#c: kara danvers

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

You ever think how weird it must've been to be Kara landing on Earth? Like, she's sent off Krypton, lands for her what must've been only a couple hours or days later.

She steps out of her ship and sees some guy dressed in bright red and blue, wearing her family crest plastered across his chest, wearing a cape, and flying??

And then that happens to be her cousin??? Her cousin who only a few hours ago was a baby?? Like hello???

[laurabenanti]

"if you go down, then we go down together if you hold on, i might just stay forever..."

happy birthday, abbie (@rebeccasweltons) ❤︎

[lupines-slash-recs]

Rec: We Are What We Pretend to Be by C_AND_B

Title: We Are What We Pretend to Be Author: C_AND_B Canon: Supergirl | DCCW Pairing: Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor Rating: Teen [PG] Word Count: 25,164 Summary: After the unrestricted office access, and the flowers, and the surprise

Continue reading...

[these-super-folk-queer-as-hell]

Jason Kara JL besties ok IT NEEDS TO HAPPEN FOR M E

[beautifulwillfulldead]

[ID: Four gifs, two of Supergirl and two of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. The first and third gifs show Kara Danvers saying: "Supergirl is what I can do. Kara is who I am." The second and fourth gifs show Clark Kent saying: "Lois, Superman is what I can do. Clark is who I am." End ID]

supergirl 2.15 // lois and clark 2.18

[natalievoncatte]

“Director Danvers, Lena Luthor is here.”

Alex stared at the speaker on her desk for a moment, feeling her anger rise. She didn’t need this now. Whatever stunt Lena was pulling, now was not the time. She had fires to put out and Supergirl was out of the fight.

Kara, a voice whispered. Kara, your sister.

Alex’s prime directive was take care of Kara. Yet here she was, again, dealing wit the aftermath of Kara being knocked down and beaten to a pulp in service of people she didn’t even know. Half of them hated and feared her now.

How had she let this happen? By small allowances. Step A led to Step B and then on to Step C. It started with looking the other way while Kara foiled robberies and rescued cats from trees and led to Kara defacto joining an organization whose mandate was, on paper, to imprison her or worse. She told herself that she was doing good, that between her and J’onn, they had become the wolves keeping the wolves from the door. Under the right leadership, an organization mandated to “control” aliens could help and protect them.

It gave her no comfort when Kara was lying in the sunroom unconscious, and the government was breathing down Alex’s neck while J’onn was off finding himself on some pacifist bullshit quest.

(Why did their fathers always leave them? Were the Danvers girls doomed to face everything alone?)

Now Lena was here. Luthor’s sister. Alex had let herself trust this woman and she wasn’t sure how that happened either.

Might have been because her kid sister, her precious dumbass kid sister, was over the moon for her Lena and didn’t even know it.

It was Luthor who did this to Kara, Luthor and his allies. Alex had enough of this. There would be no trial this time. No public spectacle. She didn’t care if it ended her career or even her freedom, she was going to kill him, because Kara couldn’t. Kara would always look for the other way, the perfect solution. She was beautiful and good, a hero who came from the heaven to set things right. A saint.

Alex was not and she never pretended she could be.

She drummed her fingers on the desk and stared at the speaker and said, “Keep her in the lobby.”

“No, Director, I mean she’s here, outside your door. We… she can be persuasive.”

Alex reached over wearily and hit the button to open the doors.

Lena marched in, and the sight of her took Alex aback. The boardroom predator with the razor sharp hairstyle, flawless makeup and fuck me pumps was gone, replaced by what Alex would think was Lena’s kid sister under other circumstances. She looked her age, for once, dressed in faded jeans and a threadbare MIT sweatshirt, carrying a battered messenger bag.

Alex had never seen Lena so bedraggled. Her hair was a chaos of unkempt curls pulled into a low ponytail and she was sans makeup, and for good reason. Her eyes were painfully red and the tracks of her tears were as livid as if they’d been left by claws. Her bottom lip was trembling and she fiddled with the strap of her bag.

“Close the door,” said Lena. “Can we talk here? Is this room secure?”

Alex pushed the button and closed the doors.

She had barely said “Yes”.

“Where’s Kara?”

“Not here. Why would she be at the-“

“Don’t fuck with me, Alex.”

Alex looked at her sharply. “I don’t know what you think you’re going to accomplish here with this, after you started working with Lex again.”

Lena stormed forward and slammed her palms on the desk, rattling Alex’s possessions. She leaned forward and glared with Alex with a furious, teeth-baring demand.

“The clone almost killed her. Where is she?”

Alex swallowed hard. “I’m not sure what-“

Lena cut her off. “I know Kara is Supergirl, Alex. I need to see her. Please.”

Alex rocked back in her chair as if struck by a physical force. The words slam into her chest like a brick into her sternum.

