That's when his father died, not because anyone's told him, even though he's sure someone's mentioned the year or he's read it. But because he knows the exact look of that pause, knows the shape of the unanchored feeling intimately. Bruce remembers, stupidly, that he'd felt like an alien on earth - had thought those words exactly - because of how misshapen everything had left him inside. Clark, meanwhile, has always been exactly how he should be, and has just been mistreated over it.
For a moment he's quiet. It should be an uncomfortable understanding, but it isn't.
"Lower Manhattan for the weirdest," he says. "Before the--" he makes a vague gesture. "I hate the word 'gentrification', it sounds so benign, but before that. It's even weirder now with that, but as somebody from Jersey, it was too unnatural."
What a stereotypical thing to say. And yet it's true; topical, even, though he doesn't say so, Ted Grant having taught him these very punches. Got his face flattened a dozen times a day.
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That's when his father died, not because anyone's told him, even though he's sure someone's mentioned the year or he's read it. But because he knows the exact look of that pause, knows the shape of the unanchored feeling intimately. Bruce remembers, stupidly, that he'd felt like an alien on earth - had thought those words exactly - because of how misshapen everything had left him inside. Clark, meanwhile, has always been exactly how he should be, and has just been mistreated over it.
For a moment he's quiet. It should be an uncomfortable understanding, but it isn't.
"Lower Manhattan for the weirdest," he says. "Before the--" he makes a vague gesture. "I hate the word 'gentrification', it sounds so benign, but before that. It's even weirder now with that, but as somebody from Jersey, it was too unnatural."
What a stereotypical thing to say. And yet it's true; topical, even, though he doesn't say so, Ted Grant having taught him these very punches. Got his face flattened a dozen times a day.
"I liked Tibet."