Today, let's talk about some (odd?) things, that appear in the SG/SC fandom/fanfics.
[This is gonna be another long post, lotsa images/gifs, and I own nothing. Please be fair, I am aware it is all just fiction and I am just having a good time myself here. I do not mean to offend, but to share my thoughts and to entertain. I also acknowledge the lore/canon can be contradicting, but I tried to present the most agreed upon consensus on the below.]
- Kara sweats (like a human) ..?
...dude, girl can catch on fire and not feel it. đ
Outside of greenK or red sun exposure... she didn't even sweat from physical taxation when she stopped that space-freighter or fought Reign.
That's not to say she can't sweat... given the right kind of exhaustion >.>
- Kara needs a lot of calories ..?
In 1x18 Barry Allen (meta-human) said, he needs to eat for upkeep (âAbout 10,000 calories per dayâ). At which Winn replied: "Oh, yeah. You've definitely met the right girl." referring to Kara.Â
And I think, that's where this misunderstanding comes from...
...Kara likes to eat. She does not need to eat.
Kryptonians under a yellow sun can sustain their upkeep from the yellow sun radiation alone. Less fun, tho.
It's also where the idea for this came from, somehow:
The argument could be made, that like many/some of her other senses Kara's sense of taste is more enhanced (that or original Kryptonian cuisine tasted really bland, which may or not be related to the planet not having much diversity to offer in the years/decades/centuries(?) before its destruction).
So, everything just tastes really good to her (except greens).
That and she probably just burns her intake away (as her sun radiation based metabolism may be that much more energy rich, which makes me agree with Kara having a generally higher body temperature), so she wouldn't gain weight.
Note: it's not the sunlight but the sun's radiation. Which permeates and lingers and hence Kara doesnât need direct sun-exposure, and wonât drain her energy on rainy days. This sort of metabolism is called "radiosynthesis". (An Earth equivalent would not be a plant, but a radiotrophic fungus, as found at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.)
- Red sun radiation (or the absence of a yellow sun) immediately makes Kara weak ..?
(CWSG depicted that one wrong or at least not quite right on several occasions - taking the consensus of some 80 years of Superman / Kryptonian lore into account, SGCW imo does not win this round)
...Kryptonians are rather often likened to batteries, in the way they absorb sunlight radiation to charge them. That is why Kara isn't powerless at night or underground.
Various forms of Kryptonite disrupt this biochemical(?) procedure and either actively drain the Kryptonian's cell / cancel out the stored sun radiation or the counter-healing from the Kryptonite poisoning sap away the energy resources (sources are unclear on that). Red sunlight radiation offers merely a different / lower energy yield for Kryptonians.
On a planet with a red sun (or in darkness, or any other yellow sunless environment) a Kryptonian's power would reduce slowly as they expend it. The longer they are subjected to a red sun and the more energy they exert, the more diminished their powers become until they completely lose all their abilities and benefits from yellow sun radiation..
This (slow, or forced through power exertion - e.g. solar flaring) drainage also means, that Kara would need a yellow sunlight radiation source to replenish herself after prolonged red sunlight exposure to regain her powers.
...tying this in with the point before, their red sun Rao did not radiate as much or lesser energy, hence Kryptonians on Krypton (additionally to sunbathing?) or prolonged other red sun location dwelling / yellow sun deprivation naturally need to eat.
On that note:
- RedKryptonite =/= red sunlight (lamps)
One makes for an uninhibited (easily pissed off) Kryptonian, two does not (re-)charge their cells for powers.
- Lena aimed greenK cannons at Kara in 5x08 ..?
While that may have been Kara's (and Alex's) perception, the "Counter Measures" had been programmed by Lex and automatically started up when âKryptonian X-Ray Visionâ was detected.
When Eve asked Lena whether or not to deploy them, Lena (hesitantly) said yes to the "Ion Rays Cannon".
When Kara basically shrugged those off, the cannons rearmed themselves with Kryptonite and Lena IMMEDIATELY ordered Eve to cancel them, to "Shut them down! Now!!".
Lena got mad when Eve couldn't overwrite the protocol and pushed Eve aside to do it herself and breathed a deep sigh of relief when she managed to disarm them, barely in time.
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...trapping Kara with the Fortress' own (apparently pre-installed... we shall not kink-shame Kal!) greenK cage: Yes, that she did.
But, realistically, how else was Lena, a mere human with a (very mislead) plan, to gain a headstart over a Kryptonian?
While rude (and undeniably painful), the intensity apparently wasn't even set high enough to bring Kara down to her knees and there was a reasonable chance J'onn or someone else would rather sooner than later come and free Kara.