She knows.

“How?”

“It doesn’t matter. I’ve know for months. But you have to listen to me. Lex knew. He told me her identity, tried to throw it in my face so I’d turn on her. He knew her real name, he knew about you, he knew about your mother. You have to do something now.”

“Oh my God,” Alex said, standing. Mom.

“He wasn’t going to stop, Alex!” Lena blurted, almost hysterical. “He was never going to stop. He was going to kill her, he swore to me that she was going to die. I had to do it!”

“Do what?” Alex whispered.

“I had to kill him,” Lena wailed, balling her fists impotently as if she were trying to choke her own soul. “I had to!”

The reality of it slams into Alex and before she knows it she’s rushed around the desk to throw her arms around her friend, all thoughts of Luthors and loyalty and everything else going out the window as Lena sobs into her should.

“I killed my big brother.”

Lena’s voice so so small, so broken, that Alex can’t help but sob with her.

The fucking bastard just wouldn’t stop hurting them, even in death. Alex didn’t believe in hell but she wished she did for Lex Luthor.

Lena’s sobbing ebbed but did not fade entirely. There was only one cure for that.

“Come on, let’s go see our girl.”

Alex led Lena outside. First, she flagged down Brainy and gave quick, clipped orders: Get Eliza and get her here now, and find Nia and do the same. Then make a list of anyone Lex might have targeted and find them and get them secured.

Then she took Lena to the sunroom. They stopped outside and Alex handed her a pair of silly looking goggles.

“We can’t stay long, the light is too intense even with sunscreen, and you look like you burn.”

“Like a lobster,” Lena choked, pitifully.

Alex entered the code and opened the door.

Kara lay on the padded bed in a paper gown, bathed in sunlight. She was a mass of bruises and her right arm and left leg were in casts, a collar wound her neck. She’d been unconscious for three days now, possibly in the same kind of healing hibernation she’d fallen into after her first fight with Reign.

Lena rushed to Kara’s side and cupped her cheeks with her hands, brushing back sweat-dampened hair.

“Oh God,” Lena blurted, “oh please oh God Kara wake up.”

“She’s been out for days,” said Alex. “She’s stable, just not coming around. This has happened before. We think it’s part of how her body heals serious injuries. It just takes time. She’ll wake on her own when she’s ready.”

Lena didn’t even seem to hear her. She leaned down with an intensity and intimacy that shocked Alex to the core, and then shocked her further. Lena loosed three words in a language from a dead world that she has no business knowing.

“Zhao w rrip.”

Alex was thunderstruck. Lena knew Kryptonian?

“Lex had a translation dictionary,” said Lena. “I just hope I pronounced it right.”

“We need to go,” Alex said, glumly. “You can stay at the DEO. We could use your help and it’s safer for you here anyway.”

“Just let me stay another minute. Please.”

“If I do, your face will be peeling off tomorrow. We can visit again later. Come on.”

“I can’t,” Lena choked out. “I can’t leave her.”

Alex was an about to say something else when her mother fell open. Kara’s eyes fluttered open and she immediately turned to Lena, bleary-eyed.

“Did you mean that?”

“Yes, Kara, I meant it.”

“But zhao means-“

“I know what it means,” Lena insisted, so full of joy now. “I know what it means, darling. That’s how I meant it. I love you, Kara.”

Oh.

Alex swallowed hard. She didn’t want to interrupt but Lena, and not to mention Alex herself, would get very sick very fast if they didn’t leave this room.

Lena grasped Kara’s uninjured hand.

“You have to go. It’s not safe for humans in here.”

Lena swallowed hard, her throat bobbing.

“Before I… can I…?”

“Yes,” Kara whispered.

Lena darted down and gave Kara a quick, soft kiss on her lips, lingering for just a moment. Kara smiled at her and their hands slid apart as Alex half dragged Lena out of the room and closed the door, then ripped off her sun shades and stared.

“How long?” she breathed.

“I’ve been in love with her for at least for years now,” Lena said, her voice cracking a little. “I’ve wanted to tell her for so long.”

Lips trembling, Alex was besieged. She remembered every time that she told Kara to stay away, not to trust her, not to tell her. The weight of what she has done presses her down as firmly as the knowledge that Kara will be healed soon lifts her up. There’s only one thing she can do.

She swept Lena into a bear hug.

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry for doubting you and pushing you apart. I’m sorry I didn’t see sooner.”

Lena, at last, fully broke down in Alex’s arms. Later, when Eliza arrived, she passed off Lena-hugging duties to her mother until Kara was fully awake and can leave the sunroom.

Then, Alex went and did what you do for family.

She got rid of the body.

