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ekingston · 7 months

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Apart from show canon, at which point did u think it was too late for lena's immediate forgiveness to kara's identity reveal

oh boy. anon, here is where i come clean about my shoddy recollection of canon’s chronology. i’ve done so many fragmented rewatches and skipping back and forth—there’s a reason i rarely dabble with canon-adjacent stuff! and that even when i do, i create worlds where Lena figures it out herself!

second road bump to answering this question is that i have a LOT of feelings about how things played out on the show, and most of them are incongruent with the tone of sgcw. i understand their narrative reasons for keeping the secret from Lena for so long! but the execution is so, so terrible! ignoring large swathes of canon and replacing them with my own is the only way i’m able to enjoy at least the last tiny handful of seasons!

here is where i spend an hour procrastinating from my WIPs, while not successfully answering your question at all:

to be perfectly clear: i adore most parts of canon Kara. and i think i may be hard on her in ways i wouldn't be if i didn’t relate to her so much. i think her backstory is extremely compelling and i admire her ability to hold on to her kindness and hope and joy even after losing everything that was important to her, even when she’s tired and lonely and mad.

BUT. a healthy Lena—one who we were made to believe was finally freeing herself from Lex and Lillian, rising above the coping mechanisms she’d developed as an unwanted and emotionally neglected child? i don’t think that Lena would (should?) have forgiven canon Kara at all.

after the rift, canon Kara flitted between telling Lena she’d lied to her ‘to protect you’ to ‘one person who sees me only as Kara’ to ‘your last name’ to ‘didn’t want to lose you’ until she literally told Lena she was on her own, and she’d treat her like any other villain until Lena repented, even rejecting her apology at first, as if Kara’s own decisions had played no part in Lena’s downward spiral at all.

the Kara Lena would have forgiven is the much more cohesive and coherent Kara brought to us by our talented fix-it writers: a Kara who is willing to let herself be vulnerable and to second-guess her motivations, one who is able to put together a proper apology and actually listen to Lena's own.

but, okay, lets table all of that. this is me trying really, really hard to entertain canon:

Kara and Lena’s friendship became painfully lopsided by season 3. i think that was, if i recall correctly, when the super-friends decided to trust Lena enough to regularly ask her for assistance—but not enough to let her be part of their in-group; it’s where they left Lena in the dark about the fact that her best friend had come close to plunging to her death right in front of Lena's eyes, and was actively still fighting for her life; where they tricked Lena into having an extremely personal conversation with J’onn, while he was wearing Kara’s features, only to make belly-laughing fun of her about it later.

and even then, honestly, it might already have been too late. what about the aftermath of Jack’s death? was that season 2? Jack was Lena’s ex-everything, someone who genuinely loved her, who saw her through the fallout of Lex’s arrest. he was one of her last remaining friends, and Lena pressed the button to let him die in order to save Supergirl’s life. how would Lena knowing that Kara went through that with her, knowing Lena had chosen to save the life of her favorite person in addition to National City’s hero, have changed the way she felt about that horrible situation? that’s where that extremely wonderful heart-to-heart on the L-Corp couch happened, right? Kara swore she’d always be Lena’s friend—while keeping silent about the fact that she was there when Jack drew his last breath, that she had witnessed their final moments.

so—i really can’t tell you anon, i’m so sorry. the 100th episode already fabricated reasons why Kara couldn’t possibly come clean to Lena back when she made the conscious decision to be her friend (and not in a ‘keep your enemies close’ kind of way!), and i’m beginning to think that was the only moment Kara could have told Lena that would have kept her conscience completely clear. Kara should have made it part of her decision—either she was going to be Lena’s friend and give her the same trust Lena was giving her, or she would keep things professional, and keep her identity a secret from her.

Kara tried to do both, and if i really think about it, i don’t believe that was ever fair.

