[OPEN] In the Middle of Summer

[mostlysunny]

WHO: Kara Danvers Zor-El + You
WHERE: Nonah 003, out and about
WHEN: Just after the Gala and the rest of July
WHAT: Catch-all for July, closed starters in the comments
WARNINGS: None so far

Kara Danvers

The most important thing about being in a new place, at least to Kara Danvers, is the exploring. Kara has visited places all over the world, of course, some with her cousin and some just on her own, but she hasn't lived anywhere but the West Coast of the US since she'd arrived on Earth. Every one of the imPort cities is new to her, and they're all very different from Midvale or National City, and different from each other. So, exploring. Everywhere.

For the most part, she's emitting a low, steady glow that increases when she's excited, decreases when her mood drops, but rarely goes away entirely.

Find her at an outdoor cafe, maybe the Lucky Cat Cafe in Heropa with an English toffee latte, or walking around taking in the sights in De Chima, or poking around a few back alleys in Maurtia Falls (maybe somewhere she shouldn't be?), or all over the place in Nonah, getting to know her new hometown and finding her footing as a Celebrity Gossip and Fashion Reporter. She's not sure yet what kind of celebrities they have here, or who any of them are, oops, but if you're wearing something especially interesting, maybe expect a few questions!

Supergirl

There's nothing else like flying. A lot's happened since Kara arrived in Nonah, but being in the air like this, everything slows down. Find Supergirl in midair or if she's lucky helping out someone in trouble, or just on the ground in any town, happy to be back in costume.

Closed starters in the comments, feel free to add your own or PM or find me at voxmyriad for a starter, brackets or prose! Kara loves meeting people.

Comments

@andaway

[mostlysunny]

She doesn't exactly need teleporters to get from city to city in a short amount of time, but they do make things a lot easier. Almost as soon as she'd arrived, she'd heard about a Gala being thrown in De Chima the following night, so what better place to explore first? And maybe look for something to wear.

It's taken more time than she'd expected to get around town, once the people who lived there figured out that she wasn't from around here, which was easier than it had been back in National City, now that she glows just a little bit at all times. But it's still a smiling Kara wandering along the street and window-shopping when she catches sight of a familiar and really unexpected face in the reflection of the window. Complete with glasses. Clark?

She reaches up to adjust her own glasses automatically, then turns around and catches his eye and gives him a little wave, her glow already brightening.

[andaway]

Clark may not naturally glow, not like Kara does. But that doesn’t mean that his entire face doesn’t brighten up as soon as he recognizes the blonde hair. She looks a little different. Maybe a little older? He isn’t sure. He’s grown to expect alternate universes, in this place. But whatever it is, she seems to recognize her- and that’s enough.

It takes a lot (a whole lot) for him not to fly to her side. Instead Clark Kent has to settle for just running as fast as a human can.

“Kara!”

[mostlysunny]

It is him! "Clark!" she says, laughing as she meets him halfway and jumps into the hug. At least with Clark, she doesn't need to worry about hugging too hard, and maybe she's clinging just a little bit, but a lot's been happening back home, and she only just got here, and it's so nice to see him.

He looks a little different, a little older maybe, his face not quite the same as it was the last time she'd seen it, but that doesn't matter. It's Clark, her family is here. It's okay now. "Oh my gosh, Clark, you're here!"

[andaway]

Even though it’s probably not the same Kara, even though the differences are even clearer up front, the hug still feels the same and he can’t help but chuckle as he all but lifts her from the ground. He should feel bad about her going through this, about her being away from home- and he will. But now it’s just time to be glad to see her again.

“Indeed, been here for a while.” With a pause in the middle but he’ll get back to that later. “How long have you been here?”

[mostlysunny]

"I just got here yesterday, everything's so different, this is not much like National City," she says as she finally loosens her grip a little bit and finds her feet again, but she's not quite letting go entirely yet.

She doesn't see him very often at home. It had been too difficult for her when she'd been younger, too great a reminder, so he'd had a talk with the Danverses and he'd kept his distance and she'd kept hers, and that had...sort of continued. Even as she got older. She'd been trying to be normal. She'd needed that. But now that she's finally come into her own and started saving people and helping the world and wearing their family coat of arms, maybe that should change. Maybe it will change here?

@hardcorduroy

[mostlysunny]

It's been a busy few days, with the Gala and meeting people who know a different version of her, and meeting people she knows who don't know her, and reconnecting with other people, and finding new friends. Even Kara is a little exhausted when she gets back to the house in Nonah where she'd been dropped off. Technically she doesn't need to sleep, but she likes to sleep, she just hasn't done it since arriving, there's been too much to do! So now she's getting home for, essentially, the first time.

She walks in, yawning, and calls, "Anybody home?" as she heads for the kitchen, or where she thinks the kitchen is. She knows where her room is, that's about it so far, and she isn't even really hungry, but who needs to be hungry to wander to the refrigerator and stare into it?

[hardcorduroy]

(most things don't phase wendy anymore, so a new voice ringing through the apartment isn't really a thing to her at all. but she does hear someone opening the fridge, and her precious wings are in there.) Don't touch the chicken wings, those're mine.

(she turns the corner to the kitchen, and. that certainly isn't one of her housemates. this is a New Girl. wendy leans against the wall with a welcoming smile.) Fresh meat?

[mostlysunny]

Oops. Got it. [Chicken wings set safely aside, but Kara straightens, happy to meet someone new, and it shows when her glow brightens up a little and takes care of lighting the kitchen once she's shut the refrigerator door.]

Hi! Um, yes, pretty fresh I guess, I got here a few days ago. I haven't really been here yet? I've been pretty busy. I'm Kara. Danvers.

[hardcorduroy]

(food is sacred to a teenager, nobody messes with a flippin corduroy's food.) Oh, you must've gotten stuck at that party, huh? Name's Wendy, been here for like. Six months, I think?

[mostlysunny]

Oh, yeah, yes I did, I did what I could to help out, I did not expect. Any of that. Wow.

[She's sure it helped, but it had still felt strange being...well, she hadn't had her costume, and there had been so many other people with powers there to help, and some of them had costumes, which made her sort of a, a second-stringer.]

Jeez, six months. That's a while. Don't you wonder what's happening at home while you're here?

@annihiliner

[mostlysunny]

Being her true self isn't something Kara has managed to do for a long time. On Krypton, she hadn't known any other way to be than her true self, but all that had long since ended. Since then she'd had plenty of practice at being what other people wanted or needed her to be, even as Supergirl, but then she'd met Lexa and realized they had the same problem, and that problem needed to be fixed.

Kara focuses her phone to get both of them in the frame, with the skyline in the background like a proper sightseeing trip—it's Kara's first time in Heropa, of course there's sightseeing—then she frowns a little bit and tries to tone down the glow. "This is not helping my selfie game."

[annihiliner]

Lexa laughs. It's quick. Just a short huff of a breath, but it actually happens, and the world doesn't end or anything. "You're really doing this, aren't you?"

Shaking her head a little in amused disbelief, she asks, "Should I help somehow? I'm still not sure that I understand how your... light works."

[mostlysunny]

"I don't know how it works either," Kara says, laughing, which of course doesn't help. "I think it gets brighter when I'm happy and dimmer when I'm not happy? But why would I not be happy right now, so that's not going to work. Okay, wait."

She puts on a very serious expression, tries to think of sad things. But everything sad in her life seems so far away right now, and that just makes her feel better, so it just backfires. "Fine, I'll just take a picture of you, okay smile."

[annihiliner]

"I don't smile," she answers, a hint of challenge in her tone. "Maybe you have me confused with someone else."

[mostlysunny]

"Um, I'm pretty sure I've seen you smile," she says, lowering the phone and folding her arms with a skeptical expression. "You just don't want to admit it."

supergirl.

[magnitudes]

Okay, all right. She's the first to admit it - she's still not got this flying thing down. She's trying, but she's also not eager to go crawling back to Cosima with another broken wrist. Thing is, though, that taking physical risks is easier than thinking about emotional disasters, and May through July are kind of just a black hole of that, so here she is.

It was going pretty well, really, with the jumping and the self-propulsion with fireworks generating from her hands, until she tapped herself out. And now she is swearing very loudly, in a very Australian accent and with words probably not appropriate to be yelled top volume in public as she freefalls from what is going to be a very uncomfortable height.

Sure, there's trees, but the trees could still hurt.

!!!

