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    Kryptonian soulmarks weren't full names above the heart, like those on humans. They got symbols on their wrist meant to represent the person they were meant to love. Clark doesn't understand what the stylized bat on his wrist could possibly mean until he sees Batman for the first time-- but Batman has someone else's name.

    Or, Clark and Bruce are soulmates. They are also both convinced their soulmate bond is unrequited. Title taken from "The Hurtin' Kind" by Orville Peck

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    02 May 2026

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    Jason, exhausted and ready for the weekend, is on his way back to the dormitories from practice, freshly showered and wet-haired, when someone stops him in the middle of the campus garden grounds, and shoves a microphone and camera in his face.

    “Call your mom and tell her you love her,”

    He doesn't have a mom, but he does have a dad... two actually.

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    26 Apr 2026

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    Here stood two men, pretending to be lesser versions of themself for the greater good. It was as if together, they bared the lies they put up for the world, as each other’s brutally honest mirrors. It was suddenly painfully obvious to Clark, the act they both put on, the dichotomy between their conversation and their caricatures. He wondered why they still kept up appearances at all.

     

    Superman and Batman have worked together. Bruce and Clark know each other superficially. They start dating to get over their respective crushes on the other hero.

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    21 Apr 2026

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    20 Apr 2026

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    So, it didn’t start out like this.

     

    Alfred would scoff at the statement, about how Bruce was trying to justify the whole situation to himself. It had started out as a simple design, black everything with black outlines and black hood. It got a little more intense as the world went on, got wind of his ghost on the streets, and became scared of The Bat . So Bruce got a little more creative with it, Alfred and him had a good laugh over the name, the scare, and Alfred had a vicious streak of humor that he had passed onto his ward-

     

    So now the suit had a visible bat-theme, an insignia to drape in the shadows and to paint across the streets of Gotham.

     

    It only took a year into the whole charade of heroism for Bruce to overhear a conversation between some goons- some low level thug hired by the Riddler this week- about nothing at all pertaining to what the hell the Riddler was doing in the sewers but instead:

    “ The Batman can fly, you know, I’ve seen his wings.”

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    A world where nobody has wings, but people think they do, and that changes everything.

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    18 Apr 2026