[WIP] Kon canon.
I'm putting Kon's stats and Canon write-up here in answer to the MEME TO END ALL MEMES, because I've got the feeling that we will be wanting to edit and update this as things happen.
1. Basic stats.
2. Canon.
Crap, where to start.
DEATH OF SUPERMAN. This leads to angst and bad, bad hair. Also grave-robbery and CLONING.
CLONE. Kon was the 13th attempt at the Superman clone, and as he puts it 'I went from single cell to single guy in a week'. Artificially aged inside the tube, Superboy had age appropriate knowledge fed to him, as well as the head of CADMUS, Westfield, telling him how he had to obey CADMUS. According to Kon, this ticked him off so much that he rejected the programming. We find out later this is not the case (see CODEWORDS). Kon escapes from CADMUS and Westfield's designs on him, and sets himself up as a superhero in Metropolis. He identifies as Superman, considers the other Supermen (there are 3) imposters, and hates being called Superboy by the press although the name sticks, and after Superman returns, Kon accepts it. Getting official 'endorsement' from Superman didn't hurt this process.
SUPERBOY, SB, KID.
At this stage Superboy is Kon's name and to an extent his life. He lands a dishonest manager, Rex, and along with Roxie, Rex's daughter Roxie(who Kon grows to consider as a sister, although Roxie has designs on Kon of a different sort) and with his CADMUS-assigned chaperone, Dubbilex (who is AWESOME, I mean, a DN-Alien and powerful psychic who looks like some kind of horrible horned demon but is actually really cool), he sets off on a world tour. This stops in Hawaii where Kon meets up with TANA MOON (an investigative reporter who covered his early days) and decides stuff the tour, he's going to hang out in Hawaii and date Tana. Which is pretty much what happens, only with action battles, villains, and the kind of romantic misuderstandings you expect from a teen superhero. Oh, and the Miss Kryptonite competition, and X-Ray goggles. First meeting with Robin (and POISON IVY) goes here.
Later, stuff happens and Kon enlists ex-stripper KnockOut as his partner. For super-hero stuff. Yeah, no one believed him then either. All is fine and dandy, except for the excessive violence, destruction, oh and complete lack of morals on KnockOut's part. Her habit of calling Kon 'pup' is also a little disturbing. And then she goes and turns out to be evil. Dude.
SUPERBOY AND THE RAVERS. Uh. They're Ravers. They rave? Seriously, some random chick that Kon knows interrupts his macking session with KnockOut to give him a ticket to this intergalactic dance party known as the RAVE. Highly illegal, the RAVE is obviously a front for something, and Kon gets talked into investigating it, though we all know he would have gone along anyway. Hot alien action and Kon is cool with homosexuality (and interspecies relationships -- actually, with sex in general). First meeting with Impulse!
LEGION: The Legion randomly kidnap Superboy, everyone Kon knows presumes him bumming around with some chick and move on with their lives. Kon comes back from the future to find that Dubbilex has found religion, Tana can't be found anywhere, and Rex and Roxie have gone straight. Taking the hint, Kon goes back to CADMUS.
CADMUS: Kon becomes a CADMUS field agent, with chores ranging from bagging the aliens they use for samples, to saving Massauchusetts from being blanketed in lava, alien wars and mocking the X-Files. This is probably where Kon joined Young Justice, and where the bulk of that interaction takes place. He finds a surrogate family in the CADMUS staff, including but not limited to GUARDIAN Jim Harper, head of security, Mick, techie head of CADMUS, and Serling who is Kon's age, a science genius, cute in a dorky way, and yeah, they go for each other. In a really awkward way.
KON-EL. About this time, the other 12 attempts at 'Superboy' are found. Basically, they're unable to survive outside the tubes, and are in perma-sleep. One of them escapes and tries to kill Kon but ends up wanting to be a hero and dies. Westfield is revealed to be Kon's human donor. Kon wallows in emo, until Superman shows up to say, you know, I would give anything to be even a quarter human. About the same time someone suggests that Clark Kent is Superman. Kon is skeptical, but goes to investigate. In the end, decides it doesn't really matter, that the guy is allowed his privacy. Superman gives Kon the name Kon-El and adopts him as a cousin.
