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Lunch Break by Arch_Schatten, G
Fandom: DC COMICS
Pairing: Bruce Wayne. Bruce Wayne/Clark Kent around the edges.
Length: One-shot, 2200 words
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arch_schatten
Author Website: List of All Her Stories
Why this must be read:
I could honestly spend the entire month reccingarch_schatten's stories. Her Bruce voice is one of the most unique ones in fandom. A lot of time is spent making Batman dark/crazy/evil/unsound in fic, and while that's understandable considering canon, it also gets old after a while. Arch_schatten's Batman manages to be dedicated without being a lunatic, and it's a lovely characterization that works so well. The story is about Bruce taking a lunch break. There are no baddies to fight, no Robins in peril - just Bruce (not Batman and not "Brucie") on his lunch break relishing his city. That allows the story to be pure Identity Porn at its very finest.
The story has shades of Bruce/Clark around the edges, and the Superman characterization is every bit as perfect as the Batman characterization. But at heart, this is a Bruce/Gotham story. This story takes Bruce from being a mindless protector of the city he was born in, to being sincerely in love with his city. Andarch_schatten describes Gotham so well and so accurately that you can't help but understand why.
He finds a table close to the windows so he can look outside while he eats, and sits down. He likes to watch people walk by -actually, he simply likes to watch people. His night life requires a lot of observation, but he has to look for specific things –malicious intent, lies, fear- while now, he simply watches. What he sees now has no weight, no tactical use. He watches simply because he likes to, and while he eats –the sandwich is good, and the bread is actually very tasty- he makes up stories about the people passing by. That woman is late for a lunch date; that man is palming his pockets like he forgot something, maybe he left his mobile at a restaurant; those kids are heading towards the subway station and they feel like grownups going about the city by themselves. He’s good at reading people –he’s very, very good at reading people- but it's something better done when alone, and that is one of the reasons why he avoids big name restaurants when he goes to lunch. He doesn’t want to lie to anyone, not during lunch, and he’s bound to run into people he knows in those places. There aren’t many with whom he doesn’t have to don a mask; some days, he wonders if the only person he doesn’t wear a mask with is the girl at the shop in Wayne Tower, the casual acquaintance that he babbles to about the music he likes and the books he reads and the movies he hates.
Lunch Break
Pairing: Bruce Wayne. Bruce Wayne/Clark Kent around the edges.
Length: One-shot, 2200 words
Author on LJ:
arch_schatten Author Website: List of All Her Stories
Why this must be read:
I could honestly spend the entire month reccing
arch_schatten's stories. Her Bruce voice is one of the most unique ones in fandom. A lot of time is spent making Batman dark/crazy/evil/unsound in fic, and while that's understandable considering canon, it also gets old after a while. Arch_schatten's Batman manages to be dedicated without being a lunatic, and it's a lovely characterization that works so well. The story is about Bruce taking a lunch break. There are no baddies to fight, no Robins in peril - just Bruce (not Batman and not "Brucie") on his lunch break relishing his city. That allows the story to be pure Identity Porn at its very finest.The story has shades of Bruce/Clark around the edges, and the Superman characterization is every bit as perfect as the Batman characterization. But at heart, this is a Bruce/Gotham story. This story takes Bruce from being a mindless protector of the city he was born in, to being sincerely in love with his city. And
arch_schatten describes Gotham so well and so accurately that you can't help but understand why.He finds a table close to the windows so he can look outside while he eats, and sits down. He likes to watch people walk by -actually, he simply likes to watch people. His night life requires a lot of observation, but he has to look for specific things –malicious intent, lies, fear- while now, he simply watches. What he sees now has no weight, no tactical use. He watches simply because he likes to, and while he eats –the sandwich is good, and the bread is actually very tasty- he makes up stories about the people passing by. That woman is late for a lunch date; that man is palming his pockets like he forgot something, maybe he left his mobile at a restaurant; those kids are heading towards the subway station and they feel like grownups going about the city by themselves. He’s good at reading people –he’s very, very good at reading people- but it's something better done when alone, and that is one of the reasons why he avoids big name restaurants when he goes to lunch. He doesn’t want to lie to anyone, not during lunch, and he’s bound to run into people he knows in those places. There aren’t many with whom he doesn’t have to don a mask; some days, he wonders if the only person he doesn’t wear a mask with is the girl at the shop in Wayne Tower, the casual acquaintance that he babbles to about the music he likes and the books he reads and the movies he hates.
Lunch Break