Sweet love

been reading world's finest comics and fell in love with superbat co-parenting robin dynamic. that's litcherally their son

🔥 The Superbat Slow Burn: A Love Story Decades in the Making 🦇❤️🦸‍♂️

The relationship between Superman and Batman is one of the most fascinating and emotionally charged dynamics in comic book history. From their early interactions to their most recent team-ups, their bond has evolved into something deeply layered—what some might call the ultimate slow burn romance.

💥 The Early Days: From Allies to Something More

📖 First major team-ups: “World’s Finest Comics” (1940s - 1986)

Back in the Golden Age of Comics, Superman and Batman were just two heroes who happened to exist in the same universe. Their team-ups in "World’s Finest Comics" started as fun, lighthearted adventures, but as DC storytelling matured, so did their relationship. Over the years, their trust in each other grew, laying the foundation for the bond we see today.

⚡ Opposites Attract: Tension in "The Dark Knight Returns"

📖 Key moment: “The Dark Knight Returns” (1986) by Frank Miller

If the World’s Finest era was their “getting to know each other” phase, The Dark Knight Returns was their first big fight™. Frank Miller redefined their dynamic by pushing them to ideological extremes—Bruce as the rogue vigilante, Clark as the government’s golden boy. But despite the brutal showdown, there was still an understanding beneath the conflict. It was never about hatred, but about two men who refused to let go of their beliefs… and of each other.

🖤 Trust, Understanding, and... Inner Monologues?

📖 Best Superbat character studies: “Superman/Batman” (2003-2011)

The "Superman/Batman" series gave us one of the best insights into their relationship, told through their own internal monologues. And guess what? They think about each other A LOT.

💫 A Bond That Defies Time

Through every crisis, betrayal, and universe reset, Bruce and Clark’s connection has only gotten stronger. They challenge each other, they fight, they save each other (sometimes literally, sometimes emotionally). Their relationship is built on contrasts—light and dark, hope and cynicism, steel and shadows.

Superman and Batman may not call it love, but… we all know better. 😉

[Dan Mora]

I am. So fucking tired of Batman being portrayed as a bad parent and a toxic person. And it’s so goddamn widespread. Fuck, it might be as bad as the whole “Superman being a kindhearted Boy Scout is boring” take.

I get it, the man’s not exactly stable, he watched his parents get murdered in front of him and spent years of his life training to fight crime dressed like a giant scary bat, of course he’s not perfect.

But to say that Bruce Wayne isn’t caring, isn’t empathetic, to call him abusive…it just misses the point of who the character is to me.

Why do you think he fights crime? Yes, part of it is because he’s bitter and sad because his parents were cruelly ripped from him as a child, and he’s lashing out against the corruption of his city. It’s arguably the focus of his earlier years. But he learns to become more than that. He learns to bring hope, a chance to be better.

Harleen Quinzel is the Joker’s right hand lady, but she’s also a victim of an abusive relationship and a woman with a surprisingly strong moral compass and a love for animals, and wants to get better. That’s why we see time and time again that he has a noticeable soft spot for her, because he knows that she’s a good person at her core.

Harvey Dent is a man who will decide someone’s fate on a coin toss(and a pretty inaccurate depiction of DID), but he’s also Bruce’s close friend who clearly needs help learning to live with his condition, rather than try to get rid of it, and someone who he still goes out of his way to visit, even after everything, because he recognizes he’s not just a criminal with a weird gimmick, he’s a man who is struggling with a condition that he’s mishandled his whole life.

Victor Fries is a cold, emotionless man who will callously discard allies and blame them for being careless, but he’s also a man who’s either lashing out because he had the love of his life taken from him, or just desperate to make sure she isn’t taken from him, and is willing to do anything just to guarantee her survival. Of course Batman would understand, his whole life was defined by having people he loved taken away from him.

Even the Joker, arguably one of the most morally bankrupt characters in all of fiction, is someone that Batman has offered a chance to. After the guy shoots the daughter of his friend, a girl he cared for like she was his own kid, and paralyzes her from the waist down, he tells the Joker that he doesn’t want to hurt him. He wants to get him help. He looks at this monster who has taken countless lives and says “You don’t have to be alone.”

For fuck’s sake, he sat with Joe Chill in his last moments so that he wouldn’t be alone. Joe Chill, the man who murdered his parents, who took so much from him, the person responsible for all of the misery and suffering he’s gone through. And he sits with the man to comfort him while dies. Do you know how much emotional intelligence and maturity that must take? To comfort someone who arguably ruined your life?

