#fencer lena back story

[lena-in-a-red-dress]

Summer Olympics AU Pt 3

This is not Lena's first Olympics, Kara learns. Her first Olympics were at age 17, and successfully defending her gold medal status four years later. But as Kara reads further, her blood begins to boil.

Lena's girlfriend at the time, Mercy Graves, had been a fellow American fencer. They'd made it to the gold medal match together, and despite a strong showing leading up to the finals, watching the footage Kara can tell Lena was rattled.

Her movements were stiff, and stuttering, nothing like the smooth fluidity Kara had witnessed just the day before. And Kara hates that she can see the discomfort in Lena's face before the match, and the way she can't even meet Mercy's gaze when they shake hands. She hates that she can infer what happened.

Mercy had broken up with Lena before the match. The press had speculated that Mercy's win, breaking Lena's streak had been the cause of the breakup, but Kara knows. Kara knows, and wants to throttle Mercy with her bare hands.

She could do it too. Mercy's slender frame would be no match for Kara's muscle-packed weight. It would be easy.

But Kara is too horrified to do anything when Mercy wins her own semi-final bout, clinching herself a place with Lena in this year's finals. A repeat showdown, the press touts. Lena's chance at redemption.

From Mercy's smirk, it's clear that she expects Lena to be as rattled as four years ago. But where Lena's lack of eye contact four years ago had been discomfort, this year's was disregard. Lena remains focused on herself, stays in the zone to face her ex-girlfriend cool and collected.

Even aloof, Kara might say, as Lena heads to her side of the lane.

That aloofness evaporates the moment the referee says "aller". Like a shot Lena surges forward with such speed and intent that Graves is clearly taken off guard. She nearly stumbles back, and with the span of seconds Lena's lane flashes green to award the point.

Again and again, Lena presses relentlessly, scoring point after point. Graves eventually rallies, until they're neck and neck in points. Then, the final go. The next hit decides the winner.

Graves makes the first strike, but Lena dodges, slipping past the blade with astounding agility. Her answering tap awards the point, and the gold.

Kara surges to her feet as Lena rips her helmet off, doubling over as she bellows in victory. Kara screams, watching Lena pump her fist, screaming again as the crowd goes wild.

With a whoop, Kara puts her fingers to her lips and gives a loud whistle.

"That's my girl!"

[moistvonlipwig]

lena: 1 2 8 17 18 :D

Why I love them, like them or hate them?

I love her because she always wants to do the right thing even though she doesn't always know what that is and even though everyone around her constantly treats her so poorly and thinks the worst of her even after she's proven herself time and time again. And I also love her because, as the Designated Morally Gray Character, she got to have way more interesting scenes & relationships than most of the other characters on the show did, she got to fundamentally disagree with & call out Kara and the other Superfriends, and she (somewhat) got held accountable when she made mistakes. (More than anyone else did at any rate lol.)

And I hate her because she wears shoes on the couch. Girl you are RICH buy some SLIPPERS or something!!!!!

2. How would I have chosen to change their story from canon?

Don't make her a witch!!!!! >_< Also I would've axed Non Nocere. You could replace it with so many things, including my superpower dampener idea or, like, Anything Else. (And if they HAD to include Non Nocere, 5x08 should've been the end of it -- Lena should've either chosen not to launch it at the last minute, or she should've told Hope to launch it only for Hope to be like I cannot obey that directive Ms. Luthor because you programmed me to do no harm and then Lena could've been like Oh.....I see.....and then had her big revelation that it was a bad idea.)

Going back a little further -- I would've actually loved for Lillian to turn her into Metallo in the real timeline? Maybe at the end of S2 or S3? It would've been super fucked up which is why it would be so delicious. Especially with Lena still not knowing Kara was deathly allergic to kryptonite. But you could also use the plotline to show Lena's resilience and scientific prowess, as she works to stabilize the kryptonite in her new heart. (Also, this would be a fabulous excuse to give her a dog who could detect potential kryptonite destabilization. This show needed a dog so bad.)

I also think, if this show had different showrunners who were better about race, it would've been really interesting for the Luthors -- with all their wealth, scientific genius, & opposition to Superman -- to be black. (Consider: Angela Bassett as Lillian. Just saying.)

8. What is a headcanon I have about this character?

Mm, well, to follow up on my answer to #2, one headcanon I have is that what Lillian said about manipulating her into going into STEM was only true for Earth-Prime Lillian and Lena, not Earth-38 Lillian and Lena, and since our Lena is still the Earth-38 version it actually isn't true for her. :) It's a goofy loophole but I'll take it!

Also, it was in a deleted scene so it's not an original duckthought, but I like the idea that she was a fencer and almost made the Olympics, I think that's cool. (I will leave the speculation on the kind of fencing she did to you and your very non-biased friend.)

17. How well would they do if they got dropped in a horror movie?

Well it depends on the themes of the horror movie and what it's trying to say, for instance, if it's a horror movie about cycles of familial abuse I think she might be the final girl but in one about the excesses of capitalism she probably wouldn't make it I think pretty well? She's not very genre-aware to be fair but she makes many Devices and, crucially, she can make her little Devices even when she doesn't have a lot of resources at hand.

18. Would I personally trust them to be my friend?

Yes because she has so much moneys and all you have to do is be so nicies to her and she will be loyal to you for life. (Actually you.....don't even have to do that. 🥴) Would I WANT to be friends with her? Honestly, I probably wouldn't want to be friends with anyone on CWSG. But I'd trust her, yeah.

[narraboths]

AU of your Mercenary AU, where Lex hires Kara to bring Lena to him alive so he can torment her, and so Kara kidnaps Lena and in the long journey back she definitely DOESN'T see how sweet and kind Lena is and there's abosolutely NO WAY she starts to fall for her prisoner a little bit. And at some point they get ambushed by bandits and Lena proves to be an incredibly skilled fencer and helps fight them off, but, oh no! Kara's gravely wounded! but, oh no x2! Lena helps nurse her back to health(1/2)

and Kara grumbles something about "you're still my prisoner, Lady Luthor" and Lena pats her encouragingly on the shoulder "I wouldn't dare think otherwise" and Kara is Reluctantly Smitten! And Lena is Sorta Falling For Her Too! And long story short, by the time Kara returns to Lex with Lena in her possession, they overthrow him and smooch a lot (2/2)

fjkgdnfjkgndfk believe it or not i did have something along like. 60% of these lines in one of my hopeless drafts. great stuff mate