as you can see, i have issues

extremely high molestability

sequel to this delicious ask

and now i'm melting too, oh my 😵🤤🥴.....

lois having her eyes closed, just listening to him, smelling him, panting and clutching his hair and kon knows which illusion she's putting so much concentration into trying to maintain and he's terrified that if he shatters it he loses this intimacy.

the post in question

oh my days thank you so much anon!!!!!! that is so kind of you awww 🥰😊🫶 i love you too *blows kiss*

it is a concept i've had rotating around in my brain for a while, and especially recently what with my brain being 24/7 4K HD kon-el ponderings at the pace of a speeding bullet.

nonny you are speaking my exact language!!!! YES I DO THINK SO!!!!

in fact, it is my ardently held interpretation that kon not only would have some kind of complex about his lack of parents, but absolutely canonically does. granted, a lot of the textual evidence from that comes from him cracking jokes about it (the famous "mama said pulling hair an' hitting girls was a big no-no — but mama was a test tube...as you can see, i have issues." from sb94 #84). but as we know, kon is notorious for making the flavour of joke that is pretty transparently a vulnerable cry for help to anyone even halfway paying attention.

which is to say, as far as i'm concerned, you're dead right. both about him having this complex in the first place and the utterly scrumptious concept of him seeking out older romantic/sexual partners in a desperate search to fulfil emotional needs that would ordinarily be met by a parent. but, importantly, his awareness that that's what he's doing would be (in my opinion) be two-fold; kon is great at being loosely cognizant of his own issues, and then in the very same breath repressing the hell out of them (hence: jokes). within his own mind, he wouldn't be thinking "man, i could just kick rocks about how i don't have a mom or dad. and indeed how there's no neat label for the way in which i'm related to anyone in my family and it makes me feel perpetually a little isolated through no fault of anyone's" like he's not that aware.

but he is precisely in the sweet spot to do exactly as you say, and oh my stars the way you've phrased it — not because she's his mom or because he thinks of her as his mom, but because he feels so lonely not having anyone to call mom, and lois is here, she's soft and warm, and kon thinks that's probably what moms are supposed to feel like — is so BRILLIANT OUGHHH!!!! i can't even add anything to that other than how incredibly much i love it. *chef's kiss*