I went to work for Cat Grant because I thought working in a media company run by a powerful woman who actually shapes the way people think would be the way that I could make a difference but instead I just fetch layouts and coffee. […] I’m not normal, I have the same powers he does. I can lift a bus, stop a bullet. Alex, I can fly.
#I really really love this quote#bc one of my biggest questions regarding Kara#is why she didn’t follow in her cousin’s footsteps#and basically /closeted/ herself#My personal headcanon is Kara’s greatest fear is hurting the ppl she loves#most particularly the Danvers#Like for the first ten years of her life.. Kara was able to be /normal/#reckless and stumbling and clumsy#then she arrives on a world where that same childlike recklessness can actually get people killed#a child with the strength of several dozen men#and one day.. she saw how being /normal/ can hurt someone#and she wound up hurting her sister Alex#Kara with her childlike hero worship.. hurting the one person she treasures most#her sister#an act that would terrify Kara#the world has its hero.. Superman#Kara does the one thing she believes will keep her hero in her life.. gives up using her powers (via @trancer21)
This makes that scene in episode 2 even more poignant, because its not just Kara asking her big sister to have faith in her, its Kara asking the person she hurt, the one who means so much to her that she would give up everything for, to trust that she won’t make the same mistake again.
Question of Smoke 