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ectonurites · 4 years

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for the character headcannons ask game, jason and cass?

ALRIGHT ALRIGHT im putting this one under a cut because it got SUPER long bc i cant shut up ever

lets start w jason

A (realistic headcanon):

ok using the ‘realistic’ category here loosely but GOD i love the idea of Damian & Jason having interacted while Jason was staying with the League before getting dunked in the Lazarus Pit. like. this obviously would need to be set more in preboot and following the Lost Days & Batman Annual 25 version of Jason’s resurrection, but god the idea of it just makes me scream in a good way. Like... these are things Jason likely doesn’t remember very clearly once he’s brought back to life more fully by the pit because he was uh pretty catatonic, but Damian being a little kid and knowing about the boy that his mother keeps around the base, that she’s trying to help bring back to health. Damian not even knowing that’s his big brother, just that he’s a presence that shares his mother’s attention. Jason again being unresponsive but like, ok god you know that part of lost days where Talia shows the others observing him that he only fights back at those he perceives as genuine threats trying to hurt him,

Because Jason can perceive that she’s safe, she’s not actually trying to hurt him, he trusts her because she saved him? thinking about lil child Damian who is ya know already being trained in fighting stuff and like the idea of him trying to provoke Jason just to see what happens but Jason not fighting back because on some level be it his connection to Talia or even little baby Damian visually reminding him of Bruce, he knows that Damian is safe too 🥺

and then when Jason and Damian meet again in Gotham as Red Hood & Robin respectively, Jason not really remembering because there was so much going on back then for him, but Damian realizing that oh... that was Him

B (hilarious):

alright so if we are looking at comics currently, in modern stuff jason is what, like 22? hes old enough to drink in the US but still definitely early 20s so around my around my age, thats what im using as a basis here. if we adjust timeline and still consider his death having happened when he was 15, that puts it around 2013. and then coming back to like interacting with people about three years later if we still kinda base things off of the preboot timeframe (since we never got a super solid retelling of the timeline of death -> resurrection -> training -> tries to get revenge aside from knowing he went to the all-caste instead of the lost days version of the story) making him reenter the regular world and stuff around age 18 in 2016. meaning a solid three years of pop culture that he was entirely missing, and like im sorry but he really doesn’t strike me as the type to bother looking into what he missed, he’s kinda busy focusing on other stuff. lets take a quick look at some major things from those years. 2013 gave us ‘what does the fox say’ and ‘the harlem shake’ . 2014 had that time U2 just put a fuckin album on everyone’s phones, The Fault In Our Stars movie came out. 2015 introduced the phrase ‘Netflix and Chill’ and the whole blue & black vs gold & white dress debate happened. imagine any of the other batkids (or even arguably roy during rhato stuff) bringing these things up and jason’s ensuing confusion. thank you for your time

C (heart-crushing):

so. there are two specific instances from rebirth era Jason i want to bring up here and much like a lot of these it’s less a headcanon and more of an inference based on observations, but i wanna take a sec to discuss Jason’s relationship with other people’s death. early in rebirth, Tim ‘dies’ from that whole thing in detective comics. he didn’t actually die, we as readers know, but in-universe they all very much so thought he was dead. frustratingly a lot of the batfam wasn’t really shown mourning him aside from in the Detective Comics Rebirth title itself (which just. when a major character dies even if its temporary- that should have a ripple effect) BUT an exception to that is in RHATO 2016, where we get this offhanded comment in Jason’s internal monologuing

similarly later when Roy, who like, had an incredibly close relationship w Jason that had just gotten mended before Heroes in Crisis, gets fuckin murdered in that whole thing... Jason doesn’t go to his funeral either. He leaves a dramatic voice mail and then visits the grave on his own later, choosing to instead keep working on the mission they’d started rather than going and taking the time to mourn properly.

