This is the account running Stephcass week 2025, and I’m Madge! The week will run from the 27th of October to the 2nd of November, using the prompts below. Feel free to do as few or as many prompt as you would like, and post the work on the day of the prompt. This year, fanart and fanfic are, of course, still included, but also other can creations such as playlists, songs and edits are all an option!
Prompts!
Monday 27th: Hallucinations/Daydreams and Nightmares
Tuesday 28th: Comfort/flowers
Wednesday 29th: Beach episode/cinema
Thursday 30th: AU
Friday 31st: vampires/horror/Halloween
Saturday 1st: sharing/identity shenanigans
Sunday 2nd: Sunshine and moonlight/mermaids
Rules
1. No AI: this is a blanket ban and you will be blocked :)
2. No irrelevant submissions: the piece has to be Stephcass centric
3. Do your best to submit things on the correct day (this won’t be strict though)
4. Tag @stephcassweek on your post so that this account can reblog it. For fic, post the link here on tumblr with these tags. Alternatively, you can add your fic to the collection on AO3
5. Don’t bash anyone’s creation (goes w/o saying)
6. Explicit works are allowed provided they are tagged properly and if possible under a keep reading line
Look through the tags below to see creations! I will also tag reblogs with the day number so you can look through! Reblog this post to spread word etc! Have fun and good luck!!!
STEPHCASS WEEK SPEEDRUN!! Prompts: Beach, AU, and vampires!
The princess and knight au goes out to whoever sent me an ask for that hehehhe I’ll probably do a better doodle of them later! Also sorry that the outfits are not accurate at all the only knowledge of princess and knight outfits I have is from the BBCs Merlin lol.
@stephcassweek daayy 7!! Just made some BUUUULLSHITTTT! MOONLIGHT AND SUNSHINE HELL YEAA MY BELOVEDS i think about them all the time when this song comes up
BORE THE SHADOWS THAT YOU MADE WITH NO LIGHT OF MY OWNN🥳🥳🥳🥳
I loved this whole event so much what🙏 everyone who participated was so talented i love you guys ugh
Stephcass week : Day 7 : Sunshine and moonlight, Mermaid(s)
@stephcassweek , @the-nerdy-libra
or : glimpses into a universe in which Steph befriends a mermaid. And in which Cass is possibly courting a blonde-haired human.
will probably get a continuation someday!
There's a girl who isn't speaking in Steph's backyard.
She is totally not freaking out.
She got out, kitchen knife hidden in one hand:
She said hi, she asks what the hell she's doing there, and the girl doesn't answer. Her hair is wet. Dark. Locks of it are hiding her face.
Maybe she's injured? Wouldn't explain why she's in Steph's garden, but it could be a possibility.
She gets closer. The girl waves at her with nails as sharp as her knife is.
Sharp teeth glisten in the moonlight.
She's pretty sure she sees scales.
Steph is totally freaking out.
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Her throat can't create most of the sounds Steph herself is making: she can only makes clicky noises and most consonants.
A rumble. Movements.
So movements, mainly, are how they communicate: Steph will laughs, and the mermaid will answer with a mimicked sound.
It doesn't make for real long interactions, but that's fine. Steph isn't expecting a mystical creature to gossip about the latest dumbass of her classes with her.
It's not that big a deal.
She can understand her, clearly : it's in the way Steph's feeling judged after she's rambled about a silly thing a little too long.
Or in the way the mermaid's lips widden in that smile Steph thought was uncanny at first.
She keeps staring right into her eyes, and Steph has to look away.
"So, yeah, that's why I don't buy hotdogs from there anymore", she lamely finishes. Sue her. Those eyes are deep.
".. Yep."
The silence is heavy, and the stars aren't filling it up.
" Do you wanna try hotdogs next time you come? If there's a next time again, of course"
The mermaid cocks her head to the side.
She.. does what looks like a nod, so Steph adds 'buying hotdogs' to her mental list, right next to 'check if dad died yet' and 'buy noodles'.
The mermaid grabs another one of Steph's grape and eat it right away. She really likes fruits, apparently.
Steph really needs to stop calling her "the mermaid", but Kss can't possibly be her name, right?
