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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?

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[ it would take kate more time and thought than she expends just now in order to truly empathize with such a frustration. after all, she sees nothing wrong with normality. but in time, she'd liken it to losing her bow fingers. or maybe her vision. that, she could understand mourning.

anyway: ] So? How'd you start? You mentioned twelve years and twelve years. Have you been Supergirl for a little over a decade?

[ because that's intense and you look pretty youthful, missy. kate might have started on a team with really young people, but still! ]

Um, no. More like a few months.

[ she thinks for a moment how to explain her situation, and decides to go for the mid-to-long explanation ]

When I was 12, and my planet was dying, my aunt and uncle decided to send their son to another planet, in hopes of survival. My parents sent me along after him to protect him.

Which would've been a better plan if I didn't get stuck in the Phantom Zone for 20 years. It's like space-stasis? So I didn't age, but Kal-El, who didn't get stuck and landed on Earth normally, did.

So I get free after 20 years, he's already in his early 20s and Superman, I'm 12. He helped find me a foster family—who's great, by the way—and the goal at that point was to give me as normal a life as possible.

I thought that's what I wanted, but a few months ago, my sister was on a plane that got hijacked. Knowing I could do something about it, I had to go help, so I did! And that kind of started the whole thing.

[ kate listens with rapt attention. and patience. she lets kara talk her way though the story, and it's fascinating because it sounds exactly like the kind of think she ought to know. but's it's fresh. like a new story.

come the end, kate offers only a mildly affectionate: ] Sisters, am I right?

[ because their origins at least have that in common. ]

Trouble magnets.

[ but on a more heartfelt note: ] Some people just can't stand by and the world needs every one of them. No matter where you come from, Kara.

Edited 2016-04-04 17:47 (UTC)

[ you're so sweet, kate ]

Thanks, Kate.

What happened with your sister's wedding? And why was it crashed anyway? Sounds like the worst Owen Wilson movie ever.

Evil-doers looking for a ransom pay-out, most likely.

[ there is no easy way to say 'my family is stinking rich'. ]

What kind of wedding was this? One to a Saudi Prince?

Well. The bride-to-be was the daughter of a pretty influential publishing magnate.

[ which means so is she. surprise! ]

Oh! Well. Then I guess that makes sense.

[ though it's something she didn't think she had to worry about with Ms. Grant's son ]

Then I guess you have inter-universal insight into what I do?

Like I said -- your boss must be a piece of work.

[ but hopefully not also a scumbag with ties to organized crime and evil villain syndicates. that's a whole other barrel of monkeys. ]

She is.

Is it your mom or dad?

Dad, actually. Consider him a carbon copy of one of those male-domineers who probably tried to fire your boss in that hypothetical backstory you painted.

[ no love lost here. ]

I can easily imagine that.

Sounds like a complicated situation.

Families usually are. [ she picks up her spirits, however. ] But that's what teams are for, I guess. They're the family you choose.

[ nods in agreement! ]

You're right. Found families are very important. And they're what make this place bearable.

And for the record, I don't think it's that weird to want them here.

Yeah.

Who would you have here?

[ -- he's already here. the person who tops her list is already here, but she doesn't want to say so. not least of all because everything with clint is complex.

so: ] Teddy and Billy. Friends. Teammates, too. I can't pick just one, because they're pretty much attached at the hip. It'd be too cruel to take one without the other.