History FanFic / AngeloftheBat

* FightingWithChucks: The Question's WeaponOfChoice.

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent:
** The chapters titled "One Shots" usually deviate from the main plot and feature Cassandra minimally.
** The sequel features similar chapters spent apart from Cassandra, but drop the originals religious theme naming and are permitted to go beyond one chapter.

* ConvertingForLove: Tim mentions that his mother was raised Jewish, but converted to Catholicism to win the approval of her in-laws. He even says that she was much more devoted to her faith than his father, who was closer to RaisedCatholic variety.

* RaisedCatholic: Tim's background, though after spending enough time with Cassandra, he admits that it is starting to look appealing again.

* RomanticAsexual: Connor Hawke, by his own admission, probably is a romantic asexual. He’s open to the idea of being romantically involved with someone, but hasn’t met anyone whom he feels that way about yet and would be perfectly happy if he never did.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Cassandra and Stephanie can appear to have one sometimes. [[spoiler:Cassandra actually does harbor feelings, but doesn't want to admit it because she [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy thinks Tim and Stephanie are good for one another]] and fearing IncompatibleOrientation.]]

* {{Asexuality}}: Connor Hawke, by his own admission, probably is asexual. He’s open to the idea of being romantically involved with someone, but hasn’t met anyone whom he feels that way about yet and would be perfectly happy if he never did.

* TheAtoner: Cassandra at one point admits part of the reason she wants to believe in God is the hope she can forgive herself for the kind of person her father raised her to be and the one life she took. Upon hearing this, [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim]] assures her she is [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre better than she thinks she is]], whether she accepts God or not.

* ConspiracyTheorist: The Seraphim is one to a crazed extreme, claiming to be a direct descender of Enochian occultist Edward Kelley and of Enoch himself, and that the Catholic church censored his writings claiming that blood descendants of Enoch would inherit the earth from sinners. The most notable holes in this theory are that Edward Kelley had no blood children, while, as Enocuh was the great-grandfather of Noah, a literal interpretation of the Bible requires every living human to be descended from him.

* ArtisticLicenseReligion: Pretty much everything Cassandra learns about God and Catholicism is in the Bible and it's even quoted directly a few times (see Author Appeal). No, it's the Seraphim whose perception of the Bible ranges from accurate knowledge of the obscure to batshit insanity.

* ConspiracyTheorist: The Seraphim is one to a crazed extreme, claiming to be a direct descender of Enochian occultist Edward Kelley (who had no blood children) and that the Catholic church censored his writings claiming that blood descendants of Enoch would inherit the earth from sinners. That's not getting into how many holes are in the idea of being descended from the grandfather of Noah.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are several hints throughout the Star City segments that [[spoiler: Lupe]] is transgender. [[spoiler: Her voice is described as gruff, she sites feeling confused about herself to breaking off some past relationships and is not married, despite liking the idea and having been with the same man for a decade. Indeed, with the story set in 2010, two biological men would not have been able to legally marry one another.]]

* BiTheWay: After a case of ButNotTooBi in the first story, the sequel does confirm Cassandra is able to feel sexual attraction for men as well as women, but the same rules apply. Namely that she only finds anyone attractive after building an internal bond with them.

** Upon seeing the Question's featureless face, a frightened Sadie wonders aloud if she's {{Slenderman}}.

''Angel of the Bat'' is a Franchise/{{Batman}} fanfiction written by MJTR in an attempt to breath life into a case of WhatCouldHaveBeen.

Eventually, this led to a third story, ‘‘Da Pacem Domine’’[[note]]“Give peace, Lord” in Latin, the name of a crusader prayer[[/note]]. This plot promises a battle between Cassandra and a modern incarnation of the Knights Templar and an alliance with The Question (Renee Montoya) and John Constantine. It can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13524968/1/Angel-of-the-Bat-III-Da-Pacem-Domine here]].