[maybequinnidk]

I'm Good At Loving You (You're Good At Loving Me) pt. 1

(may be a bit ooc, canon divergent/blurry, turned out angstier than i expected, POV alternating, feedback is appreciated, title from a mother mother song)

It's been months since they got her back from The Place That Shouldn't Be Named. The first weeks were the hardest, she had nightmares whenever she able to sleep for more than one hour, quit CatCo (once again) to prioritize her Supergirl duties, had long and necessary but sometimes unpleasant conversations with Lena to rebuild their relationship; [tl,dr: lots of crying].

She's healing though, as much as she can without proper treatment, because "how could Supergirl have a therapist, Kelly? ". By far, the aspect of her life that has been recovering the best was her relationships. Supergirl was overwhelmed and burning out, Kara Danvers was... well, not a mistake, just a bit lost. But Kara Zor-El? She was doing something right. She's been mentoring Nia more often, hanging out with Kelly and Brainy, getting emotionally and physically closer to Lena, having sister's nights, game nights, movie nights (those often became sleepovers, which is a very welcome bonus).

And speaking of movie night, the two just finished their movie marathon and are cuddling on the couch of Kara's apartment. Her best friend is sitting sideways on her lap, the kryptonian scratching her scalp which makes the brunette involuntarily close her eyes and all but melt into the touch — if she was a cat, she would be purring.

"I love you." Quiet but certain.

And how could she not say it when Lena was existing being all cute and gorgeous so effortlessly? But it might have been the wrong move, because Lena got tense.

Kara beat herself up internally. One of the things they have talked about is their abandonment and trust issues, not just with each other but from previous situations. Those who manipulated, lied, left and died. She also remembers about how when they restarted being touchy, they agreed to just proceed with caution. Maybe that applies now too. The hand in Lena's hair stills.

"We agreed on taking things slow and you don't have to say anything back. I know other people have said this to you when they didn't fully mean it, but I will show you that I do. I'll always be here, whenever, however you need me and want me." she hoped that was the right course of action, the last thing she wants is to make Lena more uncomfortable.

Lena just nods, her eyes shut. It makes Kara think she shouldn't have said anything, but she can't take it back now and reinforce Lena's doubts, she wouldn't want to take it back anyway.

"C-can you say that again?" her voice broken.

"I'll always be here for-"

"Not that." she takes a deep breath, "The other thing. Before that."

"I love you, Lena." she says it louder, she's proud to say it.

Lena turns to face her and gets closer until she lets her head fall on the taller woman's shoulder.

"I can't say it." Tears wet the collar of her shirt.

"I know. It's okay. I'm here." She rubs Lena's back.

> > > × < < <

from Darling 💙

hi

r u busy? 8:23PM

— I thought you were on patrol 8:25PM

alex insisted i took the rest of the night off from any sg stuff so im free

im still at the tower though

i could get us some food 8:26PM

Kara has been so patient with her this week.

First Lena had to cancel on their weekly morning walk on tuesday —meeting at Noonan's for breakfast and going to the park until they have to go seperate ways or going somewhere else together—, then she was late and zoning out during movie night on wednesday, and finally in that same night Kara made her love known verbally and she couldn't do anything but sob. If Kara was mad at her she wouldn't blame her. Lena already knew she was a bad friend, but she's an even worse partner.

Kara will get tired of your shit sooner or later. it'll be sooner. there won't be a later, Kara will leave once she realizes she deserves better.

no she won't, she's too nice.

— Ok I'm going

— Just need to shower first. Then I'll meet you there 8:35PM

see you soon 🥰🥰💕 8:35PM

inhale, hold, exhale. inhale, hold, exhale. She knows what she has to do. here goes nothing...

- I also wanted to talk about something 8:38PM

Lena's shower is longer than usual, thinking about what exactly she wants to talk about. She puts on some comfortable clothes for a night in and portals to J'onn's P.I. office.

She takes the elevator and finds who she's looking for at the break room in the 3rd floor. The food is already on the coffee table, which is surrounded by armchairs and couches. No one else seems to be here, they must be on another floor or at home.

"Hey."

"Lena, hi!"

They hug and Kara pulls back sooner than Lena is expecting.

is she annoyed already?

"Hey... is everything okay? You said you wanted to talk."

right. time to get this over with.

Lena mustered up the courage to tell Kara what was going on and braced herself for the metaphorical impact. But instead

"Lena, you didn't cancel the morning walk, you just changed it from tuesday to thursday because you were tired from staying up all night. And it's impossible to be late for spending the night in. Especially when you were busy working with Brainy on the Tower's defenses."

She doesn't know how to respond to that so she stays quiet.

say something, you were the one who asked to talk.

"I'm a bad partner."

"What? I'm sure Brainy loves working with you."

"No, for you. I can't meet the deadlines. I can't keep up with you, I'm too slow. You should find something better"

"Lena, this isn't a job and you're not a something. I've been late plenty of times, too, we're allowed to be late." she left no room for discussion. "And also, you're ignoring all the good things you've done."