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One day, Cass comes more early than she usually does. The sun is still up, and Steph gets to see the way her skin shines in this light, and, well. Wow.
And she's suddenly questioning if Cass's a mermaid or a siren, because during a fleeting moment, she has the thought she could jump from her window and into the tiny pond in her garden if Cass asked.
Good thing she doesn't, and good thing they don't have to figure out if Cass's voice is magic or not, because they're.. not in Minecraft. Steph would end up a splatter in the water.
That'd make soup, technically.
"You okay?", Cass asks, words deliberately slow.
She said. Steph has never felt more proud.
"You managed your o! First try!", she gets out, shaking Cass's shoulders in excitement, not even thinking about the fact it could be problematic for her to be out in the daylight and seen.
The mermaid, siren, whatever wonder Cass is, she smiles at her, pride in her eyes, and Steph kinda forgets about all her worries of the day.
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She finds herself looking out her window a lot more than she normally used to. For no particular reasons.
At night.
When she's alone in her flat.
When the moon is out and the murky water in the pond of her backyard hasn't been disturbed.
So when Cass's not there.
Steph sighs onto her psychology homework that's been done already. She has an early shift tomorrow, she should be going to sleep, why is she still up when she knows Cass likely won't be coming?
They have a sort of ritual now, it's past midnight, she should be asleep by now.
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Steph's playing Minecraft in the middle of her living room with a mermaid, because that's just how her life turned out to be.
It's not even the most unhinged part of her life, honestly. Or maybe she got used to it, and to Cass's presence into her life.
It's been months, and Cass's persistent: she showed up way too many nights for Steph to consider it as anything else than her new normal, so.
"Green explosion. Coming up", Cass says out of the blue, and Steph has exactly one second to proceed the creeper is going to blow up right into her digital face before it does.
Cass laughs right into her real face.
"My pickaxe!", she mourns, because she's so far away from the cave there's no way she'll ever get it back. She spent two nights trying to get that diamond pickaxe.
Cass keeps laughing, the scales on her face puffing up, and Steph's almost tempted to throw some water onto her to see if H20 was right. Almost. She's more fascinated by the sight of Cass' natural laughter.
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She's kind of unsettling, sometimes. She's still kind of feeling unsettled, sometimes.
Cass can be a little creepy: and there's a lot Steph still doesn't know about her, or a lot she still doesn't understand. Even after all this time.
To be fair, there's a lot Cass doesn't know about her, either.
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Steph is being stared at. She got used to it, since a pretty long time now, but. Still. There's something different into Cass's stare this time.
"Whassup?", she asks, getting closer to the mermaid in her pond to offer her her usual sweater, kind of forgetting Cass might not know all the human slang there is.
And.. yep: she makes a questionning rumble.
"Oh, oops. Sorry. What's going on?", she clarifies to Cass.
"I have something. For you", she says, and she drags her hand out the water.
Steph almost except alga or something like that, since it's Cass's favourite non-human food, and maybe she wants to share some to her but...
It's not. What's she offering to her is something that glisten in the moonlight, and Steph can only tell what it is when Cass pushes it into her hand.
It's small, but the way Cass is waiting for her reaction, she can tell the stone means a lot to her.
She doesn't know what exactly but...
"Thanks", she says, softly, feeling oddly touched.
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"Is hot water bad for you? Like, for your skin? .", she asks when she notices Cass's glaring at her cup of tea like it personally offended her.
"No", she just answers.
"Then why are you looking at my cup like you want it 100 towns away?"
".. ugly design", Cass answers, looking away from both the cup and Steph.
"Yeahh, sure.", she answers, squinting suspiciously. Maybe she transforms into a fish when she touches water, or the steam coming from her (gorgeous) cup worries her. Whatever it is, something's up, because Cass's pensive all night long. Way more quiet than she can usually be.
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They go to the seaside one day: Only a few after the cup incident. They walk there, since Steph can't get there with whatever way Cass does.
Steph was feeling stressed about it (and she's still feeling ansty as can be), worried someone would see Cass and be able to tell. That, you know. She isn't human.
But Cass' a lot more than not human and that involves being steadfast. Steph lets herself be convinced when she takes her hand in her own to lead here.
The fins there feels oddly soft, when they brush against Cass.