Luthor moves in on CADMUS and suddenly Weller is in charge. Bad things happen. Jim dies, Kon guilt. Jim's spirit is unable to rest. Kon ghost. Jim's dead body is being robbed. Kon SMASH. Jim is suddenly a baby. Kon HORROR. Jim is reliving his childhood. Kon Mom. Jim is used to make an army of cannon fodder to fight the alien war at the whim of a thwarted midget circus performer. Kon blows shit up. Then goes to fight said war. Except not. Kon and Robin have a big stupid fight and Bart gets killed. Kon is horribly guilty and his subconscious has a field day. He relieves his feelings by hitting on Ma Kent.
ON HIS OWN: Rather than cede their technology to Luthor, CADMUS goes underground. Without so much as leaving Kon a phone number. Using his skills and savvy Kon quickly makes himself at home -- in the Young Justice HQ. Cassie kicks him out, and Kon eventually finds a place for himself as Superintendent of a block of flats in the notorioius Suicide Slums. This is the point in canon we're taking him from, so I'm going to skip the eventual train wreckage, and the farm. Oh god, why the farm.
CONNER KENT: Why, Kon, WHY. Dorky glasses, going to Smallville High, yeah. Kon's desire for parents aside, this really doesn't feel like something he would chose, even with the pressure from Superman. The only bit from this era we've taken is his relationship with BATGIRL, a couple of icons, and the football. Oh, and his apathy for Krypto.
3. Skills and powers.
Link to previous powers post.
4. Friends & Foes.
CANON.
MATCH. Clone of Superboy, created by Agenda, for reasons of creating clone canon-fodder. Kon is not impressed (also naked), Match gets ordered to kill him, which he tries, while pausing to rub in his obvious superiority, Kon beats him, saves the AGENDA staff from impending meltdown, Match chooses not to be saved. Kon then almost gets killed by AGENDA clone death-pimple thing.
TANA MOON. This is the woman Kon went to school for. Although Kon and the educational system didn't exactly work out. He tried, what more do you want? Tana was Kon's first serious relationship, and he was quite honestly in love with her. Their relationship was a balancing act between Tana's responsibilites and her career, and Kon's imperviousness to both. Tana would be on camera, delivering a story, Kon would be all, hey, come with me! And then fly off with her before she could argue. Tana was older, more mature, and definitely ambitious, Kon tried very hard to live up to her, in a way. He took her to posh restaurants and acted mature around her. Their relationship was on again off again, due to Kon stupidity mostly, and when Tana disappears to cover the AGENDA story, Kon moves on. Tana plane crashes back into his life, and is all 'Kon!' Kon is promptly 'I love you, never leave me again.' Tana: 'Sure, I love you too.' And then gets killed by someone who wants revenge on Kon. Kon: DDD: And for that, I'm gonna break up with Serling. Mostly HAWAII era.
JIM: Mentor, Guardian, Clone. Huge influence on Kon. CADMUS era.
DUBBILEX: Mentor, Guardian, Teacher. Source of snark. HAWAII era.
SERLING: Another of Kon's train wreck relationships. Serling's a nice girl, smart, and sweet under a sometimes caustic and business like exterior. Their relationship was kind of doomed by timing -- Kon was still holding a torch for Tana, and Roxie reappearing caused tension too. Ultimately, Kon broke it off after Tana's death, but Serling apparently still loves him. CADMUS era.
BATGIRL: Wow. Batgirl's totally hot, but Kon seriously thinks of her as a friend. He realises that she's similar to him -- doesn't have the same growing up experiences, doesn't fit in with other people -- and though he knows nothing of her history, I think he actually understands her. And he can't lie to her -- so for Cass to stick around him, he has to understand her on some level.
LUTHOR: ZOMG HATE.
KAL-EL/SUPERMAN: ZOMG LOVE. Uh. He's okay, I guess.
