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APPLICATIONS -- 2010; 001
THIS APPLICATIONS POST IS CLOSED. Please direct your attention to the new one here!
SO THUS! The kids once more are fighting to keep the Digital World safe as the Royal Knights try and destroy it all. During this time, new evolutions were picked up and the like but that's not really important to Kouichi. What actually is happens to be the fact that whenever the kids were all hit hard enough the others would be seriously injured and the fractal code they had in the Digital World--basically their life force-- appeared. However, his never did and nor was he ever as injured. The Royal Knights played this fact up and basically told him that, unlike the others, he wasn't really in the Digital World. Which could only make him assume he died.
When the Royal Knights get nearly all the Digital World's code, Lucemon appears! He absorbs his two followers fractal code much to the chagrin of the kids. Kouji and Takuya evolve, but nothing they could do could stop Lucemon. As the kids begin losing the battle and Kouji and Takuya are seriously injured, Kouichi decides something. Since he wasn't really in the Digital World, he decides to give whatever energy he had--as well as the Spirits of Darkness-- to his brother. In doing so, he was, in all technicality, dead in the Digital World.
His mind returned to his body in the Real World where he was hanging onto life by a thread. Deep in a comatose state the doctors tried to revive him. He was nearly going under when the other kids burst into the Hospital Room--having defeated Cherubimon within those few minutes and having time to do so (Digital World time works funny)-- and with the last power of the digivices, Kouichi was revived. From there the kids returned their normal lives.
Kouichi now knew Kouji, even taking them to meet their mother. But more than that, they'd all grown due to their adventures in the Digital World and because of that grew an unbreakable friendship.
Personality:
“I admit it. It’s true that in my heart my opposing hatred for you grew into jealous envy. But that was what I said long ago! Meeting Kouji and speaking to him has changed me! That’s why, I won’t let this darkness in my heart defeat me!”
On first sight, Kouichi appears shy and reserved. As he gets to know people he’s a caring and supporting boy. He’s easy to make worry and just as easy to make angry. He has a surprising amount of will and determination, that is only counteracted by the consistent self doubt. Loyal and self-sacrificing, there’s no denying why he was made a Chosen Child-- all of whom are considered to be pure of heart.
One of the first “true” moments we see Kouichi in the series, his true self, he’s watching his mother. He’s worrying openly for her, although she cannot see it because her back is turned away from him. The look in his eyes striking until he narrows them, a certain determination glinting behind it before the scene fades out. This really and truly shows a lot of Kouichi’s character right then. He’s worrying about her where she can’t see, and he never says a word. This continues after his grandmother tells him about Kouji, when his mother asks him what was wrong he shakes it off and turns his concern to her.
This is because Kouichi isn’t the sort of person who burdens his feelings on other people. His mother was sickly enough that he didn’t want to trouble her with his own worries. Later, he furthers this, when he separates himself from the others and doesn’t tell them a word or even when he wants to face Cherubimon alone. He loves his mother and she’s always supported him, but in a way Kouichi grew up relying on himself because he didn’t want to bother her. In this way, he really is self-reliant which is what helps to make him so lonely and have trouble adjusting to the “team” (not nearly so much as Kouji, though).
Shy on initial meeting, once Kouichi gets to know the people around him better he opens up more. Neither twin are very social, but between the two Kouichi is the one more adept for people. His ideas of not burdening people with his own thoughts helps him to have a caring personality. While he doesn’t like others to figure out his own thoughts Kouichi has an eye in figuring out when something’s troubling those around him. Well, at least his twin brother at the very least.
On the flip-side, Kouichi becomes conflicted easily after being controlled by Cherubimon. He doesn’t understand why the others are nice to him and want to be friends after he tried to kill them. The fact he tries to kill his friends has a consistency of making Kouichi wary of his own actions. This is partly why he wanted to go after Cherubimon on his own. One, being the fact Cherubimon had controlled his conflictions and made him attack his friends, but there was always the possibility Cherubimon could control him again and he wouldn’t be able to stop himself from killing his friends.
“I admit it. It’s true that in my heart my opposing hatred for you grew into jealous envy. But that was what I said long ago! Meeting Kouji and speaking to him has changed me! That’s why, I won’t let this darkness in my heart defeat me!”
On first sight, Kouichi appears shy and reserved. As he gets to know people he’s a caring and supporting boy. He’s easy to make worry and just as easy to make angry. He has a surprising amount of will and determination, that is only counteracted by the consistent self doubt. Loyal and self-sacrificing, there’s no denying why he was made a Chosen Child-- all of whom are considered to be pure of heart.
One of the first “true” moments we see Kouichi in the series, his true self, he’s watching his mother. He’s worrying openly for her, although she cannot see it because her back is turned away from him. The look in his eyes striking until he narrows them, a certain determination glinting behind it before the scene fades out. This really and truly shows a lot of Kouichi’s character right then. He’s worrying about her where she can’t see, and he never says a word. This continues after his grandmother tells him about Kouji, when his mother asks him what was wrong he shakes it off and turns his concern to her.
This is because Kouichi isn’t the sort of person who burdens his feelings on other people. His mother was sickly enough that he didn’t want to trouble her with his own worries. Later, he furthers this, when he separates himself from the others and doesn’t tell them a word or even when he wants to face Cherubimon alone. He loves his mother and she’s always supported him, but in a way Kouichi grew up relying on himself because he didn’t want to bother her. In this way, he really is self-reliant which is what helps to make him so lonely and have trouble adjusting to the “team” (not nearly so much as Kouji, though).
Shy on initial meeting, once Kouichi gets to know the people around him better he opens up more. Neither twin are very social, but between the two Kouichi is the one more adept for people. His ideas of not burdening people with his own thoughts helps him to have a caring personality. While he doesn’t like others to figure out his own thoughts Kouichi has an eye in figuring out when something’s troubling those around him. Well, at least his twin brother at the very least.
On the flip-side, Kouichi becomes conflicted easily after being controlled by Cherubimon. He doesn’t understand why the others are nice to him and want to be friends after he tried to kill them. The fact he tries to kill his friends has a consistency of making Kouichi wary of his own actions. This is partly why he wanted to go after Cherubimon on his own. One, being the fact Cherubimon had controlled his conflictions and made him attack his friends, but there was always the possibility Cherubimon could control him again and he wouldn’t be able to stop himself from killing his friends.
His confliction continues, however, most heavily when it comes to Kouji. While he’s known he’s had a twin brother longer than Kouji has, it’s seen throughout the season-- even post into Drama Cds-- neither knows how to approach the other. Kouichi stalked Kouji for so long trying to piece together what he wanted to say, but at the same time he hated him. While he loses the hatred towards his brother after talking to him, he still doesn’t know what to do or say throughout the time. He grows, however, and by the Drama CD in his letter to Kouji he finally came to saying he wanted to think Kouji for being born with him (ironically, Kouji wanted to say the same thing).
If stalking Kouji for weeks on end doesn’t show how determined Kouichi is, there’s no telling what will. The fact of the matter is that once Kouichi sets something to mind there’s no stopping him. This determination is partly what made Cherubimon corrupt him so easily. He was angry at his brother and wanted vengeance for him having the better life, Cherubimon corrupted this to make it more so but he gave him the power to do as he liked. Later, when he realizes that he’s not really “alive” in the Digital World and his friends are in trouble he becomes utterly determined in sacrificing himself so they may live.
This leads to another part of him: his self-sacrificing. There’s no denying that the kid’s got a brave heart if he’s willing to sacrifice himself for his friends. But it’s not just bravery. Kouichi has always been the self-sacrificing kind of person. Putting others even before himself, he held his own misery and rage in until it was twisted into something worse. That doesn’t change even after, we especially get this when it comes to Kouji. Kouichi is the sort of person who will do absolutely anything to help and protect his friends, even if it does mean potentially dying.
Kouichi holds within him the power of darkness. When we first see him this is what we’re first affronted with: a boy in despair, lonely and filled with rage. Ophanimon releases him from this prison, of sorts, and he’s still in very much the same state. But he comes to a realization thanks to Patamon-- the younger version of one of the three angel digimon-- and it’s simply: that in darkness there will always be light. Yin and Yang. This realization is what brings him back to reality and helps him reconnect with the pure-heart that the Chosen Children are known to possess. When the burden of thinking that his darkness was pure is lifted he starts smiling and we see the true light behind the darkness.
Other:
» Aside from the noticeable terms/names spelling, I do go by Japanese version! Which has noticeable differences from the English/Americanized version. Namely, extra material in the form of Drama Cds and slight character alterations.
» I'm also taking him pre-canon! A few weeks before his grandmother dies, really.
