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lana lang ✭ smallville ✭ 11/15

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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.