Fic: Heart of a Stone (Clark/Bruce) (Prelude) (WIP)
Title: Heart of a Stone
Fandom: DCU
Pairing: Superman/Batman
Rating: Adult
Status: WIP
Warnings: Slash, explicit m/m sex
Tags: Plot-intensive; Angst
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Fandom: DCU
Pairing: Superman/Batman
Rating: Adult
Status: WIP
Warnings: Slash, explicit m/m sex
Tags: Plot-intensive; Angst
( Read more... )
>>If the above is true & he needed to find out the truth- why did he tune out the rest of the conversation?
Respect. Ethics. The fact that he gave his word not to spy on his parents, which for a family of super powered beings, is important -- to learn not to abuse your powers to the detriment of others. Once he learns what is going on, he'll want to confront his parents, and he'll get much more respect from them if he uses available channels to build a case and doesn't do something he told them he wouldn't.
Plus, the conversation itself suffers from two problems: 1) it's a truncated mentioning between two people who already know the details, hence it's unlikely he'll get the type of complete picture he'd need; 2) and the account is naturally biased, being that the source is the people he wants to investigate.
Hope this answers your concerns!
>>so it doesn't quite make sense that he wouldn't continue- since he is so obviously intent on discovering the truths.
I think you missed the point of the scene. The kid wants to know not just the details of the current situation. He wants to know the whole story of his parents, the historical facts that have always been glossed over and vague because the source of the accounts and explanations were two people who didn't think the kids needed to know everything. The kid in this scene is worried that his parents are going to disappear, and he'll never know how his parents came to be so connected, how they met, what all the family secrets are. It's not *just* the current suspicion that his parents are involved in something complex that they didn't bother explaining. It's *everything*.
>>you also wrote that he was so used to listening to his parents that their voices were the soundtrack to his life.
No, I wrote that their voices--their light banter--were the soundtrack of his life. Not that he regularly used his super hearing to spy on his parents.
>>Also- the biggest reason to make children original characters is the fact that you wrote that he and his siblings all have enhanced hearing. A kryptonian dna gift. So the children couldn't be tim, dick, roy, cassie...They'd need to be biological children.
Not necessarily. I can think of a dozen ways to turn this into the original Bat family, if I really wanted to. However, I don't. LOL It is much more interesting to me to go original.
Thanks so much for your wonderful comments! I'm glad this part seemed to excite you. :) Makes me want to jump forward and actually write this future story in contemporaneous time. :hugs:
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