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randomthingsthatilike123:

ayrki:

randomthingsthatilike123:

have you considered that Kara was really into music as a child because well, she couldn’t exactly be into sports with her powers, after all, and she is the only one with knowledge of Kryptonian music. If she doesn’t learn to play it herself, then she will never hear it again. And the instruments aren’t quite the same, but they’re similar enough that when she plays for a moment she can fool herself into believing that her parents would just be right there when she looked up

Okay, I like your thought.  (I meant it when I was stalking your blog tags and that you have awesome thoughts)

Have you also considered that it is through music, through playing music, that Kara being to gain and later hones her control?  Music is sound but it’s also touch.  It’s vibration and force and knowing exactly what pressure or exhale is required to strike the note right.  It’s in knowing how much to manipulate or adjust that resulting sound to produce something even greater.

Kara is awkward and anxious, but she’s not a klutz.  She’s managed -in ten years- to go from suddenly having super-strength, speed, and senses to having pretty damned good control of them.  While growing, while experiencing this new, alien world around her.  And while, you know, dealing with the grief of losing everything she’s ever known including her remaining purpose in life.

Headcanon: if Kara learns and/or teaches herself music, this is one of the ways she finds to hone her control and mastery over her abilities on the finer end of the scale.  This still leaves the upper spectrum as relatively inexperienced, which works into canon.  (And @mysteriousangstninja, this would totally work in with one of those ideas we’ve been talking about.)

Which then leads me to the inevitable: Kara’s got a lot of nervous actions, we already know that, but add that with an inclination towards music, towards touch and rhythm and the soothing pattern edged out with finger tips?  Kara’s always going to be hesitant with her strength, but one thing she learned from music was how to touch lightly.  It tends to be lost on most, who think it’s insignificant from how faint it is.  It’s barely there and everyone is too busy to really pay attention.  But imagine someone who isn’t. Someone who stops and takes the time and realises that Kara’s got an unfathomable gentleness about her touch.  She can make instruments sing, can draw the most exquisite of hums from string and marvels at each percussive vibration.  Drums and strings and woodwinds are all amazing, but its humans who make Kara light up with delight.  

Of course, now I think I want a musician AU, but I’m pretty sure I’d be happy in seeing any form of musical!Kara played out.

# oh my god i love this so much # like there is also a kind of safety in fame too # because it is so much harder to disappear a famous person than it is an anonymous one # one who is beloved by the public and would have more than one person fight for them # like alex would worry both more and less because there are so many people watching kara # that can easily see her lose control but at the same time so many people watching her means alex can relax just a littel bit more # because kara being america’s sweetheart kind of thing # and music is something that kara doesnt have to feel guilty about using her powers for # or thinking it gives her an unfair advt compared to like maybe an athlete or something because the part of music it is for other people # and i’m just assuming here kara is at least somewhat famous # like has a p specific following

randomthingsthatilike123:

It’s funny that we talk about Alex’s complete lack of care
for her own safety but like

Alex’s sister is a god.

Straight up, can fly, shoot lasers out of her eyes, stronger
than Hercules, the stuff out of mythology kind of god with less than stellar control
and this is who needs her—hugs without hesitation when she sees her struggle to
have the control to pet a cat and break a boys nose during her first kiss. And
it is Alex’s choice to hold her hand
when Kara could pulverize her bones into literal dust, to comfort her when she’s
upset and could hug her when Kara could so very easily bend her in half—to be the
metaphorical good man in a storm when all of Kara’s senses are going haywire
and there’s so much to process, so
much she doesn’t know—the trauma of being the last of her people, of being
completely overwhelmed. Every touch is a possible death sentence or body cast
in the making.

This is Alex’s sister. Alex is responsible for a fucking god
and is a god’s lodestone, her tether to
mortality (not humanity. She is not human,
but there is a reason why red!Kara is
her worst self, and it is not only Alex who is preventing that
from being reality—so much of it is Kara herself, making her own choices and it
would be a disservice to Kara to suggest otherwise—but it is a lot Alex that keeps that from happening).

