Will you ever write anything with the batfam? Bc all your fics are in dceu, so all of Bruce’s children are all always either dead (dick) or just not there (everyone else) 😅 if you never plan on it that’s totally understandable !!! there are 💀 quite a few of them 😭
/o\ :D Oh, anon, I would LOVE to be able to say yes to you—but the truth is, I feel deeply unqualified to try to write the Batfam, because I know almost nothing about them! :') The DCEU isn't the only DC canon I'm familiar with, I've watched small parts of the DCAU and I've read certain specific issues of comics for research purposes ... but I know almost nothing about most of the members of the Batfam, which means I would be VERY nervous about trying to write a story that incorporated them into the DCEU (or trying to write a story that was actually set in comics continuity, for that matter).
I am absolutely open to fixing that, though :D so if you have recs for specific runs of comics you think are really essential for understanding Dick/Jason/Tim/Steph/Cass/Damian/ANYONE I'M FORGETTING, I would be grateful to have a starting point for getting to know at least some of them!
(And I have idly thought off and on about someday trying to write something that works with the DCEU's premise—Dick is the dead Robin, there hasn't been another since—but takes it in a bit more of a comics direction. Like, Bruce still ends up meeting and choosing to adopt Jason, sometime after JL, BUT because of Dick's death, he is absolutely 100% unwilling to have Jason even know about Batman at all; Bruce Wayne adopts Jason, Bruce refuses to ever break character around him, &c &c ... and then, you know, Dick gets Lazarus-Pitted and comes back a little bit fucked up, and Bruce's attempts to shield Jason from any awareness of Batman start unraveling once Dick has come back into the picture, and it gets all messy for like 50k and then gradually resolves itself, and also Clark probably ends up jumping on the coparenting train because it's me and there's ALWAYS Bruce/Clark happening in the background. :'D
So, uh, yeah. Point is, I definitely won't rule it out, I do have ~ideas and also I love Bruce and kids, BUT it probably won't happen anytime soon, either. Which I hope is not too disappointing to hear! ♥)
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hello! first i wanted to say i love your art!!your style is really cool! i also wanted to ask if you are okay with people using your art as a header or icon with direct credit? thank you so much and have a great day/night (:
thank you for the kind words ;o;/ im happy to let u guys use my art just no edits/drawing over and directly credit me somewhere visible thank you so much for asking /uou\
I read the excerpt and it's like "once again gonna gobble up susie making bruce denying himself like I'm dying of thirst in the oasis"
/o\ :D Aw, man, I'm so glad you liked the vibes of the preview, anon! (It was SO HARD to pick a section that was short enough to fit, but fortunately my brilliant girlfriend was around to help me find one that would work. :D)
AND. Please rest assured that while there is an exclusivity period for that zine, it'll end when the zine comes out, and then I will absolutely be posting the story to my AO3! That probably won't be until the fall ... but I'll be doing my level best to participate in DCEU Superbat Week (posting July 19-26), Bottom Clark Week (posting August 23-29), and original-flavor Superbat Week (posting September 14-20), so there will still be all kinds of Bruce/Clark fic from me over the next few months to help tide you over until that zine fic goes up. :DDDDD ♥♥♥!
Susie, i reread run into the river (dive in), GIVE US THE SEQUEL MOMENTS YOU HAVE IN YOUR HEAD!!! We all assumed Clark would have reached Gotham before Bruce, so please confirm if he did and what happened afterwards??? Thank you for continuing to be the only dceu superbat supplier i go to, you are one in a million, seriously <3 <3 <3
/o\ :D Aw, man, you are too kind, anon—I'm so glad you enjoy my DCEU Superbat so much! ;-; It just means the world to me to hear that it manages to hit the spot for you so consistently. ♥♥♥
AND THEN thank you so much for asking about this, because, yeah, that is yet another story where I have SO many thoughts on where to go with that AU and I just have not sat down and actually pinned them down properly :') BUT I STILL REALLY WANT TO SOMEDAY. So I'm thrilled anyone might still be interested if I do ever actually get my shit together for a sequel. :D
So, yes, a random sampling of Thoughts I Have Written Down In My Notes File That Aren't Quite An Outline Yet:
I was kind of picturing Clark, armed only with one of Bruce Wayne's business cards and not yet even an amateur investigative reporter, just lurking outside the Wayne Enterprises office tower that matches the info on the card, waiting :D—and Bruce, whose research gave him some idea that Clark was somebody he should be looking for but doesn't necessarily have a clear idea as to Clark's powerset (and was unconscious for a chunk of Clark rescuing him in Alaska, obvs) was, you know, kind of expecting Kent to have to hitchhike across the country or something! Wasn't precisely ready to have the guy WAITING FOR HIM THE NEXT DAY. And in public, at a Wayne Enterprises building where he needs an excuse for this hot young thing to accompany him straight into his office, he's going to be pretty maximum Bruce Wayne, which is FASCINATING to Clark, who saw him being Frank Dixon, Alaskan Fisherman :D (and Bruce is also probably half-expecting Clark to screw this up by being surprised ... but this is hobo!Clark who lies to people himself on the regular, he's perfectly able to keep his mouth shut until he's got a better idea what Bruce's deal actually is :D).