#i could have kept going anon #drifting further & further away from your original question all the while #i think it would have helped it supergirlcw would have figured out at one point what kind of show they wanted to be #and possibly maybe also perhaps if they'd managed to make up their mind about who these characters were and what they wanted? idk #is it lighthearted and fun? then lena knew all along and kara half-suspects but it's still hard to come out and actually say it #is it dramatic? maybe lena still knows but she's convinced kara not telling her means she's just another luthor AND MAYBE SHE IS #is lena just another evil luthor? so kara was right keeping her secret from her! bring on the (actual proper) villain arc!#etc etc ad nauseam & ad infinitum #thank you for letting me get this out i guess anon lmao #perhaps it is A Day #ask me things!#anonymous

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inkedroplets · 5 months

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I would love to hear about the Fate Has Intervened WIP you have going on :)

Would it surprise you if I told you it was another rift fic?

I picture it set sometime after the 100th episode before it diverges from canon. Lena walks away from her Non Nocere project but there's no reconciliation. Perhaps the wounds are simply just too deep. And when Lena realizes how close she came to crossing a line she had vowed never to cross she finds it impossible to trust herself to work alone. Too easy to imagine herself making excuses for herself. Too hard to trust her own judgement but her desire to do good wins out and she begins a tenuous partnership with Clark of all people. Something familiar about working with a Kryptonian maybe. Or maybe she knows that Superman is likely to be her harshest critic after Lex and after what she did to Kara in the Fortress and feels it's a rightful punishment. But time goes by and without really meaning to she finds herself working with the Justice League. Nothing official. There's L-Corp to think about and she doesn't want to even imagine the headlines that would follow if a Luthor joined the Justice League. And when the League finds themselves facing an enemy that specializes in magic, one that has no trouble at all taking down Superman, the decision is made to call in Kara (something that Lena doesn't agree with but knows better than to argue. pushes to assist while Lena's sent to the armory to retrieve a weapon that they hope might stop them. She spots the weapon in question but before she can retrieve it something else catches her eye that almost feels like it's calling to her...

Just as Supergirl arrives on the scene, there's a flash of golden light and a figure making a beeline towards the enemy, tanking a blast of magic that had been enough to lay out Superman seemingly unscathed and just as quickly as it had begun, it ends and once the smoke clears, there's Lena still floating in midair wearing the Helmet of Fate. She's made a deal with the creator of the Helmet that still possesses it. The Lord of Order. Too long he's acted without a vessel, too long chaos has been allowed to run rampant. Speaking through Lena, he informs the League of the agreement. There are those that disagree but Lena's made up her mind. It might be safer to act as a force for good as a vessel rather than by her own hand... She's a Luthor, after all. Kara is the loudest to voice her disapproval but there's little that can be done. The deal has been made. Lena is no longer Lena. She's the vessel for Doctor Fate. But as per the agreement, Lena gets one day a year to remove the helmet, to be herself for a time. The first time that she does, Kara watches from a distance as Sam envelopes Lena in a hug, looking more stunned than anything. Lena consoling Sam as she cries against Lena's shoulder, asking Lena why she would do something so foolish. And Kara is left to wonder if they can ever reconcile, if perhaps they missed their moment to do so...

#asks #I had this image of Lena getting grey hairs and still apart from Kara and this is what came of it #supercorp

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wonderbutch · 2 months

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happy four year anniversary of supergirl’s 100th episode “It’s a Super Life” ! shoutout to kara zor-el for trying to bend and change reality multiple times to get lena luthor to be her best friend again 📼 <3

#supergirl #It’s a Super Life #supergirl cw #cw supergirl #supercorp #kara danvers #lena luthor

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arrow-v-flash-polls · 1 month

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who had the Best 100th ep

invasion (arrow

what is past is prologue (flash

wvrd error 100 (lot

its a super Life (supergirl

Not every show makes it to 100 episodes but these four did, so which one had the best episode to mark the occasion?

Thank you for the suggestion anon. This should be an interesting result.

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carebooks · 2 years

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the entire plot of Supergirl’s 100th episode was based on Kara getting multiple do over’s and what if’s in telling Lena she was Supergirl because their relationship was in ruins and she missed her

if that’s not gay then i don’t know what is

#supergirl #kara danvers #lena luthor #supercorp

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lena-in-a-red-dress · 1 year

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AU where in the 100th episode Kara wishes so hard to save Metallo!Lena that the 5th dimensional magic that brings Kara back to our reality yoinks Metallo!Lena along with her.

