I can handle it!!!! (she said, clearly not handling it)

I think it's really funny how Joey said Kenneth would be Green Lantern and Kenneth said Joey would be Batman so that's the Boxes we are gonna stick em in. Joey=Bruce and Kenneth=Hal for anyone that knows what that means

TMCK origin story is better for them anyway-

Both Hal and Bruce are Musicians who are happily doing their things- Bruce is only mildly more successful at his solo career in Gotham than Hal is in Cali, and they both fall into a similar genre category (Hal does slightly more upbeat and Yk that more spunky music while Bruce is soft acoustic guitar only somberer music)

Bruce is touring and stumbles across one of Hal's Slower concert songs and is captivated. He meets him afterwards and they have immediate chemistry- whether positive or not at first can be discussed afterwards for now it'll be mostly positive- and exchange numbers and promise to listen to more of each others music

When Bruce has a break in his schedule they meet up in Gotham and try playing a song together and it sounds good. They're both still doing small tours and its not really a conversation its just a simple matter of 'hey wanna sing on stage with me?' and so they rearrange all of their solo songs to include the other person and don't perform alone from then on

Form an official band once the touring is done and start writing music together, release an album and go on tour together

(If I had a choice[i do but its funny and im sticking to the roles they assigned each other] I'd actually flip their Boxes because I defo think Hal would do more talking but this is an interesting character study so I shall try it out)

Hal is a slightly better guitar player than Bruce and likes to experiment a lot while Bruce maintains the simple chords and bass of the song. But because of his extravagant playing Hal snaps strings more frequently so while he spends time switching them out Bruce starts talking to the audience

The first time he does it is a complete accident. Hal turns away to replace a string that popped and Bruce grumbles a 'the fucking ghosts are back' under his breath that the microphone catches and projects and the audience rumbles with laughter. Hal looks up in surprise and Bruce blinks, thrown off guard.

He keeps going, dry observations he'd made about the city they're in and how it seems to be haunted and about how Hal always attracks the frickin weirdos- and the audience is loving it.

He tries doing it again on their next stage appearance, making a very dry comment about Hal's appearance and/or their stage performance and/or the audience and/or the next song they're about to sing- and they get the same response. The crowd loves it.

Eventually Hal starts picking up on it too and they develop a bit of back and forth banter- the classic style arguments that BatLantern always have that are so entertaining and dry and delightful are now happening on stage

"Hal wrote this next one. He won't tell me what it's about but I have a hunch that it might be about me." "Oh? What makes you think that?" "Just a hunch." "Mmm. You're so hunchful." "Aren't I."

And yeah. BatLantern as a musical duo. Eventually it turns into romance, or maybe not. Maybe they're just two dudes like tmck are. Best friends. "Yeah the music sucks, but we are best friends."

but because it's BatLantern they're gonna be lovers because I say so.

"Hurry up, we have to be on stage in five." "Do you ever not think about work?" "One of us has to." "Ohhhh I see how it is. Let's see if we can make you stop thinking period for a second." "Mhm."