#superbat au

[shubloe-din]

A very vanilla intro to my Superbat au (Supes gets preggers :P)

[supsbaby]

[outboardd]

classic superbat cat transformation fic except instead of bruce being magicked into a small domestic kitty he's just this huge fuckin jaguar.

everyone is worried when batman stops responding to his comm mid-battle, and clark can't justify abandoning his post when hal is closer to b's last known location.

and then hal's blood curdling scream pierces through the comm and clark is racing fast enough to create a sonic boom, except...what he sees is more than a little confusing.

one of the sentry droids that the aliens have been using for protection lays sparking off to the side. hal is flat on his front, cheek smushed into the pavement, clearly unable to move very much—what with the massive cat perched on his back.

"um, hal?" clark asks, inching forward. "everything okay?"

the cat licks over hal's hair as he grumbles, making it stick up in all directions. "i think spooky got transformed," hal says, his voice strained under the cat's—bruce's?—weight. "he scared the shit out of me, but he was only going after the robot."

"yeah..." clark says, distracted. "i see that." as he steps closer, the cat lifts its massive head, eyes piercing as it tracks his movements. it's tail flicks quickly, ears swivelling forward to give clark its full, undivided attention.

clark shivers. that's definitely bruce.

———

the battle wraps up and clark manages to corral bruce back to he cave with the rest of the league in tow. they call zatanna. she says to let the spell run its course, as its safer to let it be than try to tamper with bruce's physical form any further.

that leaves bruce stuck as a big cat for a week.

and acting like one.

he prowls around the cave, slipping into the shadows with ease and using the rosettes in his fur to help blend in with the rock walls. more than once, he sneaks up behind a league member and pounces on them with a snarl, effectively terrifying them but never causing any real harm.

clark is the only one who maintains the opinion that bruce is cute. the others shoot him weird looks and then promptly designate him as bruce's babysitter for the week he's stuck like this.

clark really doesn't mind. bruce obviously enjoys sneaking up on people, and from the research he manages to do while bruce sleeps, clark discovers it's actually a common way for jaguars to play and teach each other how to hunt.

time progresses. bruce takes it upon himself to groom clark's hair multiple times. clark just smiles through it, privately amused and also grateful for his invulnerability after feeling the sharp bumps on bruce's tongue. bruce initiates play hunting and tackling far more than clark would have expected, but he's not going to complain. clark takes time to work on his articles when bruce slinks off to rest, except apparently bruce gets sick of that, because he clamps down on the arm of clark's chair with his powerful jaw and literally drags it over to the cots in the cave. they rest together. clark tries to enjoy the warmth of bruce's back against his side while it lasts.

———

all in all, the week passes quickly enough, but as the hours tick down to minutes, clark admits to himself that a part of him will miss how playful bruce was as a big cat, and also how much time he got to spend with bruce, alone together, completely uninterrupted.

and then bruce turns, and clark watches it happen before his eyes as bruce's fur shrinks away to scarred skin and hard muscle, his padded toes stretching into thick, callused fingers, and the shape of his eyes returning to a more natural almond.

clark notices two things, after it's all said and done:

bruce is stark naked

the ears and tail didn't disappear with the rest of the fur

[mylifeisfruk4ever]

Superbat Friends to Lovers to Ex to Strangers to Lovers Again

(And for once, it isn't Bruce's fault)

@loonstar4477

Part 1 - Part 2

Clark and Bruce were dating while Dick was Robin. Sure, Clark was already there for them often, so much so that Dick called him Uncle Clark, but at a certain point the World's Finest decide to give it a try.

And it went terribly wrong. And not because Bruce was hard to love, not at all.

Loving Bruce was easy. The problem was that Clark didn't sign up to be Dick's parent as well.

Sure, being the fun uncle was one thing: few responsibilities, few judgments, and Dick adored him.

Everything changed when he was Bruce's other partner and feelt he had to share parental responsibilities, even though Bruce never asked him to. Dick was sixteen. He was rebellious, impatient, and Bruce can barely handle him, let alone Clark. And Clark...at a certain point, he couldn't take it anymore. He knew he was selfish, he knew it. But he didn't feel capable of being in a relationship with a single parent.

(Not for a child like Dick, but it was implicit and Bruce call Clark's bullshits.)

It wasn't an easy breakup. Bruce could understand if he was the problem, but he couldn't accept Clark shifting the blame onto a kid, Bruce's son, no less, when the truth was that Clark was incapable of handling responsibility.

This leads to Clark no longer coming to the Manor or the cave, and Bruce doesn't want to show how much this hurts him. He doesn't tell Dick the truth, he doesn't want him to feel guilty. But Dick reacts badly: he adored Clark, and he puts all the blame on Bruce. Bruce accepts this, believing it's better than the alternative.

And so it goes for years: whenever Dick and Bruce's arguments became more ferocious, Dick would reproach him that if not even Superman wanted anything to do with Bruce, why should he?

(And despite his anger, Bruce never said anything back. Not even when Clark and Lois got married, not even when Jon was born, a sign that Clark's real problem had always been Dick.)

Years later, Alfred is the one who lets the cat out of the bag: Clark and Lois have divorced, Jon and Damian have become friends, and Bruce and Clark have even reconnected.

And Dick is over the moon, truly, but he can't help but tell Bruce things like, "Try not to screw it up this time, old man, you know how you are." The jokes go too far, also the others join in, and Alfred, even though he knows he shouldn't, gets fed up. Why should Clark be the poor martyr who has to deal with Bruce? Why does Bruce have to take all the blame?

(And then there's the fact that he's perhaps one of the few people not exactly thrilled about Clark and Bruce's rekindling of their romance. Clark backed out because of just one problem child. Now there were more. Who was to guarantee he wouldn't run away again?)

Dick takes it the hardest. Because for over a decade he's resented the wrong person, rubbing his finger in a wound he'd opened himself, and Bruce loved him too much to say anything.

(He knew Bruce had more heart than he was letting on, but this...)

For years he's been angry at the parent who wanted him, not the one who chose the easy way out. And now, he's furious.

[manicpixiebat]

supes and damian!! he’s damian’s dad 2.0 lowk. superbat parenting who with me 🙋‍♀️

[1bootyyyshaker9000]

Update! I killed off the first Grace!! :D

[star-steph06]

Another Superbat 😩😩

With some Cowboy Clark because I actually love the idea of farmer boy/Cowboy Clark meeting stern business man Bruce. (Not Brucie)

[batsydoodle]

“Clark…” He slowly let one of his hands splay out on the warm scales, a shiver running through him despite the temperature.  A name tugged at Bruce’s mind, begging to be spoken.  “Kal–” Following his instincts, Bruce leaned forward, his forehead brushing against Clark’s snout. 

My Piece for @superbatbigbang2025 ! What a journey! Had the honour to bring to life @ducttapeisalwaystheanswer 's wonderful fic Born of Love. I'm so glad i got to work on this, I probably didn't need to go as hard as i did but i simply had to go all out to match the quality of the writing so go give it a read! Now! Or else!!