Except it drops her somewhere that's not Kara's apartment, and Metallo!Lena is faced with a reality where Supergirl *did* save her. Where a version of her exists with a heart that still beats.

Maybe she'd still want to destroy Supergirl, but first she'd want to meet this other version of herself who has the world at her feet not through cruelty but through kindness. Maybe she'd even plan to take our Lena's place, to better position herself to hurt Kara.

Which means that our Lena is suddenly faced with the fact that her first instinct is to protect Kara, even when she thought her own anger and hurt was driving her to hurt Kara herself.

But when it all comes to a head, our Lena of course takes pity on Metallo!Lena. How could she not feel for this forsaken version of herself, this version who tried to save her world the only way she knew how.

Our Lena reaches out and takes her counterpart's hand, and presses it against her chest. Metallo!Lena stares with tears in her eyes at the reminder that our Lena's chest is whole and unbroken by kryptonite.

"It beats," our Lena murmurs past tears of her own. "But that doesn't mean it doesn't hurt."

Kara watches the two Lena's, eyes wide with realization that Metallo!Lena's pain isn't so different from our Lena's.

"You're allowed to feel angry. You're allowed to feel betrayed. But you won't feel better inflicting that same hurt on others. Trust me," our Lena urges. "I know, better than anyone."

Metallo!Lena hears the words, absorbs them, visibly shaking as she loses the one thing that has kept her going all these years. Our Lena brings her free hand up to wipe the tears that have spilled onto her counterpart's cheek.

"All you can do is control what *you* do. You can choose to let go. You can choose to move forward from here, and spend each day trying to do the next right thing."

Metallo!Lena nods. Mxy opens the portal back to Metallo!Lena's world, and Lena watches herself walk through it, chin trembling but lifted high.

When the portal closes, Kara makes her way to Lena, relief writ clearly across her features. She thinks Lena's words mean forgiveness for the hurt between them.

"Thank you, Lena," she says in a low voice. She reaches for Lena's hand, only to have it pulled roughly away.

Lena looks at her. Not with hurt, nor with anger, which Kara might have preferred to the apathy in Lena's gaze.

"I may have seen where hatred will carry me," Lena delivers cleanly. "But I haven't chosen to forgive you."

Kara swallows thickly. "What *do* you choose?"

Lena looks at her, and her chin lifts.

"I choose to let you go."

The last Kara sees of her friend is Lena's back as she turns and leaves the way she came in, calmly shutting the door behind her with a click.

#supercorp #angst #metallo!lena #100th episode au

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thatonebirdwrites · 2 months

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hello hello!

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for the writers ask please? :D

🍐 Is there anything in canon that you absolutely hate and love to fix in fics? A wrong choice made, a fuck-up in characterization, a misunderstanding never cleared up, a conversation never shown onscreen, etc…

Well, based on my current body of work within the Supergirl fandom, I seem to have an obsession on exploring various points where Kara could have told Lena and not have it explode in a way that harms both of them. lol

I think if Kara was brave enough to tell Lena, Lena would have worked through it with her. As for whether Lena would feel betrayed? It depends on where in the timeline this was done. (I personally think in Season 3 after Lena is poisoned and she wakes up and says in awe, "I dreamed you flew me," that's when Kara should have told her. They would have worked through it because at that point Supergirl hadn't done anything to hurt Lena. They'd actually been a decent team up to that point. But anyway, that's my headcanon, and it was a time period that wasn't touched in the 100th episode.)

Lena going full out villain is a wrong choice made and fucked up characterization. To do it required isolating her and erasing her own chosen family -- namely Sam. It aggravates me to no end.

