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CURRENT CHARACTERS: Lance Sweets (Bones)
CHARACTER NAME: Kara Kent
FANDOM: Smallville
GRADE: Sophmore
MOST LIKELY TO: Most likely to win the Miss Universe pageant.
YEARBOOK QUOTE: “Everything you've told me about humans is wrong. They are good people and they are worth defending.”
PERSONALITY: At her most basic, Kara Kent is a sweet girl with a good heart. She tries to do what’s best for everyone, and likes to help as best she can, even if she can’t. It’s the hero in her, and she wants to do what she can for the world. She’s friendly, if not a bit naive. Being raised on Krypton is vastly different from being raised on Earth, and she alternates between frustration and confusion on the matter. Frustration generally comes with what she refers to as “primitive” technology, but there is also confusion when it comes to a lot of human practices. Kryptonians as a whole pride themselves on being pragmatic and unemotional, and given that Kara spent the first fifteen years of her life living in that society, it’s something that she still struggles with.
But Kara’s also a teenage girl. There’s a lot of emotion there, especially in terms of her relationship with Clark. She wants the things that a teenage girl wants-popularity, acceptance, attention from boys-and she can sometimes take things too far to get it, or if anything, to prove to Clark that she can handle it. At this point in her year in Smallville, she’s learned to trust Clark’s opinion on things to a point. Despite the fact that he’s currently older than her, Kara is used to being the older cousin, as well as the one doing the protecting. When their protective tendencies clash, it can get explosive, but generally speaking they both mean well for each other.
Kara and Clark also clash on the fact that she doesn’t feel the need to keep what they can do a secret from people they can trust. Being that Kara was raised on Krypton, she’s comfortable with what she can do as a Kryptonian, especially with given that had made trips to Earth before Krypton was destroyed and became accustomed to the powers there. Kara uses her abilities for almost everything in her life, and will not hesitate to point out to Clark that they are from a race that it superior to what humanity is capable of. She’s not arrogant about her superiority over humanity, to the point where she wants to try and conquer them, but she does point out the fact that she is better, and frequently.
But more to the point, she just really, really loves to fly. Sometimes, there’s not much more to it than that.
[IF YOU ARE AGING YOUR CHARACTER DOWN] HOW WILL AGING YOUR CHARACTER DOWN AFFECT THEIR PERSONALITY? N/A, Kara’s a teenager in canon.
AU HISTORY: This, mostly, with a few tweaks.
Kara escaped Krypton the same way she did in canon. When the planet was being destroyed, her parents put her in the stasis and when she crash landed on Earth, the pod didn’t open as anticipated, and she remained in stasis for another fourteen years until the pod opened on her own, and she found herself in New Mexico. Kara adapted to the powers she gained through the sun quickly, and make short work of traveling through the town, in search of her baby cousin Kal-El. What she actually found was a seventeen year old Clark Kent, who now had to teach her how to fit in the human world. This was a frustrating process for both of them, especially when it came to getting Kara to be discreet about her abilities.
Given that Clark was still in high school himself, John and Martha enrolled Kara in West High as Clark’s cousin (which she is) at the beginning of the school year. Kara excelled in her classes and made friends quickly, but had to learn to fly under the radar and keep both her and Clark’s secret. As they’re coming to the end of the school year, Kara’s mostly trying to understand prom more than trying to go. They don’t have traditions like that on Krypton, and it’s yet another human aspect that’s confusing her.
THIRD-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE: Of all the abilities that she gains from the yellow sun, she loves her ability to fly the most.
She kicks off, the world falls away, and suddenly there’s nothing else. It’s just as effortless as walking, or breathing, she just does and it happens. She pushes up, up and away, and as the air thins, she can see the rest of the world fitting in patches beneath her. She doesn’t understand why Kal-El can’t, not when it’s so easy and such an escape from all the things she can’t understand, but that’s Kal’s realization that she needs to come to, not Kara’s. For now, the only thing Kara is concerned with is getting as far away from the Earth as possible, where no one would be able to find her.
She doesn’t go up high enough to break the atmosphere, doesn’t go so high that she can see the whole planet, but she goes high enough that nothing can reach her and drag her back down again. Krypton is gone, but here on Earth, she’s free. She’s not human, and not bound to the Earth the way humans are. She has abilities she can use, abilities that make her different and special, and she wishes that she could share them with the rest of the people, to use them the way that Kal-El uses them to help his friends and family, but for now, Kal-El says they need to keep them a secret. She can understand the reasons why, understand that this is for her own protection, not to deter her, but it’s still harder than it should be. It’s hard to hide those pieces of herself away, and pretend that they don’t exist. In the end, she’s a Kryptonian first.
In the end, all she wants to be is herself.
FIRST-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE: Kara has questions about prom.