![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
entranceway app!
Name: Shana
DW username:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
effulgent
E-Mail: shananagin @ gmail
IM: aboutblood at aim, antivillain#2451 on discord
Plurk:![[plurk.com profile]](https://plurk.com/favicon.ico)
antivillain
Other Characters: Dipper Pines, Georgia Mason, Spike
Character Name: Superboy/Kon-El/Conner Kent
Series: DC comics preboot
Timeline: Teen Titans V3 #7
Canon Resource Link: boom
Character History: Superboy was cloned in Cadmus Laboratories following Superman's death at the hands of Doomsday. Though they were incapable of directly cloning a Kryptonian, they could graft Kryptonian DNA to human DNA to mimic Superman's powers as best they can. They were going to let him develop into a fully grown adult with all the powers of Superman and implanted codewords that would keep him under control, but before that could happen, the Newsboy Legion busted him out, setting free a teenager with some of Superman's DNA and none of his upbringing. He insisted on being called Superman. There were three other Supermen flying around at the time. Steel, the Eradicator, and Cyborg Superman. Cyborg Superman killed the Eradicator and destroyed Coast City just as the real Superman came back to life. They worked together to defeat Cyborg Superman and save the Earth. The Kid reluctantly took on the name Superboy since it's only fair that the real Superman got his name back.
Superboy started a world tour with his manager, Rex Leech, the DNAlien Dubbilex, and Rex's daughter Roxy, but when they got to Hawaii he liked it so much he decided to stay. There, he started dating the reporter Tana Moon and fighting the local evil. He also met the New God Knockout. They have a few flirty fights, and she decided she wants to train him. Among other things. He broke up with Tana and ran off with Knockout, staying with her even after she kills a police officer. Superboy was certain she didn't do it, and when it turned out that not only had she done it, she didn't even care that it had happened, he was heartbroken. He defeated her and went back to Tana.
A secret agency called the Agenda kidnapped the Kid to make a clone that would follow orders. Superboy defeated the clone, Match, but the cloning process damaged the structure of his DNA. With help from Cadmus and some of Roxy's DNA, they fixed him, but he was now stuck at sixteen. He couldn't age.
He joined a superpowered team called the Ravers who fight crime and hung out at a party that moved through space randomly. Tana broke it off because Superboy was too immature for her, and after a business venture by Rex went horribly wrong, Superboy ended up memory-less on an island inhabited by talking animals. They enslaved him because they didn't realize humans are actually intelligent, but eventually he convinced them otherwise and they helped him get home.
His supporting cast had dispersed during the months he was gone, though, so he flew to California and joined Cadmus, now under new and improved management. He also learned that the human half of his DNA comes from Paul Westfield, the former, evil director of Cadmus. It definitely came from him, not anyone else, for real. Certainly no one even more evil. Or bald.
Superboy, Robin, and Impulse teamed up to fight, and then save a girl made out of smoke. That's supposed to be the end of the team-up, but when an evil djinn wishes all the grown-ups away to a mirror Earth, it's up to the three to save the world again. They succeed and decide to make a regular thing of their group. They gained the name Young Justice and three new members, Wonder Girl, Arrowette, and Secret, the smoke girl. He and the rest of the team helped Secret free the other metahuman children held by the DEO, and the entire team faced off against Harm, a villain they later learned was related to Secret.
Superman took Superboy to the Fortress on his birthday and showed him some Kryptonian history before giving him the name Kon-El. Kon had never had a real name before, and he was touched.
Then a Superboy from an alternate dimension falls out of the sky wearing a "hyperjacket" to travel through hypertime. As he died, he tells the Justice League about the big darkness that's coming. The hyperjacket could only work for Kon-El, his genetic match. Kon used it to, met a lot of Superboys, some of whom are evil, learned Clark Kent's identity, and saved the day against an evil adult Superboy called Black Zero. Then he returned home.