And this is a Clark who hasn't had Black Zero Day happen to him, who hasn't found the ship in the ice—this is a Clark who still doesn't know where he came from, who is earnestly hoping Bruce might have some answers for him! And this is (in my head) a Bruce who's started having some Knightmares (which is why, in the fic, he talks about knowing there's "something coming"), but hasn't had Black Zero Day happen to him either—he doesn't know Clark has laser vision, he doesn't know who that figure is in the sky who's flying around with burning red eyes. :') (He hasn't had the Knightmare about Clark specifically killing him where he actually sees Clark's face ... yet. :')))))) )
So, yeah, in my heart, this turns into kind of an MoS/BvS/JL mashup—some of the plot comes from MoS, like, Bruce finds out about the ship in the ice through whatever back channels he has, and he takes Clark up there with him as his personal assistant or something :D so they can check it out together! (Do they still have a run-in with Lois? Does she still get hurt, or does Bruce Batman himself in front of her the instant the drone moves? HAVEN'T DECIDED YET.) I just love the idea of Clark having somebody there to actively HELP him research where he came from, especially somebody as analytical as Bruce ...
... but also at the same time Bruce is still looking for other metahumans, since the whole premise of the original AU is that he started doing that earlier, so he and Clark also start working together to track down Barry, or Arthur, or Diana ...
... BUT ALSO Bruce is going to keep having Knightmares, and at some crucial point along the way, you know, his Knightmare includes the Superman suit's colors/design being visible to him = he is profoundly shaken when Clark gets a suit that looks exactly the same out of the ship, you know? :'D I am just—so enamored of the idea of a universe where Bruce met Clark early enough, learned about him with him/had the opportunity to realize how little he knew about himself at first, met Martha, all of it (and probably also he and Clark keep having sex throughout all of this—or don't at first but then fall back into it after the continuing UST gets the better of them :D) and then has the dream where Clark rips his heart out of his chest, and UNDERSTANDS that something must have gone horribly wrong in order for that to happen, is terrified for Clark rather than of him right from the beginning, is a hundred times as committed to preventing the Knightmare from ever happening because what it is showing him about what happens to Clark is so horrifying to him. ;-;
AND THEN ALSO I love the thought of some portion of the JL team, or all of it, having their first fight be Black Zero—so they're all there to help Clark fight Zod & co! He's not trying to figure out how to stop them alone! Hell, Victor could probably latch onto the World Engine and connect to its systems and shut it down, you know? Still a big long fight, still something worse coming in the future, but all of them would be in a better position to face it together. ♥
(Obviously Doomsday would also have to happen differently, but, in much the same vein, I would LOVE to write a version of that where Clark is killed, and Bruce is devastated BECAUSE THEY HAVE A WHOLE PRE-EXISTING RELATIONSHIP, not because he realized two minutes ago that Clark must be a good person—I will never stop loving how fast he gets weird about Clark in canon, okay, I appreciate that SO MUCH, but I also adore the idea of a Bruce and Clark who've been having sex and circling each other emotionally, who maybe hadn't quite made it to actual feelings-confession territory, and then Doomsday kills Clark and Bruce is an absolute wreck about it, is filled with lunatic determination to resurrect him with the mother box but with a whole different dynamic underneath it :D and yeah.)
AHEM. Anyway, I hope that helping of thoughts is something like what you were looking for, anon :D and thank you so much for asking for it! I still have SO many ideas for more DCEU fic, and (currently, but not forever!) SO little time to actually write any of it, so I really appreciate being given an excuse to share some of my notes and the things I'm thinking about without having to have turned them into a fully developed story yet. :'D ♥♥♥!
