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.

Links I used for this:
https://bybio.wordpress.com/2013/09/09/yellow-blue-green-right/
http://blog.nature.org/science/2015/08/17/field-guide-wrong-birds-eye-view-world-color-vision/
The Starling in simulated UV vision: http://photographyoftheinvisiblewor...ropean-starling-sturnus-vulgaris-in.html
Black-Eyed Susan in UV: http://www.naturfotograf.com/UV_RUDB_HIR.html
Dandelion in UV: http://www.naturfotograf.com/UV_TARA_VUL.html

I was tempted to add a scene with adult Clark reading some of these articles and realizing what exactly he'd been seeing all along =)

Interesting story, Lieta ...

I agree, it does make a lot of sense that Clark would be able to see more colors than the average person. I like this theory.

I also enjoyed how you wrote Clark, Martha, and how they figured out how to solve their problem.

Really great!
Laura

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 =)

Hmm....'secret ability' in 1975.

That'll be fun to hear about!
Laura

I love it. Clark is just fortunate that he didn't have the teacher discussed in Harry Chapin's poignant song Flowers are Red.

Now any time I hear that song, I'll think of your Clark to cheer me up afterwards.

Joy,
Lynn

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!

So that's how Clark got his glasses!

Thanks DC and Morgana =)

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:

Hi Sara!

Sounds like Harmonicity. Is this a Just Say Noah fic?

Apparently not

Oops?

Aww…what a great idea!

Michael

I probably should take Mike up on having all of these under one FDK, heh, but glad you liked this thread of what's turned into my 'powers' series =)