And Alex does all of this without fear, without hesitation,
without concern.

And it’s a two way street—physical danger? Kara can get her out of it. Of course
Alex has a reputation for being reckless even for a DEO agent—look at
who loves her. 

House on fire? Kara would rush in to save her. A scream of
distress? Or even a simple spoken word? Kara would come flying to save her. Jump
off a building? New meaning to catch you when you fall. Someone shooting at
you? Her sister is bulletproof. Try
it. And sure Kara didn’t know about Alex at the DEO—but what I said about Alex
asking for help still applies.This is Kara, her favorite person in the world–not Supergirl (her words, not mine)

This isn’t to say that Alex is using or taking advantage of
Kara—again, it’s a two way street, and alex would also do anything for Kara.
But. It is definitely going to skew
her perceptions of what is ‘safe’ when your safety net is a god

Especially since—and here’s the real kicker— “The story is
only a tragedy if the god loves you back”—I’ve seen this said plenty of times
about Kara’s love interests, but god.
If that applies to anyone? It’s alex. Alex, who’s life has slowly become some
kind of Greek tragedy because of her love for her sister—and her sister’s love
for her.

Alex has the love of a god. And like everything in Kara’s
life—it’s only ever bound to end in tragedy.

dealanexmachina:

aunicorndumbass:

How could you?

Imagine for a moment, if Kara had been the one to suspect Jeremiah, all on her own, without anyone else’s prompting. 

Imagine if she was the instigator of the plot, the driving force of the episode because she’s been down this road before, with Astra, with Alura, now this season with Zor-El. She more than anyone else knows what it’s like to lose a parental figure as a child and then be confronted with their flaws as an adult and have that rose tinted image of them shatter before you.

Jeremiah survived Cadmus for 10+ years. That meant he *had* to be broken in some way, in the same way Astra had to have changed after years in Fort Rozz and surviving on Earth. Kara would know that and she would be looking for signs to see how she could help with that healing process- and that could have very well have been the catalyst for her thinking that something is amiss. 

(She also has X-Ray vision and Jeremiah walked into the DEO hurt, so it wouldn’t have taken much for her to see red flags if she just scanned him once over while he was getting checked out and cleared by medical.)

But back to the point- imagine how much more interesting to would have been to see Kara wrestle with herself, with her own optimism and hope and belief in the goodness in others in sharp contrast to all the lessons she has learned in S1 and with the S2 mid-season finale.

You could still have the boys walk it through with her. You could have her actually share a conversation with J’onn about it one-on-one since he’s the one who knew Jeremiah best outside of their family, and is also a mind-reader.

And most of all, that big confrontation with Alex would be so much more powerful if KARA was the one who started the investigation, because then you could bring in call backs to Alex seeing it as Kara not picking her/their family again (from Jeremiah). You could have a callback to how this fits into Kara feeling like Alex is slipping away. You could even have Alex argue that – our dad is not like your parents and aunt. The Humans vs Aliens theme touched on again.

So that when Kara is proven right about Jeremiah, and we get this scene with Alex falling apart, we could have had a callback, this time Kara catching Alex as she cried about her parent’s betrayal in the end. This time Kara comforting her sister because she knows what it feels like to be the sole survivor and beneficiary of the hard choices and sometimes terrible things her parents have done for the sake of protecting them.

Kara, at least in the first season, was closer to her mother. Alex is clearly her father’s child. Imagine if the show actually made this parallel in the episode and how much richer the story could have been.

Imagine if this show was about Kara and Alex again, and Kara was the driver of the plot of her own show.

randomthingsthatilike123:

kutekoolkat:

Honestly, I would’ve loved to see this episode with Astra alive and on her way to redemption. Not that it wasn’t brilliant as is (it’s one of my favourites so far), but we know the only reason they chose to off her was because Laura was too busy to film. So it makes me wonder if Astra had still been around, how would she have reacted to see Kara – the one person who believed Astra could change for the better – go to the dark side? Would she embrace the pull to join her or would she be strong enough to resist the urge? 

