Thinking about Supergirl again and the importance it places on parental relationships like yes! You are the summary of a family who loves you! Yes, you can never go back! Yes, your mother and your father will live on in you a thousand light years from the house they died in! Yes, you will spend the rest of your life trying to return to the person you were when you were still their daughter! Yes, you will wear your father’s watch to save the dog you found at your mother’s funeral. Yes, you will see a girl who has just lost her own parents. You will look her in the eyes and tell her that vengeance will not solve anything. You will hope that your ache will fade, any day now. You know it will not, you know hers will not. You will meet people you believe to be good and understand when they sell you out for their own daughter. You will watch those people die. You will watch that daughter die. She only had to live moments without her parents. You are not so fortunate. You will kill a man with her death on your tongue. Her parents were not there to do it but you were and your mother asked you to be good. Not nice but kind. You are Kara Zor-El and you are an orphan but not in the way your cousin is an orphan just like he is a refugee but not in the way you are a refugee. You have lost your parents and you are alone except for your dog (inextricably tied to them) and another parentless little girl you found.

















