#and tho its meaningless now it's still telling that the og plan was for there to be an even more complex love triangle

[jonroxton]

What do you like about Bruce and Clark relationship in BvS and JL? Do you think they are more similar than different as characters?

clark is one of my favorite characters of all time so watching how he affects another cool character i really like in such a fundamental way is very striking to me. because clark and bruce don’t actually have any kind of relationship in either movie and they don’t technically meet as clark/superman and bruce/batman, each knowing the other and fully supportive of each other, until they defeat steppenwolf and clark helps bruce out from the motherbox base. their other encounters weren’t meetings so much as confrontations and thru those we got to experience their characters. so its more of a relative situation than relationship, the story is how one is relative to the other and how they’re changed and affected. 

the first time bruce sees clark is not him seeing clark at all, but the symbolic destructive force of his power as the superman. all throughout bvs, bruce is fueled by trauma and violence, channeling all of his colossal power on a distant, existential force. we get to see bruce descend into his trauma to the point of blindness, exacerbated by lex’s machinations ofc, but these are all feelings he’s had for twenty years, they are just channeled now, onto a facade.

bvs spends most of its energy in this mindset with bruce, but it also shows us how clark reacts to this, the same way he’s trying to figure out how to respond to the world that is as vocally vitriolic in nature as bruce-as-batman is literally violent. he tries to intimidate batman, but it doesn’t work, and then he LITERALLY tries to talk to him, but is silenced by bruce’s pure fury and expertise. he wins the fight because he’s almost mechanically surgical in his approach, and he loses the fight because there’s still a shred of human decency left inside of him. irregardless of, you know, almost being killed, clark reaches out this last final way and it clicks. 

so we get to witness someone’s absolute blinding hatred of one man turn to full penance and appreciation. and JL is the continuation of that. bruce in JL is as devoted and faithful to clark’s memory as he was determined to destroy it in bvs.

- i wrote this forever ago when this ask was sent. here’s the rest of it:

ben and henry are back. now it’s only a matter of time. what we’ll have already built  is this incredibly complex situation where two people profoundly affected each others lives. clark saved bruce’s soul and future, bruce saved clark’s life by bringing him back. we have that tiny glimpse of who they are as friends, and that’s two people extremely grateful to be in each others lives. AND THAT’S JUST THE BEGINNING.