#danvers sisters

[detective-jane-rizzoli]

[clarazorel]

I only have one thing to say about the Mark (Mike ?) situation and it's this :

I would like for it to get out of my eyes on the same occasion.

Okay, moving on.

This episode is quite good but feels also weirdly fast paced. Looking back at my notes, not a lot happens, but it does happen really fast 🤨

Over the years, I have gone back and forth a lot about the Guardian stuff, but I have settled, ultimately, on being quite neutral about it. This is the "everybody has to be a superhero" show, so I guess he's going to be a superhero.

In a way, it also feels relatable, because I suppose that if someone broke my comfort object I would also lose my entire mind. I've also been paying closer attention to him in anticipation of this plot, and there is a bit in the first episode of this season where he tries to save someone (and then Kara has to save him 🙄) so I guess it doesn't entirely come out of nowhere.

But I'm also very partial to what Winn says to him before he ultimately caves by the end of the episode, which is that some people are just here to pass on information and there is no shame in that.

At the end of the day, my favourite thing about Guardian is his theme. Also, his sister 😏

I want to give Alex (and her plot) all the space she needs, so I'm going to go with Lena next ; also because I have to say that though I have always, always been a big Lena fan, I was so focused on Alex (and how much she needs a fucking hug) in this episode, that I wasn't even derailed from this by the Supercorp of it all.

Because, what, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck is going on here ?

Was this in the script ? Did they ask her to do this ?

There have been times over the years when I've told myself I was making this up, that I'd fallen into a collective hallucination and we were all making it up, but I'm positive that we were not.

Now, at what point did the writers pick up on this and decided to lean fully into the queerbaiting, I don't know, but what I do know is that I am seeing this with my functioning eyeballs and I am not in fact hallucinating.

Like, I don't even really need to take this out of context for it to sound flirty as fuck !

Side note : Kara's face after she's said "golly," is so fucking funny. She is very much aware that this is not something she should have said in front of her crush.

And I am absolutely astonished that there isn't even another episode in between the boy from Daxam/girl from Krypton thing and this.

This is not subtle, they are making zero effort, it's happening right in front of our eyes !

But outside of the Supercorp of it all, Lena is also a very good character in her own rights, and I really like how unabashedly smart she is (apart from when, you know, it comes to realising Kara and Supergirl are the same person 🙄) and that she got to save the day ! (Even if the technobabble was very technobabbly).

Now, I'll be honest, I have been fully spiralling about Alex since I rewatched this episode. I am losing my entire damned mind over her, it's like it hasn't been almost a decade since I first watched this, I feel genuinely insane.

Speaking of almost decades : how did I never notice, in that almost decade, that she hugs herself when she's upset ?!?

I rewatched this specific moment many times, I asked other people about it, I stood in front of my mirror recreating the pose to see what it looks like for myself, and came to the ultimate conclusion that tough, strong, Alex Danvers hugs herself when she's upset 😭

We can also see it in the background of 113 and in the previous episode (204)

And now I'm wondering 1. how the fuck I never noticed this ? 2. if she still does it in the more recent seasons of the show. I have missed out on so much fanfic potential ! If I'd noticed this before I would have put it fucking everywhere 😭

Also I know she is, like, a character someone made up in a writers room, that her choices are entirely fictional, but I need to talk to her, I want to dissect her brain, I want to know what the fuck she thought it sounded like when she offered that Maggie and her keep each other company ??

This woman is going to become the highly competent head of a government agency, and yet she does not realise that she basically propositioned someone ? The inside of her head must be so interesting 😭

On a more serious note, her coming out arc is so well done. They really gave it the proper breadth, the space and time it needed, and it's so easy, watching it, to feel what she's feeling, even if this as never happened to me.

Her face when she realises she's suddenly been seen when she'd been hiding even from herself, that someone has noticed something about her that she'd shoved so far down it was unknown even to her…

And then ! Her first instinct ! Is to talk to her sister about it !

Because that's what she does ! She trusts her sister ! She talks to her sister ! She reaches out to her sister !

(Don't think about season 4. Don't think about the mindwipe. Don't think about season 4. Don't think about-)

Side note : she looks so fucking good in that red sweater.

I'm not sure how I feel about the conversation about her always wanting a sister and forcing Kara to be who she wanted her to be, especially because I can't quite fit it in with the rest of the timeline (when did Alex have these thoughts ? Before or after she made fun of Kara for never seeing birds before ? Does this fit in before Jeremiah dies ? Or after the Kenny thing ?)

But the thing is that, ultimately, Alex's never had the opportunity to figure herself out beyond surface level. She knows who she is at work, she knows what her favourite film is, her favourite food, but she doesn't know who she is inside. All she knows is that there's always been something off about herself, something she couldn't figure out and that kept her from being perfect, and now, at last, it's coming out to hit her in the face.

Because she's met this girl who she likes in a very confusing way, a girl who's gay and thinks she might be gay too, a girl who challenges her, who's not afraid to push back or make fun of her (when Maggie called her a nerd I lost my entire damned mind), and that…

Well that might be the missing piece.

I need to go lie down on the floor.

[superficial-ly]

the reason cw kara danvers isn’t angry is because she isn’t lonely ☹️ cw kara danvers yes became purposeless and lost on earth when she found out her cousin didn’t need her ☹️ but she found a new purpose ☹️ being a little sister was her purpose ☹️ that gave alex a purpose too ☹️ cw kara danvers not being angry enough isn’t a character flaw it is brilliant writing ☹️ because yes she was angry and lonely and sad but that didn’t consume her ☹️ she had her sister ☹️

[one-step-at-a-time25]

Watching season 2 episode 7 rn and I made this

[rjmac211]

Alex and Kara locked in a jail cell

Officer: I’ve called your wife she’ll be here in 15 minutes

Kara: What who’s wife

Kara: WHO’S WIFE?!