Additional Links:
Wikia page! (http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Koichi_Kimura)
First Person (entry type): (If it's okay I want to go in the spirit of the Drama CD and instead of to Kouji, I want to have him say it to the rest of the Warriors)
Everyone, I want to thank you. I know you all will probably say I'm being silly, but I want to. Back then... I won't say I didn't have control of my own actions, because I did. I was angry and upset, Cherubimon took this to his advantage. For that, I caused you guys a lot of trouble. Especially you two, Kouji, Takuya. If it weren't for me maybe you guys would have had less trouble defeating Cherubimon. But... Despite it all, I'm glad.
I'm glad I got to meet all of you and go to the Digital World. I'd like to think I've changed a bit since we came home. With Kouji in my life and all of you, everything's seeming a whole lot brighter. It's hard to believe that everything happened a year ago. That for the first time in twelve years Kouji and I can spend a birthday together. I know it's expensive and we can't do it a lot, but it really is wonderful.
Sometimes I wonder what will happen when we all start Junior High and High School. Will we all keep in touch? Everyone will be going different directions. But I'd like to think that, while in the Digital World, we formed a bond. An unbreakable bond due to the journey we all went through together.
Which is why, for everything, I want to thank everyone. If it weren't for you, and the Digital World, I don't think I'd be the same as I am now or even meet and speak to Kouji.
Thank you, for everything.
» Aside from the noticeable terms/names spelling, I do go by Japanese version! Which has noticeable differences from the English/Americanized version. Namely, extra material in the form of Drama Cds and slight character alterations.
» I'm also taking him pre-canon! A few weeks before his grandmother dies, really.
Additional Links:
Wikia page! (http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Koichi_Kimura)
First Person (entry type): (If it's okay I want to go in the spirit of the Drama CD and instead of to Kouji, I want to have him say it to the rest of the Warriors)
Everyone, I want to thank you. I know you all will probably say I'm being silly, but I want to. Back then... I won't say I didn't have control of my own actions, because I did. I was angry and upset, Cherubimon took this to his advantage. For that, I caused you guys a lot of trouble. Especially you two, Kouji, Takuya. If it weren't for me maybe you guys would have had less trouble defeating Cherubimon. But... Despite it all, I'm glad.
I'm glad I got to meet all of you and go to the Digital World. I'd like to think I've changed a bit since we came home. With Kouji in my life and all of you, everything's seeming a whole lot brighter. It's hard to believe that everything happened a year ago. That for the first time in twelve years Kouji and I can spend a birthday together. I know it's expensive and we can't do it a lot, but it really is wonderful.
Sometimes I wonder what will happen when we all start Junior High and High School. Will we all keep in touch? Everyone will be going different directions. But I'd like to think that, while in the Digital World, we formed a bond. An unbreakable bond due to the journey we all went through together.
Which is why, for everything, I want to thank everyone. If it weren't for you, and the Digital World, I don't think I'd be the same as I am now or even meet and speak to Kouji.
Thank you, for everything.
Third Person:
They were on a Trailmon again. He could see the lush landscape of the Digital World rushing by the windows, but he wasn't really concentrating on them. Kouichi's mind was elsewhere, back to the words Cherubimon had whispered to him. How he wanted to kill his brother... Kouichi's fist clenched unconsciously, and blue eyes narrowed slightly. No matter what he believed, he would never believe he wanted to kill his brother. Yes, Kouichi had hated him, but he wouldn't have wanted him dead. He was sure of that. Kouichi cared for his brother even then--what else had stopped him from attacking him as Velgemon when he realized his true nature?
It was weird though, even he had to admit, everything that was going on. Kouichi still wasn't certain how to speak to his brother, despite the fact he finally got to. Should he be protective or should he be silent and watchful? He'd had time to think about all of these things, but just the same as confronting him always had been the idea of speaking of it was just as confusing. With a start, however, he was brought out of his musings as the very person appeared before him holding out one of the cans of soda the Trailmon had stocked on board.
Kouji's face was serious and something in his eyes reminded Kouichi remarkably of his own thoughts. Suddenly, he didn't know where it came from, but he felt responsible as the older brother to do something right. He smiled, timid and small like, as he took the soda from his brother. "Thanks," he said in his quiet, near whisper voice. There was a nod from Kouji before he took a seat next to him. It wasn't much of anything, this interaction, but it made Kouichi feel more confident about this whole older brother thing. And for the rest of the time it took to reach the Village of Beginnings, he thought of ways he could start better conversations with his brother.
I'm just going to link to the app I posted for him before (http://community.livejournal.com/ddd_news/9542.html?thread=2179654#t2179654). Sorry for being an inconvenience with my indecisiveness, lmao. :C
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Current Characters: Kaito, Battler, Mitsuru
Character: Twilight Sparkle
Fandom: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Player LJ:
anesidorianWay to contact you:
Email: simplyemail12@yahoo.com
AIM: kaitokilt
Other: LJ PM
Are you at least 15?: Y
Current Characters: Kaito, Battler, Mitsuru
Character: Twilight Sparkle
Fandom: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Character Notes:
History: A not-so-long time ago, in a land far, far awaybut only if you don't live on the North American continent, governed by censorship rules and family-friendly plotlines and fables, was a children's show called My Little Pony: Friendship is magic. Yes, it does happen to be based upon the popular Hasbro toy franchise, My Little Pony. And yes, it is about as cheesy as you might expect it to be.
With a bit of dry humor and pop culture references to keep the parents entertained, of course, but it's still made of lots and lots of cheese.
In this television show (which takes place in a fictional land called Equestria) lived a pony named Twilight Sparkle, a slightly uptight and bookish girl who craved nothing but knowledge. Stuck in her tower all day with no company save for her assistant Spike (a baby dragon) and her books on magic and learning, she shunned the friendship and companionship of the other ponies of Canterlot (the capital city of Equestria) in order to increase her knowledge of the world. One day, in the midst of her studies, she discovers a legend that details the story of Princess Celestia (the mare of the day and the current ruler of Equestria) and her sister, Princess Luna (the mare of the night). Apparently, forever and a day ago, Celestia and Luna used to rule Equestria together. But Poor Luna got so jealous that everyone slept at night and didn't appreciate her the same way that they appreciated Celestia that she went nutso and tried to enshroud the world in darkness. The evil in her heart transformed her from Princess Luna to Nightmare Moon. Instead of talking out their problems like normal siblings would do, Celestia trapped her poor sister in the moon for like 1000 years or so. What a bitch.
Anyway, Twilight comes across this story in one of her books, and-- GASP. The story also predicts that Nightmare Moon will return on the longest day in Equestria. That just so happens to take place on a certain day far too close in the future for Twilight's liking, so she writes her teacher (Princess Celestia) informing her of the danger. Instead of... y'know, taking this danger seriously, Celestia sends Twilight to a small backwater town called Ponyville to make friends. Because making friends in the face of danger is totally what you do.
It all makes sense in the end, I promise.
Anyway, Twilight goes to Ponyville in an attempt to study friendship, where she meets five ponies by the names of Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Fluttershy. They all try to be nice to her and befriend her, but Twilight is soooo frustrated that NO ONE IS DOING ANYTHING ABOUT THE POTENTIAL END OF THE WORLD, that she doesn't put her heart into it. An lo and behold... while she is in Ponyville, the prophecy comes true and Nightmare Moon returns. Equestria is shrouded in darkness and Princess Celestia disappears and NO ONE KNOWS WHAT TO DO.
History: A not-so-long time ago, in a land far, far away
With a bit of dry humor and pop culture references to keep the parents entertained, of course, but it's still made of lots and lots of cheese.
In this television show (which takes place in a fictional land called Equestria) lived a pony named Twilight Sparkle, a slightly uptight and bookish girl who craved nothing but knowledge. Stuck in her tower all day with no company save for her assistant Spike (a baby dragon) and her books on magic and learning, she shunned the friendship and companionship of the other ponies of Canterlot (the capital city of Equestria) in order to increase her knowledge of the world. One day, in the midst of her studies, she discovers a legend that details the story of Princess Celestia (the mare of the day and the current ruler of Equestria) and her sister, Princess Luna (the mare of the night). Apparently, forever and a day ago, Celestia and Luna used to rule Equestria together. But Poor Luna got so jealous that everyone slept at night and didn't appreciate her the same way that they appreciated Celestia that she went nutso and tried to enshroud the world in darkness. The evil in her heart transformed her from Princess Luna to Nightmare Moon. Instead of talking out their problems like normal siblings would do, Celestia trapped her poor sister in the moon for like 1000 years or so. What a bitch.
Anyway, Twilight comes across this story in one of her books, and-- GASP. The story also predicts that Nightmare Moon will return on the longest day in Equestria. That just so happens to take place on a certain day far too close in the future for Twilight's liking, so she writes her teacher (Princess Celestia) informing her of the danger. Instead of... y'know, taking this danger seriously, Celestia sends Twilight to a small backwater town called Ponyville to make friends. Because making friends in the face of danger is totally what you do.
