Please, please… HOPE! (requested by @bluestar22x)

Freya! It’s about time you brought a gentleman home to meet the family.

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Mon El Appreciation Week - Day 3

For me perhaps the most heartbreaking and angsty scenes of all were the Karamel scenes in episodes 3x7 and 3x9. 

So many raw emotions! So much pain! That almost visible magnetic force that still pulls the two characters together…

“This is worse than the worst thing that I could possibly imagine - and that was you looking at me with no love in your eyes. So please…”

will you stay with me a while? Of course I will.

My favorite Klaus/Davine scene ever!

anyway, we miss you. 

I will always be a platonic Klayley co-parenting shipper. There was something very satisfying for me to see Klaus so devastated over Haley's death.

Even If It Breaks Their Hearts

I’ve been following a discussion about how a Kara/Mon-El fan is supposed to still support them together now that we know that Mon-El is not only truly married to Imra, but has real feelings for her, and - even after admitting his epic love for Kara (to J’onn, NOT Kara) - has chosen to stay with Imra over choosing to be with Kara.

For me, although the whole future Mon-El marriage storyline hurts, I find it much more compelling than if Mon-El had returned after several months and he and Kara were happily reunited. Because this is a show about superheroes. And everyone knows superheroes have to face seemingly overwhelming obstacles, and hopefully come out of them on the other side, stronger for having overcome them. 

And if Kara thought seven months apart was difficult… oh boy.

Ultimately, I think the disconnect is trying to apply regular people logic to superhero logic. Let me see if I can break it down.

Obstacle #1: Releasing the Lead

Mon-El: “I will not be the reason this planet suffers.”

Kara (to Mon-El): “I’m so sorry.”

Kara chose to make earth uninhabitable for Mon-El because it was the right thing to do. And what was his response? Resentment? Anger? 

Nope. Mon-El told Kara it was okay, and it was worth it. Why? Because Mon-El had changed. Like Kara said, he had become incredible and unselfish. And he couldn’t have lived with himself if she saved him at the expense of everyone else. He was truly a hero by the end of Season 2, no matter what Mon-El haters think. And heroes don’t get to think about themselves first. Cat Grant taught us that. “You don’t get to be a real person, you’re a superhero.”

Kara: “Clark said it himself. The decision I made? He couldn’t have made that sacrifice. But me? I couIdn’t have lived with myself if I hadn’t. I will always make the decision I made. I am not a human. I tried to be, but I’m not.”

Kara didn’t say, “Hey boy, if I could do it over, I wouldn’t do THAT again!” She said she would always release the lead. She attributed that to not being a human, but that wasn’t why she did it. She did it because she is a hero and she sacrificed her happiness for the greater good. She did it because it was the right thing to do.

That doesn’t mean it was an easy choice or that she didn’t have major heartache and guilt over it. No sir. She shut out her family and friends. She had panic attacks. She couldn’t sleep. She lost hope. She felt broken. And when she was breaking down outside of Mon-El’s holding cell, she admitted to him that this was all she wanted - she wanted him there with her, so she could touch him and see him and hear him and be with him, finally.

But at the end of the day, if faced with the same choice, she would still do it again. Even then! Because she is a superhero. And superheroes don’t get to be selfish.

Obstacle #2: Mon-El Returns From the Future… Married (AKA: Mimra)

If Imra and Mon-El were just dating and there was no pressing reason for him to return to the future, Mon-El and Kara would have been back together within an episode. But this show is about Supergirl and sacrifice and loss and heroes journeys. And Mon-El is on a hero’s journey. He IS Mon-El, after all, an actual superhero, and I think it makes sense that Supergirl’s love interest should be, without a doubt, a tried-and-true hero.

Which is why I see Mon-El’s marriage to Imra as his “releasing the lead” moment.

Mon-El: “But I knew that marrying Imra would help so many it just - it seemed like the logical thing to do.”

Stay with me. So, Mon-El married Imra with the best of intentions. To unite warring planets. Because he promised Kara he’d be the man she always thought he could be. Because if he couldn’t be with Kara, at least he could honor her by being selfless. Because the greater good was more important than his happiness. Because he’d always have Kara in his heart.

And truthfully, I don’t think Kara would be upset to learn that he grew to love Imra and was content. After all, wasn’t she trying to move on with her life, to wake up and remember who she was, to be content? Neither of them thought they’d ever see the other again. They had to keep living.

(Plus, it seems like it would be such a relief for Kara to learn that Mon-El hadn’t ever forgotten her, and that he hadn’t moved on BECAUSE he fell in love with someone else. He had simply done the best he could to keep living, as a hero, the way she taught him.)

