... okay, brace yourself, this gets really complicated.
Before Krypton blew up, Brainiac came to our planet and stole one of our cities, shrinking it and bottling it. It's kind of his schtick. Now, Argo City's forcefield was reverse engineered Brainiac technology, so the unwanted attention it got that cause my parents to send me to Earth was Brainiac.
A little more than a year ago back home, Superman found Brainiac and the bottled cities of Kandor and Argo. He brought them back to Earth and re-enlarged them, setting the last of our people free. [ She's been grinning all through this, but then her expression dims. ]
Not everyone on Earth was thrilled though and... things happened, like they always do. My father was killed and my mother, the leader of our people, packed us up and moved us into orbit opposite Earth. New Krypton was born.
[ There's a pause as she looks down at her hands and ponders for a moment how much to tell him. Back home a lot of this was public knowledge, but she's pretty sure that only a few people here know what happens next. It's still a bit of a raw subject, so she's not going to tell him everything, but maybe, maybe if she tells him something, he'd be willing to do a little quid pro quo. Since he totally skimped on the details of his own origin story and she is really intensely curious. ]
The next year was filled with fights and tensions between the Kryptonians and the people of Earth. I did some... really stupid things and it ended up getting a lot of people hurt. Eventually things went to hell, as things are wont to do. New Krypton was destroyed, the Kryptonians declared war on Earth and Superman, Superboy and I fought to protect Earth and in just under two hours what the media came to call the Hundred Minute War was over.
The three of us Supers are the only ones left and I... well. I quit after that. Not something I'm especially proud of, but I did. I just upped and disappeared for a few months and then when I went back to Metropolis it was with the intention of never putting on the cape again.
[ she lets out a little laugh, then. ] It took a huge disaster and my adoptive aunt just reaming me out to make me realize I couldn't really give up the cape. I'm Supergirl. It would feel wrong for me to just sit on the sidelines when I know I have these powers and I've been trained to save people and fight the bad guys and hopefully be home in time for dinner.
[ There's a very brief moment of silence before Kara looks back at Terry with as close to a hundred-watt smile as she can get right then. Denial is a go! ]
There you have it. The great and complicated origin of Supergirl.
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Before Krypton blew up, Brainiac came to our planet and stole one of our cities, shrinking it and bottling it. It's kind of his schtick. Now, Argo City's forcefield was reverse engineered Brainiac technology, so the unwanted attention it got that cause my parents to send me to Earth was Brainiac.
A little more than a year ago back home, Superman found Brainiac and the bottled cities of Kandor and Argo. He brought them back to Earth and re-enlarged them, setting the last of our people free. [ She's been grinning all through this, but then her expression dims. ]
Not everyone on Earth was thrilled though and... things happened, like they always do. My father was killed and my mother, the leader of our people, packed us up and moved us into orbit opposite Earth. New Krypton was born.
[ There's a pause as she looks down at her hands and ponders for a moment how much to tell him. Back home a lot of this was public knowledge, but she's pretty sure that only a few people here know what happens next. It's still a bit of a raw subject, so she's not going to tell him everything, but maybe, maybe if she tells him something, he'd be willing to do a little quid pro quo. Since he totally skimped on the details of his own origin story and she is really intensely curious. ]
The next year was filled with fights and tensions between the Kryptonians and the people of Earth. I did some... really stupid things and it ended up getting a lot of people hurt. Eventually things went to hell, as things are wont to do. New Krypton was destroyed, the Kryptonians declared war on Earth and Superman, Superboy and I fought to protect Earth and in just under two hours what the media came to call the Hundred Minute War was over.
The three of us Supers are the only ones left and I... well. I quit after that. Not something I'm especially proud of, but I did. I just upped and disappeared for a few months and then when I went back to Metropolis it was with the intention of never putting on the cape again.
[ she lets out a little laugh, then. ] It took a huge disaster and my adoptive aunt just reaming me out to make me realize I couldn't really give up the cape. I'm Supergirl. It would feel wrong for me to just sit on the sidelines when I know I have these powers and I've been trained to save people and fight the bad guys and hopefully be home in time for dinner.
[ There's a very brief moment of silence before Kara looks back at Terry with as close to a hundred-watt smile as she can get right then. Denial is a go! ]
There you have it. The great and complicated origin of Supergirl.