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General Information
Name: Lois Joanne Lane
Nicknames: ‘Mad Dog’Lane
Date of birth: October 22, 1986
Psychology
IQ: More clever and witty than book smart, but still dangerously intelligent.
Phobias/Fears: Being alone, helpless, hopeless;
Religious Beliefs: Nominally Christian, functionally agnostic.
Intolerances/Annoyances: Injustice, greed, ignorance.
Quirks/Habits: Messy, likes eighties rock. Can’t cook worth a damn. Tends to be unpredictable of temperament and talks a lot, especially when nervous. Has an addiction to coffee and maple donuts. Allergic to dogs and cats. Bossy, loud, brassy to cover her insecurities.
Powers/Abilities: A knack for getting into trouble which frankly verges on the supernatural; nose for investigative journalism. Third-degree black belt in karate and a serious knack for picking locks. Realistically she also knows her way around firearms.
Family
Parents: Ella (deceased) and General Sam Lane
Sibling: Lucy Lane
Spouse/Serious Lover: None
Children: None
Relatives: Chloe Sullivan (widow of Henry James Olsen)
Family History: The Lanes are a highly military family, reaching back several generations. Lois grew up moving from base to base, although Lucy—always the academically more driven and gifted—wound up at boarding school. Ella Lane died when Lois was quite young of lung cancer; Lois functionally raised her younger sister for a time.
Present Background
Occupation: Reporter for the Daily Planet, recently promoted out of the basement.
Activities: Investigation, writing stories and editorials
Home: Recently moved into a studio apartment in Metropolis, from the Kent farm, where she was staying after her place in the Talon was blown up. She was at the Talon for some years; before that, she lived at the Kent farm..
Finance: Middle-class
Personal History:
Lois Joanne Lane never really had a home until she was nineteen. She moved from army base to army base, following her dad, the three-star general Samuel Lane. At first it wasn’t so bad—as much of a workaholic as he was, his wife Ella kept him somewhat steady. However, Ella had smoked for years, and not long after Lois’ baby sister Lucy was born, Ella Lane died of lung cancer. Sam was more devastated than he ever admitted and threw himself even further into his military calling.
As a result, from the age of six the Lanes had a family ‘chain of command,’ with Lucy reporting to Lois and Lois reporting to their father. Lucy rather resented her sister for doing this, despite simultaneously looking to her sister for the only guidance and mother-like protection she had. Then, too, Lois was too busy taking care of herself and Lucy to have fun outside of school while still keeping up with work—and in an act of rebellion against being the perfect model, she slacked off on her work. Chloe (her cousin, to whom she is frankly closer than to Lucy) has commented that if Lois had put as much effort into schoolwork as she did into avoiding it she could have gone Ivy League, and it’s probably true. In the mean time, she is both proud and jealous of her baby sister’s academic accomplishments.
Lois got into Metropolis University by the skin of her teeth—but just before starting there, her cousin Chloe went into witness protection due to some work she’d done on the Luthors and promptly ‘died in a gas leak.’ Lois didn’t believe it for a minute and went investigating. Her hunt brought her to Smallville, and eventually to her first steady home in the form of the Kent Farm, and the closest to a loving family in Jonathan and Martha Kent, whom she loves as second parents, and their son Clark, who…
Well. That’s another story altogether. And a complicated one.
Appearance
Height: 5'7"
Eyes: Dark hazel
Hair: Dark
Defining Marks: None that I can think of
Dress Style: Casual dress slacks or skirts and frequently colorful button-down shirts; occasionally sports a snazzy waistcoat as well. She has a slightly dressier suit or two for top-notch interviews and the occasional killer dress. Sometimes her investigations lead her into situations requiring alternate dress styles, too. Off work hours, she wears jeans and tee-shirts, sometimes comfortably ratty ones. There’s also occasionally plaid, if she happens to have stolen any of Clark’s shirts in a recent week.
