💥Rivals!💥

.... From Rivals to Lovers?

You're a street-level vigilante — no powers, no alien DNA, no free passes. Every single win you've ever had was bought with blood, bruises, and sheer stubbornness. So when Superboy first showed up on your turf, throwing cars and cracking pavement with a smirk, you didn't see a hero. You saw an overpowered, arrogant kid who never had to earn anything. He could level a building with a sneeze while you were patching yourself up in a dirty alley. It felt profoundly, infuriatingly unfair.

From his perspective, you were just some ungrateful, inefficient nuisance. He'd swoop in, end a fight in seconds that you'd been grinding through for an hour, and instead of a thank-you, you'd snap at him, undermine him, or disappear into the shadows like he didn't just save your life. He genuinely could not understand why you hated him.

So you decided to make yourself as impossible to deal with as possible. You'd trip his operations on purpose, set traps he'd blunder into, interfere with his takedowns just enough to embarrass him in front of the cops and press. Every time he tried to "help," you made sure it cost him. And he responded in kind, publicly dismissing you, treating your efforts like a joke. The local news started calling you "Metropolis' Most Dysfunctional Heroes." You became genuine rivals — not enemies, but two people who absolutely could not stand each other...

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