It all makes sense in the end, I promise.
Anyway, Twilight goes to Ponyville in an attempt to study friendship, where she meets five ponies by the names of Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Fluttershy. They all try to be nice to her and befriend her, but Twilight is soooo frustrated that NO ONE IS DOING ANYTHING ABOUT THE POTENTIAL END OF THE WORLD, that she doesn't put her heart into it. An lo and behold... while she is in Ponyville, the prophecy comes true and Nightmare Moon returns. Equestria is shrouded in darkness and Princess Celestia disappears and NO ONE KNOWS WHAT TO DO.
Except Twilight, who... actually did her research. According to the prophecy, the six Elements of Harmony are the only magic artifacts in Equestria that can defeat Nightmare Moon. So Twilight, along with the other five ponies who tried to befriend her, go on an adventure to find these elements. During this adventure each of the five pony friends from Ponyville display a very important trait: Applejack is honesty, Fluttershy is kindness, Rarity is generosity, Rainbow Dash is loyalty, and Pinki Pie is laughter. All of this comes into play later. Like... when they reach the ruins where the Elements of Harmony are contained.
Once there, Nightmare Moon reveals herself, and the group tries to stop her with the Elements of Harmony. BUT WAIT... they don't work? And they're able to be destroyed? WHAT IS THIS MADNESS?! Oh, you mean they're just stones? And the real magic comes from the souls of the ponies who display the traits that correspond to the Elements of Harmony? So predictable... anyway, once the ponies figure this out, Twilight is able to harness their magic so she can defeat Nightmare Moon with her own Element of Harmony: magic. Nigthmare Moon is defeated and turned back into Princess Luna, and from out of NOWHERE Princess Celestia appears. Apparently she knew Nightmare Moon was returning and let it all happen anyway to teach Twilight a lesson about friendship. Because endangering your kingdom for friendship totally makes sense.
Well... in this show it does, since friendship is magic and all that stuff. Anyway, with new friends made, Twilight is allowed to return to Canterlot with her teacher, but by now she doesn't want to. She has realized the importance of her friends and wishes to stay in Ponyville with them. Princess Celestia says okay to this and gives Twilight a new mission: a mission to study the magic of friendship. Princess Luna returns to the throne with her sister and all is well.
Thus begins Twilight's adventures in Ponyville with her rag-tag group of pony friends.
Personality: Twilight is the sensible, book-smart pony of the group. She has a thirst for knowledge and spends a lot of her time reading and studying in order to increase what she knows. She takes studying and intelligence very seriously, and at one point in her life she believed knowledge was more important than friendship. While she no longer believes this and has come to understand the values of making connections and pals, she still tends to be a bit introverted and can be seen reading and studying on her own throughout the rest of the series. She also tends to 'social fail' a lot, by which I mean she isn't the greatest at getting along with other ponies and reading social cues. She can be awkward and blunt and might not realize this until it's too late, but hey, it's part of her charm.
Her sensibilities also make her a very good, very organized leader, and she's the one who comes up with plans when the group has to go on some kind of dangerous adventure. This doesn't mean she isn't open to input, though, and she'll gladly take suggestions from her friends. She understands the importance of working as a team and will encourage her team to do their best... even if they may do things that frustrated her sometimes.
Speaking of frustration, she can be juuust a bit snarky. While she has a high threshold for handling things that frustrate her, when she reaches that boiling point she tends to get very sarcastic and grumpy. She doesn't like to be interrupted when she's working and sometimes, she can be a bit too uptight, but she's trying her hardest to be understanding... especially now that she has friends.
Oh, and Twilight seems to be fairly humble, too. She doesn't like to be considered a show off despite having a fair amount of magical powers, so she tries not to overuse them.
Other: Twilight is a MAGIC UNICORN, which... basically means she can do a lot. From lifting objects to summoning objects to teleporting to summoning wind and music to making ponies grow mustaches... while the series mentioned that there are only 25 types of magic in Equestria, they never specifically mention what those 25 types of magic are. Whoops.
Once there, Nightmare Moon reveals herself, and the group tries to stop her with the Elements of Harmony. BUT WAIT... they don't work? And they're able to be destroyed? WHAT IS THIS MADNESS?! Oh, you mean they're just stones? And the real magic comes from the souls of the ponies who display the traits that correspond to the Elements of Harmony? So predictable... anyway, once the ponies figure this out, Twilight is able to harness their magic so she can defeat Nightmare Moon with her own Element of Harmony: magic. Nigthmare Moon is defeated and turned back into Princess Luna, and from out of NOWHERE Princess Celestia appears. Apparently she knew Nightmare Moon was returning and let it all happen anyway to teach Twilight a lesson about friendship. Because endangering your kingdom for friendship totally makes sense.
Well... in this show it does, since friendship is magic and all that stuff. Anyway, with new friends made, Twilight is allowed to return to Canterlot with her teacher, but by now she doesn't want to. She has realized the importance of her friends and wishes to stay in Ponyville with them. Princess Celestia says okay to this and gives Twilight a new mission: a mission to study the magic of friendship. Princess Luna returns to the throne with her sister and all is well.
Thus begins Twilight's adventures in Ponyville with her rag-tag group of pony friends.
Personality: Twilight is the sensible, book-smart pony of the group. She has a thirst for knowledge and spends a lot of her time reading and studying in order to increase what she knows. She takes studying and intelligence very seriously, and at one point in her life she believed knowledge was more important than friendship. While she no longer believes this and has come to understand the values of making connections and pals, she still tends to be a bit introverted and can be seen reading and studying on her own throughout the rest of the series. She also tends to 'social fail' a lot, by which I mean she isn't the greatest at getting along with other ponies and reading social cues. She can be awkward and blunt and might not realize this until it's too late, but hey, it's part of her charm.
Her sensibilities also make her a very good, very organized leader, and she's the one who comes up with plans when the group has to go on some kind of dangerous adventure. This doesn't mean she isn't open to input, though, and she'll gladly take suggestions from her friends. She understands the importance of working as a team and will encourage her team to do their best... even if they may do things that frustrated her sometimes.
Speaking of frustration, she can be juuust a bit snarky. While she has a high threshold for handling things that frustrate her, when she reaches that boiling point she tends to get very sarcastic and grumpy. She doesn't like to be interrupted when she's working and sometimes, she can be a bit too uptight, but she's trying her hardest to be understanding... especially now that she has friends.
Oh, and Twilight seems to be fairly humble, too. She doesn't like to be considered a show off despite having a fair amount of magical powers, so she tries not to overuse them.
Other: Twilight is a MAGIC UNICORN, which... basically means she can do a lot. From lifting objects to summoning objects to teleporting to summoning wind and music to making ponies grow mustaches... while the series mentioned that there are only 25 types of magic in Equestria, they never specifically mention what those 25 types of magic are. Whoops.
Additional Links: Wiki! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Little_Pony:_Friendship_is_Magic)
First Person (entry type): Dear Citizens of Dramadramaduck:
My name is Twilight Sparkle, the most esteemed pupil of Princess Celestia, ruler of Equestria. I stumbled across your community in one of my magic books this evening, and I'm fairly certain it's not supposed to be there. It was my favorite book, too; now how am I supposed to study up on and perfect teleportation magic? Ugh... I'll have to write Princess Celestia and request a new one. Curious as to why the pages of my book were overtaken by... um, letters from all of you, I perused it thoroughly, only to discover that everyone here claims to be from a world separate from Equestria. I can only assume that my ability to contact you is the work of some powerful branch of magic.
I realize that the nature of this... what do you call it? A whatchamacallit-- "community" means that it can be quite dangerous for Equestria, especially if some of your "worldhoppers" manage to "hop" their way here with dark intentions. Therefore, I found it prudent to contact you all as ambassador for my home even if Princess Celestia doesn't know about this and ensure you that everypony in Equestria wishes no harm upon you or your citizens.
...
In other words, citizens of Dramadramaduck...
We come in peace.
Third Person: "Where is my quill?!"
Twilight Sparkle's frustrated voice carried throughout the rooms of her tree house, along with the crashing and thumping sounds of her digging frantically through the books on her desk. A few hours had passed since her discovery of the strange, magical 'community' that had overtaken her book, and after copious amounts of research, she had determined that there was no way she couldn't inform her mentor of its existence. After all... what would happen if someone from "Dramadramaduck" decided attack Equestria? It would be the princess's duty to defend their country, and to do that, she needed to know everything she could about this book.
... of course, in order to write her, Twilight had to find a writing utensil first. And no matter how many books she grabbed with her magic and tossed aside haphazardly, that precious quill was just refusing to show itself.
