| Identity | Kara-El / Lana Kent / Supergirl | Origin & Backstory | Origin The House of El’s history is one comprised of hope, wisdom, and faith. This is something Kara-El knew as she looked to her father, Zor-El. Zor was the parallel opposite of his brother despite them once agreeing on where krypton needed to go; Jor-El being more of a traditionalist and Zor-El falling into trans-humanist beliefs. Perhaps this is to say why the two El’s became distant and ignorant of each other and their families. It wasn’t until his daughter Kara’s sixth birthday when his world was truly shaken when his wife was seemingly assassinated on a trip to the nearest city, Argos. Zor didn’t know what was worse: that his wife was murdered or that his young daughter saw the entire thing. Regardless, Zor vowed to remove himself and his daughter from this world as they soon retreated to his rural home. After her mother’s death, Kara-El found herself in an environment that was shaped around her father—at such a young age she had not even came to terms with what she had saw nor how to move past it. The next few years for her were all planned subsequently by her father who blamed the way their utopic society was falling apart slowly but most certainly. With his daughter in mind he began to toil with her genetics in proven theory in the guise of medical checkups: increasing her brain functions, her immune system, how her body and mind adapted to a scenario or environment, and her perceptive capability. This would prepare her for life on Earth and life among unpredictable archaic aliens. Kara didn’t understand why she would in time pick up on information from archives faster and at a higher level or why she never felt sick—but she didn’t think much of it as she moved forward ignorant of what was to come. Kara-El’s fate was altered as her father doomed her to life away from krypton—away from everything that she had ever known. The last daughter of krypton was placed in a hyperbolic sleep and placed in a illegally developed spacecraft destined to make sure that the House of El and more importantly, Kara, lived to see the next cycle. This starship would drift in space as it literally froze her in time until it landed in the star system known as Sol. Equipping her with a robotic AI with a recorded log from himself, he hoped Kara could make it out there with what he had given her. Much like Kal-El, Kara-El had been designated towards the planet known as Earth. However, due to a variety of complicated events she would never reach Earth… at least, not until Kal-El who at this point has fashioned himself as the Man of Steel—Superman finds her in a very bad way. Year Three The discovery of Kara-El was seen as an exceptional link to Kal-El’s past and the real difficulty was getting the female kryptonian to adapt to the new world nearly ignorant of everything that she should have of known about. Through extensive education as well as lengthy conversations with her cousin she found herself understanding more and more—the most difficult being the archaic civilization of Earth society and the notion of “superpowers” as Kal had called them. The most surprising out of everything however was that Kara didn’t have trouble understanding the duality of Clark Kent and Kal-El as the young Kara theorized it was in the nature of self-preservation which is something she completely understood. When it came time for Kara to create an “alter ego” for practice, she picked two names that resonated with Clark’s stories—Lana and Kent. This would come into awkward straights months later when she incidentally met Lois Lane, who believed “Lana Kent” to be the daughter of Clark and some “smallville yokel” he had a fling with in his teenage years. This brought much complications for Clark as Kara ended up being enrolled at a public school in Metropolis after securing her identity legally through Batman’s channels of ability to do so. Kara’s debut as Supergirl occurred nearly a year later when a disguised villain named Metallo attempted to kill Superman with a radioactive meteorite—from a distance Kara came in and became one of the most recognized sidekicks if not for the simple fact that her mentor was Superman. | Character Notes | WIP | Powers & Abilities | Kryptonian Physiology: Under the effects of a "yellow" sun, The average Kryptonian possesses the potential for super strength, super hearing, flight, near-invulnerability, and enhanced vision. Multilingualism: Supergirl speaks a multitude of languages fluently. She learned all of Earth's languages in less then a month. Genius Level Intellect: Kryptonians, though otherwise completely human, were superior both intellectually and physically to natives of Earth. Supergirl who lived near Argos for some time learned much about science and technology. Supergirl excels in engineering. Eidetic Memory: Kara has a photographic memory which also entails a "sponge effect" on information visually or sonically absorbed. This is a byproduct of genetic conditioning by her father. Reactive Adaptation: Engineered by her father, Zor-El, Kara has the ability to adapt to new surroundings (and specifically planets) in three times of the time it would take a normal Kryptonian.This is how she is able to grasp flight and her superpowers that may of taken Kal-El a decade to discover. Basic Hand-to-Hand: Kara observed Torquasm-Vo, a Kryptonian martial art and thus using her Eidetic Memory can access it. Engineered Immune System: Kara has been engineered to have a stronger immune system than most and it can resist disease and destroy contaminants through time. | How is this character different? | First of all, most incarnations of Supergirl are older teenagers who have respective issues but ultimately they are shipped off to the farm to Ma and Pa Kent. Personally, I always thought that shipping your respective blood that really could use your guidance to your parent’s house might be a bit “easy mode”. Anyway, Kara is different in a regard to how she speaks, thinks, and acts as well as an extension of her powers due to genetic tampering. | What is your goal with this character? | To create stories about a Supergirl as an adolescent in an alien world coming to grips with responsibility, duty, and humility. If we get Titans off the ground this year I'd also like to get her involved with that; but for the most part I'm creating stories here that deal with Kara's present rather than her past. | Sample Post | “” – as such were the words that graced Kara-El’s ears as the small spacecraft entered the milky way, releasing her from her stasis-induced slumber as the craft from Krypton barreled past the planet called Neptune. The girl had been put in simulations like this since approximately the age of ten and knew what to do, but there was the simple fact of being put in the very real scenario in front of her as her memories felt clouded in a sea of drowsiness and anxiety. She remembered fragments as she was put into medical stasis like she had for years and then as she awoken she was not at home, but here in a very illegal spacecraft. “<…where am I?>” “” the message was in loop but Kara-El knew what it meant and though she still a child she felt like she needed to work this out immediately. She was emotional beyond anything she had felt before; fear, confusion, sadness, loneliness… she wanted to scream, but the shouting shriek before her never happened—what did happen was her anxiety-riddled voice issued out a command in her very kryptonian voice. “” She stammered as her fingers began to move across the console of the vessel. “” The sound of the robotic console made the female feel as if her heart stopped and caught her breath, trying to maintain what she was experiencing. “” She forced out of her voice as she felt like she almost couldn’t breathe. Her thoughts shook with the girl she was inside and they screamed like she wanted to scream—they screamed for her father but there was no response, there was no shelter. Kara was in a metal craft alone in the dark, cold and haunting void that was space. Tears still ran down her face as the console replied. “” “” The twelve-year old shook as she held on—it was hard to breathe in the craft, but she had been planned to survive and she would, despite her not knowing this she had experienced training and conditioning… the confusion had her sprawling with more and more anxiety. Even if Kara was expected to survive she was still very much a child. “” Landing on a planet combined a multitude of feelings Kara had never felt before, and in the last few hours it only added to more and more of feelings she wanted to never experience ever again or at least that is what she thought for the time. Her vessel hit Earth like a high pressurized bullet and landed somewhere in the western hemisphere; an area surrounded by towering trees and rolling hills. “” The landing was as rough, but for a minute there Kara was for the first time in a good time still and ‘safe’ – nonetheless the twelve year old girl remained where she was and broke out in tears. Where was Zor-El? Where was her father? This was a question that went in a vicious circular cycle for minutes that felt like hours until the ship spoke to her… in her father’s voice and it was then that her tears stopped as she listened to what was a recorded message. “” The transmission ended and the distress signal went out on kryptonian channels, but this message was not one a child should hear after just waking from her slumber nor alone, and this was evident as she slumped into a ball and let out a scream of suffering emotion.