Romantic
Marital Status: Single
Past Relationships: Wes Keenan, Oliver Queen, probably unmentioned others
Not-quite-Relationships: Arthur Curry, Graham Garrett, Sebastian Kane, John Corben
Present Relationships: None
Canon:
pre-Smallville to S7: Canon (approximately); specific instances TBD
S8: Mostly canon; any hints of Clark reciprocating her interest aren’t present. The Blur calls after the article, but more infrequently and in a less forthcoming way. (State of the LAoS: TBD)
S9: No romantic relationship between Lois and Clark; Zod still calls her as ‘The Blur,’ to take advantage of her eagerness to speak to the hero; she falls for the openness he offers. Lois is crushing hard on Clark and trying not to be terribly obvious after multiple instances of him not noticing either her or her interest, apparently.
Crossfire: No kiss; she just drags him into the show on general “harangue Clark until he agrees” principles. Takes off afterwards on an international assignment to help her career after TV doesn’t work.
Idol: (TBD: reason she thinks it’s Clark)
Pandora: Probably no sex in the alternate future (tbd). No five dozen roses. Possibly Lois’ memories don’t actually get erased entirely.
Disciple: Oliver does not assume her rejection is about Clark. She still turns him down.
Persuasion: TBD; in general, no relationship.
Escape: On a story instead of weekend away together.
Charade: Clark makes the call, to try to cut off the connection to Zod so she’s not a pawn.
Sacrifice: Possibly Perry or Martha notes her affection, but it’s not discussed, not really.
Salvation/Lazarus: Some comments of Zod’s make her realize that he (and the Blur) are aliens. The Blur hugs her goodbye instead of kissing her—she recognizes that “saying goodbye” hug of his and realizes he’s Clark. The hero she’s been quietly fangirling about and the partner she’s crushing on are the same: for the first time she articulates to herself about being in love with him. She almost decides to stay to keep an eye on him. The Lex clone uses her for a hostage (she’s still Clark’s friend, even without the romance, and she knows too much at this point). She leaves for Africa to keep herself from being a target for his enemies and to try to start dealing with her own emotional state.
S10: No romance. Serious overhaul of the season, all things considered. When Lois moves out of the Kent farm TBD.
Shield: Mostly the same, without Carter drawing the Shiera parallel. They end up drinking buddies.
Supergirl: Actually pretty unchanged.
Homecoming: Lois has to clarify to Punch Bowl Maddie that no, they’re not involved. She ends up outside wishing for alcohol after Greg Arkin talks to her. There are no dances. Futureflash status: TBD, pending figuring out what her Clark’s actual deal is.
Isis: Lois’ speech about knowing the Blur is different, but still present. He doesn’t tell her.
Harvest: Anti-hero rally happens instead of the not-Amish-farmers-on-blueK idiocy. Clark is fussing, Lois irritatedly invites him along if he's that worried, with the condition that this is her goddamn byline, thank you very much.
Ambush: Events end up at the farm because Lois can’t take her family. Talon blows up. Thanksgiving at the farm so that the Lanes all have a place to stay. Clark offers to let her stay (obliviously, of course); Sam puts two and two together about Clark and probably realizes how Lois feels about him. May leave a mostly unintelligible warning about not letting her get hurt.
Abandoned: Mostly does not happen for her. She skips reconnecting with her mom; no blue birdy in the window, possibly a comment on how long she’s frankly had a toothbrush in the house with a lot of irony in it. No visits to the Fortress; if Clark gets his recording from his parents, he has to have gone looking for it after Tess’s plotline. There is definitely a scene, either here or when she moves into her own place, of pulling out the birdy, kind of sadfacing at it and at the envelope of “On your wedding day”, and putting them away and shoving the box into a corner of the closet. She may actually move into her own place in this episode depending on what her Clark is like, tbd.
Patriot: TBD
Luthor: A lot needs TBD; Lois recognizing CK as opposed to CLuthor is so central to the dénouement that the details need to be worked out.
Icarus: No engagement party. Carter, however, is her friend: when he sees her poking around Oliver’s office (that and the whole mess at the Planet still goes down, including her starting to text Clark with a hint of a warning not to come in to work) he goes to save her. Carter dies; Lois is unconscious during Carter’s farewell to Clark. This includes the comment about “We can’t do what we have to if we have a hole in our hearts,” although again, it doesn’t necessarily mean much. Lois is not invited to the funeral, therefore missing most of Collateral unless she gets taken separately—which given that evil woman might actually happen.