I also REFUSE to have Sam written out of the story in order to push Lena into Evil!Lena because:

Sam would 100% be there for Lena no matter what and help pull her back from the brink. Lena definitely is guilty of thinking she knows best, but Sam has always been great at getting her to consider other viewpoints. Upon which, Lena explores that (being a scientist) and adjusts her tactics. (Lena in turn has helped Sam to view things in a different light. This is part of their dynamic.) In order to get Lena to be a "villain" they had to erase Sam. And that infuriates me. So I always bring her back.

In the 100th episode, we see that when Kara tells Lena about being Supergirl after the Mercy invading L-Corp shenanigans, Lena immediately goes to Sam. When she is accused of poisoning children in Season 3, who does she go to? Sam. One of the few times we see her in canon looking cozy and feeling safe enough to express her feelings just how they are, was at Sam's place. Sam is perhaps even more her best friend -- if not her chosen sister. Nothing Lex shared had anything to do with Sam, and Sam, like Lena, did not know Kara = Supergirl (based on dialogue in Season 3 the pair have and Sam has with others). There's no justifiable reason for her not to go to Sam.

So I fix that every single time I write a fic that takes place after the end of Season 3. Sam matters and plays a huge role in Lena's life. I refuse to have her erased.

Whenever I add Sam back in to the story, it pulls Lena back from the brink. She doesn't go off into Non Nocere territory because Sam helps her interrogate that idea and realize its harm. Sam gives her space to talk and feel her feelings. This in turn gives Lena different perspectives into why Kara did what she did.

When I examine the story from that angle, it often leads to Lena realizing that Kara's decisions to keep her in the dark are threefold:

Kara was afraid to lose her and wanted to be just Kara with her. Selfish reason, sure.

Kara really did believe if Lena knew she'd have more attempts on her life, and Kara couldn't bear that. This leads back to point one.

Kara was heavily pressured by people in her life to hide herself. This meant only a small amount of people knew about her. So then the question becomes who pressured Kara into this and why?

The logic train then enters into who within Kara's group is actually trustworthy? Lena, being highly protective in nature, often ended up in my tales talking things out with Kara eventually, and then helping Kara stand up for herself more so she can be her authentic self and not hide. How Kara finds ways to be her authentic self while keeping Supergirl identity a secret is part of Lena's influence because Lena wants to see Kara thrive as her authentic self. This may cause some distance with certain people due to how heavy-handed they were in pressuring Kara to hide herself (even from people she loved!), until Kara learns how to enforce boundaries better.

Lena can have that influence on Kara, but Lena herself needs someone in her corner to help her reach that point in understanding.

Sam is that person.

I'll die on this hill. lol

I have other thoughts on other fandoms, but I'll just limit myself to Supergirl for now. lol As in, don't get me started on the Korrasami one. I have THOUGHTS. My biggest problem is the forced love triangle nonsense, the incoherent storyline in Book 2, and the ridiculous fan-servicing in Book 4 (No, it makes no sense for overprotective Tenzin to send his kids in search of Korra. Also, we did not need FIVE "comedic" male characters that are basically the same personality just skinned different. WTF, give us more Asami instead). But there's too many thoughts for me to type out here -- or rather I don't have the energy to type them right now. lol

🍒 What’s your favorite character dynamic to write? (Can be romantic or platonic, specific or general!)

I sort of adore affectionate friendships. They are perhaps the most fun to write.

I also love writing friends to lovers dynamic too.

To be honest, I love them both equally. One or the other will show up in my works somewhere. It's inevitable.

Of these dynamics, I notice that I tend toward one of them being scientific-oriented and the other either a fighter/brawler (like Korra) or more artsy (or a combination of fighter/artsy). This is often called the red oni/blue oni dynamic actually if you want to look it up on that tropes website.

I even write this dynamic in my original fiction. I'll never escape it (not that I mind, it'll always be fun to write).

🍈 Who’s your blorbo and what are some of your favorite headcanons/ideas about them that repeatedly show up in your fics? Free pass to rant about blorbo opinions.

Lena Luthor and Asami Sato. Lena is basically just grey moral Asami, let's be honest.

