"Do you really think it's okay for you to go to school? If there's a problem, we can teach you at home." My mother said to me while she gave me a worried look.
Now I was getting ready in my bedroom in front of the mirror. Honestly, it was a headache getting my hair done. As I became stronger with the sunlight, my hair also became more beautiful, but much more resistant. To the point that in order to get my hair cut, the only person with enough strength was myself. Instead of small knives, I had to improvise with a very sharp knife and step by step cut the threads, completely destroying the poor knife in the process.
My reflection was very good. I managed to get a degree-cut on the sides of my hair even though the difficulty was insane, but for the top, I had a harder time. That part was more rebellious, so in order to not destroy five other knives, I just tried my best not to let my hair get entangled and made the top feel up.
My Kryptonian eyes were blue, but so blue that they looked like lighted beacons. I had to wear my dad's round sunglasses, which he said were steampunk style.
Adding that to a black leather jacket we bought together when my parents first came to introduce me to the city, I was really looking a lot like what they call a bad boy. Something very popular in this land during those years.
"It's okay, mom, don't you trust me?" I asked with a smile as I stared at her after lifting the sunglasses for my hair.
"I trust your personality, but you still don't know how to control your powers." She said in a lost tone of voice as she looked at the wall of my room that was covered by some wood planks temporarily.
"That was a slip up, Krypto had taken the jacket you gave me... you know how much it matters to me right? " I said as I caressed the first gift they both chose for me.
"Ahh, all right. But don't say these kind of things, you know I easily get sentimental." She said while she sighed.
"But no superpowers, huh? You know what happened to Captain America, right?" She asked me.
"Yes, Mother, he died because he was careless with his enemies." I said it while I rolled my eyes.
"All right, your dad said he'd give you something for your first day at school, he's waiting downstairs, let me give you a kiss." She came towards me and kissed my forehead, a common action that I liked very much by the way.
I went downstairs and found my dad propped up with his back to the wall while playing with something in his hands.
"Hey, Dad, Mom said that you wanted to tell me something." I said this while I was anchoring myself to the wall next to him.
"John, I know your mother is worried for you, but since you told me the meaning of the symbol stamped on the chest of your toga, I couldn't stop thinking about something. From what you told us about your old parents, they were wonderful people, and I'm sure they would want you to do the right thing, so honor the symbol of your El house and be the hope for others. I'll cover you in case anything happens, so just be careful. Okay?" he said as he opened his hand to me and showed me a little brooch with the letter "S" from this world that he had probably made by hand.
"Dad... I..." I did not know what to say, I felt the words stuck in my chest, but only by noticing his gaze did I know that he had understood what I meant. Stopping trying to explain in words, I gave him a hug to explain in actions.
It has been 3 weeks since I had arrived here on this planet and I had already attached myself to my new parents, of course, without forgetting the old ones.
And one day when I was coming back from the area market...
...
I was carrying a bag full of seeds in one hand, spinning in the other a bag with some snacks that Krypto loved, and whistling a fun song that I heard playing on the radio, until suddenly I saw a woman being pulled by a pair of hands inside an alley.
Worried about her, I ran back to see what was happening and witnessed one of the most horrible scenes I had ever seen in my life.
Two men were pulling down their pants while they held the woman's arms, legs and covered her mouth so she couldn't resist after they tore her dress and threw it aside. Seeing that, the "El" blood in my body started to stir and I had to do something about it.
"Hey, what the fuck are you doing?" I screamed in anger.
Hearing someone shouting at them, the two bad guys got scared at first, but seeing that it was just a teenager they relaxed and showed a look of contempt by shouting at me while pointing a gun in my direction. "Get out of here if you don't want to die boy, be glad that we spare your life hahaha!"
I looked into the eyes of the woman who desperately tried to escape the clutches of these men while rivers of tears flowed down her face. What she meant by that look was obvious: "Save me."
I didn't think twice, even though I had only been on the planet for 3 weeks and my strength was still not powerful enough to be invincible, I took the heavy bag of seeds that I was holding and threw it at one man and ran towards the other. When the bag hit him unprepared, the impact on his chest made him fall to the ground without air, his hands tried to grab the air in desperation to try to breathe, but any attempt was in vain.
The other man, who was holding the gun, was frightened at how far his partner flew, so he aimed the gun at me and shot.
I got shot when I was in the middle of the way and my shoulder pulled back a bit, but I didn't stop. Before the man could understand why I didn't fall for his gunshot even though I was a teenager, I punched him in the chest with all my strength and I definitely felt some ribs being broken as he fell with difficulty breathing exactly like the other man.
I stopped caring about the two of them and went to help the woman. She was still crying in a corner, maybe even traumatized. When she noticed that the men who were trying to rape her were lying on the ground, without thinking twice she ran and hugged me, the only person who could make her feel safe at that moment, the only person who could give her... hope...
When I came home with a gunshot wound, my mother almost fainted from worrying about losing another child, but even with her giving me a moral lesson to be more careful, I could feel that inside she was proud of me for having helped a defenseless woman.
...
Since that day I have nurtured a desire to want to use my superpowers to help defenseless people, wronged people, people of good against evil people who wanted to do evil.
My father had the same thought as me that "If I can save people, I must save people."
And the S that he gave me now, represented the hope that I should bring to those I saved, just like that woman.
If I can save people, I must save people."
oookay, i'm done.
I was hoping he wouldn't fall for the same thing that every underpants league does but, meh.
Yeah another Messiah complex...
Isn't it's basic f*cking knowledge that krytonians grow stronger under a yellow sun..they wore suits to protect against that shit...so why the f*ck doesn't he know social f*cking shit
The parent-son relationship was formed way too easily. It's not like mc was an orphan before I can understand if that was the case
bit to quick on jumping the mother father.
maybe write it as.
"Do you really think it's okay for you to go to school? If there's a problem, we can teach you at home." My new mother said to me while she gave me a worried look.
"It's okay, umh.. mom, don't you trust me?" I asked with a smile as I stared at her after lifting the sunglasses for my hair, looking a bit akward still having to get used to calling her mom.
they need a more "tense" bonding moment for that to be more natural.
like they get in danger and he saves them when thinking they might have been dead. and him reflecting on his own parents and how they both seem the same 'kind and goodhearted etc etc'
but until then make it akward for them. perhaps not for martha as she is more intent on it.
I thought it was a time skip at first then I read the next few line and saw that it has only been 3 weeks, and bruh was the only word I could think of.
All I can say is i feel bad you've never had a relationship where someone you very recently met became closer than family. No it doesnt happen to everyone but it does happen
Since that day I have nurtured a desire to want to use my superpowers to help defenseless people, wronged people, people of good against evil people who wanted to do evil.
O conceito de justiça nesses contos de super-heróis muitas vezes é bastante simplista - às vezes aqueles que estão no poder causam mais danos à sociedade do que qualquer criminoso que caçam!
É por isso que gosto de personagens como Rorschach, Punisher e até o Ultron dos vingadores, eles entendem o verdadeiro mal que as pessoas são e não hesitam em matar! (Vamos lá, um herói captura um vilão assassino em massa que ele vai para a cadeia, meses depois ele foge e começa novamente sua jornada de matar pessoas inocentes, o que não teria acontecido se eles o tivessem matado logo!)
-O problema dos heróis é que acreditam na justiça dos governos, um governo podre e corrupto que só se preocupa com seus interesses.
my dad
ugh, are you delusional? That's not your dad.