His teammate Arrowette snapped when two men shot and killed someone close to her. Superboy showed up in the nick of time to stop her from murdering them. After this she quit the team, though she stayed in touch and frequently still showed up. Kon tried to stop her from leaving, but Cissie was adamant. But the world didn't trust the young heroes after that, and they wanted them shut down, or at least under more adult supervision. Young Justice held a rally, and the whole hero community shows up.
Superboy started acting oddly, and no one was sure what to make of it until the real Superboy showed up and revealed that the one there was his evil clone, Match. He chased Match off, but an incident involving magic from Klarion (bum bum bum) the Witch Boy and Doiby Dickles' future technology from the planet Myrg left all the adults children and the children adult. Superboy remained the same age, since he still literally is incapable of aging, but he found himself in terrible pain as the magic tried to turn him into an adult and his genes tried to keep him at sixteen. Wonder Girl took him back to Cadmus where Sterling Roquette helped fix him so he was no longer stuck at sixteen. With that out of the way, he changed into an adult Superman. They found the missing Tana Moon, who Amanda Spence, a member of the Agenda, had been keeping prisoner. Bitter at being defeated, Spence set off a device and killed Tana. Superboy almost killed her, but Wonder Girl talked him down, and Spence escaped.
Eventually they got all the ages reversed, but Superboy lost his powers. The Guardian trained him to fight without powers, and he managed all right with just a Legion Flight ring and a shield until he gets his powers restored.
He and the rest of Young Justice, including new members Empress and L'il Lobo went to help the war effort on Apocalypse. Though they all survived, one of Impulse's doppelganger scouts died in front of all of them, scarring Impulse and giving Kon a huge guilt complex. Impulse and Robin quit the team, and Kon started renting an apartment in Metropolis. They got another new member, Ray, and Snapper Carr started mentoring them.
Eventually, Robin and Impulse rejoined, but the team held a vote and elected Wonder Girl the new leader. Then Empress' grandfather kidnapped and murdered her father, and the team grabbed every young superhero they've ever worked with to apprehend him. Empress found her father and mother there, but they'd both become infants. She took them home, ready to raise them, though it means she couldn't really do much superheroing anymore.
From the start, Secret had struggled with her powers and good and evil and which she was. Finally, feeling unappreciated, she ran off to join Darkseid. She came back, ready to destroy the world, and at the last second, Robin talked her down. Right before the big final battle against her, Superboy admitted his feelings to Wonder Girl, and they shared a kiss.
After a mission gone poorly ended with Donna Troy and Lilith dead, the team broke up. Kon went to live in Smallville with Superman's parents under the new name Conner Kent. He had a lot of trouble getting used to civilian life in a farm town. He had trouble in school and skipped class enough that Superman came to tell him off and to suggest he join the new version of the Teen Titans. His friends: Wonder Girl, Robin, and Impulse were joining up too, along with former Titans Starfire, Cyborg, and Beastboy as the (sort of) adult supervision. Things went pretty rockily at first. Tensions were high following Young Justice's break-up, with Cassie blaming herself for Donna's death and the older Titans trying to figure out how to work with the younger Titans. To make matters worse, when Robin received an email with Kon's DNA profile in it… half Kal-El, as they'd known, and half Lex Luthor. Yes, I lied about the other half being someone less evil and less bald. Kon was ready to write it off as someone messing with them, but Tim wanted to look into it further. Enough so that he actually stole a strand of Kon's hair for DNA sequencing.
Cassie almost left the Titans, but before she could either do it or be talked out of it by her friends, they were interrupted by an explosion in Alcatraz. When they went to investigate, Deathstroke was there, and he shot Impulse's knee out and told him kids shouldn't wear costumes. Cyborg rushed Bart to the hospital, and Starfire forbade Tim, Kon, and Cassie from leaving the tower and searching for Deathstroke, claiming it was too dangerous. Kon and Cassie objected strongly, but Tim agreed and the three of them went upstairs, Cassie and Kon haranguing an unresponsive Tim until Tim started cutting a hole in the window. He'd been lying the whole time. The three snuck out and went to find Bart, only to find he was already gone. The doctors revealed that he had recovered fully and gone to the San Francisco library. The other Titans followed and found that he'd read every single book at super speed and was now going by Kid Flash. They learned that Deathstroke was actually possessed by his son, former Titan Jericho, who then jumped from body to body, using the abilities of the Titans against each other including the heat vision Kon didn't even know he had, until former supposedly dead Titan Raven showed up and took Jericho's soul into her and vanished.
