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I’ve been wanting to draw New Mordru and Mordru’s Amethyst look for a while now, so here we go. XD 

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I see you've read quite a range LoSH issues last year!

Always wondered, who are your favourite Legionnaires? (Aside from Supergirl and the other supers as I'm assuming them as a given)

There was a whole lotta Legion last year! XD I’m still making my way through the Post-Zero Hour stuff, I wanna say I’m on issue...102 for LoSH, and 57 for Legionnaires.

As for my favorites--mMMmmm, tough question! They change depending on the run/era, so if forced to (slightly) narrow it down (and yep, assuming the Supers are a given):

Great Darkness/The Curse: Brainy, Blok, Dawnstar 5YL: Brainy (again), Tenzil, Cham, Andromeda*   Post Zero Hour: Ferro, Sensor

*I figure Laurel is different enough from Kara to include her on the list.

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So back in October I re-read the current Legion of Super-Heroes run (which is very good and I highly recommend it) and as I was checking out all of the cool Ryan Sook redesigns my brain kinda went, ‘…Kara’s season 5 suit would work really well for a LoSH look.’ And then Action Comics had that nice little tease of Kara maybe someday joining the Legion so I therefore HAD to draw ‘What if Supergirl but 2019 LoSH?????’ So HERE IT IS. Entirely For-Fun drawings that are 90% noodling with seams, and swapping the shield colors back-and-forth indecisively. Please don’t repost these images on other sites–thanks!

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Dad Gifts.

This isn’t my annual year-end thing. I got about halfway through drawing that when my grandfather passed last week and I decided I needed very badly to draw Superman. The other thing will be along eventually, but I don’t know when.

- and yes this is based on one of the actual Superman winter sweaters. It’s right out there on the internet if you’ve got a google.

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Kara Danvers + being a dumb jock nerdy genius

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“For James, Brandon, or Adam… In the animated show, was it intended to seem like Brainiac 5 had a crush on Clark? Or were there plans to have LGBTQ+ characters on the show?” James Tucker (producer of LOSH): “Those are two questions… so yes to the first one, and we hadn’t quite decided on the second one.” “So something was there?” James: “Well, yeah! But I thought having subtext, that’s the thing, when sometimes the network doesn’t want you to have any subtext in anything you do, so that a person who can watch it can bring their own thing to it. So it was there, but it wasn’t something we wanted to hit over the head or make a hard, fast, you know, statement about. But if someone saw it, it’s valid.” Adam Wylie (voice of Brainy): “What I loved about it was that Brainiac 5 clearly not only admired Superman, but there was something even more there. And it was really fond actually, to like a more… not obsession, but just the love that this robot who didn’t have emotion developed for a human, was pretty awesome, actually.”

— the Legion of Superheroes (animated series) DC Fandome panel

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This destroyed me

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bonding with a polar bear brb ❤️

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KaraDox rain kiss, but can it take place in London and can it take place somewhere between the 1950s and 1970s. Also, can it involve Brainy wearing a coat that later on he gives to Kara because she wears a dress, doesn't have a coat and it's cold outside? (I'm also aware this is oddly and very specific so I would understand if you skip that prompt)

This is very specific, but I actually really like the vibe of it, so I’m happy to fill it!

When they step out of the Royal Opera House, the night is clouded and cool. Kara shivers slightly, wishing she’d brought a coat. She hadn’t thought she’d need one, given how temperate it had been earlier, and she didn’t have anything that quite matched her lilac evening dress. She also spares a moment to wish she’d gotten a full length dress, even though those aren’t in fashion right now, because her lower legs are exposed and very cold.

“What did you think of the opera?” Querl asks quietly as he takes her hand and tucks it into the crook of his elbow.

“I thought it was amazing,” Kara says, pressing against his side perhaps a bit more than propriety would normally allow. If asked, she’ll say it’s for warmth. “What did you think?”

“It was very enjoyable,” Querl agrees. He offers her a shy little smile. “It was helped by the company.”

Kara smiles back at him. “The company was definitely pretty nice.”

Querl’s small smile grows, and it seems like he’s about to say something when the skies above them open and rain begins to splatter onto the streets. Kara gasps as her delicate chiffon dress is almost immediately soaked through, then gasps again when a wool coat is draped around her shoulders.

“But- Querl, you’ll be cold!”

“You’d be colder,” Querl replies, managing to look remarkably unruffled as his suit jacket quickly becomes more and more soaked. “Anyway, it won’t be long before we reach your flat, and you can give it back.”

Kara should probably return the coat, but it’s warm, and she’s so cold. “Thank you,” she says instead, snuggling into the coat a little. It smells like Querl, and she has to fight to keep from smiling because of it.

Just like Querl said, they reach Kara’s flat quickly. Querl walks her up to the front door, then hesitates.

“I hope you enjoyed our night, even with the rain,” he says quietly. “I certainly did.”

“I did too,” Kara replies. She shrugs out of Querl’s coat and hands it back to him. “Thank you for this.”

