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I never saw anyone address this, mainly for it being a FitzSimmons moment with Jemma remembering Alya's existence and it was very emotional. But this made me think about what Jemma said that Daisy and Mack are everything to Daniel and Elena and why she said that. Jemma makes that connection of Alya and her family with Fitz being her everything the way that Mack is Elena's and Daisy is Daniel's. Elena and Mack have an established relationship with years of history at this point but what about Daisy and Daniel? Sure Daniel stayed with the team in 1976 after bringing back a tortured Daisy, there is a clear attraction/admiration/respect between the pair and he was willing to sacrifice himself so Daisy could keep her team aka her family together. However, this is not enough in this possibly new relationship to define someone as their "everything". With that in mind, Daisy could most definitely become Daniel's "everything" in a year or so. Therefore, I would like to think that while she and Fitz were in space, living their lives and making some progress with the time machine and looking at the different time streams, Jemma noticed something. She would notice something building up between Daniel and Daisy with every timeline that he would stay with the time. I would like to think that Jemma would look at all the timelines that Daniel stays in after the events of their last mission as a team and watch her sister be in a loving relationship in multiple timelines. These would be a form of comfort to Jemma, especially knowing since last speaking to Daisy on that topic, she was ready to be someone again, not just anyone but her own Fitz. After Daisy and Jemma have this conversation, Daisy literally meets Daniel which I think could be a week or two later. So when Jemma says, they're your everything, it's because Jemmas has seen Daisy become his everything.

This would also explain why Fitz would not question Daniel's presence when he joins that team because Jemma would be like "He is her Fitz!" and Jemma being happy for Daisy would make him happy.

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Since I’ve experienced so much attitude in my time at Mode, I’d like to posit an observation: One thing that is often lost in the changing of an attitude is the cause for that change. This is best understood when you consider attitudes on a personal level. I ask you, dear reader, to think back to a time when you experienced a major shift in your life. Was it an external change, something that happened outside of you, and forced a change of attitude to help you adapt to the future? Perhaps you saw a friend demonstrate a prowess that cast her in a new light. Heck, maybe it was as simple as your friend getting a makeover. Or perhaps that friend was undergoing her own life change, one in which she would no longer be present in your life, compelling you to make your own change to keep her in it, even if it were in a new context. Just as important: Maybe the change was an internal one. Maybe you realized you were no longer interested in maintaining your status quo. Perhaps you wanted to try new challenges not only in your professional life, but also in your personal one. Or maybe one day something just changed inside you in the way you saw that good friend, causing you to want her to be more than, well, just a friend.

- extract from Daniel Meade’s final letter from the editor. (via tattooedsiren)

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I need an Ugly Betty reunion episode

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Stop putting Taurus in Hufflepuff or I’m gonna kill someone.

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Karamel love is a Yellow Sun.

I know Mon-El said that his feeling for Kara are his Kryptonite but he has shown that loving her and being near her has made him want to be better and be someone she and he can be proud of. I want him to tell her that she is not his Kryptonite, she is his Yellow Sun!!! He didn’t know how strong he could be until yes came along, she gives him the strength to be better. Or maybe it will be Kara….

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Some things that are making sense to me

1) Why Mon-El is so physically expressive/cuddly and was all over Kara as soon as they got together… apparently he’s always been like this even as a child but it was repeatedly rejected. 2) As @winelover1989 pointed out, his ability to repeatedly handle rejection and keep coming back to for more. I think he wanted so desperately to have his mother’s love and affection but constantly was pushed away. Even at the bar with his parents he wanted to believe that they truly loved and cared for him even though his brain was telling himself something different. When it comes to Kara, she’s brutally rejected him over and over again which capitalizes on his worst fears and insecurities. I honestly don’t know many men in real life who would keep coming back and trying to apologize and change the way that he does. I hope we’re done with that particular cycle of story because my heart can’t take much more of it. I’m not saying that he’s not wrong at times or that Kara shouldn’t have boundaries for his behavior towards her- she absolutely should, but she is, as he said, very hard on him, and given his past, it’s particularly painful to watch. 3) His need for security and reassurance, as I discussed extensively in regards to 2.14 and the I want you to wake up with me/stay here with me scene. He wants to know that “there is an us” and he’s desperately afraid of messing up what they have because he thinks he’s unlovable and always at fault. 4) How overwhelmed and happy Mon-El gets when Kara starts valuing him and loving him back and expressing it (not in those three words yet, but she loves him.) His face after “Maybe being Supergirl and having you is enough.” When he realizes she truly does think he’s incredible and recognizes how much he’s changed. When she goes after him because she can’t lose him… and says it wasn’t even an option not to. He knew she liked him but he didn’t know that he was so important to her that she would refuse to live without him and when he finds out that he is he can’t stop staring at her in awe because he’s NEVER HAD THAT. He’s never had a real family that loved him unconditionally and would risk everything to get him back because they love him and not because they want to use and own him. Kara who pleaded and begged with J'onn for his life. J'onn who disobeyed direct orders from the president to go after him and was willing to face the consequences. Winn the IT guy who jumped through a portal that if the coordinates were a tiny bit off he was dead in space to save his buddy. Kara boarding a ship loaded with kryptonite in the middle of space to fight for him- to the death if necessary. His mother underestimated what she and her friends would do because she never loved him that much and she didn’t understand the concept self-sacrifice. And when he says “You came after me,” and she says “Everytime” she is saying not just this time, babe, I will ALWAYS come for you. That’s a vow my friends. It’s commitment. These two are officially mates as far as I’m concerned.

