Everyone’s done vengeance, everyone’s done ‘The night is so dark,’ ” King says. “Giving Batman more pain doesn’t reveal anything about his character because he’s taken as much pain as he can. But giving him love and joy, that combines with the tragedy of his past into something new and never done before.”
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Batman had had a slew of love interests over the years, from reporter Vicki Vale to supervillainess Talia al Ghul — he even shared a kiss once with Wonder Woman (sorry, Steve Trevor). But what makes Catwoman, aka Selina Kyle, the closest thing to a soulmate is her ability to bring down Batman’s emotional shield and find a connection
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“Catwoman is someone who’s seen his pain and has been through stuff as bad as he has been through,” King says. “She says, ‘Look, both of us are broken, but we can be broken together.’ ”
When the writer was working on how he would have Batman propose, King would get advice from his 7-year-old daughter, who’s obsessed with both superheroes and romance.
If you’re asking why I think Batman and Catwoman have such a great relationship you can check out some of my meta posts here and here and here and here.
If you’re asking why I ship batcat more than any other ship: I don’t know man. I don’t even remember how it happened and sometimes I wish I didn’t. It’s tough being this emotionally invested in something when the consensus seems to be that there’s a limit to how far this relationship will go. Sometimes I wish I had imprinted on a ship with a more concrete endgame status. Sometimes I wish I shipped clois the way I ship batcat. It’s not always easy but at least they get to move in together and get married and have kids and bathtub scenes together, and I don’t think we’ll ever get any of that with Batman and Catwoman.
It’s not that I think they have a perfect relationship; I just happen to think it’s really real. Batman and Catwoman are both really flawed characters that have both done some really fucked up things, and they’re both self-loathing in their own way. Batman is defined by trauma, Catwoman doesn’t always think that she’s a good person, they both think that they’re so messed up and have made so many mistakes that they don’t expect or even think that they deserve love or to be happy. Yet they found just that in each other and I think that’s really beautiful. They both have qualities and characteristics that are lacking in other, provide each other with what they need, and make each other happy and I think that’s what love is. I don’t even think that their relationship was intentionally written that way, but that’s what it developed into. I guess I ship batcat categorically more than any other ship because to me it symbolizes that love can exist in any darkness and that everyone deserves love.
Last sentence made me feel somehow warmness in my shipper heart.
I find it a little funny when it is suggested that the dominant personality in Bruce/Selina’s relationship is Bruce. It’s easy to be deceived by this notion I think, because of course Bruce has to be the dominant link in the relationship, I mean he’s Batman, he’s in control, he always has to be in control. Many pieces of art focus on that I think by portraying Bruce with the mask and Selina without the mask, but I think that actually puts things the other way around: Bruce keeps the mask because he’s scared. He uses the mask to both protect himself and those he loves from reprisals, from being hurt, from experiencing loss once more. He may exert physical control simply by virtue of being bigger and stronger than Selina, but she’s always seemed far more experienced than Bruce at love, in my eyes. She’s not afraid of him, and she’s certainly not afraid of showing him her face. She knows she can share herself, and quite possibly be hurt because of who she is and who he is and all the crazy bullshit that implies, but she knows she can take it, she knows the risk is worth it, and more importantly, she knows the emotionally herculean task that is to get past Bruce’s miles and miles of walls, and she throws herself at it, anyway. Don’t get me wrong, I think both are very strong and capable individuals, but in this particular case I think Selina’s the stronger link. But that’s just me and I think too much about this shit and I should be sleeping right now.
(via whore4batfam)
arms, except it’s legs
i’m sure this joke had potential at some point an d i’ m s o s o r r y
edit: lmao i fixed the backwards foot, legs are hard
