#brainyclark

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On a visit to the future, Kon and Clark tag along when the Legion gets summoned for an emergency -- a choice that ends with both of them whammied by Time Trapper, sent back along their personal timelines with no memory of their future selves. For Kon, the consequences aren’t that bad – half his timeline, afterall, is barely three months. But half of Superman's life...? Well, that's a much bigger issue.

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Written for the @superfambigbang 2025, you know I had to throw the special interests in a basket and rattle them up - so, welcome to the "Clark takes Kon to the future" fic that makes a mess of multiple canons but makes me very happy. You want some background mess of brainyclark? You wanna read about Kon's complicated and terrible relationship with attention, especially from the adults in his life? You wanna see bby!losh!clark and bby!kon interact?????? <-My reason for the fic

Shout out to @midnightluck for always fighting brain gremlins w/ me, and to the amazing @mslead who did!!!!!! The COOLEST!!!! ART!!!! I shall reblog once it is free from the confines of me being slow the tumblr queue function.

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ClarkxBrainy Week2024 Day 1

This & the next two posts are late Tumblr uploads(this post & another were technically on time on DA or at least posted during the ship week) because I struggled to get around to shit again. I have at least one more pic I want to post for this that will be very late(there was meant to be a fic but I'm posting that later once again unrelated to ship week)

So @priestessofnox setup a list of themes for Clark x Brainy week 2024 on DA.(Link to the list on DA) Back on DA things have kind of slowed down & I don't get usually get to stuff due to juggling things but I enjoy ship weeks/months because it helps me make time for stuff I like & the themes help think of ideas for pics since depending on what's going on I don't always know what I'm doing.

Before I finally get into the pic I'm going to explain that things have changed with some of my DC stuff which you saw in my 2023 ship week stuff. I don't want to ramble too much so I'll just leave it at more kids were added(Jon & Chris) & some stuff changed like as of 2023 I now draw older/parent Brainy with short hair when in the past I drew/imagined he grew his hair out again as an adult. Brainy has a watch/device that helps hide his skin so it looks tan instead of green, he also decided to have hide his hair color so he has dark/black hair instead of blond hair when the device is on. The best way to notice it's him is a necklace with his Brainiac symbol on it which Clark kind of gave him as a gift.

Day 1 was farmer's market

I was originally going to draw them walking around a farmers' market like I did with Shiro & Keith in another thing but decided to draw them setting up a stand at the farmers' market.

I drew my friend's version of adult Jon & Damian(Link to ref also I messed up the ages a little in the pic) helping out or this is their stand with Clark & Brainy helping out. The outfit I drew for Damian didn't seem like a good idea for a farmers' market so gave him another one, his hair is hard to draw still.(Their haircuts are based on a comic panel a friend showed me of Damian liking his hair short & Jon liking his a little longer)

I wasn't sure what to have them doing here, Brainy is manning the counter & Damian is setting up a dog treat display because he made a bunch of homemade dog treats to sell. Clark & Jon are helping bring over supplies they're selling.

[tiptapricot]

If I had a nickel for every time I got into a piece of superhero media with Yuri Lowenthal voicing a reddish themed main character who had a so-close-to-canonic-it-like-basically-or-actually-is-a-thing-thing with his greenish themed boy best friend I would have three nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened three times

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Here's the final piece for my Clark x Brainy week stuff for the year & before I go to bed.(it's 1:27 am) What did I learn from this? I seriously need to plan ahead more again.

Day 7 was endings

I chose the end of being parents due to all the kids leaving the house, their kids have grown up & moved out.(Though Jon eventually moves back to the farm with Damian)

This was originally meant to be them tearing up over getting a wedding invitation from Cara but I decided to change it to when she moved to Brainy's time to join the Legion of Superheroes. Clark & Brainy came to help her move in & to visit old friends & their kids, Brainy is a little sad to see her go & Clark reassures him that Cara has their friends & their friends' kids as support plus they can message her any time & she can visit them.

That's all thanks for see me fumble to get everything out

Link to the list of days for CxB Week 2023

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Fun fact I drew this before day 3 & day 7's pics & you can semi tell I slowly got tired as time went on

Day 5 was holidays

I was going to make holiday photos but decided Halloween was a better idea cause I didn't want to draw the Kent family which includes Clark's parents & a future member Damian Wayne-Kent.

