Will you ever write anything with the batfam? Bc all your fics are in dceu, so all of Bruce’s children are all always either dead (dick) or just not there (everyone else) 😅 if you never plan on it that’s totally understandable !!! there are 💀 quite a few of them 😭
/o\ :D Oh, anon, I would LOVE to be able to say yes to you—but the truth is, I feel deeply unqualified to try to write the Batfam, because I know almost nothing about them! :') The DCEU isn't the only DC canon I'm familiar with, I've watched small parts of the DCAU and I've read certain specific issues of comics for research purposes ... but I know almost nothing about most of the members of the Batfam, which means I would be VERY nervous about trying to write a story that incorporated them into the DCEU (or trying to write a story that was actually set in comics continuity, for that matter).
I am absolutely open to fixing that, though :D so if you have recs for specific runs of comics you think are really essential for understanding Dick/Jason/Tim/Steph/Cass/Damian/ANYONE I'M FORGETTING, I would be grateful to have a starting point for getting to know at least some of them!
(And I have idly thought off and on about someday trying to write something that works with the DCEU's premise—Dick is the dead Robin, there hasn't been another since—but takes it in a bit more of a comics direction. Like, Bruce still ends up meeting and choosing to adopt Jason, sometime after JL, BUT because of Dick's death, he is absolutely 100% unwilling to have Jason even know about Batman at all; Bruce Wayne adopts Jason, Bruce refuses to ever break character around him, &c &c ... and then, you know, Dick gets Lazarus-Pitted and comes back a little bit fucked up, and Bruce's attempts to shield Jason from any awareness of Batman start unraveling once Dick has come back into the picture, and it gets all messy for like 50k and then gradually resolves itself, and also Clark probably ends up jumping on the coparenting train because it's me and there's ALWAYS Bruce/Clark happening in the background. :'D
So, uh, yeah. Point is, I definitely won't rule it out, I do have ~ideas and also I love Bruce and kids, BUT it probably won't happen anytime soon, either. Which I hope is not too disappointing to hear! ♥)
hello! first i wanted to say i love your art!!your style is really cool! i also wanted to ask if you are okay with people using your art as a header or icon with direct credit? thank you so much and have a great day/night (:
thank you for the kind words ;o;/ im happy to let u guys use my art just no edits/drawing over and directly credit me somewhere visible thank you so much for asking /uou\
What's Bruce and Clark's headspace like following Marriage of Inconvenience (esp curious about Bruce)? Like there's def love there but is Bruce feeling guilty for his distrust/cruelty when he tried to push Clark away w/ fights? Is he fully letting down the mask w/ Clark or still keeping some things secret (like his initial ulterior motives in the marriage)? Is Clark focused on love or is he starting to wonder about what else Bruce was lying about? Also so curious about Clark + Alfred's dynamic
/o\ :D EXCELLENT QUESTIONS, haha, and thank you so much for asking them! I don't have totally coherent answers all pinned down here—which is frankly because I am still working on figuring out how I want to answer these as I start piling up notes about what I want to do with a sequel :'D—BUT I have been thinking about all of these things a lot and I definitely can yammer a little bit about what I have in mind/what I've been considering. :D I'm sorry/you're welcome?
Is Bruce feeling guilty for his distrust/cruelty when he tried to push Clark away w/ fights? Is he fully letting down the mask w/ Clark or still keeping some things secret (like his initial ulterior motives in the marriage)?
:D The answer to any question about whether Bruce is feeling guilty will always be "yes" with me at the wheel, lol. BUT, to be more specific—despite having said "yes" in response to Clark's proposal at the end of the fic (and on one level meaning it because he wants nothing more than to stay married to Clark pls), I'm intending for Bruce to spend a pretty good chunk of the sequel basically veering back and forth between trying to be honest with Clark for good reasons (because Clark deserves that much from him), trying to be honest with Clark for bad reasons (because exposing all his fundamental uglinesses is the only way to get Clark to understand that he's made a mistake here and should probably retract that proposal), trying to be the best version of himself (because that presumably is the person Clark actually wants and should get to have), and accidentally being incredibly difficult (because there's going to be Plot Stuff going on in the background that he's trying to deal with himself/protect Clark from having to know anything about/&c &c, control freak that he is).
