#karlucy

multiamory march day 1: home | fandom: supergirl (tv 2015). pairing: kara danvers/james olsen/lucy lane/lena luthor. time: 1:41.

⚠️ this edit contains flashing | inspired by this webweave from a @fourormore event. home - edward sharpe and the magnetic zeroes. star overlay - fxgia. divider cred - @dollywons.

32: “ I came to say goodbye. “

There’s a knock on Kara’s door, so soft she probably wouldn’t have heard it if not for her super hearing. Kara x-rayed through the door before jumping up from the couch, crossing to open it with a grin on her face.

“Lucy-” Kara’s happiness fell flat at the look on Lucy’s face as she stood in her doorway. Exhaustion. Sadness. Defeat. Such utter defeat.”Lucy, are you okay?”

“Yeah. I, uh, yeah,” Her eyes darter around, and Kara’s heart fell a little further. 

This was bad. There was a sick feeling rising in Kara’s chest and Lucy hadn’t even said anything. A bad feeling. “Do you want to come in?”

Shaking her head, Lucy said, “No, I’m in a bit of a rush. I came to say goodbye.” A beat. “I have a flight. I’m needed back in the army, working with my father. And because there’s an urgent case I have to go back to DC. Now.”

The words stumbled out of her mouth like she was afraid that somebody would stop her and there were tears in Lucy’s eyes and Kara didn’t know what to do. She stood there, staring. A minute. Longer than she should have. Trying to think of something to say when Lucy was looking at her like that.

I love you. That was the first thing in her head. This wasn’t a break up, they hadn’t been officially dating. But coworkers had turned into game nights had turned into long talks during one on one dinners had turned into Kara’s heart breaking like it was the end of the world. They hadn’t even been together.

But it was cruel to say, in the face of Lucy leaving. Or maybe it was what she wanted to hear. Kara couldn’t think. Her heart was racing and blood was pounding in her ears in a way that was so foreign. 

I love you.

Kara took a breath, “I’ll miss you. Goodbye.”

“Goodbye.”

People have been talking about Supergirl “pulling a #Korrasami” by having Kara and Lena get together, and I’m 100% on board for #SuperCorp to become canon because I love them endlessly, but the term “pulling a Korrasami” got me thinking.

SuperCorp does resemble Korrasami’s relationship a lot in Kara and Lena’s characterization (hell, I made my own comparison post way back when SuperCorp was still new). Both couples have got the whole “actual puppy meets powerful CEO” thing down pretty well. However, out of curiosity, I was just curious as to whether SuperCorp could actually “pull a Korrasami”

(So I’m not talking about the legitimacy of SuperCorp potentially becoming canon, but whether SuperCorp could use the method Korrasami used to become canon)

I was around when Korrasami first became canon towards the end of 2014, and since then, I’d been under the impression that “pulling a Korrasami” meant that the main characters defy the typical love triangle– instead of the main female character ending up with her original male love interest, she ends up with the original female rival of said love interest.

In the case of Korrasami, Korra and Asami got together after both girls had their turns dating Mako, and then decided that they fit better together than they ever did with Mako– therefore defying the typical love triangle. In other words, “My manic pixie dream girl & my strong female character girlfriend ran off together instead of dedicating their life to improving mine. Rude.”

With SuperCorp, Kara and Lena aren’t in a love triangle with a common male love interest. There’s no common love triangle to defy. Sure, they have the “good meets evil” dynamic in the Supers vs. Luthors aspect, but that’s not a quality that Korrasami possessed (Korra and Asami were on the same “good” side the whole time, regardless of what pre-release plans were there for Asami beforehand). So yes, SuperCorp and Korrasami’s characters bear striking parallels to each other characterization-wise, but could SuperCorp “pull a Korrasami”? Technically speaking, I don’t think so (again, not talking about SuperCorp’s ability to be canon, but the method by which SuperCorp could become canon).

With that being said, if Supergirl were to “pull a Korrasami” between any two characters on the show, it would have been between Kara and Lucy Lane. Lucy had dated James back in season 1, and if the writers had actually decided to keep James as a love interest, Kara would have had her turn to date James too. Kara had been jealous of Lucy in season 1, but like Korrasami, Lucy and Kara became incredibly good friends after realizing how well they worked together. I remember other people realized this back when season 1 was airing, and while I myself haven’t dug into characterization parallels, there are probably Karlucy-Korrasami parallel posts floating around in the #Karlucy tag too.