She turns to Kara, confused

"Like what?" she scoffs

"Other than you saving my life countless times?"

Lena distracts herself playing with the food.

"Wait... what did you mean you're 'too slow'? Am I moving too fast?"

She was hoping Kara wouldn't ask that.

"The other night, you-" a heavy sigh "you were so sure and I couldn't say it and then I cried? It's ridiculous! I'm-"

"Please don't finish that sentence." pleading. "Lena if it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be recovering this fast. I was having nightmare after nightmare until you started staying over."

Kara looks like she's in pain and her voice is strained. she's upset, lena did this.

"Are you sure about it? You can still take it back." she avoided Kara's eyes.

Kara understands immediately what she's referring to.

"I'm not taking it back. I meant it, I mean it and I will never regret saying it. Even when we get sad, upset or even angry. Even if we have a fight." she reassures her.

is that what people call unconditional love?

"I don't understand why you would say that to me when I'm just- just me."

Kara reaches out for her hands. She lets her take it.

"I love you because you're you. I love having you in my life. and if you want me not to say so, I won't but just know that's how I feel."

she takes some time to consider. it's not that she has reservations about kara confessing her feeling, she was just unprepared, surprised and got lost in the past for a while.

"I guess I don't want you not to say it." she says after calming down a bit.

"Oh? Good to know."

"I'm sorry I-" she cuts herself off not sure why she's apologizing.

By the time they finish talking the food is cold and lena is getting tired. J'onn and Brainy were still at the Tower and joined them in casual conversation and updates on their defense system.

She wakes up from dozing off on kara's shoulder. She sees it's almost eleven and listens Kara still talking to Brainy.

She snuggles deeper in kara's neck.

"Kara?" sleepy

"Hmm"

"Kara..." whiney

"Yeah?"

"Darling..." needy

"What is it, baby?" she feels karas lips on her hair

"I wanna go home." quiet

Kara wraps up her chat and they say goodbye to the Coluan friend (who is unsurprised, used to this type of scene between the two) and portal back to the Kara's.

[avifaunaa]

The Diverging Trails [ Masterlist ] + Housekeeping

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The Yellowjackets

Shauna Shipman:

Jackie Taylor:

Jackieshauna:

let me wrap my teeth around the world 🍂🥀🌷 [ PART ONE ] [ PART TWO ]

Lottie Matthews:

Lottieshauna:

Marvel / MCU:

Natasha Romanoff:

how the world spins without you 🍂🌸🌷 [ PART ONE ] [ PART TWO ] [ PART THREE ] [ PART FOUR ] [ PART FIVE ]

Wanda Maximoff:

you know you’re better than this [ i don’t believe any of it ] 🍂🌸🌷 — COMING SOON

Rio Vidal:

i tasted ash and knew [ it was you ] [ PART ONE ] [ PART TWO ] [ PART THREE ] [ PART FOUR ] [ PART FIVE ] 🥀🌸🌷

Agatha Harkness:

Wandanat:

Agathario:

Carol Danvers:

DC-VERSE

Diana Prince [ Wonder Woman ]:

Kara Danvers [ Supergirl ]:

Lena Luthor:

Supercorp:

Sarah J. Mass-Verse:

Throne of Glass

Aelin Galathynius:

Rowan Whitethorn:

Rowaelin:

Manon Blackbeak:

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Feyre Acheron:

Rhysand:

Feysand:

stars blind [ they fall and leave the sky ] 🌷🌸🍂 [ PART ONE ] — COMING SOON . . .

The Morrigan:

Amren:

Netsa:

Nessian:

The Inner Circle:

T B C . . .

[cheezitthefuzz]

behold, a cape

Hmmmmmmmm...

Hmmmmmmm.

I mean, it would be pretty terrifying to wear a piece of clothing that already had arms in it. Also cramped. So I’m glad they don’t have piece of clothing with arms in it.

Another possible interpretation of this definition is that Superman, Supergirl, and Conjura all wear what we would otherwise call “vests.”

But the wording presented to us does not lead me to think of a “cape” in the traditional sense.

[flowerringfangirlss09]

I love Superman and Lois and think its basically perfect as is, but here's just as a fun hypothetical scenario. IF the final season had more time and budget to introduce a version of Supergirl, which one would you pick and why?

A) Kara Zor-El (Prime Supergirl)

B) Mae Kent/Matrix/Supergirl

C) Linda Lee Danvers (Post-Crisis Supergirl)

D) Karen Starr/Kara Zor-L/Power Girl

[kuekyuuq]

Supercorp - Rehashing the Fallout once more

Today's menu: Kara Danvers' Double-Standards.