Jason’s relationship with death is incredibly complicated, obviously. He has died, he has come back, and he now is willing to cross the line most other bats won’t and will kill people when he deems it necessary. I think thats something important though- he doesn’t just like... go around killing for fun (usually, some writers preboot made him a little murder happy but even then usually this still was vaguely followed) he kills people he thinks deserved it. Like, even looking back at the mess of Morrison’s Jason during Batman & Robin 2009, Jason was still trying to bring a sense of justice with who he was killing (”punishment that fits the crime”), it wasn’t killing for the sake of killing. He sees things in this kind of almost black and white ‘people who deserve it’ and ‘people who don’t’ way, and he has no problem dealing with death when it’s with the people he thinks deserve it.

but when someone who doesn’t in his mind ‘deserve it’ gets killed? i think he just goes into total avoidance mode. throws himself into other things he’s doing, tries not to dwell on it too much no matter how much he still thinks about it (this is especially evident in him consistently telling people “i’m fine!” after what happened to Roy, despite bringing Roy up literally like every few issues for a WHILE after he died and very clearly still struggling with it, Artemis is the only one who gets through to him on it a little bit)

but yeah, I just think that from Jason’s relatively unique situation of having been murdered, he knows what it’s like and he is perfectly fine wishing that on people he thinks are bad and deserve it, but it crushes him to imagine the people he loves and cares about having to experience something as painful as what he went through. not to mention the whole “I came back, why do I get a second chance at all this when they, who are a much better person than I am, probably won’t” mindset we get some implications of him having

D (canon is a coward and won’t)

hello DC i am once again insisting a batfam member is bisexual

CASS TIME

A (realistic headcanon):

ok so we know cass likes ballet. thats canon. however i think we also should in general explore cass experiencing other types of dance/performance as well, be it herself as a performer or even just watching. like... god imagine her & like my brain just automatically for group activities puts her with tim steph and duke but also for this in particular I feel would be a Jason embraced activity, but like them going to see a broadway show or some other professional theatre or something, and her just being enthralled by the reading of body language of the performers! like again by any point in current stuff cass does have like, the ability to speak fine (reading still hard tho) but even so I think like. okay im a theatre kid if that’s not obvious from the Everything About Me but one thing I always do after seeing a show is ya know spend dinner afterwards discussing it with whoever i saw it with.

I just think that like, bringing those people i just mentioned to the table to discuss seeing a show after would be so FASCINATING because cass would bring this whole perspective of critiquing their acting on a whole different level- not based on how well they delivered lines out loud, but by what their body language was saying as they moved on stage. like im very amused by the idea of cass getting a totally different picture in her mind about what a character’s motivations were because she was paying way more attention to what their physicality was saying vs the words that were written and how they were delivered. i think the debates her and the others would have would be EPIC there. jason defending the text as it was written adamantly and cass being like ‘ok yeah sure but thats not what they did’

B (hilarious):

cass having no concept of money because why would she bother? is SO funny to me. like it’s not that she couldn’t be reasonable if she wanted to, but like, she knows that the Waynes are well off so it’s not something she actually needs to be concerned about, so she just goes hog wild. takes steph out to fancy dinners and makes steph order for them since cass ya know doesn’t really read the menus, and steph’s like ‘jesus christ this costs-” “don’t worry about it” “but cass-” and she just holds up one of bruce’s credit cards and steph’s still like “but you don’t even know the range-” “it is fine”

bruce does not have the heart to tell her to stop

C (heart-crushing):

i mean this is pretty much canon but especially now after death metal where she’s remembering, not just being told by a guy using weird alternate timeline technology, that she used to be an adopted member of the Wayne family... like that hurts so bad. To look at these people who have ya know been kind to her, Bruce has still been a father-like figure to her (i mean literally from the moment they met in New 52 canon during the flashback in Batman & Robin Eternal, where he’s telling her that she’s not a monster just because of what people forced her to do.... that she’s a hero... that hug.... dad behavior), and they do to some extent treat her as family... But to then really know, to feel and remember that she was actually adopted! She was a part of their family. To look at how she’s been calling herself Orphan while working with them this whole time... that’s so heartbreaking! I have cried about this idea so much! I want so badly a conversation between her and Bruce now where he offers to officially adopt her again, I need it so bad and if it doesn’t happen at some point in the next year or two I will be so distraught.