Alex: If it’s Lena we are dead if it’s Kelly we’d be worse then dead

Kara: I’m pretty sure she’d make kryptonite and stab me with it

Alex: We are dead either way

Kara: What if they have called Lena AND Kelly they’d plot to kill us together

Alex: Can we just escape

Kara: No cause then they’ll kill us but first yell at us for using my powers

Officer coughs

Officer: Just pay the $200 and go I don’t want to have to witness a murder to much paperwork

Alex: Thank you so much

[superfandomcorp]

Alex: Luthor, why are you still single?

Lena: because of Kara.

Kara: excuse me? How is it my fault?

Alex: I think Lena is pretty obvious about her feelings towards you.

Kara: but I'm not a mind reader, you're not exactly obvious!

Lena: I filled your office with flowers and bought a company for you, I was pretty obvious.

[incorrect-multiverse]

Kara: Everyone thinks I'm this soft cute person but I'm not!

Alex: Kara, you cried for an hour after stepping on a bug yesterday.

Kara: It had feelings! It was probably going home to dinner and I killed it!

Alex: ...It was a bug.

Kara: It was a BEETLE, and its wife is definitely worried sick, wondering where it is, and I really don't get why you all think I'm so sentimental because I'm not!

J’onn: ...

Alex: ...

Kara: Stop looking at me like that!

[mtab0064]

I think I’ve finally figured out the timeline for Alex and Kara’s sisterly development for when they were kids.

The show is constantly flip-flopping between saying Alex outright resented Kara and wanted absolutely nothing to do with her, and the two being so utterly inseparable as sisters anything else is unthinkable. Which, honestly, is very organic and one of the reasons I love them so much.

From what I can understand, when Kara first arrived, Alex herself flip-flopped between seeing the potential of having a sister and hating her depending on the time of day. Because, Alex, a girl who desperately wants to fit in socially, suddenly has a new little sister, whose behaviors are weird and alien and odd. And so if her crowd thought Kara was weird, now so did Alex. But there is evidence to show that Alex wasn’t a total jerk during this time.

Aka—The Popcorn Incident.

I feel like this back and forth with them goes on for a while. Certain triggers like her friends, and the reminders of how Eliza and Jeremiah treat her differently now that Kara’s there, certainly played a part in Alex’s building resentment. During this time they acted like true sisters, loving each other one moment—ready to kill each other the next. Alex dragged Kara to science fairs, forced her to listen to her music, and watch scary movies, while in turn, Kara took her flying and made a white Christmas in their living room.

You know, normal sister things.

I truly don’t believe the change in their relationship happened immediately following Jeremiah’s new position at the DEO.

Maybe the darker side of Alex’s feelings ramped up during this stage as Alex missed her dad and bashed heads with her mom, but I’d say the sisters were still pretty close. Alex said she trained with J’onn for five months before she was put in the field. Based on that, let’s say it had been close to a year of Jeremiah being away before he “died.” Though, I fully heartily believe Jeremiah wasn’t completely absent the whole time. He wasn’t Repunzel. He definitely had opportunities to visit Midvale for a couple days at a time while working for the DEO, even if it wasn’t the same.

But now the girls are fourteen and sixteen, probably approaching fifteen and seventeen, and Jeremiah dies and something in Alex snaps.

Because their dad—Alex’s dad is now dead in a “plane crash” for a job he suddenly took in another city not long after Kara came into their lives. The show never explained how Eliza and Jeremiah rationalized to the girls about his spontaneous job in National City that required him to stay away and travel often. And maybe—this part is totally headcanon btw—but maybe Alex initially interpreted her dad’s new career as a financial thing.

I mean, Kara definitely had to be running their grocery bill through the roof as a growing Kryptonian who used her powers semi-frequently. So even if neither parent explicitly said that money was the reason, without any other context, Detective Alex Danvers could have told herself that was the case. Hence why she blamed Kara so heavily for Jeremiah’s “death.”

But what’s crazy is that Alex didn’t even know that inadvertently, it actually was Kara’s fault the DEO took interest in their family. But only by existing. Which is a sad, unfair truth.

Nevertheless, through teen angst rationale, Alex Danvers no longer has a sister.

This went on for a hot minute. I’d say no more than six months before we get to 3x06 (the Midvale ep), and we all know what happens there.

I do want to add though, that even if the Danvers sisters were inseparable past this point, they most definitely hit a rough patch during those two years that Alex was secretly working at the DEO and Kara had begun to work for Cat Grant.

Because now Alex spent her days taking down the prisoners of Fort Rozz—aliens that have exposed themselves, always in violent and dangerous ways, and a good lot of them resent Alura In-Ze with ever fiber of their beings. So, obviously, no-way-José was Alex’s Kryptonian little sister going anywhere near that. But Kara didn’t know that. And the poor girl was surrounded with bad news tragedies and constant reminders that she could have been there—that her powers could have saved them. It was killing her, not doing anything. Yet day in and day out, Alex is the one that kept Kara docile and hidden because there wasn’t any other choice.

The goal was always to keep the secret. To blend in. So why risk everything now?

Because Alex was Kara’s sister, her only home on this planet, and she was not losing another family member to a stupid plane.