So, yeah, I have every intention of Bruce eventually confessing to as many things he thinks Clark might not like as possible, including trying to impress upon Clark that he pulled strings to get himself married to Clark in the first place in the hope of finding something that could kill Kryptonians and putting himself in a position to use it, absolutely. (Which I don't think even Clark could hear with 100% equanimity, BUT it's me: Clark is also going to perceive that whatever Bruce may have originally intended to do ... he didn't do that, and in fact helped save most of what was left of the Kryptonians from Zod and the Sword of Rao, which is to say, from Bruce's perspective, he's going to completely miss the point of Bruce's confession. :'D)
I am also definitely planning for Bruce to spend a while struggling to take the mask off, just because a) he's spent so long keeping it on around Clark as often as possible and b) somewhere he barely even really acknowledges, he thinks that's the least unlikable version of him, and see above re: that must be the guy Clark actually wants and therefore that's the guy Clark should get to have. (I also think that at first, Clark's going to have a tough time understanding exactly where the edges of the mask are/exactly how much Bruce compartmentalizes; he did get a look, at various points in Marriage of Inconvenience, at Bruce himself, but he's not going to start off with a clear idea of, like, how to get the real Bruce to come out here and talk to him for a minute.) Even a DCEU Bruce who hasn't spent weeks Bruce Wayneing at Clark even when they're alone together has some trouble figuring out how to be genuine/what that even means, you know? This Bruce is not going to have an easier time of it. :')
Is Clark focused on love, or is he starting to wonder about what else Bruce was lying about?
On a fundamental level, my overall plan for Clark is kind of a V, basically—I think he's going to start out feeling like we saved the world, my husband agreed to marry me for real and also he's Batman (!!!), and we're probably having sex again soon! :) and then he's going to start to realize how much more complicated than that it might be, to get through to Bruce/learn how to truly parse Bruce's everything/figure out how to really make this relationship work when there is Plot Stuff trying to get in the way ... but ultimately he will get through to Bruce, learn how to mostly parse Bruce's everything, and they will resolve the Plot Stuff/save each other/Clark will never truly have lost sight of the things he saw in Bruce that made him start falling for Bruce no matter how thoroughly Bruce's behavior sometimes obscures them. And also they will definitely have sex some more. :D So, yeah, he's going to be struggling for a stretch trying to work out how much of Bruce was even real at all, but the answer is going to be "more than even Bruce thinks was real, because Bruce doesn't think of himself as a caring person and is full of shit".
Also so curious about Clark + Alfred's dynamic
:D Probably not a surprise to hear that I love Clark & Alfred, and their relationship is probably going to end up taking the same fundamental shape it usually takes in my hands, lol—which is to say Alfred rapidly comes to appreciate Clark enormously, is very aware of how hard Bruce is likely to make things for him, and is almost certainly going to end up helping Clark understand something specific about whatever Bruce just said or did when Bruce was hoping Clark would never understand it and would give up on him. :'D
In this particular universe, I also think Alfred is going to be SO tickled by Clark's fanboy awe of Nightwing Batman, once he learns about it/gets to see it for himself—but also, on a deeper level, is going to believe it's bound to do Bruce some good, if Bruce lets it, to have someone who so thoroughly and unquestioningly believes Batman is a hero, zero doubt, zero uncertainty = to give Bruce something he wants to live up to instead of a bad or at best frightening reputation to live down to (because this Bruce may not have made it to the point of branding criminals, but he would've gotten there within the next year or two = Alfred's probably already been Somewhat Concerned about his mental and emotional welfare, and aliens showing up out of nowhere + Bruce immediately throwing himself in the middle of it didn't relieve that concern :') ). Alfred is also probably going to have to do some of the emotional exposition Bruce is going to refuse to do, to help Clark contextualize Batman/Bruce's various issues/Alfred himself better.
Hope that's at least part of what you wanted from an answer to this ask, anon :D but if it wasn't, feel free to send a follow-up! ♥
would... would it be possible for you to write an exclusively Bruce Wayne fic? maybe with Bruce monologue, like perhaps it's undercover or something that Batman can't do, i'm just suddenly snatched by the idea of Bruce being Bruce Wayne for reasons, maybe it's outsider pov or JL pov and it's just a very entertaining thought. Or maybe you could do like an outline of how you would go about writing one?
