#manicpixie

Find me in bakery’s and coffee shops hiding from my responsibilities and reading my life away.

My idea is this: we know that kryptonians look physically the same as humans and are about the same size as us too. What if we changed the latter half of the question? What if kryptonians were overall 36 times smaller than humans (meaning that a fully-grown, adult kryptonian would be 2 inches tall)? After Krypton explodes and Kara Zor-El is sent to Earth as a 14-year old having to take care of baby Kal-El, they arrive together because they were sent in the same space pod. And they have to deal with living in a planet of giants. Both her and baby Kal-El will immediately have super-powers under a yellow sun. The place where their space pod lands on will be the Kents' farm. Where the story goes from there, how they are discovered by the Kents, how she and Kal-El become super-heroes years later, and so on, it's all up to you to play with in this universe! It's your sandbox! Personally, I would love it if the story starts with Kara and Kal-El being sent from Krypton to Earth, with the early chapters being about their arrival and eventually contacting the Kents!

An interesting question would be if the kryptonians' size is normal across the universe, with the human species' size being atypical and giant, or if the human species is normal-sized and kryptonians are tiny indeed. I think the kryptonians being normal-sized in comparison to the vast majority of intelligent alien species in the universe is the more interesting option, and it still wouldn't exclude the possibility of eventually introducing alien species who are as big to humans as humans are to kryptonians. What do you think?