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also–just look at lena’s face in the second gif. this is supergirl, the woman who is supposed to, as cat grant put it, embody everything good in this world. she helps little old ladies across the street and gently interferes when she sees a kid being bullied and helps out a couple put together their IKEA furniture, telling her that she’s more than the luthors, and not only is she smart and good, but also that she’s nothing like her mother, giving specific traits. meaning lena is warm and caring

how many times do you think lena luthor has been told by teachers and classmates and so called “friends” who are just trying to use her that she is cold and unfeeling and just like the rest of her family. And here’s Supergirl, someone who has an actual legitimate reason to treat her with kid gloves (who knows what kind of access she has to projects lex was working on? If lena wanted to, she could destroy kara. Not to mention now 2 out of 4 members of the Luthor family have tried to kill the last of the El’s and harbor anti-alien sentiment–yeah, caution isn’t a stupid thing to have), but is treating Lena more humanely and warmly than anyone ever has, maybe.

She’s telling Lena what she wants to hear–but that’s just it. Lena wants to hear it, wants someone to acknowledge that she’s been trying to be better than expectations, trying to be a good person, wants someone to care–and that person is Kara. And by living up to Kara’s expectations, she’s proving Kara right (well not entirely, she can be dangerous. But then again, so can literally everyone in Kara’s life. J’onn, Alex, Eliza, Lucy, Cat, and even Winn and James (we saw what the toy maker was capable of, and the head of a media empire? Yeah, not safe) are good people, but that doesn’t mean they’re exactly “non-threatening”.