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I’ll never be over how DC took Stephanie Brown a character who was shown time & time again to never give up, she can’t give up, she doesnt know how to give up, giving up goes against who she is as a person in her very core& then after the N52 write her.. constantly trying to quit
Before the reboot Steph was shown that despite everyone being against her she wouldn’t quit Bruce saying “even after I fired her, her determination remained unabated.” characters constantly noted that Steph’s unsinkable personality was what made Steph well Stephanie Brown
Steph trying to quit or being a person who gives up would be like Cassandra Cain suddenly deciding that she thinks the Batsymbol is worthless & Bruce’s mission is wrong or Dick Grayson deciding he hates acrobatics & yet when the reboot hit that’s exactly what DC did to Steph.
- Convergence Batgirl happened where apparently Steph had quit Batgirl (something that she had to prove herself for over & over) & Steph fans who had been excited to see Steph again after her being missing from comics for so long could only look at it & be like "wtf is this!?”
- Then Batman Eternal came along & they had Harper Row giving a speech to convince Steph to be a hero & not run away from Gotham, Stephanie ‘got determination in spades’ Brown suddenly needed a pep talk in not giving up.
- Then Tynion’s Tec run came along & as soon as she thinks Tim’s not in the picture anymore, Steph wants to quit, she thinks everyone else should quit. What is this!? Where is Stephanie Brown!?
- And now Robin Eternal where Steph apparently quit off screen & only came back because Tim/ the plot needed her to...
Where is Stephanie ‘literally died rather than stop being a vigilante because death was the only thing that could get her to stop & even then dying only slowed her down’ Brown!?
This isn’t Steph any story that involves Steph quitting or wanting to give up is not Steph. Steph has never wanted to quit, when Tim stopped fighting crime Steph kept on fighting crime, when Bruce sabotaged her & tried to force her to quit she kept on fighting crime
Writing Steph quitting or wanting to quit goes against everything she is as a character & is a huge disservice to her & the fact that DC keeps on doing this is showing that they aren’t even pretending to care about her anymore.
Writing a Stephanie Brown that quits is not writing Stephanie Brown it’s writing a character who isn’t even recognisable as Steph anymore
