I'll brace for the well-wishers. Thanks for the warning it'll be grating. When people can't but usually DON'T want to see HOW someone's hurting, cause they're afraid it'll open up their own wounds if they pay attention to someone else's pain, rather than brush it off as transient and try to push them to 'buck up' because unconsciously they're telling THEMSELVES to 'buck up' ....
Things get ugly. Fast.
I think that's one of the reasons Bruce/Batman means so much to me. I can't honestly say it's the writers - his writers can vary so much. But my sense has always been he doesn't lie about pain. He'll tell you stop wallowing and get up and DO SOMETHING, even if it's just to defy it and stand or keep walking. But he won't say you're NOT feeling emotional and/or physical crippling levels of agony.
Which to me made a difference with so much in life ignoring/diluting what a person feels cause it makes them uncomfortable to acknowledge it.
But this here, isn't THAT Bruce. He hasn't reached that (for lack of another term, I"m gonna pop culture definition, with much cringing) 'zen' yet.
This story's Bruce hasn't yet made himself a quantum fixed point in the universe. He's still trying to shift or move some part of the universe instead of making the universe shift around HIM.
He's kind of still in denial, not yet in the place where (to quote mythbusters) 'I reject your reality and substitute my own'. In a completely non light hearted way. Where, ok, cutesy but true, he's the change he wants to see.
And yes, this story's Clark, likely because he's NOT an alien, and hasn't had that sense of isolation and forging his own identity and his own place and his own cheerful but as stubborn 'I'm here for the world and they're gonna accept me, cause I'm gonna save 'em'. Without that, without Kal, Clark is sweet but effing clueless and all the queer alienation in the world won't give him insights into Bruce's level of trauma - cause frankly it's not as deep.
Usually Clark had to reform his sense of identity on discovering what/who he really was. Bruce had to do that at 9, and keep going, w/ Alfred trying to fold in some healthy mature adult concepts when he could.
It's an imbalance in scars, currently.
Huh. Jean Paul should notice then, even if he doesn't understand.
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Things get ugly. Fast.
I think that's one of the reasons Bruce/Batman means so much to me. I can't honestly say it's the writers - his writers can vary so much. But my sense has always been he doesn't lie about pain. He'll tell you stop wallowing and get up and DO SOMETHING, even if it's just to defy it and stand or keep walking. But he won't say you're NOT feeling emotional and/or physical crippling levels of agony.
Which to me made a difference with so much in life ignoring/diluting what a person feels cause it makes them uncomfortable to acknowledge it.
But this here, isn't THAT Bruce. He hasn't reached that (for lack of another term, I"m gonna pop culture definition, with much cringing) 'zen' yet.
This story's Bruce hasn't yet made himself a quantum fixed point in the universe. He's still trying to shift or move some part of the universe instead of making the universe shift around HIM.
He's kind of still in denial, not yet in the place where (to quote mythbusters) 'I reject your reality and substitute my own'. In a completely non light hearted way. Where, ok, cutesy but true, he's the change he wants to see.
And yes, this story's Clark, likely because he's NOT an alien, and hasn't had that sense of isolation and forging his own identity and his own place and his own cheerful but as stubborn 'I'm here for the world and they're gonna accept me, cause I'm gonna save 'em'. Without that, without Kal, Clark is sweet but effing clueless and all the queer alienation in the world won't give him insights into Bruce's level of trauma - cause frankly it's not as deep.
Usually Clark had to reform his sense of identity on discovering what/who he really was. Bruce had to do that at 9, and keep going, w/ Alfred trying to fold in some healthy mature adult concepts when he could.
It's an imbalance in scars, currently.
Huh. Jean Paul should notice then, even if he doesn't understand.