The next day, Conner and Cassie talked out their feelings on the roof and kissed… right up until Wonder Woman showed up and tossed Kon in the bay. Wonder Woman and Starfire started fighting over Wonder Girl's right to be a part of the team and the rest of the Justice League showed up and… yeah everybody fought each other like superheroes always do. But hey, bright side! Kon's heat vision happens again. Accidentally. Destroying the cape Clark's mom made for him. Up until Nightwing showed up and got everyone to chill. The teams talked out their differences and established that they would let the kids have their independence in the tower.
Before leaving for the weekend, Tim told Kon that he'd run the DNA and Kon was, indeed, half-Luthor. Kon worried about whether this meant he might go evil, and Tim helpfully pointed out that it also meant he might go bald. Conner went back to Smallville and Superman came to see him again, this time in a less lecturey, more supportive fashion and gave him Krypto the superdog to help him learn responsibility. Kon accepted the dog and went back to his Smallville life (and detention), but he was still worried about what his genetics might mean for his future.
Abilities/Special Powers: He can fly. He has super strength, super speed, and invulnerability. On top of that, he's got his own special power, tactile telekinesis, which allows him to manipulate things he's touching. He also has x-ray vision, telescopic vision, heat vision, and super hearing, but those ones are just beginning to develop and he doesn't really have a good handle on them. His weaknesses include magic, kryptonite, and red sun energy. Also, he's more vulnerable to energy attacks than Superman is. However, kryptonite and the light of a red sun do not cancel out his tactile telekinesis, since that's not Kryptonian.
Third-Person Sample: When Kon found himself in a situation like this one, trapped in an alternate dimension with no clue how he got there, the best way to tackle it, he found, was to consider what Superman would do. The answer was pretty simple. Save the day. That's what Superman always did. And it's what Kon always tries to do. He pushes himself up to standing and looks around, frowning.
Unbidden, he thinks about what Lex Luthor would do. Take control of that Mansion he sees several yards away. Learn to use the resources. Try and kill Superman. Things that Kon never would or could do. Cause Kon's a hero, and anyway, he has no idea how to stage a coup.
Right.
Kon has no idea how to save the day here, either, but it's still more his thing. It's always been his thing since way before he knew where his human DNA came from. There's no reason to believe that that's gonna change suddenly cause he has Luthor DNA. Plus, it's not like evil is a genetic trait, right? Rao, he sure hopes it isn't.
One could argue he has bigger problems right now, what with being trapped in an unknown alternate dimension and no clue how to go home. But it's not like this is the first time. He's worried, sure, but not enough for it to distract him from his troubled thoughts. He's almost on autopilot as he takes off and starts flying towards the mansion. He'll figure out this mess, easy. His DNA's the mess that's getting to him.
First-Person Sample: [There's a teenager sitting on the roof in a black shirt with the S shield on it. He gives the camera an awkward smile and wave.]
Man, I hate it when I get kidnapped to an alternate dimension. You never know how long you'll be gone or how much time will have passed when you get back. Though I'll give this place props: it is really well documented for a mysterious fairytale prison. Like, damn, I'm no Batman but you don't have to be when there's an introductory pamphlet and a gazillion posts of people asking all the questions I'd be asking.
[It's nice when the research is so easy that even he can do it.]
Anyway, this is kind of a weird question, but has anyone noticed that when you go up, there's not really an away? Like… flying on a treadmill. If that makes any sense. It's weird. But I guess you really need to be able to fly to test that.
[A beat.]
