Tag: *dying*

racethewind10:

supergirl-source:

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. 

silverenzor-el:

motorcyclegirlfriends:

rorykillmore:

sometimes i get really angry and frustrated at kara’s birth parents like. especially when it becomes apparent that she not only has this “i was sent to earth to protect it at any cost” mentality but literally had it from the time she was a child and i’m like. alura you know what would’ve been helpful is if you. would have gone to earth with her. to take that burden upon YOURSELF instead of putting it on her and to, you know, protect your own 13 year old daughter instead of expecting her to fend for herself and her baby cousin

like i get that alura felt that she should die along with krypton for her mistakes, but imo that was a selfish choice. the braver and more responsible thing to do would’ve been to live.

#but that anger in the second gif #it’s contained#and laced with sadness #but it’s present in the jut of her jaw #in 1×08 we hear Kara say ‘you left me alone you sent me away how could you /do/ that? ’#and it feels like the broken plea of a child who was abandoned and can’t understand on an emotional level that it was their only choice#and then kara says this #says that she wonders every day why her mother didn’t squeeze into the pod with her #and the audience realizes that there wasn’t some ‘one life per pod’ life support rule that would have prevented alura from coming along #if kara is believed to be a reliable narrator in this #and i don’t think that they intended for this to be some unfounded assumption #then alura could have saved herself #could have lived to be with her daughter #she really did leave her alone#send her away#and this is kara realizing that the answer to the question ‘how could you do that?’ ‘how could you let me lose /everything/?’ #‘let me be all on my own to take care of a baby on a strange planet when you could have been there to protect me’ #‘love me’ #the answer to that question is that alura chose empty principles over kara #no wonder kara believes that she isn’t meant to have love in her life #no wonder she thinks she should only be supergirl #because the most character defining moment of her life was her mother choosing to pay back some imagined cosmic debt #over ensuring a happy life for her daughter #stole the last person who could love her and protect her away and placed responsibility in it’s stead #and /kara/ feels that she failed in her responsibilities #because she didn’t want to let go of her mother #and that cost kal his heritage       via motorcyclegirlfriends  (x)