I am rewatching Supergirl, and it occurred to me why I am with Lena on the "you lied to me" point. (Not the brain-wash the planet or taking a year to get over herself and realize her own - horrible - mistakes parts, though.) Not because of the lie itself or its content, but its context with Kara's very own history!

Let's take a walk...

In the pilot Kara gets mad at Alex for her having kept her double-life as a DEO agent secret from her.

Kara is utterly disappointed and distraught at the secrets her parents kept from her (Medusa, Myriad), some of which affected her directly (Krypton's impending destruction).

Kara finds out that James is Guardian before he told her and she was pretty upset, explains it's because they are humans throwing themselves into danger.

When J'onn explains to Kara how bonded Martians share their minds, Kara expresses how she thinks the “no secrets, no lies” sounds “beautiful”.

Kara ends their relationship with Mon-El over him lying about his true identity (and him being the Prince of a cruel society), ignoring him when he said he tried several times to tell her. When Mon-El let himself into Kara's apartment to apologize, he BEGS for forgiveness

but Kara says she deserved better than being lied to… Yes, she secretly forgave him at this point but still breaks up with him (Rhea told her to do so) and cries over it.

Music Meister teaches Kara (and Barry): “Love is about letting yourself be saved, it's not just about saving other people.”

Trust.

Lillian tells Kara, she doesn't need to spill SG's identity, because when Lena FINDS OUT, it'll be so much worse.

(And Lillian was SO on point!)

When Kara and Clark spar and have a heart-to-heart, Kara wonders if she can have it all, Clark assures her about the most important people make keeping the secret worth it and how letting (only) those important people in IS enough. Later, asked the same questions, Cat tells Kara that women have the guts to be vulnerable, lists her accomplishments.

Kara does not take Lena possessing some of Lex's Kryptonite nor the whole Sam/Reign-secret kept from her well. Gets even angrier when Lena creates her own Kryptonite (in her quest to fight/cure Reign …and cancer and other human ailments).

Or Mon-El hesitating to tell and keeping from Kara about his time-travelling, marriage and his actual mission…

That is up until mid-s03 and not even counting the many times how the show also taught us through Alex', J'onns and Lena's lenses that lying and pretending to be someone one is not to those important/close to oneself, is harmful to their (romantic and platonic) relationships and themselves.

Do I need to go on?

...Kara is clearly fully aware at that point that secrets (even her own) do not bode well in any type of relationships she would like to have and keep.

And, yes, I am fully aware of the "point of no return" argument, in all its validity, that at some point the lies had stacked up so much, that the hurt was inevitable, the fear of rejection more and more founded, of Kara wanting to be "just Kara" with Lena… Every season, every in-show year that passed and Kara kept her secret(s), it became impossibly harder to come clean. But, re-watching the show, it just seems so… irresponsible? And the more often Kara makes a point herself being lied to is a bad thing, even …hypocritical.

I am not saying any of the people who lied to or kept things from Kara were in the right or wrong - a totally different discussion that would require individual assessment. But, Kara, making the same point over and over again? Several times about the very topic of hidden/fake identities and double-lives… But then proceeding to keep her proclaimed best friend in the dark about herself, still?

Yeah, that bugs me. A lot.

IMO, after the whole Mon-El returned thing Kara would or should have had an epiphany about telling Lena the truth about herself… but then Reign beat her into a coma and all kinds of hell broke loose.

But… Yeah. Not even for Supercorp reasons. But internal logic.

From a story-writing perspective; you have your (main) character face a (similar but slightly different) situation a couple times before they learn their lesson. You plant the seeds (in this case: identity reveal) and then have it play out, based on what the character had learned(!) this far. And you have them deal with the worst-case-scenario backlash, if you need any for drama's sake, but it should make some level of sense… Instead they had Kara learn nothing, had her lie to Lena for another two years, and turned Lena into a spiraling madwoman. And Kara… well, now in Mon-El's shoes, could not quite understand how Lena (in Kara's former shoes, but with much more tainted personal experiences) was deeply, intimately hurt, devastated, and struggling.

Kara saw this coming - but tbh, when Lillian spoke so (unintentionally) truthful, Kara should have focused on the implied "if someone ELSE but you tells her", and when talking to Kal, realized that he didn't keep his secret FROM his most important people (Lois, James…) to protect them. Taken Cat's advice to have the guts to be vulnerable to reap Lena's long-term trust instead of settling for "for now this works, right?".

Not to mention that the whole show over and over stressed, that Kara could "have it all" without revealing herself to the world (the 100th episode even making a point that telling the world WILL put her loved ones at risk) or deciding on one half of herself, but then the show ended, and… yeah… I guess, some sort of witness protection for everyone?

No more casual strolls for "just Kara" through the park…

I adore the show, but… continuity?