"I know it's around here somewhere!" the indigo pony cried in frustrated, "I just used it not too long ago! Ugh, of all the times... this is a matter of national security, it's far too important to be delayed by a missing quill!"
With one last expression of frustration, Twilight brought her forelegs down hard on the floor with a loud clap, tossing more books against the wall as she did so. And just as their bindings collided with the wood, a small, white feather fluttered out from inside the pages of one.
Twilight sighed in relief. "There you are!" she said as she tilted her head back, using her magic to levitate the quill into the air, "Now... how to start this?" With one hoof lifted to her muzzle, the bookish pony cleared her throat and levitated a piece of parchment onto her desk to begin her letter.
"Dear Princess Celestia..."
First Person (entry type): Dear Citizens of Dramadramaduck:
My name is Twilight Sparkle, the most esteemed pupil of Princess Celestia, ruler of Equestria. I stumbled across your community in one of my magic books this evening, and I'm fairly certain it's not supposed to be there. It was my favorite book, too; now how am I supposed to study up on and perfect teleportation magic? Ugh... I'll have to write Princess Celestia and request a new one. Curious as to why the pages of my book were overtaken by... um, letters from all of you, I perused it thoroughly, only to discover that everyone here claims to be from a world separate from Equestria. I can only assume that my ability to contact you is the work of some powerful branch of magic.
I realize that the nature of this... what do you call it? A whatchamacallit-- "community" means that it can be quite dangerous for Equestria, especially if some of your "worldhoppers" manage to "hop" their way here with dark intentions. Therefore, I found it prudent to contact you all as ambassador for my home even if Princess Celestia doesn't know about this and ensure you that everypony in Equestria wishes no harm upon you or your citizens.
...
In other words, citizens of Dramadramaduck...
We come in peace.
Third Person: "Where is my quill?!"
Twilight Sparkle's frustrated voice carried throughout the rooms of her tree house, along with the crashing and thumping sounds of her digging frantically through the books on her desk. A few hours had passed since her discovery of the strange, magical 'community' that had overtaken her book, and after copious amounts of research, she had determined that there was no way she couldn't inform her mentor of its existence. After all... what would happen if someone from "Dramadramaduck" decided attack Equestria? It would be the princess's duty to defend their country, and to do that, she needed to know everything she could about this book.
... of course, in order to write her, Twilight had to find a writing utensil first. And no matter how many books she grabbed with her magic and tossed aside haphazardly, that precious quill was just refusing to show itself.
"I know it's around here somewhere!" the indigo pony cried in frustrated, "I just used it not too long ago! Ugh, of all the times... this is a matter of national security, it's far too important to be delayed by a missing quill!"
With one last expression of frustration, Twilight brought her forelegs down hard on the floor with a loud clap, tossing more books against the wall as she did so. And just as their bindings collided with the wood, a small, white feather fluttered out from inside the pages of one.
Twilight sighed in relief. "There you are!" she said as she tilted her head back, using her magic to levitate the quill into the air, "Now... how to start this?" With one hoof lifted to her muzzle, the bookish pony cleared her throat and levitated a piece of parchment onto her desk to begin her letter.
"Dear Princess Celestia..."
Player nickname: Tiffany
Player LJ:arcesso
Way to contact you:
Email: live.infamy [at] gmail.com
AIM: to boldly trek
Other: invoke @plurk
Are you at least 15?: Y. 19.
Current Characters:
Fandom: Smallville
Player LJ:
arcessoWay to contact you:
Email: live.infamy [at] gmail.com
AIM: to boldly trek
Other: invoke @plurk
Are you at least 15?: Y. 19.
Current Characters:
Claire Bennet (Character: Lana Lang
Faith Lehane (
Fandom: Smallville
Character Notes:
History:For the TL;DR version, click here (http://smallville.wikia.com/wiki/Lana_Lang).
Lana Lang was born and raised in Smallville, Kansas. She had two loving parents up until the day of the meteor shower. She was three years old the day that both of her parents were killed by the meteors when they crashed to earth, bringing Kal-El with them. Her aunt, Nell, adopted her and she became the poster-child of the tragedy, earning herself a place on the cover of Time magazine because she was apparently the saddest-looking child in Smallville that they could find. Taking a piece of the meteor rocks -- aka kryptonite -- she forged herself a bead for a necklace to remind herself that her parents were always with her. Morbid, perhaps, but it served as a good plot device for why she and Clark rarely got to speak and why she was this untouchable ideal for him.
When Lana was ten, she tried to run away to Metropolis because she felt like she was a burden on her aunt. Nell went to retrieve her and Lana asked if she regretted adopting her. Nell dissuaded her concerns and brought her home. In seventh grade, she skinned her knee and passed out when she saw the blood, but she's since gotten over her squeamishness it appears, especially since in season 1 she runs the blood drive.
She settled into a normal-ish life that involved a lot of horseback riding, visiting the graves of her parents daily, cheerleading because she believed it was what her mother would have wanted, and dating Whitney Fordman, the quarterback. However, she learned while digging through some of her mother's things partway through freshman year that her mother despised cheerleading, and promptly quit in an attempt to find herself. Finding herself led her to try and get a job at the Beanery, a local coffee shop where most of the kids from Smallville High hung out, but she turned out to be the worst waitress possible and wound up getting quickly fired. her aunt apparently owned the theater that her parents had met in, though, and when she tried to sell it, Lana instead came up with a business proposition to turn it into a competition coffee shop with the help of Lex Luthor. Lex and Lana entered a business partnership and they created the Talon, which Lana would manage and where she would gradually learn to stop sucking as a waitress.
During her freshman year, she and Whitney went through some serious relationship trouble that came to a head when Whitney's father died, motivating him to join the Marines and ship out to boot camp to ~save the world~ as Lana would put it every single time she talked about it. While her feelings for Whitney became more complicated, so did her feelings for Clark. The two grew closer and she very nearly cheated on Whitney with him a few times. However, Clark wound up getting together with Chloe, and Lana spent Spring Formal going with Whitney to send him off to boot camp. On her way home, a tornado hit. Lana got caught in it and Clark bailed on Chloe and the dance to come save Lana, though she was unconscious and couldn't witness his heroics and become aware of his powers. In fact, Clark denied ever being involved at all, though Lana didn't believe him and came to grow frustrated with his constant keeping of secrets.
Her feelings towards Clark continued to grow, though, and she decided to break up with Whitney, feeling it was her only option because while he deserved to know someone was there for him waiting, she couldn't do it as a girlfriend, just a friend. She sent him a video tape, which was how they'd been corresponding, and went a long time without hearing back from him. Aunt Nell decided she wanted to move to Metropolis with her boyfriend, but Lana refused to go, claiming that Smallville was her home. Chloe and her father allowed Lana to stay with them, and while at first it brought the two girls closer, it eventually began to breed problems when they both discovered their mutual love for Clark wasn't going anywhere.
She learned that her father, the one who was married to her mother and had died in the meteor shower, wasn't actually her biological father -- that she was actually the daughter of Henry Small, part of the line of Smallville's very own founding family. They worked for a while on a relationship, but Lana concluded that her presence in his life was too much of a strain on his marriage and stepped out quietly. Whitney returned home from the war, amnesiac, thinking that he and Lana were still together. He managed to begin to turn Lana against Clark before it came out that "Whitney" was in fact a meteor-infected student from season 1, Tina Greer, Lana's one-time friend who had become obsessed with her and wanted to be her. Tina died by accidentally impaling herself in the back alley behind the Talon. After the Tina incident, a group of guys wound up assaulting Lana at the Talon and, realizing that it wasn't her safe haven anymore, she went to Lex to ask him to train her in the art of self defense. Through her sophomore year she demonstrates herself as exceptionally capable thanks to his teachings.
Red kryptonite made an appearance a few times through her sophomore year, putting strain on her relationship with Clark, first because it led him to be the worst date ever when they finally went on a date together, also causing him to lay one on Chloe while he and Lana were supposed to be seeing one another. Later, it even caused him to leave town at the end of the year after he'd bailed on Lex Luthor's wedding to Helen. Lana tried to persuade him to stay, and Clark simply invited her with him. She declined, saying that Smallville was her home. Clark disappeared for three months, during which Lana helped the Kents heal and tried to help them find their son. She realizes that she loves Clark and when Chloe owns up that she's known where Clark is, Lana feels betrayed but immediately goes to get him in Metropolis. She couldn't have been more horrified by the Clark that she found, who was still toked up on red K and acting like a player as well as stealing and hurting people. Eventually she convinced him to return to Smallville, however, though their relationship appeared mostly irreparable.
