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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

[ladybro]

It's not that embarrassing.

[takingkarabusiness]

I suppose it could be worse. I could've not had any clean clothes to wear before I made this broadcast.

[ladybro]

Or the feed could have turned on just as you were doing...whatever you did that managed to break the thing. That would've sucked.

[takingkarabusiness]

...Yes. It would have.

And that would be forgetting how strong I am and slamming the door.

[ladybro]

How strong are you?

[takingkarabusiness]

Weirdly? Not even a fraction as strong as I usually am.

[ladybro]

So you're...

[ WAIT A SECOND. kate frowns. ] But you said -- huh. Right. Okay, fool me once and congrats to you.

[ SUPERGIRL!!! ]

For the interim, there's always the kitchen sink. Right?

[takingkarabusiness]

[ SHE THOUGHT SHE'D BEEN CLEAR but this is actually how she gets away with it at home. sometimes. ]

Oh, I thought—

Um. Yeah! But the sink is small. And a lot more work.

[ladybro]

[ silly kate, taking someone at their word-- ]

So let's hope your friend is handy with tools.

>> private video

[takingkarabusiness]

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

>> 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.

[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]

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?

[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. ]

[takingkarabusiness]

Really? What kind?

Is that rude to ask?

[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.

[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.

[ladybro]

If you ask me? [ and she knows you didn't. not really. ] Here, there seems to be a lot of us.

[ heroes -- powered and unpowered. incredible people. ] If you can't be yourself here, then I don't know what to tell you.

[takingkarabusiness]

Isn't that the hard part, though? For the first 12 years of my life, I was one thing, and the last 12, I've had to be something else. Kind of makes it hard to choose.

[ladybro]

Who says you have to choose? [ ... ] Take your best bits from both lives and be those.