No I haven’t read the scripts but perhaps it must be something to the tune of Jon having real feelings for D?
I keep saying this in all my posts that Jon sees D as the opposite of what Jamie sees D. It’s a classic dichotomy of what the audience sees her as – a saviour vs an antagonist. The purpose of season 7 was to further establish this dichotomy of views.
To be fair, D wants to be a good queen. She really brings out the conflict within human beings:-
1. Who you think you are
2. Who others think you are
3. Who you really are
1.Who you think you are
D thinks she’s a good queen and that she’s kind and compassionate and just. But that’s just what ‘she’ thinks about herself. This view is absolute since it stems from the ego of every human being. It reflects what everyone thinks about themselves. My opinions are right, my thinking is better, I cannot be wrong etc etc. Isn’t that why we have shipping wars in the fandom? The ability to spread hatered and chaos takes birth from this feeling of superiority, of the need to be right, of feeling more power or in other words – the mind being controlled by our ego and not by our conscience or intellect which is very well depicted by D, Cersei and even Tyrion in many instances.
2. Who others think you are.
In all our lives – we may have people who like us and people who don’t. Well in D’s case, it’s the same – except in a far more radical manner. There are people who love her, are loyal to her and will give their lives for her. The other half sees her as a tyrant, a foreign invader who knows nothing about their land and who rules purely by fear.
So who’s right?
Both are!
Because…. the same battle is waging within her. She’s torn between doing the right thing until Cersei gives her a fake assurance. The war inside her is reflected outside too where on one hand she appears as a villain to Jamie and on the other she appears as a saviour to Jon.
3. Who you really are.
This is what it boils down to in the end. Every time one is faced with a difficult situation, a dilemma – who you really are will always come out despite what you think about yourself or what others think about you.
Isn’t this what Jon hopes for too? That his people will see her for what she really is??
I’ve always thought that D’s whole character arc has been about discovering an answer to these three questions. It is the true conflict of the human heart.
Jon expects that his people will see her in the same light as he sees her but this is game of thrones for crying out loud! His hopes are bound to be crushed and perhaps in a way that he himself will begin to see her for what she really is.
I always thought ‘that’ was the whole point of why they inserted that line in there.
So who is D, really?
Well, we’re going to find out in a few months.
I’ve always maintained that Jon and Sansa have not really examined the depth of their feelings for each other.
They’re half-siblings. So they have a messy and complicated relationship since they were never close as children. At least that’s what they think. They don’t know that they’re cousins. Any over possessiveness is dismissed as familial love – in their heads but clearly not for the audiences that have seen their relationship grow.
Like my dear friend who is a non-shipper said, “Something about their relationship always feels odd and tensed. I don’t understand why they would spend so much time on screen developing the nuances of such a relationship unless there was a different story to tell.”
I mean if you think about it, a jon-d relationship was developed in just 4 and a half episodes. And 85% of the audience thinks that they’ll marry and have kids and rule the seven kingdoms. See, it was that easy for the showmakers to portray a romance between two people who have never met each other – in 4 and ½ episodes.
Also for those who were paying attention – enough seeds for discord, misalignment of values, contrasting personality types and beliefs were laid between Jon and D in those very same 4 or five episodes.
So, it doesn’t matter what Jon thought in season 7, lol ( He thinks he’s Ned Stark’s bastard, remember?) it only matters what he’ll realise in season 8.
If you think he’ll look past D’s proclivity to incinerate, his actual relationship with her, her obvious craving for power – that’s your opinion.
I could be wrong but I don’t think this story was ever about two Targaryens riding into the sunset on their dragons and children.
In Bryan Cogman’s words, in the end, it all boils down to families – one family- the Starks !
The scene in S7/E1 where Jon and Sansa walk & talk in the aftermath of the Alys Karstark – Ned Umber pardoning/re-affirmation of faith with House Stark is one of the most grossly misinterpreted scenes that I feel like it’s worth an entire post about it.
There exists a fairly obvious disconnect with the Jonsa fandom and the anti and non-Jonsa (yes, you can be indifferent about Jonsa, it’s really ok) folks about why exactly we who think Jonsa is the most likely and satisfying end pairing to rule Westeros could see this scene as a treasure trove of foreshadowing and subtext. Here goes my deep dive…
First, the theme of this entire post…
Subtext means that the spoken words have two different meanings. There’s the literal meaning of the text – then the subtext is a layer of meaning buried underneath. Essentially, subtext means that what you are hearing isn’t what the scene is actually about. Easy, right? Let’s continue.
