Iconorific meme for thete1, Clark, gen, "World in your eyes"

[jamjar]

Bruce doesn't get it, which is actually funny, given his relationship with Gotham. He can understand Clark Kent's love for the farm, his family, Smallville. The people he interviews and the places he's been. He doesn't quite understand or accept the way Clark feels about all of it.

The first time Clark had looked at the world from above, he almost thought he was dying. The lack of oxygen or the exertion or something, but it felt like his heart was going to explode out of his chest, and he didn't care, it didn't matter as long as he could look down on it. The layers that made up the sky, the ground, the people, the seas. Flocks of birds and swarms of fish and the lights of the cities like gaudy constellations and he'd fallen in love.

The same feeling he'd get, years later, looking at Lois when she leaned back from the computer, cup of coffee in her hand, explaining why his theory was stupid, no really Smallville, and let her explain why... And he'd smiled at her, throwing her off, but he couldn't stop, because he realised that he loved her, had fallen (head over heels, tumbling through the air, coup de foudre, thunderbolt) in love with her. That it had been the case for a while and he just hadn't noticed. The feeling was intense enough to almost qualify as pain, or at least the kind of sensory overload Clark had too much experience of growing up.

"Will you be much longer?" J'onn says, his mental voice picking up the flat, metallic tang it does when he is being particularly alien. If Clark turned around, he knows J'onn's head would be elongated, his exoskeleton obvious. Bruce thinks that Clark's alien nature prevents him feeling this kind of love, this kind of love for Earth, but Clark wonders if he could love her half as much if he wasn't apart from it, as well as a part *of* it. "Other" and "Half".

"Just a couple minutes more," Clark says. J'onn's mind gives a faint, buzzing hiss, the martian equivalent of a sigh and Clark lets his vision wander. Lets it go travelling through atoms, molecules and wavelengths that are perculiar to Earth, trees and a field of grass and clover, a bickering family the Charysh valley, two polecat cubs playing in the Gobi desert. His wife, frowning over a newspaper headline. If he went further down, he knows he could hear her heartbeat, the sound of crickets in his parents' fields, whistling ducks in Australia. All of it, the people, the land, the sea, the way the sky looks when you're lying on your back in a field in New Zealand, or the way the air tastes in Metropolis...

He can feel his face stretch out in smile and knows he'd be laughing out loud if he was in atmosphere.

Comments

[thete1.livejournal.com]

Oh my GOD.

*falls in love with Clark all OVER AGAIN*

I just -- oh, it's so *perfect*, Jam. I actually have tears in my eyes because it's CLARK and he's so CLARK and he's perfect and beautiful and he takes my breath away.

[ficbyzee.livejournal.com]

Oh, this was *wonderful.* CLARK. Clark Clark Claaaark. And lois! God, I'm such an awful Clark/Lois 'shipper sometimes. *g* *hugs this fic tight to my chest*

[scriviner.livejournal.com]

Blame Te for my being here. This was just... whoosh. Well done. It's very... dangit. No words. It's terribly... Clark. That's all.

[thelana.livejournal.com]

Wow, perfect story. Perfect icon. Perfect descriptions. Perfect Clark. Though:

He can understnd

Give me an "a", maybe?

[karabou.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, this is just. Love. Lovelovelove. Thanks for sharing. :)

[red-eft.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Oh, *Clark*. Yes. That's it exactly.

[laurab1.livejournal.com]

Here via Te. Oh, that was lovely! **hugs Clark**

[petronelle.livejournal.com]

I'm increasingly convinced that Clark is fascinating, whether or not he's inherently loveable.

*shivers* Big Blue isn't just watching, he's listening, and that's weirder to me.

[trunks-angel.livejournal.com]

I came across this fic via Te and I have to say, when you write Clark as perfectly as this and you *really* read and examine, you realise it's too late and your already in love with him. I can't understand how you *can't* fall in love with him after reading this. I bow down to your awesomeness.

[becs1024.livejournal.com]

Here thanks to Te.

That was beautiful. Clark is my favorite - this is why. I can't even put it into words.

Thank you.