/o\ :D I cannot tell a lie, anon, I have ABSOLUTELY been thinking about maybe trying to write a kind of companion fic to I Would I Might Forget That I Am I, where some OTHER kind of tropey shenanigan leads Bruce to forget he's Batman—so he remembers Bruce Wayne's life, remembers everything he's ever done as Bruce Wayne, and can reach no conclusion except that that, somehow, must be who he is; that his company does some good, but he never really figured out how to, and apparently he's the kind of person who's okay with that. T-T BRUUUUUUUUCE. (With, naturally, bonus angst where once Bruce gets his memory back, he assumes Clark liked him better like that—and Clark's feeling bad because as much as he did like a version of Bruce who was a little more easygoing, a little less hard on himself, a little less uncompromising about everything, he MISSED the Bruce he knows, the Bruce who's Batman and would never give it up, and he feels like that kind of means he prefers Bruce when Bruce is unhappier /o\ which is obviously AWFUL of him, he should WANT Bruce happy even if that means Bruce is a little less the guy Clark's in love with— :D)
There's also a totally different Bruce amnesia fic that lives in my heart where instead of the angle I took on it in hear the future whisper (Bruce gets complete amnesia while he's Batmanning, and runs with the context he has), Bruce gets complete amnesia while he's Bruce Wayneing, and runs with that context—and probably also runs into Clark Kent while he's at it, at whatever event he's at where he just got gassed by a villain or whatever, and takes Mr. Kent's earnest concern for him/offer to keep an eye on him for a while/suddenly easier familiarity with him once no one's looking at them anymore at face value ... :D
BUT, setting amnesia aside, I am ALSO definitely here for outsider POV or JL POV on Bruce being Bruce Wayne for a whole fic, whether it's, like, a five-times story about times each member of the JL ran into ~Bruce Wayne in public, or, like, a Clark POV AU of BvS where something happens at some point before Lex Luthor's fundraiser = Clark doesn't get the opportunity to hear Bruce and Alfred over Bruce's earpiece and has to save what he believes is Annoying Civilian Bruce Wayne from *waves hands* who knows what? And I'm sure multiple people have already written this AU :'D but one day I'll get around to writing the story where Lex got the kryptonite into the country somehow a LOT earlier, and promptly kidnapped Clark and locked him up in a lab, and has invited his buddy Bruce Wayne over to see all the "no good" his R&D department is up to, per his casual invitation to Bruce at the fundraiser in BvS—so Clark's POV, chained up and getting experimented on, is of Bruce Wayne in the worst possible circumstances, circumstances that REALLY make Bruce Wayne seem like an awful person ... until Bruce can't fucking take it anymore (he thought he wanted the alien securely under human control, but—he didn't mean THIS, goddammit) and suddenly Bruce Wayne has locked Luthor out of the lab and is helping Clark get loose? :D :D :D :D :D
Plus frankly I'll never get tired of writing Clark's POV on hanging out with Bruce Wayne in post-JL scenarios where he's tickled by this angle on Bruce/crushing and it's not getting LESS pressing when he's looking at a relaxed smiling Bruce in a tux/&c &c, haha, so there is ALWAYS more of that on the way! ♥♥♥
Hi Susie! It feels almost greedy to ask this when I know you have a big bang dropping soon, but are you doing SB week this year too?? I really love the way you fill a week by doing a themed chapter that adds up into a whole fic. I've seen fics like that before but you do it so well that in my head it's kind of like your thing! Trying my hand at it for a fan week later this year, wish me luck 🤞 but I would not say no to having more of your examples to use as inspiration 👀
:D Hi! And no worries at all, haha—rest assured that I'm just grateful you were anticipating wanting more of my Superbat even AFTER the big bang dropped. (Which, I took long enough to answer this that it now has, and for anybody who may have missed it, even if you don't feel up to reading 100k right now, please please PLEASE check out the art post! I got incredibly lucky and somehow my terrible rambling summary managed to catch the attention of @waveoftheocean, who was a wonderfully kind and generous bang partner, and did absolutely GORGEOUS work on not one but TWO art pieces for my fic! ;-;)
And! I am definitely hoping to post for Superbat Week this year, and if I pull it off, I will probably do the same thing as usual. :D SO I'M THRILLED YOU LIKE THAT THING, haha, and I am so very happy to hear the way I've structured those stories works so well for you. ;-; ♥! Which, for anybody else who wants deets: @superbateveryweek is running a Superbat Week 2025 from September 15-21, and this year's prompts are here!