Collateral: Either she misses it or events occur such that she isn’t ‘informed’ of Clark being the Blur, although given VR, he totally could pull the flight thing even if he were human because hey, VR. Or they could make that claim. It depends on the events of “Icarus.”
Beacon: She still does the grass-roots movement thing, still says her thing about the Blur being a real American hero—just in third person about the Blur, not second person to Clark. But makes sure to say it in front of him.
Masquerade: No romantic scenes. Lois mentions in third person again that the Blur is getting a little more careless with his face, she wonders out loud if he’ll even be up to, you know, maybe sitting and chatting with her some day soon. Clark puts on the glasses. Lois may comment, but lets it go.
Fortune: Does. Not. Exist.
Scion: No happy romantic scenes. Lois starts digging into Lionel just because. Finds out via the conversations and observing Conner that he’s a Blur-Luthor hybrid. Makes her comment, only to herself though. One possible time for her to move out of the farm. She doesn’t tell Clark what happened that day.
Kent: Circumstances of her meeting CLuthor and figuring out it isn’t her Clark are different, but happen. She calls Emil (knows him from “Icarus”) and Emil work on that alone at the farm, while Lois goes on with life. Debatable whether or not she blurts out her feelings about Clark selling the farm, tbd.
Booster: No romance, only her continued gentle hints about knowing he’s the Blur without anvilling at it. A lot of the rest stays the same.
Dominion: She gets a call from Chloe about "did Oliver stop by to say hi? He was going to be in Metropolis today..." and drops by Watchtower. Sees the crystal, realizes Clark's in trouble. If she has to take on Tess, it's a physical thing instead of the gun. She asks to stay updated, steals a couple of his shirts, and leaves it at that. Won't see him until the day he gets back.
Prophecy: No trips to the Fortress. If there are superpowers for a day, there needs to be some other justification. Possibly doesn’t happen at all. However, I think it's a good thing to have happen, so she can understand what it's like to live in his head, between his ears. Quick thoughts: Power transfer happens via an accident, mebbe magic. Oooh, maybe he gets back a day or two earlier than he did in canon, hasn't seen her, and she's in the mean time on a story and needs rescuing and magic gets involved and mucks it all up. When she comes to, it's Prophecy-day and she's stuck with his powers and he's going aaargh why does this always happen. So, he stops by the Fortress for a way to get it back. There's a timer, it'll take a day. So he gently coaches her through, and everything else goes down, bar him saying he loves her. Possibly just that he trusts her or something, or his standard having faith in her that seems to be the key to everything ever this season. Instead of her calling off the wedding, she manages to let go of her infatuation a little, recognizing that the world needs him and seeing no claim she has on him. She kind of deals with it, thinks she's okay now to see him reach whatever he needs to, to do what the world needs him for.
Finale: No wedding. Obviously. Need to figure out how and why the gold K thing happens, seeing as there isn't the neat wedding-ring disguise. Lois still gets onto Air Force One, because she still recognizes those keywords in the message even if she doesn't know the details of the Apokolips thing. Sees Superman outside the window. Obviously he doesn't press up to make sure she's okay, but... she sees him, he smiles at her. Gets the interview with the President that day, and the eyewitness account--possibly adding that it was the Blur who saved the plane, being slightly less of a blur than usual, hovering outside the window. She's missing something, though: the full explanation about Darkseid, and an interview with someone.
Post-canon:
Immediately post-Finale: Perry flies in, gets into the city the day after Finale goes down. Lois drops the eyewitness report and interview with the president on his lap. And? Hopefully, the next day, she waltzes into breakfast with Perry with the story of the century. But that needs to be decided still.
Mun note: Most of her world is canonical, bar the ripple of changes that her lack of relationship with Clark entails. Chloe and Oliver dating happened; pending the last three episodes they may or may not have married, given that “Fortune” never happened. If you’ve got any Smallville or DC-in-general characters you want to play with her in this version of the timeline, or if you have questions about what happened in specific episodes given the changes to the timeline, send a message and we’ll talk about it.
