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WHEN SHE was training to become a pilot, Carol Danvers would have said
nothing compared to the feel of commanding a fighter jet as it hurtled across a
cobalt sky. Back then, she had no idea of all the ways her life would change.
She never imagined she’d know the exhilaration of rocketing through an
endless darkness punctuated by the glimmer of stars that were now within
reach. Carol was no poet, but the possibilities of an infinite universe at her
fingertips made her wax lyrical. With the push of a button, she could send this
spacecraft to chase the farthest pinpricks of light. In fact, she had reached
many of those distant planets, had landed there and explored. That pleased the
deepest part of her soul that was never satisfied being anchored by gravity.
The alien part of her soul?
Carol wondered if all Kree wanted to fly farther than the instruments
could measure. Maybe she inherited the need to take flight from her mother,
along with her blond hair and the angle of her jaw.
The bedrock upon which Carol had built her life shifted when she learned
her true heritage not long ago. She was half-alien, born to a Kree mother and a
human father. The Psyche-Magnitron had not bestowed her powers, as she
always thought; it had awakened them. Not only did she have an alien mother
who’d been a powerful and important member of Kree society, she had a fully
alien half-sister. The revelations made her see her family, her experiences as
Captain Marvel, even herself, differently, like she was at the eye doctor, being
asked which lens made things clearer and which made them more blurry.
Metaphorically, of course. Carol’s more than 20/20 vision was definitely
inherited from her mom, Mari-Ell, Captain First of the Supreme Protectorate,
Champion of the Kree Empire, Daughter of Hala by Bloodright and Starlight.
What a mouthful.
Most days, Carol could tell you what she knew to be true about herself.
But she couldn’t say how she felt about any of it. Growing up, telling Carol no
had had the effect of activating hyper-mode. She’d work harder than anyone
else, longer than anyone else, work herself into the ground, even when the
world told her she’d never be able to do it. Especially then. She’d attained every
goal she set for herself, realized every dream. Everything she’d fought to
accomplish—pilot, astronaut, super hero, Avenger, Alpha Flight leader—she’d
attributed those achievements to her grit, her determination. And maybe her
stubbornness.
Now she had to reckon with the fact that there had been other factors at
play. She’d tried to dissect which of her traits came from being human and
which were Kree. It made her head spin. No matter how long she pondered,
she could never answer the question that plagued her. Did being an alien make
those accomplishments more worthy—or less?
She’d spent so long coming to grips with having alien powers that working
through what it meant to actually be an alien felt like diving into a vortex.
Been there, she thought. Hard pass on doing it again.
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