a_different_future | TLV Application

User Name/Nick: Danii
User DW: yarnzipangirl
E-mail: gamenotifications@gmail.com
Other Characters: Warren Kepler, Sanderson Hawkins, Randel Oland, Jonathan Sims

Character Name: Clark Luthor
Series: Smallville
Age: mid 30s
From When?: Post canon, post comics canon, post Barge, and now post destruction of the Earth-167 Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Inmate/Warden: Warden. Clark went through his transition from Inmate to Warden and wardened Kol Michaelson to graduation before he left. In his time on the Barge, he learned the value of
Item: A kryptonian crystal with his family's crest on it.

Abilities/Powers: Clark is a Kryptonian raised on Earth-168 and as such has all the appropriate powers:
*Super strength
*Extreme durability
*Personal gravity manipulation
*Super healing
*Super speed
*Super senses
*Super breath
*Freezing breath
*Heat vision
*X-ray vision
*Advanced learning/processing abilities
*and all of these get better if he's had enough yellow star/sun radiation.

He's weak to green kryptonite (weakens and causes pain), blue kryptonite (erases his abillities), gold kryptonite (causes permanent damage), and red kryptonite (turns him into a walking ID) as well as magic of any stripe.

Additionally, he's a trained duelist and a very savvy businessman.

Personality: [Please write at least 5 solid paragraphs. The more depth and detail, the better! Keep in mind that other players will use this section to determine if your character is a good match for potential Warden/Inmate pairings, and this may be their first exposure to your character.

Barge Reactions: You need to include how they are going to react to the Barge, possibly addressing the other character types, genres, and fandoms they'll be encountering or how they may react to floods or breaches. If the character has stayed on the Barge before, will they remember that and what effect did it have on them?

Please write this in complete sentences, and in paragraphs as you would in any normal area of the application.]

Deal: The restoration of the worlds lost to the Crisis, or at least Earth-167 AND of Earth-167's Kal-El to proper Kryptonian ability.

History: [This may be linked or written out.]

Sample Journal Entry: [5-10 sentences (of spoken/written monologue, not including narration) 1st Person POV. This sample should reflect the character's day-to-day behavior and a distinctive voice and must be Barge setting specific. You are permitted to link a thread from the Test Drive Meme, as long as it's recent (within 3 months of application date), Barge-setting specific, and in journal style.]
Sample RP: [3-5 paragraphs, 3rd Person POV. Must be Barge setting specific. You are permitted to link a thread from the Test Drive Meme, as long as it's recent (within 3 months of application date), Barge-setting specific, and in 3rd person/logs style.]

Special Notes:

The Old (Inmate) App

User Name/Nick: Danii
User DW: yarnzipan
AIM/IM: ashurbadaktu @ Plurk
E-mail: gamenotifications@gmail.com
Other Characters: Alan Scott

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Character Name: Clark Luthor
Series: Smallville [TV]
Age: 26
From When?: Post-canon, after his last episode

Inmate/Warden: Inmate. Clark has a LOT of issues, mostly stemming from the fact that he was raised by just about the most awful person who has ever existed ever. He doesn't have any faith in humanity, he generally hates people, despises weakness, and he treats human beings as playthings to, well, either fuck, kill, or otherwise serve his whims. At the same time, he hates said jerkface as much as just about anyone else does, so there's definite chinks in the armor for a warden to exploit. Most of Clark's murderous rage is really redirected from hatred of himself, loneliness, fear, extreme paranoia, emptiness in his life, and a desperate desire to be loved by someone for who he is instead of what he can be used for.

Abilities/Powers: As Clark is a Kryptonian, he has the typical powers attributed to Superman: super strength, superspeed, advanced senses, the ability to fly, heat vision, cold breath, and healing through the light of yellow stars. As an inmate, I would assume he'd be severely limited on all of that.

Personality:

Clark Luthor is one of the best arguments for the sainthood of Martha and Jonathon Kent that ever existed. He's basically just Clark Kent as raised by Lionel Luthor... by which I mean literally one of the most powerful people in his universe, raised by one of the most terrible and raised beside one of the most terrible. CL is only in two episodes of the series, but a lot of the understanding of who and what kind of person he is can be found in the rest of the series, both in watching Clark KENT and in seeing the kind of treatment that Lex receives and that Lionel tends to give. Because unlike his comic book counterpart, he is actually the same person just raised in very different circumstances. Where comics!Ultraman is, for instance, a Slytherin through and through, CL is pretty much just the same Hufflepuff that Clark Kent is... who's been hammered into being something of an over-reactive sociopath who's STILL bad at sneaking and doesn't really thirst for power.

CL is a strange dichotomy: he has power over just about anyone (which is what happens when you have Superman's powers and you've been encouraged from childhood to use them whenever the heck you want HOWEVER you want) and clearly knows and enjoys this... but he spends most of his life living very much afraid. Lionel, either intentionally or unintentionally (probably the former), may have convinced CL that he could do anything, beat anyone, kill whoever he wanted... but he put himself above that, made himself very much the boogeyman even to what most people on his world would consider the scariest being there. Because CL's main motivation has always been ESCAPE. Escape from the torment of his brother, escape from people who could hurt him, and ultimately escape from his own world because, as he states at one point, it isn't HIS world, it's LIONEL's.

