Another thing about Lois is that her soul can be incarnated into another person's body. So Clark can live on in his own body and interact with a reincarnated Lois in another body.
In Soul Mates, both Lois and Clark were reincarnated (transmigrated?) several times (but oddly , always into bodies which were visual replicates of the same model -- which has interesting sci-fi implications, but I'm wonder-wandering off topic here --- Also, in Soul Mates, Clark was not always "super"- he dies in that medieval duel , for example.
Clark is not exactly mortal. Unless you re-write the show, you can't change that essential and basic foundation.
Respectfully disagree here: The show left this issue very much open to conjecture. It' was only Bernie Klein who hypothesizes that Clark is immortal. He was speculating. Besides, Bernie wasn't exactly a 'totally right all the time' type scientist. As well, Clark gave up some of his life force to restore 'old man' Jimmy to his proper age. So, if in fact, Clark's life span was roughly similar to humans, he could have lost some of his 'time' and wound up aging sooner than his years would indicate. (now there's a fanfic challenge for you
) Also, Nor, a Kryptonian, quite clearly died.
As well, consider Clark's close encounters with death as a result of all those close encounter K incidents. He had more of those than I'd had the flu! The statistical probability that one of those encounters would prove lethal would be strong. Or that there would be long term resdual weakening of his body.
And the biggest reason why the concept of immortal Clark is a bummer ..... it sucks the romance right out of the L & C relationship. ya gotta have the orginal model of each for the fireworks to dazzle the sky, and the wonderous, blissful calm afterwards.
You can tell by all this I'm no fan of the reincarnation concept.
Now, for TOC's fanfic challenge - interesting because it suggests that it's Clark's personality that define the character more than his physicality. Now, I agree with that premise - otherwise, Clark would have become BatMan say, or like Nor and his thugs when they found their superpowers. But the tricky thing is to get that soul into an age appropriate body so that there can be a romance (and there's gotta be a romance, otherwise it's Starsky and Hutch)
There's an old movie based on this premise - but what is it - man and women hit it off - he dies unexpectedly and is reincarnated (as a prizefighter I beleieve) Will she recognise her lover in his new body? Great movie, too bad I can't remember the title.
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