Jon says the words, “you undermine me” – and so in 1000000 articles and 1000000000 videos and 100000000000000 comments on reddit/tumblr/twitter/etc. we’ve heard that Sansa undermines Jon here.
And yet this is disproved by the actual content of the scene and by the 3rd most important person that makes the show, Bryan Cogman. (x)
It’s plainly obvious that Jon is particularly hurt by Sansa’s objections to his decision in the previous scene and he takes that as her attacking his position and authority.
But why does he take it that way?
Let me introduce a throwback quote that I think is the best explanation why Jon reacts so extremely to Sansa’s objection;
“They came because of you” – he knows Sansa was right in the lead up to the BotB and now he’s the king. She tried to tell him to delay the battle. He didn’t. This forced her hand in seeking LF’s help. He almost died. He would have lost the battle had Sansa not done what she did.
What do I see in Jon? Guilt. Self-doubt. Confusion. He has no idea how this is supposed to work with Sansa. Remember, the lords crowned him after this scene. He affirmed that Sansa was the reason they even won the battle and then he receives all the praise for the victory.
This scene is about Jon’s insecurity and need of Sansa’s support and about Sansa’s recognition that she needs to balance her need for validation with making Jon feel supported.
Why do I think this? The entire rest of the scene…
Sansa doesn’t quite see Jon’s insecurity at this point. She still just wants to be heard. And the last scene didn’t help with that too much. I don’t believe she’s quite put together how insecure Jon is about himself and his abilities.
Sansa was in the middle of telling Jon that he needs to get better at listening to people but she unintentionally triggered his insecurities at the mention of Joffrey. Again, Jon isn’t saying Sansa can’t question his authority in the lead up to this – he was upset because he felt like Sansa’s criticisms make him seem small to the other lords because he feels small.
The really interesting part is Jon’s response to this.
Remember, he doesn’t really believe he deserves to rule. He feels indebted to Sansa for winning the battle. He feels guilty that he’s been thrust in authority over her. Jon’s fear at this point is being a shitty king. And so this fear is what triggers his response. To her credit – Sansa notices Jon’s emotional reaction very very quickly.
Her entire demeanor changes. She softens here. It’s the moment where she really can see through Jon, I believe. He needs supported because he’s so unsure of himself. It’s no wonder that Jon struggles with his confidence. He’s grown up in Robb’s shadow and Catelyn’s ire. He joined the Night’s Watch and found out it wasn’t at all what he thought it would be…then he ascended the ranks anyway and was murdered. Then, in trying to take back WF with Sansa, he didn’t listen to her and almost lost everything because of it.
I think it’s key that Jon didn’t lash out in anger at the comparison. He didn’t accuse Sansa of being wrong. He knows he’s not Joffrey. He’s dead afraid that he’s been such a shit ruler that he now has no idea what Sansa thinks of him.
His psyche is so fragile. And you can see with almost exact precision the moment that Sansa softens and adjusts for him. He doesn’t even have to ask “do you think I’m Joffrey?” for Sansa to know what’s happening.
And the pause from Sansa is telling, too.
Perhaps for a moment she did realize that she had taken her frustrations with the lords out on Jon. They didn’t recognize her importance but Jon has in multiple ways since they reunited and most definitely since they won the battle.
To me, her looks convey a sense of clarity. “Maybe I did get screwed a bit, but Jon is the best person I’ve ever been able to spend time with since I left Winterfell. He’s been the one to validate me, I need to do the same for him.”
It’s really emotional for her too. We need to realize as viewers that Sansa’s need for validation is as important as Jon’s need for support. Sansa’s feelings about the aftermath of the BotB aren’t unfair on the whole. Jon affirmed her status as Lady of Winterfell and gave her the lord’s chambers (a point that came up again in S7 with Arya, and I don’t think it’s for nothing). Jon has tried to validate Sansa while feeling guilt that others haven’t quite done the same.
This is really the “moment” for me that Sansa put all of that resentment completely behind her and saw the bigger picture. Jon needs her. That’s her realization. It’s not about him wanting to rule as the lone wolf – and it’s not about him having stubborn arrogance. It’s about his fragility.
