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And the funniest thing is that they're actually married, or at least privatly, Dick knows it, just find it funnier that the whole world now ships SuperBat like he did once when he was a kid
One day, while Hal films one of their bickering they start kissing, and for the shock Hal post it, for error, like litteraly, it's not a post but a stories so it dosen't remain on the account but it immediately gets viral and starts getting reposted around by other accounts both from the superbat fandom and not
Later on Bruce banish both Hal and Wally from posting on the official JL account for 5 months until they get "training" on how to not invade people privacy
Just imagine the Justice League opening an official Instagram channel (Batman had only wanted a Twitter account, but then Wally made sad puppy eyes), where they post mostly about official press releases and news. But...but they also post other stuff.
Diana beating the shit out of every JL member under the guise of sparring and making self-defense videos for girls and little story time videos on ancient Greek and Roman mythology. Jo'nn makes art. His videos mostly consist of oil painting scenes from his home world. Hal and Wally make joint videos and have the most number of likes and comments cause they are hilarious. Wally started the series 'The World's Finest married couple' and shoots specific content of Superman and Batman bickering like an old married couple (which finally starts the influx of superbat shippers and Dick is thrilled), and it makes their follower count blow out of proportion.
At a certain point SuperBrentMan where Bruce is Superman and Clark is Batman starts to become more common, and more accurate...
Bruce starts to noticing it, and with some investigation finds that is usually the same 3-4 accounts that make the more accurate, on a personal level, fics
In the mean time that bruce starts to go crazy because he can't find the identity behind those account: Lois, Jason, Barbara and sometime Tim with Kon formed a "SuperBrentMan fic club" and they are the ones behind those 4 accounts that make the accurate fics, and they love it
At some point Clark finds the fic Lois was working on because she forgot to close the file when she asked Clark to proofread an article she was working on, and luckly for Bruce, Clark made them reveal the truth and that their secret identity was safe
It is widely known in fandom spaces that Gotham is heavily split between the SuperBat shippers and the BruceMan shipper
It's an all out ship-war, the two sides vehemently hate and bash each other online
One day someone proposes the obvious: a poly ship
SuperBruceMan becomes one of the biggest ships in the Gotham real-people shipping community
And then Bruce Wayne ruins everything, by publicly dating nobody-reporter Clark Kent
This spawns a third faction (the Brent shippers), and the magic of poly ships are forgotten
Until someone (yet again) proposes polyamory, and SuperBrentMan is born
Identity shenanigans quickly becomes a SuperBrentMan staple, as the ship is made up of two civilians and two unknown vigilantes/superheroes
And thus, the first SuperBrentMan miraculous square fic is born
The utterly charming but ditzy Bruce Wayne must find a way to tell the life of his life, Clark Kent, of his secret identity as an alien superhero, while Clark Kent tries to come clean about being Gotham's dark knight
The real Clark and Bruce are just thankful that the shippers got the identities switched
Ok, so you know that a lot of the times in fics where superbat is a thing so is the batfam with the superfamily, no? But in the superfamily also includes Jon, but there is a problem Jon is the son of Clark and Lois, so Clois (for those who don't know it's Clark x Lois ship name) had to be a thing long enough for Jon to be born, so I have an headcanon about it:
Lois and Clark have been married for some years now, dated for longer, and Jon is like 4-5 years old
Lois couldn't do this anymore, she loves Clark, and Clarks loves her... But she can't do this anymore especially now that they have Jon, sure Kon can come anytime and bring him to Ma' and Pa' Kent, but she also needs Clark. But Clark is Superman, the world always needs Superman.
At least if she was alone she would alredy know that Clark can't be there...
When they were dating it was fine, Clark had to fly always most of the times, but he usually returned soon after, and those times where the dates where cancelled in the middle usually the entire city was in danger, so no problems... But then the Justice League formed and Clark started being away longer, then they married and things got better, but thern The Justice Hall was substituite for The Watchtower and the JL welcomed more members and things got worse again.
Then she became pregnant, things got better again and Jon was born and things continued to stay good, but never good enough, after 3 years or so Clark had to go away again, not for some intergalactic mission, but to Gotham not as a journalist but as Superman, Lois isn't still sure why exactly, Batman needed help with something...
That's when she realized, it was something she always knew but never wanted to admit it, especially because she loved Clark and Clark loved her... But not only her... She always knew, by the way Clark always talked about him, before the JL they kinda hated eachother, she knows because when she discovered Clark was Superman and obligated Clark to admit it he started telling her about being Superman and meeting other heros...
Lois can't do this anymore...
Lois: I want a divorce
Clark who had just put Jon to bed was shocked: What?
Lois: I want a divorce, I... I can't do this anymore
Clark: but I love you..
Tears where starting to fall
Lois: I know, but I'm not the only one you love.
Clark still confused and shoked: I love Jon too, he's our child... And I love my parents, but...
Lois: It's not what I mean, and the facts that you still hasn't realize it...
Lois was thinking again to when Clark proposed to her and the only one to congratulate her from the hero community was him, Batman, Bruce... With some flowers on her desk, kinda as a sign of peace if she thinks about it.... Clark said the rest of the JL was weird about it for a while, but after like a month or two things got back to normal, now thinking back about those memories she now understand he loves him back, and made sure he was happy and maybe got angry at the JL for how they were acting, but she always ignored those facts, because of her happiness, because she loved Clark and Clark loved her but not only her. She was selfish.
Lois: that's not the only reason
Clark was still trying to figure out what went wrong
Lois: You're almost always away, this is also the main reason why I want a divorce.
