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Superman is hope personified. He is light and smiles and the sun after a storm - the people trust him. He knows this. He knows it when he is Clark Kent, average reporter, and he knows it when he is Kal El, the man of steal. Soon he is approached by his fellow heroes, one year into his crusade as the Man of Steel, to join a new group for Earth's defense. The Justice League.
He gets along with Wonder Woman and the Flash and Green Lantern and all the other new heroes, but Batman proves to be a challenge. The hero from Gotham is cryptid, gruff, and if Clark weren't raised with manners, he'd even say a pain in the ass.
However, as the years pass, things change. There are the occasional moments where Clark is able to drop his Superman smile and simply *be*. What do all these moments have in common? Batman (Bruce, as he comes to know him). Superman, for once, is able to exist in the in between of ideals, masks, and lies to find true friendship. And when friendship is no longer a word enough to describe what the two of them share - well that's when things get tricky.