It does, but it takes a lot. I don't think it does anything to Kal but I'm half-human, so I don't have the same metabolism.

[Which had almost killed him once. That first time he beat only half to death, Superboy Prime had hurt him so badly that his body started cannibalizing itself while trying to self-repair because it couldn't process yellow sunlight fast enough. Whatever organs did that were underdeveloped compared to a pure Kryptonian.]

But it's kind of the principle of the thing. If I have to knock back an entire bottle of something to equal a shot, it's still a shot and I'd still be high octane mega grounded.

Or, let's be real, they'd give me a sad look and I'd just ground myself.

They mean well, though. I never had, like, curfews and stuff before them. Structure. I kinda mostly raised myself.

My friends had to do parts of it, too. I especially drove Tim nuts.

I didn't realize what I was missing until I got it.