Clark returned from his shock: Lois, you know I'm-
Lois: Superman, yes I know but it's not enough, I know you tried, and still trying but it's not good enough for me
Clark: I can ask Kon and Kara to help more, even in the League missions... I can-
Lois: The world will always need a Superman Clark, but I'm tired of all of this, at least if we are separated I'll know that I won't have you most of the times to help with Jon...
Clark: Lois...
Lois: this discussion ends here, we'll start discussing the terms later, for tonight I want to sleep, if you want I can take the couch, you're bigger...
Clark: take the bed Lois, I'll fly to the farm and be back for the morning, like that Jon won't know of this, I want to explain to him when the conditions will be set, if you're ok with this...
His tone of voice was sad... but acepting, he understood that he couldn't make Lois change her mind
Lois: yes, ok, I thinks it's for the best too
And so it was, Clark stayed at the start in the farm and then in Gotham until he found a new apartment in Metropolis, by that time the divorce was setted and so the co-parent time division
Years passed and after some time Clark finally understood what Lois ment, they stayed friends, like they were before dating and so when he finally understood, while picking Jon for the weekend, he asked her
Lois: Finally it took you 3 years of being single to finally figure out that you love him
Clark: what do I do?
Lois: I'm pretty sure Bruce loves you too, but you still have to check
Clark: Lo-
Jon: I'm ready!
It took another year for Clark to confess and start dating, but then when he was starting to think to propose... Damian arrived to Gotham, and things kinda got interesting
Yes, but, consider this, Clark can still recognize people eye color, hair color and texture, just not the exact face features.
Batman has a differnt smell than Bruce, maybe because Batman suit it's difficult to clean so its exernal armor kinda smells like blood or Gotham streets and is washed like once a month and it gets dirty again the same night, and Alfred usually cleans like weekly the internal part of the suit. Bruce on the other hand usually smells nice, like the smell of the shampoo or some cologne and the armor blocks the smell of the soap he usually uses.
Plus the clow of the suit has white eyes and the hair is covered, in all of this Clark dosen't know that Batman and Bruce are the same person.
But one day, maybe because Bruce showered in the watchtower with the same soap he usually uses or the suit was just cleaned and still didn't go on patrol before the meeting on the watchtower, Clark recognizes the smell and just as an instict calls Batman Bruce (before the meeting room is full there are like 2 other people, J'onn and Diana, that alredy knows Bruce identity for one reason or another) and right there Clark realize that Batman, is Bruce Wayne
I love identity reveal fanfics, I will never get tired of them, but I would love to see some new spins like; Clark Kent actually has face blindness, yeah turns out Kryptonians use the sense of smell or something. I just think it would be remarkably entertaining to Face-revealed Batman to be having his Dramatic Moment. And Superman is just : ) hello friend <3 absolutely clueless
Rec time! What are your favorite fics that you've read and why? After replying to this ask, feel free pass on to five others to spread the love. 💗
Ok, wow, I didn't expect to do any fic rec, even because I don't have any bookmark on Ao3, but I'll try.
I searched in my History and my subscribtion.
Any fic written by ottpop if you like Valgrace (Jason Grace x Leo Valdez) or Solangelo (Will Solace x Nico Di Angelo)
A Royal Odyssey by MAWo2 a modern royal AU Percabeth (Percy Jackson x Annabeth Chase) fic, unfortunatly not completed where Percy is a Royal and Annabeth is a normal american girl
All the Things We Never Said by Blossomdail a WIP, Percabeth and it's about the period between "The wrath of the triple goddess" and the first book of "Trials of Apollo" nad it explores the relationship between Percy and Annabeth (E rated)
Empire Now by WillowInTheWildwood it's a future fic with protagonist a daughter of Solangelo, it's a WIP but it's almost finished
Athena, daughter of Odysseus by Irunaki it's a WIP with slow updates and you can find the author on youtube (with their animations)
5 Times Bruce Was Proctective of His Pups (+ 2 Times They Were Protective of Him) by Thicc_Personality it's a Superbat (superman x Batman) WIP with really slow updates or discontinued, I'm unsure of this, and it's pretty funny with Conner being the clone of Clark and Bruce and not Lex and Clark, and Omega!Bruce
That Time the Hero Community Thought Robin Had a Crush on Batman by Raven_WitchTales it's WIP Batfam when Dick was Robin pre identity reveal, and it's Basically JL (Justice League) and Teen Titans being idiots.
Violent Sun (a krypton lives au) by Beabaseball (beabaseball), rattlemeoldbones Superbat WIP with slow updates crypton is not destroyed and Bruce and Kal are both kind of experiments (bruce is still a human, just on Krypton for govermant reasons).
Young Folks by palmanatomy WIP Timkon preidentity reveal and it kinda creates a lovesquare between the two and their identities
any of TaxiCabToSlowtown fics, if you want Funny Batfam and generally JL fics
Consanguineous Ministrations by Briarwitched it's kinda (but not really) a Superbat fic, it's a pretty long oneshot where an Kryptonian ship gives Bruce a "clone Baby" that is Kon
Nikólaos by KCBR crossover between Hp (Harry Potter) and PJO with Nico as a protaconist, it's a WIP with weekly updates and it follows Nico since he appeard in the books to idk, it's still a WIP
The Wrong Afterlife by The_Mountain_Flower if it can be consider crossover, it's the same universe... it's between PJO and Magnus Chase, it's a future fic where a greek demigod ends up in the norse afterlife (Vahalla)
Dark Matter by mysterycyclone completed fic with a newly starde sequel crossover between Spiderman and the DCU specifically Batman
For now I'm done, I can't come to mind/find others, should I start bookmarking the fics that I would reccomend?