This tone shift completely holds up the rest of the way…
Sansa now gets it. She’s shown hints of unlocking the Jon Snow Puzzle previously with her various forms of validation for Jon as a worthy Stark. But this is like Sansa gazing right into Jon’s soul. She gets him from this moment on.
Jon needs her and he’s horribly insecure about himself.
So what does she say next?
Folks, this is like the best ointment for Jon’s soul. He needed to know this. Jon is still not assured of himself so of course he denies that he’s a good ruler; but that’s the single best thing for Jon to hear in this moment. Now, I think the rest of the scene portrays Jon as still frustratingly stuck in this self-doubt – but the tonal shift of Sansa recognizing that Jon needs her support is the single best way to interpret her demeanor when the scene started so contentiously.
Look how the boy reacts after she reassures him.
“You are.” Tell me that Jon in this moment isn’t displaying a stunningly deep combination of despair, self-doubt, hopefulness, and confusion all in one. Sansa is something more to him than anyone could have ever predicted. Look at this. She’s the only one that’s rightfully identifying his emotional needs, I should also add. Sam, Davos, the northern lords, they all see this strong determined skillful warrior and noble guy. Sam, for all his intelligence, has still failed to really see Jon’s weaknesses because he really idolizes Jon. Sansa is the only one that really sees underneath Jon’s skin and into his heart.
He IS a strong determined skillful warrior with a noble heart. But he’s also tired of fighting, as only Sansa has been told. He’s also ashamed for his stubbornly resisting Sansa’s advice in the lead up to the BotB. He’s also deeply doubtful of even being placed into a situation where he’s viewed as the head of House Stark. She sees these things and spoken to him about these things when no one else has. Sansa is the most important person to Jon emotionally by a mile.
It also makes Jon’s utter inability to fully communicate with Sansa incredibly understandable.
What is she to me? A sister? A half-sister? A stranger? I never had a bond with her before. Now she’s my closest confidant. Is that normal? She’s identifying my emotional needs. She hears me express my deepest feelings of self-doubt. But is she supposed to be this person for me? Am I even a member of House Stark? How can she think this much of me when I didn’t listen to her? We would have lost without her. I need her – but does she really need me.
Watch Jon’s behavior with Sansa in the first two episodes of the season and tell me this stuff doesn’t track well.
You know what happens when you’re not clear-minded? When you’re conflicted? You hang on certain details in a conversation and keep harping on them over and over again because your mind is going a million miles an hour and you’re trying to anchor it.
Jon goes back to the U word. And it makes no sense, really. Trying to protect someone is good. Trying to undermine someone is bad. If Sansa stopped trying to “undermine” Jon, then he would stop trying to protect her? Does that also mean he will only protect her so long as she continues to try to undermine him? It’s kind of nonsense but I think it’s intentionally showing that Jon simply has no confidence in himself and he needs yanked back by Sansa over and over again.
And here she literally yanks him back form this self-destructive mindset.
Look, when I said earlier that Sansa gets Jon, I meant it. She is SO GOOD at jogging his mind back to the important things that need to be talked about.
She knows how to get him snapped back when he’s practicing avoidance.
“He hardly talks” is what Ygritte said. Dany so often was met with uncomfortable silences and non-answers from Jon when she wanted to know something that he wasn’t willing to discuss. It’s a defense mechanism for Jon. His silence, his quips, his brooding. It’s all to avoid talking about the types of things that make him feel small and unworthy.
And I think the last exchange is the most important. Because Jon really has said to this point “I’m worried I’m not good enough for this job.” Internally he knows he needs Sansa but he just doesn’t want to admit as she is the biggest source of confusion and self-doubt Jon has at this point.
On its face, this statement is weird. Why would he say it like this? He’s affirmed her place. He’s said they need to trust each other. He told her she was the reason they won the BotB. What’s making him so reluctant to fully rely on Sansa? He just had a near meltdown because she compared him to Joffrey. Then he was soothed when she expressed otherwise and affirmed for him that he’s a good ruler. S6, at it’s conclusion was the Season Sansa Was Right and Jon felt horribly guilty for not listening to her.
