Administrative Mishap
is a Worm/Supergirl crossover.
After Gold Morning Taylor's body disappeared after getting shot twice in the head, her bleeding remains flung to some distant universe. You would think she would awaken and continue her exponential escalation, right? Well, you'd be half right.
Instead, the world of Supergirl has to deal with one Queen Administrator. Now refiring to herself as Addy Queen watch as she learns how to human, finds a family, and yells about how wrong this universe's understanding of physics is. Just an average day for your regular continent-sized genocidal alien parasite piloting a human meat suit.
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Administrative mishap contains examples of:
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Maxwell Lord, after receiving a Humble Pie when Addy and Kara resolve a situation without the need of a weapon that would have resulted in massive casualties. He not only decides to reform his company, moving away from alien tech and weapons entirely, but he goes so far as to ask Lena Luthor to give Addy a job at her company.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Kara's relationship with Lena is more positive and lacks the tension and strain it suffered in later seasons, primarily due to her figuring out Kara was Supergirl on her own much earlier and her own relationship with Addy, an alien who Kara is associated with. As a result, the two are considerably more friendly.
- Always a Bigger Fish: Addy to every antagonistic telepath that winds up in her crosshairs or in her general vicinity. Indigo finds this out the hard way.
- Always Someone Better: Thus far, any and all characters with telepathic abilities are all but considered second-rate to Addeline, who is considered the strongest telepath in the world. That said, this only applies to the aliens she's encountered on Earth. The Guardians are another matter entirely, as Addy's attempts to scan the Guardian Appa are met with some serious resistance. While Addy believes she can bust through his mental barriers, she'd be serious drained after the fact and considers him her sole equal on Earth.
- Amicable Exes: An aversion. Megan and her husband are not on good terms after the former left Mars out of disgust for what the White Martians were doing. He even subjects her to a severe telepathic attack that she would have been killed had it not been for Addy breaking the psychic link between them.
- Animal Motifs: Geese or typically any kind of waterfowl in general for Addy. She has a strange fascination with them to the point that she owns a defunct board game centering around them, a giant plushie, and even a ringtone composed entirely of geese honks. Said ringtone, by the way, is a rendition of Final Fantasy VII's One-Winged Angel.
- Artificial Hybrid: Addy was a failed attempt at Max's attempt at creating Bizarro. As such, she has Kryptonian DNA and is considered half-Kryptonian. Unlike Kara, she mostly relies on her telepathic abilities since she has trouble using her Kryptonian ones properly.
- Artificial Limbs: At Max's behest, Lena personally builds Addy a customized prosthetic arm.
- Ascended Extra: While calling him an extra is a bit much, Maxwell lost a lot of importance and all but vanished after Season 1. While he doesn't have as big of a role in the fanfic's adaptation of Season 2, he's still present in the background and makes the occasional appearance.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: While Addy has started to understand and reconcile with her newfound understanding of humans, some chapters make it a point to remind others and the readers that she is still a Shard. The earliest example is the Inigo crisis' resolution where Queen Administrator gives the sentient virus its ultimatum and repurposes its remains after Inigo commits suicide than submit to the Shard. The aftermath leads to some tension between Addy and Kara due to the former's actions and almost callous disregard for what she did to Inigo, which gets exacerbated after Kara is affected by Red Kryptonite and becomes more aggressive.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Addy vs Indigo. Calling it a battle at all is rather generous. Having accessed the shard network, Indigo promptly finds herself staring down Addy's colossal avatar and given an ultimatum, surrender and be bound in chains or be consumed. She chose suicide and the Queen Administrator/Addy absorbed the remains.
- Death of Personality: Indigo subjects this to herself, destroying much of her personality while leaving whatever was left for Addy to absorb and take control.
- Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Krypton, as per usual.
- Entertainingly Wrong:
- When explaining to Kara why she treats Addy somewhat more nicely, she says she's dealt with someone with "special needs" before and was disgusted by how they were treated. Kara makes no move to correct her, however.
- When Max comes to Lena to ask her about considering letting Addy work at L-Corp and he admits to having a hand in her birth, she assumes he's her father. While this isn't technically incorrect, as he is responsible for her augmentation as a human-Kryptonian Artificial Hybrid, she believes he's her biological father.
- Face–Heel Turn: Kara during her Red Kryptonite-induced stint. She acts considerably more aggressive and violent towards Addy, which unnerves and worries the latter. It all comes to ahead when Kara briefly goes evil as Supergirl and nearly kills Addy before J'onn stepped in to stop her.
- How Unscientific!: Addy is exasperated over Barry Allen's method of travelling between alternate universes is through vibrating at superhuman speed.
- Mind Control: Addy's specialty. She won't take control of someone willy-nilly and instead use it as a last resort, but she can dominate someone totally and utterly.
- Morality Pet: Taylor and Kara both serve as this for Addy, the latter moreso. Taylor's memory is the only thing keeping Addy from going back to her original functions as a Entity Shard while Kara helps keep her morally grounded. It's also what stops her from taking John's Lantern to study and potentially using it as a power source.
- Named by the Adaptation: The Shards were never given an actual name besides being just called "shards", "passengers", or "agents" in their home universe. Here, they're dubbed Shardites by Addy for convenience.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Although the issue is resolved later on, Addy forcing Megan to give J'onn a blood transfusion results in the latter undergoing the slow, painful process of turning into a White Martian. It's only thanks to Hank Henshaw and Lena's mother's actions with Project Medusa that the heroes manage to develop a cure to reverse the process before it can be completed.
- No Endor Holocaust: Averted. The Daxamite war had cost three percent of Earth's population (approximately 210 million people) within twenty-four hours. Six critically small ethnic groups were wiped out, and at least one country had ended up so depopulated after the attacks that there was an ongoing debate with what few people were even left over if they should remain a country at all.
- Pet the Dog: In contrast to how she treats her other employees, Cat Grant is more polite with Addy as she calls her by name after the latter corrects her and says nothing more about her fashion sense when Addy states she chose her clothes because she liked the colors. This throws everyone at CatCo for a loop since she almost never does that.
- Reassigned to Antarctica: The Guardians of the Universe indicted Appa for giving a prototype green power ring to Addie by assigning him to observe Earth and Addy.
- Running Gag: Addy's fascination with waterfowl, specifically geese. It's brought up every now and then, and midway through the fanfic, she owns a Canadian-brand stuffed geese named Saturday. Her ringtone is even a rendition of "One-Winged Angel" composed entirely of geese honks, much to everyone's confusion.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Addy strong-arms Megan into coming with her to give J'onn a blood transfusion, even going so far as to threaten to use her Mind Control on her if she refuses. This is in spite of Megan's warnings about what the transfusion would do to J'onn.
- Ship Tease: There have been some subtle hints of Kara and Lena being a little more than just friends.
- Shout-Out: Apparently, Addy's ringtone is One Winged Angel, albeit done completely with geese noises.
- Spanner in the Works: Addy's existence and telepathic prowess throws a lot of wrenches into several villains' plans. The earliest example is the plant that would have latched onto Kara ended up latching onto Addy, who not only shrugs off its attempt to psychically attack her, but disposes of it with ease.
- Sure, Let's Go with That: Kara does not dissuade her boss of the notion that Addy has special needs as she can't exactly explain to Grant that Addy is actually an alien in control of her former host's body.
- Villainous Breakdown: Indigo drops her smug demeanor and freaks out when she is trapped in the shard network with Addy. When Addy gave her ultimatum of either being shackled or be consumed, Indigo was not very receptive and chose to commit suicide rather than letting a "parasite" take her.
