Knightfall is NOT Stephie.

eldritchelf:

gailsimone:

I have just now become aware that a few people are floating this theory. I know the smart move is to just act all mysterious and tell people to keep reading.

But no, she is not Stephie. They are two blonde girls with bad things in their background, other than that, they are almost completely opposite—Charise comes from extreme wealth and privilege, for one thing.

But the BIG thing is, Charise is a killer, a torturer. She would maim a teenager as a warning to others.

I would NEVER, EVER write Steph like that. I would quit first. So, I am not going to be mysterious, that is not Steph. 100% no.

I don’t believe most of the people who are upset really think that Knightfall is Stephanie. What I am seeing said is that between the design and color choices is that Knightfall looks a great deal like Stephanie. What I see being said is that combining that look and her placement in the Batgirl title as a villain who —as you say— is very much an anti-thesis to Stephanie comes across to Stephanie Brown fans as a very poor and very insensitive choice in light of recent issues and concerns regarding the character. In light of repeatedly being told that she is not permitted to even exist in so much as an alternate universe of the DCU. All it really would have taken to avoid rubbing salt in the wounds of that section of fans was a different color scheme.

Respectfully, I am not at all sure that that’s true…people are seeing Steph in anything purple and/or blonde. Their outfits are completely different, their facial structures are not similar, and Steph smiles, Charise never does (a big difference in comics).

More than that, Charise is surrounded in wealth all the time. And she doesn’t have a light, cheerful bone in her body.

Like I said, respectfully, I suspect a lot of the people floating this theory have simply not read the book but are going by an image somewhere on an angry post. I may be wrong, but the two characters are almost polar opposites.