Fite & Cassie Sandsmark
Characters: Cassie Sandsmark, Cissie King-Jones, Kon-El | Conner Kent, Anita Fite, Tim Drake
Additional Tags: Lesbian Cassie Sandsmark, Internalized Homophobia, Canonical Character Death, Graphic Description of Corpses, Two Characters Not In Love With Each Other But Dating Each Other To Get Closer To Their Dead Best Friend, Comphet Cassie Sandsmark/Kon-El | Conner Kent, Comphet Cassie Sandsmark/Tim Drake, Grief
Series: Part 2 of Make My Way Back Home When I Learn To Fly High
Summary:
Kon made sense.
As Tim would point out, the evidence weighed in their favour. So obviously, Cassie was gonna daydream about kissing him.
But her problem wasn’t that she wanted to kiss Kon, it was that she found her attention drifting further from him and more to the girl with a cupids bow and chapped lips.
Cassandra Sandsmark and self discovery, for @lesbiancassieweekend
T | 7k | kon & cassie | written for @lesbiancassieweekend
It's two in the morning, and Cassie desperately needs a haircut.
Gateway City at night is a glittering metropolis that never sleeps. Clubgoers and drunken revelers laugh in the brightly-lit streets until the wee hours of the morning, and the bay is full of shimmering reflections from Gateway’s harbor to San Francisco across the water. Themyscira is quieter but still bright, torches sending up sparks that dance with the starlight along every soughing coastline.
Kansas is nothing like that. Out here, the night sky is a death shroud, draped so thick over the world that it chokes away every color until bone-white and pale silver are all that remain, painted by a whisper of moonlight. The stars are as breathtaking over the wide, empty fields as they are in Themyscira, but the silence is unnerving. The ocean hasn’t touched this land in a long, long time.
Cassie has always been a little weirded out by that, every time she’s visited Kansas. It feels vaguely wrong to be so far from the ocean. When he first moved out here, Kon once complained to her that his high school classmates invited him to go to “the beach” and then drove down to a lake. Cassie’s entire face scrunched up in response.
“That’s not the beach,” she said, hands on her hips. “Does a lake even have waves?!”
Kon, a displaced surfer in mourning, shook his head morosely. They weren’t really dating yet, back then, so she couldn’t quite justify it, but she still remembers how vividly she wanted to wipe the look of longing off his face with a kiss. “Not even.”
Happy @lesbiancassieweekend !! :]]
I decided to make a fan redesign (with acccompanied lesbian flag edit), some of the notes on the design and how I generally feel about Cassie below (Warning: wordyyyyy)
So. Fashion is very important to me. One of the biggest draws into getting into art was fashion in real life and media. Costumes for heroes are a big part of their character.
At the beginning, Cassie started out as a very awkward tomboyish teenage girl. Even though I got into reading DC fairly recently in my 20's I love and relate a lot to characters like this. I'm a big fan of the magical girl genre and was also a big fan of the character Kamala Khan Ms Marvel, and she feels very similar! I can only imagine how nice it would've been had I read her stuff as a teen.
However, Cassie gets very feminine as the years go on. I don't mind a character changing their style as they find themselves, but I can't help but read it as a misplaced confidence. Not just in a diegetic sense but also in a meta sense- it's clear that a lot of male fans and workers in the industry didn't like her design, and even considered her ugly, which is pretty rude considering she's a character in her teens.
This is a good post about Cassie, femininity, and comphet that I feel I agree with.
When I redesigned her outfit, I wanted something that would both show her character and be something she could be comfortable with. Her outfits through the years tends to include styles relevant to whatever time she's in (as much as she was made fun of for not being feminine she has a very trendy sense of style)! So for the modern day, I included a lot of athleisure pieces:
Kept her leggings and headband but brought in more color.
While you can't see it, I mean for her headband to be stretchy! It's just more comfortable in battle that way.
I brought back her turtleneck top, which I reimagined as a sports bra, topped with a bolero hoodie sporting the Wonder Woman 'W.'
Updated her shoes, referencing the old winged sandals she used to wear. They look a bit too wing tip, so maybe I'll redesign again.
The lasso she uses has a red glow, but that's just for style- I think it would differentiate her visually from Diana and Donna.
Undercut! I think it's such a fun and cool hairstyle that would make her stand out.
I wanted to have fun and do something for @lesbiancassieweekend to celebrate our beloved lesbian cassie sandsmark 🎉 a small playlist (1+ hr) and the icon (+1!) for the playlist, free to use (with or without credit) as a bonus!
Happy lesbian cassie weekend y’all! I hope you like the icon(s) and think the music is pretty good too <3
Also!! support Emily Gwen, the lesbian flag creator if you can! (the flag I used for the icon backgrounds!)