CLARK KENT: Dorky older brother who you can't quite bring yourself to tell that his favourite jacket was never cool.
1. Basic stats.
2. Canon.
Crap, where to start.
DEATH OF SUPERMAN. This leads to angst and bad, bad hair. Also grave-robbery and CLONING.
CLONE. Kon was the 13th attempt at the Superman clone, and as he puts it 'I went from single cell to single guy in a week'. Artificially aged inside the tube, Superboy had age appropriate knowledge fed to him, as well as the head of CADMUS, Westfield, telling him how he had to obey CADMUS. According to Kon, this ticked him off so much that he rejected the programming. We find out later this is not the case (see CODEWORDS). Kon escapes from CADMUS and Westfield's designs on him, and sets himself up as a superhero in Metropolis. He identifies as Superman, considers the other Supermen (there are 3) imposters, and hates being called Superboy by the press although the name sticks, and after Superman returns, Kon accepts it. Getting official 'endorsement' from Superman didn't hurt this process.
SUPERBOY, SB, KID.
At this stage Superboy is Kon's name and to an extent his life. He lands a dishonest manager, Rex, and along with Roxie, Rex's daughter Roxie(who Kon grows to consider as a sister, although Roxie has designs on Kon of a different sort) and with his CADMUS-assigned chaperone, Dubbilex (who is AWESOME, I mean, a DN-Alien and powerful psychic who looks like some kind of horrible horned demon but is actually really cool), he sets off on a world tour. This stops in Hawaii where Kon meets up with TANA MOON (an investigative reporter who covered his early days) and decides stuff the tour, he's going to hang out in Hawaii and date Tana. Which is pretty much what happens, only with action battles, villains, and the kind of romantic misuderstandings you expect from a teen superhero. Oh, and the Miss Kryptonite competition, and X-Ray goggles. First meeting with Robin (and POISON IVY) goes here.
Later, stuff happens and Kon enlists ex-stripper KnockOut as his partner. For super-hero stuff. Yeah, no one believed him then either. All is fine and dandy, except for the excessive violence, destruction, oh and complete lack of morals on KnockOut's part. Her habit of calling Kon 'pup' is also a little disturbing. And then she goes and turns out to be evil. Dude.
SUPERBOY AND THE RAVERS. Uh. They're Ravers. They rave? Seriously, some random chick that Kon knows interrupts his macking session with KnockOut to give him a ticket to this intergalactic dance party known as the RAVE. Highly illegal, the RAVE is obviously a front for something, and Kon gets talked into investigating it, though we all know he would have gone along anyway. Hot alien action and Kon is cool with homosexuality (and interspecies relationships -- actually, with sex in general). First meeting with Impulse!
LEGION: The Legion randomly kidnap Superboy, everyone Kon knows presumes him bumming around with some chick and move on with their lives. Kon comes back from the future to find that Dubbilex has found religion, Tana can't be found anywhere, and Rex and Roxie have gone straight. Taking the hint, Kon goes back to CADMUS.
CADMUS: Kon becomes a CADMUS field agent, with chores ranging from bagging the aliens they use for samples, to saving Massauchusetts from being blanketed in lava, alien wars and mocking the X-Files. This is probably where Kon joined Young Justice, and where the bulk of that interaction takes place. He finds a surrogate family in the CADMUS staff, including but not limited to GUARDIAN Jim Harper, head of security, Mick, techie head of CADMUS, and Serling who is Kon's age, a science genius, cute in a dorky way, and yeah, they go for each other. In a really awkward way.
KON-EL. About this time, the other 12 attempts at 'Superboy' are found. Basically, they're unable to survive outside the tubes, and are in perma-sleep. One of them escapes and tries to kill Kon but ends up wanting to be a hero and dies. Westfield is revealed to be Kon's human donor. Kon wallows in emo, until Superman shows up to say, you know, I would give anything to be even a quarter human. About the same time someone suggests that Clark Kent is Superman. Kon is skeptical, but goes to investigate. In the end, decides it doesn't really matter, that the guy is allowed his privacy. Superman gives Kon the name Kon-El and adopts him as a cousin.