So again, on the surface, his words fly in the face of that. OF COURSE he should listen to her. She’s proven it over and over again – and it’s something Jon has outright acknowledged. So why in the heck is he struggling so much with this?
His last look here says it all.
Jon is so utterly confused, lacking in confidence, shamed, guilty, and mother fucking love sick that his entire existence is twisted and folded like a Sansa-shaped origami.
Right here, I think, is the moment we get to see why Jon keeps desperately trying to walk away from Sansa and has trouble communicating with her. He is losing himself in her and he has got no idea what to do with that because he does NOT feel like he should be seeing her this way.
** I’m collecting all of my meta and GRRM quotes – more added soon **
Because David Benioff and DB Weiss know more than any of us, in these posts I rely on a mix of book and show evidence in an attempt to understand the larger themes of the story and the narrative from the perspective of reconstructed fantasy tropes. Since GRRM has said that he is not interested in writing an external battle against good and evil, and because he has referenced power as a corrupting force in his interviews, I believe that the show has dropped strong clues, backed by book evidence, that Dany will be the final antagonist. I also believe that Jon will marry his cousin Sansa – although this theory exists independent from the others.
Who she really is – Ygritte/Dany as the “violent/conquering” type, and why it may foreshadow tragedy for Dany
Wide Sargasso Sea/Jane Eyre parallels – is GRRM offering a more feminist interpretation of the madwoman, just like Jean Rhys gave Antoinette more depth in the Wide Sargasso Sea?
Dany’s humanity going forward – I argue that Dany is on a slow, downward slide with each plot point representing an incremental loss of concern for human life.
Will Dany be eaten by a dragon? – foreshadowing for a very gruesome death, but this meta shouldn’t be taken too literally. The idea that dragons will be her downfall is the larger point.
Different puppets, same strings – Tragedies rely on protagonists becoming someone they try not to become. In trying so hard to escape the past, they end up copy/pasting it. Show!Tyrion’s statement that “children are not their fathers” is contradicted by book foreshadowing from Tyrion himself
Another dance – Ned protecting Jon from Robert’s wrath will be relevant again once Jon’s cover is blown
The scouring of Winterfell – GRRM praised the ending of the LOTR for its pyrrhic victory. While the Shire was saved from Sauron and Orcs, humans destroyed it anyway. What does this mean for Winterfell?
Jon’s quest is a farce – Quentyn and Aegon were thrown in a quest for hand of “the most beautiful woman in the world.” Well guess what – Jon Snow isn’t on that kind of quest, even if Dany thinks he is.
Knights Watch – Sansa’s biggest crush so far in the story is Loras Tyrell, a sworn member of the King’s Guard. Who else is a sworn member of a knightly order?
Littlefinger, Jon, and Sansa – its set up like a love triangle with Sansa in the middle. Of course we know she’s not going to choose Littlefinger. But she will use him.
Lord Byron inspiration – Byron’s own torrid affair with his half-sister could be a an echo of a future Jon/Sansa romance
It’s not just about duty anymore – its seems important that Sansa is there after Jon’s death, because if it wasn’t for her he’d be on a beach in Dorne somewhere, brooding.
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It’s funny that I keep seeing things that act as if Lena
would be the helpless one out of her and Kara and I absolutely adore Kara and
the girl is a damn genius with super powers and picks up things fast, but growing up she also had to
deal with extreme culture shock, PTSD, and along with powers sensory overload,
to name just a few of the things about
her childhood on Earth. She comes from a dying planet with insanely advanced
technology and science—not really survival skills, and more so just trying to
adapt and heal.
Lillian was teaching Lena chess at the age of 4. And say
what you want about the Luthors, and there’s plenty, we see Lena working
weekends, nights, hell Thanksgiving—she’s a CEO by 24, probably more than a few
degrees. That kind of work ethic and drive (regardless if it’s actually
healthy, it’s huge) didn’t come from
nowhere. Every single skill Lionel and Lillian could cram into Lex and Lena,
they probably did. Regardless of how Lillian might feel about Lena she’s going
to have expectations, and at the absolute least if she’s going to have to be
this girl’s mother she might as well make her useful, or someone for Lex to
compete against, and Lillian loves Lex.
