(FIC) Sideways (Superman, PG)

[arch_schatten]

Nghhh, omgggg I could not be more behind on everything, including flesh-life. I wrote this story for the Day of the Dead (that's November 2!) and I am only getting around to posting it now

Comments

[dshael]

Oh, sad. Life goes on, and people can't stop to grieve... this one's painful in a good way. :)

[arch_schatten]

Aww, thank you! I'm very glad you liked this, and yeah, that's exactly the kind of emotion I wanted to capture. Clark barely has any time to grieve... but he's so lonely in NK :(

[timeglitch]

So sad. Poor, poor Clark. Life really does continue, whether we like it or not. I really wish that Bruce would come back.

Beautifully written.

[arch_schatten]

Thank you! thank you for reading, I'm glad you liked the story. And yeah, that's the feeling I was going for... Clark has had barely any time for himself in NK, but I do feel that he's very lonely there.. and I miss Bruce a lot, lol, so there is that :P hopefully Bruce will come back sometimes next year... he's sorely missed :(

[schala_kid]

This was beautiful, I can feel the conflict inside Clark between his love and longing for his homeworld and his duty to his people. Earth has villains but a lot of heroes to defend it while New Krypton only has Zod, there's no way Clark will leave his people to this mercy and there's no way he will leave them defenseless (especially since everyone wants to see them killed). Loved that ending with Kara, despite everything Kal is going through he still has her.

Augh! I want Bruce to come back now! I wonder how he'll react to the changes that have happened in the DC universe especially to Clark being in New Krypton and someone else taking his place as Superman.

[arch_schatten]

I'm very happy to see that Kal and Kara have each other in NK, even though Kara technically would be more at 'home' in NK, she's clearly also an outsider trying to get her bearings.. and Kal is doing an awesome job, but he's very lonely! the whole thing with Tyr was very sad, but it's like, a token of what Kal is trying to do for NK, changing the structures and the way people think and perceive themselves... I don't know what will happen after the mini (probably some dumb invasion again) but I have really enjoyed it and I wanted to play with Clark's conflicts and mourn Bruce a bit.

I really want to know when he's coming back! urggg, probably not until Blackest Night is over, and maybe even after the whole New Krypton/General Lane thing blows over, too, since there's a new JLA with Dick as Batman and whatever.. :(

Thank youu for reading! I'm glad this story worked for you!

[mithen]

I love this story so much! It still makes me cry. I especially love the way you use very simple phrases and sentences that mean so much, somehow, deceptively simple language at times. But...maybe not "deceptive," because longing and loneliness are very simple things in many ways.

There is no freedom but the freedom of his mind, the freedom of his soul, to be and believe and to love and hope.

I love this line, it's so Zen and centered and fits him so well. And Clark looking at the new moon in the sky...so beautiful and sad and yet not hopeless, somehow.

I can't help but see this story as a prequel to the reunion fic you're working on now! Do you read it that way?

[arch_schatten]

I am a sad ferret, with simple sadness! :P I really liked the rhythm of this story, and how it called for very short scenes, especially because Clark so little 'me time' in NK. I like the little nods he's done to the memory of Bruce, though! he makes me wibble :(

I like how, with all his power -I guess, especially the ability to fly- Clark/Kal seems like a really 'free' character, unbound, when he's actually very constricted not only by the rules of the world but the rules he makes for himself, so he won't upset the balance too much, to be always fair, etc. I love self control so much, haha. Sexyyy.

New moon! old moon, come baaackkk D:

I wish it was the prequel to the other story, though the other happens earlier in the NK arc! Zod still hasn't been shot there.. I kind of want to keep writing in that continuity, lol. Oh no Bruce and Clark black ops of NK! :D

+snugs+ thank you so much for the help with this, kitten! I'm glad you liked it.. we're gonna get our Bat back! soooonn!

[skund]

Beautiful story, and so very sad. You really captured the sense of isolation Clark must be feeling which the comics never really touch on.

[arch_schatten]

I love how Clark is really trying to do everything he can playing by the rules, and then bending them a little, all for seeing NK make it. But it also makes me sad that he's so very lonely.. playing with this story made me feel a bit better about all the nonsense that canon is allowing to Bruce's legacy. Freaking Hush storyline from hell :/ I'm glad you liked thissss! :D