D (canon is a coward and won’t)

i want an in-depth exploration of cass’ relationship to her own gender. being raised without language and you know with so much of her life being independent (remember: CASS RAN AWAY AROUND THE WORLD WITHOUT REALLY KNOWING ANY SPOKEN LANGUAGE) and outside of an organized society impressing too much of gender expectations on her, i feel like the way she experiences it would be very unique! like sure she’s so far been fine with being assigned ‘girl’ (ya know that comes with batgirl, and how people just automatically treated her based on how she looks) but in terms of gender expression and like her actual relationship with ‘traditional femininity’ etc like... because of how she was raised I just think she’d have a really different perspective on it that could be cool to explore, and I think she’d fall outside of the binary after she really thinks about how she identifies.

tldr on that: she/they nb cass is what i’m getting at here

#onwater #jason todd #cassandra cain #sam writes

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chongoblog · 5 years

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Hey I know that you all see me as the Grand Authority on Movie Opinions in that I am correct and can never be wrong and also my opinion on things is NEVER unsolicited because I’m literally the most important person on the internet and you CRAVE my opinions.

So I saw Shazam last night and I’m gonna talk about it under this readmore because I dunno how long it’s gonna be and I respect y’all’s dashes like that (plus if y’all don’t care abt what I thought then you can keep scrolling). There will be spoilers but I will clearly mark them.

So I’ve been thinking to myself on whether or not Shazam was the best DCEU movie. All things considered, it didn’t have too high of a bar to leap over, seeing how Wonder Woman, which was originally my favorite, had a lot of incredible moments, but was bogged down by a few of the scenes around those moments and a frankly terrible final act. And if I were to put it into numbers, (which people seem to love) I’d put Wonder Woman at about 50% INCREDIBLE 20% ehhhh and 30% GOD WHY, plus add a few bonus points for being so inspiring within its social context as a female-led superhero movie that isn’t terrible, sexualized or both. Shazam, on the other hand, doesn’t get those bonus points of social context, but has about a 60% Pretty Good and 40% ehhhh with one small bonus point for having one scene that personally hit me pretty hard that I’ll talk about later. It doesn’t reach any of the LOWS that any other film in the DCEU had, but at the same time, it didn’t really hit any of the highs either.

Something that’s worth addressing is that as someone who likes to partake in any and all drama because I’m a gremlin who loves seeing complaining, I saw plenty of DC fans complain that this movie was falling into a sort of trap set up saying “ITS ONLY BEING LIGHTHEARTED BECAUSE IT THINKS THAT IT HAS TO BE MORE LIKE MARVEL AND THATS WHY MORE PEOPLE LIKE IT” and I do want to address that because it’s a stupid argument. While Shazam is a departure from the DCEU’s more serious tone thus far, it’s not a black and white deal. DC isn’t strictly defined by being “the more serious Marvel” or vice versa. Being lighthearted did help Shazam out, not BECAUSE it was more like a Marvel movie, but because unlike movies like Batman v Superman, it didn’t try (and fail) to tackle more complex themes and down to earth schemes that made it lose focus and become an enormous mess. That being said, Shazam’s schemes and themes were much simpler, and it made for a much SMALLER mess if/when it did lose focus.

Before I dive into the spoilers, I’ll give my two cents on the film as a whole. Like I mentioned, the light-hearted tone did help out the movie, and it took itself a little less seriously with things while still balancing out some emotion in the story, and the whole theme behind it, while not PERFECTLY drawn out, still had a coherent message behind it. Visually, the movie was definitely trying to break out of the Zack Snyder mold that had been set up back with Man Of Steel, and while it still chills out in Low Saturation City a lot of the time, it IS doing a better job. Zachary Levi definitely deserves a shoutout in this movie for probably being the second best actor in the DCEU closely behind Gal Gadot in terms of casting choices, perfectly encapsulating the idea of Shazam, and pulling off the role of a Big Billy Batson, however he seems to have taken away the acting talent from half of the rest of the cast, because some of the acting in this movie is.....not great. And that’s not counting the child actors who did alright considering they’re child actors (Freddy in particular was fantastic).