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I love KaraMel but by for my favorite part of the episode!!!

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Reasons why I love season 2 of supergirl!

- Alex discovering herself and finding someone to be happy with - James having a story arc that isn’t about a love triangle - James being a hero - Winn’s humour quota has been upped - Winn finding love - The alien bar giving us a space where aliens can hang out and do normal things like normal people - Brian - you don’t really know who ALL the villains are so, ~suspense~ (and the fact that there’s more than one main villain) - deals with real life issues - Kara meeting someone who challenges her and them both learning from each other - Kara finding love in someone she can be herself with - more information about the different planets from different galaxies, meeting new, quirky and wonderful aliens - introducing minor characters I care about, then bringing those minor characters back every now and then (like Brian) - Kara realising that she can have it all - the superhoing and relationships - Kara learning to put aside her prejudices about Daxam for Mon-El, similar to J'onn learning that there are good white Martians, like Megann - Sanvers and Karamel doing domestic couple things like cuddling on couches - a mix of fun villains (and some who aren’t really villains anyway) and the scary villains to keep the show lighthearted and fun to watch while still conveying serious messages - Winn/Alex brotp - Mon-El/Winn brotp - Alex and her gun - Danvers sisters relationship - Mon-El’s 180 character development arc (not there yet but still well on the way!) - teaching important lessons about relationships: none of them are perfect, relationships need honesty, all of them have complications, relationships take hard work, and they can inspire you to be a better person, even if you’re not together - all KARAMEL AND SANVERS moments! - not one, but TWO crossovers in one season! - badass fight scenes - reblob and add more of your fave reasons!

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Mon-El’s arc-Breaking Good Meta

So I recently wrote a meta about Kara’s arc and I asked you if you wanted my two cents on Mon-el. A good number of you wanted it, so I was inspired to break it down. This is a really long one! If there’s something people love more than a good guy breaking bad, is a a breaking good story! Haha.. A well written redemption arc is one of the most satisfying things to watch on TV and it gives writers the opportunity to tell a character driven story with rich possibility of character growth. What people love even more, is to witness the birth of a hero, something we only get as flashbacks with established superheroes. Because one thing we’ve learnt from these stories is that superpowers don’t make a hero, it’s a calling, a very personal choice, often rooted in grief or the lingering psychological impact of being helpless in a traumatic situation. 

If you’ve watched Jessica Jones, I highly recommend it if you haven’t! I absolutely love it, because it’s too real. Jessica is someone who has super strength, she has all the means to be a superhero but she finds the idea of having a costume and nickname ridiculous. She works as a PI or muscle for hire sometimes and often drowns her PTSD, from her backstory, in alcohol. It takes a lot of inspiration, love & a huge threat against the public which she feels responsible for, for her to embrace being a hero. Which is a very human and relatable thing, if I got superpowers, I would definitely not buy a costume and start fighting thugs in my city, especially if I’m going through something hard. It doesn’t make me a bad person, it’s just what logical humans do no matter how strong they are, they put their needs before others and steer clear of trouble. I really needed this on DC TV and that was the first reason why I fell in love with Mon-El. 

HERO’S JOURNEY 

When Chris Wood was interviewed about his role on Supergirl, he mentioned that “That was their intention, to have someone go through the hero journey, something they can’t do with supergirl, well because she’s supergirl” *fanboy voice* It wasn’t much of a struggle for Kara, she was sent to this planet with a purpose, witnessed a great tragedy, met superman who grew into a hero all by himself and she grew up a normal human watching him change the world. Being Supergirl was something she always wanted, season one was about her becoming her own hero, whose accomplishments aren’t shadowed by Superman’s. A lot of people feel like Mon-El’s character was pulled out of no where but it’s very clear that he was chosen to be the third alien in Kara & Jonn’s team and Kara’s love interest, because they were very clever with choosing a character that hasn’t been used a lot before and they get enough creative freedom with. 