What's Bruce and Clark's headspace like following Marriage of Inconvenience (esp curious about Bruce)? Like there's def love there but is Bruce feeling guilty for his distrust/cruelty when he tried to push Clark away w/ fights? Is he fully letting down the mask w/ Clark or still keeping some things secret (like his initial ulterior motives in the marriage)? Is Clark focused on love or is he starting to wonder about what else Bruce was lying about? Also so curious about Clark + Alfred's dynamic
/o\ :D EXCELLENT QUESTIONS, haha, and thank you so much for asking them! I don't have totally coherent answers all pinned down here—which is frankly because I am still working on figuring out how I want to answer these as I start piling up notes about what I want to do with a sequel :'D—BUT I have been thinking about all of these things a lot and I definitely can yammer a little bit about what I have in mind/what I've been considering. :D I'm sorry/you're welcome?
Is Bruce feeling guilty for his distrust/cruelty when he tried to push Clark away w/ fights? Is he fully letting down the mask w/ Clark or still keeping some things secret (like his initial ulterior motives in the marriage)?
:D The answer to any question about whether Bruce is feeling guilty will always be "yes" with me at the wheel, lol. BUT, to be more specific—despite having said "yes" in response to Clark's proposal at the end of the fic (and on one level meaning it because he wants nothing more than to stay married to Clark pls), I'm intending for Bruce to spend a pretty good chunk of the sequel basically veering back and forth between trying to be honest with Clark for good reasons (because Clark deserves that much from him), trying to be honest with Clark for bad reasons (because exposing all his fundamental uglinesses is the only way to get Clark to understand that he's made a mistake here and should probably retract that proposal), trying to be the best version of himself (because that presumably is the person Clark actually wants and should get to have), and accidentally being incredibly difficult (because there's going to be Plot Stuff going on in the background that he's trying to deal with himself/protect Clark from having to know anything about/&c &c, control freak that he is).
So, yeah, I have every intention of Bruce eventually confessing to as many things he thinks Clark might not like as possible, including trying to impress upon Clark that he pulled strings to get himself married to Clark in the first place in the hope of finding something that could kill Kryptonians and putting himself in a position to use it, absolutely. (Which I don't think even Clark could hear with 100% equanimity, BUT it's me: Clark is also going to perceive that whatever Bruce may have originally intended to do ... he didn't do that, and in fact helped save most of what was left of the Kryptonians from Zod and the Sword of Rao, which is to say, from Bruce's perspective, he's going to completely miss the point of Bruce's confession. :'D)
I am also definitely planning for Bruce to spend a while struggling to take the mask off, just because a) he's spent so long keeping it on around Clark as often as possible and b) somewhere he barely even really acknowledges, he thinks that's the least unlikable version of him, and see above re: that must be the guy Clark actually wants and therefore that's the guy Clark should get to have. (I also think that at first, Clark's going to have a tough time understanding exactly where the edges of the mask are/exactly how much Bruce compartmentalizes; he did get a look, at various points in Marriage of Inconvenience, at Bruce himself, but he's not going to start off with a clear idea of, like, how to get the real Bruce to come out here and talk to him for a minute.) Even a DCEU Bruce who hasn't spent weeks Bruce Wayneing at Clark even when they're alone together has some trouble figuring out how to be genuine/what that even means, you know? This Bruce is not going to have an easier time of it. :')
Is Clark focused on love, or is he starting to wonder about what else Bruce was lying about?
On a fundamental level, my overall plan for Clark is kind of a V, basically—I think he's going to start out feeling like we saved the world, my husband agreed to marry me for real and also he's Batman (!!!), and we're probably having sex again soon! :) and then he's going to start to realize how much more complicated than that it might be, to get through to Bruce/learn how to truly parse Bruce's everything/figure out how to really make this relationship work when there is Plot Stuff trying to get in the way ... but ultimately he will get through to Bruce, learn how to mostly parse Bruce's everything, and they will resolve the Plot Stuff/save each other/Clark will never truly have lost sight of the things he saw in Bruce that made him start falling for Bruce no matter how thoroughly Bruce's behavior sometimes obscures them. And also they will definitely have sex some more. :D So, yeah, he's going to be struggling for a stretch trying to work out how much of Bruce was even real at all, but the answer is going to be "more than even Bruce thinks was real, because Bruce doesn't think of himself as a caring person and is full of shit".