Which isn't to say that he's a helpless babe in the woods. He grew up with wealth, privlidge, and almost no limitations to what he could do or who he could do it too. He's AWFUL. He murdered his own adopted brother, is known via his superhero persona of Ultraman for murdering anyone who so much as sees his face, and he rules the streets of his world's Metropolis with an iron (and bloody) fist. He even notes that it's 'odd' to not have blood on his hands before lunch at one point. He treats people like playthings, yelling at them like broken toys when they don't do what he wants, pulling or pushing them around, using his power to manipulate them via either the threat of violence or violence itself. He murdered half of a high school graduating class because they were infected with Kryptonite, and he waited until graduation because that was when it was easiest to get them all since they were collected in one place.

He lives by his whims, sleeping around as he likes and killing who he wants. Part of this is just because he can, but it's clear that part of it is because he's trying to fill a hole inside that just refuses to fill. He grew up in a household full of fear and backstabbing and emotional neglect, taught that people were awful and cruel and unworthy of his care, and made very much aware that his worth came from his powers and who his family was ("You're a LUTHOR!") as opposed to anything inherent or based on who he is as a person. He's lazy, and despite the fact that Lionel wants him to rule the world, it's very clear that he has no damn interest in it. For one, he never feels like it would be his world and for another... too much work. Too much stress. Why? He'd much rather live under the radar, do what he wants, live how he wants, and do so with...

Well, with the only person he actually gives a damn about, his adopted sister, Tess. That's the thing about him, and it's the one thing that shows that there's something in there: he genuinely loves Tess. He hates that Lionel won't let her be a part of the family (though, uh, not enough since he's IN love with her and if he had, it'd just be weird but... I digress), he hates that Lionel treats her like trash, and while he wants to get out and leave the rest of the world to Lionel unopposed, he wants her to come with him to the new world. Spend the rest of their lives together, happy and no longer afraid or disappointing anyone. Even the alternate universe version of Tess that he meets and threatens, even when she double crosses him, he can't make himself kill her. He talks about it, keeps threatening her, holds her out of a skyscraper window... but he can't do it. And that's the thing: he still exhibits controlling behavior with her, but you can see him visibly pause and realize what he's doing, that he doesn't like it, every time he does before making himself stop. So he DOES have control when he chooses to use it.

And that's the thing about him: he's awful... but he does have the potential for good. It was just stomped on repeatedly his entire life. The influence of the Kents, the influence of Jor-El... both of these were literally ripped away from him by Lionel. Even the good parts of Lex, he never got to see, because Lionel pitted him against his own brother. Who yes, he killed... after Lex tortured and permanently scarred him using gold kryptonite. Even Lionel remarks that he's too wishy washy, too much of a 'coward' because he's failed to kill his own father like Lionel had at his age. And, you know... he actually tried to be a superhero. A terrible terrible murdery one, but he still went after OTHER badguys. It's just that human life has no value because he's been taught that humans are awful, starting at home.

Barge Reactions: He's traveled to other universes before and exists in a superhero universe, so while he's going to be wary of the barge as a concept, the 'weirdness' of it is not going to be something that bothers him. The concept that something this 'good' could exist, that people could genuinely want or be able to help him? He's going to be VERY resistant to that.

Path to Redemption: Clark needs to believe in his own potential for good. He needs to see that people who share a world are connected, that there is a greater good and that serving it is a worthwhile goal. He needs to get his perceptions about people widened out of thinking that they're all hopeless assholes, that humanity isn't doomed. More personally, he needs to know that he can love someone who won't betray him, who won't be hiding a dagger trying to hurt him. And that he's worth believing in. That he's worth fixing. That he's more than just his powers.

History: CL @ Smallvillewiki

Sample Journal Entry:
I didn't think I hated anywhere more than that stupid little town and that stupid little farm. This place is proving me wrong, though. Aside from the fact that there's no one here who's any fun, this whole place feels like a scam. 'Redemption'? What does that even mean? And some asshole who doesn't know me, who doesn't understand... they think that they can get in my head, make me into some perfect little Kent doll who saves cats from trees and catches airplanes out of the sky? Bullshit. Whatever this place is, whatever it's plans, I have one goal and one goal only: regain my powers and find a way back to my home. There might be kryptonite in half of the pockets in the city, but at least I'd have something to DO there. And with dear old Dad off in another universe, I might actually be able to get something accomplished.

Sample RP:
Having the whole world aware of his weakness and carrying kryptonite was one thing, but this is a travesty of another kind entirely. HIs powers diminished, his senses dulled. He's as good as human and aside from feeling deaf, dumb, blind, and trapped, it's DEMEANING. He's not human. He's never BEEN human. And yet, he can't even so much as float around here without some warden giving him permission.

If it weren't for the lack of both his father and his brother here, he'd swear he was in Hell. Tess would have ended up somewhere better.

Of course, the whole thing was his fault. He'd brought this upon himself by listening to Kent, actually BELIEVING that there was good inside of him. He'd taken instruction from the husk of his Kryptonian father's memory banks, he'd tried to do good as the both of them seemed to believe it should be done, and he'd gotten a piece of Kryptonite lodged in his chest for his thanks. By the woman he'd saved from being killed by a mugger, no less!

Perhaps that whole 'no one who sees Ultraman's face lives to tell about it' thing hadn't been his best idea, but it'd made sense at the time. And fine, yes, he'd ripped the man's head off, but honestly, he hadn't even given her a dirty look. Why she'd assumed he'd turn on her immediately was just.. irritating.

And left him here, in this vessel dedicated to 'fixing' him. Ha. Good luck. If he was broken, then he didn't WANT to be fixed. He wasn't Kent, after all. And he didn't want to BE Kent. Hopefully they'd figure that out soon enough and just let him die in piece.

Also: Voice-Test Meme with Max and Scott

Special Notes: none that I can think of!

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