Karry Universe Footnotes
READ THIS FIRST: I am just updating the footnotes so a lot of things here will be the same as the previous footnotes. I'm going to put NEW next to anything new and UPDATED next to anything I update.
Before I truly start I should try to explain what this chapter on footnotes is about. To do that I think I have to go back to the beginning.
If you have been following this story since Day One or paying close attention to the author's notes, you will know that this started out as simple one-shots; they were just supposed to be cute fluffy things with Barry and Kara and not much story attached. Then something weird happened – it suddenly became an actual story. While I kept the one-shot format (each chapter, if you realize, has its own plot) the stories ended up being interconnected. People besides Barry and Kara ended up getting backgrounds and dedicated chapters (Iris for an example here). It truthfully became it's own universe. It became Karry Universe.
Now onto the point of this particular chapter: From reading some reviews, I am realizing people aren't getting that the events in this story are NOT actually like they were in the TV shows. That people besides just Kara and Barry have different histories, so in these footnotes I will explain certain things that are different to clear up confusion.
Age Difference:
This is actually not something anyone's commented on as such but it is something I have noticed. When I started this I just assumed Kara was the same age as Barry and Iris but then I realized that Barry and Iris are actually a year older than Kara would be in the show. To clear this up, in this universe Kara got out of the Phantom Zone a year earlier than in the TV show, making her the same age as Barry and Iris now.
NEW -Barry's Speed/Power:
I mentioned this in a former chapter, but repeating it here to try and clear it up. Barry is still fairly new to his abilities, akin to the end of season one, in fact - he is not even as fast as the TV show Barry yet as seen (and even expressed) from the "Worlds Finest" chapter. He will get faster and will eventually be faster than Kara on land and slightly faster while she's in the air, but in his own time. I am not going to have him be able to go from Zero to Ten-times-faster than the Speed of Light, even though this happens in the comics. He will learn still the tricks though; I've already given him the ability to phase through objects and the lightning toss Earth-1 Barry showed him. I've also portrayed him running up buildings and, while not yet in the story, I do imagine he can run over water by now too (I'd imagine the storyline involving Plastique happened still here) . Others things like traveling through time and breaching worlds he will have to build up speed for, just like in the show currently.
Same People, Different Histories:
JAMES: So James' history is mostly the same as in the TV show until the time James decided to move to National City.
In the TV show: Clark asked him to go there to protect and help Kara.
UPDATED -In Karry Universe: Clark DID NOT ask him to go there. This was revealed in chapter "Superdog" as James had a different motive for being there and then revealed in "The Price of Being Stubborn" he wanted credit for being Supergirl's mentor. He died in the same chapter, killed by the Reverse-Flash.
Reason this is different: Clark trained Kara personally to be a hero. Here she does not need James for guidance. Clark also seems to have a closer relationship with her and so he did not need someone watching out for her. He trusted her to be safe on her own.
I did not kill James off because he is black - I dislike his character in the show and as he added little in Karry (Clark filling the role of mentor for Kara as I could freely use him) he was the perfect candidate to show the dangers of the Reverse-Flash from the start. His death also brought about the interesting, if little-used, dynamic of Lucy disliking Supergirl.
LUCY: Lucy's new history was explained really well in the chapter "The Bet and the Question" but since it is a really different change I'm including her here.
In the TV show: Lucy came to National for military business and reconnected with James. She then quit the military, joined CatCo, quit CatCo, rejoined the military and a lot of other stuff that's quite confusing if you don't already know it.
In Karry Universe: She became dissatisfied being in the military and then I assume used connections she had to get herself an honorable discharge (since you can't just quit the military the way she did in the TV show). Then she went to work for CatCo in hopes of fixing her relationship with James but well…. Read "The Bet and the Question" and "The Price of Being Stubborn" if you need help remembering the rest of this.
SIOBHAN: Probably the most drastic change of history.
In the TV Show: We don't know much of her until Cat Grant gets mad at Kara and hires Siobhan as a second assistant – the rest was played out on screen for us.
UPDATED -In Karry Universe: Siobhan was working for CatCo Worldwide Media before Kara as a Fact Checker. She tried to get Kara's job before Kara but was upset when Kara got the job over her. She worked her way up to a junior reporter position. Her and Winn also had an arrangement with each other that involved jumping each other whenever they wanted until she tried to give a Supergirl-ruining scoop to Lois Lane who told Kara. Kara handing it off to Cat Grant got Siobhan fired and lead to her becoming Silver Banshee similarly to the TV show.