The dialogue in this is pretty solid and indicative of the situation, and they really tried to lean into the idea that it’s some middle school (or early high I cant really remember) kid who just got these powers, and they do a pretty good job of that in both the dialogue and in the first half of the movie. And like I mentioned, there is a bit of Emotion in this movie that they really tried to deliver and they did a pretty good job delivering it. That being said, it’s very clear that they’re going for a kinda cheesy sort of vibe. Which makes sense, since the concept is Kid Becomes Superhero, which is ripe for picking like some kind of Cheese Tree....orchard.....thing.....and it leads to just a fun experience. It’s something that knows it shouldn’t be taken too seriously, which is why I’m writing an incredibly long analytical review of it, because I’m a curmudgeon like that.

ALRIGHT SPOILER TIME SCROLL DOWN TO THE VERY BOTTOM IF YOU DONT WANNA GET SPOILED

Lol alright so this spoiler section is gonna have a lot of negative points, so let me start with some positives.

The overall theme of this movie is sort of an idea of Found Family (which I’m an absolute sucker for), and there’s a subplot that follows this idea where Billy is looking for his mom. The movie starts showing a flashback where Billy’s mom gives him a compass saying “it’ll always help you find your way home” and then very shortly afterward, Billy gets himself seperated from his mother and had to be put into foster care and is now searching for his mother by looking everywhere he can to the point it causes him to run away multiple times. It’s not too surprising how this ends, with him finding his mother, only to find out that she just didn’t pick him up because she was 17 at the time and felt she COULDN’T take care of him. And that’s the point when he realizes “maybe my REAL family were the kids in the foster home all along”. Billy Batson sees that his birth mother’s life is tumultuous, taking on new lovers, working part time jobs, and not having time to even consider caring for Billy, moreso just hoping he turned out alright. Billy, as a sort of symbolic gesture, hands his mother the compass saying “you’ll need this more than me”. And then she replies with two words that just killed me for some reason.

“What’s this?”

I don’t know. It was a line that hit me. Kinda reflecting that sort of disconnect. Alright enough being nice, let’s talk things that are Alright but could be better.

The villain was alright. His character was pretty fun at the beginning, but after he got revenge on his father for Toxic Masculinity™ he became pretty boring, acting more like a CGI Monster Vending Machine. Of course it kinda leads into the whole Cheesy vibe they were going for, but it’s hard to make your movie seem like it’s gonna be campy and cheesy when your villain doesn’t really fall into the role once he actually fights the hero (also with the color palette). Just wish they would’ve sorta gone full Sam Raimi and just leaned into the campiness, with this movie kinda afraid to jump into the pool past its bathing suit.

And then there was the climax of the movie in the carnival, where I felt like it went a little bit downhill, not really being the best that it could be, but still pretty serviceable. The director seemed to be REALLY into using slo-mo, using it a little more than necessary to the point of being distracting, and while the Shazam concept was used in a few fun creative ways, there were some moments where it could have had more utility, or one moment in particular when he absolutely needed to change back and probably had time to say “Shazam” like twenty times over, but he didn’t, which was a LITTLE frustrating, but that’s way more nitpicky. Speaking of nitpicks, there were a few shots that were.....questionable (most notably the Santa.....moment? It seemed to be a clear funny moment, but it didn’t really land and didn’t flow either)

And also the climax has a bit of a fun twist moment that helps round out the Found Family moment where all of Billy’s adopted family also become superheroes, which is pretty sweet, but there was one SMALL nitpick that doesn’t overwhelmingly detract from anything but I found strange. Every character had a power, with one person showing the super strength, another showing super speed, another with lightning, another with flying, which were Shazam’s powers. And then Mary was there....and we don’t really get to see her powers? I did research and apparently she’s a character in the comics with all the powers of Shazam, but Mary was one of the only other characters with an arc and we don’t get to see her with any powers, which is a bit weird (we also don’t get to see her arc formally conclude. We can draw conclusions but still). So in the end it looks like Mary essentially kinda got Kairi’d. Oof.

But that’s really it for spoilers, in terms of the “bad” it’s really just that it didn’t really give it enough of an impact and while it knew what it wanted to be and isn’t disingenuous about it, it also doesn’t really commit to BEING what it wants to be.

