#kara danvers: captain of the kaznian olympic punching team

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Okay I thought I was done feeling my feelings about Linda Lee/Red Daughter but I’m NOT my feelings are INFINITE so here you go, internet.

Because look like. Yes. Best doppelnemeses fight to the death and learn a little something about themselves/each other along the way THAT’S THE GOOD SHIT, SIGN ME UP.

WE ALL WATCHED THAT ONE EPISODE OF BUFFY AT AN IMPRESSIONABLE AGE AND DEVELOPED THE SAME F/F DOPPELCEST KINK YES?

Anyway LEAVING THAT ASIDE like I just have so many emotions about the intentional way the show drew parallels between the two versions of Kara. There was so much there and I wish that I knew how to make gifs because literally all I want is that. Just four hundred gifsets of Kara’s apartment versus Linda’s apartment and all the little details that they put in there on purpose and I’m never getting over it.

And because she’s - MAYBE - dead the show isn’t going to give us the time to explore it, which tbh I’m gutted about. (They’d better let her do the fucking Leech Seed grass thing and come back to life too so that she can punch Lex in his dumb face TO DEATH, this is the only thing I want show come on LET LINDA BE THE ONE TO FINISH LEX SHE’S EARNED IT.)

Like that blanket first of all. That blanket that was red and soft and Linda wrapped herself up in it when she first went to Kara’s apartment, to read all about her. That little admission that when nobody’s watching, Linda sometimes likes soft things and sweet things.

The idea of it, Linda sitting in her empty apartment looking out the window at Kara’s warm one.

Linda wrapped up in that blanket that smells a little bit like Kara’s capitalist decadence (cinnamon-vanilla scented candles and her shampoo) and not thinking about whether or not that may or may not be comforting

Linda curled up on the couch angrily sketching Kara’s loved ones and definitely not thinking about what it would feel like to have a sister or a best friend.

For sure not wondering if that’s why Kara is so soft, because she has these soft sorts of people in her life.

The fact that Linda’s an artist!!

That apartment layout. The prepster clothes hanging on the rod, just like Kara’s but she has less; more is self-indulgent.

The fact that she journals. The idea of it, that she saw all of Kara’s thoughts and her first reaction was bile and derision, but part of her couldn’t help but be intrigued.

The part of her that loves to express itself, that needs to find a way to sketch and paint and laugh, couldn’t help but be fascinated with the idea of writing things down.

Gosh goodness gracious just give me an AU where Linda gets to go back there. Where Linda gets to think about all the ways that her life and her perspective were poisoned by Lex.

And maybe she doesn’t agree that Kara’s perspective is necessarily the correct one. But she’s thinking about it, and that’s what matters.

Linda meeting Kara for lunch, a few days after the aftermath. And it’s like - a friendly lunch? Sort of? Friendly but also Kara lowkey wants to make sure Linda hasn’t done any murders or light to moderate identity theft lately, so as friendly as that can be?

And Linda’s got paint under her fingernails and Kara asks about it.

Linda doesn’t give an inch, makes some mean comment about the value of hard work and Kara’s lazy American culture.

(The inside of her apartment is bright now, painted baby-duck yellow and when the light hits it she feels like she’s standing inside the sun. But that’s not for Kara to know. That’s Linda’s secret, and something about it - the feeling she gets when she’s in her room and the idea that not everything she knows or does has to belong to someone else - feels self-indulgent in the best most private way.)

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She likes The Wizard of Oz the best.

Alex doesn't know that she reads it. She has a copy, bought with American money at a bookshop run by a smiling American woman who called her darling and asked her questions that forced her to lie. Oh, I loved this movie when I was a kid, didn't you?

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(or: some Red Daughter meta because I had a few feelings)

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Anyway UNRELATEDLY I keep poking at my Red Daughter fic and it’s becoming increasingly hard to not write the fic where she and Kara slowly fall in love whoops.

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One day I want to build a museum just dedicated to your tags. They are out of this world fantastic.

<3 <3 <3 💕 this is incredibly, incredibly kind of you. Thank you so much.

(I assume you meant the tags on my most recent Red Daughter post and I tell you what the secret is just to have A Ton Of Feelings.)

(I love her so much I want to tell 400 stories about her doing well and having a nice life.)

(And maybe being the bisexual one in the Kara/Daisylinda dyad)

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BRB plotting 47 million Kara/Linda enemies-to-lovers AUs I don’t care what canon says.

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Wow, so last night’s Supergirl reached into my subconscious and pulled out every single clone/robot with a heart of gold learns to find love/individualism peeking through dystopic conditioning/supersoldier just wants to do what’s right trope I have ever loved and just gave them back to me on a platter like I’m overcome????

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All of your tags from The House of L episode have been a delight to read the last two days! Thanks for sharing!

aww Anon thank you so much!! I’m really glad you appreciate them, I love getting anon messages and it’s lovely of you to let me know.

Honestly this week’s episode has just delighted me like I’ve actually been really happy with S4 overall but you know what improves everything ALWAYS? Superpowered individual naive to the world wants to learn about love, aka THE BEST TROPE. And I’m so excited about like - idk just the potential of it, I guess? Like I don’t know that my feelings are about what happened in that episode per se versus my reading of the episode which is that the Red Daughter Kara is going to try to take over Kara’s life and be strong for Lex but EVENTUALLY she’s going to learn that love doesn’t make you soft, and that human connection doesn’t make you weak, and that material pleasures like soft blankets and ice cream and hugging feel nice for a reason and that it’s okay to like those.

And then she and Kara are going to be best friends forever and NOTHING BAD WILL HAPPEN.

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Also I’m just throwing this out into the universe in case this guess is correct: what if the DEO acquires the Red Daughter Supergirl.