What I love about them is the complexity inherent in their characters. They often have tragic backstories, they are trying to make their way in the shadow of someone in their family being evil (for Lena it is her brother and adopted mother. For Asami it is her father). They want to do good in this world but struggle against the heavy stigma on them.

There's a lot of fodder to explore there.

For Asami Sato, a lot of her arc happens off screen, which is a crying shame really. Her arc mirrors Korra's arc to the teeth. They are mirrors of each other. (To the point I called her the Avatar's mirror, and then decided to turn that into an AU, which became my Shared Moments series). Because so much of her arc happens off screen, this allows writers more freedom to examine what her life was like in those off-screen moments. To build up who she is to the point where she and Korra run off to the spirit world together and kiss dramatic and live happily together.

In contrast, Lena's arcs are more filled out that Asami's-- most of them do happen on screen, but there is a lot of details that are left out in her arcs. Bits and pieces of her history that are shrouded in secrecy, or rather CW writers who failed to write it or be consistent (if we're being honest). So these finer details of who Lena is and why she became who she is gives writers a lot of freedom to dig into her more deeply.

I think this is why there is a lot of variation on how Asami Sato and Lena Luthor gets written in fics, but there is still core traits of each that appear in nearly all the fics I've read.

For Asami Sato: she's an engineer, who loves to invent and work on engineering projects. She doesn't particularly like parties but deals with them because her job requires it. She's 1000% in love with Korra likely from book 1. She is introverted, kind, and generous. She's a workaholic that forgets to eat all the time. She has anxiety. For Lena Luthor: She's a scientist and engineer, who loves to invent new things and work in the lab (a workaholic that also forgets to eat). She knows how to manipulate the system to get what she needs done; however, whether she enjoys this or not is up for grabs (some fics show her as enjoying it, others don't, canon is unclear since its rare to see Lena in a state without her high walls the Luthors taught her to have. She often treats these moments as 'necessary for the job' which doesn't really strike me as something she loves doing). She's generous (hundred dollar tips much?) and can be kind, but she also has a temper. Her sense of humor is fairly dry, and she can be sassy in some situations. She's a polygot (not just languages but also body language, where she molds herself to fit the situation -- sometimes without even realizing she does this (case in point, with the Superfriends).) She has anxiety.

Both of them yearn to not be alone and just want to be loved. (And yet, sadly for most of the series for both of them, they are alone. Asami though at least gets the girl in the end. CW was cowards with Lena.)

When I read a fic that centers one of them, I can generally pick out these characteristics.

I think I just find these characters so fascinating because of that depth. Even with the bad writing that both characters were subjected to, their intricate personalities and depth still shone through. Not even bad writing could erase that, and both have made a lasting impact on me.

I also find them a little easier to write than say Korra or Kara. I think it's because I tend toward the sciences myself. (My humor is more Kara, and I'm a very silly person like Korra, but otherwise, my approach to life is very, very much Asami Sato. Heck, my therapist and I talk about the "evidence" of whether my intrusive thoughts are correct or not. So then we go and examine the evidence, lay out the facts, and prove or disprove the intrusive thought. Usually disprove if I'm being honest. That's very much an Asami and Lena way of approaching mental health). So yes, in a way, I love them because I relate to them so much. But I also love them for the depths hidden in their characters.

This is something I've noticed in a lot of things I watch and read. Whichever character is more the scientist/thinker of the couple/group, that's the one that often ends up being my favorite. (Unless this person is a cisgender straight man, then I just get bored and stop watching/reading, but eh, I admit to my faults. I prefer reading/watching woman - cis or trans - being awesome.)

Anyway, I've rambled enough about that. lol

Thank you for asking and I hope you enjoyed this!

#ask game

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supercorpbb · 1 year

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The Supercorp Big Bang celebrates the anniversary of the 100th episode of Supergirl, an episode that explored a multitude of possibilities for Supercorp, just like our creators will for the SCBB. Sign-ups are still open if you want to join in the fun!

