14740/Another world, another timeline

Another world, another timeline
Date of Scene:	22 April 2023
Location:	Sandy Beaches
Synopsis:	Mother and daughter homesick together but also celebrating the \/\/ondrous new that is Earth.
Cast of Characters:	Alura In-Ze, Kara Danvers

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Alura In-Ze has posed:
There are sand sculptures on the beach. It's an attempt to recreate Argo City out of sand. Alura has given up now that the tide is coming in and lapping away at some of the towers. She's sitting on the beach wearing a simply white tunic and sandals off.

Toes are being tickled by lapping water as she watches the sun slowly setting. It's her favourite time of day because the light of the sky becomes its most Kryptonian. She's not sad so much as whistful. Homesick. And the recent trip back to Krypton in the past didn't help with that at all.

Kara Danvers has posed:
Kara really wants to get out to Themyscira more often, so she has. Heading up the beach in a very similar garb to her mother, with her sandals danging from her fingers swaying at her side. A gentle breeze kicking her hair around her face, which she combs away with fingers running backwards from her forehead. It really is lovely.. soothing.

The last few minutes before the sun falling behind the endless sea of blue does always make her think of home. So, perhaps, that's why she had expected to find her mother here. The sandy spires of her decorative Sand Argos around her, with the wave licking at the base of one 'building' weaking the structural integrity.

Red glow of the setting sun on a crumbling Argos... "Jeju."

Alura In-Ze has posed:
"/inah/," Alura replies and smiles to her daughter. She patpats the sand and says, "I do like to fly through the sky and feel the breeze on my cheeks but there's something special about the beaches here on Themyscira." She runs her fingers through the damp sand.

"I've been getting homesick. How did you deal with that when you first came to Earth? It can't have been easy. You only had Kal-El and he wasn't what either of us expected him to be."

Kara Danvers has posed:
Kara umph's as she drops down beside Alura, a motion and sound that she's practiced since there's no resistance at all against the gravity. Just another layer of 'fitting in' even when she doesn't need to. Her sandals are placed down behind her, just out of reach of the rolling tide, and her toes dig into the wet sand. Both legs up so she can circle them with her arms.

Peering out across the blue at the rays of amber-gold reflecting in every direction as the sun begins to disappear. Radiant. Twinkling in her blue eyes and on her easy smile. ".. I don't know that I actually have." She admits with only a hint of sadness. While she rarely shows it, certainly never lets it darken her mood, Kara feels that same longing for home.

"I was... A kid. I still am.. but when I got here.." Turning to look at her mother, "Seventeen?" She shakes her head slowly, smile still present, but wanning. "Kal helped. Friends helped.. distractions.. I watched a lot of Earth Television?" That part's obviously a joke. "Gotham Shores." Thumbs up, lip quivering, trying not to laugh.

She hoists a little and scoots closer to Alura. "I've tried to find the things on Earth that remind me of home. And there's not many, but everytime I find something I haven't seen before I tell myself that I wouldn't have ever seen it if things had been different. It's a bittersweet revelation, I know, but it's something."

Alura In-Ze has posed:
Alura wraps an arm about Kara's shoulders and snugs her daughter. "I see. May be we'll never stop feeling homesick. I bet it's far worse for Karen then. I'm glad she's finally decided to talk to us about what's going on in her head." She hmms.

"I can't sing the stars song on Earth. At least, not from this hemisphere. You used to love the stars song when you were little." She chuckles, "I think that's a good attitude and seeing all these alien things is a wonder to my eyes every day."

"But I can't help but think of who Krypton was long long before the world we knew was truly born. Conquerers - they didn't go out to the stars to see amazing things. They went out to the stars to rule. I'd like to believe that the modern Kryptonian is more like us - that they'd see the wonder and marvel in it rather than try to rule it."

She taps on her wrist a holographic image appears of herself, Zor-El, and .... Dru-Zod. He has a smile on his face. They're all holding very silly looking mugs. "From what I hear I think Dru has lost his grounding. He's obsessed with saving Krypton, Kryptonians, at all costs. I understand that desperation myself but not at the expense of others. If I knew where he was may be I could talk some sense in to him."

Kara Danvers has posed:
While Kara may not be a child nobody ever grows out of enjoying snuggling their mother. She lays her head on Alura's shoulder and leans into her, peering out across the ocean and listening. The smell of salt and sand, the fragrance of burning incense from Themyscira behind them. It's calming. Which is why she loves coming here when she's able.

"Yeah." Quietly, of her eldest sister. "The pale of everything Karen has lost must be crushing. Not just Krypton, but her own Earth.. her friends." She furrows her brow and looks down to the sand where a finger is drawing some random symbol with the end of her nail. "I..."

Her lips purse, nose wrinkles. "I could see how I'd become just like her. Angry... so angry. Sometimes I feel it.." The hand comes up from the sand and presses against her chest, "I feel this fury and while I've experienced pain, it's only because of the things Karen's lost that I don't explode with rage. Without those things..."

She shakes her head and sighs, "Everyone looks at her and sees anger and .. I look at her and realize how much control she has over it. Because I know who I'd be if I were in her position.. and it isn't good."

