Clearing out one overdue meme before moving on to the next overdue meme

[philippos42]

So, two months ago, I put this meme on my tumblr:
Leave me a character I know in my ask box and I will reply with:

• Favorite thing about them
• Least favorite thing about them
• My OTP for them
• My favorite friendship for them
• Favorite quote or line they have said

I did the third Doctor, Wondy, and I thought another one, but apparently not.

Sitting in my ask box for 61 days has been this twofer:evillordzog asked:
Cassie Sandsmark. Cassandra Cain

Well.

Cassie Sandsmark:

• Favorite thing about her: As originally designed, Cassie is a repudiation of the "perfect little princess" type exemplified by Diana and Donna. She started as bratty-only-child-next-door, she got to be a superhero, & she was still a kid. A plain kid, in more senses than one. As far as I'm concerned, the, "Zeus is her real father," retcon is a mistake.
  But really, I like that she's a version of Wondy that isn't tied into trying-too-hard self-conscious attempts at "feminine mystique"/"feminism." Cassie as designed is a girl with a classic "boy" origin (like Brian Braddock or Billy Batson) not the "exotic woman" type that litters superhero comics.
• Least favorite thing about her: The attempt by various writers to just utterly wreck her life, the most extreme bit so far being in 52, when she joined a cult that anticipated Superboy's resurrection. Just NO.
• My OTP for her: I don't think an appropriate partner for Cassie has been written yet. I could go abstract and say, "super-heroing"--that's mostly true, really.
• My favorite friendship for her: Byrne meant her to be a Wondy sidekick & have her own associated characters, rather than hanging out with other superheroes. So I should say her techie pal (Georgia?) from the Byrne issues. But I really like Cassie's friendship with Cissie in Young Justice. Sorry, JB.
• Favorite quote or line she has said: In my head, she sings bits of "Lucky Jones" by Z. Especially the, "I can make a lion swallow soup," line and the, "Lucky, Lucky," refrain, which fits her.
  

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  In canon? Maybe where she calls herself "a kid given superstrength by Zeus." Note, not "girl," "kid." Cassie doesn't need constant self-conscious gender labeling.

Cassandra Cain:

• Favorite thing about her: Full. Face. Mask.
• Least favorite thing about her: That her name, while very cool, is partly a phonetic variation on "Kathy Kane." (This just beats out my qualms that she's part of the Batman franchise at all, instead of a separate science-fiction concept. Being in the Batfamily means getting written out or rewritten by Bat-editors that aren't invested in her concept.)
• My OTP for her: If I had to pick, maybe that guy she was into, I forget his name, not Kon, the other one. Or I could go abstract and say, "badassery."
• My favorite friendship for her: Oh, I don't know. Babs, I guess, though I don't entirely approve of trying to stick Oracle into new Batgirl series for trademark continuity's sake. It works because it makes sense for Babs as a character to look after new Batgirls, not because I think we need the old Batgirl in a Batgirl book.
• Favorite quote or line she has said: On an early cover, we see Batgirl holding a sign reading, "Please help me not to die." It felt like meta begging for the survival of the series. It got to me, I picked up the issue.

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