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I thought it was weird that Bruce just let Cass be unparented after she helped protect Gotham
She has Babs ofc but Babs is like 25 and that is So Hard so Bruce, while knowing Babs has the major authority over Cass as Batgirl, offers to adopt Cass
He also got kinda attached to this little shadow girl and hes never had a daughter before and Cass doesnt have a middle name how does she feel about being called Cassandra Martha Wayne??? (I cant decide between that or Cass taking a distinctly Asian name as her middle name bc id KILL to have a non-Americanized name for myself tbh even just a middle name)
Ive put it in my notes before but i decided to leave jack in his coma through the Quake and Contagion parts of the story because HOLY FUCK he didnt notice tim being gone for a /while/
I felt really bad abt that so i left him in the coma -__- also bc he was Super Fucked Up from the poison and he definitely should have taken way longer to recover if he recovered at all
Tbh it was not jacks best era 💀 reading the 1993 robin comics plus the detective comics post lonely place of dying is a trip
BUT anyways, tim thought she was strange but he was pretty quick to just,,,accept her
He hyped her up so much lmao they had this little competition in the comics where they were competing to see how many goons they could take out and cass won and he was like ':D!!! You go Batgirl!!! Ur so cool!!' Hes such a sister kind of brother
Like,,,hes just one of those brothers who SHOULD have a sister idk
Tim is Immediately Down to find out what shes interested in,,kinda like a social experiment??
Cass is Very Interested in learning what she likes bc she has no idea!!
She learns very quick she likes tims driving and going on car rides with him (for ref: Tim has major road rage. He speeds like hes gonna die, he makes the sharpest turns possible, he does action move drives off bridges in pursuit and Cass. Loves. It) she loves the color yellow and Tim brings her the Lemon Skirt and she gets him a button up with the same pattern
Cass thinks but shes more of a Mover. Shes the body and Tim is the mind and he can get her to stop and she can quiet his head down
They both have two little beauty marks but Cass's are under the corner of her left eye and Tim's are under the corner of his right eye
Babs introduces Cass to ballet and Tim immediately latches on bc Cass is so so interested and he is suddenly deeply entrenched in the history behind Mayerling
They watch recordings of official ballets :)
Tim can dance but hes not as graceful as Cass but!! He can play the piano (i think it might be canon he plays the piano but idk but now he does. Random talents ig) so he plays the piano for cass and she dances to it unless she decides she wants to dance with him its the first time hes ever enjoyed dancing
Tim makes Cass feels seen and Cass makes Tim feels known
Tim has snacks for her :) he now only buys rice krispies for cass
Cass finds history documentaries for Tim to watch bc i read the lonely place of dying and Tim is??? Really into art/sculptures/figurines/history?? (It just occurred to me the most accurate estimation of tims personality is a stem major with a minor in history this is accurate bc my best friend is a stem major and my older sister is a history major and they also know each other and GUYS THE AURA?? ITS UNCANNY??)