(And congratulations on tackling whichever fan week you're going to be doing, too! :D So honored to think I had even the teeniest hand in inspiring the angle you're taking on what you're writing for it—BEST OF LUCK IN ALL RESPECTS, and I hope you have an absolutely wonderful time with it! ♥♥♥)
I absolutely love the way you characterize bruce and clark. it feels so faithful to the canon and at the same time richer and better sketched out. which is why I wanted to ask your thoughts on neurodivergent clark. the classroom scene in mos always made me feel like they would have diagnosed clark with some form of neurodivergence since the actual underlying issue could never be addressed. and then imagine the bruce in your mos au where clark is hired by alfred to look after bruce's cars. and bruce runs a background check and sees that diagnosis and he's like "oh. well makes sense" but then no the actual problem with his quiet reclusive new employee that he's inexorably attracted to and whose idiosyncrasies he's first intrigued by and then learning to love is that the guy's an alien
:D Wow, thank you so much, anon! ;-; I'm so pleased my characterization works for you so well, and that it feels accurate to the DCEU but also deeper to you is, like, BEST OF BOTH WORLDS, the maximum I could possibly ask to hear about it, and I appreciate it so very much. ♥
And! Honestly, my first gut response to this ask was—actually, that probably would not have happened, and for the very simple reason that my understanding of the DCEU timeline is that Clark landed in Kansas as a baby in 1980. The kid who played Clark in that classroom scene appears to be credited as "Clark Kent (9 Years)", which means that was Clark in about fourth grade, in 1989, and—listen, I am younger than DCEU Clark, I went to the (excellent!) public elementary school in my small town, and there were kids there in individualized special education programs, but, like ... two of them, with overtly severe chronic medical conditions. During that time period, I can't help but think Clark would probably have had to be consistently incapable of communicating verbally for any official action to be taken to diagnose him or accommodate him; if that kind of incident happened on a regular basis (like, a few times a month), I think Martha would probably just have taken it on herself to go meet whoever was going to be his teacher for his next grade, and to explain to them that he might get suddenly upset during class and would need 10 minutes in a quiet room + if 10 minutes wasn't enough, call her, and would have basically informally created an accommodation for him that way. (If any of his teachers hadn't gone for it, I do think she would probably have pushed back, and she could have ended up on the leading edge of an effort to force the local school district to put an accommodations policy in place in the '90s, or something along those lines? Just, that's what feels approximately plausible to me based on my own childhood, I DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW THAT MUCH OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD ABOUT PUBLIC EDUCATION LAWS IN KANSAS IN THE EIGHTIES /o\)
However! HOWEVER. I thought about it some more :D and it occurred to me that I could picture a world in which Martha and Jonathan had sat down together and had decided that—as terrifying a risk as it might be to take Clark to someone who specialized in child development, as in HUMAN child development :')—it might ultimately be worth it to have a diagnosis down on paper for a very much human condition, which they could then point to if needed in order to explain any unusual behavior he was exhibiting in grade school. Like, take him to some out-of-state expert JUST ONCE, no one they would be visiting regularly, and get something official about a sensory processing disorder that they could wave at anybody who seemed to think Clark was Remarkably Strange, and that might be enough to let them skate by until he was older. And then, you know, by late middle school, high school, Clark would've started to independently want to avoid seeming weird, AND he would have the self-control to pull it off! He wouldn't want to ask for or use accommodations other kids weren't getting ...