I guess you could say this is a sequel to a pic I should redraw, it was Brainy getting the kids(at the time would only be Van & someone I forgot about) while Clark showed up deciding a bed sheet ghost was a good idea. Years later when the family has grown Clark decided to try again. I also realized I don't know how old I wanted Cara to be at this point. The family has grown since my last redesign of the Kent kids especially since I added more kids.

Brainy is Coraline with some slight edits(kinda inspired by Queraline some), if he kept his disguise device on he'd look a little more like Coraline especially since his disguise has dark hair & Coraline doesn't have green skin

Cara is Blossom(funny as in the original she was Bubbles)

Van is Jack Skeleton(Megan is Sally)

Jon is an old news reporter

Chris(in one version of the comics he's Clark's adopted son) is Pon de Lion(a donut lion)

Conner is Mike Chilton from the cartoon Motorcity

Clark is a bed sheet ghost

Link to the list of days for CxB Week 2023

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I got very behind again & at some point I kind of couldn't continue drawing

Day 3 was favorites

I honestly had no idea what to put for this though some of it could have gotten mixed in with day 6(crossover) however I was to tired to draw anything for crossover day so if I get the chance I'll do it next year.

I decided to draw some hair styles I got a little to obsessed with at some point. First one is a hime cut thanks to Rika Furude from Higurashi, ever since I saw the show as a kid(the wild west of Youtube was insane) I got obsessed with her haircut which eventually calmed down but I did give the bangs to my version of Sonic.(Who has them mostly tied back usually) The other one is from a show/series I don't watch, something about framed bangs/vent hair is cute but also the long braid added to it.

For the longest time I mage older Brainy have long hair, recently his hair has pretty much been chopped off but growing back some. The idea is that before season 2 of Legion of Superheroes he grew out his hair & actually got into styling it before something led to him chopping it all off like how he has shorter hair in his time skip design. He still has photos & knows Clark adores seeing him try things out. Probably knows Clark would like to see him try those hairstyles again now that they're older & he can be there to mess with his fiance's hair.

Link to the list of days for CxB Week 2023

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So I fucked something up so all my CxB Week 2023 shit is going to be late

I wanted to join in @priestessofnox's Clark x Brainy Week 2023 but it all went down the drain cause I got distracted by a fanfic I tried to make for fanfic Friday/day 2 but it needs proof reading.(One of the only times I've ever gotten someone to be a beta reader/proof reader) I'll post that eventually on DA & A03 with a link here.

Day 1 was beginnings

Decided to have it be the beginning of Conner joining the family, going from a lonely existence in Lex Luther's lab to living in a loving family with a couple half siblings.(Since he's a clone of Clark & Luther)

Brainy has on an exo-skeleton/armor that comes from the fanfic I was working on. It's meant to be like his old cybernetics. The guy behind him is Van, Clark & Brainy's first kid who is based on a kid Clark had in a dream from an episode of Justice League Unlimited.

Conner doesn't have the family symbol yet but he will eventually. I originally made my design based on Conner from the Young Justice cartoon but tried to change some stuff like his old design from the comics & mix in some My Adventures with Superman designs in there.

I got maybe some other pics I'll post later.

Link to the list of days for CxB Week 2023

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This is the other pic I was talking about a moment ago. I’m not sure if this counts for the tags listed but they are meant to be fankids/fankid versions for Clark & Brainy. I say “fankid versions of” cause the first two exist already, Vlad(name I made for him, he's Van-El according to wiki) is from a hallucination/dream Clark had in an episode of Justice League Unlimited & Conner is well he’s from Young Justice. So here are Vlad, Conner, Kara(jr, I don't have a better name) & Lain. The first three are Clark & Brainy's kids while the last is a descendant from further down the line. Under the keep reading is their bios & the pic I redrew this from. Sorry about some of the rambling you’ll see. Update: Vlad's name is now Van, Vlad was the only name I could think of starting with "V". A friend pointed out I should just go with Van. I haven't edited anything to show the changes(there's some other changes not added but mentioned further under the keep reading) asides from this sorry.

