What would you have done with Cassandra in the OYL stories?

[Lorendiac]

I recently commented that three years after OYL, I still have not bothered to waste time and money to collect and read the various stories which have prominently featured Cassandra Cain in her post-Infinite Crisis mishaps. I've heard a lot about them -- and I've seen occasional online scans of a panel here or a page there when people are illustrating their complaints, and so forth -- but I haven't forced myself to slog through all that material the hard way.

Still, I'm not trying to start another round of people crying about what's been done to Cassandra lately. Instead, I just want to ask you all what you wish had been done with her instead!

Suppose it’s over three years ago, and you’re working for DC, and it’s completely your call: What will have happened to Cassandra Cain during the “missing year” between the end of “Infinite Crisis” and the beginning of the “One Year Later” era in the monthly titles?

Let’s just set one basic rule: She can’t have any direct contact with Bruce, Dick, or Tim during that year-long vacation they took. (However, it’s okay for her to interact with anyone else—including Barbara, Alfred, the Teen Titans, or anyone else you can think of!)

With that in mind, what would you decide had happened to her during that missing year? What would she actually be doing when she reappeared in the OYL issues of one title or another? How would she have changed during that year-long gap? Would she be wearing any sort of special costume?

[Henker]

You know that 1970s series Kung Fu with David Carradine? I would have ripped the plot of that show off. Cass Cain (they even have the same last name!) basically wanders the Earth as she question her place in life and her place in the superhero business, questions her parentage, the destruction of Bludhaven, Bruce pretty much abandoning her while he takes a vacation with the boys.

The last issue of her series seemed to setup a plot such as this, I don't know why no one went with it.

[Sean Whitmore]

At this point, do I know that DC is going to chicken out of spotlighting Batwoman in any significant way?

Cause if I didn't know that, I'd want to keep Cass off the board for the same reasons they did. I'd basically just keep her in limbo, maybe say she's off fighting people 'round the world like Shiva. This way she's still in pristine condition for anyone who wants to use her later.

If I did know, I'd have probably hooked her up with the Birds of Prey. I mean, given her relationship with Oracle, it just seems obvious.


SEAN

[HaroldAllnut]

I might've included her as a bit player in Gotham City during the whole 52 thing, then probably just kept her as a heroine in Gotham City.

If I did know, I'd have probably hooked her up with the Birds of Prey. I mean, given her relationship with Oracle, it just seems obvious.

That's a pretty good idea. I concur with that one as well.

[Dard]

I recently wrote here how I would turn Cassandra into a villain (http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=258025) if I would have been forced to.

I don't know how I would write her for a OYL story in the scenario that DC has presented to us, but leading to my own scenario I would have her as a wanderer who goes from town to town to discover a useful way to use her skills, failing again and again.
She would try the obvious, becoming a teacher for fighting skills. She would fail because she can't understand how other people can't see the world like she does.
She would try dancing, but while enjoying the technical side of it, she fears the emotional side and eventually quits.
Other tries are physiotherapist, photographer and eventually bodyguard. Further disillusioned she then returns to Gotham because she knows that there she will at least get a challenge.

Mostly I would write about what she lost when her friends died in Blüdhaven. She now fears to be emotionally attached to anyone and anything while at the same time longing for friendship. This I would combine with her constant search for perfection, without being able to reach it. (after all, she has reached everything she could hope for in regards to fighting)