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I suppose I'm in the lucky minority who have two amazing Fathers. While one is someone I have never and will never meet, he has given me more than I think even he suspected when he sent me away. An ideal to live up to. A legacy to carry on. The hopes and dreams and aspirations of an entire world full of amazing, vibrant people who had themselves done so much. I wear his crest proudly and I think of him often.
Jonothan Kent is the only Father I knew I had until my adult life and I'm so glad of his care and guidance. His morality and strength and his capacity for love are what inspire me to this day to do the best I can for the people who have taken me in as one of their own, even if I never truly can be one of them. He showed me the best that Humanity has to offer and gave me the tools I needed to navigate this world as a champion for those same morals he held so highly. If I had been found by anyone else, I have to wonder and if I'm honest, worry, how things might have turned out not only for me but for my adopted home world.
Father's day this year is bittersweet. Like Mothers day, I feel his absense that much more keenly. I remember every year, running around the farm in the pre-dawn light, doing every single conceivable chore I could before he was awake to try and do them himself. Every year he'd still find something to do, even though Ma and me would try and convince him it was alright to take the day off. I remember giving him the Fathers day cap written in interlac and how happy he was with it - though really, it could have been anything. He's always been happy with any gift I could give him, from something small bought in town to items brought all the way from accross the world.
I miss them both, in different ways.
Happy Fathers day, Jor-El and Jonothan Kent.
Do we have any Fathers in the castle? I don't believe I've heard anyone mention that they have children but I've never really thought to ask, either. If so, Happy Fathers Day to you.
For those of you that have a Father that they care to honor, I hope you do so in some way.