Clark, dear, maybe you should stop considering yourself in any way appropriate for determining what Lex should and shouldn't know, or what Lex will care about knowing. You have a shitty track record so far. Like, really shitty. Perhaps not entirely when it is regarding everyone else's secrets, but any and everything Lex related should not be up to you.

Brilliant. And the bit with relevant secrets from Clark's POV - hilarious. :'D
Thx for this story!

well done :) thank you for writing

So I don’t know if any note that mentions dick being a better hacker than Batman, besides the animated young justice series. Also there are quite a few people whose intellect/skill set would make them capable of hacking lex: cyborg, toy man III (?)(the one who helps Superman every once in a while), hardware, (probably), blue beetle (for the same reason as cyborg), lex himself... finally I’ve always found the dick x Babs idea a little weird. Dick x kory for the win

It made me laugh so much! Bad bad Clark not telling the truth. I now want to read more Lex/conner/Clark father son relationships. More?

Damnit, Clark. Maybe Lex should have included a caveat, in which Tim or Conner get to decide if a given secret actually does pertain to Lex or not, since Clark clearly has a terrible track record.

Primarily because of the angst issue tied to the revelation of Lex being exploded then attached to a clone of himself - knowing his actual soul is indeed in his new body would alleviate a lot of it in favor of just being pissed at various people involved. But also. Darkseid. In any way involved. In something Lex is also in any way involved with? Yes, tell Lex that. Just because it "happened and is history" doesn't mean he doesn't want to know it! *headdesks*

Too bad Conner can't fly yet. Then breaking them up enough to argue would just be a matter of floating between them stubbornly. A cookie says Tim has a solution, though, which probably involves "borrowing" some mechanical means of flight.
I suspect Lex will approve of Tim. His main reasoning for getting involved in the capes and cowls crowd was to stop Batman from going off the deep end, something Lex can comprehend and used logic he can appreciate. He's also apparently the "sane one", which I can see Lex finding pleasing given his life thus far. As long as he doesn't decide he has to worry about his son's virtue being corrupted, Tim can probably earn some positive cred pretty easily by being himself. Lex would probably still make a point of regular "checks" of some sort to ensure the boys haven't been too corrupted by the capes and cowls' insanity, though.

*coos adoringly*

Three Words... Fuck-Damnit Clark!

it seems like lex is taking the mother's role here, whenever the child is good its hers, but when they are bad they are the father's.

Long-suffering-friend!Tim and Let's-Be-a-Happy-Family-Including-Tim!Conner are life!

*maniacal laughter*
This is officially the best solution to the "Clark is an idiot about Conner" I've ever encountered. Papa Lex breaking out all of the stops to personally beat the crap out of his fail-co-parent? Rockin'!

I can't believe I've never found a hybrid like this before, of the Smallville versions with the YJ versions. It's so wonderfully full of parallels, too! Lex was the worldly genius bestie with questionably moral judgement and crazy thorough planning, obsessed with digging out secrets and information (even if Timmy is more of a direct detective than Lex himself who paid people to do most of the legwork) while Clark was the naïve little super-muscle angstfest. XD I kind of really want one of them to figure that out, mostly because I'm really curious about who will freak out (probably Clark), how, and how they each react if they aren't quite freaking out (Lex is going to be keeping a much closer speculative eye on his newly found son's "evil genius bestie").
(Actually, now I want Lex to point at them as an example of what could-have-been, had Clark been less excessive in his need to keep Lex in the dark. Because I wouldn't put it past a younger Lex to go a route similar to Red Robin's, minus the Bat-Clan parts. It's not like he didn't learn some of that stuff anyway to protect himself, and he does rely on tech and armor a lot.)

Also, Smallville Lex's perspective on the whole of all of it is epic. He's perfectly aware that he does some things that are not at all legal, doesn't care as long as it achieves what he wants, and sees the entire League as crackpots who need minders and some kind of check to counter them before they get too big "Ideas" that could turn in to conquest, and reminders that they are imperfect. He also has his own morals he dislikes seeing crossed (not that he won't cross them if he really needs to), for example I'm fairly sure he'd be most displeased about discovering the YJ team exists because they're kids, not because they're "covert/secret". Which he'll probably be voicing more opinions about soon, what with discovering his son is a part of the disaster.

I could buy Lex tolerating the G-gnomes accelerated aging thing for an initial short burst, to skip the diaper stage and to "make sure he's actually genetically stable" (as opposed to raising -and loving- a baby/toddler only to have him die young because his genetics fell apart), but especially if he knew his DNA was what they used to "stabilise" Clark's so that it actually works? I can't see him staying away. I can't see him not drifting to viewscreens or outside the pod to stare at i/his kid/i, and eventually ending up not unlike he is once Conner tells him they share genetics - having a hand in actually raising him, and steering the "programming" steadily more towards actual child-care-like means as enough important basics get "downloaded", eventually acknowledging him publicly somehow. He'd end up dragging the project off-script, from "replacement/counterweapon" to "my actual kid because I can't have them normally, who just happens to be Kryptonian enough to break a lot of things and thus gets even more training to control it and protect himself".
Heck, I could even see an exasperated and frustrated Lex calling Martha -being one of the best actual mothers he knows who is alive and incidentally also raised a Kryptonian from toddlerhood- and asking her point blank how she managed various "growing pains", since Clark can't be trusted to actually explain jackshit and it's rapidly become obvious he wasn't always a flying invulnerable powerhouse with laservision. I'm sure "grandma" could help reassure a younger-Conner (and even this one) that even Clark couldn't always do all the things he can now or do them well at first, partially through funny stories of mishaps. Which Lex will want copies of any pictures of, and otherwise store the details of away to pull out next time he needs ammunition to harass his former bestie with. XD (Also Lex sure as hell won't be introducing his son to any of i/his/i side of the family, except as mugshots and strict explanations of why they deserve to be dead or otherwise kept far far away from the both of them.)

I absolutely love this.

*Grins so big his face could split* I called it! I soooo called it!

*Grins so big his face could split* I called it! I soooo called it!