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clark kent ⇆ superman ([info]glasses) wrote in [info]marinanova,
@ 2016-04-20 22:27:00

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Entry tags:adrien agreste, bruce wayne (dceu), kara zor-el, malcolm reynolds, neil dylandy, peter parker (stnas), souji okita

DAY 372 ▼ ACTION
A little thing like rain isn't going to stop Kara — or rather, Supergirl, clad in a makeshift costume — from soaring up into the sky and doing a few laps around the island to both in attempt to better understand this place and stretch her freshly (re)superpowered legs. And while she's getting something of a feel for her limitations, exploring the dome more thoroughly than she was able to yesterday is providing her with far more questions than it is answers.

She can be found throughout the day flying around various sectors — from stopping by the Athletic Complex to pick up a few barbells (effortlessly, and perhaps all at once), to roasting some of the Shooting Range's marshmallows with her heat vision, to stopping by the Sizzle & Sear to grab something to eat, and even taking the time to walk through the museum's pig exhibit.

"I will never look at bacon the same way again."


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[info]glasses
2016-04-24 03:09 pm UTC (link)
"Superman doesn't need to mention his super-powered cousin in order to do what he does best."

The same was true for her. She had her own reputation to stand on, and didn't need her identity and sense of being to rely on her blood ties to Kal-El. Supergirl wasn't Superman's cousin. She was her own hero in her own right.

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[info]signalized
2016-04-24 05:03 pm UTC (link)
"I didn't say that he did."

Maybe if Clark had lived, he would have mentioned Kara. It's a thought that crosses his mind though he doesn't voice it out loud. It seems that if she is from his world she hasn't heard the news of his death just yet.

Someone please explain multiverse theory to him.

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[info]glasses
2016-04-24 05:46 pm UTC (link)
Thanks to Barry Allen, Kara actually understands multiverse theory. Sort of. Enough to explain the basics to Bruce once they realize they're not from the same Earth.

"We try to keep our careers separate," she says, as if this and this alone is the only things she's doing with her life. As if he wasn't right when he called her 'Miss Danvers,' and she doesn't lead a life outside of the suit and cape. "He never mentioned knowing you, Mister Wayne."

Who knows if Bruce's Clark even had a Kara. Maybe she was still thirteen and too young and too raw from the loss of Krypton to do much to help her already famous cousin. Maybe she was still trapped in the depths of the Phantom Zone. Or maybe she never left their homeworld at all, doomed to have suffered the same fate that stole the rest of the House of El from them.

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[info]signalized
2016-04-24 05:53 pm UTC (link)
They'll get there eventually, hopefully.

"Understandable." He can see why they would want to -- no one ever likes to live in the shadows of somebody else, or so he's been told before, anyway. "That's because he knows me better as someone else."

It's a risk if he reveals his secret to her, he realizes. But he also might need allies in this place. And he failed Clark, that much he knows, maybe he could help his cousin instead. It won't change anything, it won't fix the mistakes he's made in the past, but it's something.

"Batman."

Of course, she might not believe him. He doesn't have his suit or anything else to back up the claim here.

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[info]glasses
2016-04-24 05:59 pm UTC (link)
Her mother sent her here in the name of protection. Kal-El grew up without her. He didn't need her protection. But the Earth did, and she, like her cousin, possessed the ability to do so in ways that the planet's natives couldn't. That world took her in and gave her a home when she lost hers, and she wanted to do more to help ensure that she'd continue to have a world to call home. Protecting was what she was meant to do, and she didn't put on her first costume with the intent of living in Superman's shadow.

You didn't need to rely on someone else's name to be a hero in your own right, and that much was true for those who possessed inhuman abilities to firefighters and rescue workers, doctors, police, and—

Batman, apparently.

Kara's jaw goes slack for a moment, as if she's waiting for him to yell 'psych!' or laugh at her gullibility. But he does neither. Actually, he seems to be quite serious.

"You're Batman?"

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[info]signalized
2016-04-24 06:06 pm UTC (link)
Bruce has no special powers, no abilities to speak of besides sheer force of will and self control. He learned from a young age that the world doesn't make sense unless you force it to. He became Batman so no one else would have to, so no one else would suffer the way he did in that alleyway so many years ago. It hasn't always worked, of course, but that was the original idea all the same.

He is in fact very serious. He doesn't give away his secret identity easily or often. And it says something to the persona he's created as Bruce Wayne that someone wouldn't easily believe that he was Batman. That was entirely the point.

"I am."

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[info]glasses
2016-04-24 10:27 pm UTC (link)
Kara would argue that a person doesn't need special powers to be a hero. Having those powers gives her a responsibility to use them wisely, but there are people who risk their lives every day to do what others refuse to. Those are the heroes worth recognizing. She's just an invulnerable girl in a cape with too many unfair advantages.

A girl in a cape who let her city down once, no matter how out of her control the circumstances had been.

