[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]

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?

[andaway]

It was very different, for Clark. He took instantly to having another survivor of Krypton, took her under her wing and became, frankly, overbearing and overprotective until Kara had to tell him to back off. Their relationship started on a different basis.

But hopefully that would be different in here, as well. He lets her go.

“National City.” Well. There goes the first difference. “Is that where you live, in your world?”

[mostlysunny]

"It's, yes? You've been there—oh." Her shoulders sag just a little, and the bright glow dims a few watts. "You haven't been there. Okay. That's fine. Different worlds. I just met someone from a different world, it's, I get it."

Now that she's looking at him more closely, he doesn't really look like her Clark anyway, although she definitely knows him for who he is. It's like a sense, or an instinct, even if he looks different because he's from a different world. "Yes," she continues, folding her hands in front of her automatically, "it's on the coast, and I grew up in Midvale with the Danvers family. Eliza and Jeremiah, and their daughter Alex. You, um. That's the home you found for me when you found me."

[andaway]

He wants to say he’s sorry, the words already forming on his lips. But he’s aware it wouldn’t change anything. And it isn’t his fault that they brought him instead of her Clark, to begin with. So he closes his mouth and reaches to squeeze her shoulder instead.

“It’s a little different, where I’m from. I tried to help you and take care of you myself, but it didn’t really… “ It didn’t work out. She ended up getting trained by the Amazons- which worked wonderfully even if Clark was reluctant. And then she was old enough to live on her own, mostly.

“I’m still glad to see you, Kara. We should- we need to have dinner together or something? Catch up a bit.”

[mostlysunny]

Even through the slight sadness that he isn't the Clark she remembers, that she isn't the Kara he remembers, she smiles and leans into the hand on her shoulder. "I'd love that. Where's your favorite place? I'm living in Nonah, but, well." She can meet him anywhere, even without the teleporters that make it easier to move from city to city.

Raised by Clark? What would that have been like? Difficult, in a few ways, at least when it came to trying to be human. It would be too easy to lean on their shared heritage and live in the past instead of moving forward.

[andaway]

Clark smiles back at her. His cheeks are probably going to hurt from so much smiling but he doesn’t regret a second of it. He feels a little guilty, to be so happy that Kara has basically been kidnaped but he just-

He really missed her, is all. He figures he will talk to her about PowerGirl later, too, but probably better not to do it in the middle of the street like this.

“There’s this little sushi place near my new house, I have been there a couple times. It’s in De Chima.” He can’t help a little smirk as an idea forms in his head. “...Race you there?”