Title: different methods, same hope

Disclaimer: not my characters

Warnings: none

Pairings: none

Rating: PG

Wordcount: 150

Point of view: third

Prompt: Clark Kent (Superman)/Bruce Wayne (Batman), which is the costume?

Clark Kent is Superman. They're the same person, just one is out there saving people. They have the same moral code, the same beliefs, even the same taste in coffee and women.

Bruce Wayne is not Batman. He's charismatic and shallow, a buffoon and so beautiful he gets away with it. Batman, though—Batman is a warrior, dark and dangerous, who does what he feels is right. He is a genius, unhesitating, always ready to fight or die for people he has never met and will most likely never see again.

In the costume or out, Clark Kent is Superman. Once people realize it, they can't believe they ever missed it.

Those closest to Batman realize that Bruce Wayne is no more than a mask, the revenant of a boy who died when he was eight years old, bleeding out onto a dirty street while his parents breathed their last.