Originally posted by anonpip:
I'm determined to get Clark out of this hole I dug for him
I think he needs to do some growing up.
Elsewhere in feedback to another story another member of these boards (TOC quoted without permission and slightly out of context) wrote
Of course, if you respect another person you can't decide all on your own what is best for him or her. It's possible to give love to another person in a condescending way, where you believe that you have all the answers.
Proverbs 18:1
“Whoever lives alone follows private whims, and is angered by advice of any kind.”
New Jerusalem Bible
“One isolating himself will seek [his own] selfish longing; against all practical wisdom he will break forth.”
New World Translation
I think that this is where your Clark is stuck. He has spent the last decade living
ONLY as Superman. More and more he has begun to believe that only he knows best.
By lyingly posting an article in Lois's name to her editor he placed Lois in a no win position.
His actions with Lois make it clear that he makes decisions for other people and in Lois's case in such a way that she can't protest without causing other people major harm. She can't do anything without endangering the Kents.
I think the media, certainly the media as shown in L&C, will twist and distort the article.
Your Clark is well on his way to becoming a tyrant. Or at least a despot. How much longer till he decides he knows best for entire communities, cities, states, nations and at last the whole world?
In the series, and in many a FIC, when Clark got too full of himself Lois and Martha and Jonathan were there to burst his ego.
You titled this "Ten Years In the Making", I think it needs a subtitle "Thirty years to Fix."