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General Information
Name: Lois Joanne Lane
Nicknames: ‘Mad Dog’Lane
Date of birth: October 22, 1986
Psychology
IQ: More clever and witty than book smart, but still dangerously intelligent.
Phobias/Fears: Being alone, helpless, hopeless;
Religious Beliefs: Nominally Christian, functionally agnostic.
Intolerances/Annoyances: Injustice, greed, ignorance.
Quirks/Habits: Messy, likes eighties rock. Can’t cook worth a damn. Tends to be unpredictable of temperament and talks a lot, especially when nervous. Has an addiction to coffee and maple donuts. Allergic to dogs and cats. Bossy, loud, brassy to cover her insecurities.
Powers/Abilities: A knack for getting into trouble which frankly verges on the supernatural; nose for investigative journalism. Third-degree black belt in karate and a serious knack for picking locks. Realistically she also knows her way around firearms.
Family
Parents: Ella (deceased) and General Sam Lane
Sibling: Lucy Lane
Spouse/Serious Lover: None
Children: None
Relatives: Chloe Sullivan (widow of Henry James Olsen)
Family History: The Lanes are a highly military family, reaching back several generations. Lois grew up moving from base to base, although Lucy—always the academically more driven and gifted—wound up at boarding school. Ella Lane died when Lois was quite young of lung cancer; Lois functionally raised her younger sister for a time.
Present Background
Occupation: Reporter for the Daily Planet, recently promoted out of the basement.
Activities: Investigation, writing stories and editorials
Home: Recently moved into a studio apartment in Metropolis, from the Kent farm, where she was staying after her place in the Talon was blown up. She was at the Talon for some years; before that, she lived at the Kent farm..
Finance: Middle-class
Personal History:
Lois Joanne Lane never really had a home until she was nineteen. She moved from army base to army base, following her dad, the three-star general Samuel Lane. At first it wasn’t so bad—as much of a workaholic as he was, his wife Ella kept him somewhat steady. However, Ella had smoked for years, and not long after Lois’ baby sister Lucy was born, Ella Lane died of lung cancer. Sam was more devastated than he ever admitted and threw himself even further into his military calling.
As a result, from the age of six the Lanes had a family ‘chain of command,’ with Lucy reporting to Lois and Lois reporting to their father. Lucy rather resented her sister for doing this, despite simultaneously looking to her sister for the only guidance and mother-like protection she had. Then, too, Lois was too busy taking care of herself and Lucy to have fun outside of school while still keeping up with work—and in an act of rebellion against being the perfect model, she slacked off on her work. Chloe (her cousin, to whom she is frankly closer than to Lucy) has commented that if Lois had put as much effort into schoolwork as she did into avoiding it she could have gone Ivy League, and it’s probably true. In the mean time, she is both proud and jealous of her baby sister’s academic accomplishments.
Lois got into Metropolis University by the skin of her teeth—but just before starting there, her cousin Chloe went into witness protection due to some work she’d done on the Luthors and promptly ‘died in a gas leak.’ Lois didn’t believe it for a minute and went investigating. Her hunt brought her to Smallville, and eventually to her first steady home in the form of the Kent Farm, and the closest to a loving family in Jonathan and Martha Kent, whom she loves as second parents, and their son Clark, who…
Well. That’s another story altogether. And a complicated one.
Appearance
Height: 5'7"
Eyes: Dark hazel
Hair: Dark
Defining Marks: None that I can think of
Dress Style: Casual dress slacks or skirts and frequently colorful button-down shirts; occasionally sports a snazzy waistcoat as well. She has a slightly dressier suit or two for top-notch interviews and the occasional killer dress. Sometimes her investigations lead her into situations requiring alternate dress styles, too. Off work hours, she wears jeans and tee-shirts, sometimes comfortably ratty ones. There’s also occasionally plaid, if she happens to have stolen any of Clark’s shirts in a recent week.
