"It is that 𝙠𝙧𝙮𝙥𝙩𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙖𝙣, Kara Zor-El, who came down from the sky and murdered my innocent family."
Ruthye Marye Knoll if she was in the Adventureverse! (MAWS)
Independent Portrayal obvi.
This is emp so I'm bad at pinneds as always.
"I don't understand how one can be so... so 𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙙."
Ruthye is conflicted now, did this woman really deserve to die?
"...all I've thought about is that day you killed my family, your eyes being full of zero remorse.
And yet here you are, willing to die for your sins."
She shuts her eyes.
"Then the universe is punishing me for my sins. I will face these bounty hunters and defeat them. Or I will fall. It does not matter."
"You don't get it do you!?"
She was now the universe's #1 target.
Kara Zor-El, most wanted.
"Do you know how many people are after your head because of me!?
And now you've told me that it wasn't even your fault!"
"And yet you are owed your revenge, that justice needed to move on. If that sword is strong enough to cut my Kryptonian skin... then use it to inflict your will. Whether a cut to my flesh...to my eye... or the removal of my head..."
She lowers her sword, face turned to the ground.
She seemed disappointed.
"So you're... just a puppet!?"
She sighs in frustration, looking up again.
"I hired... so many bounty hunters, you don't even know."
No! I simply- I do not remember. And my cognition was under the control of Krypton's ancient AI: Brainiac. But...
That does not change the fact I still killed billions. It does not change the fact that I aimed to conquer those worlds and willingly aided an empire built on blood.
She almost sounded remorseful?
Almost as if she regretted her actions...
Was this some sort of trick?
"How dare you! Do you think this is some sort of 𝙜𝙖𝙢𝙚!?
You murdered my family and you think you can garner some sort of sympathy!?"
"What a terrible thing to witness. The Scion... The Eradicator of Worlds... I cannot imagine the horror and loss you've experienced. And I cannot atone."
She hesitates for a moment, could she punish this woman if she did not remember the atrocities she committed?
"...you came down from the sky, you slaughtered them without remorse.
I still remember your cold and lifeless eyes."
Ruthye aims her sword towards the Kryptonian woman's neck, ready to strike at a moments notice.
"You did not know... 𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝘿𝙄𝘿 𝙉𝙊𝙏 𝙆𝙉𝙊𝙒!?"
She blows steam from her nose, anger seething and boiling within her.
"My father made this sword, did you know that!?"
Supergirl leads her to a nearby park of great breadth. There are few civilians here.
As her feet touch the ground, Kara says, "You are not even from the three worlds I surveyed for the Empire. I did not know... I did not now there were other planets I crushed."
Her eyes shake.
Kara's eyes widen and she quickly take a defensive stance.
"You... The one my father mentioned... Please, let us take this quarrel outside. This is the home of an innocent woman far kinder than I and you are damaging it."
She angrily tosses her sword, narrowly missing the Kryptonian as it lands in the wall of the apartment.
"DO YOU HEAR ME, KARA ZOR-EL!? I AM RUTHYE MARYE KNOLL AND I HAVE COME TO EXACT MY VENGEANCE!"
She slashes through the apartment's door with her sword.
"I have finally found you, Kara Zor-El of Krypton...
The 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙤𝙣.
You murdered my family in cold blood, you must answer for your crimes."
"It is that 𝙠𝙧𝙮𝙥𝙩𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙖𝙣, Kara Zor-El, who came down from the sky and murdered my innocent family."
Ruthye Marye Knoll if she was in the Adventureverse! (MAWS)
Independent Portrayal obvi.
This is emp so I'm bad at pinneds as always.