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I pulled an opposite. Byrd. Long CS, short post

| Identity |
Kara Zor-El/Kara Kent/Supergirl

| Origin & Backstory |
Kara was born to Argo City scientist Zor-El and his wife Alura a decade and a half before the calamity that claimed the planet. Her childhood was uneventful, if not happy. Zor-El and Alura loved their daughter, and she in turn them. She took to her father’s love of science, even if she didn’t have the same aptitude he did, and her mother, a member of the Kryptonian peacekeeping force, instilled in her a strong sense of right and wrong.

Their happy lives were shaken when Zor-El’s brother Jor-El came to warn the other scientist of the impending doom of Krypton. While Jor-El tried in vain to convince the Kryptonian Council of the danger, Zor-El scrambled frantically to try and create a refuge for his city. He succeeded in the nick of time, using some of the villain BRAINIAC’s technology to encase Argo City in a protective bubble. Krypton was gone, but Zor-El had managed to save some of his people.

At least that’s what they thought.

In the two years following Krypton’s destruction, the soil of Argo City began to turn into Kryptonite, poisoning the city’s inhabitants. With a craft that could only hold one passenger and no other choice, Zor-El and Alura sent their daughter to Earth, where her baby cousin Kal-El would be waiting for her. However, she was knocked off course during her journey, delaying her arrival by decades.

Kara, as a seventeen year old, landed on Earth in 2012. Emerging from her pod with no knowledge of human language or how Earth’s yellow sun would affect her biology, she went on an inadvertent rampage through Europe before being stopped by Wonder Woman and her cousin Kal-El. Kal took her to the Fortress of Solitude, where, using the pod she arrived in and the Fortress’s Kryptonian technology, he explained everything that’s happened to her, and him, since Krypton’s destruction. Kara, after being inspired by her cousin, decided she too wanted to be a hero. Due to this, Superman instructs her to split her time between training in combat with Wonder Woman, and spending time on the Kent farm to learn the human way of life he was raised in.

Kara took to the training on Themyscira like a fish to water. Her new abilities thrilled her as nothing had before. She studied every move that Wonder Woman and the other Amazons taught her carefully until she could replicate them with precision. Soon she was a better pure hand-to-hand combatant than her cousin, even if he was still vastly more powerful.

Her adventures in the “real world” were not as comforting off the bat. While she enjoyed spending time with Ma and Pa Kent, Kara, being Kryptonian, was used to a much more technologically advanced civilization. Life on the farm was often dull for her, especially because her cousin and her new, adoptive Earth “aunt and uncle” refused to allow her to use her powers outside of Themyscira.
That changed when a hole to the Phantom Zone was ripped open, releasing General Zod and his lackies Ursa and Non upon the Earth. In order to stop them, Kal-El bestowed upon Kara a costume of her own, and asked her to join the fight. Using the alias “Supergirl”, she and Superman managed to defeat the three rogue Kryptonians and send them back to the Phantom Zone.

In her second year as a hero, Supergirl encountered the mysterious Project CADMUS and their biological creations. She battled many of the organizations creations alongside the Teen Titans, befriending many of the other young heroes. The Team and her eventually tracked CADMUS to its source, a massive underground laboratory beneath Metropolis. Together, they fought to its center. 

There, they found a teenage clone of Superman in a stasis pod. After awakening the clone, it raged against them before being subdued by Supergirl, but not before causing catastrophic damage to the facility. In the end, CADMUS was believed to be destroy, and Kara and Clark were left to deal with Superboy.

The young man decided to take the name “Connor” and stay with the Teen Titans in hope of controlling the rage inside him.

Little did anyone realize, however, that CADMUS was just getting started.

Kara found herself content at the start of 2014. She was finally at peace with her new home, and even began dating Kaldur’ahm, also known as Aqualad. She was also helping her “cousin” Connor adapt to his life, even if the boy’s anger sometimes got the best of him.

That changed when the Legion of Doom declared war on the Justice League and the world’s heroes. The Legion were ruthless and prepared, attacking multiple major cities at once and thinning the heroes out by doing so. After being pushed to the limit, the League and its allies were able to defeat the Legion, sending its leader Vandal Savage into hiding.

Thanks to her tireless defense of the planet, her cousin and the rest of the League happily welcomed her into the Justice League.