There’s no point to giving him a rival if that person isn’t pushed
and given the same kind of preparation and training and education that he
receives. And Lillian is someone who can be on the run from everyone and not get caught—that’s going
to take more than just money, that’ll take skill. Not to mention running a
black ops program with no one the wiser isn’t exactly on the list of things
that a rich housewife can do.
Kara is from a technologically advanced planet—maybe a few
days is fine but she’s probably so horrified
not to be around any tech she only likes camping for the difference in her
senses and all the pretty nature and landscape. Imagine if you went back to a
time before indoor plumbing—and sure a week of it is fine but months and months???? No. It’s probably worse
for Kara. She was p well supplied with tech, if the spy beacon that Astra had
that had a signal that could be received anywhere
was simply a child’s plaything—or if it wasn’t, and it was something she had
because of Astra’s military connections, then who knows what else she had
access to? She’s probably good with mechanics, to a certain extent because of
her father the scientist—who created a damn rocket
and taught her plenty about mechanical engineering—but they would have had
different elements on Krypton. It’s hard to know how to build something
when all the materials are different—Lena
would be just as screwed if she was given Kryptonian materials from the get go.
But my point is, Lena is probably actual fucking MacGyver,
or even better yet, the Supergirl version of Elliot Spencer. The Luthors definitely
seem like the kind of people who have their kids be in Boy/Girl Scouts, because
you never know when you might need those skills—they’re Luthors, they have people
gunning for them from the cradle. You never know when you might need some of
those skills, especially if you need to go off grid, or have to dump everything
in a moment’s notice. Like I’m not making a definitive statement, except yes,
yes I am if you gave Lena a knife and some decently warm clothes and set her
off into a forest she’d probably be fine for however long she’d be there for.
Lillian and probably Lionel seem like they would definitely hire a swim coach
to make sure their strokes are textbook perfect, but first they’d absolutely and quite literally throw them in the deep end to teach them
how to swim—the coach is about achieving perfection, and this is survival. And
Luthors don’t depend on anyone else for that—the sooner they learn that the better.
A powerless Kara, on
the other hand, would be absolutely fucked. She may have gone camping w
alex but lbr kara definitely used heat vision to start a fire and has no idea
what kind of clothes to pack or what to do about bug bites and maybe knows how
to pitch a tent and some useful things that don’t rely on her powers but 5 minutes
after losing her powers she cuts her hand on glass and breaks her arm—it’s not
a matter of intellect, but it’s kind of like how astronauts look up when they
drop a pencil—you get used to a certain baseline. Kara could definitely learn,
but Lena already knows what she’s doing. Lena was taught she couldn’t trust on
anyone but herself to survive and Kara was taught stronger together. This isn’t to say this is a failure of Kara’s
that this isn’t her mentality—Kara has plenty of knowledge about science and
alien cultures and technology and language and religion and understanding of
people that Lena probably struggles with, especially in comparison. Kara was
doing calculus at least since she was 4. Honestly out of the two of them she’s
most likely better at science and
math—but it’s probably painful for her bc it reminds her of Krypton, and it’s
not like humans are going to be very accepting of a 15 year old trying to
correct them on widely accepted theories. That would bring attention.
Kara was told to hide—Lena was told she wasn’t allowed to,
that she had to be extraordinary because
that’s what Luthors are.
We see in her very first episode she’s a marksman, able to shoot
the man that had Alex hostage without even hesitation. We also see her Gerry
rig that device at her charity under the table with a tiny bit of help from Winn, but not that much—that’s not exactly a
lab setting.
The Luthors have so many back up plans and hidey holes that
their family motto almost seems to be “be prepared.” Like Lena does not like
Roulette and has 0 plans on ever going to her fight club but she knew exactly where
the address was from the top of her head, without consulting a planner. And
the fight clubs most likely rotate
where they’re at—sure Roulette has connections but the DEO took Leslie Willis—if
they don’t know about her she’s not going to bring her to their attention. And
still Lena knew where it was, because it’s
important to be prepared.
Or better yet—the Luthor motto might be all knowledge is worth having.