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#supercorp #supergirl #kara danvers #lena luthor #scbb 2023 #kara zor el #kara x lena #supercorp big bang #supercorp evermore big bang 2023 #scebb23 #supercorp fanfic #supercorp fanart #supercorp art

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fazedlight · 10 months

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FazedLight Ficlets

(Would rather read on ao3? I'm importing them here.) (Looking for something longer? Check out my fic lineup!)

💝 = start with one of these 🍁 = supercorptober

Idiots in Love

Scent - On moving on and unanticipated powers 💝

Tattoos - A story about a funny misunderstanding

Stargazing - A moment on the roof of the Tower 💝

Glance - Kara wants to protect Lena from Nyxly

Enchanted - Lena can't understand magic with science 🍁

Power Girl - Karen Starr pays a visit, and Kara's not ready for the revelations

Flying - Lena doesn't realize she's getting over her fears.

Confusion - William is also an idiot, but in a useful way!

Bouquet - Why didn't Lena jump?

Other fluff

Write - Lena's got an alien detector device. Too bad Kara is solar flared 💝🍁

Hazy - A season 3 reveal, based on Lena's misinterpretation of Reign 🍁

Character Study

Irish - On Lena's connection with her mother

Sunrise - What sunrise means to Kara 💝

Mercy - On a difference between Kara and Kal

Hiding - Musings from Cat Grant

Interlude - Max & Cat at the radio station during Myriad

Identities - A companion ficlet to my Worldkiller Kara AU

Asynchronous - Not sure where to slot this, but I promise it's less angsty than the gif implies!

Hero - On Kara's struggles as she figures out how to have hope.

Awakening - On Kara realizing her sexuality.

Heights - Lena character study, angsty

Reflection - Kara comes out to Nia

Burn - Kara seeing Lex during Crisis

Angst (hopeful or canon-compliant endings only!)

Do-Over - A rewrite of the ending of the 100th episode

Control - Lena activates Myriad 💝🍁

Borrowed Time - Kara's last thoughts in the season 1 finale as she carried Fort Rozz into space

Kaznia - Lena panics that Kara died in the explosion, but Supergirl emerges instead.

Listening - Kara should know better than to eavesdrop. And yet.

Dread - Rewriting Lena's experience with the Phantom in Fear Knot

Gone - Alex tells Kelly the truth about Kara, near 6x01

Other:

Plus One - Kara takes Lena to Barry's wedding

Phonecall - A call between Cat & Andrea near 6x01

Rings - Kelly character study

Oath - Alex character study

#supercorp #supercorp ficlet #supercorp fanfic #fazedlight #collection

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kuekyuuq · 1 year

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One of the things that bug me about how CWSG ended...

And no, it's not (just) a certain lacking endgame XD

We've got a serialized show about Supergirl, Kara Zor-El, Kara Danvers. And yet the show spent overall so little time on her.

She got traumatized several times over, it got implied that she suffers from claustrophobia and PTSD. Yet it was never fully addressed, the next episode Kara just moved on, carried about - as if this was an episodic show. Which, yes, with the freak-of-the-week nature it was at certain points, but it also did in many others aim to have connected and continuous plots, story and character developments...

Now, what is it that bugs me in this installment?

Kara coming out to the world as Supergirl. Aaaand cut. Show over.

Is this a continuation or inevitable destination of Kara's struggles? Well, I argue, no.

What we did have was Kara struggling to find her place in the world. Kara is many things. She's a (no longer) orphan. She's (no longer) the last daughter of Krypton. Kara(thought she was but really is no more) the last Kryptonian to carry Krypton’s legacy, history, culture, education.. everything.

... Kara is Kryptonian. Was raised as one until she was 13, throughout the majority of her informative years. Kara Zor-El. Kara has incredible powers, which her very nature dictates she uses for good, become a hero. Supergirl. Kara is.. a refugee, adopted and in some ways till the end of the show at times struggling to fully integrate herself as: Kara Danvers. Kara's nature, without her powers also have her to strive to help others, uncover and fight bad things. A reporter. Kara's also just the girl who loves musicals, Big Belly Burger, Karaoke, hates greens, wants a perfect partner at Game Night... Just Kara. Kara is a sister. Kara is a daughter. Kara is a loyal friend...