Left to right Knock Out/Vlad Kent/Van-El: Age 17 Vlad is the oldest of Clark & Querl's kids, he is Conner's older twin & the vigilante Knock Out. He's a bit of a friendly jock that enjoys hanging out with friends & spending time with family. Vlad got into boxing & with practice to hide his super strength has worked into making boxing a hobby. He gets along well with his dad & helps out on his grandparents' farm when he can. Vlad is a ClarkxBrainy version of the character Van-El from the episode of Justice League Unlimited called "For the Man Who Has Everything" were he was Clark's son from a dream(caused by a dangerous plant put on him) were he had the perfect life & got to stay on a Krypton that didn't get destroyed. Clark couldn't help but feel like it was fitting to name his first son after the one from that dream as it felt like the son that never existed finally got to have a life of his own. Aside from that Clark has let Vlad choose his own path which like the rest of his family lead to him being a superhero. Superboy/Conner Kent/Kon-El: Age 17 Conner is the second oldest/technically middle child of Clark & Querl due to being Vlad's younger twin & Kara's older brother, while he likes being around his friends he's not exactly the most out going person. At some point he joined the Teen Titans thanks to his friend Robin/Dick Greyson & so helps out with the section that is stationed in Kansas. Conner is dating Miss Martian & has managed to make friends with someone known as Eye Robin/Watcher.(I’ll explain eventually) He's close with his mom & sister, he sometimes has trouble talking about things to his dad but they get along. Conner is a ClarkxBrainy version of Conner/Superboy from the cartoon Young Justice, his outfit is a mix of that version's outfit & that one Superboy that wore a bike jacket & circular sunglasses. Miss Brainiac(later Brainiac 7)/Kara Jr Kent/Kara-Kal-El: Age 14 Kara is an energetic girl that inherited her mom's super brain, while her brothers are pretty smart she focused more on it. Much to her mom's dismay she got the Brainiac 7 title(it would be 6 but after the incident with Brainiac 6 that lead to Querl being fully organic), while Kara wants to use it for safety reasons(Since Brainiac is a villain) she goes by Miss Brainy/Miss Brainiac.(Some how no one thought about her hero name being Brainiac with Miss in front of it) An incident that lead to Kara being in a coma in the hospital for a little lead to her wanting to become stronger which lead to wanting to be a superhero. Kara is named after her aunt who went missing at some point, she wants to make her aunt proud by doing her best to technically be the next Super Girl as Miss Brainiac. Kara will eventually after collage move to her mom's time & join the Legion of Superheroes as Brainiac 7. Brainiac 11/Lain Kent/Lain-???-El: Age 15 Lain is a descendant of Clark & Querl from one of Kara's descendants & from Superman X/Kell-El's time in what Kell-El's time became after saving it. While she can be a bit overly cheerful if not a bit odd(think of Happy/Yellow Ena from Joel G's), this might come from her enjoyment of teasing people sometimes. I guess you could say she could be a Cheshire Cat if she wanted to. At some point in time one of Kara's descendants married a Coluans so Lain is a tad cyborg like as a result though her family lives on Earth & works with the 41st Legion of Superheroes. Despite keeping up the Brainiac lineage/title her family continues on the House of El name.(I dunno what I'm getting at) Lain can often be seen hanging out with other members her age or interacting with Kell-El, who has been taken into her family. Before the redesign Lain's name was Querl as if she was named after one of her ancestors. I've since given her a name of her own.(Don’t have one for Kara Jr sadly) Update: So the friend I was talking to about Vlad's name helped me with some updates cause they're kind of helping me & this is kind of part of something we were working on that I'm not going to explain here. Vlad's name is now Van, he's also with Miss Martain now. Conner is with Tim Drake. Sorry if this is odd it's mostly my friend's idea.(Well for Vlad being Van & Conner with Tim) Here’s the original pic, a lot has changed since I drew this. It was posted April 15, 2014 on DA. I dunno why I made Kara & Lain(technically Querl jr at the time) have a Mad Hatter theme. Kara was also described as being like Pinkie Pie. For a little I had this project idea called Tokyo Power Panic were a bunch of Tokyo Mew Mew & Power Puff Girls OCs would make a team.(like Justice League) Lain was mentioned in the original post as moving to Tokyo to join it.