WHERE TO START

They wanted his hero journey to be a lot juicer than Jonn’s so they gave him a very different starting point from Jonn who was already a hero in some capacity but was afraid to come out as an alien.. Deciding where to start is very crucial for a writer because the worst thing you can do is, make a character that people just don’t care about. You want them to feel something extreme towards him even if it’s bad but you don’t want to go as far as give your character an evil or sinister start as a villain for the contrast to the hero side. It’s much easier to create someone who lacks conviction, who doesn’t have a cause, plenty of weaknesses, faults and vices but a few redeeming qualities and the flexibility to change. 

RICH BACKSTORY 

The best writing tip I’ve received is, never willingly give too many flashbacks, build upto it and make the audience or the character who wants to uncover the truth, work hard for the back story. Why?

Because it distances the audience from a time when he developed his weaknesses & faults, a time before the desire to change.

It makes him mysterious & interesting and causes people to speculate.

It’s more fun when secrets are revealed when the stakes are high.

His backstory is really cool because of a couple of reasons that they keep hinting towards and it left a good impact on his personality: 

1. Politics: He was an influential political figure as Prince of Daxam and not just a helpless bystander in a world that Kara, our POV has so many prejudices against. As someone who grew up in a corrupt country, this is very interesting because even people in power have a hard time getting a lid on complicated issues. Most of us usually do butt heads with our elders when it comes to being progressive politically & disagreeing with the status-quo but the struggle is so good for Mon-El because he was so close to power, his parents, but had no real control, which explains a lot about why he said his father is a bad man. 

I even liked when they brought up the issue of slavery, because most TV shows usually pretend that it never existed, which it still does in many parts of the world. If there are things that bad in the society you live in, that you don’t believe in and wish to change, being so close to people who could make a difference and being unheard is frustrating.If they do not care about your opinions and you are groomed to one day take their place and adopt their political stance, that pushes a person to resign from those responsibilities and politics. I would compare this to how most people in third world countries have a nihilistic or hedonistic  ‘What’s the point in hoping or trying’ attitude. Which explains why Daxam is party obsessed & hedonistic, it seems like a coping mechanism.

Thus having the sterotypes just thrown at you in a “What else can you expect from a Daxamite” really pisses people off! They’ve used it so well until now because the prejudice really makes him tick. 

2. Childhood issues: This is something they’ve hinted at and used so well and I find it relatable because I had a rough childhood/daddy issues. I’ve mentioned the impact a rough childhood leaves on you before and I’ll mention it again: ‘We try to do our best, push to be better, go to great lengths to make our loved ones proud, but we love nothing more than someone to just tell us that we are lovable just the way we are because all that effort is rooted in the belief that no one could possibly love us unless we change or put in real effort or have something solid to offer. Unearned love is something people with rough childhoods never get and it’s the greatest gift’

You see that discomfort in Mon-El, now that he’s not a prince, has nothing to offer like he did before and he’s dating a very independent and strong superhero who can take care of herself. It doesn’t help that she has so much prejudice against him thus he constantly feels like he doesn’t deserve her or she wouldn’t want to be with him, something she even vocalised once. Which is why you see him putting in a real effort into the relationship and struggling to change to be the man she wants him to be. When Winn told him to stop trying so hard & all Kara needed was his presence, it surprised him because that’s how childhood issues work! Like really? Just my presence? That’s enough?

3. Prince privileges: Because he grew up to be an adult there, he does have a lot of intel about creatures that they come across (Mxy or the fight club monster, slaver’s moon) which will be a good contribution to the team once he becomes a hero. When he first woke up, he found out a way to find a signal to Daxam very quickly, stayed silent when imprisoned & made up a lie when asked about his backstory.. It’s a very realistic depiction of someone who was royalty, shows the training. And him being a prince is something that explains his cynicism, self preservation, survival instincts and not wanting to be a hero, because political kids are raised to put their safety above everything else. They have bodyguards to protect them. Soldiers and field agents are trained to run towards trouble, ‘Survive, protect yourself, run away from trouble’ is what’s drilled into royalty’s heads. Thus not only does the idea of having a job seem outlandish to him but so does running into trouble and that’s something that has good potential for growth. 