ALRIGHT SPOILERS ARE ALL DONE YOU CAN LOOK NOW HERES MY BOTTOM LINE

Bottom line is that this movie is definitely flawed, and after consideration I don’t think I’d put it at the top of the DCEU, if only because Wonder Woman reached higher points than this one did, but that shouldn’t be a slight against Shazam at all. Heck, I would consider putting it a little bit above Captain Marvel if we’re inevitably comparing rivals.

So all in all I give it a Shazam/10. A good fun time. Not the BEST movie you’ll see this year, but you’re there to have a good time and you’ll have it.

#reviews i guess #dang im really just writing a review #ah well #shazam #dceu

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vitosscaletta · 6 years

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sara ✨& georgie 👩‍⚕️!!!

THANK U SM!!!!! georgie was answered here :^)

Full Name: Sara Catherine Wright (ik she had a different middle name once but its catherine now bye)

Gender and Sexuality: female/bi

Pronouns: she/her

Ethnicity/Species: mixed middle eastern (palestinian)/white

Birthplace and Birthdate: washington dc, i dont wanna look up the date!!

Guilty Pleasures: astrology stuff

Phobias: was open spaces for a time, loneliness, big animals

What They Would Be Famous For: almost anything she does bc three dog has to broadcast that shit!!

What They Would Get Arrested For: theft, breaking into people’s homes lmao

OC You Ship Them With: none all my other ocs are too old for her so she’s single -_- | not ocs: i thot she n sarah lyons would be cute but they have the same name.. i can’t do this

OC Most Likely To Murder Them: none

Favorite Movie/Book Genre: musicals duh…

Least Favorite Movie/Book Cliche: the one in romcoms where the protagonist leaves her fiancé for her ex that came back into her life for 5 minutes

Talents and/or Powers: breaking into things.. she’s almost too good at it!!

Why Someone Might Love Them: she’s friendly and pretty easy to get along with, intelligent, enthusiastic, imaginative..

Why Someone Might Hate Them: she’s petty, doesn’t care for others’ boundaries, complains about everything just because she enjoys it..

How They Change: she becomes less optimistic and more cynical :c

Why You Love Them: honestly…. i just kinda made her bc i got bored in my summer holidays and wanted to start a new playthrough of fo3 with a different character who’s a mix of an old concept and my old lw don’t ask jwjhsjhsa… but i ended up loving her a lot, shes a lil more rebellious than my previous lw’s and that’s fun to play tbhh…… also the lone wanderer is probably my favorite fallout protagonist because there are a lot of elements in their story i can relate to (them being a loner with one (1) friend who eventually abandons them and no one else really liking them…. the loneliness thing hits really hard!!!).

#c: sara #robcoindustry #ask

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rorykillmore · 7 years

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alright here we go, a self-indulgent piece since i’ve been wanting to write my dc ladies hanging out for awhile and ballplot provided me with the perfect thing to center it around! clearly sara is a bad influence on everyone, however,

“It’s about the ball,” Sara says in a more conspiratory tone, leaning a little closer. “I think we should get her a date.”

“Sooo, Kara,” Sara drawls, most of her focus on the pattern she’s braiding into the Kryptonian’s hair. “Tell us a little more about this girl you’re taking to the dance.”

It’s a hang-out-and-watch-terrible-B-movies kinda night, which sometimes happens when one of them is feeling particularly homesick. Kara never knew Sara or Caitlin all that well back home, being that they’re technically from parallel Earths, but there’s a certain solidarity that comes from being stranded in the same alternate reality together.

Apparently, though, Sara is still willing to stab her in the back at a moment’s notice. She flushes a little. “You make it sound like high school all over again.”

“Don’t tease her, Sara,” Caitlin protests mildly, glancing back at them -- and then to Kara specifically. “You’re going with Ratchet’s friend from the tech center, right? I think he mentioned something about that.”

“Ah. Yeah. Rey.” The admission pulled out of her, Kara smiles a little more readily. “I just thought... well, the flyers make the ball look so nice, and she... deserves that. Something nice.”

Caitlin smiles at her, a brief flash of encouragement and endearment.

Sara says smartly, “I’m taking my angry Sith BFF so she can make a political impression on the masses.”

Pleading with whatever god might listen that Sara’s joking seems like it’d be a little in vain, so Kara responds more dryly, “How romantic?”

