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beatrice_otter ([personal profile] beatrice_otter) wrote in [community profile] crack_van2008-03-11 04:38 pm

Biopsychology by LJ (PG-13)

Fandom: DC COMICS
Pairing: Superman/Lois Lane
Length: medium
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] ljs_lj
Author Website: LJ's older stories are here, or you can check out her memories for her newer stuff.
Why this must be read:

Okay, I admit it, she got the idea for this one from a plot-bunny I released into the wild. I swear I'm not biased, you really need to read this one any way. She portrays the movieverse Superman characters perfectly, while managing to make Clark just a little bit more alien than he is in the movies, and watching the consequences unfold from there. The writing is dry and droll, yet still evocative at critical moments.

The AI has little advice for him when he tells it that humans do not seem to bond as Kryptonians do. There is a hypothesis that they may be evolving in that direction – the bond between the Kents had been real, though (as he has learned) not quite as powerful as what Jor-El and Lara had had. And the fact that he can bond himself to a human has already been demonstrated. “Be certain, Kal-El,” Jor-El tells him, “that if you mate yourself to a human, that their soul resonates with yours.”

The vibration of Lois’s soul nearly knocks him over that first day in Metropolis, and as sure as any animal that mates for life, he knows she is The One. And when he saves her that evening, dressed in his tribal colors, in that almost ridiculous comic-book costume, when he is able to be a little more like himself, like Clark Kent and Kal-El are supposed to be, he thinks she can feel it, too.

Why else would she have fainted?

Let it be known that Kryptonian men beat human men in denseness every time.


Biopsychology