The Huntress Helena Bertinelli By The Amazing, Aki @himemina02

The Huntress — Helena Bertinelli By the amazing, Aki @himemina02

Send a character’s name to receive four different headcanons

Headcanon A:  realistic

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.

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im not sure it’s possible to quantify the absurd batfam takes ive seen online in the last couple of months but certainly the “dick grayson is as bad as willis todd because he mistreated poor jason and stomped around and ignored him in favour of damian and tim” i just read ranks up towards the top

Helena's such a cool character, and I don't understand why she's not as popular as Jason, considering she's also a morally-grey anti-hero who's a member and ally of the Batfam but has issues with Batman.

Batman: Spoiler/Huntress: Blunt Trauma (1998) #1

What makes it worse is that the stomache cutout was given soon after a plot where Helena was shot in the stomache multiple times. Also within her character is her need for control over herself and the sense of feeling in control and strong. She is the survivor of CSA and SA, and during this new era of her writing the comic makers decieded to have create conflict among the birds of Prey by making Babs a character who shut shames Helena. [I have a lot to say on that choice on both characters parts and the way that men have written these characters but that is for another day.]

One thing that makes it weirder (the costume) is that Helena is shown as a civilian to dress fairly conservatively (IE modest or more covering than revealing clothing) so it feels more out of place in many ways.

That's not to say I don't like impractical or silly hero costumes but I want it to feel like the character would actually wear it. Like they choose to put it on.

Can we take a moment to talk about how Helena Bertinelli is disrespected in the DC fandom (more specifically the Batman side of DC). Like this woman is one of the founding members of the modern Batfam and yet so many people don't even know who see is.

[Sidenote: Bruce Wayne/Batman didn't create the Batfam it was made by Tim, and to people who value the importance of a character with the extended Batfam by their connection to Bruce. I tell you that the characters connection to Tim should matter more. Tim brought Nightwing back into the fold, held up Batman, was the first accepting vigilante of Huntress, a major reason Babs got back into the fold, was the one most connected to Steph. Tim collected a lot of older sibling figures, an ex girlfriend and a failure of a father figure.]

Anyway back to Helena. The legacy that the stomache square hole has had on her costume is massive and the poor writing done in the mid 2000s still directly affects the writing on Helena now.

Anyway Helena is the better Gotham antihero and the one who made that mold that so many people like the put Jason Todd into.

Getting a PHD literally anywhere else: Wow! Congratulations! What a great achievement! Amazing!

Getting a PHD in Gotham: Wow! Amazing! You're now on several Government, Civilian, and Bat watchlists.

So if any of the Wayne kids get a PHD, then the entirety of Gotham would be squinting at them suspiciously. They're rich, so resources, and most likely already insane with all the shit they pull.

What I'm saying is if Jason went and got himself a Doctorate in Literature, the whole city would anticipate the appearance of his villainsona called the Dead Poet(emphasis on the dead) or Bookkeeper or something else similarly nerdy and themed like that for sure.

I just know that it would turn into some Gotham inside joke with memes abound, and everytime Jason would, I don't know, give more funding to the neglected Arts Departments in Gotham University, or go to a school for read alongs to encourage kids to read, Gotham social media would go crazy and be like:

"The Dreaded Villain Dead Poet Reads Alice in Wonderland to Children! How Despicable!"

"Villain Dead Poet Lambasts Government on Banning Books! Leads Librarians to Riot!"

"Dead Poet Ramps up his Villainy by Establishing Educational Programmes in Crime Alley! Uplifting the Poor! What a Dastardly Villain!"

"Dead Poet Goes on Live Ranting About his Favourite Books! Favourite Author is Jane Austen! Is this the Feminist Agenda?"

And so on! It's a meme that refuses to go away. His siblings actively participate, and make the situation worse.

Dick held an online Gotham Villains and Anti-Heroes Poll and Dead Poet came out on top, over Red Hood. Jason is an actual Gotham crime boss, but his crowdfunded villainsona is more popular. No he's not salty about it at all.

Duke would create a montage of Dead Poet sightings.

Stephanie would make a Dead Poet meme compilation.

Tim would arrange Wayne Enterprises to donate to local libraries after allegedly being threatened by the heinous villain Dead Poet. (Jason did ask Tim to do that but not like that)

Barbara created an extremely popular Villain Watch account for Dead Poet.

Cass tweeted out Jason's favourite books as the villain Dead Poets reading list telling people to avoid them 'wink wonk', causing a massive uptick in the sale of those books ala Bigolas Dickolas.

Damian of all people tweeted out a pic of Jason playing with Alfred the cat accusing the evil villain Dead Poet of attempting to kidnap his cat.

And thats not to mention all the shenanigans they pull in their batsonas.

God bless Gotham and it's home grown, organic, not even remotely ethically sourced, free range chaos.