She feels Sara nudge her. “Don’t backsass the person doing your hair, Danvers. I’m in the perfect position for sabotage.”

“I wouldn’t test her,” Caitlin adds, eyes back on the television. “Last week she propositioned Killer Frost with highlights.”

There’s a pause from Sara. “Hey, it’s a step up from propositioning her in general.”

“Sara!” Kara chokes, entirely unprepared for that unfiltered statement -- but Caitlin handles it rather gracefully, flushing faintly but giving Sara a deadpan look.

“I’m kidding,” Sara adds quickly, and Kara can hear the laugh she’s holding back. “I wouldn’t do that. Not that Frosty’s not charming, but it’d be a little weird.”

“How do you think I feel?” Caitlin counters dryly. “You’re not exactly the --” She cuts off abruptly, and Kara gives her a curious look. Somehow, though, she feels like this might be a good time to change the subject.

“So how’d you get so big on hairbraiding, Sara?” she asks, playful but with genuine enough curiosity. “I didn’t exactly figure you for the type. No offense.” It’s just that Sara’s, well, Sara, and all things considered sleepover activities seem a little domestic for her.

Behind her, Sara finishes up and leans back. “Yeah, well. I had a lot of practice with Laurel.”

“Laurel?” Kara can’t remember whether she knows the name -- did Barry mention a Laurel, once?

There’s a pause, and it’s not until she turns so she can see Sara that she responds with a slightly belated, “My sister.”

“Oh -- oh!” Kara can’t help but brighten just a touch. It’s a point of relatability she can’t help but find appealing. She remembers where she heard this before, now. “Back when we were fighting the Dominators, I think you said --”

This time, as she remembers exactly what Sara had said, the pause is definitely awkward. Sara’s expression is unreadable, and for a moment Kara wonders whether she and her sister had some kind of falling out -- and then she sees Caitlin’s reaction. Somber. Sad.

Her heart sinks.

Before she can say anything - apologize like she wants to - Caitlin gets up, her eyes darting to Sara and then away again. “I’m gonna go make some more popcorn,” she announces, and then slinks back towards the kitchen.

Her departure leaves a beat of silence in its wake, but Kara can’t bring herself to let it hang too long. “I’m so sorry, Sara, I -- I know you told Barry, I just wasn’t thinking --”

“Look, don’t worry about it,” Sara interrupts her steadily. She doesn’t sound angry, although there’s an edge to her voice that Kara’s never heard before. “She died last year, so, you know. Not exactly a fresh wound.”

Last year? If anything ever happened to Alex, Kara can’t imagine herself getting over it in -- in a whole lifetime. Sara can’t be anywhere near as detached from this as she pretends, she thinks. She should say something, she thinks -- after all, if there’s one thing she knows about, it’s loss. It’s probably why Caitlin gave them the room, so Sara could explain and Kara could do... something to make it a little easier.

“How did she die?” she asks quietly, and it’s not the question she wanted -- not anywhere near it. It feels too direct, too abrasive.

Sara hesitates, like she’s not sure she wants to answer. “She was a vigilante. -- A hero. It’s not a job without casualties.” She sets her jaw, looks away -- and then back at Kara. “Not all of us are bulletproof.”

Kara swallows. For a fleeting moment, she thinks of Ratchet -- maybe she and Sasuke take too much for granted. “I’m so sorry. She must’ve been.. so brave.”

“She was.” It’s only for a moment, but Sara’s tone softens a little. They almost sink into quiet again. And then -- “Look, let’s not do this right now. Tonight’s supposed to be fun. Besides -- there’s something I wanna talk to you about while Cait’s giving us a minute for a heart to heart.”

It almost feels callous to just move on, but Sara clearly doesn’t want to linger on this -- and ultimately, Kara doesn’t want to corner her. Instead, she allows herself a little curiosity, her brow furrowing. “...Okay. What’s up?”

“It’s about the ball,” Sara says in a more conspiratory tone, leaning a little closer. “I think we should get her a date.”

The change of tracks makes Kara blink, and she has to process the suggestion before she can manage a response. Caitlin? Date? Maybe that shouldn’t throw her as much as it does. It’s just -- Caitlin never seems to have the time for it. “What makes you think she even wants to go?”