"I'd ask you to prove it, but if you could do that, I wouldn't be wearing this," she plucks at the hem of her jacket, "instead of my cape. And I can hear your heartbeat. It's steady. Firm."

Might as well be honest about her (not always accurate, depending on how skilled the liar is) lie-detecting abilities if he's going to be so upfront about his secret identity. Who knew that Bruce Wayne was Batman? She certainly didn't! It makes sense, now that she's thinking about it, but the thought never crossed her mind.

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[info]signalized
2016-04-25 04:06 am UTC (link)
You don't need powers to be a hero. Bruce has seen the good in men who are less powerful than even him. People like Gordon who fight for a system that's been corrupted, that want to try to make things better from the inside. He's just a rich kid with issues who doesn't know how else to function.

As it is he finds himself almost restless here. He doesn't have his usual resources -- or his usual sources of trouble to go after either. It's discomforting. Without the mission Bruce has little purpose to his life.

"A good liar knows how to control that, you know." Not that he's lying currently, but it is something he's learned how to do in his years of training and learning different disciplines. Controlling your own heart rate, your breathing, your ability to lie so well it feels like the truth.

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[info]glasses
2016-04-25 05:36 am UTC (link)
"I'm well aware."

Alex lied to her for years about being involved with the DEO, and she hadn't been able to tell that J'onn was really a Martian beneath his Hank Henshaw disguise. Having powers doesn't make her all-powerful, all-knowing, or all-seeing. Despite what some may think. She may have the capacity to be a lethal threat to any world with a bright yellow sun (as red kryptonite did well to prove), but that's just not who she is.

"And you're right. Danvers isn't my last name." Might as well own up to that, too. "It's Zor-El. Kara Zor-El. The Danvers' took me in after I arrived on Earth."

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[info]signalized
2016-04-25 06:49 am UTC (link)
"Just making sure."

It's his own weird way of letting her know. It's not something everyone is aware of, after all. But Bruce has studied physiology, the way bodies work and how to properly master his own. He is the definition of the control freak.

"Like the Kents took in Clark."

He tries not to think too long on Martha, on how scared Clark had been to lose his mother. At least he had been able to deliver on that promise and save her, it was one way he didn't fail Clark.

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[info]glasses
2016-04-25 06:59 am UTC (link)
"Kind of," Kara admits, moving to sit on a nearby bench. "Only Kal—Clark was a baby when they found him. I was thirteen when I first arrived on Earth."

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[info]signalized
2016-04-25 07:12 am UTC (link)
He thinks briefly of a young kid he took in many years ago now, one he failed, but this isn't about him so he'll just compartmentalize that for now.

"That must of been some adjustment."

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[info]glasses
2016-04-25 07:28 am UTC (link)
"It was, but the Danvers had helped Clark understand his powers, so they were able to help me cope with mine."

There were those who saw Superman's abilities as god-like, but to a thirteen-year-old refugee from a dead world, they were anything but. Being able to see beyond walls and look at someone and see their skeleton instead of their outlying flesh was terrifying. She could hear everything, like a room full of bands all playing at once. Coping with superhuman abilities made adjusting to human life twice as hard.

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[info]signalized
2016-04-25 08:01 am UTC (link)
"That's good. It helps to have someone who understands."

Not that Bruce gets it completely, but he has taken someone under his wing before and trained them. Taught them how to use their abilities to the best that they could, even if they were ultimately human.

"Having people you can count on is important."

Bruce how would you know. You have literally one friend and he's your butlerdad.

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[info]glasses
2016-04-25 04:10 pm UTC (link)
They taught her how to be human — not only how to pass as one, but to speak a language that was completely foreign to her when she landed on that rock and understand a culture that seemed bizarre and at times, wrong, to her alien perceptions. She's since learned to embrace that which she initially frowned at (and silently judged), but it took her years to find her footing. Something she wouldn't have been able to do without Alex and Eliza. Or what tips Jeremiah was able to provide her with before his death/disappearance.

In their absence, she takes comfort in knowing that she's not alone. That there's someone here who knows, who gets what it's like to be super and secret.

"Yeah, it does." Kara smiles at him, "Batman."

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[info]signalized
2016-04-25 09:33 pm UTC (link)
Having people to rely on is important. Bruce may not have needed someone to teach him how to be human but he did need someone to help guide him after his parents passed away. He realizes how far he's gone sometimes but he also realizes how much further he could have gone if Alfred hadn't been there every step of the way to sass him and keep him in line. It's weird to not have the older man by his side, honestly. There's been few constants in Bruce's life but Alfred was always one of them.

But at least he isn't alone. There's something weirdly comforting about that.

Something almost akin to a smile tugs at his lips. "Likewise, Supergirl."

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[info]glasses
2016-04-29 01:25 am UTC (link)
"I wasn't lying about being an assistant to a media mogul, you know," Kara tells him. "My offer to assist you still stands."

Except now, it seems like she might be assisting him with more than just the billionaire businessman life. Bruce Wayne was now a fellow hero in arms like Barry had been when he stormed her version of Earth.

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[info]signalized
2016-04-30 12:59 am UTC (link)
"I didn't think you were," He clarifies with a shrug of his shoulders. Why would she lie about something like that? "Nor was I lying when I said I would need the help."

Not just as Bruce Wayne -- Alfred helped the most with Batman and that's not an operation he's used to running on his own.

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[info]glasses
2016-05-01 02:16 am UTC (link)
Because she could've been trying to get him to trust her, to let her in under far more devious pretenses. Not that Kara Zor-El had a devious bone in her body, red kryptonite's influence aside.

She wasn't used to flying solo, so to speak. From Winn being there when she first put on the cape to the DEO having her back when she couldn't quite handle a situation all on her own — nevermind all the family and friends that have been a near constant presence in her life outside of her heroic activities. She wasn't used to being alone and frankly, didn't want to be.

Those few cognitive moments she spent soaring through space by herself in that pod were some of the most terrifying of her life. Kara doesn't ever want to feel that alone again.

"Help with what? Because if it's all those gadgets they say you have... I hate to break it to you, but I'm not a scientist. I failed Earth science. Try explaining to your high school chemistry teacher that you got confused, because chemicals don't react the same on Krypton as they do on Earth."

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[info]signalized
2016-05-01 06:05 am UTC (link)
She doesn't seem deceitful, and while people can often be more than they seem Bruce also likes to think he has a good read on people. He's a detective by nature, looking for chinks in people's armors.

Bruce isn't used to being completely alone, he's always at least had Alfred. It's been a long time since he's worked with someone other than his butler but he's also begun to come around to the idea that that might not be such a good thing. He had been planning on working with Diana to find the other metas back home.

And it seems now he'll be working with Kara here -- whatever that ends up meaning.

Bruce laughs a little. "I can handle the science part just fine." He did synthesize kryptonite weapons on his own, after all. "Honestly? I mostly need someone to remind me to eat and sleep."

That may sound like a joke but Bruce's version of being a workaholic makes Cat Graham look reasonable.

There's a pause and then he asks:

"You remember Krypton?"

Because Clark didn't from what he understood.

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[info]glasses
2016-05-01 11:55 pm UTC (link)
"Workaholic, much?"

He's accused of it in jest, despite the underlying seriousness of forgetting to do basic things like eating and sleeping, accompanied by a warm chuckle. Cat, at the very least, wouldn't forget — she was just too busy to actually make a point to go retrieve food herself. Hence why Kara spent a good portion of her time as Cat's assistant going on food runs. And picking up her dry cleaning, scheduling appointments, delegating orders to 'lesser' employees...

She could handle reminding Bruce Wayne to go take a nap. And could pick him up and deposit him in his bed should he refuse.

A nod. "Of course I do. Krypton was my home for the first thirteen years of my life."

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[info]signalized
2016-05-05 07:46 am UTC (link)
"I have been called that before."

Usually by someone who speaks in a dry, British tone. Bruce has trained himself to not need much sleep, and he tends to be obsessive by nature when it comes to his work. All of these things add up to him having poor self care, to say the least.

Bruce treats his body as a machine, for better or for worse.

"So this isn't your first time adjusting to being somewhere new, suddenly."

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[info]glasses
2016-05-07 01:27 am UTC (link)
Kara takes care of her body, but she's also Kryptonian. Under the light of a yellow sun — artificially generated or otherwise, as she suspects is the case here — she's durable. Incredibly durable. Practically invulnerable. 'Unfair Advantage' might as well be her middle name.

A shake of her head. "Nope. But this is easier. Earth was... Very loud and way too big. My mother told me that I would be capable of great things on Earth, but I didn't expect it to be so overwhelming. It took some time to adjust to. I had to learn how to cope, how to focus on other things and not let it all consume me. Contrary to popular belief, it's not easy being us."

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[info]signalized
2016-05-08 09:18 am UTC (link)
Bruce is only human but you wouldn't know it by the way he acts. He probably ends up sleeping in the batcave more often than his own bed. Whoops.

"I can't imagine it is." Except he can. He had considered Clark an uncaring godlike figure until he realized he was just a boy struggling to do the right thing - and save his mother.

"It's never easy to be different. The world doesn't know what to do with different."

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[info]glasses
2016-05-15 06:11 am UTC (link)
Kara will do her best to ensure that only naps are taken in whatever becomes his batcave equivalent here. Official sleeping will be done in a comfortable bed, whether she has to put him there herself or not. (You sure you want a Kryptonian for your surrogate Alfred/Robin, Bruce?)

"They really don't." A frown. "They don't know how hard those of us who are different have to work to be something resembling normal. It took me years to get down the human act, to blend in. To be someone that nobody would want to pay much attention to. Guess I kind of ruined that."

Except the 'normal' act helped Kara Danvers exist alongside Supergirl. Without her ability to appear unremarkable, she would've had to abandon her civilian identity and worn the cape twenty-four/seven.

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