Cassandra Cain and Jason Todd parallels - "I'm ready"
I tried not to compare Jason and Cassandra paths, I really did. But they are my favourites out of all Bat-related characters and Batman talks to her about Jason, a little, and
and she goes to find her mother, to ask if she's her mother, to know, to see for herself, she needs it,
and ends up. dying. I. I can't.
He gets..
She gets...
He's forced to remember
She won't do anything but remember
(which is... not a good example, but can you blame me? Her whole Batgirl run is full of memories she keeps bringing up. She's consumed by her past, but.. she's, at the same time, so much more than this past.)
There is no end, there is no beginning. What do they see, looking in the mirror?
They die as heroes.
(she won)
(he lost)
...and it's their mothers who set deadly traps for them. Their mothers are the reason they die.
then..
Someone tells them they are alive, somehow, again.
And it's a mistake - to let them live.
Their mothers are dead.
Everything has changed.
Something in their very souls twists.
They are different, now, too.
Batgirl (2000) #65-73, Batman (1940) #427-428, Batman (1940) Annual #25, Red Hood: Lost Days #1-6.