Luthor moves in on CADMUS and suddenly Weller is in charge. Bad things happen. Jim dies, Kon guilt. Jim's spirit is unable to rest. Kon ghost. Jim's dead body is being robbed. Kon SMASH. Jim is suddenly a baby. Kon HORROR. Jim is reliving his childhood. Kon Mom. Jim is used to make an army of cannon fodder to fight the alien war at the whim of a thwarted midget circus performer. Kon blows shit up. Then goes to fight said war. Except not. Kon and Robin have a big stupid fight and Bart gets killed. Kon is horribly guilty and his subconscious has a field day. He relieves his feelings by hitting on Ma Kent.
ON HIS OWN: Rather than cede their technology to Luthor, CADMUS goes underground. Without so much as leaving Kon a phone number. Using his skills and savvy Kon quickly makes himself at home -- in the Young Justice HQ. Cassie kicks him out, and Kon eventually finds a place for himself as Superintendent of a block of flats in the notorioius Suicide Slums. This is the point in canon we're taking him from, so I'm going to skip the eventual train wreckage, and the farm. Oh god, why the farm.
CONNER KENT: Why, Kon, WHY. Dorky glasses, going to Smallville High, yeah. Kon's desire for parents aside, this really doesn't feel like something he would chose, even with the pressure from Superman. The only bit from this era we've taken is his relationship with BATGIRL, a couple of icons, and the football. Oh, and his apathy for Krypto.
3. Skills and powers.
Link to previous powers post.
4. Friends & Foes.
CANON.
MATCH. Clone of Superboy, created by Agenda, for reasons of creating clone canon-fodder. Kon is not impressed (also naked), Match gets ordered to kill him, which he tries, while pausing to rub in his obvious superiority, Kon beats him, saves the AGENDA staff from impending meltdown, Match chooses not to be saved. Kon then almost gets killed by AGENDA clone death-pimple thing.
TANA MOON. This is the woman Kon went to school for. Although Kon and the educational system didn't exactly work out. He tried, what more do you want? Tana was Kon's first serious relationship, and he was quite honestly in love with her. Their relationship was a balancing act between Tana's responsibilites and her career, and Kon's imperviousness to both. Tana would be on camera, delivering a story, Kon would be all, hey, come with me! And then fly off with her before she could argue. Tana was older, more mature, and definitely ambitious, Kon tried very hard to live up to her, in a way. He took her to posh restaurants and acted mature around her. Their relationship was on again off again, due to Kon stupidity mostly, and when Tana disappears to cover the AGENDA story, Kon moves on. Tana plane crashes back into his life, and is all 'Kon!' Kon is promptly 'I love you, never leave me again.' Tana: 'Sure, I love you too.' And then gets killed by someone who wants revenge on Kon. Kon: DDD: And for that, I'm gonna break up with Serling. Mostly HAWAII era.
JIM: Mentor, Guardian, Clone. Huge influence on Kon. CADMUS era.
DUBBILEX: Mentor, Guardian, Teacher. Source of snark. HAWAII era.
SERLING: Another of Kon's train wreck relationships. Serling's a nice girl, smart, and sweet under a sometimes caustic and business like exterior. Their relationship was kind of doomed by timing -- Kon was still holding a torch for Tana, and Roxie reappearing caused tension too. Ultimately, Kon broke it off after Tana's death, but Serling apparently still loves him. CADMUS era.
BATGIRL: Wow. Batgirl's totally hot, but Kon seriously thinks of her as a friend. He realises that she's similar to him -- doesn't have the same growing up experiences, doesn't fit in with other people -- and though he knows nothing of her history, I think he actually understands her. And he can't lie to her -- so for Cass to stick around him, he has to understand her on some level.
LUTHOR: ZOMG HATE.
KAL-EL/SUPERMAN: ZOMG LOVE. Uh. He's okay, I guess.
CLARK KENT: Dorky older brother who you can't quite bring yourself to tell that his favourite jacket was never cool.