And you’re gonna tell me the man who did that would abuse his kids?

That he’d hold up the young man whose death was his greatest failure, the boy he grieved, and say this?

That he’d look his goddamn son in the eyes and say this to him?

Why the FUCK do you think he took in Dick Grayson in the first place? It wasn’t because he saw the kid and thought “Ah. A potential soldier.”, it was because he saw a boy experiencing the same heartbreaking loss he had so many years ago, and wanted to make sure he didn’t end up as bitter and miserable as he was.

Why do you think he smiled when Tim Drake presented him a broken watch for Father’s Day? Because he was just happy to see the boy alive and safe.

DAMIAN LITERALLY POINTED AT A COW AND SAID “I’m keeping her. She’s Bat-Cow.” AND BRUCE JUST WENT WITH IT. DIDN’T EVEN NEED TO ARGUE WHY BRUCE SHOULD LET HIM KEEP HER. HE SAID “this cow is my pet now” AND BRUCE SAID “aight, bet”.

The thing about Batman is that he wants to make sure nobody else ends up feeling the way he does. That’s not just about stopping a mugger so a boy’s parents aren’t gunned down. It’s about giving his loved ones the support and care that he couldn’t have, because it was taken from him. It’s about comforting someone who just went through a traumatic experience and letting them know that they’re going to be okay. It’s about going to someone locked away in a cell who thinks that they’re a lost cause and a burden to society and telling them that he wants to help them get better. It’s about EMPATHY and COMPASSION.

That’s what makes him a HERO. He’s meant to inspire us, to show us that we can have that same empathy for others around us, that we can turn our suffering into hope for a better future.

I just wish more people at DC would start recognizing that. But I might as well follow that example myself. Maybe through this struggle of having to see this hero mistreat the people around him and act like a grade-A jackass, people will start to recognize that missing compassion, and slowly but surely, it might come back. After all, what is this post, if not trying to bring attention to the matter in the hopes of fixing it?

Clark is more himself when he is in civilian clothes but no glasses, no costumes just him

Bruce is more himself when he is in slacks and sweaters but has his hair a bit more out of place, no need to keep the perfect image of the stupid billionaire, no cowl to hide behind.

Bruce has a strict 'no metas/powers (except duke) allowed in Gotham' policy in place but it has a clause, BYOR (Bring Your Own Robin)

No one is allowed entry untill and unless they can produce their very own certified robin-shaped identity card

Whenever someone with even a hint of supernatural powers in them arrives at Gotham, they're first met with Bruce standing at the city border with a notepad in hand

Bruce: State your name and purpose.

Kon: Kon-el, here to hangout!

Bruce: Your Robin?

Kon, flourishing Tim from behind him: Ta-Da!

Tim, waves: Hey Bruce

Bruce: Approved, you may enter

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Bruce: Name and purpose?

Hal: Here to investigate a case, Hal Jordan

Bruce: Your Robin?

Hal: I.... don't have one?

Bruce: Denied

Hal: What?! But-

Bruce: Denied.

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Bruce: Yes, Wally, where's your robin?

Wally: Oh shit lemme just- *zaps away and returns with Dick, who was in the midst of brushing his teeth, in a bridal carry*- Here!

Bruce, grumbling a little: Fine. Approved.

Dick: You gotta stop using me as a key already, man

Wally: Blame Bruce.

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Bruce: Name and purpose?

Clark: Clark Kent, here for our monthly barbecue

Bruce: Robin?

Clark, producing an actual robin bird: Does this count?

Bruce:.....yes

The moment I choose pomegranade as main scent for omega!Bruce I got flashbacks of my old Hades/Persephone obsession and I knew I had to integrate the trope into the fic.

I mean, it's perfect!

There's Persephone!Clark: the epythome of hope and life itself.

His body feeding on sunlight, his whole youth growing in contact with nature and animals. He loves Earth and earthlings, activelly doing everything in his power to help them.

A godly being among mortals, loved yet so alone in his status, not being able to actually live a normal life. To actually love and mate like anyone else can. Too powerful, too scared of his own desires to even try.

The there's Hades!Bruce, living into that huge Manor, surrounded by his dead parents things and memories.

Despite all his kids he feels alone. He spends his time in auto-isolation down into the cave, going outside mostly during night, patrolling a city that he loves even if it's an actual hell.

