that damned elusive megaloo

A/N: please don’t sue me, o anime overlords, I’m not making any money off of this! I’m just a broke student! I don’t have any money!

A/N: I totally wrote this while high off 10 Red Bulls wheeeeeee!!!!!

remember when there’d be interactions with the author and the characters?

InuYasha: I don’t get why I have to be here for this

Lois knows Clarke. She knows Superman. She’s spent a lot of time with both of them. She sees the decency and love and care he has for the world around him; but Lois Lane, investigative journalist, can’t trust that. Clark and Kal-El wield immense power and are working outside of established rules and norms.

Clark, though he isn’t thinking of it that way, is using his position at Metropolis’ paper of record to build a case for an agent that doesn’t really have any checks and balances on his power. As Luther illustrates, public opinion is one of the few ways to push against Superman’s ability to act as he pleases. And Clark is breaking so many journalistic ethics in reporting these stories. Lois is right to find that concerning.

Meanwhile Superman is intervening in the politics of other nations. He’s saving lives, but also there is a long long history of powerful nations intervening in other nation’s internal affairs for their own ends. Superman wasn’t elected. Where does his right to legitimate force come from when he’s not even from this planet?

Who is this person? Where do his ethics come from? Is he honest or is he just very very convincing? How can Lois even make an objective assessment when he is that handsome, and makes her feel so special?

And Clark won’t tell her where he learned to be human. She knows where he was born. But who raised someone so powerful? How was that accomplished? It’s the one thing she doesn’t know. She’s definitely seen his HR file, but Smallville sounds like a fabrication. It can’t be real.

And then when she meets the Kents she finally knows. They are grounded, honest, hard working people with an immense capacity to love. And that is what allows her to finally let her guard down and trust him.

Meeting the Kents allows Lois to meet Clark on his own terms. He’s been arguing for humanistic ethics the entire time: but without the Kents Clark is an intergalactic, unelected policeman telling people what is moral. With them, he’s just another person doing his best and dedicating himself to a life of service.

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Matthew Goode as Carl Morck