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Hi Bob!
So great to see a new story from you

/Intrigued/







Oh…Lois.

Yes. Some also use GHB. *SCNR*

Still would have sworn they also stand of Lois Lane. But a golden Lex makes more sense.

Michael

Hi, Michael

I knew that many would recognize The Bakery in the roots of this story. That's why I didn't feel I could write it unless I had explicit permission from Dandello.

Obviously there is more than that. Once that door was closed, it was gone from that universe. That was why Clark couldn't see through the wall. The instant that the door was closed, the other side ceased being "wired" to ANY universe. In effect, there was no other side.





Believe it or not, it REALLY was an accident. I figured Lex would be too smart and careful to fall for any kind of trap.

No promises, but I have some notes.

Bob

You're welcome!

/nods/ So, they set up the corridor as part of the ambience setting for Fallen Sky Clark?

Michael

So cool! Thank you!

Wow! Totally brilliant story! What can I say that others haven't already said?

However, I have one question? Since this is a time displaced pairing, what about earlier Clark?

It is 1988 in Lois' world. Nightfall arrives in 1994. Clark arrives in 2001. What happens when 2001 Clark arrives?

I suppose they could adopt him and raise him, but that would lead to a really strange Oedipus loop thingy.

Sorry, but my mind just will not let that go.

James

Hi, James.

I am SO sorry that I've taken so long to get back to you. I saw your note last week and should have responded immediately. However, I didn't and then life happened...

I'm glad you thought about what was going to happen when Clark arrived. I was surprised that more people didn't bring up that "problem." I did spend some time trying to visualize how that would turn out.

Re: Lois and Clark raising Clark as their son.
-> Lois as Clark's mom.... Oedipus indeed. However, this has to be the most likely path. One idea that came to mind as I pondered this problem one was something like this:
1. LnC raise young Clark as Clark Jr.
2. When he starts to reach adulthood - and notices that he is an identical twin to his "dad" - they tell him his origins.
3. Then Clark Sr. gets killed.
4. Now both Lois and Clark Jr. are having to deal with the combination of the loss of older Clark and the knowledge that young Clark is Clark.

You can get really crazy when you start messing with timelines.

Anyway, thank you for the feedback. I'm so happy that you enjoyed the story.

Bob

Wouldn't that cause some kind of time paradox if Clark is taken from an alternate future of his own universe and stuck into the past, thereby erasing the future from which he was removed?

I had assumed two different dimensions: Clark's: he arrives late and Lois had married Lex. Lois': there was no Clark (he never arrived).

I'm not touching that one because of the paradoxical Oedipus issue with a Kryptonian soulmate bond connecting him to his mother after his father died. I'm getting a splitting headache just reading the scenario.

Michael

Yes. That was the point of this exercise. Clark's original timeline was replaced with whatever comes out of Clark moving into the past.

One thing I thought of was that since "Clark" was already present in this timeline, then baby Clark's ship would be forced into another timeline.

Another thought was something along the lines of this...

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As Clark stepped into the past, a ripple tore through spacetime. Since, as everyone knows, temporal shockwaves moved backwards through time, it reached the planet Krypton 63 years before the birth of Kal El. As the shockwave passed through Krypton it caused a subtle but critical shift in the fluid dynamics near the planet's core. As a result of this shift, a swirling eddy of molten iron deep in the core had it’s pattern disrupted and dissipated. This eddy had been destined to grow into the core instability that would have destroyed the planet Krypton. Sixty three years later Kal El was born to a healthy and stable home world.
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That doesn't really solve the paradox problem, but at lease we don't have the Oedipus issue to deal with.

As I said, you can get really crazy when you start messing with timelines.

I'm not writing it. I just thought it was an interesting variant of that problem.

Bob

Just to follow up on this can of worms, my daughter the amateur psychologist tells me that Clark Jr. wouldn't be attracted to Lois because our minds automatically reject potential pairings with people that we grew up with. It usually applies to siblings (i.e. if Lois and Clark had been raised as siblings they wouldn't be attracted to each other), but I guess it would work with parents, too. And Clark Jr. is not Clark, Sr. any more than any pair of identical twins are the same person. Genetics is only part of what makes us who we are--Clark is Clark partly because he was raised by Martha and Jonathan, or, in this Clark's case, by an orphanage started by them. But that's a whole nother topic.