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Lois Lane | Reserved | History
History!
Note: Lois doesn't have a ton of pre-canon history on the show, so this is... everything I can glean from the show, as well as plugging in her mom's accepted name from the comics.
♣ Lois' early life was spent traveling from one army base to another, because of her father, General Sam Lane. As an army brat, she got to see a lot of the world, but never made a lot of lasting connections.
♣ Her mother, Ellen, died of lung cancer when she was only six years old. With her father's position in the military, this left Lois to more or less raise her younger sister, Lucy, on her own. Because she spent more time being a mother than a sister to her, Lucy was often resentful towards Lois, and tended to rebel against her. Lois herself was forced to grow into the responsibility of this role quickly, and as such, never had much of a childhood of her own. She remained incredibly protective of her sister all through their lives, and her father held Lois responsible for Lucy's behavioral issues.
♣ While in elementary school, Lois met Wes Keenan, and they had a brief childhood romance. He was her first kiss.
♣ Eventually, her father sent Lucy off to boarding school, because of her behavior problems. Lois, on the other hand, had to stay with him, and continued to travel from base to base.
♣ Lois switched schools so much that she never actually successfully completed enough credits to graduate, despite taking longer to finish high school classes than normal. By the time she was 21, she thought she was an equivalent high school graduate and at this point has applied to Metropolis University. (She'll later, learn, however, that she's not eligible for this until she finishes out her hs credits).
♣ Lois' father wanted his girls to be able to defend themselves, so Lois has been taking karate lessons for long enough to be a qualified third-degree black belt.
♣ Despite the long distance between them, Lois was very close to her cousin, Chloe Sullivan, all through her life. Following her cousin's death, and after getting her hands on a video letter from Chloe to Clark Kent, she traveled to Smallville herself in order to investigate her death further. This is where she enters the show in Season Four, and where I'll be taking her from at DDD.
Lois Lane | Reserved | Personality
Lois' personality is most heavily influenced by her unusual childhood as an army brat, and her relationship with her father and sister. Living in a military environment with a father who held her to incredibly high standards turned her into the tough as nails, stubborn, irrepressible and incredibly driven person that she is. Since her mother died when she was very young, she was without a real female role model, and it shows in her more aggressively masculine demeanor. She's able to run with the boys in every department: whether kicking butt with karate, winning drinking contests against frat boys, or just holding her ground when anyone tries to boss her around. She's always quick to rise to a challenge; as Clark puts it, when things get difficult, that's when she gets interested.
Lois has a strong sense of curiosity and justice, which makes it really difficult to throw her off a scent - a skill that later will serve her in her career as a journalist. This sense of morality no doubt comes partly from growing up in a culture of intense patriotism - though Lois has been known to bend or break a few rules to achieve that justice. This also might come from her father partly, as he's been involved in some shady practices of his own.
Having been forced to all but raise her baby sister made Lois grow up very quickly, and as a result, she's always ready to take responsibility or take action in situations, and she has very little patience for whiners or those who sit back and expect things to be handed to them. She's fiercely protective of not just Lucy, but of everyone she loves. When she learns of mysterious circumstances surrounding her cousin's death, she immediately launches an investigation for herself, with no hesitation.
Lois talks ... a lot. Her abrasive personality and sharp-tongued sense of humor aren't for everybody, and they occasionally get her into trouble. She'd been known to butt heads with authority figures, and she can strike some people as irritating in her persistence and by being so opinionated about... everything. Her spontaneous nature often translates to talking without really thinking things through, and she can be accidentally offensive as a result. Sometimes she's brash to the point of extreme recklessness, and she's been known to throw herself into dangerous situations because she didn't think ahead.