Lena probably picks up new skills in her “free time”—or really
whatever time she has that she’s not working at her company, not able to simply
lay around and do nothing. “You never know when you might need to know how to wrangle
a crocodile kara” “You never know when an assassin might try to kill me while I’m
on ice Kara” “You never know when you might need to know this very obscure and
esoteric language Kara” “It’s a very distinctive sound and one day I might need
to be able to distinguish between the sounds different guns make when cocked
Kara” “Who knows if you’re ever in the mountains with only a paper clip and a
hair tie Kara” “Kara it’s always useful to know how to be able to get out of a
straight jacket without any help”
Kara is very confused about her strange nerdy friend but
Lena feels such vINDICATION the first time something she’s been practicing
requires her expertise you said it was
weird to know how to competitively duck herd AND YET HERE WE ARE WITH A DEADLY ALIEN
SPECIES THAT RESEMBLES IN SEVERAL WAYS DUCKS
tl;dr Lena would be absolutely fine wherever she’s dropped
up to and including the woods or a farm with only the clothes on her back and a
used tissue and after a week or so Kara would be clutching her phone wondering
where the wifi is
You
know, I keep seeing posts talking about what a horrible liar Kara is. But the
fact of the matter is Kara is probably one of the best liars I’ve ever seen on TV.
But
wait. The entirety of National City knows Kara’s Supergirl, you may be
thinking. How can she be a good liar? But that’s the thing—her secret isn’t
that Kara Danvers is Supergirl.
Kara’s
only been Supergirl for the past year or so. But still, she’s been lying for
well over a decade about who she is—and
successfully. The thing about Clark—and they’ve addressed this in season 1—is he
may as well be human. They’ve talked about this with Astra, and then they’ve
shown this Myriad. Because in Clark’s head, he’s
not Kryptonian. His powers make him stand apart, but when he solar flares,
his most likely thought process is I’m
human now. To Kara, it would be I’m
now powerless. And there is a difference. Krypton is much more
technologically advanced, yes, but that is not the only difference between
Earth and Krypton.
I
cannot emphasize enough Kara is not
human. Kara’s alienness isn’t contingent upon her abilities—superpowers or
no superpowers, she’s always Kryptonian.
And sure,
plenty of people probably have figured out that Kara is Supergirl—but that’s
pretty much it. What people know about Kara’s past is that she’s Superman’s
cousin, and that’s it. And clearly, Kara is younger than Superman—most people
aren’t going to think “yup. She was probably put in suspended animation in some
way.” I mean the conspiracy theorists might, but not really the overwhelming
people on Earth. (listen. You gotta draw a line somewhere)
Most
people are going to think ‘Occam’s Razor’—that Kara’s mom, or dad, or both, got
off Krypton at the same time as Superman, and a decade later had Kara, and that
there’s a very good chance that Supergirl is half human, or at the very least
born on Earth and raised as a human. It’s what’s logical, isn’t it? The simplest answer is usually the correct one.
But she’s not. English isn’t her first
language, and she grew up with a very different culture, undergone a host of
different experiences that most humans couldn’t even imagine. Hell, she wasn’t
even born the same way—Clark was the first natural Kryptonian birth in years. That means Kara was not. Kara was born via the Codex—really,
if James was surprised at the depths of Kara’s anger over losing Krypton (back
in season 1—you know, where Kara got to have more than 3 emotions), or how
surprised he was to find out what Kara’s family crest really meant, how surprised
would they be at everything she’d decide to just stop hiding?
Because
Kara is so very good at hiding. Kara
Danvers is real, yeah, but it’s someone she had to build. One of the very
subtle, but telling moments happened in the first episode of season two, when
Kara and Clark were getting off the elevator, and Clark had a clumsy moment
where he ran into someone and knocked all their things to the ground. After he
apologized and helped the person pick up their things, Kara asked him “wow, you
really have the whole clumsy thing down, don’t you?” “Oh no, that was real.” Key
word here is thing. As in, I
have a routine I go through to distract people and to seem harmless.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg, of routines and acts Kara must go
through to make herself seem human. Kara Danvers is real, but part of that identity is a persona she constantly embodies–clumsy, absentminded, horrible at math and science, cute but not drop dead gorgeous, a bit quirky always happy, harmless, invisible, human.
And so it’s not surprising that all of these people are figuring out her identity, but that’s not really what Kara’s held close to her chest, not like Clark. Kara’s anger and loss and just general alienness–that is her secret. This is what she’d confide, this is what she’d have to truly trust someone to reveal. This is what the culmination of trust would look like, trust in Cat or Lena or Maggie (or hell even Barry, who sure knows Kara is an alien but. He doesn’t really seem to grasp the implications of that–oh i didn’t realize Kara got mad).
