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pocketramblr · 1 month ago

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more Cadmus gripe time because I just finished the last boy on earth arc and ughhhh SB was so devastated to return home and find everyone gone, and we saw that Roxy spent weeks trying so hard to find him when everyone else said he was gone and good riddance, she even found Robin's number and asked Batman for help, she even went to see if Knockout knew anything, and everyone at Cadmus knows this- and when SB comes back from spending months as an amnesiac captive and wants so badly to see his friends again, they don't use their incredible resources to track down Roxy and help reunite them, they take him to Paris and claim it's because giving him a new scenery and something to hit will do him good and get his mind off it, but then it turns out they just want to field test him and get him to work for them. SB going from being exploited by Leech to exploited by Cadmus is bridged by a story where he's literally stripped of all agency and the ability to speak for himself and I'm going to scream.

#clark come get your boy #no really im gonna have to dig through triangle era to find out what Clark was doing at the same time because clearly Roxy was reaching out #to EVERYONE #and she met Superman before! she's part of the reason the whole situation was set up! she 'sold' him back his copyright for a dollar and he #gets it #honestly I'm gonna have to throw an idea on the list:#'Roxy gets through every option and is so fed up she goes outside and screams for Superman until he shows up because she's tried so hard to #find SB otherwise and if Superman can't do it then no one can. but if he can...'#and this can be when Clark realizes that SB literally does not have a name yet #and his hopes that SB has been able to figure out his own life and wants outside of his shadow have not been realized #and his 'find the perfect kryptonian name to offer him' has been bumped up on his to do list #right under 'find out wherever the hell he is'#because ugh ok so guardian had that line about being in Paris to punch things being good for SB #and i was going to scream because doesn't this man have the memory of raising five teenage boys. how's he as bad at this as he is basic #morality when it comes to having a spine vis a vis what Westfield does #but thennnnn they reveal the Cadmus job offer #and I was like 'oh of course. no. it's the exact same morality put aside for What Cadmus Decides It Needs'#I'm gonna go on a mae like rampage and burn that whole place down... anyway #they don't even see him as a boy. he talks about how he's stuck as a boy and how he feels like he's the last boy on earth and they hear him!#and they don't even see him as a boy. 'considered an emancipated minor' (by who? what paper says that? does he have a birth certificate? bc #i know it's a thing later that none of the other Cadmus clones have legal personhood until guardian wants to adopt a child who actually does #his only names are superBOY and kid but he's not treated like a kid not a boy not a child just a commodity #Kal's the last son of krypton and Kon's only called 'son' by people holding him captive (henshaw‚ westfield‚ etc)#Roxy i need you to go get Clark Clark i need you to come get your boyyyyy

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