“Oi! Super Whatever we should call you,” Tommy said looking up from some paperwork, he hated paperwork. He also liked teasing his teammates, but it was always in an I actually care about you kinda of way. Besides, after working his way out of a freaking kids book with Helo teasing a teammate sounded fun.
“I need to know your shirt size.” He told her looking back down at his paperwork. “Apparently we are getting shirts, more labels, speaking of which, what should we call you Super ——“ he left it open to see what she’d say.
“Not Superkid.” she said quickly. “No one gets to call me Superkid.” There was a story there but one Alura had no intention of telling. She liked Tommy though, he was good people and he seemed to actually give a damn which helped a lot.
She told him her shirt size and continued putting her stuff away. “Can you just call me Alura, my Mom’s Supergirl and my fathers Valor so I don’t really have a way to mix those that doesn’t sound lame.”
Crap. Crap.
“Though the...Valor thing. I don’t know if Dad knows he gets his hero on yet so, maybe not mentioning it would be awesome?”
“Val-girl? Nah, that sounds weird,” he shrugged not really worried about if her father knew who he would become or not. “Don’t all superheroes have some kind of name though? You should have one.”
“Not Val-girl” she said letting herself smile a little. “Do I need a name? I can’t just be Alura?” She was from two worlds, after all, she didn’t feel like a ‘Super’ but she was willing to talk about it if they really wanted. “It’s nothing I ever really thought about.”
Tommy shrugged. "If you really are that set against a name you don't have to have one, just seems like it'd be fun." Tommy wasn't going to force that kind of thing on anyone but he really did think it would make things more amusing.
“I mean if you can think of a name that I’m happy with?” she said, “Come up with a shortlist of five and I’ll pick one.”
She had always found it amusing, Supergirl and Valor, she’d never thought she’d be in that position, hell, she’d never really considered herself a hero, not like her parents or the people here, but she’d stayed here to help, and if Tommy wanted to give her a name, maybe she’d be okay with that.
“Val-girl is soooo vetoed though, FYI”
"Naming isn't my thing, I'll ask Katie to do it," Katie seemed like someone who would be better at that kind of shit.
"You got it, not Val-girl." He smirked looking back down at his paperwork.
Alura liked her team, they were good people and the training was fun as well as hard work.
“Maybe we could do a poll,” she said shaking her head in bemusement at the whole thing. “Is there anything else you need to ask for your paperwork?” she said.
“A poll it is,” he said absently before looking back up. “Huh?” Tommy looked back now. “Nah, carry on.”