For 10
years, Kara kept herself hidden, keep herself secret. But Kara’s secret isn’t
that she’s Supergirl, a human with powers.Kara’s secret is that she is angry and mad and hurting. But most of all, Kara’s secret is that she is not human.
Honestly if Lena was in mild shock and delight when Clark showed a backbone (“there’s some steel under that Kansas wheat!”) like how must she be reacting to Kara. This woman who isn’t afraid to challenge her and engage her in debate and is still v respectful and polite and adorable–it’s not from a place of hostility, for her name or because of her brother. Karas disagreement comes from what Lena thinks. How many times have people made assumptions about her, simply for her family? Sure, it’s disagreement, but it’s over her own actions, her choices.
And it’s refreshing.
And then she sees that Kara wrote a brilliant article about their interview, and maybe she thinks it’s because of what she said that her mind was changed but no, her editor had her rewrite the first article, and she lets Lena know with a big smile–but it’s not hostile, or scathing, or sarcastic–it’s genuine and sunny and it’s disagreeing with her ideas but not with Lena herself and she’s still there, still coming in and talking to her and treating her like a person and they’re both talking about their past and their families and it’s comfortable, but above all unusual
She’s a Luthor–either someone wants to use her, or hates her with everything in their very being because of her family. Sure, she wants an interview, but she already has that, and that’s still Lena’s opinion she wants.
I’m a bit reminded of Lucy’s relationship with Kara–beautiful woman, daughter of a very powerful man, younger sibling of a very powerful and/or notorious person in the public eye, probably didn’t have very many friends growing up–probably even fewer female friends–and now is in a high power/high stress field dominated by men.
And then Kara Sunny Danvers comes along. They see her smile and her sincerity and her desire to just help and they’re just gone
Korra’s just, such a loud spirit. Everything about her is loud. Her voice, her MUSCLES, the way she does everything, the way she carries herself, even the determination she has to live through each day, being the Avatar.
But she’s also, so, so fun. The girl has so much energy within her, it’s impossible. She takes that energy, and lights up Asami’s life. Makes Asami’s life more fun, makes her more silly, dorky, goofy. Korra teaches Asami that it’s okay to be silly, and that it’s okay to make mistakes. She tells her that flaws should be embraced, and that they are meant to be embraced.
Meanwhile, Asami is the gentle hand that Korra has never really known. All her life, people have told her what she has needed to be, pushed her to BECOME something. But Asami is a reminder that, Korra doesn’t need to BE anything. She just needs to be. Herself. Whatever that is, just…be. She is there, at Korra’s side, never pushing, never demanding- only there for Korra to become her best, and offer support for that. She’s the hand that calms Korra down, offers her a beat from the hard life she lives. Offers her something to make it all worth it. The quiet wisdom, never-ending support and love. She tells her to calm down, take things back a step. Think.
They’re there, for each other, when they need each other. And even when, they don’t even REALIZE they need each other.
Was talking with @tomas-abe about this–have you ever thought
of a supergirl leverage au?
Honestly, I’ve talked so much about how Kara isn’t a
horrible liar—she’s a phenomenal liar. She makes everyone
think she’s a bumbling, harmless, ordinary, average human—her kindness isn’t a
lie, but as we’ve seen with RedK—it is a choice. And we’ve seen her with
Clark— “you really have the clumsy thing down.” But for Clark that was real. For
Kara, it’s an act. She’s the heir to a house renowned throughout the galaxy for
its scientists—and she was about to become the youngest person in Krypton’s
history to enter the science guild. But she was told over and over and over to
be ordinary, average, unremarkable—to hide herself, hide anything that marks
her as alien. She’s a genius in a room full of preschoolers who are just now
learning concepts that she’s understood since before she could walk—of course
she’s bored with earth science.
