So, what do you think of this part?
Loved it, great fun.
Chapter 22 will be posted Tuesday morning.
No way to talk you into a daily posting schedule?
“That was like the ‘Hello Kitty’ version of interrogation,” observed Caitlin. “It couldn’t have been any nicer if they hugged us.”
Emily tapped on the steering wheel as she waited to make a left turn. “Kara, let me ask you a hypothetical question: how would you feel if the government took you away from Caitlin and me, or took us away and put us in jail or something?”
Kara thought for a moment. “I guess I’d be pretty mad. I don’t know what I’d do, though.”
“And how do you think your dad would feel if you got hurt, or the government treated you badly?”
“He’d be really angry, but…” she shivered, “but Mom would completely blow her stack.”
“Oh,” said Caitlin. “Now I get it.”
Lovely, I enjoyed that your characters picked up on it right away.
Mike ... reviewed his notes....This story wasn’t going to be easy.
Having the Secret Service around may work out for the best after all.
So now we wonder what type of reporter Mike is, and what type of news service he works for...
I am hoping that we get a part where Lois and Clark arrive about 15 to 20 years after these events, forced to face a grown daughter who has been Supergirl for years, in a USA where everyone knows who she is and the Secret Service continues to protect her family.
And in which the USA has also manufactured dozens of false IDs for her over the years to allow her to do things like go to college as just another student.
I think it would be useful for them in thinking about the next step with their children.
Even in a world that somehow overlooks how much Clark looks like Superman, it will be hard to overlook that Superman's children look just like Lois and Clark's children.
BTW in matters of how the US Government deals with the Superman/Clark Kent secret identity issue, I recommend
"The Intern" By Marcus L. Rowland,
it is on the archive, great fun.
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By the way if you do bring in Power Girl, there is a fanfic tale, I don't recall the title or when I read it, that gives the best explanation for the cleavage display hole in her costume.
In that tale Power Girl explains that she got the idea from a Wonder Woman interview. Wonder Woman pointed out that all her infamous villains were female because the male ones were too busy ogling her to think straight.
In that same tale it was explained that reason Power Girl had such huge breasts, always much larger than Supergirl's in the comics, was deception. That as Power Girl she wore a costume with built-in augmentation and was careful to use makeup to highlight the breasts even more. Whereas in her secret identity she did not. Who in their right mind would ever think Karen Starr, a modestly dressed 32C was Power Girl?
There was more in the tale about that, much to do with skirts and clothing styles and the classic Lois and Clark POV that people see what they expect to see.
It was the best part of a tale that otherwise didn't go anywhere or have much A plot or B plot for that matter. It reminded me much of my own fiction, focused on a gimmick or side point with no real story to support it.
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