[adn-heming.livejournal.com]

Here via Te. This is beautiful and so very Clark. :D J'Onn's parental exasperation with him makes me squee as well. *snugs* I love these two. I have my own tiny world where Clark is, privately, if not the child of J'Onn's heart, the not-human J'onn feels the most tenderness for.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

This gave me the same feeling as the lovliest of the APOD (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html) pictures do.

*sighs, smiling*

[vass]

What rubynye said about APOD.

This is beautiful and awesome in the 'awe' sense of the word.

By the way, typo:
Let's it go travelling through atoms,
The apostrophe doesn't belong.

Okay, ahhhhhhh

[fresne.livejournal.com]

That was adorable and all with the Clark love. I've been watching S2 of the Superman cartoon recently, so, I'm ready for some thunderbolts.

[caia-comica.livejournal.com]

Oh WOW. Let me join with everyone else in saying how AWESOME this is. Clark/Earth OTP 4EVA OMG!!!

Although J'onn's little part of this makes me kind of want more, about *his* feelings about his planets and how they differ from Clark's.

[huzzlewhat.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes, exactly.

I came to appreciate Clark relatively late, being a Gotham-centric girl all my life, but I adore him to pieces. And this, in a beautifully stated nutshell, is why.

[digitalwave]

This is why I love Clark so very much. He's one of the most human beings you could ever meet. Thanks to the Kents his power to love is just as much off the scale as the rest of his powers.

Beautiful, sweetie.

[no-absolutes.livejournal.com]

yay! another Te-directed Clark-lover... but our love is so pure. it's so destined. Clark + Earth=love.

[brownbetty]

Oh, this is my Clark. I love his capacity for love.

(Lets shouldn't take an apostrophe, and atmosphere at the end has been interrupted.)

[inkanaitis.livejournal.com]

I can't say that Clark or Superman has ever been one those character I love and clutch to my breast. But this this makes me fall in love with him a bit, all warm and fuzzy and squelchy inside. Clark needs a cuddle. And so do you. : )

[chevauchee.livejournal.com]

It's just so Clark!


(And why do I have no Clark icons? What is wrong with me?!)

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

All I can say is "WOW!" What an amazing short story.

Bruce doesn't get it, which is actually funny, given his relationship with Gotham.

The thing about Bruce is, for all that he's a Gothamite, he's at heart the true small-town guy with small-town perceptions, vs. Clark, who despite his Smallville roots turned out to be the man with the larger world-view -- as you have so beautifully captured here. Think about it! For Bruce, it's all about this town that he's the biggest fish in, the town that for all its size, he has knowledge of every tiny bit of it, every nook & cranny, and gets personal and up-close with every creep, thug, and stoolie. It's canon that Dick gets pissed off at Bruce and runs away from home to become Nightwing in Bludhaven, and to Bruce, it's as if he's fallen off the map, and yet you can spit in Gotham and hit Bludhaven, it's so close. But it's not Gotham, so he might as well be in outer Mongolia in Bruce's eyes! Now that I think of it, Tim also got some distance from Bruce by running away to Bludhaven recently. Bruce has frowned on each of the Robins getting involved with the Teen Titans because it took away time from protecting Gotham, for similar reasons he'd rather keep an eye on his town as opposed to reporting on a daily basis to the Justice League... and yet with both groups, planet-saving crime-stoppage is going on vs. stopping a mugger on a street corner. It's really funny when you think about it, Bruce as a small-town guy.

[raveninthewind.livejournal.com]

This is just a brief little Clark moment, but it's perfectly Clark, the heart of Superman. I am going to rec it on Crack Van, sans title. However, if you gave it a title, it would make the archiving/rec'ing easier. :)

[psychme.livejournal.com]

Bruce thinks that Clark's alien nature prevents him feeling this kind of love, this kind of love for Earth, but Clark wonders if he could love her half as much if he wasn't apart from it, as well as a part *of* it. "Other" and "Half".

Very fascinating. It's only in the past few months that I've been getting to know Clark as he is in the comics, and this is a lovely little addition to my insight into the character. Beautifully done. Thanks!

LOVE your work!!

[shmhpurplelover]

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