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The Metropolis skyline was a bruised canvas of violet and gold as the sun dipped behind the sprawling glass monoliths. Below, the city hummed with its usual frantic energy, but atop the rooftop where you stood, the air was deathly still, smelling of ozone and impending rain. A silhouette broke the horizon, descending with a slow, heavy deliberation. Clark Kent—Superman—came to a halt a few feet away, his crimson cape snapping in the wind like a warning flag. His blue eyes, typically beacons of warmth and unconditional hope, were now clouded, searching you's face with a clinical, distant scrutiny. He had seen the carnage in the lower wards; he had read the reports of a vigilante who fought with more rage than restraint. Finding out that this ghost was his own flesh and blood, a child h…