With the war against the Legion in their rearview mirrors, the heroes of Earth attempted to reclaim a sense of normalcy. But public sentiment had began to turn on their actions. The fight against the Legion had cost vast amounts of collateral damage and loss of civilian lives, and people began calling for someone to “Watch the Watchmen” as it were. Riding this new wave of public opinion, Lex Luthor announced his campaign for the presidency, which was backed by huge polling numbers. While this disheartened Kara, she carried on fighting against evil wherever it emerged.

It was also during this time when Kara began working for CatCo Media and Media Mogul Cat Grant. Once an underling of Perry White, Grant started her own media empire on the back of her hard work. Kara now acts as Grant’s assistant, with her unaware of the superhero working in her midst.

Her world came crashing down when Doomsday arrived on Earth. The vicious creature tore through the Justice League International as it made its way towards Metropolis, where Kara engaged it before Superman arrived. Though she begged her cousin to let her help him, a wounded leg and the need to save civilians from the ruined city caused him to refuse. Kara watched in horror as the final blow both Doomsday and Clark landed was their last, and Superman fell to the ground dead.

Kara was now the bearer of the Kryptonian Legacy, and the last true child of Krypton in the universe. It was her responsibility to stand for truth, justice, and the American way. 

But she wasn’t sure if she was ready for that.

| Attributes |
As a Kryptonian living under the yellow sun of Earth, Kara is granted vast amounts of super strength, speed, stamina, endurance, invulnerability, flight, super breath, heat vision, super vision, and super hearing.

Kara has also been trained by Wonder Woman in hand-to-hand combat, granting her a fair amount of skill.

| Character Notes |
Wonder Woman -  Kara’s remaining mentor and now oldest friend, Wonder Woman helped train Kara and acclimate her to Earth after she arrived. Wonder Woman considers Kara like a little sister to her, and Kara feels the same sisterly bond.
Martian Manhunter - Kara enjoys spending time with the Martian, feeling a kindred spirit in being the last of their kind.
Aqualad - Kaldur’ahm, Aquaman’s sidekick Aqualad, is a member of Young Justice and Kara’s boyfriend.
Jonathan and Martha Kent - Superman’s adoptive parents and Kara’s adoptive Aunt and Uncle, the Kents helped teach Kara how to live among the humans comfortably. She still turns to them for life advice often.
Superboy - A genetic clone of Superman and Supergirls adoptive cousin
Krypto - Superman’s Kryptonian canine who lives at the Fortress of Solitude.
Kelex - Superman’s robotic confidant and caretaker of the Fortress.
Cat Grant - Kara’s boss

Lex Luthor - Lex is Superman’s archenemy and CEO of LexCorp. Riding a wave of anti-superhuman sentiment, he is also a strong candidate for the 2016 presidential election.
Project CADMUS - An old enemy, long thought dead, is biding its time and ready to return.

| Character Goals |
Supergirl is a top 5 DC comics character for me thanks to Super TAS and Justice League/JLU. I’ve played her briefly in past games, and have wanted to try my hand at her again. Thanks to the situations presented in this game, she’ll be vulnerable and tested in ways she normally isn’t in DC media, so I’m excited to try my hand at that as well.

| Sample Post |

Metropolis
December 25, 2015
3 AM

Kara Zor-El had heard Krypto’s howls from the moment it happened. That’s the thing about dogs, they always know, even before people did. The old dog’s howls of sadness tore the bandage of shock off Kara’s wound, letting the emotion pour out as she made her way around a ruined downtown Metropolis, trying to find any survivor she could. It was the only thing she could hear as she floated through the city, overturning rubble to reveal choking people. Everything else was a dull, monotone ring, like after standing a bit too close to a firework going off. The civilians she saved cried and hugged her profusely, but she didn’t hear a word they said. She set them down one by one at the emergency triage centers and went for more, barely acknowledging their gratitude.

<Kara,> a soothing voice entered her mind, shaking her out of her malaise. She turned to find J’onn J’onzz, the Martian Manhunter, floating behind her.  A gash across his right shoulder dripped with blood, and his left eye was swollen. J’onn had always been a calming presence to Kara, a fellow refugee on the planet. He knew what it meant to be the last of his kind. But tonight was different. There would be no calming the tempest of emotion flowing through her.<We have the situation taken care of. Go. You need to go.>

“Thanks, J’onn,” she replied flatly, choking back the tears. Zooming off towards the Arctic, she just wanted to be alone.

Kara landed at the Fortress of Solitude, hobbling on the leg the creature had injured earlier in the night. It was probably broken, but she couldn’t feel it. She couldn’t feel anything really. Nothing but a void left by the only person who she had a real, true connection to in this world.
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