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Mar. 26th, 2004 08:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenygal*Carmen looks at BATGIRL #50*
*BATGIRL #50 looks back*
*Carmen backs away slowly*
*BATGIRL #50 smirks at her*
It’s not even the contents of the issue. Which I liked, actually, although Bruce’s question made me see red--but after getting to the end of the issue, and attempting to see things from his point of view, I can understand where it came from. (I still don’t approve, precisely, but I don’t approve of a lot of things Bruce does.)
No, the problem is that for the first time I’m seriously considering Bruce/Cassandra. (Suggestive visuals aside, I don’t actually think the book was intending that, but, well, there were those visuals...) I mean, sure, I’ve thought about it before, but generally along the lines of, yeah, well, even if she’s interested it’s hardly going to go anywhere. And I still don’t think it would…at present. But Cass isn’t going anywhere. She doesn’t want a normal life, she doesn’t want her own life, she doesn’t want any life but the one she’s got right now, only moreso. What’s going to happen in a few years when there’s an adult woman more or less living in that cave? A woman he trusts, a woman who is every bit as obsessed as he is, a woman who is in many ways a younger female version of himself? Who has been starved for touch most of her life, and whose first language is body language? Maybe it would be a good idea, and maybe it wouldn’t, but trying to convince myself it wouldn’t happen is looking more and more like a losing proposition.
*bangs head against wall*
Well. I suppose it might be worth it just to see the look on Kon’s face...
*BATGIRL #50 looks back*
*Carmen backs away slowly*
*BATGIRL #50 smirks at her*
It’s not even the contents of the issue. Which I liked, actually, although Bruce’s question made me see red--but after getting to the end of the issue, and attempting to see things from his point of view, I can understand where it came from. (I still don’t approve, precisely, but I don’t approve of a lot of things Bruce does.)
No, the problem is that for the first time I’m seriously considering Bruce/Cassandra. (Suggestive visuals aside, I don’t actually think the book was intending that, but, well, there were those visuals...) I mean, sure, I’ve thought about it before, but generally along the lines of, yeah, well, even if she’s interested it’s hardly going to go anywhere. And I still don’t think it would…at present. But Cass isn’t going anywhere. She doesn’t want a normal life, she doesn’t want her own life, she doesn’t want any life but the one she’s got right now, only moreso. What’s going to happen in a few years when there’s an adult woman more or less living in that cave? A woman he trusts, a woman who is every bit as obsessed as he is, a woman who is in many ways a younger female version of himself? Who has been starved for touch most of her life, and whose first language is body language? Maybe it would be a good idea, and maybe it wouldn’t, but trying to convince myself it wouldn’t happen is looking more and more like a losing proposition.
*bangs head against wall*
Well. I suppose it might be worth it just to see the look on Kon’s face...
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Date: 2004-03-26 07:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-26 12:48 pm (UTC)But you're right about a future scenario and I want to scrub it out of my brain because GAH, I can see it happening. Just. Like. That.
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Date: 2004-03-26 02:48 pm (UTC)And also, it was my understanding that Cassandra is at present 18-20ish...? I remember being relieved that she wasn't 14-15 as I had thought. So, basically a grown woman...
Re: chuckles
Date: 2004-03-27 08:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-27 08:28 am (UTC)If I have to see it, then I want to share the pain. ;)
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Date: 2004-03-27 08:51 am (UTC)Exactly. I feel Babs' frustration with that, I really do, I applaud her attempts to make Cass aware of other options, but so far all the indications are that what Cass really wants to be is a Bat.
And also, it was my understanding that Cassandra is at present 18-20ish...?
Eighteen, so she's legal, but for these purposes I really wouldn't say she was an adult. An eighteen-year-old girl getting involved with her much older mentor isn't generally the best of ideas, and I don't think Cass is an exception. In some ways she's much older than eighteen, of course, but in others she's younger, and I think a sexual relationship with Bruce is all on the latter side of the equation. She just hasn't got the experience, socialization, or emotional maturity for me to feel at all comfortable about it. Moreover, I don't think Bruce would be comfortable with it (and I'm one-hundred-percent positive Babs would go nova if he did anything). Plus, actually, I don't think Cass is interested right now. The visuals are suggestive, but what I actually see going on in this issue is an eighteen-year-old needing the cuddle with her father that a six-year-old didn't get. Nothing sexual about it. I also think that right now Cass is so new to her sexuality--she's about on the level of a fourteen to sixteen-year-old, just waking up to this thing with boys--that even if she was sexually attracted to Bruce, she'd be reluctant to bring anything she was so unsure about into a relationship that's so important to her.
No, I don't think it would happen now. Give Cass, oh, three years--maybe more, maybe less, she learns fast but she's starting way behind, here--let her get a little more experience with this romance thing, and become less of a junior partner and more of an independent adult. Then she and Bruce can blow the roof off the cave.
*sigh* And I still don't know if it's a good idea. I mean, they're just going to encourage each other in the obsessed lunaticness, but it's not as though they were going to be normal no matter who they sleep with. Maybe it would be good for them to at least have company.
Re: chuckles
Date: 2004-03-27 10:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-27 02:19 pm (UTC)Now that I've read the issue I feel your pain.