Clark remained in Metropolis under the name Kal for three months. During that time, Chloe and Lana bonded and Lana came clean about her relationship with Clark. After three months when Lana decided she was going to go to Metropolis to find Clark, Chloe admitted she'd known where he was all along. Lana, enraged at Chloe, headed off to Metropolis to meet up with Clark. Clark refused to go back with her, and she refused to leave him again, so she went along with him to some club in Metropolis. He acted like a total douche and she tried to call Jonathan to tell him where Clark was -- Clark caught her and ran. She returned to Smallville and Jonathan went to fight Clark to get him back and off red K. When Clark returned to Smallville, Lana refused to be in a relationship with him but remained close friends with him in hope that he would open up to her, though Clark concluded that she could never love the parts of him that he kept hidden.
Lex starts going crazy and while Lana and Clark try to protect him, Lana winds up getting trampled by a horse and put in the hospital. As she recovers, she develops some bitterness towards Clark for defending Lex to the end and keeping him out of Belle Reve long enough for him to get her hurt. In rehab, she meets Adam Knight, who motivates her to take charge of her own life and buck up and get done with her therapy. He tells her his hard life story and she offers him the apartment above the Talon because he wants to stay in Smallville. She begins to suspect that he might be hiding a dangerous secret and Adam gets aggressive with her when she presses it. As a result, Lana goes to Lex and asks him to get rid of Adam by evicting him from the Talon, which is Lex's property. Adam winds up trying to shoot Lana, but Clark saves her (without her knowing) and Adam goes missing, presumed dead due to his terminal disorder that requires LuthorCorp's revival drug.
Chloe inhales a kryptonite gas that forces everyone around her to tell the truth, and Lana confesses that she feels that everyone judges her and thinks she's too driven and self-involved. She admits that she's applied to the Paris School of Arts so she can be somewhere that people don't judge her, and that she hasn't told Chloe because she doesn't trust her -- she says that Chloe is losing friends thanks to what she's putting in the Torch about people. It puts a strain on their friendship, but Chloe loses her ability to force people into the truth and they more or less sweep it under the rug.
Clark decides to tell Lana his secret when she tells him she's leaving for Paris, but he never gets the chance to because Pete gets tortured for knowing it and Clark quickly decides he doesn't want to put Lana in that kind of danger. He stands her up and disappoints her again and she disappears to Paris for the next several months. In Paris, she meets Jason Teague, and the two start a relationship that continues for several months while she goes to school in Paris. He takes her to an art museum where she does a rubbing of Countess Margaret Isobel Thoreaux and it causes her to black out, putting the Kryptonite symbol for water on her back in the form of a tattoo that, as one doctor describes, is more or less burned underneath her skin. Creeped out, she bails the hell out of Paris and returns to Smallville because she recognizes the marking from the Kawatche ruins. She has several dreams about Isobel's life while having the tattoo, including memories of being burned at the stake.
She begins renting out the apartment over the Talon and shortly after she arrives back in town, Jason follows her and professes that he wants to stay in Smallville with her. They decide to continue their relationship even after they meet up at Smallville High when Jason starts working there as the assistant football coach. Clark finds out about their relationship after Lionel, in his body, walks in on them and Lana corners him to tell him to keep it a secret and act like an adult about it. When Jason gets fired on the grounds of their relationship, Lana suspects Clark and shuns him from her life. She begins to research Countess Thoreaux and learns that she's from the same part of France that the Langs are from ancestrally. She orders Countess Thoreaux's spell book offline by maxing out her credit cards and, after touching the Kryptonian symbol for water inside the book, becomes possessed.
Isobel, in Lana's body, tortures Lex, got Lois and Chloe possessed, crashed Chloe's birthday party and turned it into some freaky Halloween thing. She then stripped Clark of his powers so she could go steal the Kryptonian stone of power from the Kawatche caves, but Clark went after her and got his powers back, destroying the spell book. Lana retained no memory of what Isobel did while in her body, but she did learn that it was Lex who got Jason fired and not Clark. Lionel tells Lana that Lex and Jason have been researching the stones of power together, and that one of Jason's ancestors was searching for them. She made a map that Isobel stole, which is the crime that got her burned at the stake. Lionel hooks Lana up with a plane to China to look into the stones with Lex and Jason, and Clark decides to accompany her.
In China, Lana and Clark headed to a temple where Lana was captured and Clark got cockblocked by kryptonite statues. Lana was taken to where Jason and Lex were already being held and their captors' torture brought Isobel back to the surface. Isobel busted out, got the stone of air and fought Clark for it. Clark knocked the Isobel out of Lana, who again retained no memories of her time as Isobel. Jason got his hands on the stone and brought it back to Smallville with them, hiding it from Clark and Lex but telling Lana. Lana stole it from him and hid it away, telling no one that she had it -- she even hid it away from Jason. As the secrets began to build in Lana's relationship with Jason, they distanced themselves from one another emotionally.
Genevieve Teague, Jason's mother, suspected Lana of having the stone and came into her apartment to get it from her. The two fought and once more Isobel made it to the surface. She killed Genevieve and Lana called Lex to help her deal with it. Lex helped her wash the blood off her hands and when a second meteor shower began to approach Smallville courtesy of Clark being a dumbass, Lex helped Lana get out of Smallville and put her on a copter. The helicopter got hit and Lana crashed in a field where she hobbled over to where a black ship descend in the shower and watched two Kryponians walk out of it, who then attacked a group of police officers. Lana stumbled to the road where Lex found her and helped her out, though he tried to convince her that there was no black ship. He took her back to his mansion, where she saw Lionel scribing a message in Kryptonian. He told her that the aliens, Zod's disciples, could be stopped with the meteor rock.
Lana rushed to the Smallville Medical Center where the kryptonians were attacking people in their search for Kal-El. Lying to them and telling them that she knew where he was, she led them to the Luthor mansion to try and trick them into walking into the safe where some of the statues infused with kryptonite from China were hidden. Later, she learns that Jason died in the meteor shower, and she shows little remorse due to the lies and distance that had built between them. Clark lost his abilities saving Lana from the kryptonians, who caught onto the trap, because he didn't return to Jor-El when he promised to. Over that summer, she and Clark grew closer and took another shot at a relationship, promising not to keep any secrets from one another. They lost their virginity to each other and Clark felt he could be honest with her as long as he didn't mention his heritage because it was no longer a part of the equation.
Lana enrolled in Met U where she had a horrible vampire sorority plot that I refuse to go into detail about. It was just a horrible episode and the creators don't even like talking about it anymore, okay. Bad decisions were made all around. :| Besides, she doesn't remember any of it, because Clark's abilities became involved and it was probably overdramatized because Chloe narrated. Anyway, so Clark regains his abilities and he and Lana start not having sex anymore because Clark is afraid of crushing her pelvis and going all Edward Cullen on her. Which, you know, is a reasonable assumption considering he's the hulk. Their relationship is, however, strained by the lack of intimacy, and Lana talks to Chloe about it.
During this strained period, Lex asks Lana to help him study the black ship, which he is keeping in a LuthorCorp warehouse. They spend an increasing amount of time together trying to study the weird happenings of Smallville. Lex begins to run for Senate against Jonathan Kent, and Clark pretends he's going to tell Lana about his abilities (he did so in an alternate timeline that ended in Lana's death, so he reverted time and instead disappointed her -- again). Lana decides to take a break from her relationship with Clark due to all the lies, though she still attends Jonathan's victory party for winning the Senate race. Chloe loses track of her because Clark asked her to keep an eye on her so she wouldn't die this time around, but Lana winds up getting a call from a depressed and drunk Lex. She goes to visit him and he confesses his feelings for her and tries to kiss her. Lana fled and the car that would have killed her was stopped by Clark.
A week later, Jonathan Kent died of a heart attack after a confrontation with Lionel Luthor. Lana attended his funeral, though she continued to distance herself from Clark and draw closer to Lex. She tries to reconcile things with Clark but a seductress named Simone, brought in by Lex, ruins it even more. Chloe tries to convince Lana that Simone was a fluke, but Clark tries to protect her from himself by telling her that he didn't love her anymore. Lana turns to Lex for comfort. She begins stealing from him and using a drug that kills her, brings her to limbo to see her parents, and then revives her to find comfort over her broken relationship in what is yet again another horrible plotline of season 5. Lex makes her go to rehab and doesn't take Amy Winehouse for an answer.
Lana and Lex begin a relationship, but she doesn't immediately tell Clark. Chloe walks in on them in an intimate moment, and Lana swears her to secrecy, only telling Clark about their relationship after Lex gets hurt. Lex brings Lana in on a project that he's working on with Brainiac (under the pseudonym Milton Fine) that will create a vaccine against all of the world's diseases in order to hopefully protect the world from whatever an alien invasion by the Disciples of Zod might bring down upon them. They suspect Fine of being an alien due to his sketchy actions with the black ship, and Lana tells Lex that they're weak to green meteor rocks. She goes back to Met U to find Clark going through her shit and basically being a dickhole. He demanded that Lana tell him where to find Lex and she tells him about the warehouse.
