[Steph's quiet for a while, weighing all that up, especially the question, and deciding what she wants to say in return.

She'd smiled at the idea of Batman being a real myth, because people were too scared to admit a woman was beating them up, but it's not really the important part of the conversation.

What does she want to be?]

I want people to take me seriously. [Isn't that what she's always wanted? And it seems out of her grasp, no matter what she does or what uniform she wears.] I never would've thought of being Batgirl if Cass hadn't given it to me, and then I had to fight so hard to keep it. [Because of Babs and Dick, becaues of Bruce. And she hates the fact that Bruce's approval, that he said she could keep Batgirl, means so much.] It's just complicated, you know?

[She thinks Helena will understand.]