WINN: Not that drastic of a change here but he deserves a spot on this list since there is a change.
In the TV Show: He is Kara's best friend and has a crush on her. He is also the first person who Kara tells her secret to.
UPDATED -In Karry Universe: He and Kara are work friends. He still had a crush on her and was competing with Adam and James, but, of course, all lost. Kara didn't tell him her secret until she needed him to help track down Firestorm for the Reverse-Flash takedown. He's still an amazing computer geek and could give Cisco a run for his money and is now part of the extended SuperFlash team.
NEW -CISCO:
In the TV Show: He's a meta-human known as Vibe
In Karry Universe: He is not a meta at all as I do not need Vibe. His powers are pretty pointless here with no breaches to be created or people to locate (they have a pretty good satellite coverage of the city so no need to Vibe people's locations). On a side-note though, this is not the changed history of a character I mentioned last time - although Cisco was never killed in an aborted timeline here - that reveal has still not been given.
That's it for this section. There is one more character who has a changed history, as mentioned above, but that still has not been revealed yet. So why I am I telling you this? Because I want to drive you bonkers on whom it is and curious the theories people will make.
NEW – HARRISON WELLS / EOBARD THAWNE
I wish to clear up a matter regarding Thawne taking Wells' appearance within my Karry Universe. I am NOT doing season 2 of the Flash, obviously, and so Harry of Earth-2 will not appear in this story and neither will Eobard Thawne's time duplicate (see the episode "The Reverse-Flash Returns" for more details), so not having Harry of Earth-2 doesn't ruin anything. The line thrown in during season 2 about Eobard 'discovering' Wells was an after-thought thrown in after season 1 was complete and makes no real sense if you really think about it. When Eobard killed the young Harrison Wells in season 1 he said something along the lines of "you and your wife were supposed to make a working Particle Accelerator" – he did his research on Wells long before he was stranded in the early 2000s; that's how Eobard knows about Harrison Wells, not the season 2 episode alone.
New -Fake Wells' Plans
To clear up some confusion here, I am going to explain some things that never got mentioned in the story regarding Wells/Eobard because they simply didn't fit.
First thing I want to clear up is the mutated Kryptonite. Wells was making it to try to take Kara's powers away permanently in the disguise of trying to help her but accidentally just took her memories away for a short time. This explanation just never fit into the chapter.
Also, the reason he was so upset about Kara and Barry being together is because it destroyed the timeline he knew and came from. Eobard wanted to go back to his time but, because of the two being together changed the timeline, he didn't have his future to get back to. Unless Wells could set it back on track, he had no idea what he would go home to.
Finally, and this is more of a side note, when Eobard killed Barry's mom as stated above he permanently changed the timeline leading to an alternate future anyways - a future where Eobard Thawne or Fake-Wells was never born. Since he created this new timeline he jumped from one timeline to the other without dying even though he was never born. This all means that Eddie killing himself like he did in the TV show would have done nothing to stop the Fake-Wells. I hope that made sense...
TV Show Events:
These are events that happened in the TV shows that basically happened almost exactly the same as the show.
SUPERGIRL: The following are the only events from the TV show Supergirl that you can assume actually happened. If it is not mentioned in this list then it probably did not happen or has not happen yet.
ASTRA: As everyone knows Astra's TV Show history took a drastic change in "Astra's Wish" or the episode "For the Girl Who Has Everything" (they 'start' the same, but end very differently for the Kryptonian women), but before that, the encounters Kara had with her aunt in the TV Show are basically the same. She now works for the DEO with her own 'daughter', the Kara clone, Karen.
UPDATED - LESLIE/LIVEWIRE: Livewire's first episode's happened exactly the same as the TV show. The only differences being James and Lucy were not on a date and Winn did not go to Kara's house for Thanksgiving. I'm not sure what the point of Winn being there was since he disappeared anyway. In case you're curious and want to find an Easter egg, Livewire was mentioned as fact in the chapter "Woken with a Flash". She had the same part in World Finest that she did in the TV show version of the episode, only being teamed up with both Silver Banshee and Bizzaro.