She witnesses Lex get abducted by the black ship when he's getting possessed by Zod, though she doesn't realize it's not him. Lana tells Chloe about what happened, who passes it onto Clark. Lana overhears that Clark might have to kill Lex and Lex returns from the ship shortly thereafter. Zod and Brainiac shut down all electricity in the country on what is referred to as Dark Thursday, causing riots and horrible things to happen. Zod-Lex tells Lana to meet him on the roof of LuthorCorp and after a fight with Clark over how he won't tell her anything about what's going on, she goes. Zod-Lex arrives to meet her and kisses her after she assures him that she'll stand by his side while he helps the world.
What she doesn't know is that Zod's idea of helping the world is repopulating it with Kryptonians, with her help. Lana catches on that Lex may not be Lex and learns that he's possessed by Zod. She goes all Mata Hari and tries to seduce him after she gets the Kryptonian dagger from Clark, telling Zod that she'll bear all the kryptobabies he wants and then trying to stab him. He throws her up against a wall and stabs her hand through with a fire poker. Clark got Zod out of Lex without killing him and Lana decides to move in with Lex. Because somehow, seeing your boyfran get possessed by an evil Kryptonian rebel force and being stabbed in the hand by him makes you realize how much you want to … move in with someone.
Whatever. Lana gets creeped the fuck out because Lex has surveillance in her bedroom and she calls him out on it, demanding he remove the camera from her bedroom. She tells Chloe about it and she tells Lana that she needs to make a decision on whether or not she wants to trust Lex. When Lex holds a benefit for Dark Thursday victims and people affected by it, Lana decides to seal the deal and commit herself to him, and they get it on. Lex decides to test Lana's loyalty and has Lionel encourage her to destroy the black box that belonged to Zod. Lana instead blackmails Dr. Groll into getting rid of it and Lex catches her, admitting he's impressed. They agree to keep the box rather than destroy it, intending to study it and find a way to keep the kryptonians from taking over if they ever threaten again.
Dr. Groll bails and gives the box to Lana, saying he doesn't want to fuck with it anymore, and Lana decides to draw the line in the sand and makes Lex choose between his obsession with the box and her. The box is destroyed before Lex has to choose but he assures her that he would have chosen her over it. Lana starts having fainting spells and the doctor confirms that she's pregnant. She tells Chloe before telling Lex or Clark. When Lex gets trapped on a separate frequency by a meteor freak, Lana confesses that she's pregnant and wants him to be there to raise it with her and when he returns, he proposes. Lana tells him she isn't sure and then later confides in Chloe that it's because she still has lingering feelings for Clark. Her lingering feelings wind up on the front page and Lana blames Chloe, betrayed and hurt. When it turns out to be Linda Lake, Lana apologizes to Chloe for suspecting her. She goes to speak with Clark who wants to talk to her in regards to her feelings, and Lana tries to push him to tell her his secret. When he doesn't, she decides to accept Lex's proposal. Lana asks Chloe to be her maid of honor, and she accepts.
Lex and Lana throw an engagement party that's more like a formal dinner than anything. Clark and Lois show up on red kryptonite and ruin everything, including Clark outing Lana's pregnancy to the whole room when she'd been keeping it a secret because she didn't want people to assume it was why she was marrying Lex. Clark kidnaps Lana to his loft and tries to force himself on her, bullying her into admitting that she still has feelings for him. Lex comes to save Lana and stabs Clark with a chisel, which of course gets jacked up instead of jacking Clark up. She kept the chisel in her vanity after Martha came to stop Clark, hiding it from Lex. Lana gets stalked by one of Lex's security guards and nearly killed, but thanks to Clark is saved -- though she doesn't know it's Clark. She has her bachelorette party as a girl's night with Chloe in a bowling alley, which leads to how they meet Tobias Rice -- a meteorfreak who can detect other meteorfreaks. Lex lies to Lana when asked and says he doesn't know who Tobias is, even though he works for a secret LuthorCorp division. Lana confronts Tobias and tells him that she knows Clark is a metahuman, but that he can't tell anyone. Tobias tells Lana that Clark registered normal on his freakdar. Lana tells Lex that if there were a secret division, 33.1, that were harnessing metahumans and studying them and keeping them contained, she'd understand why. Lex all but confirms its existence once he knows she's on his side.
On the day of her wedding, Lana sets up a horrible messed up Luthor-esque scenario to force Clark out into the open at least in front of her. She locks Chloe in the wine cellar and hides behind some racks of wine bottles while Clark busts in to let her out, displaying pretty much all of his abilities at once. Lana calls Clark to the mansion to tell him to meet her later at the same time as the wedding in his loft, and then proceeds to write a letter to Lex about how she intends to leave him because she still loves Clark. Lionel, however, blackmails her. He tells her that he knows Clark's secret and his weakness and if she leaves his son, he'll kill Clark. Lana goes through with the wedding to protect Clark, though they cancel their honeymoon. A week after the wedding, Lana "miscarries" the child. In a state of mourning and depression she becomes determined to find out what she did wrong in her pregnancy to cause the miscarriage. After further tests and extensive, dragged out emotional torture, Lana learns she was never pregnant. The doctor accuses her of faking it to get a billionaire like Lex to marry her, but Lana knows the truth. She puts together that Lex had been injecting her with hormones to make her believe she was pregnant and give her a reason to want to stay with him.
It was this realization that began Lana's unrelenting hatred of Lex. He got trapped underground in an explosion/cave-in and Lana sat on a back route to save him in hopes that he might simply die in there, only giving the information up when she heard Clark was also trapped inside. Relieved to find Clark, she nearly kissed him, but instead went and embraced Lex and played the good wife, acting like she was relieved that he was alive as well. She became remarkably ruthless, showing all the traits of a good Luthor when she went to Lionel's bedside after he was injured and blocked his morphine drip until he told her whether or not he knew about the fraudulent pregnancy. Lionel assured her it was for Clark's protection because they needed someone close to Lex who Lex trusted. She visits him again later to get information about Project Ares, a project that was hidden in the locked briefcase that also had the way to save Clark and Lex, and blackmails him by threatening to tell Martha Kent, whom Lionel loves, about his use of Clark as a bartering chip. Lionel compliments her on her "Luthor instincts."
Lana then returns the briefcase to Lex like a good wife and when asked about whether or not she visited Clark, tells him that she could sense something wrong with the baby. She needed someone to talk to and didn't want to lie to him, or so she claims, and uses this twist to infer that someone who lied to her would lose her forever. Despite her subtext, she continues to pretend that she loves him. Eventually she gets in so deep that the only way she sees to get out of her marriage is to fake her death. She tells Clark goodbye while orchestrating things, and he tells her about his secret. She seems to already know and while it doesn't encourage her to stay, she does assure him that he's still the same Clark Kent to her. So, in an attempt to get back at Lex, she tricks everyone into thinking she's dead -- even Clark. She baits Lex by threatening to leave him and gets him to hit her, recorded on the mansion's security footage. She then rigs a bomb to a car with a clone of her in it, which Lex had created like a creeper through Project Ares in 33.1, and escapes on a mail truck while the car blows up. She hides away in Shanghai under a pseudonym, wearing a wig, trying to leave her life behind her, leaving Lex thoroughly framed for her murder courtesy of Model 503 (her clone) having her exact same structure and DNA.
While she was in Shanghai, Lana orchestrated for a psychopath named Marilyn to take Lionel Luthor hostage and torture him so he could understand what he put her through. Lex found Lana in Shanghai and she threatened to kill him while she explained her master plan and its orchestration to him. However, despite her deep hatred and justification, she found herself unable to kill him. Lex promised her that he cared enough about her still that he understood why she couldn't forgive him, and offered to let her return to Smallville. He promised her that he'd set her up and cut all ties and proceed with a legal divorce. Lana begins to live with Clark on the Kent farm, pretending that she hadn't stolen 10 million dollars from Lex to get away with. She begins to secret funnel the money into a project disguised as the Isis Foundation, a nonprofit designed to help the meteor infected, but is actually an elaborate way to spy on and exact revenge on Lex. Chloe finds out about the Isis Foundation and Lana demands she keep it a secret from Clark.
Clark finds out about the money, and Lana tells him that it was the divorce settlement. She promised she'd never keep secrets from him in the same breath that she more or less hides what she was doing with that money. Lionel, free from Marilyn, confronts Lana on the Kent farm about being the one to orchestrate his kidnapping. She denied it and he warned her to give up on her revenge, but she can't. She continues to pretend that things between her and Clark are normal, and gets the down-low on all things Kryptonian while his cousin Kara shows up. Clark accidentally transfers his powers to Lana, and she uses them to try and kill Lex. Clark stops her with some serious effort because she's overall stronger than him due to her training on top of the superpowers he has, and uses electrical surge and kryptonite to transfer the powers away from her. He tries to pretend that it was the powers that turned Lana into that person, but she confesses that she'd always had that inside of her.
