15 year old Alex Danvers, hiding in the school bathroom with her little sister helping her wipe off mud and grit. Kara had a small panic attack when the fire alarm went off and ended up face first in a fresh puddle. Everyone laughed at her (everyone always laughs at her) but Alex threatened to start breaking bones if they didn’t shut up and she was able to get Kara on her feet and moving. Kara clung to her, and Alex couldn’t help but snap at her a bit in annoyance for getting mud on her shirt. This of course just makes Kara cry harder and Alex has to close her eyes and count to 10 to calm down. When the alarm stopped Alex dragged her sister in ahead of the slow moving shuffle and locked them away in the bathroom to scrub her off.
Alex skipping softball to take her sister for ice cream because she’s still a little weepy and Mom will kill her if she brings her home like this. Kara insists on holding hands – which Alex /hates/ – but sensory things are weird for her in moments like this so Alex lets her do it anyway. By the time Kara finishes her third cone she’s no longer so affected, and they can finally go home.
The house is dark when they get there, though her mom is home. She keeps it dark a lot these days. Ever since her dad died, Mom has felt more like a shell than a person. She’s staring our the window unseeing; a part of Alex thinks she’s still waiting for Dad’s car to pull into the driveway. She doesn’t notice they’re there until Kara gently grabs her arm.
Eliza jolts like she’s been shocked, whipping to look at them. she looks so confused for an uncomfortable amount of time before smiling vacantly at Kara, only to frown when she sees the long dried mud.
Kara explains, Eliza hugs her and says it’s okay and for her to go upstairs. Alex feels that deep drip of dread creep down her spine.
“How could you let this happen, Alexandra?”
“It’s not like I can control a fire drill, Mom!”
But Eliza doesn’t listen, shakes her head,
“You are the only one she has protecting her when she’s at school. You have to do a better job! She needs you!”
Alex wants to say that she needs someone, too, but she knows that’s not the right answer. So she just nods and stomps over to the stairs. She looks back at her mother only to find she’s back to staring vacantly out the window again.
This does such a brilliant job of back-engineering Alex and Eliza’s personalities and relationship. It seems so simple on the surface but this entire scene speaks to and informs so much of the subtle complexities of both women.
Tag: supergirl meta
Worldkiller Alternate Arc #01
IF you really want to go with the demon idea—make the demons about powerlessness and alienation.
Make it so that it’s tied to Kara’s religion, too—to songs her mom sang to her when she was little, to the stories she heard growing up. To something she knows and has an intuitive sense of.
If Sam gets chosen by a demon in this moment of panic about her daughter? Make it the same for the other women.…
yo whaddup I want Alura constantly hugging Alex and volunteering to help her for tiny things and smiling at her endlessly because this is the person who kept her baby girl safe, who protected her all these years
I want Alex feeling guiltier and guiltier about it until she breaks and yells “I killed your sister!”
and she expects something, maybe a flinch or a slap, but instead Alura just gives her the saddest little smile and says, “No, little one. I killed my sister. You protected yours.”
i’ve seen a pretty decent number of fics of Kara going into science (and that makes sense, considering she’s a genius by Kryptonian standards) but we’ve also seen that she’s a brilliant writer
i’ve never seen any talk about Kara going into law, like her mom. She can write, and clearly she can do public speeches.
Kara doing it as a way to connect to her mom, maybe becoming a public defender because these are the people most in need, and Kara with her ability to learn languages at a prodigious rate, inability to get tired, affable and charismatic personality, superspeed, and compassion would be p damn good at the job–it’s a job where she feels like she could make a difference. It’s what her mother would want from her, it’s something that–she wouldn’t have had on Krypton, but she potentially could have on Krypton.
Just lawyer!Kara
(also Kara in suits every day? sign me the fuck up)
Kara using her personal friendships with Lena and Cat and other powerful women she makes friends with to get shit done in settlements without needing to go into the courtroom, even when going up against them they keep it fair and honest and see middle grounds,
Kara being the states attorney that prosecutes all the criminals Supergirl catches, but like, prosecutes these cases RIGHT—no unnecessarily harsh sentences with an emphasis on rehabilitation and community building cause Kara ain’t blind to prosecutors powers
Kara being known for having the world’s most inopportune bladder ever cause of Supergirl emergencies but the judge lets it slide cause they all like that she gets shit done
Kara’s efforts being a model for other officials in National City and then other cities start picking up what they’re putting down
Kara making a goddamn difference as a person and not just because she can fly
Wait more;;
Flashbacks to Kara in law school cause she she took college courses online concurrently with Alex through undergrad cause she missed her and wanted to feel connected, hence she’s still super young when she graduates with a law degree
Kara keeping it under wraps for an absurd amount of time and Cat finding out about it later “I’m not even surprised”
Kara having had a reputation at law school for being like Elle Woods 2.0
Lucy finding out and going wtf Kara you asked me for legal advice how many times and Kara just going well uhh I gotta keep up appearances but I also wanted a second opinion?