It's just a bit painful to re-watch the show and watch Kara fault and shame others over and over again, only to go ahead and do the thing herself... Aware, yet oblivious. And NOBODY calls her out on it. (The one time Alex asked her and Kara was all like "I had to take the dog to the vet" is too little too late.)

Thankfully the fandom is so amazingly creative <3

#Kue out.

[bitch-for-a-rainbow]

Day 1: Leaves/Race Against the Clock

It happened on a Tuesday morning.

At 8:15am on August 23rd, four gas bombs went off across National City. Two metro stations, the starting zone of Race for Rights, a pro-alien news center.  

The first alien at CatCo started coughing at 8:16. It was Gerry, the custodian. He felt a tickle in his throat. Then a burn. He was dead by 8:17. Patrick Erhaus, who’d stopped by to drop off lunch for his wife died next. Susan Erhaus followed him. Kara lasted longer than most. Long enough that she’s trying to perform CPR on Gerry by the time her throat starts itching. Long enough that she knows what’s coming.

It takes her a whole ten minutes to die. She tries not to panic. She really does. But it’s hard not to panic when your throat closes up, and you fall, and suddenly you’re face down on the rug next to Gerry whose lips have turned blue and who stares at you with empty unseeing eyes.

Her funeral is August 25th. There’s no body in the casket they lower into the ground. Her sister burned her corpse the day she died, and kept a candle lit all night for her to find her way home to Rao. They bury the casket anyway. It was hard, finding someone to do the funeral so quickly, and with so many people to bury. But they wanted it done. Better to bury the empty casket sooner, before people start wondering where her body is.

It’s a quiet affair. Her sister, her mother, a few friends. Lena Luthor stands to the side. She doesn’t cry. Alex Danvers goes home already drunk, and finishes off a bottle of whiskey. Winn and James try to follow her home, to look after her, but a shattered glass aimed at their heads convinces them to make themselves scarce. Alex will be calmer in a few days.

Cadmus takes credit. The video isn’t long, a brief speech about continuing the work after expelling the Daxamites. It hits Youtube barely 10 minutes after it interrupts the live service of every broadcast in National City. 

CatCo mourns. One of the junior reporters goes home early after he screams at a visiting intern who leans on an empty desk. Family members had already cleared them all out, but no one’s touched them since. And no one will. 

The carpet was replaced where the bodies had lay. The new square doesn’t quite match. 

Brusque, cold, and periodically rude, Snapper goes about his business almost as normal. He doesn’t go near the new carpet by the elevators. Snapper was the second to stand up to help behind Kara. He’d whispered to her while she choked, soothing promises they’d both known were empty. 

The list of the dead is posted in their newest edition, with a few anecdotes or in memoriums. Kara’s is the shortest.

The first to reach out to help. The last to let go.

Kara Danvers, you were the bravest of us. 

In the confusion after the attack, Supergirl is nowhere to be found. At first, people assume she’s just laying low. Avoiding getting caught up in the gas, same as Martian Manhunter. Then maybe she’s grieving. Or investigating. By the time a full week rolls around without an official statement or even sighting, rumors start spreading. On September 1st, Martian Manhunter takes the stage at his first public appearance since the attack, and delivers the news.

The city’s response is immediate and violent. Riots break out across the city, mourners protesting in the street meet anti-alien celebrations. Fires spread. By the mid-afternoon most of the city has shut down. Superman is spotted helping break out fights and put out the fires. A few people try to ask him for a comment, but he never touches down on the street level. 

It was only a matter of time before someone put two and two together. It was a joke at CatCo, how much they had looked alike. Now, with publicized lists of the dead, the physical similarity takes on a more serious meaning. The debates about the ethics of her work are fierce, if entirely ignored by the CatCo editors board. The closest to acknowledging it they come is in muttered conversations between staff. She completely crushed my stapler once. Said something about cheap manufacturing and laughed it off. I never thought about it. How could I not have thought about it? 

Visitors flock to her home in Midvale. Alex Danvers, officially an FBI agent, narrowly escapes a court martial only as a result of the publicity. The first bombing attempt at Alex’s apartment kills four people, but is poorly timed. Neither Alex nor her fiance are home when the blast hits. 

The camera feed inside CatCo goes viral. Supergirl’s last attempt at heroism. It plays on every station, sans two. CatCo’s reasons are obvious, but The Daily Planet sparks rumors. Instead of the footage, the Planet airs an official statement from Superman. People mumble if he’d pulled a deal to keep them from showing it. Really the decision had been made during an informal meeting in the bullpen. Clark Kent had threatened to quit if they aired it. Perry White is not typically an easy man to bully but Clark’s voice had echoed across the room, loud and clear and lower than Perry had ever heard it. Had he always been that tall? It even shuts Lane up for a few moments, miracle that is, before she, too, promises quit. 