I suppose if there were so much of a chance of Astra switching sides, Alex would remind her what the real Kara would want; what her sweet, kind Little One would hope Astra would choose when seeing her go off the rails like this.

I also want to know how Kara would hurt Astra. We know that even without the ‘that’s why you killed my aunt’ line, the interaction between Kara and Alex was pretty loaded, pretty hurtful. Then again, would she hurt Astra? Or would she understand where Astra – or Non – came from and want to join their side of the battle? 

I don’t know, I’m just really interested in what Astra’s role would’ve been; there are so many possibilities.

I’m absolutely here for Red!Kara talking to Astra because that would fuck me up in the best of ways. Because we’ve seen Kara’s rage at Alura for leaving her alone, for being the one to send her away. And we’ve seen Kara angry at Astra, but the thing with that? It’s never really been a personal kind of anger. It’s an anger for the things Astra has done to Earth, and what happened on Krypton, for the atrocities she’s committed in her pursuit of her goals but it’s anger on someone else’s behalf. It’s never really shown to be selfish anger. If Kara is that angry at a hologram of Alura for leaving her alone, how much angrier must she be at Astra, for leaving her alone.

Because unlike Alura, Astra was on Earth. Alura might have made the choice to send her off, but that was a split second decision not to crawl into the pod with Kara, made in the heat of a moment, no time to take it back. But Astra? Day after day, week after week, year after year, Kara had to deal with being the last, the only one who remembered Krypton. She had to shoulder all that loneliness and pain and agony and death all by herself. And we’ve seen with the Black Mercy, there really is very little Kara will not give up to have Alex in her life, but everything else? She’d give up, to have her old life back. And Astra was a part of that life.

And it wasn’t until she became Supergirl did Astra make contact with her. THe woman who taught her the names of all the stars, who once told her she couldn’t love a daughter as much as she loved Kara, and she made the decision over and over not to contact her, because at least from Kara’s perspective, all she would need to do to find out about Kara is to contact Kal-El. But she didn’t.

It’s easy for Kara to be angry on behalf of others, but for herself? That’s a very different story, one we got to see with the red k letting nothing go unsaid and god I wish we got to see Kara’s interacting with her Aunt and then we’d get to see why it took over a decade for them to have contact, or if Astra actually knew where Kara was, or even if Astra knew she was alive (also I want them to hug afterwards they never hugged and I’m so sad)

complete sidenote, but wow did melissa do a fantastic job with red!kara just the way she holds herself as evil!k and just completely transforming anything recognizable about what we’ve come to associate with kara, like we’ve seen plenty of comparisons of how melissa based her work!kara as an homage to calista, and clearly this is also an homage to laura.

racethewind10:

cosima-maslany:

You know what angers me the most about this scene? The fact that she’s alone.

I don’t know if they meant this or if I’m looking too much into it but this is a very cruel thing to do. And a very painful metaphor to execute. Because here’s Alex, the woman who often feels alone, left out and not good enough. Here’s Alex, the woman who loved her father more than anyone in the world. Here’s that woman, facing a man who’s far from being her father. Here she is, alone, left out and not good enough.

Alone because Kara was her only backup and she had to leave to fulfill her Supergirl duties. Left out because there’s no one else around her. And not good enough because she couldn’t arrest that man. Or shoot him. Or do anything to stop him. Suddenly she was that 14/15 year old girl who’s father vanished all over again.

Alone, left out, not good enough and powerless.

I don’t know if any of you are familiar with Into The Woods but it’s basically a metaphor about how sometimes you find yourself “in the woods” of life and you need to figure yourself out. Alex got into the woods with her sister but she’s alone now. And she’s probably still mad with her sister. Not for leaving, but for believing someone else. And now she’s mad at herself for not believing her sister.