... and he'd probably have long since forgotten that he technically had any diagnosis at all, by the time he was taking odd jobs in early MoS and had almost given up on trying to learn what he actually was. :D BUT you are so right, if anyone could turn up some confidential school file that had that paperwork in it, HIPAA be damned, it would definitely be Bruce—and I love to think of him digging that up and then, involuntarily, picturing this guy Alfred's hired to take care of the cars as a kid, struggling; and, because of it, treating Clark with that extra little fraction of compassion he tries so hard to pretend he doesn't have = letting Clark see that ~Bruce Wayne isn't actually a dick all of the time, as I so like to do. :'D Also very much loving the idea that even as an adult, the senses still get the better of Clark every now and then, if he's stressed or the weather's weird or whatever, and he's gotten used to working hard to hide that from anybody he's working for ... but Bruce notices, and, since he believes that he knows what the issue is and why it's happening, is great about it: dims the lights in the garage, maybe unlocks one of the cars so Clark can sit in it, contained space that's going to dull whatever noises Clark is struggling to tune out—sits there with him or talks him through it or *waves hands* whatever! And it would be the closest Clark had ever gotten to somebody other than his parents knowing about the alien parts of them and not minding ;-; and Bruce would try to brush it off as no big deal but Clark would Not Be Fooled, and then once the plot of MoS started happening to them, Bruce would begin to see a whole lot of things more clearly ... :D
AHEM. So, yeah, I think it might take a little bit of extra setup to make it fully plausible to me personally, just given when Clark's school years happened, BUT I love Clark as neurodivergent or as analogous to it (like, literally, he is, because he is presumably pretty fuckin' divergent from a human neurotypical baseline :'D but I definitely find certain things about him Extra Relatable—the effort it takes him on a day-to-day basis to make sure he's coming across like a "normal person", the work he puts into blending in and his worries about potentially failing to do so, his awareness that he experiences certain things differently from other people and that they aren't really going to understand what that's like even if he tries to explain it as fully as he can, &c &c). And I love the idea of Bruce's discovery of it as the moment that humanizes him (as it were /o\) to Bruce just enough to get them through MoS together; all Bruce ever needs is something that makes him perceive Clark as a person, however involuntarily, and that would absolutely do the job. :D (So if I trip and accidentally write this, I will definitely be thanking/blaming you, anon! ♥♥♥)
hi susie! big fan of your superbat fics, they are so wonderful *___* i've been re-reading tell all the truth (but tell it slant) lately (it's the first fic i read from you, it has a soft spot in my heart) and i've been wondering what outsiders thought of the relationship, both the fake (unknown to them) and the real relationship (after the end of the fic). do you have any crumbs to share on the topic perchance?
Hi, anon, and aaaaaaaa, thank you ;-;—it means the world to me that you've enjoyed my fics so much, and not just enough to read them but enough to REread them (\o/!!!!!!). AND I'm so glad you've found yourself coming back to that one in particular, honestly, because I wrote it long enough ago that I get all up in my head sometimes about how well it really holds up, despite the sheer number of kudos and comments it rakes in to this day. :'D THANKS, BRAIN.
Anyway! Tbh, I like to think that in contrast to the roiling uncertainty Clark's experiencing for 90% of that fic, outsiders in that universe are mostly just amazed by how weirdly stable this relationship seems to be??? Like, the strategy here was for Bruce Wayne to keep dating Clark Kent until no one cared anymore, right, except even THAT is a deviation from ~Bruce Wayne's normal, you know? Usually Bruce has no reason to make sure Bruce Wayne keeps dating anyone until no one cares—usually it's worth making Bruce Wayne the continual object of public speculation and ridicule! So for the first week or two, the outside perspective was that this was going to go the way it always goes, it would blow up in Bruce Wayne's face in no time, and if anything, it would do so even SOONER than usual, because this Clark Kent guy isn't a model or an actor or ANYTHING, he's a normal person—a) what exactly is there to hold Bruce Wayne's attention about that??? and b) how tf is he supposed to have the patience for Bruce Wayne's nonsense??? He doesn't even have his own PR team making sure his name recognition gets a boost out of this! Why would he put up with Bruce Wayne's crap for more than about a day?
BUT THEN: he does. He does, and it keeps going, and it is remarkable precisely in Bruce's efforts to make it seem unremarkable—no major drama??? No public blowups??? Genuinely nice dates that all seem to go pretty well?????? "Bruce Wayne Continues to Not Get Caught Cheating on This Guy" isn't much of a headline, but it's still kind of fascinating to anyone who's paying attention, and I like to think everybody's tone starts to shift from "bets on when this thing's going to fall apart" to "honestly, [talk show co-host], I'm rooting for them; I never thought I'd say this about Bruce Wayne and anyone, but they seem really—sweet". :'D And it does gradually start to turn into a less interesting story over time (Bruce is definitely monitoring that throughout the fic, even when Clark is no longer really paying much attention to how they're publicly perceived) ... and then, of course, Bruce pulls his bullshit to give Clark an excuse to break up with him. /o\
And I think that probably splits it approximately 50-50 between people asserting that they knew this was coming all along, there was never any way it was going to last, come on! and people shaking their heads over it—thinking Bruce Wayne had a real chance here but couldn't help but screw it up, thinking Bruce Wayne is an asshole and thank god Clark Kent's been exposed to that fact before he could get lured any deeper into this thing than he already was, poor guy; the whole spectrum of negativity toward Bruce Wayne as a public figure, from "shame the guy's so fucked up he ruined this for himself" to "what a fucking dick".
