#danvers squared

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ALEX & KARA DANVERS in SUPERGIRL Season 3, Episode 5  |  Damage

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Just want to note that Alex being in love with Kara is the best thing.

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New Chapter: Danvers Squared

Chapter five is up~

Title: Danvers Squared (AO3) Author: Me (purrpickle) Chapter: 5/? Word Count: 200+ Rating: T Pairings: Kara Danvers/Alex Danvers Summary: Collection of Kalex drabbles and short stories, all one-shots unless specifically stated.

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I cant believe I've never seen a kara in Vegas fic, just eating her heart away in the all you can eat buffets, horrifying the establishment and then getting kicked out and being like oh look gambling places maybe they have food there

Except--shes a kryptonian and probably the greatest math genius alive on earth (I said what I said) and doesnt know.....that things like counting cards and predicting where the ball on the roulette table will land bc physics......Bad. bad things can happen there.

Except, shes also a Kryptonian and so she cant get hurt....but the casino shouldnt know that.

Basically I want the story of 21 year old Kara getting kicked out of Vegas and then flash forward more than 5 years later and theres an alien/story in Vegas--something that requires her presence as Kara Danvers--and she has to explain to everyone the time she got kicked out of all of Vegas.....including Alex. Who she didnt know how to tell. Whoops?

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Three by One - fic rec: silverwriter01 (Kalex)

In this Kalex (Kara/Alex, romantic; Supergirl) femslash fanfiction recommendation, I have collected 3 excellent stories from silverwriter01 (@silverwriter01 on tumblr) in the third installment of Three by One: 3 stories, 1 fandom, 1 ship, 1 of my favorite authors.

Short Kalex disclaimer: Kalex (Alex/Kara) means that Kara and Alex have a romantic relationship. They are not biological siblings. Some Kalex authors have used the following terms which describe this: pseudo-incest, adopted sibling relationship or not really incest if one is an alien. As always: don't read what you do not like and ship and let ship.

While the three stories are not labeled and advertised as a trilogy and are not related to each other, I feel they work well as a trilogy and I would recommend reading them in the order they were written.

Every canon divergent story starts with a big “what if ...”.

What if the reason Kara never fell in love with Alex could be removed?

What if Kara came back from a mission with her memory messed up, believing Alex to be her lover?

What if Alex inadvertently managed to get Kara pregnant?

Three Kalex stories - details after the cut

1) What if the reason Kara never fell in love with Alex could be removed?

Title: Pink Kryptonite [AO3]

Setting: Supergirl TV 2015 (DCU), Season 1

Relationship:  Alex Danvers/Kara Danvers (Kalex) (f/f)

21 Chapters, 32k words (completed)

Published: 2016

Rating: Mature

Kara Danver's life changed when she fell victim to the Black Mercy. Reflections of her 'perfect fantasy world' leave her with shaken and with questions. What is pink kryptonite and why did her mother place it in the back of her pendant? How does she tell Alex that she actually was part of her fantasy world?

When you see Alex and Kara together and think: there is just this one tiny bit missing and they would be a wonderful couple. Silverwriter01 take on this: Nope, there is nothing missing, there is something that needs to be removed.

The story re-imagines a few key scenes from Supergirl season one and Kara also revisits a few key memories from the time she grew up with Alex. This story comes close to the optimum result if you wanted to write a Kalex story, as close to canon as possible, focusing on Alex and Kara and do as little retelling of the show and as little action sequences as possible.

I re-read this story recently because I didn’t take notes the first time. It is very well written, and it held up fantastically. Just as the 1st time I read it, I couldn't put it down.

This is a very sweet and romantic story, but there is just enough suspense and a little bit of angst to create tension. This is one of my favorite Kalex fics.

Favorite quote

Alex reached over to brush some lose strands of hair behind Kara’s ear. “But none of that compared to when we landed safely because of you. I was so relieved when you climbed on onto of the wing, soaking wet but still so beautifully alive. I remember smiling. You looked so happy. And that was the moment I fell in love with you.”

2) What if Kara came back from a mission with her memory messed up, believing Alex to be her lover?

Title: Things I Yearn To Remember [AO3]

Setting: Supergirl TV 2015 (DCU), Season 2, AU-ish (a bit Alternate Universe)

Relationship:  Alex Danvers/Kara Danvers (Kalex) (f/f)

29 Chapters, 44k words (completed)

Published: 2016

Rating: Teen and up

When Alex's date night with Maggie doesn't go as planned, she heads to Kara's apartment to process what happened. Only she finds the apartment empty except for a message. When Supergirl returns they discover half of her memories are missing and she has a strange idea about her connection to Alex.

