So I’m sitting there, cropping an image to make an icon for my Steph RP blog when into my head pops Alicia Silverstone.

Self, I said, you can’t use her as your faceclaim. She’s too old for Steph. Even if she did the blonde Batgirl thing before it was a thing.

No self. Stop.

Stop right now.

dammit self.

A little headcanon before bed…

When Steph “died”, it wasn’t entirely a falsehood. She did actually flatline, and as such was dead for the few minutes it took to bring her back. She wound up in a coma for a couple months before coming out and starting on the road to recovery.

Of course, getting a comatose patient out of Gotham in secret is a bit harder in practise than theory; when Bruce was looking in to making sure Leslie had actually left, he made note of the comatose patient she was “accompanying back to the girl’s parents” and put two and two together. (Not that it was all that hard). Bruce’s own feelings of guilt over what had happened to Steph keeps him from going after Leslie and his not-quite-dead Robin.

The lack of a memorial in the cave was in part because he knew she was alive and in part because of the different circumstances between her death and Jason’s. The memorial was there to help spur him onwards, to remind him why the mission comes first. To put one there for Steph would have been less a reminder of the mission and more a reminder that he hurts the people around him just as much as he tries to save them.

Oh look I mocked up a Batgirl cover. It is less than exciting but what the fuck ever

In the case that I actually do figure out what I’m going to do with my Batgirl fancomic ideas, the cover will be much more dynamic. I just needed to get this out of my head and a fifteen minute sketch seemed like a good way to do it.

(current plan is Stephanie wakes up in the DCnU one day and has all the memories of the DCU, and comes to the conclusion that she’s somehow jumped dimensions and then… I dunno. Goes on an adventure through various realities in an attempt to find “home”. As previously stated, I really don’t have any plot for this.)

heckyeahbatfam:

superhoneybear:

headcanon that damian told steph that he noticed she wasn’t stuffing her bra one day and then she pointed out to him that that meant he must have been staring at her breasts for an extended period of time
there you go anon 🙂 
I hope my handwriting isn’t too inconsistent to read… >.>;;
I CAN’T BREATHE.