Oh, and cause apparently it's not common knowledge around here, I'm Superboy. Hey.
DW username:
effulgentE-Mail: shananagin @ gmail
IM: aboutblood at aim, antivillain#2451 on discord
Plurk:
Other Characters: Dipper Pines, Georgia Mason, Spike
Character Name: Superboy/Kon-El/Conner Kent
Series: DC comics preboot
Timeline: Teen Titans V3 #7
Canon Resource Link: boom
Character History: Superboy was cloned in Cadmus Laboratories following Superman's death at the hands of Doomsday. Though they were incapable of directly cloning a Kryptonian, they could graft Kryptonian DNA to human DNA to mimic Superman's powers as best they can. They were going to let him develop into a fully grown adult with all the powers of Superman and implanted codewords that would keep him under control, but before that could happen, the Newsboy Legion busted him out, setting free a teenager with some of Superman's DNA and none of his upbringing. He insisted on being called Superman. There were three other Supermen flying around at the time. Steel, the Eradicator, and Cyborg Superman. Cyborg Superman killed the Eradicator and destroyed Coast City just as the real Superman came back to life. They worked together to defeat Cyborg Superman and save the Earth. The Kid reluctantly took on the name Superboy since it's only fair that the real Superman got his name back.
Superboy started a world tour with his manager, Rex Leech, the DNAlien Dubbilex, and Rex's daughter Roxy, but when they got to Hawaii he liked it so much he decided to stay. There, he started dating the reporter Tana Moon and fighting the local evil. He also met the New God Knockout. They have a few flirty fights, and she decided she wants to train him. Among other things. He broke up with Tana and ran off with Knockout, staying with her even after she kills a police officer. Superboy was certain she didn't do it, and when it turned out that not only had she done it, she didn't even care that it had happened, he was heartbroken. He defeated her and went back to Tana.
A secret agency called the Agenda kidnapped the Kid to make a clone that would follow orders. Superboy defeated the clone, Match, but the cloning process damaged the structure of his DNA. With help from Cadmus and some of Roxy's DNA, they fixed him, but he was now stuck at sixteen. He couldn't age.
He joined a superpowered team called the Ravers who fight crime and hung out at a party that moved through space randomly. Tana broke it off because Superboy was too immature for her, and after a business venture by Rex went horribly wrong, Superboy ended up memory-less on an island inhabited by talking animals. They enslaved him because they didn't realize humans are actually intelligent, but eventually he convinced them otherwise and they helped him get home.
His supporting cast had dispersed during the months he was gone, though, so he flew to California and joined Cadmus, now under new and improved management. He also learned that the human half of his DNA comes from Paul Westfield, the former, evil director of Cadmus. It definitely came from him, not anyone else, for real. Certainly no one even more evil. Or bald.
Superboy, Robin, and Impulse teamed up to fight, and then save a girl made out of smoke. That's supposed to be the end of the team-up, but when an evil djinn wishes all the grown-ups away to a mirror Earth, it's up to the three to save the world again. They succeed and decide to make a regular thing of their group. They gained the name Young Justice and three new members, Wonder Girl, Arrowette, and Secret, the smoke girl. He and the rest of the team helped Secret free the other metahuman children held by the DEO, and the entire team faced off against Harm, a villain they later learned was related to Secret.
Superman took Superboy to the Fortress on his birthday and showed him some Kryptonian history before giving him the name Kon-El. Kon had never had a real name before, and he was touched.
Then a Superboy from an alternate dimension falls out of the sky wearing a "hyperjacket" to travel through hypertime. As he died, he tells the Justice League about the big darkness that's coming. The hyperjacket could only work for Kon-El, his genetic match. Kon used it to, met a lot of Superboys, some of whom are evil, learned Clark Kent's identity, and saved the day against an evil adult Superboy called Black Zero. Then he returned home.