Alex is struggling with the dilemma of "lying" to Kara - because in Kara's messed up memories they are a couple. Alex does not want to hurt Kara while she is recovering and thus she plays along, but eventually she is forced to challenge her feelings for Kara. Is Alex setting herself up for a really broken heart - once Kara remembers what they really are to each other?

I loved this fic. It is a rather unusual take on (partial) memory loss and very well written.

3) What if Alex inadvertently managed to get Kara pregnant?

Title: Danvers times Danvers [AO3]

Setting: Supergirl TV 2015 (DCU)

Relationship:  Alex Danvers/Kara Danvers (Kalex) (f/f)

43 Chapters, 58k words (completed)

Published: 2016/2017

Rating: Mature

When Alex is testing out a new weapon to transfer DNA (one of her many potential plans to save her father), she accidentally shoots Kara in the ovary. Thinking absolutely nothing would happen, Alex never mentioned she shot Kara with a vial of her DNA. Yet something does happen: Kara misses her period.

In a way Alex and Kara are doing it backwards. First Kara gets pregnant, then Alex and Kara marry “for the kid”, and then they might actually start to face their feelings…

This is a very domestic and pregnancy focused story. And ultimately there is a very funny sex scene.

We see a lot of protective Alex and a supportive Superfamily.

This is part of a series of femslash fanfic rec lists that I call Three by One

main blog @femslashhistorian​ | fic recs only @femslashhistorianficrecs f/f fic recs | Korrasami | KiGo | DCU & Supergirl | MCU | PoI | Buffy | f/f history

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Danvers Sisters and Hogwarts Houses

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The problem with Hufflepuff!Kara and Ravenclaw!Alex

In the grand scheme of fan-discourse, headcanons about each character’s House alignment fall fairly low on the scale of importance, but due to the sheer frequency of such references, it might be necessary to shine light on a few problems in recent trends.

To preface, some headcanons are very creator-specific, and lend the creator to use their own House for one of their favorite characters as a way to strengthen the connection they feel to them, and that’s a perfectly fine and reasonable practice. This argument doesn’t call those instances into question, nor does it seek to invalidate those who want to continue to use such alignments for those reasons.

Beyond those instances, though, and using straight character traits to sort Kara and Alex into the houses best suited for them, Kara is Gryffindor, and Alex is Slytherin. To put them in Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff is to ignore fundamental parts of each of their characters.

Now, there is a want to subvert the “main two” Houses when it comes to sorting, given that Gryffindor and Slytherin did get so much attention within the HP franchise, but the problem with trying to do that, is that you end up being disingenuous to your own assessment of each character.

This is largely because the bias that lead to such over-exposure in HP, is based in the same tropes that lead most main characters (heroes and villains alike) to more genuinely fit each of those two houses over the other Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw. Gryffindor and Slytherin embody all of the classic protagonist/antagonist character traits, which leads to a lot more fictional characters skewing in their direction than you’d see in a data-set of the real-life fans’ House-alignments.

And that is a frustrating thing to accept, if you’re trying to breathe originality into your headcanons, but the truth is, the ways Kara fits Hufflepuff, and Alex fits Ravenclaw, are only parts of who they are, and - canonically - we see them flounder when they ignore those other parts of themselves.

Alex acting only to her Ravenclaw nature lead to her burning out and falling into academic suspension, because there was no other outlet for her to let the other parts of herself flourish.

Kara acting only to her Hufflepuff nature lead to her feeling closed off and shut down because she had all those powers that she felt she should’ve been using to help people.

This doesn’t mean that true-blue Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs fall short in these regards. But it does mean that true-blue Gryffindors and Slytherins who try to act against their nature do fall short.

It’s the values of each House that hold this in stark contrast.

Gryffindor: Do what is right.

Hufflepuff: Do what is kind.

Ravenclaw: Do what is wise.

Slytherin: Do what is necessary.

And while there may be a lot of cross-over, which one strikes hardest for each of them?

Kind as she is, Kara’s core lies in doing what’s right.

And smart as she is, Alex does what’s necessary.

Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw are great houses, and they work exceptionally well for people who embody their values.

But great as they are, they’re just not where Alex and Kara flourish best.

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3x01

I see a lot of criticism about Kara in 3x01, but no one mentions how Alex minimizes Kara’s pain by calling it a “pity party.”

Kara is going through complicated grief, or maybe realistically a depressive episode triggered by the loss of Mon-el. The episode was subtly showing us Kara’s pain is not just about Mon-el.

One of the worst things you can do to a person who is sad, and depressed, for an extended period of time is get mad at them and call what they feel a “pity party.”

This comes from a person with MDD, and has had friends basically tell me the same thing after my MDD wasn’t cured after months of trying different meds. So, of course, with Kara hurting already, and then having that thrown at her, she would lose her temper with Alex.