#kara things

// A real Bad Bitch ™

They say she low-down It's just a rumor and I don't believe 'em They say she needs to slow down The baddest thing around town

like when she's content and happy she's on top of things

and being down is like 'and then I snorted coke off a public toilet and smoked crack'

and the reason is that her healing factor means that she won't die so

fuck it she's doing a good deed by ensuring that no one else could get hurt by it

// So the title there is just to get your attention. It's nothing so dramatic as all that. It's more about how I see Kara's interests and how she uses her powers.

Kara has the power to control her powers, and she isn't a psychopath. Moreover, she has a genuine dislike of psychopaths. At the same time, she is capable of getting the real truth out of people. And so she does.

Solving crimes, for her, is as easy as telling people to be honest and then asking them if they did it. But Kara has spent a lot of time getting the honest feelings out of horrible people. She has sat down and pulled out all the dark, horrible things from their souls.

Why should she be afraid of that? Have you met her father? Don't answer that, you're probably in therapy if so.

But this has given her great insight into people. How they tick, why they tick, and what they do. This has allowed her to read people very accurately. She's explored the minds of horrible people, and made them tell her the truth. And so she's constructed psychological profiling methods to understand people.

And if she's wrong, well, powers make up for that.

Still, this can often make her come off the way I think Sherlock Holmes does, where he's using observations to read into people and grasp their behaviors via context clues.

She has little interest in mysteries, of course. But she does love pulling people apart when they're evil. And she delights in being able to read the worst people and see into them, and make them feel seen, that they're not unknowable or special or unique. They're common.

And if they surprise her, well, she's learned new things.

Kara, making you confront the worst choice...

Which is worse?

Mind control?

// Kara I think is the embodiment of like, true neutral. In that she might go in any other direction but feels bad about it, and never commits to anything.

She'll want to be chaotic good in a lawful manner, she'll want to be evil for her own satisfaction but feel bad about it and recant.

I refer to true neutral as 'the square of suffering' when I played D&D, because I didn't use good/evil and lawful/chaotic in my version, but conservative/liberal and selfish/altruistic as my guide. Not a political thing, more like 'do you believe in saving what you have or do you believe you need to change things to improve them?'

Basically, are you risk averse or a risk taker? Do you prioritize the general good or do you prioritize your own good?