But Kara's opinion of Karen would be unique. She's her... they are each other. Things are different, but.. It's a mirror with cracks. And blue eyes looking up to the stars with a smile. "I remember." Something to bring her back from those dark thoughts. Something simple like a song sung to her as a child.

Or a picture of her Mother and Father with Dru-Zod. Her smile fades, "Maybe.." She can still remember, because it was only two years ago, "He returned to Earth." Nodding to Dru-Zod's image. "With an army. Tried to kill Kal-El, Karen, and Myself.. kill everyone. His anger is very deep, but if anyone could appeal to him, I think, it's you." Her expression drops with her eyes looking at the wave brushing up to fade the symbol she'd drawn.

Alura In-Ze has posed:
Alura nods her head to Kara and says, "I know honey. You inherited it from me. I realised it when you were this high." She motions with a hand. "And losing you when our world was ending I was so very afraid for you - not having anyone to turn to, being all alone on an alien world."

"I suppose that's what it was like for Karen. She told me her mother never came back. Their argo city never survived. And now I know in another timeline we're all together still on Krypton. One happy family. None of the tragedy that has befallen us."

She shuts off the image of Dru and says, "We have a plan. He has Kandor in a bottle and I'm quite sure he'd protect it with his life. But it shouldn't come to that because we now know Brainiac's technology is Kryptonian. Old old old Kryptonian but that's a basis for us to understand it."

"Of course that means going up against Brainiac again - and this time he's ready for us. The trick the Titan's used last time won't work again. But we could restore Kandor on a quiet planet and make a.. a New Krypton. Then, may be then, I can relax and feel that this Earth is my home now because my duty to our people will be done."

Kara Danvers has posed:
As upsetting as these conversations can be, Kara rides it with her usual mix of seriousness and... well.. it's probably a defense mechanism. Humor hides pain. People don't ask difficult questions if you make them laugh and smile, so she puts one on and peers up at her mother. "I know it's a very small consolation and we've lost... so much.." Flicking back to the sand diagram of Argos City, "But look at what we've gained."

Trying to find a silver lining isn't always easy, but Kara is an artist.

"We have Karen, Divine? I have two sisters I may never would have had.. I... wish it hadn't come with such a heavy toll, but I have to look at the whole picture." Her hand comes up to gently hang from Alura's by the tips of her fingers, head still resting on her mother's shoulder.

Listening to the plan.

She nods slowly, considering it. "A lot of moving parts, but I'm sure you, of all people, have considered the variables. The fight with Brainiac wasn't easy when he didn't know we were coming.. And if it involves fighting Zod as well?" Well, he has no compulsion towards pulling punches.

She saw that as much first hand.

"I want to help. I... I need to help." Peering up at her mother.

Alura In-Ze has posed:
Alura smiles and then nods her head in agreement. "Yes. This world is a strange place. It both wants us here and doesn't. It needs as and it wishes it didn't. It's a strange situation to be in. But we don't walk that path alone. There are so many other incredible people here willing to stand up and fight too. Perhaps your cousin inspired many of them but that's where we are now."

She looks in to her daughters eyes and chuckles. "You know. For the first time in a long time - I don't have a plan. I know we can't afford to fight them both and I think I can convince Dru of that. That Brainiac is the one standing in the way of restoring Kandor. That we need to work together- but.. the two of us have a lot of history."

"I was the one to capture him on Krypton when he started a civil war. May be he will respect that I beat him, but really I expect it destroyed what little friendship we'd had left. I want you to help but you're not going to like what I think I need to do."

She grimaces a little. "I think I need to go to him and surrender so that he will listen to me. Because he won't listen to me on any terms but his own. And if I'm not as convincing as I think I am then things will go ... badly."

Kara Danvers has posed:
On that there is no disagreement from Kara. She actually enjoys hearing her mother say those things about Earth. Not that she's had any doubts of Alura's opinion of the heroes, she raised Kara after all, but to hear it? "I know.. I know how I felt when I first got here. This..." She waves her hand at herself, the playful candor, joking, constant smiling.. "It took a while to cultivate. People looked at me and I knew they wished I wasn't here, even if they didn't say it. Kal helped, absolutely, but I always wanted to stand on my own feet."

Because to Kara, Kal is still a baby, even if he is /not/ a baby.

She smiles then. Her legs slide down and back head resting against Alura's shoulder as the sun dips lower. The glow of reflecting reds become vibrant purples against the blue of the ocean and, for just a second, the difference between earth and stars, ocean and sky, are impossible for most people to separate. Everything on the horizon is uniform in its beauty.

She sighs and glances up once more. "No.. I don't like it." How could she? "I understand though. It has to be you." Her blue eyes hood beneath her furrowed brow, "Dru-Zod sees Kal as a rival and me as an annoyance.. you, he sees you as an equal. Perhaps an enemy, but still an equal. If anyone can talk sense into him, it's you." She nods.. though she definitely doesn't like the method.

"The civil war is over. Whatever he's done? We'll need him.. and as much as his actions are the causation of ruin, he's still Kryptonian. So if you can appeal to him, if you honestly think it's possible? I'll... I'll support you. Because I have faith in you."

