I haven't read a lot of superbat because I don't like to absorb too much fanon while I'm writing stuff myself (though obvs I've cribbed a bit here and there re: Clark's boners hahaha) but yeah, Bruce Distancing Himself is a common beat as far as I've seen, and I wanted to play with that a little bit via Clark being a bit more assertive about things :D

And for all the Stoic Controlled Grim Bat in canon... there is a substantive amount of telling and not showing going on imo. Dude's all over the place. I know it's just different writers pinging him off in their own directions, but it really makes me laugh sometimes.