The filmed statement from Superman is, for the most part, a professional and rehearsed affair. In an unaffected voice that seems deeply unnatural from Superman’s lips, reads a sanitized and politically undivisive statement on standing together during times of tragedy. It’s only in the last few minutes that his voice begins to crack.

Because of what she was, and the live we live, most of you never got the chance to know her as I did. So I’ve prepared— ahem. I’ve prepared a few fun facts I thought she wouldn’t mind me sharing. 

Her favorite color was blue. 

She really liked birds. Krypton didn’t have them. Her favorite was that bird of paradise with the big blue smiley face on his back. 

She loved math and chemistry. She liked to make her own paints. 

She hated brussel sprouts— wouldn’t go into a restaurant that sold them. Once, when she was 15 and we’d had an argument, she replaced all the food in my fridge with boiled brussel sprouts and cabbage. I never got the smell out of that fridge. And I still don’t know where she got them— if she cooked them or bought them somewhere. 

[There’s a pause. He seems lost in thought] 

She loved this place. She loved learning about this planet. I don’t think she ever really understood it, but she loved this world. She really— 

[He visibly collects himself. When his eyes meet the camera, they shine with tears.]

Rao zheldiv :divi bah ni Kara Zor-El

This world is dimmer without you. 

The L-Corp National City office closes by the end of the year. Lena Luthor herself is gone by the end of the week. The official statement cites financial concerns. The avoidance of public statement about the Kara Danvers issue is not missed by the public. 

Lena disappears for two months. When she reappears, it is at a police raid which captures half the upper administration of Cadmus, including Lillian Luthor. Lena gives no statement. The police publicly thank her for her service to the nation, and the next time she’s spotted it’s at a local alien dive bar with Alex Danvers.

Alex returns most of Kara’s personal effects to their mother, except the paintings. When people catch wind that Supergirl’s paintings are going on sale, the interest is intense. There are hundreds of buyers, each offering millions in exchange for just one of her works. In the end, the whole set of paintings are sold for just 5 dollars. The local alien art museum had refused to take them for free, but it’s difficult to out-stubborn Alex Danvers. Kara had liked it there. And it wasn’t like they had the money to compete with the other offers she was getting. 

There are dozens of paintings. The city skyline from above. Fallen leaves on the Midvale porch. The stars, constellations no astronomer can match. Waterfalls made of fire, with strange fanged plants. A glass city, curving and spiraling unnaturally under a red sky. A shattered planet. Green fire. Alex labels the ones she can identify, but there are others: planets, buildings, people, Alex doesn’t recognize. Captured memories of places seen once or twice, people half-forgotten, faded echoes from dreams. 

The museum is flooded with guests. Most the proceeds are donated to charities in Kara’s name, but even so, they have more money than they know what to do with. They bring in alien experts to help identify locations and people. They highlight new artists. They start running afterschool programming for local alien children, and invite them to share their own homes and places and people. Kara’s paintings sit in the center of it all. For the first time, Earth gets a look at Krypton. 

A year after the attack, the statue of Supergirl at the harbor gains a pair. The other statue is slight shorter, with hunched shoulders, a simple cardigan, and a small notebook in one hand. Her glasses are slightly askew.  The inscription is simple enough. 

Thank you.  ___________________________________________________

1 message, 7:56am, August 23rd // Heeyyy Alex! I’m about to head to the office umm I saw the note about the incident out in Blackwood. I’ve got some files on my computer that might be related. I’ll send them to you when I get in and later we can go over the AmerTek connection. Love you byeeee! --Oh and I asked James to pick up Quyhen’s for game night tonight! I texted him your order, bye bye! 

[bisupergirl]

random bits of trivia about pre-crisis kara bc shes my babygirl:

she was a bridesmaid at ray palmer and jean loring’s wedding (justice league of america #157)

her favorite genres of music are jazz and rock (supergirl vol 2 #8)

she called acting her real ambition, and it was her life-long goal to become an actress (supergirl vol 1 #1)

she’s been in two movies and a soap opera (action comics #372, adventure comics #391, the superman family #208-222)

her favorite meal is veal marsala (all-new collectors' edition #c-58)

she was a psychology major at lake shore university (supergirl vol 2 #1)

her birthday is september 22, making her a virgo (super dc calendar 1976)

she was named after the kryptonian goddess of beauty (action comics #314)

she has 5 living parents (zor el and alura [who survived argo city’s destruction by escaping to the survival zone in action comics #309-310], fred and edna danvers [who adopted her in action comics #279], and hippolyta [who adopted her in supergirl vol 1 #9])

she has owned two cats named streaky and only the first one had powers (she adopted streaky i in action comics #261 and streaky ii in supergirl vol 2 #6)

she never actually lived on krypton (being born years later on the surviving chunk of argo city) and only learned about it from stories her mother would tell her (action comics #252/314)

after landing on earth she was raised and primarily lived in california before later moving to florida, new york, and illinois (midvale, san francisco (obv), and vandyre university are all located within CA [adventure comics #406, supergirl vol 1 #1/4], and stanhope is driving distance from midvale and “state tech” so i’m assuming its also in california [action comics #318])

in total she's had three jobs (camera operator/reporter, student advisor, and actress) and attended three colleges (stanhope college, vandyre university, and lake shore university). she was also a part of a sorority while attending stanhope college (action comics #318).