Supergirl isn’t a
lie, but it’s not quite the truth either—and neither is Kara Danvers. Both are
part of her, but at the same time they’re both personas that she embodies and
can step into almost at the drop of a hat—they are constructed and built. And
yes, when outright confronted, she is a horriblebluff—she can’t do it. But
almost everyone forgets or glosses over how much pain Kara must always be in,
the anger she carries inside of her of being the very last, of being sent away,
of being alone. They forget that she is not simply a human with powers but
forever and always Kryptonian with powers—like how everyone thinks of Clark, like
we’ve seen in Myriad how even Clark
thinks of himself, Kara never thinks of herself as human. She has a different
language and values and culture and religion and she fools everyone into
thinking that she’s just like them(for more about this,
here’s the post I made that’s a lot more comprehensive). That isn’t Kara’s
stage. This kind of complicated and woven falsehood is her stage. Sound like
anyone?
Kara would totally
be a grifter. Especially a Kara who wasn’t found by Clark, who wasn’t found by
the Danvers—this is Kara without a purpose, who sees her cousin flying over
Metropolis with the house of El’s Crest on his chest and doesn’t need her. She has nothing to live for—so she wanders, constantly
pretending to be someone else and she gets good
at it. She has a soft spot for swindling people who violate environmental laws
because it’s easier—and never goes
after anyone who doesn’t deserve it. That doesn’t mean it’s necessarily legal. She’s also got a soft spot for
art—it’s marvelous, in a way even Krypton never was. And grifting is something
that makes her feel alive, covering up for just a little bit the gaping hole in
her heart where Krypton used to be. And really, she doesn’t have very many
ties, or attachments—she travels light, easily able to switch identities and
leave at the drop of a hat. There’s this undercurrent of sadness in all of her
identities, even with the happiest of her personas—which just makes her a
mystery and all the more magnetic to the people she’s trying to con—she’s able
to seem so damn genuine and sincere it’s addicting.
Not to mention someone who can easily see everyone’s
tells because of advance senses, hear their heartbeat and see infinitesimal
twitches and expressions that pass in a millisecond—she didn’t visibly use her powers as Cat’s
assistant, but she still kept the job for 2 years before using super speed or
strength—and that was because of how well she could read Cat, who went
through probably hundreds of assistants before finding Kara. That would be essential for a grifter. Plus, we know
that she learned English in less than a week.
An entire language in just a handful of days—being able to learn regional
dialect and adopt accents and
She goes by so many aliases, trying to run away from the
memory of krypton. But her current alias? Kiera. Kiera Deveraux.
Kara woke up alone on Earth and saw her no longer baby
cousin with their family crest on his chest doing perfectly fine—he’s grown, he
doesn’t need her. How would he even know about Kara in the first place, or any
of it? Kara’s been doing this since she was 13, and now she’s probably 30
something, maybe 32. We’ve had Clark even say—Kryptonians age very slowly. She
still looks like she’s in her early 20’s. She doesn’t seem to age maybe that makes
her even more legendary but she likes to use make up to make her look older
because that truly fucks with people,
although she never goes after bad
people.
One thing that is truly different from Krypton, and not in a bad
way, or a lesser way, is the way humans create art—she loves art. And it’s something that she bonds over with their thief.
As for who’s Nate, the alcoholic whose young son died
because of corporate greed, the mastermind who thinks of every contingency and
almost obsessively observes and
analyzes? Why, that’s none other than Cat Grant. Cat Grant
I’m a lesbian Resident Evil fan. These are not intelligent movies, the plot erratically skips from track to track from movie to movie and the only thing that’s actually consistent is Alice being badass and being propped up by other badass women. And that’s why I like it. Attractive women with guns in well-choreographed fight scenes with the undead and various beasts that all look like they’ve been styled by a leatherdaddy out of Berghain. And women who also share dialogue with each other that’s not specifically about the men in the movies. What’s not to like?! I’m a lesbian, not an elitist cineast. So yeah, this is definitely my kind of movie/s.
Went to see the last one the other weekend and loved it, even though it retconned pretty large parts of the series and destroyed my headcanon of lesbian Claire Redfield. Still it was a pretty good ending to the series. It was the kind of ending I needed right now. Obviously this sent me into a RE spin again and I simply had to rewatch the other movies. And hoe-boi, that’s some good gay shit. I mean I’ve always been aware of the subtext, I’m always acutely aware of that even when it barely has a pulse, but I’d forgotten or not fully realised how truly consistent the gay is, in all of them (maybe not so much second one, but I blame that mostly on Valentine not playing ball chemistry-wise, because the writing is there to gay up if you want to). To be fair the only way the movies actually make sense is with a bisexual Alice.
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