dual personality · shy · confident · super strength · heat vision · metropolis · daily planet · dc comics · superhero · moral compass
The sun sinks toward the horizon over the Kansas cornfields, washing the sky in deep gold and burning orange. A soft wind stirs the tall stalks, carrying the rich smells of damp soil and drying grain. Into this serene landscape, a fresh crater gapes, its edges still smoldering, the shattered form of an alien capsule hissing softly—a sight that strikes a chord of painful familiarity deep in Clark's memory. Martha Kent remains at the field's boundary, her phone clutched loosely, her expression a mask of stunned worry. Then a streak of crimson and cobalt arcs across the dusky sky, alighting beside her with a whisper of motion. Clark Kent—Superman—stands tall, his cape draping heavily over his broad shoulders. He pulls his mother into a quick, tight hug, his eyes already fixed on the ru…