#and i love that when clark proposes she says no because between that and finding out he's superman was A Lot™

[stardustinthesky]

Will you marry me?

[jor-elsemissary]

How did the president conversation even come up?

“What did you mean when you said you hoped things would end differently between us?” Martha asks. 

“Well certainly not me shooting myself in front of you.” Lionel chuckles.

“No.” Martha said. “Don't do that. Tell me.” She commands. “Tell me the truth.” 

 “Watching from the sidelines when you take your rightful place as President of the United States.” Lionel said.

Oh he’s so temporizing with that. Man doesn’t want to admit to her what he wants, so he goes and says something completely out of left field. It doesn’t quite start the Presidential talk, but this conversation is mentioned years later when Lex tries to run in 2016 and Lionel wants her to run against him.

Lex isn’t pleased that yet another Kent is running against him for office. He’s very displeased and probably, quietly, sends Mercy after her.

Oh and the attempt on her life lands Lionel in the hospital… again.

They’re not married yet but they have been dating off and on for a few years now and went public with it in 2014. Lionel is 60 (1954) and Martha 52 (1962). They’re getting on in years, but still amazingly active and fit for their ages.

They did have one child together that is being raised by Lois and Clark. There lives won’t allow them to easily be it’s parents. Martha being a prominent US Senator and Lionel the Vice President and COO of LexCorp. Who they are would put any child of theirs in danger.

Martha narrowly wins despite her relationship with her competitor’s father, which Lex tries to use against her and backfired when Lionel took the bullet for Martha. Out of spite, Lex fires his father and blames him for his loss again.

Lionel, unfortunately, cannot live with Martha at the White House. There isn’t such a thing as First Boyfriend after all, which Martha teases him with. I can see them having a relationship kinda like in The American President (good movie btw). But rather having the President pursue the Love Interest, the LI pursues the President.

Their romance rivals that of the Royals. The media talks about it. The tabloids talk about it. The whole country talks about it. It’s a romantic story that the country hasn’t seen in decades. So when Lionel proposes to her, it makes headlines across the world.

KANSAS BILLIONAIRE PROPOSES TO PRESIDENT. SHE SAYS YES!

Martha wants a small, private wedding but her PR team tells her they should make it a large one. Dignitaries across the world will want to attend, along with members of both parties and the elite. Lionel knows Martha won’t be happy, so he offers an alternative. A small, private wedding to make it official and the larger one for public relations. and he’ll pay for them both. She agrees to it.

They’re married just before the election year in 2018.

Lionel finally gets to move in with Martha and goes from First Boyfriend to First Husband. She still teases him about his titles. He lets her.

Eventually their child becomes known to the public and Lex uses it as a scandal against Martha. Lionel tries his best to circumvent the gossip and rumors, and gets dragged through the mud with Martha.

President and First Husband have a Secret Love Child, what else do they have hidden and secreted away?

Heaven forbid anyone find out about Clark.

But they weather the scandal but Martha does not win reelection against Lex. It’s not because she didn’t have the votes, she very much would have, but rather because Lex did find out about Clark and Lionel’s involvement. She ended up bowing out of the race and let Lex win.

She and Lionel retire to the farmhouse where they spend the rest of their days raising their child and Martha’s grandchildren (from Clark).

[somebodyssherlock-heterodyne]

Hello!

do you have any headcanons about jayjon and the super twins? I'm interested in hearing your opinion on how the twins treat Jay, whether he babysits them, walks with them, whether they stay at his place overnight, and whether Jon gets jealous when they literally try to take his boyfriend's attention

Thanks!

I feel like it takes the twins a little while to actually meet Jay- settling into earth, extradimensional gods showing up to try and kidnap/murder/vivisect Osul, Otho actually getting kidnapped, etc. In that time, they do spend some time with Jon, who is besieged by complicated emotions he doesn't want to have or deal with the entire time he's in their presence. The twins, being the twins, ask him if he has any good stories about his victories.

Cue Jon's bedtime story retelling of the liberation of Gamorra. He monologues dreamily about Jay for at least two minutes every time he comes up in the story. Otho and Osul, who know Jon as a figure who briefly darkens the doorway before flying off again, as though he doesn't feel comfortable in the house anymore, are very perceptive children. They were gladiators- they had to be. They notice, immediately, that Jon's perpetually tense shoulders loosen the minute Jay's name leaves his lips.

I think Otho and Osul end up relating to Jon a lot. All three of them are out of sync and out of place with the softness of the house and the warmth of this family. It takes Jon a little bit to realize it, but once he does he and the twins effectively become a unit.

At any rate, the twins continually pester Jon for stories about his boyfriend, and Jay gives Jon leave to tell them everything he knows. Jon tells them the story of Jay Nakamura: of a rigged election, cruel experiments, a daring escape and a rescue by the Revolutionaries. Of the Truth, a college campus, a sinking ship, a rooftop meeting. He skims the romance bits in favor of the action, because the twins did ask for a battle story, but he still ends the story with 'and then we kissed over the smoking rubble of Bendix's dictatorship'.

The twins grew up under a cruel thumb they didn't have the perspective to want to get away from. They had Clark to rescue them, and periodically have nightmares about who they'd be if he hadn't. Jay, by Jon's telling, saved Jon far more often than Jon saved him, fought tooth and nail against a tyrant, and refused to back down even from unbeatable odds.

The twin think Jay is the coolest person they've ever heard of. They are Gossamer stans first and people second. You know that phase kids have where they find an interest and it becomes their whole personality for a while? Yeah.

Jon's cool with making them custom merch and showing them the fifteen thousand pictures in the photos folder labeled LOVE OF MY LIFE KING OF MY HEART. The twins are having fun, he gets to gush about his boyfriend all day, sure why not.

This is fine- Jay laughs when Jon repeats his life story back to him, because "when you say it like that it sounds badass and epic and not like I just spend ten minutes clinging to the ship railing like a wallaby"- until the twins and Jay finally get around to an introduction.

Jon is torn between jealousy and mild irritation because it's impossible to get a moment alone with his boyfriend these days, and immense fondness whenever he sees the twins bracketing Jay as they pester him for stories about the Revolutionaries. Which sentiment wins out depends on whether or not Otho chooses violence and starts asking doe eyed questions about when Jay and Jon are getting married. She looks like a postcard angel when she's doing it but Jon fucking taught her that look, he knows she's a hellion. Osul is less likely to be a menace but it's not out of any sort of kindness, he's just better at waiting for the perfect moment to strike. Jon loves them both but if they ask which of them will be the ring bearer at his wedding "once you finally manage to write a decent proposal" ONE MORE FUCKING TIME he's leaving them on Batman's doorstep. What's two more orphans to a billionaire anyway? Two phaelosian menaces can't possibly be harder to manage than Damian.