#dev-em

[imperfectlyxangelic]

Clip from Krypton (1x02 - House of El)

[jazziejax]

𝐌𝐲 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭

“You don’t even need glasses, wonder boy. You’re just trying to copy my style.”

“I am a man, Flower, you of all people should know that. And you’re just jealous that these glasses make me look, what did you say last night? Fuckable?”

“Dev! Don’t say fuckable when we’re in public, just say sexy or something.”

“But you just said it.”

When the unexpected crash landing in her backyard turns out to be a man, Magnolia’s quiet world is turned upside down. What begins as a shocking encounter soon unfolds into an unforgettable journey—one filled with grief and healing, wonder and chaos, life-altering revelations, and moments of pure, heart-stopping excitement. Through it all, an unexpected bond forms between them, growing stronger with every challenge they face. And watching over them with a knowing gaze (and the occasional judgmental side eye) is Mufasa, the ever-loyal, ever-opinionated cat determined to keep them both in line. And in the amidst of all the madness, there is love—the kind neither of them saw coming, but both were destined to find.

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐎𝐧𝐞 | 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐡 | ⭑⭑⭑

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐰𝐨 | 𝐀 𝐍𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 | ⭑⭑

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 | 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐑𝐨𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐞 | ⭑

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫 | 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐨𝐨𝐧…

[cozyaliensuperstar7]

AARON PIERRE AS DEV-EM IN KRYPTON 👑😍

(Video credit: @cozyaliensuperstar7)

[theogbadbitch]

My Southern Delight by @jazziejax (a moodboard)

In honor of our man’s birthday & recent events, I will be highlighting what’s really important on this hellsite…the wonderful fics these gracious authors have blessed us with!

There are few Dev-em fics here on Tumblr so this one truly stands out! It’s such a feel good story, like a romantic comedy from 2005 that I would be obsessed with. Southern belle paired with a tall strong alien man , what more could you ask for?

[milkydraws8]

In the year 813, Rao Restorationists detonated phantom-bombs on the Wegthor Lunar Capital, wiping out half the population and neutralizing the Corps' presence in Krypton's system.

Within days, they took control of the WLC's central BRAINIAC terminal and declared martial law.

General Dru-Zod had been the principal operator, serving as prime coordinator and strategist.

Zod's senior paladin; Faora Ul-Tek earned notoriety through her frenzied while her elder sister Quex kept to the shadows.

Proctor Jax-Ur was a rejected El-Hopeful and served as Zod’s commanding sneer for the lower ranks. He lost an eye to Faora's blind savagery.

Field Scribes Ursa Ma-Nel and Tor-An were the only surviving members of their section; the roughly fifty people responsible for installing, arming, and detonating the phantom-bomb array.

Car Vex-Win, the Lesser Commander, was remarkably cold and calculating. She performed her role not with Faora's heated passion or Zod’s solemn zealotry, but with a detached, almost apathetic air of acceptance.

Nam-Ek, disbarred from the House of El due to his illegal and blasphemous experimentation, found solace with the Restorationist cause.

Of the fifty-six Gruntsmen responsible for holding off Wegthor’s authority and destroying critical infrastructure, only two survived; Nadira Ca-Nil, and Gan Gor-Van.

Having been radicalized in his youth, Constable Dev-Em, chief constable of Atoni City, was a ready prospect for the Restorationists. His access to deepband communication systems and his position of high authority was critical for the coup's success, especially as he was able to covertly aid operations from a hidden base on Krypton itself.

The strangest and a most terrifying member of the Restorationists was Non-Od - the Brute. This silent, unthinking thing in Kryptonian flesh would likely have shocked Zod’s great-grandfather into outrage if not outright violence.

Not born of a womb or cloned from noble seed, but instead stitched together in a chamber beneath the city of Kandor, this illegal affront to Rao was a horror-show come to life - an army of one.

Its cells absorbed and saturated young-sun energy nearly five times as well as its compatriots. More loyal than a Fuun, it murdered and destroyed without discrimination or hesitance.

As cruel as Car-Vex or Faora seemed to be, Non-Od was incapable of even contemplating the atrocities it committed.

[jasposeyblog]

My commission of Dev-Em by Joe Phillips

[sarksarkos]

Superboy '61: Dev-Em? I hardly know 'em!

Adventure Comics #287 introduces Dev-Em, a character that 90% of you have never heard of, and an equal percentage will forget about as soon as you close this blog. But should you remember him? Also no. Welcome to the Gutters!

As the cold open said, Dev-Em is little more than a footnote in Superman's history. DC had long established that Superman was an absolute power in the universe, not a relative one. He was not simply strong, he was all but invincible, and the only thing that could rightly challenge him was another Kryptonian. With Krypton long reduced to space dust, they were forced to contort newer and wilder ways to introduce Kryptonian adversaries.

