mccrabbit replied to your post “No Supergirl fanfiction scenario will make me ex out of a tab faster...”
Although I'm still left wondering if Kara killed Non ( or maybe lobotomized him?) not to mention whatever she did with the people in stasis on Fort Roz. She might not rage kill people but she's definitely shown herself to be murder-adjacent in a surprisingly dispassionate way. Which would be incredibly interesting to address if the writer's remembered season 1 existed.
She lobotomized Non. Which... she didn’t really have a choice? Not in a more abstract “I don’t think there is any other way” way, but a “I’m locked in a heat vision battle and if I stop I’m lobotomized but if I don’t he is” way.
There wasn’t a point where she could go “Can I choose not to kill him and live?” So I don’t think she’d quite feel guilty. Regretful, yes, that it turned out that way. But not guilty for the decision she made in that moment.
I’m not sure what happened to Fort Rozz, since they were in sleeping pods waiting to fly off but without a pilot?
Who knows if there was an autopilot ready to kick in on a timer or if Non and Indigo were going to fly it. Probably the latter. But if Kara knew how to fly it at all, she would have done that instead of heavy lifting, so it’s not like she had a choice that kept those in the ship safe. And if she woke them all up, they’re her enemies, so they’d try to prevent her from saving everyone. Plus no time.
So I’m not surprised she isn’t shown to be torn up about the possible eventual death of the army (who wanted everyone on Earth dead) that she inadvertently caused in the action of saving the world.
Plus with the highs of post-saving the world and getting promoted (plus the questions that come with that) and the lows of almost either dying or losing another world, I’m not surprised she wasn’t really letting that abstract loss of life sink in.
So maybe there’s an inkling of guilt that she was the cause of these two events, since Kara believes in redemption. But compared to everything else going on, even internally, it’s not pertinent for her to process. Especially not on the actual show, where they have new plot points every week.
In season 2 we saw her aversion to killing a bit, when she refused to kill Mr. Mxyzptlk and when Kara had to kill the scientist-turned-monster in “Changing”, after giving him a chance to stop and then apologizing as she did so. The way they addressed the second instance, when she had to kill, was the abstract “I don’t think there is another way” instance I spoke of before, and Kara likely thus feels guilty she couldn’t find a way to save him. (Also it was one of those ‘if he doesn’t try to kill me he won’t end up dying’ and ‘he performs the action that kills him’-trying to drain the energy from Kara but draining the energy from the reactor instead- situations. So it could be argued that Kara didn’t actively kill him, but that he killed himself.)
Of course, the second instance was a fleeting mention of her stance on killing, not really handling the weight of it, but it still affirmed that this is a character trait Kara has. That if there is any other way, Kara doesn’t kill or second-hand cause the death of someone.
The ‘dispassionate’ way she sees these mentioned events in the show it is a mark of the writing, a tendency of the writers to forget about it to focus on other stuff, not a trait of the character herself.
So what I mean is, the thing they would address in the show wouldn’t be her dispassion, but would be a passionate version of her values.
Of course, Kara would never kill someone out of rage. It sickens me when people write her doing that, honestly. Not because of my personal feelings on it, but because of who Kara is and wants to be (and how, if she were real, she would feel about someone writing a story about her doing that).
Kara having absolutely no other choice because she or someone she loves is going to die unless she kills is one thing (a thing I don’t fancy reading- I’d always have her find a way out of it- but I understand the story choice), but having her kill someone because she’s overly emotional? Nope. Nah. No. No thanks. Not her.
So... I guess the show doesn’t always really let her core value of not killing whenever possible hit home with it’s full impact, as a real plot point the way it deserves to be, but that doesn’t mean I’m gonna let fic writers forget it exists entirely.
