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JayCass is the family ship between Jason Todd and Cassandra Cain from the DC Comics fandom.
Canon[]
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Jason is legally one of Cassandra's younger brothers through adoption.
Jason was adopted into the Wayne family and trained to be Robin as a child, and was later murdered. Cassandra, as a new Batgirl, later joined the Batsquad. Jason returned to life as Red Hood. Cassandra was then legally adopted as an adult, meaning she has a legal relationship with Jason as his sibling through their adoptive parent, Bruce Wayne.
Main Comics[]
Cass joins the Batsquad well after Jason has been murdered and turned into a taboo. Cass learns of Jason's existence, as she is one of the extremely rare people with whom Batman voluntarily discusses his dead sidekick. When Cass goes on a quest to find her long-lost birth mother, Batman discloses that Jason also went on such a quest—and Lady Shiva herself had also been one of the candidates.
Cass and Jason don't meet face-to-face until after the New 52 reboot, in which Cass was reinvented as a character and her history with the Batman Family was completely erased. They met in Batman & Robin Eternal #3 "Seeing Red", when Red Hood assumed the girl was an enemy, and the two clashed, until Dick Grayson came to defuse the situation. There is no grudge between Red Hood and the girl, who comes to be known as Cassandra. Red Hood does later side against the spectacle of the trial of Batwoman in the "Trial of Batwoman" storyline, while Cassandra is against Batwoman being condoned for killing Clayface.
After the Infinite Frontier reboot, much of the history of DC was restored from before the New 52 reboot. Direct interactions between Cass and Jason have increased very modestly so far.
Batgirl scares Red Hood (Task Force Z #8)
In Task Force Z #8, Red Hood boasts that he is "not scared" when he's cornered by Nightwing and Tim Drake. When Batgirl Cass reveals herself behind Red Hood with a casual greeting, Red Hood startles and swears. After the Batman Family trio finally capture Red Hood, he praises Batgirl for being the one to deduce that he was intentionally distracting them. In the following issue, Jason has slipped away from captivity, and Stephanie Brown asks why he's so battered--to which Jason succinctly explains, "Cassandra was there".
Batman: Wayne Family Adventures[]
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As Batman's young partners were playing their paint gun war Assassin game, Jason had took out one of Cass's teammates during patrol. Even though they weren't purpose to, Red Hood states that there were no rules in Assassin. This got Cass and Duke to take Jason out of play as Orphan and Signal. Because Cass had won Assassin two years in a role, as she takes a page from Jason's "no rules" book by taking out Duke, Jason couldn't believe that she was going to win again. Until Cass finds herself being taken out of play, by someone outside the Batfamily. Jason was okay with that, as it meant that Cass didn't win Assassin for once and was looking forward to next year.
In #48, when Duke suspects that Cass is dating a boy, Jason joins the other youngsters in snooping on the supposed love interest, after declaring "I mean, it's Cass. She deserves the best."
After noticing Signal using the door than any of the other burst in by surprise entrances the Batfamily are known for, Red Hood and Orphan saw it as a problem to their bat covenant and that the only way to fix it is by giving Duke a lesson on the subject. By inviting him to join them on portal, so they can give him that lesson during their rounds. Both Cass and Jason take turns to show and explain to Duke how to burst through glass skylights and windows, and making their own entrances when there is none. By blowing up the floor or creating a hole in the wall of the building they wish to enter. From how bad guys expect this of them and took pleasure in making such an a dramatic entrance. After their demonstrations, Duke reminds the two that they need to expect the unexpected and be the unexpected themselves in order to keep their enemies off balanced, if their foes are well aware of their usual routine. This gets Red Hood and Orphan to realise that Signal has a point, and that using a door for a change can be genius. As shown when the three used the door to take on an unexpected Penguin.
On test day in chapter 82, Orphan is tasked to sneak upon their allies to see if they'll be able to detect her. Red Hood is the first person she tests, while he was helping a little boy. Because he failed to notice before she made herself known, he failed as Cass gives him a slip of paper with the word "fail" written on it. The kid teases a begrudging Red Hood as Orphan makes her way to her next target. Not wanting the boy to tell anyone that he got snuck up upon by Orphan, or the way he reacted from the jump scare Cass gave him, he bribes the kid with the promise of buying him a chocolate bar for his silence.
Other media[]
In the post-apocalyptic world of DCeased, Cass and Jason are two of the only surviving Batman Family members left. They band together in the same group of survivors, and Cass accepts Jason's new wife into their family, until Jason is brutally killed by a superpowered zombie. Accessing the powers of Shazam with her pure heart, Cassandra brutally defeats the zombie, then carries Jason's corpse.
Kai Li is smug when Jay draws the short stick for sentry duty
In the animated movie Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham, Kai Li Cain is the latest and most ambitious of Bruce Wayne's wards, along with Dick Grayson and Sanjay "Jay" Tawde. Jay seems to have a habit of acting like an annoying brother to Kai Li, but the unconventional family seems to get along well. Kai Li is overwhelmed with grief when she sees the corpses of Dick and Jay. She cherishes a photograph of the trio together, and she mourns at their graves.
In DC vs. Vampires, Batgirl and Red Hood team up in a skyscraper battle against a vampirized psychic gorilla; Batgirl rescues Red Hood by staking Gorilla Grodd in the back, and pulls him to safety, then shares a clue she found for their mission. In issue #6, Cassandra is strangled into unconsciousness after Nightwing reveals he's the Vampire King, and promptly slaughters Batman, Tim, and (seemingly) Damian. Red Hood retreats to carry Cassandra to safety with Green Arrow's faction, but then he immediately leaves them to go alone on a hopeless mission to rescue Damian.
Fanon[]
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JayCass is one of the sibling familyships between the BatKids of the Batfamily. Because Cass is mostly limited to the comics, and The Doom That Came to Gotham is the only screen adaptation that shows any moments of her with Jason, it's mostly overshadowed by Jason's more fell known family relationships such as JayDick, while Bumblebee Bats and TimCass overshadow JayCass on Cass's end. On AO3, there are currently 750+ written works.
Fandom[]
- FAN FICTION
- Cass & Jason tag on AO3
- FANLORE
- Cassandra Cain & Jason Todd on Fanlore
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- In Batgirl (2000) #65, Batman states that Cass and Jason "would be roughly the same age" if Jason hadn't been murdered. Cass is stated to be 18 years old in Batgirl (2000) #48 (published in 2002), and her birth father states that her birthday is January 26. Later, in Detective Comics #790 (published in 2004), Bruce takes Cass to visit Jason's grave on Jason's 18th birthday, on the date of August 16. Many fans believe this evidence indicates that Cass is a little older than Jason.
- Jason is notorious for using nicknames to refer to nearly everyone, but he tends not to use nicknames for Cassandra.
- Cassandra and Jason are both names of prominent figures in classical Greek storytelling tradition.
Variations[]
- Batfamily refers to the ship between Jason, Cass and the rest of their allies
- BatKids refers to the ship between Dick Grayson, Jason, Stephanie Brown, Tim Drake, Cass and Damian Wayne
- Young Bats refers to the ship between Dick, Barbara Gordon, Jason, Steph, Tim, Cass and Damian
