Tourist, May I?

[takingkarabusiness]

Who: Tourists and visitors!
Broadcast: Nooooooooope
Action: On the Tourist
When: May

[ Ship Catch all for May! Mingle! Talk to your neighbors! Walk in on your friends! Wait, don't do that. ]

Comments

[takingkarabusiness]

I was hoping for a full duet.

What's up?

[ she's sitting on her bed and invites him over ]

[winn]

Well, it's not really a duet - [ and he's not singing love is an open door with her, awkward line.

he sits down. ]

You remember Margaery, right?

[takingkarabusiness]

We could definitely make it one.

Yeah. Everything okay with her?

[winn]

[ tilting his head in a way that says 'not exactly'. ]

She's -- from a really backwards world. As in, um. [ suddenly everything feels so awkward. he's here for talking-about-it-without-sticking-his-foot-in-his-mouth advice. but that means he has to sail through asking for it without it. ] Sexism-wise. [ clearing his throat. ] And I just...I am so under-qualified to help her. I thought maybe -- I mean who better to talk to her than Supergirl?

[takingkarabusiness]

I did get that impression... didn't she mention something about getting married? She's practically a baby.

[winn]

Yeah and - [ well, he's not going to go into the whole story because that's margaery's to tell ] not to a good guy. [ he's dead and now she's to marry a child and this is so not ok but he has no idea what to do here, kara save him. ]

She's such a nice kid. She actually gave me a whole basket full of threads for embroidery, and I was thinking I'd make her something with it as a thank you - maybe something that sends a message?

[ he gives kara a meaningful 'HELP ME' look. come on, you know you want to come up with a feminist phrase for him to embroider for her! ]

[takingkarabusiness]

Like "Eff the Patriarchy"?

What's the Shakespeare one...? "And though she be but little, she is fierce" or do you think that's too childish?

[winn]

I honestly don't know - [ he's kind of scared of saying the wrong thing here ] that's why I'm asking you. Though I don't think she knows what 'eff' is.

[takingkarabusiness]

She probably knows the alternative, though maybe not "patriarchy".

What are you trying to accomplish?

[winn]

I don't know. I just...I hate that this stupid archaic way of thinking is bringing her down. She has so much potential, you know?

[ he feels responsible for her, while she's here. almost like a little sister. she's worried about people from home trying to trip her up, worried about being dutiful to a cruel man because of a promise she was forced to make...and he feels helpless, because there's nothing he can do about it.

he knows the values of equality are far from perfectly rooted back home either, but this is a whole new level of painful ignorance. ]

I just want her to see that. [ little sister is not ending up like him. ]

[takingkarabusiness]

[ omg winn you can't save everyone. but she knows you'll try. she'll try, too ]

I think that's a lot to put on one piece of embroidery.

[winn]

Gotta start somewhere, right?

[ he's been learning it from kara. hey, so, can he just bring the whole fleet over to national city? everyone's worlds suck. ]

[takingkarabusiness]

Right.

So... A quote or something, right? Right now I'm only thinking of Beyoncé songs.

[winn]

Lyrics make some great points sometimes, and she is 16 -

[ even if it's a really old 16 ]

Watchu got?

[ worst case scenario he could go for shakespeare and hope he doesn't come off patronizing. he could give it to kara to give to her, then it sounds fine, right? ]

[takingkarabusiness]

Oh, I don't know... I feel like so much of it takes more context than a sampler. "I woke up like this, flawless"? If her world is that backwards, I bet she doesn't know that much about feminism. Maybe something more neutral, like "she believed she could, so she did?"

I'm trying to think about all the things I wanted to buy on Etsy.

[winn]

I'll just write these down as we go through --

[ typing them out on his communicator, in case they want to revisit any ]

[takingkarabusiness]

I don't know how good I am at this, really.

[winn]

Oh come on, inspiring people is like -- your Kara superpower. I should know.

[takingkarabusiness]

I am pretty good at it. [ she concedes ]

Okay, maybe "This Princess Saves Herself" or "She Believed She Could So She Did"?

[winn]

[ don't argue with winn about your awesomeness, you will always lose. ]

Well she's from a land of actual titles and is about to be queen, so maybe not 'princess' -

[takingkarabusiness]

This Queen Saves Herself?

[winn]

I'm putting it down as a possibility -

[ typing! ]

[takingkarabusiness]

This is really sweet of you, Winn.

[winn]

Well, you know, if I can't eat sugar I may as well be sugar.

[ he shrugs, not really sure what to do with the compliment other than joke about it. ]

[takingkarabusiness]

Well, I'm sure she'll appreciate it. I want to get to know her better, too.