I'll brace for the well-wishers. Thanks for the warning it'll be grating.
Yeah, it's...that thing where everyone means well and they're trying, but ugh.
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.
THANK YOU for this, because it's really helped me crystallize that this is the crisis where he emerges as much more fully "himself," with that bedrock base of...confidence? That's the wrong word, but that unshakable sense of self you refer to.
And on Clark, it's strange and frustrating to write him as a non-alien in some ways! I want him to be the same character, and in many ways he is, but there are certain things that simply can't be the same. In addition to what you mention, the money issue--! Superman has a crystal fortress and can make diamonds with his bare hands, but this Clark is truly from a different class than Bruce (he doesn't know it yet, but he suspects, and that's a big part of his reticence). I've always been annoyed by people who write canon Clark as caring about Bruce's money in any way, but as I wrote this it became clearer and clearer that THIS Clark can't avoid it...
"Imbalance in scars" is such an interesting word, and writing this has made it really clear how delicately balanced Clark and Bruce are in canon as friends, and how well they match each other. Take almost anything out of the equation and it veers off-balance...
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Yeah, it's...that thing where everyone means well and they're trying, but ugh.
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.
THANK YOU for this, because it's really helped me crystallize that this is the crisis where he emerges as much more fully "himself," with that bedrock base of...confidence? That's the wrong word, but that unshakable sense of self you refer to.
And on Clark, it's strange and frustrating to write him as a non-alien in some ways! I want him to be the same character, and in many ways he is, but there are certain things that simply can't be the same. In addition to what you mention, the money issue--! Superman has a crystal fortress and can make diamonds with his bare hands, but this Clark is truly from a different class than Bruce (he doesn't know it yet, but he suspects, and that's a big part of his reticence). I've always been annoyed by people who write canon Clark as caring about Bruce's money in any way, but as I wrote this it became clearer and clearer that THIS Clark can't avoid it...
"Imbalance in scars" is such an interesting word, and writing this has made it really clear how delicately balanced Clark and Bruce are in canon as friends, and how well they match each other. Take almost anything out of the equation and it veers off-balance...