{"id":1901,"date":"2013-02-19T15:32:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T15:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catwoman-cattales.com\/gallery\/in-the-shadow-of-the-bat\/"},"modified":"2019-07-24T13:18:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T13:18:37","slug":"in-the-shadow-of-the-bat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/catwoman-cattales.com\/gallery\/in-the-shadow-of-the-bat\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosplay: In The Shadow of The Bat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In The Shadow of the Bat by Paul Cory<\/a>; DragonCon 2012 \u00a9 Paul Cory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ah, but that particular shadow isn’t the Batman she knows but Azrael-Batman.<\/p>\n

There are two significant flashbacks in to that historic (read: awful) moment when Selina met “Pheromones” aka “that thing<\/i> in the Batman costume” aka AzBat.\u00a0 In Armchair Detective<\/a>, Selina relives it almost word-for-word as she races home at the news that Bruce is injured “like some poetic Twilight Zone hell where you\u2019re trapped in the worst night of your life for all eternity.”<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cOn a catwalk?\u00a0 My haven\u2019t we changed.\u201d
\n\u201cAnd you.\u00a0 From mere theft to terrorist blackmail\u2026\u201d\u00a0 <\/i>
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If it wasn\u2019t the worst moment of my life, I\u2019d be hard-pressed to say what was.\u00a0 That mechanized monstrosity of a costume, everyone assumed he was just overcompensating after the Bane injury.\u00a0 There was no reason to think it wasn\u2019t still Batman under the mask.\u00a0 Not until that moment.\u00a0 Not until he accused me of stealing nerve gas for terrorists.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The other is in Blueprints<\/a>, when Fate – or perhaps Karma – very kindly reversed that first meeting for her.\u00a0 Now living at the manor, as at home in the Batcave as Bruce himself, it is she who is lookng down from a catwalk – into the Batmobile hangar where Jean Paul Valley is doing the Bat-clan a favor, picking up a delivery of jet fuel…<\/p>\n

She would never forget or completely forgive that first encounter.\u00a0 She was getting a deadly neurotoxin out of circulation and he accused her of stealing it for terrorists.\u00a0 The toxin was stored in awkward twenty kilo canisters\u2014not unlike the tanks of jet fuel Jean Paul was unloading now.\u00a0 Quite like them in fact, and she watched with a cruel, silent cat-smile as he unloaded tank after tank from the van and stacked them in the corner. <\/span><\/p>\n

He turned finally, feeling the cold, malevolent eyes watching him.\u00a0 Not a single word was said aloud.\u00a0 There was no need.\u00a0 The scene was such a perfect reversal of that first meeting, the words of that night replayed just as distinctly in both their memories:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOn a Catwalk?\u00a0 My, haven\u2019t we changed.\u201d
\n\u201cAnd you.\u00a0 From mere theft to terrorist blackmail, or at least an accomplice.\u201d
\n\u201cThat\u2019s not funny.\u201d <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

It went on.\u00a0 Silent.\u00a0 Mocking.\u00a0 Contemptuous.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s close enough.\u201d
\n\u201cYou\u2019re right. Close enough to realize you\u2019re not him.\u201d\u00a0 <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Selina gave a scornful half-smile, turned, and left the hangar.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Pheromones.<\/i> It was her pet name for Jean Paul Valley, because he lacked them.\u00a0 He wasn\u2019t good for much in Selina\u2019s view, but this chance meeting did accomplish one thing: it suggested a way to proceed on the other pheromones matter.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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