UPDATED -BIZZARO: As mentioned in "Astra's Wish" Bizzaro did happened and Maxwell Lord still made her. The events are almost exactly the same only Kara did not go on a date with Adam and Bizzaro did not take James. If you read my post-chapter note on Astra's Wish you know I decided Bizzaro took Alex, and Hank was the one to shoot Bizzaro with blue Kryptonite. Siobhan took her out of her induced-coma where, in "Worlds Finest" she battled Supergirl and ended up dying because her heart gave out after taking a lightning bolt.
THESE ARE THE ONLY EVENTS FROM THE SUPERGIRL TV SHOW THAT ARE FACT AT THE MOMENT.
THE FLASH: We're now practically at the end of the first season of the Flash so some of the events that you never saw are as follows...
NEW -TONY WOODWARD/GIRDER: As mentioned in "Copycat" this event did happen in Karry Universe, especially as Copycat herself made a temporary clone of Tony.
LEONARD -SNART/CAPTAIN COLD: I just love Snart's character too much to write him out totally but do not have plans to rewrite his episodes. They will be fact though (besides the one where Snart was helping them take metas out of the pipeline and then betrayed them) and Snart will be appearing very VERY soon.
NEW - SARA LANCE/WHITE CANARY: Not strictly Flash-related but people have been asking about her. I don't know much of her history before Legends of Tomorrow but I love her too much to not include her here. I do intend for her to appear in Karry, with her debut being in the next chapter, in fact. Can't wait to see reactions to where I intend to go with her character!
Future Plans:
I don't want to reveal too much of my future plans but there is something I feel I need to address.
"Falling" (The Red Kryptonite episode) and "Flash Vs Arrow" (The Rainbow Raider episode), I think I have gotten questions about these episodes from almost everyone who has reviewed this story. Before I continue I want to say I love this episode of Supergirl, not so much the Flash episode. Falling is possibly the best episode of the first season of Supergirl. All that said and done IT WILL NOT APPEAR IN KARRY UNIVERSE AND NEITHER WILL THE RAINBOW RAIDER EPISODE. Before you complain please hear me out now. There are reasons why I decided it could not appear.
The reasons? Well first thing is Maxwell Lord made Red Kryptonite in the show as a trap for Non. Non is dead and Myriad is destroyed. There is no reason for Lord to make the Red Kryptonite. Now I know I could come up with a reason or make the red color natural like it is in comics and was in Smallville, but another reason I am not doing it is that it just doesn't fit into the story. I know this became an actual universe but overall this is a story about Kara and Barry being a couple and getting through life together. It's a fluff piece with some seriousness in it and I have no desire to write a Kara having to win the people back plotline. It just doesn't fit. And as I don't watch Arrow, I don't feel comfortable 'rewriting' an episode with him in it, and again, I don't want to take my Flash down a dark path like that as Karry is a fluff story and I am now technically done with the first season's of both shows. Besides, I already sort of wrote my own version of Red Kryptonite for the sequel to 'Trapped'. It's called 'The Two Karas'. Check it out if you really want to see how it could be.
NEW -As shown in previous chapter, I have started the creation of the Justice League. For future plans in the story I have been looking into traditional members of the Justice League to include but I am not going to tell you yet who is going to be included. That's a surprise. There is one member I feel I need to explain to you however: Bruce Wayne/Batman. I know he is a loved superhero (in fact, the most loved of all DC heroes) for whatever reason and he is usually found in the Justice League but well… I kind of hate him. I have no idea why, I've just never liked Batman. So no Batman in this Karry Universe. The reason why, I don't know. Maybe Bruce was never born or maybe his parents were never murdered leading to him never becoming Batman, he just may never have donned the cape even with their demise or he was killed along with his parents, who knows - I'll leave that down to your imaginations but I won't be mentioning him here at all.
Before anyone complains that by not including Batman I'm effectively ruining Justice League or something, please bare with me. Looking things over, The Arrow is traditionally not considered a member of the Justice League but in this he's a founding member. Oliver Queen and Bruce Wayne are very similar people (billionaire playboys with League of Assassin training, no superpowers or care towards killing their enemies), so Oliver/The Arrow is just taking Bruce/Batman's traditional place in the League here.
So that is it. That's everything I've got for now. I may very well be updating this as I continue with my story to add more things to it, so if you have any questions please ask. I'll make sure to include them when I update/repost the footnotes again.
Karry Master OUT!