dcwomenkickingass:

Dan Didio is answering fan’s questions on Facebook and when asked if Stephanie Brown was in the DCnU, he answered “yes.” When asked what she was doing he said:

Could this be the pitch that Gail Simone has said she put in with “benched” characters?

DNW Gail to touch Steph or Cass, sorry. Not just because of the history she has with them(I know, I know, Gail likes Steph NOW, she likes Cass NOW, good on her I suppose, but I can’t help but remember the mischaracterizations of Cass and open dislike of Steph that just made me wince) but also because it means Steph and Cass would be side characters in Babs’ Batgirl book

and they’re already being invalidated as Batgirls and DC execs are basically saying that they aren’t the REAL Batgirls

And every time I’d see them with Babs as the glorified “real” Batgirl, it will feel just as awful and terrible as when people say Steph wasn’t “really” Robin

but ten times worse, because it’ll be with Cass, too

Goddamn it I waited two years for Cass to return, I can’t see her benched and pushed aside like this.

And I don’t trust Didio with Steph

THE LEAST AMOUNT OF TRUST EVER