Married muses! What are your nicknames, if any, for your S/O?
Shang Tsung: Old friend, Pet, Thunder God, the Light That Split The Skies, and a great many more for the deity he has been so thoroughly taken by.
Tanya: Angelface, beloved, my dear, sweetheart, 'Leena
Kang: No nicknames, I'm afraid!! But he and Lao address each other very casually as an intimacy ie. 'a-Lao'
Kuai Liang: 'My Fire' is the one meaningful moniker he has attached to Hanzo, barring his title on the battlefield, naturally.
Clark, if married to Bruce: 'B'/if married to Lois: 'Lo
Pamela, when she inevitably pops the question: Harls, my love
Gat, in me an' @bastardsunlight's funny 'I married my best friend and forgot to divorce 'em because I'm wanted in 3 counties' turned 'so uh. wanna get married for realsies or what' take: Boss, fucker, dickhead, babe
Otacon: Dave, Snake, 'Mr. Emmerich' (weeps)
Vegeta: He really, really isn't one for nicknames, but every so often he and Piccolo will start flirting competitively and bring in any uncomfortably saccharine or sensual pet name they can think of in an effort to get the other to crack and kiss him. It's very effective.
My apologies for the lack of posts, I’ve been swamped with school and the holidays coming up so I haven’t been able to play much recently. Finals are coming up but I’m not stressed out about them as I was before Thanksgiving break.
Also, I’ve gotten a new laptop since my current one has been falling apart even though I’ve only had it for nearly 2 years. I’ve been in the process of transferring files so that I can continue my current saves and not have to start over.
So I don’t really know exactly when I’ll be able to play again, I have some screenies I haven’t posted yet so I’ll probably post those when I get started back up again.
So what about that growly bass gets you wild, Superman?
“Talk to me.” The quiet rumble of the Dark Knight, distant and all too close at once muffles all siren and sound, everything that begs Superman to hear. For a time, all he can focus on is the smooth silk of a tone trained and resonant, carefully calculated in its delivery It makes him feel as if for a moment he is the only one in the world.. One sentence as all it takes to pluck him apart by the thread. He doesn’t fear the Batman, but perhaps it is the exhilaration in its simplicity, flooding him with an urge to stand up straight, meet him halfway…This is was what gives him cause for care, another tack upon the crowded many in the bulletin board of his vigilant manner, ever aware of what is possible if he moves with even a fraction below his usual restraint. It’s maddening.
His inner thoughts, words written into the pages of the book that makes Kal-El and Clark all the same. His wants, his needs realized in the form of something more far more suited to the gossip column. Suddenly reminded of where he is, the Man of Steel affects a posture known to invaders and nuisances alike.
“I don’t know who you think you are… But that isn’t any of your business.” The stern look that crosses his face carries no threat, rather the sheer force of the man of tomorrow’s disappointment. He isn’t a brute, but he will not have his feelings reduced to something so base, broadcasted for anyone, including the specter dancing along his thoughts with measured brutality from one evildoer to another.
It’s a Saturday, outlines are getting done, and Superman the Animated Series as my dinner time TV has provided me with consequences for this action. You heard it here folks, it’s time for me to info dump at you while you’re tied to the chair.
More than likely my interpretation of Clark is meant to be a mix of comic, animated (STAS) and live action (Smallville) canon rather than a specific universe because sometimes the best Supermans are the ones that are composite sketches of his fundamental and most interesting qualities.
Superman at a Glance:
Superman works so closely with law enforcement as a measure of checks and balances against himself. He recognizes his position as someone with the ability to do any and everything he wants without anybody to stop him, and as a result feels the need to crack down and do things ‘the right way’, because as a journalist he is intimately aware of what and who procedure exists for and what position going against it puts you in. One of power, one that allows you to cross the line too easily when you get impatient and you have the power.
I want to say that as he got further into his career and the rivalry with Luthor opened his eyes to how easily bought and sold a person and a narrative of truth can be that there’s less and less of that ‘lawful = good’ shine, but that it’s hard to genuinely shift away from this habit because of this deeply held belief in the necessity of accountability for what he does and what it means if he tramples all over it. Luthor becoming President sure does make it easier though! Having Lois Lane, the queen of the ‘fuck 12’ fanclub writing corruption bylines in the cubicle next to you also proves helpful.
Clark enjoys his work as a journalist not only because he cares about the pursuit of truth and its subsequent justice, but also because it’s an intellectual and moral task that he can do without his powers.
More to that: he can’t superspeed his way through an article write up because he’ll tear the paper or break his laptop (which he 100% cannot afford to replace… again.), he’s got the ability to see and hear through most things but it isn’t worth jack squat without common sense when it comes to putting it through the editor’s wheel and citing his sources.
You can trust him to be a Romantic (it’s his favorite literary era!) Seriously though, he really does dream about the whole nine yards: Courting, marriage, building a life with somebody. It’s his bread and butter, or since we’re dealing with a midwesterner; apple pie.
He’s bisexual and has a thing for testy brunettes. You really can’t tell me anything else on this.
The reason he’s never taken a martial arts class isn’t an arrogant assumption born of the thought that nobody can beat him and that it’d be pointless. It’s more or less a holdover from growing up. Jonathan and Martha never let him play sports or take those classes because they were scared that he’d end up hurting the other kids/leveraging his abilities in the heat of the moment. It took trying football out against Jonathan’s wishes to realize that his parents were right to worry. Clark simply does not trust himself with the knowledge, because applied with even a fraction of force more than he intends, it’s game over for whomever he’s up against. He can’t take that risk, ever.
He prefers to be the shield over the sword, he takes the hits that no one else can or even should take, fights the fight that you can’t. Superman will always step between you and danger, proving himself a friend most true to anyone who needs him. It’s very, very frustrating for the people around him lmao.
I’m gonna take the hard stance here and adopt the idea that the Kryptonians weren’t so perfect. This is a riff on Smallville via the plot line of the Jor El AI wanting Clark to ‘rule with strength’. The society’s shift from warmongering to technological infrastructural advancement happened relatively recently within the century, and the original Jor-El was a proponent of it. However, one gets from A to B by understanding exactly where the other side was coming from. So that being said, the approximation of his AI, uploaded in the wake of Krypton’s destruction can be how you say… problematic. It’s like digital dementia. Clark eventually got it fixed, figuring that the technology suffered serious degradation from age and the travel. But boy, it sure does like to occasionally lapse into a parental ‘so when will you [insert archaic value here] my child’ ‘father, we don’t do that here’
Speaking of parents: Clark’s parents are Jonathan and Martha Kent. He will never call them anything else, if anything his Kryptonian family is aptly named his ‘biological parents’ when described. It’s not that he doesn’t love them- what little he’s been gifted with the privilege to see. But he never GOT to love them like he did the family who took him in, he has two sets of parents and adores them in different, but meaningful ways.
Clark and Kryptonian Culture: He embraces his Kryptonian heritage with as much fervor as he can, given the context of what the Fortress gives him, BUT, he still thinks of himself as Clark. Kal is another name for him, it’s his, but Krypton is not the sum of him, as he would have the world believe when presenting himself as Superman.
It’s sort of like my Vegeta headcanon, he only knows so much about his culture and leans into an approximation of it. It doesn’t take away from the fact that he is in fact an alien, but he doesn’t get the nuances and divergences that exist within the culture. He’s more the idealized Kryptonian than anything when it comes to the presentation of that side as a public figure. But as he’s said before: He needs both, he needs the comfort of being himself- a journalist from hicksville, and the ability to be Superman - someone who is not human but who does his best every day to do right by humanity with all the powers given to him. Having both allows what falls inbetween to exist.