Several times in the show, whenever Kara was struggling, Kara thought she had to chose between Supergirl or Kara Danvers.

The Black Mercy clearly showed Kara’s longing to be Kara Zor-El, missing the what-if.

During her redK incident some more seeds of that were sown, her red-veined self mildly risking her identity - but mostly showing that Kara was unhappy playing herself down (e.g. as Kara Danvers at work).

The downside of revealing herself was depicted in the 100th episode.

There were more instances whenever Kara became overwhelmed, that she wondered if her duality (person vs. persona) was the cause of her problems.

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But the solution was NEVER to go full Supergirl!

It was always something else. ALWAYS, the show, told us, showed us, Kara was ultimately happier being bouncy Kara Danvers at the office and the proud hero on the streets. That despite her pain and whichever most recent trauma, neither her cape nor the glasses were the problem. Nor was the double-act. [...except when it came to Lena]

Kara considered going full-time Supergirl in season 6 (episode 16), too. Alex and William (quoting Kara who quoted Cat) talked her out of it by letting her know, she can have it all, taking one step at a time, and maybe not all at once - because she's got a team, a family!

And then she does it anyway.

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She also becomes editor-in-chief at CatCo (which likely cuts down her investigative reporting time by a great chunk... You know, the very thing she loved about the job, loved so much it even - temporarily - did cost her that very job).

Oh, and there was also this:

The argument was made, that the whole double-life spiel had long since lead to Kara no longer knowing who she really was.

But did it?

I mean... yeah, it sure can be stressful at times, but... right, speaking of stress. Kara made that decision after

being part of reshaping the universe (and having witnessed the death of all of them beforehand!)

which reshaped Kara's history she now has no knowledge of (due to being a Paragon) or, if J'onn or her stay in the fractured PZ somehow bestowed her with her Prime-Earth memories, she now has two sets of memories...

she had been cast into the Phantom Zone again, where she had to suffer at the hands... claws... of the Phantoms and their nightmare inducing powers which are known to drive people insane for them eventually no longer being able to tell reality and the nightmare apart.

she found out her father was still alive and she sent him off to Argo / her mother - her family now well, whole and alive somewhere out in the universe

loosing yet another friend (William)

...

So, she tells the world she's Supergirl,

which will not erase the in episode 100 mentioned threats to her fam's lives

while the Children Of Liberty had been beheaded, the mistrust in people is still around

two years prior, during the Red Daughter incident, she had been declared public enemy number one

her sister's got a kid

ALL her prior reasons not to do so, have not magically evaporated!

I know, she's the Paragon of Hope, but...

People know Supergirl. Only very few know Kara Danvers. Hardly anyone on Earth ever knew about Kara Zor-El.

So, ask yourself, after revealing herself to the world, how would/will people perceive her now?

I think it's very naive to think, that Kara can be "herself" when people (at Al's bar, Noonans, work, performing the rare interview she manages to squeeze in between supering and her new, demanding job at CatCo) now either get star-struck or nervous at "meeting Supergirl", or at worst can't think past her being an (over-powered) alien. Supergirl is (in)FAMOUS! There is only Supergirl now, in the eye of the public, to anyone she meets. ...how could that possibly help her be more “herself”? The only people who she can be herself are the ones she could all along - her friends and family. If anything it made going for a walk much more stressful, whereas Kara Danvers could eat ice cream without judging her for the messy way she may go about it in her eagerness...

Is she being more honest?

Yes. There’s no more need to “fly on the bus”, am I rite? No more lies.

Does this lead to her being more true to herself?

...on the surface at least, yes.

Does this lead to her being able to live as herself, her true and authentic self?

No, and not for some decades either (eventually, far away in the future, her having taken that step, and others following her example, this may very well lead to people not making distinctions anymore, being a Hero possibly just becoming considered yet another job, like a fireman/-woman or police officer).

Just a few years ago they've built the woman a friggin statue!

So, no. I do not think - and the show has not given me anything to believe otherwise, rather kept affirming my conclusion - that Kara would indeed be able to live as "herself" after the finale episode and her public "coming out".

