Naw but I’m being so fr when I say that if there was a superboy focused adaption, I’d want them to address Kon’s trauma rather than change it so it “isn’t there”
Like no, no, no DC, you made the choice to make Tana Moon an adult woman. You made the choice to have so many 20-50 yr old women chase after that child. Deal with the consequences now! Address the fucked up shit! Don’t you dare pretend it never happened!
Like I don’t want to see his trauma, but I also don’t want it to go unaddressed. So at least mention how fuck up something that happened was.
okay, but taylor totally wrote you’re on your own, kid with mr conner “abandonment issues” kent in mind and you cannot convince me otherwise
superboy (1994) #52
superboy (1994) #53
superboy (1994) #56
superboy (1994) #58
superboy (1994) #65
superboy (1994) #69
superboy (1994) #70
and to make up for all the sad cloneboy feels, here’s one of him realising that he has so many people who love him and eagerly awaited his return from hyper-time:
Fuck it. Match (Kon's clone from the Superboy 93 solo) is albino (white skin and hair + pale blue is all i need). I'm giving him nystagmus too.
And honestly, thinking of him as albino made me think of Kryptonian biology.
Like, they take their powers from the yellow sun. And tanning is your body increasing the production of melanin in an attempt to protect the skin from further damage.
Since the bodies of kryptonians living on earth aren't pastry white worryingly pale, it means UV lights affects them to some degree (tho less so than humans)
It would also mean, Match would be able to get sunburnt or have photophobia (not sure if i'm going to write him with that in mind. Just saying he could have it)
Anyway, I'll start drawing and posting fanart of him. Once i'm done with Superboy's 93 comic. Once, i'm done with it and Impulse's comic (which I'm still not done with😅). I'll make the drawing than go read "Superboy and the ravers".
I'm also not done reading young justice 98 but i think i'll continue reading it after i'm done with superboy and the ravers95
Also will write a bunch of fics. It just takes me time. I already started drafting some impulse fics. They will closely follow canon but there will be canon divergences.
i want to believe that the other batboys get so caught up in how damian NEVER acts like a normal child, that whenever they see him engaging in regular kid activities™ everyone is on high alert whilst trying to preserve the moment.
tim's with kon and they walk past jon's room to see him and damian playing toy cars? they start walking faster until they're a safe distance away, to stop in their tracks and share a mutual "what the fuck???"
jason and damian are arguing, something jason says strikes a nerve, and damian just stops and breaks the stoic act. jason has NO clue what to do with himself, because nothing he's ever said has gotten a non-violent reaction out of the kid.
dick's taking damian to the cinemas, and lets him pick what they watch. damian picks a kids movie, and doesn't make comments about it seeming 'childish' or 'boring', instead he looks genuinely interested. dick goes along with it but is really taken aback.
damian's patrolling with the other boys, and sustains a mild injury. everyone's used to him fixing himself up and never making a big deal out of it. they've seen him break bones and refuse medical attention, mainly because of how the league trained him. so when they get back to the batcave, and are all getting fixed up in the infirmary, everyone's shocked when damian, sitting to the side about to patch himself up, starts crying, because he's exhausted and hurt.
whenever the boys see damian asleep anywhere but his room, they make sure to tip-toe past and tell the others not to wake him. usually when this happens it's because he's been so exhausted, that he's sat down to watch a show, been playing with titus, or doing schoolwork, and he's just fallen asleep in the middle of it. afterwards, dick especially, makes sure that damian's sleeping enough, which is hard, because no one can tell that he's tired until he physically passes out.