!!''This fic provides examples of the following tropes:''
[[folder: Introduced in the original]]

[[folder: Tropes introduced in Times of Heresy]]

[[folder: Tropes introduced in Da Pacem Domine]]

* IronicEpisodeTitle: “Da Pacem Domine” is Latin for “Give peace, Lord”, and was a chant said during the crusades… and is tied in with the violent antagonists.

In anticipation of the original story’s five year anniversary, a third story entitled ‘‘Da Pacem Domine’’[[note]]“Give peace, Lord” in Latin, the name of a crusader prayer[[/note]] began development. Featuring a conflict within the Order of Saint Dumas, Cassandra is side with fellow DC heroes John Constantine and the Question (Renee Montoya) in the search for the truth behind the murder of Azrael. It can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13236991/1/Angel-of-the-Bat-Da-Pacem-Domine here]].

* ADayInTheLimelight: After serving as a relatively late addition to the cast in the first story and being away for half of the second, Sadie is intrinsically tied to the action of the third, due to carrying Azrael's memories.
* BloodOath: Abraham Arlington tried to push John Constantine into one, which the magician refused. This backfires when Arlington's message ends up with Sadie instead.
* CharacterDevelopment: MJTR himself was frustrated by how flakey Sadie sometimes seemed in ‘‘Times of Heresy’’, so she’s quite a bit better at handling heavy news and is shown to have emotionally matured between stories.
* ClingyCostume: The Suit of Sorrows can be removed, but only through the death of the wearer or a very specific religious ritual.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman / ClothesMakeTheManiac: The Suit of Sorrows. Whoever wears the uniform is granted extraordinary physical strength and super speed, but it is shown the take a mental toll on its wearer. Arlington was sputtering and twitchy all throughout his short appearance and Cassandra did far more damage to some opponents than she’d meant to when she went on autopilot during a fight.
* DramaticUnmask: Inverted. Cassandra’s identity is outed to Sadie, Constantine, and the Question when the Suit of Sorrows adapts to the design of her Angel uniform.
* FourPhilosophyEnsemble:
** Optimist- Cassandra, by nature of her belief and trust in others.
** Cynic- John Constantine, through his reluctance to get involved, the pleasure he takes frustrating anyone (including his allies) any chance he gets, and his disdain for the heaven, hell and religion in general.
** Realist- Renee Montoya, whom the text alludes to wanting to be more hopeful, but whose ideals have brought her trouble again and again.
** Conflicted- Sadie, who really has and wants no place in the battle going on, but is both bound to it and trying to support Cassie.
* TheFundamentalist: Abraham Arlington is a downplayed example. He very clearly wants nothing to do with Constantine’s magic and admonishes him for using “Jesus Christ” as a curse, but tolerated him because he had nowhere else to turn.
* GenreShift: Per the writer, each of the three stories in the trilogy occupies a different places on the SlidingScaleOfRealisticVersusFantastic. In the original (Unusual), there are a handful of genuine supernatural elements, but most beyond that handful are played up as open to interpretation. The sequel (Unrealistic) limits its fantasy elements to its superheroics and a few coincidences. And the third finally hits Fantastic, with magic and demons amuck.

* KnightTemplar: A faction of them serve as the main antagonists.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Constantine at one point mentions, “[[Literature/TheDresdenFiles That fellow from Chicago. He’s got a number in the phone book, says he’s a wizard and everything]]”.
* NonActionGuy: With no combat or tactical training, Sadie is a relatively normal twenty-two year old college student accompanying one of the world’s finest martial artists, a conspiracy theorist and a magician.
* SirSwearsALot: Constantine. Tellingly, while the first two stories weren’t slouches in the swearing department, the use of any religious cursing is limited to big character moments [[note]]The Seraphim shouting, “God damn it!” when he is foiled in the first and Stephanie remarking, “Jesus” at Cassie’s brutality in the second[[/note]]. Constantine, on the other hand, shouts his first religious swear (“Jesus Christ!”) in the first chapter.
* SkewedPriorities: Arlington chastises Constantine for shouting the Lord’s name in vain in the midst of their fight with Azmodus, which seriously pisses Constantine off.
* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: This appears to be how the Suit of Sorrows functions.
* [[UnderstandingBoyfriend Understanding Girlfriend]]: Once Sadie learns Cassandra is the Angel of the Bat, it ends up adding a new layer of understanding and admiration to their relationship

