hello! i've just read your "not-quite AU" about Kali and i'm so in love with it! and i'm also so glad to find more people that love Kali just like i do, because she's such an awesome and complex character but was treated so unfairly in so many ways by so many people ): so i'm here to say that i really loved your writing and to ask if there's more about Kali that i could cry about haha! <3
Omg ah thank you so much!!! She is soooo complex and I really love characters that fall into that gray area! Whole essays could be written about her and yet??? So I figure until then I’ll make some graphics with her! I sadly only have that one mini fic with her and then a moodboard I made a bit ago!
I don’t have any fics going but ah some questions and headcanons??
First the fact that when she escaped she did find a family but they couldn’t help her?? She feels so symbolic of the pitfalls of foster care families and the way systematic oppression can effect things (which opens an entire world of analysis for her character)
I absolutely need entire backstories for her finding her new found home with her friends and who they are all. I know they’re not perfect but hello . I am a sucker for vigilantes walking the line!!
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THE CONNECTION WITH TERRY. Like Kali believes that Terry sent El to her. Idk it just opens up so much potential (like okay Terry using the void is definitely it’s own thing), but also how Kali approaches life. There’s definitely some spirituality in her and imagining her waiting on that roof and praying for a sign. Anything that will tell her that what she’s fighting for is right. And when El shows up, it suddenly all clicks that this little girl that she grew up with is alive and there with her.
This girl is a survivor and is working through some serious shit!! She’s what El could have been if their stories had gone differently. While El was much more skittish in the first season, she could have easily been in a similar situation. So it makes you think, who is Kali away from all of this? Who is she if she’s discovered by a child on a bike who helps remind her that her powers are beautiful? Revenge and justice through means like Kali and her friends may work in a sense but it robs you of so much. Kali is what? Sixteen maybe? They’re implied to be close in age but she reads as so much more mature because of the life that’s she forced herself to live and it’s taken so much of her