OOC Post: Clark Kent's Profile
[OOC: Smallville - Clark Kent's application]
Character: Clark Kent
Series the character is from: Smallville
Character's age: Still in high school. 16 according to his Earth adoption certificate’s birth year (could possibly be older, looking at the Pilot when he first appears as a child. And seriously does not look 16. Just saying).
Character's gender: Male
Character’s “Real Name”: Kal Jefferson
Please give us a detailed personal history of your character:
Kal-El - renamed Clark Kent on Earth - was born on Krypton. For reasons unknown, he was sent from Krypton by his biological parents, with his ship aimed toward Earth. On his ship came a message from his father that essentially stated Clark would be a God among men on the planet third from Sol, and that humans were a flawed race that he would conquer and rule. Once reaching Earth, Clark’s ship descended through the atmosphere and dragged the shattered pieces of his planet after him: this resulted in a meteor strike in Smallville, Kansas in 1987.
His ship was found by Martha and Jonathan Kent when they were driving back to their farm, a near miss by a meteor across the road causing them to crash and flip their truck. When they came to, they encountered a toddler wandering around the cornfields and debris, and ended up taking him home. Jonathan ended up giving Lionel Luthor and his injured son Lex a ride to the hospital after the meteor shower, which resulted in the offer of a favor that Lionel gave to the Kents. They took up the offer and had the adoption of Clark go through with no questions asked, although it left some consequences that left Jonathan hating all the Luthors initially (although by Season 3 the Kents are friendly toward Lex Luthor, if a bit guarded about what they say around him).
During Clark’s childhood, the Kents were considerably surprised when their adopted child began to develop inhuman speed and other abilities as he matured; despite their surprise, they remained supportive and took on the challenges his developing powers presented gamely. By the time Clark reached high school, he already possessed his strength and super-speed, but wasn’t aware of his apparently invulnerability until being accidentally hit by Lex Luthor’s car - full-on at 60 mph. Clark fell off the bridge and into the water miraculously unharmed, and was able to rescue Lex before he drowned.
Finding out that he came out of the collision without any sign of injury, Clark was confused and angry, and demanded an explanation from Jonathan after shoving his hand in a wood chopper to show he couldn’t be hurt. Jonathan then revealed a small spaceship hidden in the Kent’s storm cellar, explaining that was what they found Clark in during the meteor shower. He was understandably upset, but eventually forced to come to terms with the ship and the fact he was apparently not human. Around this time Clark was starting to get friendly with Lana Lang, and was “chosen” by her then boyfriend Whitney to become the next human “Scarecrow” (a tradition during Homecoming at Smallville High: the jocks of the school pick an unlucky victim, strip him to his boxers and paint a red S on his chest, leaving him out on a pole all night). Clark was incapacitated by the Kryptonite necklace that Whitney had on him and was strung up half-naked in the middle of a cornfield for several hours until Lex Luthor discovered him, with the necklace around his neck.
During his freshman year, Clark ran into more and more “meteor freaks” - people who were mutated in some way by the effects of the meteor rocks that fell on Smallville, giving them special abilities - and had to frequently step in to stop them or rescue his friends. He also, as well, began to develop his powers during some of these encounters; for example, Clark gained X-ray vision after running into an obsessive shapeshifter called Tina Greer, and accidentally triggered it again when he fell off a climbing rope in the school’s gym, giving him a front row seat to the girl’s locker room right through the gym walls. He ended up using his X-ray vision to identify the shapeshifter who’d been involved in a robbery, and to save Lana from being buried alive in a graveyard.
When he discovered a young boy called Ryan James who had the power of telepathy (though only surface thoughts), Clark discovered that he got along well with younger children and enjoyed the company. In the brief time they knew each other, Ryan followed Clark around like a little brother, although he accidentally found out Clark’s secret by reading Martha Kent’s mind.
Clark during his freshman year also experienced his first experience with what it would be like to be a normal, non-powered human when his abilities were transferred over to another student called Eric Summers during a lightning strike while the other boy was holding a piece of meteor rock. Surprised and then relieved that he was now normal, Clark adjusted to having to live his life like every other kid (though his chores on the Kent farm took much longer), but was now able to play the sports he wasn’t allowed to before. However, at the same time, Eric took to showing off with his powers at school and acting increasingly dangerous, at one point attacking Clark and injuring him for the first time when he was thrown at a car. Realizing that it was his responsibility to get his powers back, Clark went after Eric alone and mimicked the accident from last time.
