❛ ARE YOU READY, LISTENERS? ❜ | Kate Blackwell is a rich, beautiful, good girl with friends, flings, and a glamorous future in front of her. Karma Kane, on the other hand, is a Nancy Drew-wannabe who only exists in the 1's and 0's of the internet. N...
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
❛are you ready, listeners? ❜
IN A WORLD FILLED WITH CRIME AND CHAOS, superheroes can only do so much.
Sure, the Avengers saved the world a couple dozen times — but past kicking intergalactic alien warlords' asses back to whatever planet they came from, they do very little for the citizens they supposedly 'protect'. They take care of bad guys but wipe out a couple dozen city blocks for the trouble, or uproot thousands of lives for the price of one, or just plain out don't think about the consequences are when they swing fists or swords or godly magicalhammers.
There aren't a lot of heroes that work for the people, either. Past the friendly neighbourhood super-beings focused on big-scale bank robberies and crime lords, of course. People want someone to turn to when the justice system fails them. When someone goes missing and no one can say why or where. When a friend gets killed by some mystery assailant that gets to walk free.
And that's where Karma Kane comes in. A troubled, thorny, tired to the bone teen detective with an algebra test in the morning and a murder to solve that night. She might be barely seventeen, but she's built a rapidly-popularizing career base off her brilliant mind and her professional, albeit a tad amateur, Nancy Drew-esque cracked case portfolio. She's a badass, and a complete mystery behind aviator shades and a crooked grin — and people love her for it.
The only problem?
Karma Kane isn't real.
She's just a million 1's and 0's forming a fantastical teenage dream poured into a forty-five minute long weekly podcast stylized as 'Karma!'. She only exists in concept, just like the 'cases' she solves and the people she 'helps'. Her podcast description might trash on the Avengers, but at least they're doing something — she's just playing pretend.
Karma's a faceless fraud pretending to fix problems the voice behind the character can't actually solve. The only 'good' she gives the world is an escape from the real world, until the episode's up and everyone returns to the real world. Nothing about her or her world of happy-endings is real.
Well, until one of the richest men in the United States is discovered dead, declared 'by his own hands'. And Karma Kane makes a brash, heat-of-the-moment decision, when she realises no one is batting an eye at the strange circumstances of the mystery, brilliant, plagued by darkness, Killian Blackwell's death.