He doesn't feel like he deserves to be loved: he's too broken inside, his body marked like a battlefield... after what Bane did to him, he can't even bear children. He doesn't meet any omega standards, what alpha would ever want an omega like him?

When Bruce will ask Clark to share his heat, he will be so flattered, yet so scared to accept. Too scared. He never did something like this. He doens't trust himself enough.

And Bruce, who instead trusts him deeply and tried to open up, hoping at least to became friends with benefits... only to be rejected...

But Clark just can’t do it. Not like that.

If only Bruce would allow him to actually court him, to descend into his cave and bring a bit of light into his heart...

The moment I choose pomegranade as main scent for omega!Bruce I got flashbacks of my old Hades/Persephone obsession and I knew I had to integrate the trope into the fic.

I mean, it's perfect!

There's Persephone!Clark: the epythome of hope and life itself.

His body feeding on sunlight, his whole youth growing in contact with nature and animals. He loves Earth and earthlings, activelly doing everything in his power to help them.

A godly being among mortals, loved yet so alone in his status, not being able to actually live a normal life. To actually love and mate like anyone else can. Too powerful, too scared of his own desires to even try.

The there's Hades!Bruce, living into that huge Manor, surrounded by his dead parents things and memories.

Despite all his kids he feels alone. He spends his time in auto-isolation down into the cave, going outside mostly during night, patrolling a city that he loves even if it's an actual hell.

He doesn't feel like he deserves to be loved: he's too broken inside, his body marked like a battlefield... after what Bane did to him, he can't even bear children. He doesn't meet any omega standards, what alpha would ever want an omega like him?

When Bruce will ask Clark to share his heat, he will be so flattered, yet so scared to accept. Too scared. He never did something like this. He doens't trust himself enough.

And Bruce, who instead trusts him deeply and tried to open up, hoping at least to became friends with benefits... only to be rejected...

But Clark just can’t do it. Not like that.

If only Bruce would allow him to actually court him, to descend into his cave and bring a bit of light into his heart...

i i i i i i i i i-

"WHO'S A HERETIC NOW?"

-Which Witch by Florance & The machine

Sometimes you try burn a heretic, but turns out she's the divine vassal lol

Watchtower/Hall of Justice @bruclarkweek

I've been reading so much Superbat lately, and I love me identity shinanagins. And I love all the angst filled reveals in near death situations, the fluffy ones that have a heart felt confession of identity, and the goofy ones where one of them (usually Bruce) is being a bit of a troll. But I want to see more of the angst filled ones in a situation that we, as the audience, knows isn't dangerous, but has Bruce FREAKING.

I'm of course talking about a reveal where Bruce is basically reliving his parents death.

Just imagine, Bruce and Clark are out of a date, they stayed later than they meant to. When they're heading back to the car, they need to turn down a now dark stretch of road. From the dark, a mugger slips out of the shadows, gun pointed straight at Bruce. Bruce isn't worried at first, already reaching for a money clip he keeps just for this, but Clark immediately moves between them. And Bruce panics. Because he knows what Clark will try to do. And he knows it wont work. And he knows what will happen when Clark fails.

But he can't move. He can only watch as Clark tries to talk the mugger down. Can only watch as Clark slowly reaches to take the gun. Flinches as the muzzle flashes and the gunshot echoes in his ears as the bullet goes straight to Clark's stomach. The mugger flees, and Bruce reaches for Clark in a panic. He pulls Clark back, not even realizing that he's practically grappling Clark to sit in the alley way, seeing only red as he presses his hands where he thinks the wound is.

And Clark is just trying to calm him down, eventually having to force Bruce to look at him, as he pulls Bruce's hands away to let the flattened bullet into Bruce's palm. Saying, "Bruce, there's something I need to tell you."

Anyway, just Identity shinanagins, but have it be repeating trauma because I wanna see traumatized Bruce cry.

Thinking about vamp superbat got me kicking my feet and shi frfr let's do drabble time

My life ended the day I figured out I had free will. Now, anytime I am supposed to do something, my brain goes "No" bc the concept of being supposed to do something is fake. I don't have to do anything, actually. Now I never do things unless the consequences are worse than the idea of doing them. I hate life

Some real shit 😔

Robins are weird about stairs.  And I think that’s a learned behavior.

(Also, I think Jason knows that his way is not effective in a fight.  But, I also think he wouldn’t be able to resist trolling the other Robins.)

Based of this scene:

All characters belong to DC Comics . Artwork by Meredith McClaren