#supertruth

[bobbinalong]

but it still changes

[ultfreakme]

A Jayjon presentation for anyone who's new to Jon and Jay from a fan <3

[battlships]

Jon and Jay are playing in a pillow fort! This is all I ever wanted, look at them!! Thank you, Sina Grace 😭🥺🥰

[slimerepellent]

Jayjon break up pending!!!!!

[fae-morrigan]

i love you, too

[zenayade]

The moment the Truth is born in the world of Injustice.

The clone jon's costume is based on the costume of my country's hero.

[joanthangroff]

Gooood I want to read a good dc comics longfic

[somebodyssherlock-heterodyne]

Going back over the Jayjon interactions in SoKE vol 1 and Jon really did just meet Jay and then rent the U-Haul on his way home from work huh

[nakamurajay]

> jon comes back from volcano

> meets butch lesbian jay

> develops crush knowing it’s never gonna happen

> realizes she’s a woman

> they fuck nasty makeout in the back of jon’s car

[jayjonweek]

JayJon Week starts in 1 day!

Please remember to tag your work with #JayJonWeek23 to have your work shared on the page! Can’t wait to see what everyone’s created 💕

[bobbinalong]

Jay, Jon and Damian I drew for @what0smart.

[ultfreakme]

Secret Six is putting Jon in a position where he is forced to form what his ideology of Superman is, fast.

With great power comes great responsibility. The person with power needs to define what their responsibilities are based on a steadfast ideals. Jon has never had to do this because he's a legacy hero of Superman. Clark has been very clear, but also rather succinct about what his ideals are. Be kind, be good, don't cause harm, protect. Truth, Justice, and the American Way.

None of this is going to work for Jon because he is his own person, his life experiences are different, and by being a bisexual man deeply involved with the queer community with queer and POC friends & lover, he needs to understand that this kind of blanket non-violence is never going to work.

Clark's Superman obviously defends the marginalized, but it's been acknowledged that a good chunk of his influence comes from being the "all-American" cishet white man. We don't see what it's like to be a hero who isn't these things through Clark's Superman. Typically, the Steels were who showed us the systematic discrimination, & how many more obstacles there are to upholding The Superman Way when you're marginalized.

(JHI had to watch his nephews be exploited, paralyzed, he had to watch as Nat tried to cope with all of this happening to her siblings, their entire family was threatened when she was barely a teenager. The trauma of going through all this as a child. Now I don't like the 90s Steel run because it is racist as hell but even the white author knew JH had to deal with the violent racism of the US on top of the sci-fi bombastic threats)

Point being, Jon being queer immediately brings up obstacles which makes the regular Superman motto inadequate. On top of this, the events of Absolute Power reaffirmed his fears of losing control of his powers & has pulled him away from the defiance he showed in SOKE. The safety of following Clark, verbatim, gives a sense of comfort that Jon has been searching for for 7-8 years. He's tired, he's done, so he'll go to a comforting lie if it gives him some reprieve.

Sucks for him because he's dating a guy named The Truth.

Jon loves Jay. Loving Jay means acknowledging that the superhero system, the American Government, and practically the entire world has let him down. The things he seeks safety in are used to torment Jay and his people.

Jon is trying to make Jay a part of the superfam and pull him into the comfort of this vague blanket ideology of "do good, be nice" thinking it'll help but Jay is well aware that it will not. He's been trying this since as early as SOKE #4. Take him to his family, getting Dick and Lois involved, trying to shut him away in the fortress of solitude for the final battle. But Jay has showed him time and time again that dating him means defiance, risk, rebellion.

There is nothing pretty or non-violent about dismantling a dictatorship. The definition of the "right thing" changes depending on circumstance. Secret Six as a group have always been outcasts who were exploited. Some of them want to do good, some are bad but only because their situations gave them little other choices, others are straight up evil but trying to reform. This is where moralities and lines blur.

Should Jon consider Lori a villain because she killed her parents due to a loss of power? Is Nia good or bad for accidentally using her powers which she barely understands to save him but also mess with his brain? Is Floyd terrible for wanting to protect a woman who colonized Gamorra or good for wanting to keep her alive? Is Thomas deserving of a chance to be a hero after his past as a villain?

Is Jay right or wrong for wanting revenge for his mother?

There is no correct answer in any of these cases when you learn the entire context. Jon needs to realize that a LOT of underprivileged, marginalized people are forced into violent systems, and that preaching non-violence can amount to complicity. What is Jon holding up by preaching the Superman Way? The aesthetic of righteousness, or true goodness? Who defines what the "correct" way to liberate is?

[saturniiids]

I did a little bit of research on Gossmer and how the words different meanings could relate to Jay and here are some findings:

1. Gossamer is commonly used to describe things as being delicate and thin (often fabrics, relating to other definitions of the word). This can relate to Jay’s intangibility.

2. Gossamer is a cobweb or type of spider silk which again can refer to Jay’s intangibility in a similar way to the definition of being delicate. It could also relate to Jay’s operation with The Truth and his web of intelligence and news in the organisation.

3. In extension of cobwebs gossamer is often used to describe how cobwebs move through the wind/ air. Which could link to Jay’s newer ability to fly.

4. Gossamer-winged butterfly is another word for the lyceanidae a butterfly or moth who’s markings are similar to the bubbles seen on Jay’s suit and in his body when he goes intangible. Also can link to his ability to fly - gossmer-winged butterflies are swift flyers. They are also commonly blue like the Gossamer suit.

(Photos sourced from: https://www.britannica.com/animal/blue-butterfly and Superman: Son of Kal-El)

5 (extra). Gossamer comes from the word Gossumer, an old English and Scottish term directly translating to goose summer which is a period of time in November where the weather was warm like the summer and geese were often eaten. It is also the time of year where cobwebs would be found hence it becoming a word used for cobwebs. None of this relates to Jay but I head canon him as being born in November now.

[crzdemon]

If anyone's into JonJay, please accept this mess of an offering as I actively ignore other projects and responsibilities rofl

[zenayade]

I understand JAY's role!

It's love that saves the hero from brainwashing.