BUT THEN Clark's little response clip gets out :D and at first everyone is probably SO incredulous that he sounds like he's actually going to give that douchebag another chance??? He thinks they can handle this like adults??? Jesus, this guy might be even dumber than Bruce Wayne—maybe they are a good match, in the worst possible sense; no wonder this dope fell for Bruce Wayne's schtick, how can he not see at this point that he is ASKING to get his heart broken, &c &c. And that probably persists for a hot minute :D but then ... Bruce Wayne actually did get back together with the guy? MAN, he must have groveled like hell—but he couldn't behave the first time, when he had everything going for him and he HADN'T messed up, so there is no way this is really going to work out ...
Except it does. It does, and it does, and it does :D and no one can explain why—maybe the sheer magnitude of Clark Kent's senseless goodwill actually made Bruce Wayne feel some shame for the first time in his life??? INCREDIBLY hard to fathom (though naturally the RPF tag explodes, because this is such a perfect "callous shallow jackass meets The Right Person and is reformed by the power of love" arc, COME ON, this is a very straightforward storyline!!!). I like to think that behind the scenes, Clark manages to convince Bruce that it's okay to let Bruce Wayne be just a little bit less of a douche sometimes—because, after all, Bruce Wayne now has to be someone who might plausibly form a long-term stable relationship, unless Bruce would like to try breaking up again? :))))))) Bruce would not; so his strategy does in fact start to shift, FOR STRATEGIC REASONS, and by the time Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent elope, it's still a little bit hard to believe, but it can't be called a surprise. :D
AHEM. Hope that's something like what you were looking for from an answer to this :'D and seriously, thank you so much for asking, and for giving me the excuse to ramble about this!
hii i absolutely adore your writing and a superhero's amateur guide is one of my faves.
I really love clark interacting with child bruce and bruce at diff ages. i was wondering if you would ever consider writing something that reverses this, i.e. bruce interacting with child clark or clark at any different age (basically younger)
once again, your fics are like cocaine to me thanks!
:D Aw, man, thank you so much, anon! I'm so thrilled you've enjoyed my writing so much in general, and then on top of that, that Superhero's Amateur Guide is one of your favorites! I LOVED working on that story, the art jule did for that round of the Superbat Reverse Bang was just beautiful and I had such a wonderful time brainstorming that whole scenario, I can't even tell you.
WHICH MEANS a thousand times yes, haha—I would absolutely love to write another version of that premise where it's Bruce traveling through Clark's life for ~reasons (time-traveling Apokoliptian assassins are trying to murder Clark at various points when he's younger and more vulnerable = the League has to work together to transport Bruce to the same points, with the right equipment to stop them?), for so many different reasons. There's nothing that isn't wonderful to me about the idea of a younger, lonelier Clark who has no idea what's coming getting to understand that he's going to be so special to someone, and not just to Bruce alone, but to a whole team of people ;-;—and having someone work so hard to protect him, when he's so used to feeling like he needs to work constantly to protect other people, either from himself or from dangers he can survive but they can't. OH CLARK T-T
PLUS I love everything about the idea of adult Bruce hanging out with a younger Clark on the farm—helping him with his chores! Seeing what his life is like (he already knew he was wrong about who Clark was during BvS, but now he's REALLY seeing it, you know? ;-;), seeing the things he struggles with, knowing how different he is from everybody around him and having to hide it all the time (which, again, Bruce kind of knew that, but adult Clark is so much better at dealing with it emotionally than a child or teenage Clark, he would be SO transparent and SO hungry to connect with Bruce once he understood that Bruce knows what he is and what he can do!!! m y e m o t i o n s).
And while obviously most of the fic would be taken up with Bruce getting to know younger Clark, depending on how far forward we got ... oh, man, the inverse of the scenes in Superhero's Amateur Guide where Bruce is being all paranoid about this having been Clark's ~plan to disarm him, being his BvS self about it and breaking Clark's heart ;-;—anon, Clark would be SO profoundly wounded by learning Bruce actually had hated and feared him and was going to try to kill him, OH NO. Even if Bruce managed to try to explain it to him ahead of time, it would be so difficult for him to believe it and then so agonizing when it happened anyway, aaaaaaaa. AAAAAAA.
*clears throat* So, uh, yeah. I'm so glad you would be interested in having a little more cocaine hand-delivered to you :'D if I do manage to write that story someday, anon, and the odds that I will do so are definitely going up the longer I think about it. :DDDDD ♥
