This is the first power I'm giving to Clark that isn't really canon, I guess, it would make sense that he cold see more varieties of light than the average human, especially given his 'x-ray' vision, but, to my limited knowledge, the mechanics for that are never really explained.
Thanks Laura, I was actually a little meh about adding the glasses bit as another push to 'be normal' but this is also taking place in 1972 in my head-canon for it so expectations were a lot different then. Speaking of, UV vision is half of a plan for explaining something that drives me crazy in his powers, and I actually have a piece of a timeline I was working on to test out a new software:
So far they've mostly been in order, I actually changed the ages I wanted him to get enhanced vision after writing Cacophony, heh. And there is a surprise in there too =)
It will be something that's been played with before, Laura, but never with Clark as a kid to my knowledge.
Thanks Lynn, that story would be even more heartbreaking if the kid was red-green color blind =( I didn't necessarily like that Martha was getting him glasses so his color vision came out 'normal' but it's been done before with his vision skills a lot in fics and, sadly, fits well for a rural community in the 70's, especially with all his parents are trying to keep quiet.
Although now I'm picturing the linked research in a world where Superman can come up and say 'well, I don't know exactly how birds, bees or reptiles see it... but here's what *I* see!'
Interesting! It makes sense that Clark would be able to see more. I could see this going hand in hand with his telescopic vision - the more he zooms in, the greater the details and colors.
Nice take on things!
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I thought about extending it a bit, after all, the light spectrum goes infra-red, visible, ultraviolet, x-ray... but the 'x-ray vision' doesn't really work like actually seeing in x-rays would... I also thought about making him able to hear radio waves... but that would require a lot of physiology differences from us, then again, you can cover a lot of ground with 'but he's Kryptonian'. It would also be really cool if he could selectively see different wavelengths, like these shots of our galaxy: