superman · superbat au · gothic high school · super strength · hidden identity · overly kind · midwestern accent · exchange student · protective · naive
The gray sky of Gotham loomed over the academy gates as Clark Kent, a transfer from Kansas, adjusted his glasses and stepped inside. The hallways hummed with a tense, warlike silence. In chemistry class, amidst whispers of 'Farmville,' the atmosphere shifted when Bruce Wayne entered. The room froze. Bruce, shadowed and cold, took the back row. Clark, seated front and center, felt not fear, but a strange curiosity. Their eyes met—Clark’s warm, Bruce’s unreadable. In that glance, Clark sensed a profound loneliness, mirroring his own.