Adventure Comics #283, earlier that year, introduced the concept of the Phantom Zone, and with it, future Superman nemesis General Zod. Zod is a surprisingly minor figure in the Superman mythos. Before he burst into popular culture in the Christopher Reeve Superman movies, most of his appearances were flashback or phantom zone ghosts, like this one. He was a decidedly unimpressive figure with a potbelly and a pair of stupid undershorts and never once made Superman kneel.

Phantom Zone criminals would be a regular figure in Superman stories from then on. Whenever they needed a foe to give Superman a good solid punching, they could decant one of these ghost supes from their torture prison, have a thrashing, and then put him back into their hellish limbo dimension without considering the carcerial ethics involved. We'll look at that another time.

Instead of using the Phantom Zone, they created Dev-Em, the kind of man who would have beef with a toddler. Dev-Em is Superman's asshole teenage neighbor. His parents are family friends to Jor-El and Lara, but he's just an unpleasant little shit. The very first thing we see him do is try to drive his goofy jetsons car at baby Kal-El and nearly run him over. Most of the story in this issue is showing all the antics he and his friends get up to, and he really is a terror.

You know what, I've decided that we're going to talk about the messed up justice system on Krypton right now, because there is some fascist bullshit going on here. This is a clearly militarized police force going around with truth-o-scopes and threatening to sentence people to the phantom zone for what amounts to minor pranks and property damage. I like to give Krypton the benefit of the doubt but maybe it was always a shitty place.

Surprisingly, Dev-Em is the only one who believes Jor-El that the planet is going to explode. He breaks into his lab and steals some papers, with the intent to steal the idea and pass it off as his own. Despite having incomplete notes and the education of a kryptonian high school football star, Dev-Em isn't just able to replicate Jor-El's achievement, he succeeds him. Stealing a bunch of equipment, Dev-Em takes their space doomsday prepper bunker and makes it spaceworthy, with enough supplies and shielding that not only does it survive a planetary cataclysm, it carries its passengers safely to Earth.

This really makes Jor-El look like an absolute buffoon. I have a pet theory that one of the reasons Kryptonians never went into space was that the gravity of their planet was so powerful that conventional rocketry would be impossible due to the fuel requirements. I think Jor-El was consumed with an impossible problem to the point of self destruction. If he had instead tried to create some kind of shelter, he could have saved himself, his wife, their child, and their little dog too. Hell, that happened to Supergirl by accident.

The next issue picks up right where the last one left off, with Dev-Em discovering little baby Kal-El has grown up into Superboy and deciding to ruin his life for funsies. Superboy remembers Dev-Em because of his inconsistently applied powers of super-memory, and then he's immediately zapped into the phantom zone. Dev-Em makes a fake Superboy costume and a Mission Impossible mask and sets out ruining his life.

Sadly, the story takes a downturn after that. Because Superboy is trapped in the ghost dimension and Dev-Em is an invincible kryptonian, there isn't really any conflict to be had. Nobody can fight Dev-Em or even attempt to dissuade him, so he just gets to do what he wants. Conversely, he's not smart enough to realize that Superboy has a secret identity and he never attempts to expose him as Clark Kent, or make the people of Smallville hate both his identities.

At the end, Dev-Em doesn't even get his comeuppance. He flies off through the time barrier and isn't seen again for another thousand years when he decides to bug the Legion of Super-Heroes. Superboy doesn't even get to prove himself to the people of Smallville. Instead, he calmly explains himself, and the local police chief makes up a story about exposure to Red Kryptonite. Everyone just accepts that Superboy was driven loony by space rocks and things go back to normal. The status quo is resolved now and forever.

Dev-Em does not get a good start. I would go so far as to say he's absolutely wasted in this first appearance. But he turns into a much more interesting and three-dimensional character once he reappears in the Legion of Super-Heroes stories, even becoming an independent hero in his own right. I have a special place in my nerdy heart for the Legion, so I'm probably giving this guy a bit more of a focus than he deserves, but we are looking at a story told over the course of decades, and one of my favorite things in in comics is when the guy from one issue a billion years ago suddenly becomes important again. Until next time!

[avatarskywalker78]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapter: 1/1

Fandom: Krypton (TV 2018)

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Nyssa-Vex & Dev-Em

Characters: Nyssa-Vex, Dev-Em

Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, Episode s02e06 In Zod We Trust, Missing Scene, Introspection, Guilt, Developing Friendships, Grief/Mourning

Summary:

In the aftermath of having jumped out of a window with her baby son in her arms and into a skimmer, Nyssa gets a moment of quiet with Dev-Em, someone she doesn't really know all that well beyond the fact he was once a loyal soldier and Lyta's intended...

(She's not really sure what to make of the fact he seems genuinely concerned about her, given all she's done and who she is...but maybe it's not so simple as it once was.)