Also so curious about Clark + Alfred's dynamic
:D Probably not a surprise to hear that I love Clark & Alfred, and their relationship is probably going to end up taking the same fundamental shape it usually takes in my hands, lol—which is to say Alfred rapidly comes to appreciate Clark enormously, is very aware of how hard Bruce is likely to make things for him, and is almost certainly going to end up helping Clark understand something specific about whatever Bruce just said or did when Bruce was hoping Clark would never understand it and would give up on him. :'D
In this particular universe, I also think Alfred is going to be SO tickled by Clark's fanboy awe of Nightwing Batman, once he learns about it/gets to see it for himself—but also, on a deeper level, is going to believe it's bound to do Bruce some good, if Bruce lets it, to have someone who so thoroughly and unquestioningly believes Batman is a hero, zero doubt, zero uncertainty = to give Bruce something he wants to live up to instead of a bad or at best frightening reputation to live down to (because this Bruce may not have made it to the point of branding criminals, but he would've gotten there within the next year or two = Alfred's probably already been Somewhat Concerned about his mental and emotional welfare, and aliens showing up out of nowhere + Bruce immediately throwing himself in the middle of it didn't relieve that concern :') ). Alfred is also probably going to have to do some of the emotional exposition Bruce is going to refuse to do, to help Clark contextualize Batman/Bruce's various issues/Alfred himself better.
Hope that's at least part of what you wanted from an answer to this ask, anon :D but if it wasn't, feel free to send a follow-up! ♥
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would... would it be possible for you to write an exclusively Bruce Wayne fic? maybe with Bruce monologue, like perhaps it's undercover or something that Batman can't do, i'm just suddenly snatched by the idea of Bruce being Bruce Wayne for reasons, maybe it's outsider pov or JL pov and it's just a very entertaining thought. Or maybe you could do like an outline of how you would go about writing one?
/o\ :D I cannot tell a lie, anon, I have ABSOLUTELY been thinking about maybe trying to write a kind of companion fic to I Would I Might Forget That I Am I, where some OTHER kind of tropey shenanigan leads Bruce to forget he's Batman—so he remembers Bruce Wayne's life, remembers everything he's ever done as Bruce Wayne, and can reach no conclusion except that that, somehow, must be who he is; that his company does some good, but he never really figured out how to, and apparently he's the kind of person who's okay with that. T-T BRUUUUUUUUCE. (With, naturally, bonus angst where once Bruce gets his memory back, he assumes Clark liked him better like that—and Clark's feeling bad because as much as he did like a version of Bruce who was a little more easygoing, a little less hard on himself, a little less uncompromising about everything, he MISSED the Bruce he knows, the Bruce who's Batman and would never give it up, and he feels like that kind of means he prefers Bruce when Bruce is unhappier /o\ which is obviously AWFUL of him, he should WANT Bruce happy even if that means Bruce is a little less the guy Clark's in love with— :D)
There's also a totally different Bruce amnesia fic that lives in my heart where instead of the angle I took on it in hear the future whisper (Bruce gets complete amnesia while he's Batmanning, and runs with the context he has), Bruce gets complete amnesia while he's Bruce Wayneing, and runs with that context—and probably also runs into Clark Kent while he's at it, at whatever event he's at where he just got gassed by a villain or whatever, and takes Mr. Kent's earnest concern for him/offer to keep an eye on him for a while/suddenly easier familiarity with him once no one's looking at them anymore at face value ... :D
BUT, setting amnesia aside, I am ALSO definitely here for outsider POV or JL POV on Bruce being Bruce Wayne for a whole fic, whether it's, like, a five-times story about times each member of the JL ran into ~Bruce Wayne in public, or, like, a Clark POV AU of BvS where something happens at some point before Lex Luthor's fundraiser = Clark doesn't get the opportunity to hear Bruce and Alfred over Bruce's earpiece and has to save what he believes is Annoying Civilian Bruce Wayne from *waves hands* who knows what? And I'm sure multiple people have already written this AU :'D but one day I'll get around to writing the story where Lex got the kryptonite into the country somehow a LOT earlier, and promptly kidnapped Clark and locked him up in a lab, and has invited his buddy Bruce Wayne over to see all the "no good" his R&D department is up to, per his casual invitation to Bruce at the fundraiser in BvS—so Clark's POV, chained up and getting experimented on, is of Bruce Wayne in the worst possible circumstances, circumstances that REALLY make Bruce Wayne seem like an awful person ... until Bruce can't fucking take it anymore (he thought he wanted the alien securely under human control, but—he didn't mean THIS, goddammit) and suddenly Bruce Wayne has locked Luthor out of the lab and is helping Clark get loose? :D :D :D :D :D
Plus frankly I'll never get tired of writing Clark's POV on hanging out with Bruce Wayne in post-JL scenarios where he's tickled by this angle on Bruce/crushing and it's not getting LESS pressing when he's looking at a relaxed smiling Bruce in a tux/&c &c, haha, so there is ALWAYS more of that on the way! ♥♥♥
Hi Susie! It feels almost greedy to ask this when I know you have a big bang dropping soon, but are you doing SB week this year too?? I really love the way you fill a week by doing a themed chapter that adds up into a whole fic. I've seen fics like that before but you do it so well that in my head it's kind of like your thing! Trying my hand at it for a fan week later this year, wish me luck 🤞 but I would not say no to having more of your examples to use as inspiration 👀
:D Hi! And no worries at all, haha—rest assured that I'm just grateful you were anticipating wanting more of my Superbat even AFTER the big bang dropped. (Which, I took long enough to answer this that it now has, and for anybody who may have missed it, even if you don't feel up to reading 100k right now, please please PLEASE check out the art post! I got incredibly lucky and somehow my terrible rambling summary managed to catch the attention of @waveoftheocean, who was a wonderfully kind and generous bang partner, and did absolutely GORGEOUS work on not one but TWO art pieces for my fic! ;-;)
And! I am definitely hoping to post for Superbat Week this year, and if I pull it off, I will probably do the same thing as usual. :D SO I'M THRILLED YOU LIKE THAT THING, haha, and I am so very happy to hear the way I've structured those stories works so well for you. ;-; ♥! Which, for anybody else who wants deets: @superbateveryweek is running a Superbat Week 2025 from September 15-21, and this year's prompts are here!