I think the writers or whoever was in charge of that decision only saw the superficial symbolism (and a woke pro-LGTBQ+ implication). But they've entirely ignored Kara's path, her evolution and her experiences.

Truth be told, if there had been a seventh season after this cliffhanger (which it essentially was, as it raised more questions than it provided answers and/or closure), it would have had to have featured Kara facing the plenty-fold backlash of that decision. But making the show about Kara - the character - may have been a bit too much to ask for anyway... Maybe even culminating in her needing to call back Mxy to cash in her do-over raincheck.

So, no.

I see what the show was trying to say.

"Be yourself, don't hide, be proud." And that IS a good message.

But within the context of the show? Oh, boi, this one failed hard IMO.

My advice for Kara Danvers?

TAKE A VACATION! Really, just be "Kara" for a while. No Super, no Danvers, no Zor-El. Just kick up your legs, DEAL with your trauma (talk to Kelly!), clean up shop, find your center, focus on your needs for a while.

Go sing Karaoke with your extended found family. Eat buckets of ice cream. Watch every musical in existence. Maybe even go and visit your re-united parents! Go on a road-trip with your bestie. 🥷 Finally take some time off to mourn: Red Daughter, William, Jeremiah (for good), Oliver... Go meet your nephews! There's two of them now, and they are teens already!

Trust your friends, trust in them having your back, that the world won't get destroyed (again) just because you take a few months of a sabbatical or to just limit yourself to rescuing kittens and helping grandmas cross the streets for a while. Maybe you'll even find a hook for a story to snag yourself another Pulitzer while you're just out there enjoying the world.

And yes, just ENJOY the world you've saved (over and over and over and...) for once! There's so much beauty in it. Prove to yourself why it is all worth it!

Because, Kara is NOT just Supergirl OR Kara Danvers OR just Kara...

She's all of the above and so much more.

Revealing herself to the world is not changing that it isn’t an instant solution to Kara's multitude of problems, her traumas, her inner(!) duality (tripality? quadrality?...).

The seasons have put her through the ringer several times over without giving her a chance to breathe, have thrown trauma, drama, loss, grief, shock and terror at her over and over and over again. She's a former last Kryptonian orphan refugee adopted by humans who has her parents back but estranged by time and space, facing xenophobia, racism, sexism (lots of 'isms...) left and right, had to face, fight and lose her own "evil" twin, possibly contradicting memories of her teenage years up to Crisis, keeps losing even when she's winning, spreads herself way too thin because of Big Bads constantly showing up....

For Rao's sake! The girl really doesn't know who she is anymore!

And it only on the surface leads back to her being a reporter and a Super both day and night.

There is a reason the comic book arc of Superman revealing himself got retconned / axed. ...after all, if I grasped that correctly, it was Lex' great idea for Sups to reveal himself to the world...

And no. I don't think either Cat nor Lena meant for Kara to come out like that. They were being supportive. Cat in her "you need to figure out what you want, so just dive, Kara!" way and Lena in the more gentle "whatever you feel is right to you, my one true love best friend" approach. Cat was trying to push Kara (meant well, but IMO after the previous events just wrapped up, a bit of a bad timing). And Lena was ...kinda enabling, having just come on the other end of her own life-long trauma spiel and possibly being over-supportive after the year of hell...

So yeah, I've got issues with the last few minutes of the finale. In my head-canon it was Kara's fever dream after she finally had a full night's sleep after the final show-down.

Feel free to disagree!

TL;DR:

“I was missing the point. It is not about what you do. It is about who you love.”

- Cat Grant [2x21]

#Kue out.

#cw supergirl #finale #reveal #supercorp #6x20 #spoilers #kara danvers #kara zor-el #kara zor-el danvers #secret identity #Kue doing Kue-things #none of the pics or gifs are mine #CWSG #reposting myself #bc this got CL blocked for no good reason #stuck in review limbo for 2 weeks with no progress #lemme just have some good ol' fashioned fandom fun #overanalyzing fandom

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