** In the same conversation, Connor mentions Roy’s daughter, Lian, likes to dress up as “Little Red Hood.” Lian Harper operated under the superhero identity “Red Hood” in ‘‘ComicBooks/KingdomCome’’.

* HarmlessVillain: Deconstructed, though not to the point of NotSoHarmlessVillain. Cameron Gram is as threatening to Cassie as he is precisely ‘‘because’’ she can’t just write him off as a violent lunatic like the Seraphim. Between the confidence he exudes when tackling his own bigoted and controversial opinions and the fact he’s been a practicing Christian much longer than she has, Gram makes Cassandra question if it is she who is twisting God into something he’s not, and not Gram.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The bearded man who refers to Cassandra as "Kung Pao Chicken" and Lupe as "fag" [[spoiler:due to her transsexuality]].

* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Subverted. There scene in which the reader learns that [[spoiler: Lupe is a male-to-female transsexual]] is indeed very disturbing. However, it is so as a result of an attack by a third party, not anything the character is doing.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are several hints throughout the Star City segments that [[spoiler: Lupe]] is transsexual. [[spoiler: Her voice is described as gruff, she sites feeling confused about herself to breaking off some past relationships and is not married, despite liking the idea and having been with the same man for a decade. Indeed, with the story set in 2010, two biological men would not have been able to legally marry one another.]]

* SmallRoleBigImpact: The bearded man is an unnamed character who threatens a minor character after outing them as a transsexual. Despite only appearing for a single scene, this action has a huge part in finally snapping Cassandra out of the mental slump she’d been in for half of the story.

* TwoferTokenMinority: Lupe, who is Latina and [[spoiler: transsexual]].

* AdaptationalNationality: Michael Lane, who is from the American east coast in the main DC canon, is stated to speak with a British accent when the cast first meets him.
* ADayInTheLimelight: After serving as a relatively late addition to the cast in the first story and being away for half of the second, Sadie is intrinsically tied to the action of the third.
* BloodOath: Constantine was basically forced to swear a blood oath to Abraham Arlington after the latter agreed to save his life. Per their agreement, Constantine must deliver a specific message to Father Garret Day, and attempting to leak it to anyone else causes him to wheeze and choke.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Like the first story, Cassandra and company are again fighting a sect of technologically empowered religious fundamentalists. However, the “crusaders” this time around are much more focused and less wonton in their violence, including that they don’t want to pick a fight with the whole group when they only want to kill Constantine.
* DemonOfHumanOrigin: Azmodus, longtime enemy of ComicBook/TheSpectre, was once human. His true nature is alluded to when Arlington stabs him with the Sword of Salvation.

* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Constantine at one point mentions, “[[Literature/TheDresdenFiles That fellow from Chicago. He’s got a number in the phone book, says he’s and everything]]”.

* RaisedCatholic: Renee Montoya’s conservative Latina upbringing is alluded to, and it causes her to feel immediate empathy for Cassandra when the girl’s own queer-Catholic identity is mentioned.

* TrackingSpell: Constantine suspects the Order of Saint Dumas is tailing the group by tracking magical discharge from Arlington sloppily transferring the Suit of Sorrows to Cassandra. He can’t scrub anyone in the group of the stain, but he can dull it while the others are near him.

In anticipation of the original story’s five year anniversary, a third story entitled ‘‘Da Pacem Domine’’[[note]]“Give peace, Lord” in Latin, the name of a crusader prayer[[/note]] began development. Featuring a conflict within the Order of Saint Dumas, Cassandra is side with fellow DC heroes John Constantine and the Question (Renee Montoya) in the search for the truth behind the murder of Azrael. It can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13102191/1/Angel-of-the-Bat-Da-Pacem-Domine here]].