[4theluvofsapphos]

Masterlist • Fandom List

My current fandoms are listed and sorted into genre/region/type !!

Feel free to dm me or ask me about anything to do with any of these fandoms! :

American/Euro TV: Abbott Elementary, Breaking Bad, Wednesday, Doctor Who, Killing Eve, Russian Doll, Black Mirror, WandaVision, Ted Lasso, Agatha All Along

American/Euro Movies: Carol, EEAAO, Disobedience, Midsommar, Hereditary, Star Wars, The Parent Trap, (some) Marvel

K/C/J-Drama & Anime: Extraordinary Attorney Woo, Dungeon Meshi/Delicious in Dungeon, Assassination Classroom, Komi Can’t Communicate, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken

Games: Resident Evil, Bioshock (1,2,3 Infinite), Borderlands (2,3, Prequel), Fallout, Cyberpunk 2077, Dishonored (1,2, DOTO), Deathloop, The Last Jedi (Fallen Order), Ghostwire Tokyo, Overwatch, Valorant, The Long Dark, Dying Light, Dead By Daylight

Before You Request (Rules/Boundaries):

I will not write the following:

Topics: hate speech, homophobia, transphobia, trans exclusionary anything, pedophilia, and anything else crazy like that.

Kinks: feet, needles, medfet, inflation, vore, gore, scat, piss, age play, MD/LG, r!pe, breastfeeding, necrophilia, etc.

If you come to me with any of the above in your request, it will be ignored. If you ask anything absolutely deplorable of me, I will block you. Please don’t be gross or weird in my DMs either. I’m a person too >:/

Characters I Write For/Masterlist:

Melissa Schemmenti - shiver (nsfw) , butterfingers (series)

Alcina Dimitrescu

Agatha Harkness - payraise (nsfw)

Lilia Calderu - sing for me, birdy ,

Rio Vidal

Chessy

Rebecca Welton

Keeley Jones

Carol Aird

Therese Belivet

Brienne of Tarth

Larissa Weems - caught (kinktober)

Jane Murdstone

Lucifer Morningstar - devil’s advocate (series)

Captain Phasma

Trilla Suduri

Hela Odinsdottir

Kara Danvers

Lena Luthor

Villanelle

Eve Polastri

(and more! Just ask if you see anyone unnamed and it’s in my fandom list!!!)

[rodimusprime2017]

A Monstrous Introduction - Legion Of Superheroes

Chimera!Male Reader X Kara Danvers

A inhuman roar is heard throughout the campus as Mon-El hears it, so does Supergirl and Superman as they were both confused on what can make that sound, but Mon-El knew who.

Mon-El: Uh oh, he knows. He must’ve seen you arrive as he’s closing in right now.

Supergirl: Who’s he?

Mon-El: He? Oh, I think you’re about to meet the strongest student here, and the most fearsome.

The trio suddenly hear something big land behind them as they slowly turn to see to Supergirl’s shock, a giant silver robotic gorilla as blades come out of his arms, ready for a fight.

????: Who are you, Kryptonian. Speak now, or I’m gonna be the Maximal who’s gonna rip out your spark!

Mon-El: Chimera! Stand down! She’s not with Zod! She’s new here for Daxam’s sake.

Superman: Is he always like this?

Mon-El: After Zod, yes. He’s an Alpha for a reason, and a leader.

Chimera taps a strange symbol on his chest, causing him to change into a teenage boy with E/C and H/C.

????: Sorry ‘bout that. Needed to let off some steam. Who’s the gorgeous blonde girl dressed like a cheerleader?

Superman: This is my cousin; Kara Zoe-El.

Supergirl: Call me Supergirl.

????: Oh, we’re giving up our secret identities. Call me Y/N L/N aka Chimera. King of Beasts and God of Monsters. I could use a new training partner, especially one of your type. Sorry, I apologise.

Supergirl: It’s okay, be yourself as you want.

Tagged: @primeofprimes115

[beautifulwillfulldead]

[ID: Two gifs, one of Supergirl and one of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. The first gif shows Kara Danvers in bed, reaching over and crushing her alarm clock in her hand. The second gif shows Clark Kent shirtless in bed, sitting up and crushing his alarm clock with his hand. End ID]

supergirl 1.16 // lois and clark 1.10