Romantic
Marital Status: Single
Past Relationships: Wes Keenan, Oliver Queen, probably unmentioned others
Not-quite-Relationships: Arthur Curry, Graham Garrett, Sebastian Kane, John Corben
Present Relationships: None
Canon:
pre-Smallville to S7: Canon (approximately); specific instances TBD
S8: Mostly canon; any hints of Clark reciprocating her interest aren’t present. The Blur calls after the article, but more infrequently and in a less forthcoming way. (State of the LAoS: TBD)
S9: No romantic relationship between Lois and Clark; Zod still calls her as ‘The Blur,’ to take advantage of her eagerness to speak to the hero; she falls for the openness he offers. Lois is crushing hard on Clark and trying not to be terribly obvious after multiple instances of him not noticing either her or her interest, apparently.
Crossfire: No kiss; she just drags him into the show on general “harangue Clark until he agrees” principles. Takes off afterwards on an international assignment to help her career after TV doesn’t work.
Idol: (TBD: reason she thinks it’s Clark)
Pandora: Probably no sex in the alternate future (tbd). No five dozen roses. Possibly Lois’ memories don’t actually get erased entirely.
Disciple: Oliver does not assume her rejection is about Clark. She still turns him down.
Persuasion: TBD; in general, no relationship.
Escape: On a story instead of weekend away together.
Charade: Clark makes the call, to try to cut off the connection to Zod so she’s not a pawn.
Sacrifice: Possibly Perry or Martha notes her affection, but it’s not discussed, not really.
Salvation/Lazarus: Some comments of Zod’s make her realize that he (and the Blur) are aliens. The Blur hugs her goodbye instead of kissing her—she recognizes that “saying goodbye” hug of his and realizes he’s Clark. The hero she’s been quietly fangirling about and the partner she’s crushing on are the same: for the first time she articulates to herself about being in love with him. She almost decides to stay to keep an eye on him. The Lex clone uses her for a hostage (she’s still Clark’s friend, even without the romance, and she knows too much at this point). She leaves for Africa to keep herself from being a target for his enemies and to try to start dealing with her own emotional state.
S10: No romance. Serious overhaul of the season, all things considered. When Lois moves out of the Kent farm TBD.
Shield: Mostly the same, without Carter drawing the Shiera parallel. They end up drinking buddies.
Supergirl: Actually pretty unchanged.
Homecoming: Lois has to clarify to Punch Bowl Maddie that no, they’re not involved. She ends up outside wishing for alcohol after Greg Arkin talks to her. There are no dances. Futureflash status: TBD, pending figuring out what her Clark’s actual deal is.
Isis: Lois’ speech about knowing the Blur is different, but still present. He doesn’t tell her.
Harvest: Anti-hero rally happens instead of the not-Amish-farmers-on-blueK idiocy. Clark is fussing, Lois irritatedly invites him along if he's that worried, with the condition that this is her goddamn byline, thank you very much.
Ambush: Events end up at the farm because Lois can’t take her family. Talon blows up. Thanksgiving at the farm so that the Lanes all have a place to stay. Clark offers to let her stay (obliviously, of course); Sam puts two and two together about Clark and probably realizes how Lois feels about him. May leave a mostly unintelligible warning about not letting her get hurt.
Abandoned: Mostly does not happen for her. She skips reconnecting with her mom; no blue birdy in the window, possibly a comment on how long she’s frankly had a toothbrush in the house with a lot of irony in it. No visits to the Fortress; if Clark gets his recording from his parents, he has to have gone looking for it after Tess’s plotline. There is definitely a scene, either here or when she moves into her own place, of pulling out the birdy, kind of sadfacing at it and at the envelope of “On your wedding day”, and putting them away and shoving the box into a corner of the closet. She may actually move into her own place in this episode depending on what her Clark is like, tbd.
Patriot: TBD
Luthor: A lot needs TBD; Lois recognizing CK as opposed to CLuthor is so central to the dénouement that the details need to be worked out.
Icarus: No engagement party. Carter, however, is her friend: when he sees her poking around Oliver’s office (that and the whole mess at the Planet still goes down, including her starting to text Clark with a hint of a warning not to come in to work) he goes to save her. Carter dies; Lois is unconscious during Carter’s farewell to Clark. This includes the comment about “We can’t do what we have to if we have a hole in our hearts,” although again, it doesn’t necessarily mean much. Lois is not invited to the funeral, therefore missing most of Collateral unless she gets taken separately—which given that evil woman might actually happen.
