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be a simple kind of man by outboard
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types, DCU
26 May 2026
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On a stormy night in Gotham, Bruce's parents appear out of thin air, torn from the past. Between their sudden appearance, his children's insistence on meeting them, and having to explain the kind of man he's become, Bruce is not handling it well.
On top of that, there is now a very real possibility that he'll have to come out to his parents. Bruce never imagined he'd ever get the chance—especially not in his mid-thirties—and now that he does, he's terrified.
"What happened?" he asks, smoothing a bandage over Bruce's stitches with careful, practiced movements. His hands are heavy. Warm. "What made you choose this?"
And Bruce is—he's tired, and he's hurting, rubbed raw with simmering grief and overwhelm. Thomas stands over him, close enough to touch, caring for him in ways Bruce has only ever dreamt of for the past twenty-five years.
Bruce sighs, quiet and aching and worn. "You died," he confesses. He'd never really been able to lie to his father.
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"Bruce, your neck," Georgia stressed, her face slightly flushed.
With a frown, Bruce tucked his chin, bringing a hand up to feel along his neck. Everything felt normal, his nerves responding to his touch, nothing too warm or too cold—all the same as it had been earlier this morning. Bruce's thumb caught the edge of a hickey on his collarbone.
Oh, shit.
The morning after a night spent with Clark, Bruce has to do an underwear photoshoot.
What he doesn't expect is for people to start guessing who exactly gave him all those bruises. (He'll just have to set the record straight.)
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- Part 7 of superbat oneshots
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and if i stay it will be double by outboard
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types
26 Feb 2026
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“It’s a necessary part of my identity; I created this perspective of myself on purpose.”
“That doesn’t mean I have to like how people are acting,” Clark replied, well aware he was pouting. He gestured to the monitors. “Look, B. They think it’s a joke. They think it’s a joke that I love you.”
Snippets of a time when Bruce Wayne and Superman's relationship gets outed to the public, and the half-dozen kidnappings that follow as a result. Oh, and nobody thinks Bruce Wayne is good enough for him, and Clark would really like everybody to stop thinking that, please.
If Bruce could just take this seriously, Clark's heart could make it to the end of the month. Except that by the end of the month, Bruce has been kidnapped again, and this time Clark has no idea where he is.
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- Part 6 of superbat oneshots
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come, as you are (as you were) by outboard
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types
08 Feb 2026
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The League didn’t know anything was wrong until Batman failed to show up for a meeting. By then, he’d been missing for two days.
Clark found the batsuit in Gotham’s harbour, and it wasn’t until three days later that he managed to find Batman, who had lost his cowl but gained something else equally, if not more, interesting than his secret identity.
Or: Batman gets turned into a mermaid, and Clark has to Deal With It while trying to wrap his head around the metaphorical bomb that is Batman’s secret identity, all while also trying to keep his big fat crush a secret so he can help his friend.
(Which happens to be incredibly difficult when said friend can’t remember who exactly Clark is, and keeps wrapping him up in his tail and pointing a batarang at his face while being all strong and bare-chested and beautiful.
Clark is so whipped and so doomed.)
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- Part 5 of superbat oneshots
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dragon in the new warm mountain by outboard
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types
25 Mar 2025
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The itch always starts on his back, between his shoulder blades, and it’s not so much an itch as it is this unignorable urge to abandon his vulnerable skin and give himself over to hardened black scales and large, powerful wings.
or: Bruce Wayne is a dragon shifter, and while out flying one night, Superman falls from the sky. Dragon shifters are rare, and putting himself in close proximity to the most powerful man on earth is not a good idea, but Superman is unconscious in the dirt, and what is Bruce supposed to do—leave him there, vulnerable and unguarded?
Against his best judgement...no. No he is not.
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- Part 4 of superbat oneshots
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superbat oneshots by outboard
Fandom Batman - All Media Types, DC Extended Universe, Superman - All Media Types
12 Mar 2026
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a collection of all my superbat short(ish) stories and oneshots :D
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"Bruce." Clark turns towards him, leaning back against a bank of consoles. "We're not actually going undercover. We don't need an elaborate backstory– if anything, it'll be harder to keep straight. It doesn't have to be complicated." He spreads his hands. "Here's a story: we're members of the same elite fighting force. After years of saving each other's lives in the field, we fell in love. That's it."
Bruce swallows past the almost-truth of it. In Clark's warm smooth radio voice, it sounds plausible. It sounds like something that could happen.
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Bruce and Clark pretend to be married for diplomatic reasons. When they return to Earth, things are a little different.- Language:
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16 Mar 2024
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One More Hitch in the Plan by Pneumatic
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Green Lantern - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
21 Jan 2025
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After finding a way to cheat some easy diplomatic favour, a mistake on Hal’s part puts him in a very awkward position with Bruce. He really does try his best to set things right, but sometimes the holes you dig are just too stupid to get out of. And for better or for worse, Bruce is just along for the ride.
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- Part 1 of Best Laid Plans
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12 Feb 2025
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a constant satellite of your blazing sun by cherryfeather
Fandoms: Superman - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, DCU
07 Aug 2025
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Bruce skidded to a halt, breath hissing through his teeth.
Superman’s head came up sharply, like the sound of Bruce’s shock still meant something to him—and it was Clark, but he was different. Different lines on his face, a subtly different curl to his hair, and as he looked Bruce up and down his eyes blew wide.
Bruce’s hand dropped immediately to his belt, a chill sweeping through him. “Not our Kal.”
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Bruce and Clark have been in a relationship since the founding of the Justice League almost twenty years ago. When the League tries to bring in a thief with stolen reality-shifting technology, Clark is accidentally exchanged with his counterpart from a universe that's almost identical—except he's married to Lois. And they have a son.As each side scrambles to swap their Clarks back, Bruce and Clark find themselves grappling with new questions about their life together, faced with the possibility of things having gone differently for not just the two of them, but their children—the ones they have, and the one they've never met. Along the way, they do their best not to to blow up their counterparts' lives by dredging up any long-buried feelings. (They may or may not succeed at that last.)
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23 Jan 2026
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Watching Our Stars Align by ClarkeStetler
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
19 Mar 2025
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There’s a new dating app in town, but this one is just for superheroes. You don’t use your name or callsign and there’s no photos, only a short bio. The idea is to talk about personal lives AND hero-ing without specifics, keeping both their secret identity secret and their hero persona in place.
Dick signs Bruce up. Clark signs up willingly. They accidentally match up and even for the World's Greatest Detective, it takes a while to figure it out. In part because he isn't trying to figure it out, that's the whole point! But also because Boy Scout Superman is definitely straight and definitely not a dude who hangs out at a farm in his free time.
And Superman is confident that Batman probably lives in some random cave system like the gremlin he is, and doubts he even HAS a secret identity because he is so consumed by his Batman persona. Even if he did, he definitely wouldn't join a dating app. That would require wanting to interact with other people and also the capability to smile.- Language:
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22 Apr 2025
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Satisfaction Brought It Back by slippin_into_darkness, SpiritsFlame
Fandoms: DCU (Comics)
12 Nov 2018
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Bruce always thought that Superman's cute shtick of rescuing cats from trees was a bid for publicity—until a confrontation with a magic user leaves him stuck as a cat. He learns how mistaken he was when Superman not only rescues him, but takes him back to a small Metropolis apartment. The opportunity to learn more about the alien can't be ignored, but is Bruce ready for everything he will learn about someone he has only ever regarded with distrust and dislike?
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25 Jul 2025