#i am once again thinking about kon and nova (the wonderful baby boy duck and i have created) (our newest oc)

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I feel like we as a society don’t talk enough about Kon and how he’s so much like Clark in of himself, and how that should rightfully give him a bit of a crisis. There should be more more moments where he looks at Clark and goes “Just like you. Am I just like you?”

SO true. where's the in-universe moment when kon realizes that kon-el is just an anagram of clone but with a k!!!

they genuinely are very similar though. the parallels are SO there. in a way kon's admiration of clark and desire to emulate him both stems from and feeds back into this tbh, like yeah buddy you sure do wanna be superman one day don't you. don't you?

that deep-seated kindness and desire to help everyone. that's the Biggest one i think. it runs so deeply through the core of both of their characters. clark is much more mellow than Kon at first, bc early kon is young and brash and hotheaded and SO full of a zest for life. but post-death kon really mellows out, too. ofc there's always things to be said about writers making him more like clark in the post geoff era, but it does still feel like a compelling narrative arc.

on the one hand it def would i think give him a bit of a crisis, especially later on in life, to think that he's had so much of his own life and experiences and yet he's still so much like clark - does his own individuality not matter? - but it's something so clearly tied to his own expectations of himself bc everyone else can plainly see both the similarities AND all the differences.

on the other hand, i so deeply also would love a story in which kon's universal kindness and refusal to accept cruelty or wrongdoing ends up inspiring people the same exact way clark does. and kon himself doesn't even see it. but we do.