His teammate Arrowette snapped when two men shot and killed someone close to her. Superboy showed up in the nick of time to stop her from murdering them. After this she quit the team, though she stayed in touch and frequently still showed up. Kon tried to stop her from leaving, but Cissie was adamant. But the world didn't trust the young heroes after that, and they wanted them shut down, or at least under more adult supervision. Young Justice held a rally, and the whole hero community shows up.
Superboy started acting oddly, and no one was sure what to make of it until the real Superboy showed up and revealed that the one there was his evil clone, Match. He chased Match off, but an incident involving magic from Klarion (bum bum bum) the Witch Boy and Doiby Dickles' future technology from the planet Myrg left all the adults children and the children adult. Superboy remained the same age, since he still literally is incapable of aging, but he found himself in terrible pain as the magic tried to turn him into an adult and his genes tried to keep him at sixteen. Wonder Girl took him back to Cadmus where Sterling Roquette helped fix him so he was no longer stuck at sixteen. With that out of the way, he changed into an adult Superman. They found the missing Tana Moon, who Amanda Spence, a member of the Agenda, had been keeping prisoner. Bitter at being defeated, Spence set off a device and killed Tana. Superboy almost killed her, but Wonder Girl talked him down, and Spence escaped.
Eventually they got all the ages reversed, but Superboy lost his powers. The Guardian trained him to fight without powers, and he managed all right with just a Legion Flight ring and a shield until he gets his powers restored.
He and the rest of Young Justice, including new members Empress and L'il Lobo went to help the war effort on Apocalypse. Though they all survived, one of Impulse's doppelganger scouts died in front of all of them, scarring Impulse and giving Kon a huge guilt complex. Impulse and Robin quit the team, and Kon started renting an apartment in Metropolis. They got another new member, Ray, and Snapper Carr started mentoring them.
Eventually, Robin and Impulse rejoined, but the team held a vote and elected Wonder Girl the new leader. Then Empress' grandfather kidnapped and murdered her father, and the team grabbed every young superhero they've ever worked with to apprehend him. Empress found her father and mother there, but they'd both become infants. She took them home, ready to raise them, though it means she couldn't really do much superheroing anymore.
From the start, Secret had struggled with her powers and good and evil and which she was. Finally, feeling unappreciated, she ran off to join Darkseid. She came back, ready to destroy the world, and at the last second, Robin talked her down. Right before the big final battle against her, Superboy admitted his feelings to Wonder Girl, and they shared a kiss.
After a mission gone poorly ended with Donna Troy and Lilith dead, the team broke up. Kon went to live in Smallville with Superman's parents under the new name Conner Kent. He had a lot of trouble getting used to civilian life in a farm town. He had trouble in school and skipped class enough that Superman came to tell him off and to suggest he join the new version of the Teen Titans. His friends: Wonder Girl, Robin, and Impulse were joining up too, along with former Titans Starfire, Cyborg, and Beastboy as the (sort of) adult supervision. Things went pretty rockily at first. Tensions were high following Young Justice's break-up, with Cassie blaming herself for Donna's death and the older Titans trying to figure out how to work with the younger Titans. To make matters worse, when Robin received an email with Kon's DNA profile in it… half Kal-El, as they'd known, and half Lex Luthor. Yes, I lied about the other half being someone less evil and less bald. Kon was ready to write it off as someone messing with them, but Tim wanted to look into it further. Enough so that he actually stole a strand of Kon's hair for DNA sequencing.
Cassie almost left the Titans, but before she could either do it or be talked out of it by her friends, they were interrupted by an explosion in Alcatraz. When they went to investigate, Deathstroke was there, and he shot Impulse's knee out and told him kids shouldn't wear costumes. Cyborg rushed Bart to the hospital, and Starfire forbade Tim, Kon, and Cassie from leaving the tower and searching for Deathstroke, claiming it was too dangerous. Kon and Cassie objected strongly, but Tim agreed and the three of them went upstairs, Cassie and Kon haranguing an unresponsive Tim until Tim started cutting a hole in the window. He'd been lying the whole time. The three snuck out and went to find Bart, only to find he was already gone. The doctors revealed that he had recovered fully and gone to the San Francisco library. The other Titans followed and found that he'd read every single book at super speed and was now going by Kid Flash. They learned that Deathstroke was actually possessed by his son, former Titan Jericho, who then jumped from body to body, using the abilities of the Titans against each other including the heat vision Kon didn't even know he had, until former supposedly dead Titan Raven showed up and took Jericho's soul into her and vanished.