“Of course,” Querl agrees, his fingers brushing against hers as he takes the coat. “I’m glad you enjoyed the night.”

Kara nods, ducking her head a little. “Will I see you again soon?”

“I hope so,” Querl replies. “For now... Goodnight, Kara.”

Kara looks at Querl, his hair damp and plastered to his forehead, his dark eyes earnest and warm, and can’t help herself. She leans forward and kisses him, pressing her lips against his and gently threading her fingers through his hair. Querl gasps in surprise against her lips, then he kisses her back, neither of them sparing a bit of attention for the rain that’s still falling.

The kiss seems to last forever, but it could only be a few moments. Kara finally pulls away, eyes wide. Querl is staring at her, his lips slightly parted. He looks stunned, but in a good way. Kara feels much the same.

“Goodnight, Querl,” she says quietly, opening the door to her flat. “I hope I’ll see you soon.”

“You as well, Kara,” Querl agrees. “Goodnight.”

Kara steps into her flat and closes the door behind her, smiling. If she searches for it, she thinks she can still catch a whiff of Querl’s scent left over from his coat.

Maybe next time they go out, she’ll forget her coat again. She thinks Querl’s suits her better anyway.

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Brainy getting bullied as a child because of his inhibitors?

Querl’s interactions with other children are... limited. He spends most of his time on his own, mostly supervised by robotic caretakers except in the few moments when his parents have spare time for him. Sometimes he dares to wish that he could spend more time with his parents, but he doesn’t particularly mind not spending time with other children.

Children are cruel, after all, especially when someone is different. Between Querl’s twelfth-level intellect, his fractured home life, and his emotional inhibitors, he is very different indeed, and that makes him an easy target.

“Brainiac!” a child yells when Querl is out on his weekly outdoor excursion. “Are you going to join the meeting in the Big Brain tonight?”

“No, he can’t,” another child taunts. “He’s got inhibitors.”

“Oh, right,” the first child agrees, a vicious look on his face that tells Querl this was all a setup for a joke with the incoming punchline. “Just like a criminal. The Brainiacs start young, huh?”

Querl tries not to bristle at the comments. It’s true that Coluan criminals are often outfitted with inhibitors, but that’s not why he has his. His are there to protect himself (and others, whispers a sly voice that he does his best to silence) from the tendencies he’s inherited from his mother and her side of the family, but he’s not a criminal.

(Not yet, anyway, although given his family, is it only a matter of time?)

“You can’t even come up with a good comeback?” one of the children asks. “So much for that twelfth-level intellect. At least we know the inhibitors work.”

Querl clenches his fists at his sides, but even the anger he feels is a bit muted, a bit distant. He turns to the robot floating at his side and says, “I would like to return home now.”

“Running away?” one of the boys asks as Querl and the robot turn to leave. “We didn’t want you here anyway.”

Querl doesn’t say a word in response. He knows that speaking will probably only make things worse. He just does his best to ignore the words that are flung at him, the way he always does. And when he can’t ignore them, he just straightens his spine and pretends they didn’t hit their mark.

(He never tells anyone that they absolutely do.)

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Superfam goes to the beach. Nia is wearing a bikini. Jenny is drooling (almost literally)

“Kara, she’s so cuuuuuute.”

“She’s literally your girlfriend, Jenny, go tell her that.”

Jenny just lets out a happy little sigh and lies on the blanket, admiring Nia as she runs into the water with Alex. “She looks really good in that bikini.”

“Jenny, I support you and your relationship, but please don’t tell me anything I can’t unhear.”

Jenny sticks her tongue out. “I’m not going to, don’t worry about it. She’s just really cute, and that bikini shows it off really well.”

“Then go talk to her and leave me out of it,” Kara says. “You’re my baby sister. I really don’t need to hear this.”

Jenny sighs dramatically. “Fine, I’ll go, since you’re sending me away.”

Kara rolls her eyes. “Sure I am.”

Jenny gets up off her blanket and goes over to the water where Nia is. Kara purposefully doesn’t listen in as she whispers something to her, but it turns out not to make much of a difference, because next, Nia dips Jenny and kisses her right there.

“Those two need a room,” Alex grumbles as she heads up to sit with Kara on the beach. “I support them, but they need a room.”

“Jenny is a fan of Nia’s bikini,” Kara says dryly.

Alex sighs. “Of course she is.”

(In the water, Nia and Jenny are still kissing. Kara and Alex pretend not to see.)

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Querl Dox | Every animated appearance  → Legion of Super Heroes 02.01

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One Scene Per Episode → Legion of Super Heroes

2x01 “The Man from the Edge of Tomorrow, Part 1″

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A drawing I made a couple years back of Vi and Brainy from the Legion of Superheroes cartoon. I loved that show!

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@toysoldiers drew me this absolutely adorable art for my birthday!

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“Yell, scream, cry, please, just say something, anything.” + “I just really miss talking to you.” with karadox

Brainy wassleeping.

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