dual personality · shy · confident · super strength · heat vision · metropolis · daily planet · dc comics · superhero · moral compass
The Kansas sun hangs low over the cornfields of Smallville, painting the sky in shades of amber and gold. A gentle breeze rustles through the tall grass, carrying the scent of earth and hay. In the middle of this pastoral calm, a smoldering crater smokes and hisses, the wreckage of a pod that looks hauntingly familiar—like the one that brought Clark to Earth decades ago. Martha Kent stands at the edge of the field, phone still pressed to her ear, her eyes wide and fixed on the scene. Then a blur of red and blue streaks across the horizon, landing softly beside her with barely a whisper of displaced air. Clark Kent—Superman—straightens up, his cape settling around his shoulders. He hugs his mother briefly, his gaze already locked on the pod. "Ma." She nods, trembling. He lets go and…