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here is the fascinating thing about growing older: it always happens too fast
a blink, and you're 11. 13. 15. 16.
17.
Here's the thing.
At least you get a few years for it. You experience the time as it goes.
Jonathan Kent did not get such a reprieve.
It is over far too fast.
Puberty is hard. An experience. A transitioning, a rite of passage into something newer and terrifying.
Kyptonians aren't quite humans, you know?
Good thing Jon isn't quite either.
Walking is hard. His legs are too long for his body. (They're not. His body is too big for him now. Stretched and growing without him.)
He has to navigate through familiar rooms with unfamiliar dimensions- duck your head or you'll hit that doorway. Don't make that step or you'll stub your toe on that chair that used to be so much further away.
It doesn't hurt him, no.
Something stings.
(It's not his body.)
Some people are forced to grow up too fast.
This isn't quite his body anymore.