randomthingsthatilike123:

i’m rewatching the scene with alura’s hologram, “could she have saved us?”
“she was a criminal” “but was she right?”

do you think about how many nights this rattles around in her head, over and
over and over, staying up all night wondering if there was a way to save her
planet, if her family could have lived

“we were both given life sentences by my mother” god, kara viewing this on
earth as a life sentence, as a forced exile–and then there’s the fact
that kara also spent 24 years in the phantom zone

There’s just one more line that I think about, in that confrontation “I think
you went crazy in Fort Rozz. I think
you stared into miles of pitch black space until everything good inside of you died.”

This
is specific, this isn’t out of
nowhere, this sounds like someone who has gone through the same experience.

And Astra? Astra doesn’t deny it. Astra
talks as if she thinks Kara is wholly unaware of what it’s like to be in the Phantom Zone “my
mother was the best person to ever live” “tell that to us thrown into that
nightmare prison.” Kara wasn’t in Fort Rozz but she was still in the phantom
zone—Kryptonians don’t age, not really. We’ve seen that with Clark. Astra didn’t
know that Kara was alive—god, when do you think she finds out that Kara spent
24 years in that abyss, just like she did? Because when she did—I think it
broke her heart.