#and background galex because alex’s pride is deeply wounded by not being the first pick for the superman story

[rockyteriyaki]

Oh my god, what are your carcar superman thoughts, if you feel like sharing??

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KAYA omg thank you for giving me an excuse to write about this during my breaks today!! admittedly this is entirely born of me watching the entire canon of DC superman movies on cable tv while working from home, but it’s my fav plot bunny.

in broad strokes, i think it would go something like this: oscar is a reporter for the daily planet (additional visual reference here), and carlos is the guy who sits across from him and is always poking his voluminously-haired head over the partition to see what oscar is working on. and he never throws away his keurig cups, and his music always bleeds out through his wired earbuds, just enough to drive oscar insane, and he’s also superman.

but the problem is that nobody believes oscar when he tells them that. even when he comes to the office with some glossy, sharp(-ish. it’s hard to focus on a moving target) printed photos of superman’s hooked nose and hairy wrists, literally nobody sees the resemblance. the clark kent effect is just too strong. he starts talking about the similarities in the lower lash line and george (who is j jonah jameson in this universe, i just decided) looks at him like he’s suggested they acquire playboy and run full-frontals in the next print edition. carlos is also deeply surprised by this, but is just cocky enough about it that instead of commiserating, slapping palms and getting on with his life, oscar wants to force him to get changed into his stupid little super-suit in the bullpen in front of everyone, just so they can see what he sees.

so then it would be oscar getting roped into being carlos’ groupie (standing amidst the fangirls and adoring citypeople like this —> 😐) doing increasingly insane things to try to get some kind of concrete evidence that his coworker is actually an alien from a different planet who can fly and has laser eyes. at some point, though, it stops being about the daily planet, and starts being about the mountains of tapes, photos and recordings oscar has of carlos that he never shows to anyone, all the weird little rituals and secrets carlos lets him in on while he tries to pass as human, and post-supervillain-fight wound-stitching and extremely inappropriate uses of x-ray vision 🥰🥰🥰 mutual recklessness, miscommunication and blackmail!! it’s real in my mind!!!!