Music of the Spheres Ficlet: Seashell

[jij]

Title:  Seashell
Pairing: Clark/Bruce
Notes: "Music of the Spheres" is a series set in the combined universes of "Batman Begins" and "Superman Returns." Other stories and notes on the series here.
Rating: G
Summary: Clark and Bruce discuss the sea, seashells, and properties of sound and time.
Word Count: 560
Notes:  For

Comments

[eve_k]

Oh Jen, I´m awfully late and empty-handed on top of that, but Happy (belated) Birthday wishes from me anyway! *hugs*
I love your MotS Bruce for being so in touch with his feelings and at peace with himself and his ability to show his love for Clark. They are so perfect together here!
Reading MotS is a real remedy for all the atrocities (going on and hinted at) in the canon Bat books these days, so thank you for sharing this universe with a fangirl getting increasingly depressed :(

[jij]

*hugs* Thanks so much for the birthday wishes! It's just wonderful to see you around, that's my real present. :)

Reading MotS is a real remedy for all the atrocities (going on and hinted at) in the canon Bat books these days, so thank you for sharing this universe with a fangirl getting increasingly depressed :(

MotS is my place for hiding from anything too unpleasant--it's "shielded" from canon by being movieverse, lol. Though no matter what happens in "canon" I'll just keep writing more or less the way I always have, I do believe... :) There are just too many places to scamper off and play in--AUs, the past, other takes on the mythos...

[javana12]

awwwwww!!!!!!

That was beautiful!

And "geekitude" hehehe loved it!

[jij]

*grins* Thank you! I love writing this verse so much... :)

[ladybugkay]

That last line is fantastic and really says it all about this 'verse, doesn't it? I love it so. :)

[jij]

*beams* Thank you! Yes, I almost didn't post this because the last line is such an overt statement of the series theme, lol. But it seemed to work here...

[crimsonquills]

This was a wonderful story. I love all the different ways the shell and the sound of the sea tied into their lives and philosophies.

"Except I realized when I took the shell away that I was hearing the actual sea, not the shell." He smiled slightly. "That was an interesting moment."

I love little tidbits like this from Clark's childhood. It is one of the downsides of having heroes who became what they are as adults--there's not as much impact of their identities on how they developed into adults. In a way, Clark and Bruce have always been Superman and Batman, which makes their years growing up much more complicated.

[jij]

I love little tidbits like this from Clark's childhood. It is one of the downsides of having heroes who became what they are as adults--there's not as much impact of their identities on how they developed into adults. In a way, Clark and Bruce have always been Superman and Batman, which makes their years growing up much more complicated.

Ooh, that's true! *ponders* Superman and Batman are extreme examples even within the DCU, on the whole, besides the Robins. It does make for an interesting personality question, doesn't it?

(Oddly, when I scrounge my mind for DCU, Cable springs to mind as someone who didn't come to the life at an adult age...depending on where canon stands on him at the moment. I remember him as having a rather superheroic childhood in the future in the Phoenix/Cyclops miniseries that was I think the last I saw of him...)

(Also, tenses must get kind of dubious when recounting Cable's history in stories!)

[crimsonquills]

Oddly, when I scrounge my mind for DCU, Cable springs to mind as someone who didn't come to the life at an adult age...depending on where canon stands on him at the moment. I remember him as having a rather superheroic childhood in the future in the Phoenix/Cyclops miniseries that was I think the last I saw of him...

I assume you mean the Marvel U. *grins* And yeah, Cable definitely came to the life as a child. I don't know much about it, actually. I've only read Cable and Deadpool, which is way fun but not big on the backstory. *g*

Other than Cable, I can only think of Reed and Sue's children, Franklin and Val. Well, there are various young X-Men, but they tend to come to it in their teens, not their earlier childhood.

[si_zilla]

I love the symbolism.

[jij]

*grin* I hadn't realized until I started writing this how closely Kal maps onto Legolas. Then it was a total facepalm moment, lol. :)