Against Jor-El's warning, Clark uses a crystal with Lara (his mother)'s DNA in it to bring her back and Lana meets her. Lara confronted Lana on the darkness within her though they never really got to further discuss it because Zor-El busted in like the Kool Aid man and an epic fight ensued. The fight ended with Kara disappearing and Clark freezing himself in the Fortress of Solitude. When it appears he's returned after a few weeks, Clark has changed immensely. Lana tries to tell him that she stopped spying on Lex, but instead Clark asks to know what she's learned. They begin to spy on him together, looking into something called Project Scion involving a black, sentient liquid from the black ship. Clark acts generally more understanding and puts Lana before the world and continues a sexual relationship with her for the first time, something that she doesn't question despite him not doing it previously due to his abilities. Lana shows Clark a woman named Casey Brock who she brought into her care at the Isis Foundation after learning that she had weird heavy metal problems in her body. The woman, during Bizarro's time in Smallville, died under Lana's subpar care. Finally, Clark asks Lana to leave Smallville with him, and she agrees, despite Chloe telling her that something was wrong with him.
It turns out that the Clark that had come back was in fact Bizarro, a zoner who used Clark's kryptonian DNA to mimic his appearance. The real Clark returns to Smallville from the Fortress and Lana has to choose between Bizarro and Clark, the former of whom seemed to genuinely love her. The fact that Lana didn't notice the differences breeds some awkwardness and puts distance between Clark and Lana, because Lana confesses that she felt more loved and accepted by Bizarro than she'd ever been with Clark. Lionel blackmails her with the information about Casey Brock to try and get surveillance on Lex, and Lana responds by confessing it to Clark on her own. Clark doesn't seem satisfied by the way that works out, because he knows it's only because of the pressure by Lionel and that she never would have told him otherwise.
Kara returned with amnesia and Lana and Clark decided to hide her true heritage from her, leading to her moving in with Lex. Lana's hatred of Lex led to her showing Chloe some secret passages into the mansion so that they could go and rescue Kara and convince her to leave so they could get her memory back. When Brainiac returned, he attacked Lana at the Isis Foundation, leaving her in a catatonic state that she remained in for the rest of the season. When he was finally defeated, Lana was released from her catatonic state to find that Lex Luthor went missing in the Arctic and Tess Mercer had taken control of LuthorCorp. Tess confronted Lana in the hospital as soon as she came out of her catatonic state and kidnapped her, forcing her to make a video to Clark about her voluntary departure from Smallville, telling him that she was still in love with him but that she couldn't be with him anymore.
Lana hijacked the van that was kidnapping her and escaped, cutting her hair and going to find Carter Bowfry, a man who used to who had been a military training instructor, and asked him to train her how to fight back. For months, he trained Lana to grow stronger -- emotionally and physically -- and presumably taught her martial arts as well. He forces her to let go of Clark during their training and she eventually departs, receiving a phoenix medallion from him while she went on to do heroic things. He took a position within LuthorCorp as a military advisor to Tess in order to help Lana infiltrate and fight back against them. During this period, a month before Chloe's wedding to Jimmy Olsen, she dropped by the Isis Foundation, which Chloe had taken over, in order to contact a man about Project Prometheus -- the project designed to revive Lex by fitting him with a suit of nanomites that would give him superhuman abilities and bring him back from the brink of death. She convinced the doctor to make her the test subject of the suit, saying that she'd use it to save the world whereas Lex would use it for selfish purposes and to destroy it. As she was hiding the data of these conversations in the safe behind the radiator, Chloe found her in the foundation and invited her to her wedding. Lana asked that Chloe not tell Clark that she'd been in town, and left again.
When Oliver Queen traveled to Cuba to find Lex, he found out that Lana was also looking for him and they found a false trail together. Lana discovered his identity as the Green Arrow and suggested that she thought Lex was still alive and that they were hiding him. Ollie convinced her to go to Chloe's wedding by stirring old feelings and she did, meeting Clark there while Doomsday terrorized the place. Chloe was kidnapped and Lana used the Isis Foundation resources to help him find her, telling him that they would remain friends while she was there because she didn't want to reignite anything and was just there for Chloe. Imra aka Saturn Girl, a member of the Legion, came back in time to help Clark defeat Brainiac who had taken possession of Chloe. She came to visit Lana several times and told her that she'd be known for things greater than her relationship with Clark Kent. They stopped Brainiac and got it out of Chloe's body and the Legion took it to the future to reformat it.
A week later, Lana got up in Tess' shit and stole her Project Prometheus files, corrupting them while she transferred them to her own hard drive. She then was "kidnapped," as Clark saw it, when she went to Dr. Groll's lab to get fitted with the Prometheus suit. She busted out a superhero just in time for Clark to bust in with a million kinds of paranoia that she'd go psycho if she got powers again. She ran off before he could confront her and called him to meet her on the roof of the Daily Planet. They hooked back up again and proceeded to have an awesome bed frame breaking superhero relationship. A bomb gets sent to LuthorCorp after a merger with Queen Industries orchestrated by Oliver and Tess (who was trying to get back at Lex for using her as his eyes and ears, which Lana made her aware of in hopes that she'd realize that Lex isn't the man she thinks and she shouldn't serve him the way she does) in an attempt to kill not Oliver, but Clark. The bomb has a chip of kryptonite in it, and Lana accidentally absorbs the kryptonite, going to Dr. Groll to confirm that it was not neutralized, but absorbed.
Lex Luthor, in his Stephen Hawking state, organized for a kryptonite bomb to be put on the top of the Daily Planet that would destroy most of Metropolis. With the Prometheus suit, Lana could absorb the kryptonite and defuse the bomb, but it would make Lana so radioactive that she'd never be able to be near Clark again. In order to save the world, she absorbs the kryptonite. She goes to Dr. Groll to try and find out if it can be removed, but finds that there's no way to get the kryptonite out of her. She sobs tenderly into Chloe's shoulder, then meets Clark at the barn to say goodbye forever.
Personality:Ever since the death of her parents, Lana has been on the road to being an incredibly independent person emotionally. She keeps her feelings to herself in a lot of ways, either because she doesn't want to burden someone she loves with that added worry or because she doesn't want to appear weak, but at the same time when something is seriously going against what she believes in, she won't hesitate to make her opinion known. She's incredibly strong-willed and confident in her beliefs, decisions and actions.
This strong sense of self-identity is due to the way she's grown up without anyone she really considers herself able to rely on. Sure, Nell took care of her in the most legal and financial sense of the word after her parents died, but she was never a parent. Lana subscribes herself to the orphan persona in the same way Clark does, using it to isolate herself and force herself into additional responsibility and expectation. However, it also gave her this impression that her parents, untouchable like marble, were perfect, and it crushes her in a lot of ways to find out that they're not superheroes and that they separated and had filed for divorce around the time Lana was born, making Lewis Lang her father in only the legal sense.
Her drive and independence are what lead her to being a less-than-stellar employee at the Beanery, where she's overwhelmed by how many other people have control of her life, versus the way she excels when she can put her own hopes and dreams into the Talon and have a kind of free reign -- a place where she's in control and where she can strive for her goals and her own personal success with minimal assistance thanks to the way Lex pushed her. She was even shown to be apprehensive in allowing Lex to invest at first, even though she asked for it, because she was concerned that maybe he was only investing since they were friends. She doesn't like handouts, she likes to earn what she has, but mostly she just likes to know that she's in control of her own fate. This want of control is also what leads her to taking self defense classes.
Overall, though, this is all buried somewhere deep in Lana Lang's psyche. Mostly, she has this disposition that is very indicative of her status as the girl next door. She's sweet, charming, caring and easy to get along with. She loves helping others and getting involved in her community, and she'd never shy away from a challenge or someone who needs her. She's welcoming and friendly and generally calm and level in terms of mood. It takes a lot to shake her up. Despite having always been this unattainable 'popular girl,' in a sue-ish way she's never the type to go back-talking behind someone's back or say an ill word about them. She's the last person to act like a mean girl, with only one exception: mutated humans.