But now they are back in each other’s lives and Mon-El has to make a choice, just like Kara had to when the Daxamites attacked. He believes he is on a mission to stop the Blight and traveling to the past was accidental. He knows the fate of the future rests on him and the legion, so what does he do now that his feelings of contentment with Imra are squaring off against his epic love for Kara? How can he be the hero he promised Kara he’d be?

He’d chose to honor his obligations to his wife and the Legion, that’s how. Even if it breaks his heart.

Just like Kara released the lead, even though it broke hers.

Because he is a superhero. And superheroes don’t get to be selfish.

Why should we root for Kara and Mon-El to be together now?

Why shouldn’t we? First of all, it isn’t fair to Imra to be second choice to Kara. 

Mon-El (to J’onn): “I’ve had to keep a distance from Kara because whenever I’m around her these old feelings get stirred up. And then I have to hide it from Imra.”

Because she is second choice. And she knows it. 

Imra: Are you still in love with her?

That? There? That is the face of a woman who knows the answer to her own question.

If this doomed marriage has shown us anything, it’s that Kara and Mon-El have a connection that is deeper than simple physical intimacy. They are friends. And they care about each other, profoundly, even though they can’t be together intimately.

In a lot of ways, Mon-El being married and not pursuing Kara, and Kara respecting his marriage and not pursuing him, forces them to interact in ways that, while painful, are actually reacquainting them with each other in a healthy way. Opening the door - just a crack! - for what we know is coming. (Pssst… it’s Karamel, y’all! Just FYI!)

They have a pure, unselfish, epic love for each other. And if they can overcome the two seemingly insurmountable obstacles that have kept them apart up to now (one down, one to go), then I say more power to them! 

Space puppy love for the win.

Because no matter what goes down in the finale, I still believe that Karamel is endgame.

Am I in denial?

Nah. I’m just incurably (yet cautiously) optimistic.

It’s a trial to my friends and family.

there’ll be mountains for us to climb, there’ll be days when the sun won’t shine, but I’ll stick to it oh, I swear

It’s For You, Week Three Olicity Hiatus Fic-A-Thon

Week Three 

Well the prompt for this week is Hidden and I think this fic that I’ve been working on forever fits in perfectly! Thanks to @hope-for-olicity for continuing to tell me that I needed to post this story. 

I also haven’t written in so long that I wasn’t sure who still wanted to be tagged! 

All errors are mine! Thanks and enjoy! 

Read it here or on AO3

It’s For You

The phone beside her left arm buzzed. Felicity’s eyes shifted from the merger contracts and down, towards the brightly lit screen. She couldn’t help but, chuckle when the name Oliver Queen began slowly moving before her eyes. She checked the time before allowing her index finger to move over the text message icon. As she suspected he was reminding her for the third time today that they had dinner plans in less than an hour.

 Felicity at that point picked up her office phone and, pressed two.

 “Wow,” he chided. “So, this is what I have to do to get a response?”

 With her trademark eye roll Felicity let herself slump back into the comfort of her chair. “Well if you had decided to use flowers as a reminder you would have received an immediate call,” she teased as Oliver’s laughter began to fill her ears. “But sending three texts in less than an hour just gets you this,” she added once his laughter become quiet chuckles.

 “Sorry Felicity but you have a bad habit of ditching me for work,” he so very kindly reminded her.

 Felicity’s chin fell to her chest in exhaustion, “Once is not always,” she breathed.

 “It was enough,” he volleyed before she could add another word.

 With a guilty voice she sighed, “Okay, okay I promise I’m leaving right now.”

 He gave her an elated, “Good” before the call came to agree upon end. Felicity let the phone slip back onto the cradle. She then looked over her merger contracts realizing that they were in fact done. In that moment it finally struck her that in three days’ time her computer science’s company would be global. Her tiny, little baby would be worldwide and, yet all she could think about lately was the uncertainty of her relationship with a certain Oliver Queen.  

 Their saga or friendship as Felicity often called it began when she was a freshman in college. Oliver was the troubled student with loads of potential and, absolutely no drive. Felicity was the girl that came from a low-income family and, had drive to spare. With the combination of excellent grades and high-test scores she’d managed to acquire quite a few scholarships. However, none of them gave her enough money to afford food let alone a halfway decent computer. Felicity smirked at the thought because in the end that’s how their story began.

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Very sweet and romantic. Is this a one shot or will it be more?

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i miss olicity of season 1-3!

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