So I had a thought earlier and now I need it to be a thing: What if Astra was the leader of the Legion instead of White Bread Manhell? Imagine Astra’s funeral pod getting pulled through the wormhole and it spits her out next to the sun so she heals, and then she crashes to Earth and finds out that a thousand years have passed and Kara is dead (whether from age or something else, I’m not sure) and she’s just so devastated because she thought she could have another chance with her little one. But Astra is nothing if not resilient, and she sees the state of the world and decides to be the hero Kara knew she could be, and so she gathers the Legion and trains them and they’re not an army but she leads them anyways and in time they’re the family she lost on Krypton.
Imagine dorky Brainiac and Imra seeing Astra as a mother. Imagine Astra learning to love these people and vowing to keep them safe no matter what. Imagine Astra being part of a team, having people who love and believe in her and knowing they don’t see her as less for her past. Imagine Astra getting to see Kara again at last when the ship gets sucked back in time and the joy mixed with agony because she knows she has to leave again. Guys, I need this.
1.) Thank you for sharing this wonderful headcanon, I’ve been thinking about it for days 2.) Thank you for the kind comment 3.) Because I’ve been thinking about it for days, I wrote something. It is, of course, ridiculous, and probably not worthy of this headcanon, but here we go:
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“…I’ve
seen this before.”
“Sir?”
J’onn’s
eyes narrow, and his tone is grave. “Venusian Mind Worms. I’m sure
of it.”
that is one of my all time favorite concepts that I have maybe a dozen or so head canons for. I think it would be incredible, and I think it’d be something Kara would really struggle with but ultimately desire after a lifetime of secrecy. That’s one of the things I think they really flubbed with the alien registry episode – I wish they had a subplot wherein people on both sides were calling for Supergirl to openly register as a show of faith in it, and have Kara debating whether she has a moral imperative to do something like that. Her standing beside the president during the signing of the act is a pretty empty gesture if she’s not willing to put her name down as well.
Listen I have So Many Feelings about alien Kara Danvers that isn’t intrinsically linked to Supergirl and I am always about to burst
I want Kara working on a project with some coworkers and them joking about her appetite being alien and her nervously saying, “well, I am.” They laugh nervously, like it was a joke, but she just stares and says with more determination, “I am an alien.”
And she looks calm but actually she’s having like five panic attacks all at once and they all shuffle in a nervous way before one awkwardly mumbles, “well, uh, that’s interesting.” and Kara kind of wants to melt into the floor but then her other coworker with a lot more tact smiles and puts a hand on her shoulder and thanks her for sharing it with them. As far as traumatic incidents go, its not too terrible
I want Kara having tension with another alien working at CatCo who is very gruff and standoffish and bright green and it ends in them having a big fight wherein Kara yells at them for not being a better example of what aliens are like and the coworker saying, “That’s easy for you to say, we can’t all pass as human like you.”
And Kara’s just stuttering out a denial but the other alien leans in close and says, “You may look like them, but you don’t smell like them. I know what you are, and the only reason you act like this is because they don’t know, too.”
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.
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