So I had this simple idea that what if the El cousins ships had arrived on earth at the same time like they were supposed to, as opposed to Kara’s getting stuck in space? They still get found by the Kents, it’s a bit more tenuous cause Kara is older and untrusting while trying to protect her baby cousin.
Like in the original, John and Martha tell the neighbours the kids are adopted after their parents passed. Part of the dynamic is exploring how difficult it is for Kara and the Kents being that she’s a teenager who doesn’t speak the native or know the local customs; in the original Clark is the only one and he’s a baby so he’d learn all this stuff like any other baby.
The difficulty would grow exponentially when, seeing as she’s already a teenager, her powers kick in. I thought exploring it from these angles would
1: Show the dynamic of an older adoptive child that came to love their adopted parents through all the hardships they had to go through, versus the dynamic of a baby who finds out later (Btw: Watch ‘INSTANT FAMILY’ with Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne, really really good 😊).
2: Explore what the dynamic of the relationship between Kara and Kal would have been like if she was older and he grew up with part of himnot feeling like he was alone.
3: Have a fun dynamic between the duo where by the time he’s old enough to realize it, he see’s his older sister using all manner of awesome powers and keeps trying to trigger his in funny ways, being impatient for them to kick in as opposed to having no reference for what’s happening to him and has to suffer without any answers.
The story would be set in more modern day but NOT, I repeat NOT drastically changing the core of the characters…🤨…New52 can suck it! 😝
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