Lois is used to hiding her emotions, since she grew up in an atmosphere where crying equated to weakness. She tends to mask a lot of her feelings behind a wall of sarcasm and humor, and when she does open up about her emotions, there's usually a deep degree of bitterness there. She hides a lot of inner resentment at her father, and how his job always came before his family. Her relationship with her father has a certain degree of distance in it (she only refers to him as "the General" rather than "dad"), which translates to a lot of relationships in her life. One of her greatest fears lies in the thought of ending up in relationships with people who, like her father, will have a destiny and duty that is so much more important than her, that she'll end up left behind constantly. She wants desperately to matter to someone, and it's one reason she drives herself so hard - initially for her father's approval, but increasingly because she wants to prove things to herself, rather than doing them for him.
Lois is a well of pop culture references, which indicates just how much time she's spent watching TV, etc. Her musical tastes veer away from the popular "young" choices, and she prefers the kind of classic rock favored by the military guys she grew up around. 80s rock is her favorite, and Whitesnake is her favorite band.
Lois Lane | Reserved | Other
♣ According to a career test she took, Lois' ideal job is a radio DJ.
♣ She took up smoking when she was fifteen out of rebellion against her dad's strict upbringing, but eventually worked to kick the habit. She now suffers an addiction to nicotine gum.
♣ Lois can't spell worth a damn. Or cook, for that matter. She can, however, kick your butt at video games.
Additional Links!
Smallville wiki (http://smallville.wikia.com/wiki/Lois_Lane)
Lois Lane | Reserved | First Person
First Person (entry type):
So, first impressions of Smallville:
Getting knocked off the road by some seriously inconsiderate lightning while lost in the first place? Bad. Meeting a guy who'd had his brain, and apparently clothes, fried by said lightning? Hello Kansas. No jokes about knowing how to grow things out on the farm though, I promise. Too easy.
Anyways.
Being saddled with said naked amnesiac, and spending some less-than-quality time trapped at the hospital as a result was really not part of the plan for launching my investigation. But it turns out this wasn't just any pantless wandering wonder - Senor Frankenstein was exactly the guy I came to town to talk to. The same one who might have information on my cousin's death.
Talk about a stroke of luck.
So I followed him home to his Old McDonald ranch, after spending a couple amazing hours sleeping in my car joy of joys, but his mom turned me away.
Little does she know, it's not so easy getting rid of me.
She said she'll have him call though, if he remembers anything. Interrogating a lobotomy patient probably wouldn't be very rewarding in the first place, but I have to try. Nowhere else to turn at this point.
Though sitting around and waiting for a call?
Not exactly my style either.
Lois Lane | Reserved | Third Person | End
Corn, corn, corn, corn, more corn, lone cow in a field.
"Really shaking up the view there, Smallville," Lois murmured aloud, her car locked steadfastly in cruise control as she drove along the long, flat expanse of road. "Don't strain yourself."
The hollow attempt at humor might have worked better if there were someone else in the car, but as it stood, she wasn't really fooling herself.
Her cousin - her always smiling, crazy theory spewing kook of a cousin, her Chloe - had died here. And as charmingly flat and dull and less-than-thrilling as the scenery might have been, she knew there were secrets buried here, and she was determined to weed them out herself.
It was still difficult to actually think of her as gone. It'd be three months, and she still had a hard time facing it. But there was work to be done, and someone had to do the avenging that apparently had to go down, if that video of Chloe's was any indication. And to be honest, focusing on unraveling some kind of mystery was much easier than mourning. And focusing on being outraged that Lionel Luthor might walk out of jail any day when he was probably involved in her death? Even easier.
No one had dared to question yet why Lois hadn't gone to the funeral. It was better that way, because she wasn't about to lie and give them some excuse. But telling the truth was hard as hell. Even telling it to herself.
The clouds started moving in, as if mirroring her thoughts.
"That's just great," she grumbled, resisting the urge to fumble for a cigarette. "You can keep your meteorological metaphors to yourself, world. Doing fine without them over here."
As if in direct response, lightning growled in the distance.
Her own growl rivaled it pretty well as she stepped on the accelerator. If she had any luck, maybe she could beat the storm.
It might help, however, if she knew where the hell she was.
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