64.5 (60.2) Talk about your 5 biggest regrets.
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1. My planet blew up and pretty much everyone who didn't leave in time died. My parents made arrangements to send me away, none of which I remember because I was barely a few months old. They didn't come with me. Basically, my entire species is gone. That in and of itself is something I regret enough, but there's more. I was sent to Earth and some of the fragments from my planet, now meteors, followed along. Those meteor destroyed a town in rural Kansas, and those meteor rocks have done more damage to the human population in the area than can ever be truly understood. All because of me.
2. Just... everything that happened in the days immediately following my 16th birthday. I blew up my spaceship at a time when I thought non one was at the farm. Little did I know that mom and dad had started to drive back to see where I was. The shockwave from the blast hit their truck and they crashed. They both made it out more or less unscathed, except that my mom was pregnant. She'd finally been able to conceive the baby she always thought she couldn't have, and she lost it because of the accident. Because of me.
3. Because of #2, I ran away and lived in, well, what can best be described as a permanent drug high for the better part of three months. I robbed banks. I stole cars. I beat a few guys up within an inch of their lives. One of them was my Dad.
4. Speaking of my Dad, I killed him. It was the happiest day of both our lives. Lana had agreed to marry me and Dad won the State Senator seat. Then Lana was in a car accident and died. I begged Jor-El to help bring her back and in my grief, I didn't hear his warnings. I could only change it once and the balance for him bringing me back to life would still have to be repaid. I thought he meant eventually, not that night. So I went back and Lana was okay. I made sure she stayed that way and instead, my Dad had a heart attack and died. I don't regret saving Lana. But killing the man who's meant the most to you your whole life is something you never forgive yourself for.
5. Letting the other Zoners out when I was freeing myself from the Phantom Zone. I hadn't known it was part of the deal, or that it was even possible for others to escape with me, but they did. And they killed a lot of people before I managed to catch up to them all and stop them for good. In the process I got to be impaled by a giant vine, shot at with nuclear blasts, almost had my spine ripped out of my body, had my mind taken over and made to believe I was actually living in a mental institution and that my whole life had been one big, long delusion and the final kicker, I created a clone of myself that was actually stronger than me. Who managed to come back even after we thought we'd dealt with him to, well, seduce my girlfriend at the time and decide to kill me so he could take over my life permanently. So all in all, I think it rounds out the list nicely.
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Muse: Clark Kent
Fandom: Smallville
Word count: 567
1. My planet blew up and pretty much everyone who didn't leave in time died. My parents made arrangements to send me away, none of which I remember because I was barely a few months old. They didn't come with me. Basically, my entire species is gone. That in and of itself is something I regret enough, but there's more. I was sent to Earth and some of the fragments from my planet, now meteors, followed along. Those meteor destroyed a town in rural Kansas, and those meteor rocks have done more damage to the human population in the area than can ever be truly understood. All because of me.
2. Just... everything that happened in the days immediately following my 16th birthday. I blew up my spaceship at a time when I thought non one was at the farm. Little did I know that mom and dad had started to drive back to see where I was. The shockwave from the blast hit their truck and they crashed. They both made it out more or less unscathed, except that my mom was pregnant. She'd finally been able to conceive the baby she always thought she couldn't have, and she lost it because of the accident. Because of me.
3. Because of #2, I ran away and lived in, well, what can best be described as a permanent drug high for the better part of three months. I robbed banks. I stole cars. I beat a few guys up within an inch of their lives. One of them was my Dad.
4. Speaking of my Dad, I killed him. It was the happiest day of both our lives. Lana had agreed to marry me and Dad won the State Senator seat. Then Lana was in a car accident and died. I begged Jor-El to help bring her back and in my grief, I didn't hear his warnings. I could only change it once and the balance for him bringing me back to life would still have to be repaid. I thought he meant eventually, not that night. So I went back and Lana was okay. I made sure she stayed that way and instead, my Dad had a heart attack and died. I don't regret saving Lana. But killing the man who's meant the most to you your whole life is something you never forgive yourself for.
5. Letting the other Zoners out when I was freeing myself from the Phantom Zone. I hadn't known it was part of the deal, or that it was even possible for others to escape with me, but they did. And they killed a lot of people before I managed to catch up to them all and stop them for good. In the process I got to be impaled by a giant vine, shot at with nuclear blasts, almost had my spine ripped out of my body, had my mind taken over and made to believe I was actually living in a mental institution and that my whole life had been one big, long delusion and the final kicker, I created a clone of myself that was actually stronger than me. Who managed to come back even after we thought we'd dealt with him to, well, seduce my girlfriend at the time and decide to kill me so he could take over my life permanently. So all in all, I think it rounds out the list nicely.
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Muse: Clark Kent
Fandom: Smallville
Word count: 567