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saedyne · 4 days ago

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nobody asked but my hot take is that i think kon's struggles with

being literally made to be superman

being given roles and expectations (as a hero/boyfriend/etc) based on that/how he looks and squeezing himself down into those expectations

being torn between duty/obligation (even and perhaps especially of the self-imposed variety) and his own sense of self

feeling like he outlived his purpose after coming back from the dead and not knowing what he's supposed to be now that he's done the superman thing (maybe even feeling like he needs the unbearable weight of expectation because without a job to do or a box to fit into he might dissolve into nothing because he's always avoided examining who he is when there's nobody he has to be i wonder why that is)

could. uh. y'know. all that could be read as quite...queer. in a pretty genderful way. but what do i know.

#and i do know it's a headcanon but like i feel justified calling it a headcanon and not a headfanon #anyways! gnc kon for the win yippee #actually no i have two more points for the tags #1. atp i believe that queer kon will almost certainly never be canon #honestly halfway relieved by that because they'd probably fuck it up but that's another post #my actual point here is...why do you think that might be? because me personally i think it's almost entirely because #dc is terrrrrified by the possibility of anyone seeing superman as being even a little bit queer ever at all #and kon is forced to be beholden to those expectations too because he is clark's clone and no one knows how to be fucKING NORMAL ABOUT IT #but hey doesn't that sound strangely like my first two bullet points #our boy is being forced into boxes both watsonian and doylist somebody get him outta there #2. i am thinking about kon's tshirt and jeans rebrand #and then i'm thinking about when i first had the merest tiniest inkling of awareness that i was trans #i went OH FUCK and rebranded HARD to match my agab as best as i possibly could for YEARS until i couldn't ignore it anymore #(well. now that i'm out i know that's what i did and why but i DEFINITELY didn't have that self awareness in the moment)#anyway those two thoughts could have no parallels whatsoever. like i said what do i know.#obligatory “i know there's no objective/definitive take and some will think this take is bad and that's okay” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#kon #kon el #kon-el #conner kent #superboy #dc #sae originals

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