Kara’s having kept it under wraps just part of her playing dumb
Kara leaving journalism when she starts legal work because of conflicts of interest and her protege writing all these amazing stories on her and Lena grumbling about how her favorite reporter quit
(Kara: but now you get to fight me in court! Lena: r u forreal Kara)
Kara taking the DEO to task in court for past human rights abuses under the new alien amnesty act and J’onn being like forreal? No. He hunts down the real Hank Henshaw just to stand for his crimes cause J’onn ain’t gettin prosecutes for this
like these are pretty cool but I was also thinking of Kara that just goes straight from undergrad to law school because one of the reasons she goes to work for cat is because she wanted to work for a kickass woman in media but it’s also because she didn’t really know what she wanted to do and in this version Kara would know what path she wanted to take–shes not going to take the gap years
this is a Kara that still isn’t supergirl either–she doesn’t have anything to split her focus, and wouldn’t know either lena or cat quite yet
Alex (character development wise) lately has just seemed (to my non-episode-watching ass) like she’s gone with laser focus into kids/parent-everything which feels a lot like it’s happening in defiance to how and why her relationship with Maggie ended, like.. somehow if she throws herself into the mum thing now it’ll make the break up “worth” it or sth? which, in my reading of Alex and her maturity levels, is something she should be above at this point in her life. idk how do you feel about it?
Like.. filling that hole in her heart where Maggie used to be via adopting a kid just seems like the most unhealthy coping mechanism and a recipe for disaster and emotional trauma for the kid. Alex needs some gd therapy to deal with her parental neglect and her alcoholism if we wanna call it that/basically just all her bad coping mechanisms that keep her from actually coping. And then she needs a few months or a year and then some to heal from that emotional mess with Maggie and coming out.
It isn’t just Maggie, tbh.
Alex has had a big year, that involved lot of people leave her, especially now with Kara going. Maggie and Kara are the big ones, but she’s also lost any leads on finding her father (who told her she wouldn’t understand why he was working for Cadmus until she was a parent, like, hello motivation right there).
But, yeah, I could def see her latching onto getting a kid to justify leaving Maggie as part of the reasoning, or a reason for it needing to happen sooner.
And, it def isn’t a good idea for her or for any kid brought in.
At this point I ship Alex with Therapy and not much else.
True, though
Remember Me came on the radio and it is such a Kara song that on the way to work I legitimately started crying I’ve cried like twice in the past year
Remember me
Though I have to say goodbye
Remember me
Don’t let it make you cry
For ever if I’m far away
I hold you in my heart
I sing a secret song to you
Each night we are apart
Remember me
Though I have to travel far
Remember me
how is this not a Kara song this is Kara always this is Kara saying goodbye to her mother and father, her friends on Krypton, this is Kara saying goodbye to everyone on Argo, saying goodbye to everyone on Earth–Lena and Cat and James and Winn J’onn and Eliza, this is Kara saying goodbye to Astra, saying goodbye to Alex. There is no one place that Kara fits, she’s always forced to say goodbye to someone she loves. Kara is always torn between two worlds and this is a no win scenario.
also v specifically it is this version
On the Design of Argo City
I was gonna make this post anyway because I’m a big ol’ nerd and get excited about stuff like this but ALSO, I’m starting to see some stuff that suggests that not everyone is digging the (to quote Emperor’s New Groove) ‘folksy, peasant look’ of Argo.
WELL FRIENDS. That’s a totally fine opinion. BUT I’M HERE TO TELL YOU THAT THIS ARGO CITY…Actually makes a great deal of sense!
A few disclaimers: Obviously, I can’t speak for the designers working on the show; maybe I’m like, way off and this is not what they were going for AT ALL. So you know. Grain of salt. Also, forgive my poor visual aids, I was too lazy to go back and screencap stuff so it’s mostly just whatever Google could turn up.
Okay. ONWARDS!
God forbid the writers have Kara address some of her unresolved feelings she has towards her parents now that she knows her mom is alive. I guess we’ll just pretend this scene didn’t happen 😒
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Cat Grant actually knows who Kara Danvers is and understands why Kara Danvers is an important piece of who Supergirl truly is. That’s why I wish Cat would come back and have some heart to heart talks with Kara and help her feel much needed human connection again from someone outside of her immediate circle of friends and family who are currently only spending time with her when she’s Supergirl.
Sometimes, I think about the fact that Kara had nothing from Krypton but the clothes on her back. She didn’t even have any pictures. This is the first time in over a decade that she has seen her mother. Maybe she was wondering if she truly remembers it, if details were starting to fade. Maybe her eyes were a slightly different shade of blue than she remembers, or her hair a lighter shade of brown. And this is something that Alex gave to her. “This is Kryptonese writing,” Kara exclaimed when she saw the device that held the projection. Maybe Clark knows as much Kryptonese as Alex (but not Kara, listen to the hologram of Alura talking to Kara. It’s formal language, it’s stiff. Clark might have learned formal Kryptonese but the sayings and expressions and slang? Clark would have never learned that), but Alex is possibly the only person in the world that has the science background (for feels about Kara teaching Alex Kryptonese, look here) and the knowledge of Kryptonese to put the AI together. Kara has lost so much, has gone through so much, but Alex was able to give a small piece of home back to Kara. Because, for one more time, Kara gets to hear her mother tell her I love you.
Question of Smoke 