* JewishLifeEvents: Tim's mother, although a convert to Catholicism, insisted he have the chance to experience both of his religious backgrounds. As a result, Tim mentions he was, "The only kid in my class to have First Communion and a Bris."

* {{UsefulNotes/Judaism}}: None of the main cast practice the religion in any significant way, but a number of characters are ethnically Jewish, including Tim, Bruce, The Seraphim and his brother Joshua.

''[[LateArrivalSpoiler Late Arrival Spoilers]] for the original story will not be tagged for Heresy. You have been warned''

** Zig zagged with Cassie. He sentences are usually kept short and to the point, but she's considerably better at speaking and understanding things than she ever was in her 2000's series.

** Connor mentions Roy Harper at one point, and asks if Dick Grayson is going to reunite his ‘Titans’’ team anytime soon as Roy is bored with solo work. Tim jokes that he and Jason Todd could go run around and be angry with one another, referencing ‘‘ComicBook/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws’’.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The bearded man, who refers to Cassandra as, “Kung Pao Chicken” and Lupe as “fag,” [[spoiler: due to her transsexuality.]]

* QuestionableConsent: A major element of chapter 15.
* PreachersKid: Lipov claims to be the son of a Russian Orthadox deacon whose family was imprisoned and killed by the KGB. When asked by one of his subordinates if this is the truth, however, he leaves the matter ambiguous.
* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Downplayed. The Reapers were antagonists in Comicbook/Batgirl2009 and Stephanie does still fight them, but they’re treated as a threat to the Bat-family as a whole. That said, they have developed a particular grudge against Steph after their first humiliating defeat.

* SinsOfTheFather: The villains are targeting Cassandra specifically because she is David Cain’s daughter.

* TookALevelInKindness: In his one scene, the imprisoned Daniel Lebowitz ([[BigBad The Seraphim]] from the previous story) had settled quite significantly. When offered the chance at revenge toward Cassandra, he refuses and states his defeat means God values Cassandra’s belief system over his own.

* TraumaButton: The Odmience, while almost always emotionless, goes into traumatic fits when he is reminded of his ParentalSubstitute Sister Katya, including the name she gave him, "Rafal."
* TwoferTokenMinority: Lupe, who is Latina and [[spoiler: transsexual]]

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: The chapters titled "One Shots" usually deviate from the main plot and feature Cassandra minimally.

* BeliefMakesYouStupid: Or rather, extremist belief makes you stupid. The Seraphim is presented as a dangerous foe precisely because he's so misinformed that he is unpredictable. Cassie, of course, is immune to this.
** Damian states this is his opinion of religion in Heresy, having personally witness [[ComicBook/RasAlGhul Ra’s al Ghul]] deceive people into believing he was a god. His presentation is careful, since Cassandra is the only member of the immediate Bat-family he actually respects besides his father.

* BondVillainStupidity: The Seraphim has numerous chances to kill members of the Bat Family and even has them at his mercy at one point, but doesn't manage to kill any of them, insisting he will only kill Batman after he has broken and converted the rest of the family to his cult. [[spoiler: Justified to a degree because he never wanted to kill Batman at all- he wanted to infuriate him to such a point that he'd find a way to kill him in spite of his immortality, like he believes he did Blackfire.]]

* BrokenBird: [[spoiler: Cassandra, after learning homosexuality is sinful to the Catholic church and questioning if God hates her for loving Stephanie, temporarily backtracks on all the progress she made on getting her life together. Thankfully, she gets better.]]
** Though ThePollyanna in most situations, the fic makes it clear Stephanie has some ''serious'' unresolved issues in her life, particularly regarding her pregnancy (nearly every time she mentions it she calls herself a "stupid teenager"), her failures as Robin, the events leading up to War Games and [[spoiler: resentment that Bruce never tried to find her after her death was faked.]]