4. Frat Boy : This is that rich kid trait that was meant to piss the audience off. It’s a very feminist show so this was an incredible contrast. That’s how you change public perception as a writer, not just by giving people characters that are already feminists and who educate you on it through dialogue but by also showing them a character’s transition from the opposite end of the spectrum. Not all feminists I know started out that way and they definitely didn’t change their minds because I threw words at them. People these days are pretty socially challenged in terms of talking to others who disagree with them and tagging people with harsh words at the first sign of disagreement is a very common practice these days. I mean look at the fandom, he’s been nothing but a puppy to Kara and people just can’t seem to move past the frat boy stamp that was just mentioned, we haven’t seen any proof but even if he breathes, people complain. 

It’s something he moved past in the first few episodes, which was step one for his hero journey. 

There is a lot of backstory potential to be milked here for the future, because he spent his entire adult life there, as royalty. So there’s a lot for the writers to keep going back and expanding. I’m so looking forward to this! 

HIS PROGRESS (CURRENT & SPECULATION) 

INSPIRATION: Chris mentioned in his interview, that in the beginning Kara tries to bring him into her job & DEO world but Mon-El will end up finding his own path which is why most of the heroic moments he has are when Kara is not looking or around. Him agreeing to train or be her partner, is not picking up very fast because Kara is his inspiration but she will not be the reason why he becomes a hero, but their love & everything he loves and admires about her will serve as a moral compass. He wants to be better for her but he still doesn’t believe in her cause. 

MOMENT OF TRUTH: It’s going to be a tragedy that he feels personally responsible for, which is why they brought in his parents as the big bads. Because feeling personally responsible for something horrible or saving someone you love are the only reasons a normal person would want to run into trouble. He needs that birth of the hero moment, where he decides to do something selfless because he personally feels responsible and he believes that he needs to do the right thing. That will be pretty awesome! 

SUPER POWERS & TRAINING: I feel like his superpowers will start manifesting next season when he actually starts training in the field, because what they are doing right now is just stalling. Plus his costume includes a cape & capes are used because they are aerodynamic & help in flight. And he can’t fly right now! 

SUIT & NAME: This one will take time because Valor is a heavy name and would be followed by a very heroic moment. It means “ great courage in the face of danger, especially in battle.” It’s obviously not going to be something Winn assigns to him. But he will need something that’s bullet proof & a cure for his lead allergy. 

MODUS OPERANDI: I think his code of conduct and style will deviate from Supergirl’s. Right now she needs someone who listens to her and follows orders but that’s not partnership, that’s not what Jonn does. Even though Mon-El is a noob, he does have his moments when he tells her not to run into trouble without a plan, with just hope. He follows her, but he complains about it. It makes sense for him too, because he’s not as strong and definitely not bullet proof like her (lead allergy). Barry and Oliver had this fight at a very large scale, but that ship is another story :D 

So they’ll always disagree in some ways, but that’s good, I don’t just want an assistant for Supergirl, I want a team member who brings something new to the table: His alien intel & caution.

MORAL CODE: Even Supergirl is not at that stage, where she has a solid code of conduct in place but I think he will just adopt hers when she does.

ARC

Depending on where he started “Label: Fratboy of the Universe” and his endgame: “Valor”, this is going to be a long arc, he’s here to stay for a really long time! This is going to be multiple season Hero’s journey. I mean, maybe not as long as Jon Snow (that guy took his time from going to a bastard child with no conviction & power or desire to be a hero to the King of the North) but it’s usually pretty standard. It starts out with a someone with no courage or ambition, someone who clearly doesn’t seem like a hero to anyone, but faces challenging situations, finds a moral compass, a friend, a mentor, maybe love and all of it end ups shaping him/her into someone people end up believing in. I got the romance quickly so I’ll take the superhero slow burn! 

Chris already asked about Legion of heroes, because he loved the comics & they shut him down because they told him he’s a supergirl character and they’ll be deviating from the comics too, plus DCTV already has LoT as a teamup.

Speculations of him leaving with parents or going to the phantom zone are wishful thinking. Comic books did that a lot in those days everytime they decided to clean house with characters during their generational reboots, it’s just a comic book trope that no one takes very seriously when it comes to considering what’s canon. Barry Allen ran in the speedforce for decades after Crisis of Infinite earths but it was just a way to bring his character back after it was killed off, sending people off to places for years is just a reboot strategy that a TV show only needs to introduce people when they pull them from these zones.  Plus you don’t play a long game involving a hero’s journey like this for a single season character. This is the one character they really get to play around with and writers don’t let go of those unless they completely exhaust all avenues.