“It’d be good for her. She’s always working her ass off in Metropolis, and without Barry here, someone’s gotta drag her out to unwind every once in awhile.” Sara rolls her eyes and then frowns, sobering a touch. “Besides, between you and me... she hasn’t exactly had the best luck in the romance department.”

“Oh --” Kara winces a little in sympathy. She knows the feeling.

“It doesn’t have to be anything, you know, serious,” Sara continues without dwelling on that. “Just something fun. Even if we just set her up for a night.”

It isn’t a bad idea, Kara decides. She hopes Caitlin won’t mind, because it sounds like it’d be a nice thing to do for her, if it works out. “Do you... have anyone in mind?” she asks.

Sara hums wryly. “Well. I think she’s had enough of guys for awhile, if you know what I mean.”

“Is she -- are you sure she’s not, you know, straight?” Kara always manages to forget that you can’t assume these things on Earth. “Wait a minute -- is that why you made that joke about Killer Frost?”

“I was trying to get a read on her.” Sara shrugs like it’s a perfectly reasonable explanation. “Usually I can tell, with women, but Caitlin’s -- you know how she is. Private about everything outside of a medical lab.”

Kara’s never really thought about it either way, but... “I mean. Killer Frost is kind of...”

“Definitely not straight,” Sara agrees, and it’s hard not to laugh at how matter-of-fact she is about it. “So unless the situation there is -- uh, even more complicated than I think it is, I’d say we have a fair shot.”

“Okay.” Kara wracks her brain for a moment. How many single women does she know? Maybe if Lena were here, but --

Wait.

“Oh my god. I think I know someone perfect!”

Sara raises her eyebrows expectantly. “Spill.”

“Well, my friends and I were at lunch the other day, and we were talking about going -- my civilian friends?” Kara automatically regrets the way she says that like it might be a foreign concept, but Sara seems unfazed. “And, um -- my friend Belle, she’s going with someone from her world, but my other friend Edith was just gonna third wheel it.”

“Damn, Danvers,” Sara teases. “It’s like you’re living a teen drama. So would... Edith be cool with all this?”

For a moment, Kara hesitates. Caught up in her excitement, she realizes she’s forgotten to consider the fact that Edith -- Edith is from over a hundred years in the past. But she’s always seemed so ahead of her time, so engaged in modern things --

-- Maybe she should consult with Belle, she thinks, just for some perspective?

“Well, I think they’d get along,” she ventures a bit more slowly. “I mean, they’re both smart, and opinionated, and that kinda... sort of chill where you’re just kind of above other people’s drama? Or. Try to be. And they’re both really successful in generally male-dominated fields -- Edith’s a playwright!”

“Hmm.” Sara seems to consider that. “Well. Worth a shot. Talk to her and see if she’s even... interested.”

She’s about to agree when Caitlin comes back into the room - a little cautiously, as if she’s not sure she’s given them enough time - with a fresh bowl of popcorn. Kara immediately tries to beam at her, and then inwardly scolds herself for what is probably a blatantly transparent reaction (especially next to Sara, who has it turns out has managed to look perfectly unfazed).

“Wow.” Caitlin pauses, arching an eyebrow. “You guys look...”

“What?” Sara asks, glancing at Kara as if she’s just as nonplussed as Caitlin is.

Caitlin hesitates. “I just figured -- nevermind.”

Instead, she settles down next to Sara and nods to the television. “What are we watching next?”

They spend the rest of the night making fun of some M. Night Shyamalan movie, which infuriates Caitlin because of the botanical inaccuracies and leaves Sara unimpressed because apparently the deaths aren’t “creative” enough. Still, it’s nice just to see the two of them like this -- joking around, laughing a little. It feels nice for Kara, too.

Just how disastrous the ball would end up being had yet to be determined, but if it was anything like this? For a little while, the distraction would be enough.

#cuts dennys lvad wire #fic #i cant believe no one invited siobhan?#also ive always thought itd be good for kara and sara to talk about sister stuff so... bit of a detour for that #im not sure how i feel about this in its entirety but it was fun to do

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