* CrisisOfFaith: A major part towards the end of the story is Cassandra's struggle to keep her newly discovered faith.

* EasyEvangelism: Averted. Though Cassandra is always seeking to learn more, it takes a lot to actually convince her God exists.
** Played straight with [[spoiler: The Church of the Voice of God, who almost instantly surrender when Stephanie tricks them into believing she is a herald of Mary and that she has been sent to stop their actions... Though WordOfGod says it was partially thanks to the fact the congregation was sick of being killed off by [[BadBoss the Seraphim]] for minor failures.]]
* EnemyMine: Stephanie struggles to bring Red Hood to her cause of [[spoiler: saving Cassie]] because it will mean they will be closer to bringing down their mutual enemy The Seraphim. It doesn't work [[spoiler: at first. Batman eventually breaks Jason's resistance personally.]]

* JewsLoveToArgue: Though he is religiously an atheist, [[spoiler: Joshua]] is highly argumentative against The Seraphim. The both of them are ethnically Jewish.

* {{Naytheist}}: As mentioned above, Bruce Wayne isn't a religious man and admits he isn't sure he believes the God of Christianity exists. This doesn't stop him from supporting his daughter though.

* OriginalCharacter: The Seraphim (real name Daniel Lebowitz), Joshua Lebowitz, Monsignor George Ryan and Sadie Leach are all original characters.
** The sequel introduces Lipov and the Odmience, who have no equivalents in canon but have ties back to Cassandra’s father.

* TheQuietOne: Zig zagged. Cassie's sentences are usually kept short and to the point, but she's considerably better at speaking and understanding things than she ever was in her 2000's series.
** In the sequel, the Odmience fills this roll [[spoiler: as his slashed vocal chords leave him physically unable to speak]]

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Cassandra and Stephanie can appear to have one sometimes. [[spoiler: Cassandra actually does harbor feelings, but doesn't want to admit it because she [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy thinks Tim and Stephanie are good for one another]] and fearing IncompatibleOrientation.]]

* ShadowArchetype: It is acknowledged that The Seraphim and Cassandra have a few things in common, including that they were raised without religion and came to embrace it as they grew older and that both were groomed to be [[TykeBomb Tyke Bombs]]. Naturally the difference is Cassandra's healthy association with her faith and The Seraphim's murderous obsession.

* SpellMyNameWithAThe: The villain of the story is almost universally referred as "The Seraphim" rather than "Seraphim".

* DeconReconSwitch: As with the original:
** Cassie’s desire to be a ChasteHero plays a role in ending her relationship with her girlfriend and presents Sadie’s desire to have sex with her as perfectly normal, which initially calls the value Cassie places on her virginity into question. Reconstructed later, however, when Sadie acknowledges that she doesn’t have to agree with Cassandra to respect her personal boundaries and the reasons for their split ran deeper.
* DemonicPossession: Lipov suggests, after David Cain claims he killed him, that he is actually just a corpse possessed by vengeful demons… and then promptly claims that he killed all the demons who possessed him, because his hate was greater than theirs.

* TheirFirstTime: Sadie initiates this with Cassandra after an especially good date after several months of dating. It goes very, ‘‘very’’ wrong.

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* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Downplayed. The Reapers were antagonists in Comicbooks/Batgirl2009 and Stephanie does still fight them, but they’re treated as a threat to the Bat-family as a whole. That said, they have developed a particular grudge against Steph after their first humiliating defeat.

* PointOfDivergence: One definitely existed before, considering Jason Todd’s aforementioned involvement in the first story when he should have been off in ComicBooks/CountdownToFinalCrisis at the time, and the plot seems to suggest ComicBooks/FinalCrisis hasn’t happened at all, considering Bruce Wayne is still alive and well in modern time and Stephanie and Tim graduated high school to go to college.