As far as Karamel is concerned, if it’s an endgame couple, which it seems like because they are bringing in the big guns in terms of the romantic scenes, they will end up having on and offs like they usually do on DC TV shows or CW shows in general. But I don’t know, I usually don’t worry much if the actors have chemistry, were introduced to be a romance and the writers pulled off fanfiction level fluff. That being said, I want to see his character grow outside of the relationship too, talk to people other than Kara and Winn, which I’m pretty sure he will do next season.

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honestly I started watching supergirl expecting Mon El to be a stereotypical fratboy type of man who gets better with time, and maybe is still a bit selfish and antagonizes Kara

and then Mon El actually showed up and ?? he was yes, more ‘selfish’, more focused on his survival (like many people are) but also… he wasn’t mean? he wasn’t maliciously insensitive? he wasn’t purposefully antagonist and he didn’t attack Kara at every turn, he was just reasonably sad about his planet and having, you know, lost everything and everyone, and he started learning really fast and chose to try to be a hero after all, after a first few moments of uncertainty on who he wanted to be, and then he took example from Kara, their champion

and he comes from a place with different morals but is learning this new world’s way of acting, and not even fighting it, and when he and Kara argue sometimes it’s because he isn’t being his best self and other times because she’s the one acting too harshly or prejudiced, and in both cases the tvshow points out that one of them is being wrong (they both recognize their mistakes and try to do better) and he’s basically being at her side without following orders mindlessly, and he doesn’t hold against her when she rejects him, not even when she unnecessarily and accidentally insults his personality while he’s at work (Kara wasn’t being malicious either, she was just confused and self-preservation also kicked in, but we all know that a male character would have been crucified for it), he just wants to stay friends, he keeps being loyal, he points out when things are suspicious, and he was being very rational about their father and didn’t attack Kara and Alex afterwards for their attitude because he understood that they were letting their feelings guide them…

he’s just so sweet and supportive, and he’s trying to his best, and he makes mistakes, especially due to his upbringing, but he also works on fixing them, and he and Kara have realistic conversations where they end up giggling while talking ('I want a heavy cape’. On tv usually nobody has conversations with their voices overlapping and people laughing at how they sound, it’s the same as not having people misspell a word, but in this tv show they do and it’s adorable) and he encourages her and believes in her, and he’s basically a puppy, as others pointed out, and we are getting to know all of him, soon enough his backstory as well, so we can see how far he already came, and I’m just so heart-eyes over this character, because I adore Kara, and whether he’s a love-interest or a best friend (though I’m so glad that from the beginning it was a clear love-interest set up) I can’t imagine someone more suited for her, between being a cinnamon roll but also stubborn and someone who can also argue with her and that pushes her to be better and more open while he’s pushed to be better and more heroic

they are both so lovely, but while I knew she’d be a cutie, I had NO IDEA he’d be so wonderful 

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I was thinking the same thing. I kinda hope he uses that was a way to defend himself lol

All of us sitting around talking about Mon-El’s Secret and how he will reveal it, how mad will Kara be, people are mad at him for lying to her etc…

Why aren’t we talking about how Kara has never asked? When she challenges him about his father and he says he would run its like she had no idea, it gave me the impression she’s never even asked him about home or his family?

Disclaimer: I freaking adore kara and am not trying to criticize her… but Mon-El is getting a LOT of heat for not telling her, and I believe it is because it never feels like the timing is right and he doesn’t know how to bring it up. But maybe the time would be easier to find if Kara actually asked him about his life on Daxam?

Just trying to play Devils advocate here!

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It's not karas job to make mon el a better man! It's not her job to be disrespected and give chances just so a fucking man can evolve!

It’s not her job but it’s her choice by deciding to be in his life and pursue a relationship with him. She took it on, even when people told her not to go to the trouble, she believed he could change and she was right- he’s changing.

I don’t understand what people want. All perfect characters that don’t mistakes? Don’t you understand that flawed characters are what keep shows compelling and worth watching? Mon-El is an Alien, from a planet full of prejudice, sexism and misogyny. He was brought up thinking that was the way you live. He’s not just some human fuckboy douchebag. You have to take in your CONTEXT. This is FICTION and like it or not, CONTEXT changes the STORY. So for him to see this other way and be open to that and realize it’s better to be that way? That’s pretty great, and it’s Kara recognizing that in him.

It’s also about Kara learning to trust and listen to someone other than her sister or Jean. Sometimes she doesn’t even listen to them. And even though she’s usually right in her instincts? Sometimes she’s not. She’s used to doing it all alone. Now there’s someone else there, on a team with her, and it’s about her understanding that what he has to say might sometimes make sense, too.

Last week he was wrong and she was right not to listen. But this week he was right and she was wrong not to listen. Do you think those back to back situations were juxtaposed accidentally by the writers? Absolutely not.

This is a two person evolution.