Alura In-Ze has posed:
Alura takes in a breath and holds it as the world and the stars combine in those beautiful purple hues. She lets it go as things begin to separate again to their ultra sensitive eyes. "That's funny.. because I have faith in you too." She smiles and snugs Kara's shoulder more firmly. "Supergirl."

A small chuckle but it's one of affection. "Every time I hear that name I think of you in your little Torquasm uniform doing chops and kicks. Now you talk down women who are made of electricity." Oh yes, she was watching that interaction with Livewire from afar. "You were so.. efficient and kind. You kept everyone safe, including her, while talking to her in a way she needed to be heard. You are everything and more I could have hoped you'd be."

She smiles with her eyes tearing up. "And that's why I know you won't let the anger consume you. May be it is as simple as having more sisters, your mother, your cousins, your nephews, all your friends and the message of hope that seems to be working. Anger has its place, but never in decision making."

Kara Danvers has posed:
Well golly gee, who's tugging at the heart strings now.

Kara was marvelling at something as magestic as the way atmosphere affects the celestial, bending and refracting light into something so beautiful that it can wash away even the deepest of sadness... Then Alura says how much faith she has in her. AND calls her Supergirl?

Well Kara's cheeks go every bit as purple as the sky. "Oh stop..." Blue eyes shifting side to side, squeezing against her mother's arm. "I use to hate that name so much, but it helped me find an identity. Something that wasn't Kal, because that was a huge shadow, lemme tell ya." She's grinning, blush softening and eyes twinkling with mirth.

"Oh..." Nope, rosey again. "She's a really troubled young woman. I keep meaning to go visit her, see if maybe all she needs is someone to talk to. Sometimes that's all people really need. Just to.. talk.." Motioning at the beach.

Her hair falls across her face, which is to say, she moves a few strands to cover the blushing cheeks. "I .. I guess I get angry sometimes. Not as much as I use to. I have so much to be thankful for, here. You have no idea how effective hundreds of hours worth of Disney cartoons is at vitalizing your spirit. I've watched so many.. Soooo many."

Alura In-Ze has posed:
Alura raises her eyebrows and grins, "You're right. I have no idea." Because there is no way she's going to sit down and watch hundreds of house of Disney cartoons. She has things to do! "I read that file about your doppelganger. The one with dark hair from the world with the monster that turned people insane."

She shakes her head and frowns. "Poor girl. If only I'd been here to talk to her. But she's with those alternate-reality Amazons and they seem to be good people no matter the multiverse."

She glances back across the shore to the city. She can hear the revelling beginning. She looks back to Kara and asks, "Now that we know because of Jon and Conner that children with humans are possible, do you think you'd ever consider becoming a mother?" She uses a finger to draw back Kara's hair to reveal that blush.

"I don't think I could ever love another person like I loved your father. And really, I made the perfect daughter who has turned in to three. Four if you count the alternate reality one." A small snrk, "Who knows how many more of my Kara Zor-El will turn up in the future."

Kara Danvers has posed:
There was also that terrible period where Kara was driven mad with anger from some crazy Kryptonite. Evil, so she's been told, though she tries very hard to forget that time. She did horrible things to very important people... just the thought draws her back to it and has her shoulders slumping forward gently. Though it only partially cuts through her grin, hearing Alura say she's not watching hundreds of hours of Disney, "But it's a whole new world, mother..." A little sing songy.

"mm.. I.." Oh gosh, that's an impressive question. Her eyes go wide, "M-maybe.. I hadn't really given it much thought. We didn't know whether it was possible and my options were pretty 'slim pickin' as far as potential mates before realizing it was with Humans." Her lips quirk, but turn upwards as the praise continues.

"I'd like to, I think. I had an amazing mother, I'd like to give her a go at being 'grandma'. But not for a while! Nooope, So much to do... so many disney movies to watch."

Alura In-Ze has posed:
Alura leans back against Kara and lets the thought and the words drift on out over the lapping of the cold water. She draws it out in silence because she taunts her child back. This one is getting wise to her daughters new tricks and wicked sense of humour.

"It's crystal clear, that now I'm in a whole new world with you..." she sings back showing just which side of the family Kara got her lovely singing voice from. "May be we should go join the Amazons for their feast. They're still celebrating one of their gods I believe. Though, really, that seems to be a different one every week."

She rises up and offers a looped arm to her daughter.

Kara Danvers has posed:
Kara pushes up and snaps her feet beneath her in a little hop, dusts off her butt, and loops her arm in Alura's, "You big kidder! You've totally seen Aladdin, I knew it." Her grin flashes on her face, eyes squinting, nose wrinkling, and blue eyes shining with genuine mirth. "Is it weird that I want a flying carpet?" Since she can fly.

Regardless, she bobs her head and looks towards the city, "Oooo..." Oh face, conspiratory eye shifting, "They bring out the good wine and mead at those feasts.." Her other hand comes up, gently tapping her fingers together as if she's constructing some grand heist.

"Come, come. Let's go celebrate God three hundred and nine of the Pantheon!"