kryptonites:kryptonites:1x01 // 1x17#kara feels this tremendous sense of duty and responsibility to
kryptonites:kryptonites:1x01 // 1x17#kara feels this tremendous sense of duty and responsibility to put her ‘great powers’ to use; to protect people #this was supposed to be her destiny. her purpose. to do extraordinary things. #that was who kara zor el was supposed to be. that is /why/ she was sent to earth. #but then she arrives and no longer has a mission and she can’t do these things #she can’t fulfill this one purpose her mother instilled in her in their last moments together #she needs to be ordinary (to fit in; to survive). to block out this calling (this innate responsibility that drives her; that defines her) #jeremiah tells her that all she needs to be is kara danvers and he says this like it should be a relief; a weight lifted from her shoulders #but she doesn’t know who kara danvers is; everything that she knew has been stripped away of course but now she’s losing something more#she’s losing the one thing that she thought she could hang onto and fall back on at least#she’s losing even the /legacy/ of her family; the very core of her being. it’s not safe to be her anymore #there’s no place for kara zor el in this world; kara danvers doesn’t exist yet but she needs to be someone who kara fundamentally is not #the last thing she says to her mother is “i won’t fail kal-el. or you.” #and she doesn't—not really. it’s not her fault she got stuck in the phantom zone and it turns out kal-el didn’t need her anyways #but i think it might feel like a failure to her on a deep fundamental level #none of this was her choice or her fault but the end result is the same: #she is failing to be “the woman [her mother] knew she would grow up to be” #it goes deeper than “i’m not living up to my potential”/“i didn’t travel 2000 lightyears to be an assistant” #she is the last daughter of krypton and she is letting the legacy of her people and her planet waste away #she carries a tremendous amount of guilt and responsibility and weight… #kara only says two sentences in these two scenes: “i won’t fail you” and “i’m sorry” -- source link
#kara danvers