That might have been the quickest I’ve ever gone from seeing an email update to reading a chapter. It’s no secret I’m a sucker for Dark AU’s and ooh have you just set up a delicious one, my friend. A cynical, broody Kara in a Cyberpunk setting? And it’s not even my birthday.
This was a fantastic opening. Kara’s almost complete apathy to the lives of others landed perfectly in that bar fight, such a short sequence that says so much about how different this Kara is from the one we’re most familiar with. The lack of effort she puts into that fight, down to not bothering to even use her speed and then jumping into a bottle almost immediately afterward paints such a grim picture on how she’s changed in the hundred or so years from what we know to be ‘canon’.
The ways that the members of the League all went out were harrowing but somehow totally believable. Especially with Oliver. There’s a line in DK3 where Bruce says something along the lines of “I wanted to take the hit. Probably one to many blows to the head that got me thinking like that to being with”, and it’s the same for Oliver. What you wrote is such a heart-breaking way for him to go out but perhaps the most realistic. Alex’s death was, I’m not sure what the right words are…tastefully brutal? Completely senseless but everything that Kara would need to cross the line.
Kara’s relationship with suicide is so perfectly bleak. I can’t help but to empathise with her there, why would you want to go on when everything you’ve ever loved is gone to dust? Clearly, the universe isn’t done with her yet, but the way that this Kara might handle whatever it is that’s coming? I’m terrified in all the right ways.
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