#but equally if you write the tree in English including English naming traditions then Superman's bio mum's name wouldn't be LL it'd be LV | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

weird-tea · 1 month ago

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So the Kryptonian naming culture seems to have this thing where boys just have the family name but girls have their father's name then the family name (Eg. Superman is Kal El while Supergirl is Kara Zor-El, Zor El being her father). So he's my question, if Superboy Conner Kent/Kon El had been born a girl or turned out to be trans what would her surname be? Who's her daddy? They are a clone of superman with Kex Luthor's DNA also in there. Does the clone thing mean technically her parental line goes back to Superman's parents, so Kon Jor-El (feel there is an argument for this since superman's parents the Kent's take Kon in not Superman himself implying a sibling dynamic on the tree) or is it Kon Kal-El because there's also an argument Superman is the father, or are we in Kon Lex-El or even Kon Lex-Luthor territory with this? Or even Kon John-Kent?

Superboy being a boy means he can just be given the El and Kent names to signify being in the family without specifically saying how he fits in, but if this situation happened with a girl they would have to make a specific call in terms of paternal parentage.

#intrestingly the think of surnames as just a way of saying son of or daughter of was a thing in a lot of real languages too #with the scottish surnames beguining with Mac litrally coming from Son of Name #and before they became locked in as just the family name it would be unique to each generation #and girls wouldn't be Mac-anything they would be Nic because they were daughter of not son of #this is the case for a lot of languages i just know scottish the best #really funny as a gaelic speaker when people with Mac surnanes just get called Mac like you're litrally just calling him Son #Superman #Supergirl #Superboy #Kryptonian #Kon El #Kal El #Kara Zor-El #I often doodle their family tree in the kryptonian letters and always wonder if on a kryptonian tree Lois Lane should be written as #Lois Sam-Lane #but that would ruin the LL thing #but equally if you write the tree in English including English naming traditions then Superman's bio mum's name wouldn't be LL it'd be LV #so the only way for both to be LL is to have both naming cultures in the tree #I'm supposed to be working right now why does my brain do this 😂

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