DCEU Prompt Post #1

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Welcome to Round One of the DCEU Kink Meme!

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Re: FILL: Convergent Evolution, Bruce/Clark, Clark in the Batsuit [4/4]

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[Going to do these in order; and it may take a while. Reply to 1/4]

Author!anon, a tl;dr to start off the comment: this fill is fantastic. It's great, and there's probably not a lot of ways for me to convey that, that don't sound entirely repetitious; I am, however, going to try.

One of my favorite things about this fill is how it takes the impersonation of Batman & Clark's adventure in the Batsuit as a given, and catapults us right past that into the aftermath of a hostage situation with the Clock King. The unraveling of what exactly happened prior to Bruce undressing Clark in his office is slow, comes to us in sideways glances (and only, finally, fits together when Clark is enumerating his wishlist); but what a picture. I like how it accomplishes for the reader what Bruce is doing with Clark: we have to imagine what Bruce and Clark were doing with the Clock King, build that fantasy, add it to what's already going on in the story itself to find the context behind the immediate scene.

In part one of the fill, I'm struck by how much of the emotional energy revolves around Bruce's dichotomy of truth vs. lies, failure vs. success, and how those two overlap (truth::failure) in the scene. Of course, as a a man who's built an entire goddamn life in hiding himself, he'd see the revelation of both his (and Clark's) feelings as a simultaneous, mutual failure. BUT EVEN BETTER THAN THAT, is that when he's finally "drunk on honesty," he's still fucking projecting. I was so struck by Bruce's line during this reading:

"But you're not quite as interested in that in its own right as you are in hearing me talk about it."

Bruce is putting this desire (to talk about it, to be open about it) onto Clark, but, for fuck's sake, Bruce, it's like you export your honesty!kink onto everyone around you. Probably because it's the single most intimate thing that Bruce Wayne has to offer. And Clark knows this about you, Bruce. Who wouldn't want Bruce to talk about his feelings, after he's spent maybe years hiding them?

And that cuts at me in the hurts-so-good way. Each turn of Bruce's thoughts about Clark obscure and reveal all at once, because they've both, through very dissimilar circumstances, and because of one another, evolved very similar defense mechanisms. And so while I laugh along with (and at Bruce) a bit, I hit Bruce thinking this about the potential xeno-sex he may be having momentarily:

"...if only to manage the likelihood and timing of that particular sort of rejection"

And it slips the knife into my heart. That's what Bruce has been doing, all this time, hasn't he? His lie...his timeline created as a mirage through his biofeedback training... it's all to manage this possibility. Maybe put off indefinitely a rejection he couldn't bear; or at least time it in such a way that it doesn't fall on him like a ton of bricks.

FUCKING OUCH.

THIS SMUT IS GIVING ME TOO MANY FEELS. DDDDDDDDD:

Anyway; all of this is threading under a gorgeous and delightful surface of bickering, Bruce totally making Clark's a hell (he doesn't deserve this; but then again, he's the one who likes Bruce), and incredibly hot smut.

But wow do those undercurrents rise up to grab me unawares. It's fucking amazing.

/op