(And congratulations on tackling whichever fan week you're going to be doing, too! :D So honored to think I had even the teeniest hand in inspiring the angle you're taking on what you're writing for it—BEST OF LUCK IN ALL RESPECTS, and I hope you have an absolutely wonderful time with it! ♥♥♥)
just read your answered ask for the bruce interacting with child clark concept and I'm OBSESSED. I adore your original fic and Bruce through clark's eyes at various low points of his life I felt like it gave such a lovely insightful glimpse into bruce's earlier life which we don't really get to see in dceu - in that sense dceu bruce is very much a mystery (which I like). in contrast we do see flashbacks of clark's earlier life in mos and what struck me was how little he smiles. even as a child what we see of him are episodes of 'strangeness' and his loneliness/fear/sadness surrounding that. I'm weak over the idea of bruce seeing that. like his journey from his loathing and hate of clark's alienness to his appreciation of clark's unique personhood is always so great to read. but to go even further and have him see a clark in that stage of his life when he was only a little kid struggling with the things that bruce had himself hated him for at one point. just. ugh. and on a more superficial level i think bruce would be GREAT with kid clark and actually exactly what clark needs once he understands this isn't one more person he needs to hide from since bruce knows his secret already
/o\ :D Aw, man, thank you so much! ;-; I'm so, so pleased you enjoyed that story so much—jule (the artist who did the original illustration for that reverse bang) gets absolutely all of the credit for the fundamental premise, BUT I'm just over the moon that you liked what I ended up doing with it! I'm right there with you, I love that the DCEU lets us know some of the basics and then leaves the rest of Bruce's life wide open, not least because it means I wasn't contradicting anything in that fic. :D
And! AND. *chinhands* I am so here for everything you're saying about the contrast with Clark—because you're so right, we do get a lot more scenes with baby!Clark in Smallville, and in sum they are SO heartbreaking. ;-; I remember being SO struck by the moment Clark comes home to Martha partway through MoS and really smiles for practically the first time, it changes his whole face so intensely and it really highlights how isolated he is during the preceding hobo period ... but you're totally right to point out that the hardly-ever-smiling actually extends all the way back through Clark's childhood T-T and that is so! agonizing! to think about! CLARK. MY HEART.
And nothing could stab me deeper after that except THE ENTIRE REST OF THIS ASK, omg—combining Bruce's whole arc of learning Clark is a person with Bruce + a childdddddddd, just, so galaxy-brained of you to frame it that way, I can't even handle it! A Bruce who's already realized how wrong he was about Clark getting smacked gently in the face by exactly HOW wrong, YES PLEASE THERE WILL NEVER BE ENOUGH, and Bruce being the living proof for Clark as a child that someone's going to know his secret and it's going to be okay, he's not going to be carrying it alone forever AND he's not going to be rejected by anyone who does find it out (... at least, you know, once they're done trying to kill him :') just twisting that knife in Bruce's chest a little harder :'))))) ), so so good, my feelings, aaaaaaaaaa.
Ahem. SO YEAH, thank you for this :D I am so glad the idea caught your attention and I am so SO glad you wanted to share that enthusiasm ;-; AND I definitely wanted to write that idea anyway, but you've increased the odds it'll actually get written by at least 80 percent :DDDDD ♥♥♥!
