Everything but cold fire
is a one-shot Batgirl/Galaxy: The Prettiest Star fanfiction by amageish. It is available to read on Archive of Our Own.
Cassandra Cain-Wayne grapples with gender dysphoria while Stephanie and Taylor try their best to help her without being shut out.
Everything but cold fire provides examples of:
- Adaptational Gender Identity: Cass and Stephanie are cis-women in canon, while they're trans women here.
- Adaptation Name Change:
- Cass takes on Bruce Wayne's last name here after being legally adopted by him, so her name is Cassandra Cain-Wayne.
- Downplayed with Taelyr, who mostly uses her birth name (Taelyr) here, while she almost never uses it in canon.
- Age-Gap Romance: Invoked by Stephanie, who while assuming that Cass and Taelyr are flirting, jokingly tells Taelyr that Cass is too old for her.
- Armor-Piercing Question: Taelyr's question of whether Cassandra likes her body forces Cass to confront her gender dysphoria.
- Commonality Connection:
- Stephanie, Cass, and Taeylr bond over being trans women and having crappy fathers.
- Cass and Taelyr bond about being forced to lie to themselves about their true selves by said crappy fathers.
- Content Warning: There's a list of trigger warnings at the top of the fic.
- My Nayme Is: Taylor is referred as Taelyr, her birth name.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: Invoked. When Taelyr comforts Cass, Cass is in disbelief that a teenager could be mature enough to realize what's wrong and try to fix it.