Alex Danvers is inside the woods and she’s all alone. She’s going to lose herself in these woods, she’s going to free fall deep into that same dark hole Hank rescued her from.

There was another way to do this and I’m afraid the writers choose the not so good way…. With that being said, I’ll try not to think about this episode and this moment in specific and focus on this version of the story where the Alien Family, as a family, deal with this. 

#i keep having feelings about that last gif #because she’s such a soldier #she’s having a breakdown #all alone #in a forest #but she’s still a soldier #she doesn’t just fall or stumble back against a tree #no #she takes a knee #she squats down and moves to one knee #gun still in hand #so she’s ready to move at a moments notice #that is the only respite she can give herself #this moment #this moment she can’t even fully have #because there could still be danger behind any tree #because her backup is gone #then she bottles it up #because she always has #because it has always been expected of her #ever since she lost him the first time #and if it wasn’t for maggie #nobody would have known exactly how much pain she’s in #and god her fall is going to hurt so much  via @nerdsbianhokie

racethewind10:

ckrd7:

I was just trying to help you. You know my mom died. I don’t get to have a second chance with her, I don’t want that to happen to you and Adam.

#I LOVE Cat’s face here#because here Kara is finally standing up to her#and cat is so confused because who taught you to be this aggressive and take no crap#and not to back down and not to be afraid of the world#WHO SAID YOU WERE ALLOWED TO TALK TO ME THAT WAY#and then she’s like oh right#that was me#i taught her that#i am the one who basically said let’s be…more than just assistant and boss and get to know each other#….shit#it’s like cat didn’t realize that by inviting Kara to have a closer relationship to her that would mean house training a puppy#because when Kara Danvers decides to be your friend#she is YOUR FRIEND RIDE OR DIE AND NO BOUNDARIES WHATSOEVER#PLEASE MS GRANT LET ME HELP YOU I JUST WANT YOU TO BE HAPPY I CAN FIX THIS LET ME FIX THIS#and Cat’s face here is basically her realizing that she should have known something like this would happen#and that Kara has zero chill and goes from 0 to 60 in .5 when it comes to friendship#and like don’t get Cat wrong#on a professional level this is totally inappropriate and in her head she is already listing all the ways she is going to train Kara#about how this was not a GOOD THING professionally because who does that#who meddles in the personal life of your boss especially if your boss is Cat Grant#but on a personal level she kinda loves it because having someone like Kara Danvers in your corner#earnestly fighting for your happiness and trying to help you be the best version of yourself that you can be#it lifts you up and gives you strength and Cat needs that#i just really loved this development of their relationship in this episode#because Kara wasn’t an assistant to Cat at all – she was a friend#and Cat playing wingman and giving her okay to date her son at the end of the episode is the clearest sign that Cat is okay with that#Cat Grant is okay with being Kara Danvers’ friend#and is willing to accept all the sunshine and puppies that comes with that#(even though Alex is right –  they totally need more boundaries defined about what is okay in the workplace#because you can be friends with your boss but sometimes she is gonna play the boss card and you’re gonna have to deal with it) (via @dealanexmachina)

superflyse:

#lucy lane looking silly and awkward af#when receiving a compliment#bc lets face it this woman has the#the self-esteem of a houseplant#and how is she supposed to ever feel good about herself#when she’s only ever known as#general lane’s daughter#lois lane’s sister#james olsen’s girlfriend#like look at her she doesn’t even know what to do#she’s in such denial in that first gif#like someone hug this woman#and tell her she’s worth twice her family and then some#jesus christ#lucy lane#supergirl (via @gnomingabout)

randomthingsthatilike123:

I wish we saw a very quiet Kara eating her favorite meal on krypton with years running down her face she never thought she would taste it again, surrounded by her friends and family (but even still–shes emotional for another reason that almost feels like blasphemy. they aren’t as good as pot stickers. they’re her favorite and she’s been craving this for a decade and once the nostalgia and novelty goes away–they aren’t as good as pot stickers. and she doesn’t know what to do about that)