Wow, Beverly! I'm not normally a Batman fan at all, but I have read a few Superman/Batman crossovers that have been pure magic. To succeed, these stories always have to touch heavily on the private lives of Clark and Bruce, as well as on their differences and their friendship and trust in spite of all. This feels like one of those totally magical Supes/Bats team-ups!
You know, I'm not a Batman fan either, which is why the fact that I absolutely loved the recent Batman Begins movie totally surprised me. The older movies I enjoyed watching the first time but serious doubt I could rewatch them over and over. Batman Begins, however, I believe I could never get tired of watching.
Okay, back on topic, but related, I am a big fan of the friendship between Superman and Batman, particularly as it's protrayed in the more recent cartoons. I don't read the comics so I have no frame of reference there. The cartoons, though, capture both their loyalty to each other at the same time that they really play on the fact that they know how much of opposites they are. Some of the most humorous and at the same time most poignant moments in those cartoons are when the two give each this look like they're both thinking about the opposite side of a situation, know it and don't want to get into it.
So, yeah, that I'm a fan of and I have this sneaking suspicious this little fan fiction idea is me blowing a mental gasket over it.
And I love Clark's relationship with his daughter. I love the fact that he has a daughter in the first place, a daughter by Lois. To me, there is something particularly moving about a widowed father single-handedly raising his daughter, who so reminds him of his beloved wife.
I almost hesitated to even have him have a child at all. Apparently my "dream" wasn't quite clear on that point and children can be so tricky to do in stories like this. When I started typing it out, though, it just felt right to have her be there.
Now Bruce has brought Tempus back. So that this time-villain can make amends? Your story is called Atonement. Could it be that Tempus is trying to put things right again? To bring Lois back?
Well, let me put it this way, I have a tendency when I'm not sure what to call stories-in-progress to simply give them one word names connected to the emotions the ideas behind them suggest to me and that's what came to mind for this one. Anything more than that, I'm not really sure . . .
I skipped a couple of the other points you brought up here, Ann, because they also come up in another thread, but if I don't give a satisfactory enough answer there, let me know.
Beverly, You have to continue with this story! This is really good.
Thank you. I shall try. I think.
You know I love everything that you write! This is a good beginning to an interesting cross over. I was distracted by the name Diana thinking that it was Diana Stride. I couldn't imagine why Bruce Wayne would have anything to do with her. Then I read the comment folder and found out it was Wonder Woman. I never read too many comics.
Maybe it's just me but I don't actually see it as a crossover. I guess that's because I've always thought Batman to existed in the L&C universe for some strange reason . . . but I'll call it that if everyone insists.
I will definitely add some clarification about Diana, though. Sheesh, can't have
anyone thinking she's Diana Stride. :rolleyes:
There are a lot of questions to be answered about what happened to put our hero and his daughter in this location. Anyway, I'm looking forward to a long and fastening trip at the hands of a master storyteller.
Okay, enough with the master storyteller busines because that is so not true.
As to questions, though, you're telling me? Got'em coming out my ears. The biggest one being how this person who really doesn't like to even read time travel stories can wiggle her way out of writing one at this point . . .
Seriously, it boggles my mind where this one came from in my subconcious but it so clearly there that there's no denying it.