The people who were infected with the meteor rocks that crashed to Earth in 1989 have for the past two years made Lana's life incredibly difficult. There was the boy who replicated himself to date both Lana and Chloe, Tina Greer who tried to pull a Single White Female on Lana's life, the boy who had gills and could breathe underwater who tried to kill her while she was swimming laps, and various others have all singled Lana out with their powers and made her life one trauma after another. Not only this, but she's also borne witness to all of the ones who go after Chloe, making her the last person who'd be willing to extend a helping hand to those infected by meteor rocks. She has the mentality that these rocks are evil enough to turn people into someone they're not -- that they make these people go bad by giving them these powers unrestricted and letting them get carried away. Still, when there's a boy at her school sniping the people infected with meteor rocks, she doesn't get behind his idea of a hate crime, she just merely states that she can understand where he's coming from because she feels uncomfortable with them and doesn't like them -- but that doesn't mean she wishes violence for them.
Most of all, Lana's the type of person who always strives to be honest with people and takes it very seriously. She can be a hypocrite at times, being careful about how she and Clark break their relationship to Chloe for example, but overall she takes honesty very seriously and considers it the most important virtue a person can have. It puts incredible strain on her relationship with Clark that he's never honest with her and that he constantly hides things without bothering to give even the slightest explanation. Her pursuit of the truth isn't nearly as prying as Chloe's, but in a lot of ways when she gets very intense about finding it, she'll do what it takes to follow through her agenda. Her want of the truth and her goal-driven, strong will combined can make her a dangerous operator in a lot of ways. She'll go to some dangerous lengths to pursue what she perceives as justice and get to the bottom of things.
In Truth, Lana confesses to Chloe that she just wants to get out of Smallville, even though it's her home, to get away from all of the people that she perceives are judging her. Her self-awareness translates to a worry that people are judging her, that they consider her too driven and self-involved. She confesses that she doesn't trust Chloe, her closest friend, and it makes it clear that she doesn't really let anyone close enough to trust them with that inner Lana. With her hopes and her dreams and her insecurities. She's aware of her flaws and lets her insecurity about them separate her from people.
Despite how driven and self-involved she is, Lana doesn't trust herself because she frequently makes wrong decisions, then when she realizes it's wrong, can't get herself out of the situations she's created for herself. This also means that she'll follow her bad decisions out to the end of the road before admitting she was wrong or before trying to rectify things. It's her way of taking accountability for her choices. That is part of why she sticks with Lex for so long despite obvious evidence that he's not necessarily trustworthy. Essentially, she gets to a point where she tries to hold herself back from doing things because she never trusts herself to know whether or not it's the right decision, and the consequences frighten her. It often leaves her stuck in a limbo where she's afraid to make a change in her life, but usually there is something to shove her into breaking the final straw and making a huge change.
Her relationship with Clark gets pushed to the point of breaking just prior to her hooking up with Lex and it changes Lana in a lot of ways. Lex, as she professes as early as season 2, has an effect on her that's both liberating and terrifying. He begins to take the seed of darkness that's in Lana and helps it grow. With his influence, she grows into a woman that is his equal -- both in skill and ruthlessness. She becomes, around season 6, totally willing to keep whatever secrets she decides are necessary to keep the people she cares about safe -- often times, safe from themselves. Not only that but it's when she begins to show that she's willing to go to dangerous lengths to protect them. She demonstrates herself as willing to kill Lex to protect Clark and the rest of the world from Zod, and she later demonstrates herself as willing to kill Lex in sheer revenge because he's "dangerous" and will never stop hurting people.
Lana really epitomizes the "dangerous vigilante" trope in the way that she lets power go to her head. She gets the power over Lex at first through surveillance, becoming obsessed and vengeful, and then it worsens when she gets actual superpowers through Clark. She becomes violent and deems herself as the individual who must do "what is necessary" to keep Lex from hurting others, when really she just wants to hurt him for hurting her. When the powers are taken away, it does nothing to quell the lust she has for it, and it's that powerless that drives her to taking the Prometheus suit from Lex and, effectually, killing him by allowing him to remain in a state where Oliver can blow him up. Lionel describes it best when he explains that Lana has embraced what it means to be a Luthor. It means lying and acting recklessly and hurting people -- doing what it takes to get what you want and protect what you have. It also comes with a healthy dose of obsessive tendencies to the point of it being unhealthy and a taste for revenge.
Lex also affects her in a different way -- he turns her lack of trust and her need for independence into an extreme. She begins to close herself off from everyone else in a hope that they can't hurt her like Lex did and it turns her into this incredibly distrustful island of a person.
Other:Most of Lana's abilities in canon are fleeting at best -- they come and go in brief spurts, be it because Clark accidentally transferred them to her, because Isobel possessed her and passed on her magical abilities or because she was just affected by a meteor explosion and given temporary clairvoyance. However, in seasons 8's episode Power she obtains abilities from a nanotechnology supersuit intended for Lex. With these abilities, she has super-speed, invulnerability, super strength and the ability to take in a lot of the dangerous energy from kryptonite. She can absorb the energy from it entirely, which makes her radioactive with the kryptonite energy instead of just neutralizing it. She also has super stamina.
On top of this, she has exceptional training in a few martial art forms, mainly in aikido. She began her training in season 2, got really intense about it around season 5, and was trained at a master level between season 7 and 8. She's also shown great proficiency with a handgun when she shoots the locks off Lex's briefcase. However, I'll be taking her from earlier on than most of this aside from her aikido training with the Luthor trainer.
Additional Links:Lana Lang on SmallvilleWiki (http://smallville.wikia.com/wiki/Lana_Lang)
First Person (entry type):
[ encrypted video :: rerouted from terminal 2001:db8:0:1234:0:567:8:1 ]
[ Lana is seated at a computer desk, looking pretty damn perplexed by what's in front of her. A few intense keystrokes of her trying to browse away and get to another page that fail and she sighs, briefly pursing her lips. ]
What is this, some kind of safeguard against outside access to LuthorCorp servers? [ Some more furious keystrokes, and then her eyes go a little wider. ] No. Not a safeguard. This isn't a malware, it's -- [ Further scrutiny, then a look of realization as she skims the archives. She makes a kind of quiet 'huh' noise as she considers the screen. ] You've been a busy man, Lex. Movement between universes? Not exactly the Project Ares material I was looking for, but still … Just who are you trying to run from? [ The lighting on her face changes from purple-tinged to reddish-orange, like something on the screen's flashing, and her expression briefly narrows in the 'oh shit just got caught' way. ] Broadcasting … ? [ And then turns into a pleasant, almost Stepford smile. ]
I didn't realize this was being posted somewhere. It's amazing what they can sneak under a firewall these days, isn't it? [ She leans back, away from the screen, and it becomes apparent that she's standing while accessing the terminal. ] I can't say I don't need the break, though. May as well join the discussion while I'm redirected. Let's start simple. What can you tell me about worldhopping?
Third Person:
She had always imagined it would grow more difficult over time, as she added lie on top of lie and continued to deceive him. That was how it was supposed to be, wasn't it? Lying to a person you'd once loved. But, as it turned out, it was the opposite. Every lie, every breath only brought her further from being able to see him as that person. Every ounce of dirt she'd dug up on Lex had only further convinced her that the man she had loved had never existed. He was an illusion created by her mind to fool herself into finding someone other than Clark that she could put her faith in.
And look where it got her.
When Lex walked into the bedroom -- their bedroom, she actually found it in her to smile fondly, turning to glance back at him over her shoulder while she sat at the vanity. He looked worn, though she couldn't blame him. If she'd gone three days without so much as looking at her bedroom while toiling away on some secret government liaison, she'd probably be beside herself with exhaustion, too. Particularly if she had to expend as much energy as he did hiding said project from her spouse. The bitterness welled up inside of her all over again, but it just fueled the smile. Helped it look more genuine.
She'd find her retribution, but it wouldn't be in this bedroom. Not tonight. And the longer she kept holding that smile, the more dragged out and soul-wrenching the revenge would be when she did finally take it. Especially when he realized from within that prison cell that in this moment, while she was letting him put his hands on her and lean in to kiss her neck, that she'd always known. About 33.1, about Model 503. About Ares. And while he sat there in his ten by ten cell, he could realize that he hadn't just met his equal in what he'd made of Lana Luthor. He'd allowed her to grow to be far beyond him.
Reaching up, she took his hand from her shoulder so she could kiss the back of it and glance up at him through half-lidded eyes.
"You're late," she remarked in a sly way, her lips curled in gentle amusement that masked all of the loathing that had twisted her into something ugly underneath the soft, tanned skin that characterized her mostly innocuous appearance. La femme Nikita had used that to her advantage as well. "I didn't realize I'd only have you on timeshare when I said 'I do.'" Of course, there were a lot of things she hadn't realized when she said 'I do.' Like the fact that there was no child growing inside of her.
"Believe me, Lana, if I could be here with you instead, you know it's precisely where I'd be. But, we're nearing a breakthrough and I want to be there when it happens. This project's very important to me." A pause. "To us." Her smile grew a little wider at that, though it staunchly contrasted how she actually felt. The more he isolated himself the more she realized she'd never been allowed in to begin with.
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