The next day, Conner and Cassie talked out their feelings on the roof and kissed… right up until Wonder Woman showed up and tossed Kon in the bay. Wonder Woman and Starfire started fighting over Wonder Girl's right to be a part of the team and the rest of the Justice League showed up and… yeah everybody fought each other like superheroes always do. But hey, bright side! Kon's heat vision happens again. Accidentally. Destroying the cape Clark's mom made for him. Up until Nightwing showed up and got everyone to chill. The teams talked out their differences and established that they would let the kids have their independence in the tower.
Before leaving for the weekend, Tim told Kon that he'd run the DNA and Kon was, indeed, half-Luthor. Kon worried about whether this meant he might go evil, and Tim helpfully pointed out that it also meant he might go bald. Conner went back to Smallville and Superman came to see him again, this time in a less lecturey, more supportive fashion and gave him Krypto the superdog to help him learn responsibility. Kon accepted the dog and went back to his Smallville life (and detention), but he was still worried about what his genetics might mean for his future.
Abilities/Special Powers: He can fly. He has super strength, super speed, and invulnerability. On top of that, he's got his own special power, tactile telekinesis, which allows him to manipulate things he's touching. He also has x-ray vision, telescopic vision, heat vision, and super hearing, but those ones are just beginning to develop and he doesn't really have a good handle on them. His weaknesses include magic, kryptonite, and red sun energy. Also, he's more vulnerable to energy attacks than Superman is. However, kryptonite and the light of a red sun do not cancel out his tactile telekinesis, since that's not Kryptonian.
Third-Person Sample: When Kon found himself in a situation like this one, trapped in an alternate dimension with no clue how he got there, the best way to tackle it, he found, was to consider what Superman would do. The answer was pretty simple. Save the day. That's what Superman always did. And it's what Kon always tries to do. He pushes himself up to standing and looks around, frowning.
Unbidden, he thinks about what Lex Luthor would do. Take control of that Mansion he sees several yards away. Learn to use the resources. Try and kill Superman. Things that Kon never would or could do. Cause Kon's a hero, and anyway, he has no idea how to stage a coup.
Right.
Kon has no idea how to save the day here, either, but it's still more his thing. It's always been his thing since way before he knew where his human DNA came from. There's no reason to believe that that's gonna change suddenly cause he has Luthor DNA. Plus, it's not like evil is a genetic trait, right? Rao, he sure hopes it isn't.
One could argue he has bigger problems right now, what with being trapped in an unknown alternate dimension and no clue how to go home. But it's not like this is the first time. He's worried, sure, but not enough for it to distract him from his troubled thoughts. He's almost on autopilot as he takes off and starts flying towards the mansion. He'll figure out this mess, easy. His DNA's the mess that's getting to him.
First-Person Sample: [There's a teenager sitting on the roof in a black shirt with the S shield on it. He gives the camera an awkward smile and wave.]
Man, I hate it when I get kidnapped to an alternate dimension. You never know how long you'll be gone or how much time will have passed when you get back. Though I'll give this place props: it is really well documented for a mysterious fairytale prison. Like, damn, I'm no Batman but you don't have to be when there's an introductory pamphlet and a gazillion posts of people asking all the questions I'd be asking.
[It's nice when the research is so easy that even he can do it.]
Anyway, this is kind of a weird question, but has anyone noticed that when you go up, there's not really an away? Like… flying on a treadmill. If that makes any sense. It's weird. But I guess you really need to be able to fly to test that.
[A beat.]
Oh, and cause apparently it's not common knowledge around here, I'm Superboy. Hey.