Steph did want to maybe see if Cass has a tail, too. She's glad she was curious:
It feels like a private moment, and it feels like Steph's being trusted with something : something important. She doesn't know how to put it, exactly, but she can say that : It feels meaningful.
The walk from her home to the beach is a little long, but Steph doesn't find herself bored even once. She feels thrilled, and also simultaneously at peace.
Cass keeps holding her hand, even once they've finally arrived.
Steph follows her into the water, and she follows her with her gaze when Cass lets her hand go. The water's at her tights.
Cass goes in deeper, and deeper, and deeper.
She emerges back up and Steph finds herself gaping, because, of fucking course she would be, because Cass might not be human but Steph absolutely is, and she thinks a human just found out what perfection is for the first time of history.
This might be dramatical. Steph doesn't care if it is.
The moon rays are reflected in all of Cass's scales, and they are in the droplets of water adorning her face and shoulders too. And she tentatively smiles at her. And honestly, Steph might be officialy in love a little.
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"So.. I was wondering why did you come into my house, specifically ?", Steph asks one day, because she's been thinking about that first night they met again and again.
"Felt a calling", Cass just answers, elusive as fuck.
And she leaves it at that, going back to watching the TV.
No matter how much Steph pokes at her, and whether that's figuratively or physically, she just won't budge. Stubborn ass. She's lucky Steph likes her.
For @stephcassweek day seven: Sunshine and Moonlight. All 7 chapters are completed!
Fic Summary: Stephanie Brown and Cassandra Cain, by rule of thumb, are not very tender people. But the universe has decided that, somehow (together), domesticity and comfort will find ways to peak through the cracks of their thrill-filled lives.
Chapter Summary: Steph and Cass celebrate the spring equinox and reflect on how they’ve grown.
Total Words: 29.2k/29.2k
Relevant Tags for Ch. 7: Romantic Friendship, Queerplatonic Relationships, Healing, Home, Plants as a Metaphor for Life, Cuddling & Snuggling, Domestic Fluff, Literal Sleeping Together, Living Together, Spring
Extract:
“Well,” Steph says gently. “The snow’s all melted now. Spring time.”
Cass smiles. It looks bittersweet and aching. “Yes.” She fiddles with her hands, looking down at them as if remembering something. “It’s been… a long time.”
A long time, indeed. There’s been four spring equinoxes since Steph’s been back; four times that she noticed her neighbor’s daffodils and the singing warblers and growing leaves.
Steph has survived yet another winter. It’s wonderful.
I forgot what I was going to caption this as rip…I do think these two can be either or for eachother tbh! Cass befriending Steph was core in her character development and integrating more with living as a person ((yes I know Babs more so but shush)). For Steph Cass is someone who she can learn and grow with, Cass inspires her and helps her grow. They shine in each others brilliance and forever in each other’s gravity. Or somthin like that
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
For @stephcassweek Day 6: Sharing! A fic about Steph and Cass' relationship throughout the years and what they do and don't share with each other. Happy StephCass week everybody ❤️❤️❤️
For @stephcassweek day six: Sharing/Identity Shenanigans. The last chapter will be posted tomorrow!
Fic Summary: Stephanie Brown and Cassandra Cain, by rule of thumb, are not very tender people. But the universe has decided that, somehow (together), domesticity and comfort will find ways to peak through the cracks of their thrill-filled lives.
Chapter Summary: The Batgirls have gotten more comfortable with each other, in and out of costume. As Christmastime nears, Gotham City takes notice.
Total Words: 24.8k/?
Relevant Tags for Ch. 6: Romantic Friendship, Queerplatonic Relationships, Trans Stephanie Brown, Healing, Home, Domestic Fluff, Living Together, Christmas
Extract:
Steph looks at her. She’s kind-of not-really got the wrong idea (her and Cass aren’t necessarily dating; they’re just her and Cass, and that’s perfect), but who is Steph to dash this girl’s dreams? So she says what Rose needs to hear, and it has the bonus of not even being a lie.
“I don’t mind that it got out, Rose. I’m not ashamed of it. I’m proud of what me and Batgirl are, and if anyone gives us trouble about it? We can kick their ass,” she says. Smiles widely.
Rose is amazed.
Read the rest here on ao3!
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