(Let's not forget, the DEO used and had more plans to take down / contain a Kryptonian, and more than once Kara herself - the very pilot episode even! - and we forgave both J'onn and Alex.)
- Lena is afraid of heights ..?
Might be a misinterpretation... Or true. I canât really tell... But was never actually canonically stated.
In 2x01 Lena tells her helicopter pilot âI hate flying, I know statistically it's the safest way to travel, but stillâ. Almost crashing less than a minute later may not have helped her aversion. She did not seem physically tense during take-off before that.
Later on she is shown to neither mind casually standing on her balconies (even after being thrown off one) nor being carried by Kara.
And let's not forget this leap of faith:
...I also share the growing suspicion that Lena's fear of "traveling through air" may either be limited to non-Kara flights or possibly even have been cured at some point...
((On a sadder note, it's reasonable to assume, that Lena's aversion to (plane) flying may be due to her 4-year old self being dragged onto a plane right after she lost her mother, when she was taken from NFLÂ Ireland to the US and before she got dropped by a complete stranger (Lionel) into a cold unwelcoming household, hence she may have come to associate flying with fear, abandonment, loss of control and uncertainty. And in part to regain some of that control she later in life got herself a piloting license.))
Fun fact:
Kara being portrayed as physically stronger than Kal-El in CWSG is actually lore-related (and kinda sorta maybe -pseudo- scientific).
Across most of the lore, Krypton was much larger than Earth, therefore had far greater gravity. Kryptonians had evolved to withstand that.
Even without powers, Kal's physiology/genetics would still make him stronger and more durable than any human. But, Kal was a baby and grew up on Earth. Kara was already a teenager, and her bones and muscle tissue (and her cardio-pulmanory system) developed stronger and more robust under that greater gravity, while Kal's most likely adapted to "only" withstand Earth's gravity (but then solar radiation, so he's still a Super) .
So, instead of it being the magic of "girl power", Kara having been old/matured enough to witness and remember her planet's destruction for once gave her a benefit...
It can also be argued, that Kara being at the verge of physical adolescence resulted in her body having had to "make due" with red sun radiation in its "informative" stages, and hence once on Earth, the yellow sun radiation affected her more (for the rest of her life).
Or the counterargument could be made, that this is false as Kal had more time on Earth, with his body developing subjected to yellow sun radiation, adapting more efficiently to it, that he should, in fact, be naturally stronger...
Still, Kryptonians do not necessarily have to be "heavier" than humans. If their cells have (evolved to have) a different structure, they could be stronger, more durable, more energy efficient and sturdier without being heavier (like 3D graphene materials, where an (artificial) particular geometric arrangement makes the (naturally) brittle material that much stronger, but with bio-matter/cells. Add more energy (solar radiation) and with that (electro-)magnetism into the mix and we may pseudo-science our way into explaining how Kryptonians become next to invulnerable on Earth.)
How Kara broke her arm from a mere fall that easily after she solar-flared is actually - dare I say - unrealistic... but, alas, CWSG.
...unless the CWSG writers went the route of this one older and weird explanation of why Kryptonians can fly, which basically says âKryptonians have hollow bones, like birds. Thatâs why they can fly.â ... đ§...đ€Ł(Yes, like that. No more, no wings or anything, just their bones are like birdsâ and thatâs why! ...like I said, the Super-lore is some 80 years old...)
All that said, yes, in AUs technically everything goes.
But, some things can actually be just as if not more fun, without ignoring canon or long standing lore... Maybe?
(Admittedly, the Superman and hence Kryptonian and Supergirl lore undergoes constant changes over the decades - mostly for the better, though, making more and more âscientificâ sense. Yet, even within the run of CWSG there were some blatant contradictions. And... just, let's not talk about Crisis.)
I mean no harm and I also enjoy fics that chose a different take on the above mentioned.
I hope, though, this helps one or the other and may even inspire some.
Feel free to ignore anything or everything, though. I am not your boss :PÂ
,.really just have been looking for something to post here music-wise, and then,, remembered we had this, so, here, have something we really havenât worked on in a good while,
pretty much is just opn2 fm, but we had to use dcsg noise for hi-hats, since there wasnât anywhere else to sneak them,,
So, I need to wait two more days after the release to watch the coming episode of supergirl. Really don't know if I should avoid tumblr like the plague or if I should just accept the spoilers
I think making her the sweet cinnamon roll the bunch was a nice change of pace however I was not pleased with the fact that they changed up her skin tone as if her being dark skin hindered her from being soft so I fixed that