Tim will do ANYTHING cass thinks is interesting. He thinks of it like a science experiment and hes pretty damn curious about anything
Tim talks to Cass about cars and engines as he dismantles an old BatMobile engine and they study the parts like bugs
Cass loves listening to Tim talk to her, likes hearing him teach her things that he loves like star wars, star trek, the best model of sports car, photography, his friends, Wizards and Warlocks, video games, the historical importance of Gargoyles in French Gothic architecture and how and why they were integrated into Gotham's architecture
Tim likes being sneaky, Cass is sneaky, they play shadow tag :)
Tim shows Cass how to feed the bats in the cave and Cass takes sneaky pictures with the polaroid Tim gave her and showed her to use (Tims love language is giving ppl pictures/cameras/showing them how to use cameras/taking pictures of ppl)
Cass trains a lot with Tim, shows him how to be sneakier, quieter
They like turning music up LOUD theyve found they can sit on the ground listening to music with their eyes closed and pressed against each other's sides FOR HOURS
Clothes sharing clothes sharing clothes sharing bc theyre the No Boundaries Gang
Cass likes tims sweats and tim likes her shorts bc Sensory Things are random and weird
Cass will eat tims leftovers so he doesnt feel bad abt not finishing his food
Always race to use the hot water in his apartment before the other
Staring. Contests. They can/have spent HOURS staring at each other, just staring, observing, understanding what they see and what the other might be thinking
Sometimes, they move like each other. Theyll mirror each other or mimic each other and its unnerved bruce and dick before bc Tim and Cass know Shiva and Shiva has passed some body langauge on to them and its just a little strange
I hc them both as about 5'5 1/2 without shoes and pretty lean so they sometimes just meld together when one stands behind the other
Once Tim decided to be Batgirl and Cass pinned her hair up so she looked like Robin and thats escalated to switching between Black Bat and Red Robin (omg??? Those??? Kinda match??? BB and RR??? Cuties)
They decided to learn ASL together bc i thought that plot where Cass gets her body language reading taken by a mind reader in exchange for speaking Not A Vibe so Cass takes the initiative and goes straight for sign language. She doesnt lose her body reading thing but she picks up ASL really fast bc,,,body language,,, hands are part of the body,,,
They both stayed up late one night and tim had juice w him and cass saw the bat cowl and she just started shaking him and signed 'bruce rhymes with juice' and tim and cass just spent the next hour finding words that rhyme with Bruce or Bat
The fact that tim and cass had matching hair in the RR comics makes me think so much why did they look so much alike💀💀💀
At some point dick, bruce, jason, kon, bart, cassie, steph, and helena have mistaken one for the other
Tim pierced Cass's ears and she punched him in the gut bc it lowkey surprised her more than it hurt her
Cass learned to paint nails by practicing on Tim while he was at the Bat Computer working a case and he refocused back on the real world only to find messily painted black nails
They share a playlist
So yall remember that one issue of the 1993 Robin comics with the in-universe version of Barney called Crocky the Crocodile? It was like a show for v young kids and the guy in the mascot crocky was committing crimes wearing the crocky the crocodile suit? And tim was lowkey a little obsessed even tho he says it was just something he watched when he was little? Like, in the end the crocky mascot wearer he saved gave him a signed crocky plush that he was talking to Alfred about and alfred was being v sassy but it totally went over tims head (flashbacks to me, age 14, not going to be diagnosed as autistic for 4 more years, talking about my -still ongoing- hyperfixations on the 2003 strawberry shortcake cartoon and hello kitty cartoon and cinnamoroll to my mom/sisters and them going 'yeah uh huh' bc theyd been hearing about it since i was 3) bc he was busy talking about how he was gonna put the crocky plush in the trophy section of the Cave. Like, it wasnt blatant but it smelled like 'babys first hyperfixation' which. God the MEMORIES. Not me getting sent back to my first hyperfixation💀💀
Well
Tim gets cass to watch crocky with him one time in the morning and she LOVES it and they watch it together and tim lowkey gets really back into it bc yeah its a show for babies but the colors are simple, the voices are funny and silly, its old, its familiar, he diesnt have to think about taking it apart and dissecting it. Its just Is. Cass likes it bc everything is just pleasant. No violence no plot no grey morality. Its just a little kids show that has simple elements and little kids being happy and silliness and dammit Cass deserves that. Its like watching Spongebob but more,,,cutesy (note i have never watched sponge bob in my entire life.) Tim only watches it with Cass. Cass has a sticky paper doodle of Tims face that she puts on a pillow when she watches it alone so shes "watching it with him"
Both make tons of bottle rockets together
Sink 'potions' except its actual chemicals and theyre using the chemistry lab sink in the Cave
Tim cuts the sleeves off his tshirts and cass uses the cut off sleeves as hair ties if her hair is long enough atm
Discovered a ton of secret passages/servants corridors while wandering
There is just so much i can shove in here