BabsCass

BabsCass is the friendship between Barbara Gordon and Cassandra Cain from the DC Comics and Young Justice fandoms.

Young Justice: Phantoms
Cass was sent on a mission to kill the Joker, who was attempting to blow up the United Nations. Babs and the rest of the Batfamily were there as well defusing the bombs in the room. Joker makes his escape, and Babs follows, only to see Cass following. Cass goes to kill Joker, but Babs steps in front of him, taking the blade. Her back is sliced and she becomes injured and eventually paralyzed. Cass is horrified and goes to Babs side, who says that she didn't do it to save Joker. She did it to save Cass.

A few years later, Cass has joined the Batfamily and gets kidnapped by her mother. Babs works as Oracle with Artemis to track down Cass and describes Cass as like a sister to her. Artemis eventually gets Cass back to Gotham, and the two reunite with a hug.

Fanon
There is a decent amount of love for Cass and Babs relationship. Many enjoying how Babs was a mentor to Cass, and gave her her blessing to be Batgirl. Although it gets rather controversial as many debate whether or not they had a good relationship in the early years. Many do wish they had more one on one interaction some more. As although Babs works as Oracle to every member of the Batfamily, it doesn't happen with Cass as often anymore. They're personal relationship isn't often explored any more either, leaving many missing the two.

Fans of their comic relationship tend to have mixed feelings on their relationship in the Young Justice series. As many didn't like that Cass was used to paralyze Barbara, and consider it just as bad as her paralization in The Killing Joke. Especially as for many it becomes a detriment to Cass as a character. As having an Asian girl become the cause of pain for a white woman felt racist to many. On AO3, there are currently 140+ written gen works. There are also 6 femslash works.

Fandom

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