Collateral: Either she misses it or events occur such that she isn’t ‘informed’ of Clark being the Blur, although given VR, he totally could pull the flight thing even if he were human because hey, VR. Or they could make that claim. It depends on the events of “Icarus.”
Beacon: She still does the grass-roots movement thing, still says her thing about the Blur being a real American hero—just in third person about the Blur, not second person to Clark. But makes sure to say it in front of him.
Masquerade: No romantic scenes. Lois mentions in third person again that the Blur is getting a little more careless with his face, she wonders out loud if he’ll even be up to, you know, maybe sitting and chatting with her some day soon. Clark puts on the glasses. Lois may comment, but lets it go.
Fortune: Does. Not. Exist.
Scion: No happy romantic scenes. Lois starts digging into Lionel just because. Finds out via the conversations and observing Conner that he’s a Blur-Luthor hybrid. Makes her comment, only to herself though. One possible time for her to move out of the farm. She doesn’t tell Clark what happened that day.
Kent: Circumstances of her meeting CLuthor and figuring out it isn’t her Clark are different, but happen. She calls Emil (knows him from “Icarus”) and Emil work on that alone at the farm, while Lois goes on with life. Debatable whether or not she blurts out her feelings about Clark selling the farm, tbd.
Booster: No romance, only her continued gentle hints about knowing he’s the Blur without anvilling at it. A lot of the rest stays the same.
Dominion: She gets a call from Chloe about "did Oliver stop by to say hi? He was going to be in Metropolis today..." and drops by Watchtower. Sees the crystal, realizes Clark's in trouble. If she has to take on Tess, it's a physical thing instead of the gun. She asks to stay updated, steals a couple of his shirts, and leaves it at that. Won't see him until the day he gets back.
Prophecy: No trips to the Fortress. If there are superpowers for a day, there needs to be some other justification. Possibly doesn’t happen at all. However, I think it's a good thing to have happen, so she can understand what it's like to live in his head, between his ears. Quick thoughts: Power transfer happens via an accident, mebbe magic. Oooh, maybe he gets back a day or two earlier than he did in canon, hasn't seen her, and she's in the mean time on a story and needs rescuing and magic gets involved and mucks it all up. When she comes to, it's Prophecy-day and she's stuck with his powers and he's going aaargh why does this always happen. So, he stops by the Fortress for a way to get it back. There's a timer, it'll take a day. So he gently coaches her through, and everything else goes down, bar him saying he loves her. Possibly just that he trusts her or something, or his standard having faith in her that seems to be the key to everything ever this season. Instead of her calling off the wedding, she manages to let go of her infatuation a little, recognizing that the world needs him and seeing no claim she has on him. She kind of deals with it, thinks she's okay now to see him reach whatever he needs to, to do what the world needs him for.
Finale: No wedding. Obviously. Need to figure out how and why the gold K thing happens, seeing as there isn't the neat wedding-ring disguise. Lois still gets onto Air Force One, because she still recognizes those keywords in the message even if she doesn't know the details of the Apokolips thing. Sees Superman outside the window. Obviously he doesn't press up to make sure she's okay, but... she sees him, he smiles at her. Gets the interview with the President that day, and the eyewitness account--possibly adding that it was the Blur who saved the plane, being slightly less of a blur than usual, hovering outside the window. She's missing something, though: the full explanation about Darkseid, and an interview with someone.
Post-canon:
Immediately post-Finale: Perry flies in, gets into the city the day after Finale goes down. Lois drops the eyewitness report and interview with the president on his lap. And? Hopefully, the next day, she waltzes into breakfast with Perry with the story of the century. But that needs to be decided still.
Mun note: Most of her world is canonical, bar the ripple of changes that her lack of relationship with Clark entails. Chloe and Oliver dating happened; pending the last three episodes they may or may not have married, given that “Fortune” never happened. If you’ve got any Smallville or DC-in-general characters you want to play with her in this version of the timeline, or if you have questions about what happened in specific episodes given the changes to the timeline, send a message and we’ll talk about it.
Cast:
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Ping mun if you're interested in this 'verse