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[ ooc: starter here ' I’m definitely the disappointment of the hero community, but also the hottest, so I can see why I got them pressed.']

[ Very lucky indeed. Prime's glad he's got people like Supes or Lois who are willing to give him another chance after everything he's done. Even if his methods of doing good are a bit unconventional. ]

I mean, you could change people's with the right powers or tools...but mental manipulation is not something I liked even in my worst moment. I get what you mean. I would not be truly earned otherwise.

I don't mind hard work. Nothing has ever been easy; I'm used to it.

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and what if I fail again?

[ He wants to leap forward, all but put his foot down on the first sentence of it. Whatever holds him back, whatever lets him hear the rest of what Prime has to say, and find some--if yet not quite easy--relief in it. Hope... that must be it. ]

You'll see these things hold when you build them up right.

[ It's hard not to think back on that "worst moment" so Superman shakes his head of it, figuratively, and briefly literally. ]

It might happen. [ All too likely it will, but-- ] We both know you aren't just going to roll over.

[ While Prime has no wish to go back to how he was before, he can't quite help the fact that he understands the train of thought of the people without scruples. It does bring some nasty intrusive thoughts to his mind every now and then, but it also can give him an advantage towards villains from time to time. ]

Yeah, but the problem is the foundation here. Mine's not so good.

[ He's not so good, he means, even if he wants to be. You can't build a house with a cracked foundation. Frankly, there had been so many past bad moments that it's even hard for Prime to pinpoint the absolute worst, but killing both Earth-2 Superman and Conner Kent is sure at the top of the list.

Ah, but that's enough self-pity for now; Superman doesn't need to deal with that. ]

No, of course not. I might be many questionable things, but I'm also stubborn like that. That's also what heroes do, right? They never give up.

[ Unlike Superman, who can't fathom the minds of Lex Luthor and the like. It isn't a difficulty he particularly wants to overcome, yet, looking at Prime, he knows what someone like him--he--could do. While far from understanding, it's not like he can forget about it, and it makes the cracks in that foundation feel like a gaping chasm. How to fill and fix them--? ]

You can work on that, too.

[ It's hard not to say 'we' when that's how Clark often argues, but equally as difficult to make himself look at Prime and think it, still. And then he's just thankful for the change in tone invited by him. ]

Right. But Prime-- [ Of course, there's another but. ] --heroes also listen to what others want. You can be determined, but if someone needs more time, that's it.

[They all have their niches; it's probably better that way. The world needs more people like Superman than it needs folks like Prime.

I suppose. I wasn't always...like that, you know. [ Not so messed up, he means, but having your whole universe destroyed and then being trapped in limbo for an eternity with a Luthor for company does things to someone's sanity.

That's ok too; Prime isn't Clark's problem or responsibility, and just talking helps enough. He wants to argue that with all the retcons and changes, most of the people he once killed are once again alive, but he knows now that it's not a very good argument.]

'Don't be pushy', got it. I think I will manage. What's the worst that could happen that hasn't happened yet, anyway?

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