phantomchick:

Personally I think Clark should be a little older than Bruce, because Superman’s first appearance in comics was a year before Batman’s first appearance.
THAT IS MY OPINIONNNNNN!

Older batman is passé we’ve seen it, it’s been done!
– a more experienced and world hardened bat confronted with the hopeful goodness of Youthful™ Superman?
non
no more

Instead!

A still hopeful but struggling Superman, wounded by the way humanity treats him, as an alien outsider or as a god, (having always to submit to not exerting as much force in situations or getting involved where he thinks it’s necessary in case they all accuse him of being power mad because of the wide gap in power between him and them) and each other; the blind cruelty of man..
GETS CONFRONTED WITH THIS CRAZY ONLY-A-HUMAN BUT OH SHIT HE JUST BEAT THE HELL OUT OF ME THROUGH TACTICS AND HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE BAT OUT OF HELL!

AND THEN THE HUMAN TURNS OUT TO BE A MUCH YOUNGER VIGILANTE WHO KEEPS CALLING HIM AN IDIOT AND MAKES HIM SET UP A JUSTICE LEAGUE WITH THE OTHER SUPERHEROES HE’S WORKED WITH BEFORE AND OH GOD DID HE JUST ATTACK DOOMSDAY BY HIMSELF? AND HE KEEPS ADVISING HIM ON ‘PRESS’ STUFF WHICH CLARK WISHES HE COULD COMPLAIN ABOUT BEING IRONIC BECAUSE HE IS LITERALLY A MEMBER OF THE PRESS AND HANG ON ISN’T YOUR OWN MEDIA ACCUSING YOU OF BEING A LITERAL MONSTER???
And Bruce just shrugs like ‘that’s intentional’ or something (more dagger like to Clark’s poor battered ego) along the lines of ’I’M not the one scared of what other people think of me so long as I’m doing what I need to do for the greater good’ or ‘If I know what I’m doing’s right why should I let the opinions of people who don’t know me effect my work’ and Clark’s just like ‘well damn’.

And then there’s Bruce fucking Wayne who just bought The Planet and is a total cad who when Clark tries to interview him, accused him of being a has been, and maybe he should dye some of those grey hairs – Clark doesn’t HAVE grey hairs he ages extremely slowly but he can’t quip that at WAYNE

And, and just – Superman. Having his world turned upside down by a young Bruce/Batman who forces the set up of multiple superhero organisations and also rejects all efforts by the government to force the superheroes to out their own secret identities if they want to keep fighting with a counterbalanced very airtight proposal of his own – effectively shutting down any chance of a marvel style civil war, while doing his own Demon thing in Gotham.

Superman, a tired well meaning Superman, faced with an uncompromising HUMAN vigilante that is more than his match and just shakes all his world views to their core,
And then suddenly Clark’s getting involved in incidents he never would’ve crossed the line into before (both in team ups and solo) because of governments on all sides that don’t want him there because suddenly he can? He suddenly feels free to do so even though almost nothing’s changed really just his perspective, but now he feels like he can actually allow himself and he won’t cross over into being a monster for it no matter what anyone says and it is intensely freeing. 
Also if he doesn’t Batman’s gonna judge him which would be infuriating because he is literally a goth child who has no idea how hard it is to navigate international politics as a literal alien / most publicly illegal immigrant there is but acts like he gets it better than Clark does and he’s infuriatingly brilliant and intelligent and Clark hates how much he’s starting to relyyyy on him but also kind of loves it because at last at last the weight of the world doesn’t feel like it’s on his shoulders alone anymore, the burden is shared and lifted with their JLA team members who are swiftly becoming Kal’s most trusted allies, best friends and support network all in one and it makes him want to cry out of joy at all the goodness.

I’m tiiiiired of an embittered aging Batman unable to accept the hope Clark symbolises.

GIVE ME YOUNG TWENTY SOMETHING BATMAN PULLING ON SUPERMAN’S CAPE TO FORCE HIM TO LOOK AT THE WORLD FROM A MORE GROUNDED PERSPECTIVE!