The 2000s Batgirl Suit

The 2000s Batgirl Suit

" Shadow of the Bat"

I wanted to draw Helena and Cass together for a long time. And so, I turned my idea into reality

Can we all just take a moment to appreciate Helena Bertinelli?

When will the new Love Among War and Connected Stories update be released?

[This is the best ff by Percethan].

Heyo!

I do have something in the drafts. It's the extended version that I had cut down when I originally posted it. It includes scenes that I removed, scenes I had cut down, and a bit more of a look into the story and the effects that it has on the story.

It also includes some more descriptions and an updated version of my writing style.

In fact the story on Ao3 is version 2. Version 1 had two parts. For Version 3 I am combining the two parts. It's taking way longer because I am not currently in the PJO fandom, and have kind of moved onto my main fixation.

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I am committed to finishing the story but I don't know when it will be out. It could be in the next couple of weeks or it could be in a couple of months. I work on the story when I don't have much going on, but I'm currently working on a complete read through of Helena Bertinelli which is my pinned post. It will take me awhile.

Adding on the three other WIPs I have at the moment, plus an almost full time job, and all the other obligations I have, and it gets hard to do things.

I promise I will finish the story and add more to it. I just need to take it slow or the story will be rushed.

It would be really funny if it was just the same suit the whole time and had just been patched up well enough that it didn't been to be replaced.

But also narratively it holds a story. A story that not many know about or choose to think about. It was a suit made during a time where there was no Batman, no Robin, and no Batgirl protecting the city. It was made specifically with the symbol that being a Bat meant, the good that wearing the symbol could bring.

Helena has her own moral and vigilante code, but she respected the symbol and the code that came with that symbol when she wore it. She made the suit with the goal to step into the shoes and the role that Batman left behind, and when Batman showed back up in the city she became another one of the Bats (only for a little bit.) When she quit because the pressure Batman had to uphold a perfect standard, and the suit moved to Cass?

For the suit to have remained the same suit would hold so much meaning, and history. Barbara officially passed the Batgirl mantel to Cass, and Steph picked it up in the spot that had been left behind.

Looking at it from the Point of View of Helena and Stephanie's connection. The stepped into a role that had been left behind. One couldn't succeed and the other did.

It's a cycle that starts with the symbol the bat and brings a whole legacy together in a cycle of fulfilling the shoes that others have left behind.

They all set out with their own goals putting on the suit and whether unintentionally or intentionally became a Batgirl in their own era of Gotham.

Unlike Robin, which is a symbol with its own legacy. It is one that each of the wearers can better mold for their own. Some succeeded in molding it better than others. Robin will always be connected to Batman, they are a duo, bit Batgirl will always be weighed by the symbol of the Bat.

Batgirl is separate from Batman, better able to act on their own. They are never sidekicks, always allies and partners. But they will never be separate from the legacy that the Bat brings, has, and demands of the wearer.

What this all boild down to is that having the suit Helena have worn to have ended with Steph would have a powerful narrative story.

Because Helena made the suit when Bruce was gone, and the suit ended when Bruce was gone. The suit helped start a new era for Gotham, and ended with a new era of Gotham.

Sometimes I wonder just how well Cass's Batgirl suit was made because like. Helena handstitched the thing in the middle of no-man's-land, it got passed to Cassandra for her time as Batgirl, she kept it for a few years before finally passing the thing off to Stephanie. Like. How much combat has that thing seen? It should be more patch then suit at this point. Helena needs to go into design because those are some incredible skills