[mostlysunny]

Since she'd finally let herself be herself again, flying has always been the best way to clear her head. A lot's happened since she's arrived here, and sometimes she just needs to toss on the cape and head up up and away, but that doesn't mean she isn't keeping one eye (or ear) open for potential trouble.

And that level of yelling, from somewhere in the sky, can only mean some kind of trouble. Supergirl changes direction immediately, streaking through the sky like a red dart, and catches the falling girl around the waist before she's even close to being impaled by any trees. "I've got you! I've got you, you're safe," she says, leveling out and slowing to a comfortable drift toward the ground.

[magnitudes]

Sarissa isn't sure whether she's more alarmed by her imminent demise or the mid-air tackle that-- oh. Isn't that much like a tackle, though the sudden contact makes her tense up. The ultimate effect isn't so different from being hugged by an angry, drunk octopus. (She is one of those three things, quick clue: not an octopus.)

"What," she bites out, "the Hell?"

By which she means thank you very much. It takes her a moment to register that the adrenaline kick can stop (not that it does) and that her response doesn't need to be fight. 'Flight' has never been something she excelled at in any context, apparently.

[mostlysunny]

It's okay, it's actually not the first time she's caught someone in midair and had to just sort of put up with the fighting-her-off part until they're on the ground. Which, now, they are. And Kara sets her properly on her feet and lets go, although she keeps her hands up, ready to catch again if Sarissa doesn't quite feel steady on her feet.

"Um, hi, you're safe, you're okay." Friendly smile! "I'm guessing you can fly now? Maybe aren't used to it yet?" That seems like a safe assumption around here.

[magnitudes]

Solid ground, great. Awesome. She's not sure she's ever been so happy just to touch the ground. Sarissa just stands, tense for a moment, waiting juuuust in case the solid ground is a trick of her mind, or something. It only lasts for a few moments, and she's straightening up, rolling her shoulders.

"Uh— yeah. Yes." A pause, and Sarissa glances down at her palm, and a few bright sparks splutter forth. "More like I can jump really high and then muck about with propulsion."

Her smile is crooked, self-deprecating. "It always seems like a really good idea until I get hungry or something. Then I'm all outta juice." Sarissa's eyeroll is a pretty impressive thing, even if her flying is not. "I owe you one for the, uh. Saving me from a gruesome, bloody demise, or something."

[ichoosefight]

Steph decided to spend her day of in Heropa, if only because it's more like Gotham than Nonah is. And it's so easy to travel here, with the porters, that why shouldn't she take advantage?

She's been to the Lucky Cat Cafe a couple of times, mostly right before closing to fuel her nightly patrol. Now she could take the time to look around the place, find a comfortable place to sit and enjoy her latte.

She was making her way to a chair when she spotted the familiar face.

"Kara? Hi!"

[mostlysunny]

Kara doesn't have a usual at the Lucky Cat Cafe yet, she's working her way through the options yet, but today she's going back to the previous English toffee iced latte because that was delicious. She's halfway through a sip when she hears her name, and when she glances up she brightens, again literally.

She has more of a handle on it now though, it's just a glow making her look lit from within, not any actual light emissions. She'd been a second sun on the beach, she's trying to avoid that these days.

Sometimes it's harder than other times, like when she's seeing a new (new?) friend. "Steph!" Kara waves her over to the table she has against a window. "Hi. What did you get? Have you been here before?"

[ichoosefight]

Steph slides between chairs to seat herself by the window. Girl's got good taste in seating, at least. By the window like this it's not as obvious that she literally glows.

"Just a plain latte. I've been by a few times, right before closing." If you take her meaning.

"I'm a total caffeine addict. What'd you get?"

[mostlysunny]

"English toffee latte, it's really good here, sometimes they put too much syrup in but this one has just the right amount, try?" Because of course she should try it, and she slides it across the table.

Right before closing, so, right before the cape-work happens? That makes sense. She doesn't do patrols of National City, not unless there's been trouble anyway, or she's antsy for one reason or another. Work, or heroing, or friends. "I only wish the caffeine part worked on me."

[ichoosefight]

Steph takes a sip, thinking nothing of sharing a drink with someone who is essentially a stranger. She nods and mmhmms her approval. She would offer her own drink in return, but the latte isn't anything special.

"For the best, trust me. Withdrawal migraines are the worst."