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[takingkarabusiness]

Who: Kara & co
Broadcast: fleet-wide
Action: S.S. Tourist
When: now! and whenever

[ In her video transmission, Kara has her blonde hair up in a messy topknot, wearing standard-issue clothes. She pushes her glasses up the bridge of her nose and looks a little sheepish ]

Um. Hi! Sorry to send this to everyone... Well, I had a question I wanted to pose to everyone but then another thing came up and...

Does anyone know how to reattach a door to a washing machine? I had a little mishap... and I still have a lot of laundry to get done. Anyway, it'd be awful if I didn't at least ask how to put it back the way it was.

The second thing is completely unrelated. Does anyone else feel really weird about wanting friends or family to show up? I don't think I'd wish this experience on anyone against their will, but as long as we're going to be here... it'd be nice to have familiar faces, don't you think? How do you deal with the conflict?

And is there any way to request they bring crullers with them?

Comments

[passingthrough]

I don't actually know you well enough to know if that would be a thing. [She wouldn't think so, but you know what happens when you assume.]

>> private video

[takingkarabusiness]

Did you actually want to talk about it? I thought I was being kind of obvious... sorry.

[takingkarabusiness]

Tequila doesn't really affect me, so no. It's not a thing.

>> private video

[ladybro]

We don't have to. [ ... ] I mean -- I try not to assume something like a double identity unless it's spelled out. It's safer, that way. I might own up to being Hawkeye at the drop of a hat, but not everyone's like that.

But hi, Supergirl.

[private]

[passingthrough]

[She's switching the feed over which means it's as private as she can make it. She can't do much about curious communications officers who want to spy.] Is that something you wanted to say openly? And since wh...is that what you meant by recharged?

[takingkarabusiness]

I haven't really figured out how I'm going to handle it here. Which mostly means I've been telling some people and not others...

It's awkward.

What did Winn tell you?

[ladybro]

Just that Supergirl is pretty rad and that he once sewed up some cosplay based on her costume. But considering you and he are friends, I'm beginning to suspect that was something of a lie.

[ not that she blames him, either. ]

[takingkarabusiness]

It's not like anyone cares here. It's a lot to keep straight and we're surrounded by aliens.

[ she is clearly conflicted about all of this. she wants to just be normal and fit in so badly, she doesn't want to lie to people, but it's hard to reconcile the two of those—and deprogram 12 years of necessary lies ]

But I don't know. I can't really seem to make the leap. If people know what to look for, sure, they'll think it's weird. Otherwise they'll probably just think I can hold my liquor.

And yeah, but we're far away from the sun, and the pollution on the moon makes things worse. I've only improved slightly.

[takingkarabusiness]

He actually designed and made it, yeah.

So.

I'm an alien.

[ladybro]

Do you shapeshift or do your people happen to look really similar to us?

[ notably, kate is considerably nonplussed by this conversation. aliens are not a new concept. ]

[takingkarabusiness]

You are surprisingly okay with that.

We look really similar, but we get special powers from a yellow sun.

It's weird, I know. Think of me like solar panels?

[passingthrough]

[Kitty nods, seeing it's a hard thing for Kara to sort out. She's already said her peace on it, and doesn't feel the need to push one direction or another despite making the feed private.]

That's something. Did Winn tell you we've been looking for things we can use to make a fake sun generator?

[takingkarabusiness]

Yeah, I ran into him on the moon. You're working with him on that?

[ladybro]

It'll be less surprising when I tell you my ex is an alien. Ditto a couple of my best friends.

[ does america count as extraterrestrial or interdimensional? hard to say. but kate supposes it's more of a semantic difference. she isn't from earth, at least. ]

[passingthrough]

[Nodding.] He didn't mention me? [What? She's not fishing.]

[takingkarabusiness]

Really? What kind?

Is that rude to ask?

[takingkarabusiness]

He might have. Why?

[ladybro]

The ex is Kree. But I know a guy who's Kree and Skrull, but that's...a very long story.

[ and not hers to tell. ]

[takingkarabusiness]

I haven't really heard of them.

I'm Kryptonian.

[passingthrough]

No reason. I just have a quota to make of people discussing me. [They definitely didn't have an awkward moment.] So did you just rip the washer door off without realizing how hard you were pulling?

[ladybro]

-- If you think about it, I guess we're all aliens here.

[takingkarabusiness]

Well, yeah, I guess context matters.

It's been hard trying to figure out what I should or shouldn't say about all of this.

[takingkarabusiness]

...Maybe.

[passingthrough]

I can't believe with all those powers you listed there isn't one for dry clean only. [Seriously though, it was a long, largely unrelated list.]

[takingkarabusiness]

Well, we're not exactly next to a dry cleaners!