By the end of the first season, Clark was unwittingly being followed by an Inquisitor reporter, Roger Nixon, who was working for Lex Luthor. The reporter snuck an explosive on the Kent’s truck, and blew up the truck once Clark tried turning it on: Clark was able to walk away with from the burning hulk with only a few scorch marks, as he told his parents, and the explosion was chalked off as some kind of accident, although Nixon had covertly taped the entire incident. Unaware of this, Clark went to the freshman spring formal with Chloe Sullivan, only to have to leave in the middle when there was a tornado warning in order to rescue Lana Lang, who was caught out in it in her truck after dropping Whitney off to leave overseas. The Ship in the storm cellar attempted to activate and come to Clark’s help, but was flung away by the tornado once it was separated from its Key, leaving Clark to try to protect Lana himself as her truck disintegrated around them.
During Clark’s rescue attempt, Jonathan Kent was trapped underground with Nixon, who had snuck into the Kent’s storm cellar and discovered the Ship. They eventually agreed to work together to escape on condition that Jonathan destroyed the tape Nixon had, but Nixon backstabbed Jonathan when Clark tried to rescue them and was rendered almost unconscious by the presence of meteor rocks in the debris. Nixon, realizing his weakness, planted a piece of the green meteor rock on Clark and began dragging him away from an injured Jonathan; he didn’t make it far before he was killed by Lex, saving both Clark and Jonathan.
Not long after the tornados, a heat weave hit Smallville and Clark discovered his next power when he accidentally lit a projection screen on fire in the middle of class, after ogling the new biology teacher. Jonathan and Martha discussed his heat vision and suggested that he should try to practice with it, with Jonathan setting up a scarecrow to practice on: Clark was embarrassed and unable to do so immediately when he realized that he couldn’t get the same “burning feeling” in his eyes without thinking about sex, which was what he’d been thinking about when he lit the fire in class. Eventually he was able to control it after going through a few of the resident scarecrows (as well as the Kent’s mailbox).
Sometime later, Clark’s friend Pete came upon a road accident and, while pulling out one of the drivers to safety, encountered the Ship lying dead in a cornfield. Excited about what he claimed was an alien spacecraft, he went over to the Kent’s farm the next morning and recruited Clark in retrieving the Ship. Clark had to pretend he didn’t recognize it and while he tried to tell Pete that it was probably some kind of “new crop duster” or a “Russian satellite” (echoing his parents when they were trying to guess what it was), Pete insisted on stowing it in his tool shed. Clark and Jonathan tried to go over to the Ross’s property to steal the Ship back, but someone had beaten them to it. They drove away empty-handed - but not before Pete saw their truck driving away and jumped to the conclusion that they stole the Ship.
Pete confronted Clark the next morning, asking where the Ship was and telling him he was a terrible liar when he said he’d no idea where it was. Angry, Pete started to drive off, leaving Clark confused and feeling sick and tired of all these lies: he seemed to “vanish” when Pete looked in his rearview mirror only to reappear in front of the car and stop Pete from leaving. Clark said they had a lot to talk about and then told him everything he knew - that he wasn’t human and that was his Ship - in the storm cellar. Pete was alienated at this, saying that everything he knew about Clark was a lie and refused to talk to him until he was abducted by the cause of the roadside accident, a Professor Hamilton hired by the Luthors who was now dying of Kryptonite-exposure and obsessed with the Ship he’d stolen. Realizing that Pete was missing, Clark tracked him and Hamilton down to one of Hamilton’s research warehouses, just in time to prevent Hamilton from injecting Pete with a “green liquid”. Clark started to untie Pete, but was weakened by the presence of meteor rocks around the barn; he then revealed to Pete that he was “allergic” to them.
Hearing this, Hamilton grabbed a beaker filled with more of the green liquid and demanded that Clark, as the owner of the Ship, tell him how to open it, and was about to pour it on him when Pete knocked him away. The beaker’s contents fell instead onto Hamilton, killing him even though Clark and Pete tried to save him. Clark was helped away by Pete and they reconciled over the returned Ship, with Jonathan Kent reminding Pete that he had a burden to bear with this secret and Clark telling him that was his way of saying “welcome to the family”.
Not long after, Pete and Clark went to go buy ruby class rings: Clark, while he’d earned the money to buy it, was knowingly buying it against his parent’s wishes, and put it on just as Lana showed up with a new girl, Jessie, transferring into the school. The “ruby” of the rings turned out to be made from a vein of red meteor rock, and Clark began to act increasingly different and erratically the longer he had it on: he began to hit on the new student by saying the way she dressed was “hot”, talked back at the principle, tried to talk Pete into going to a bar that catered to the underage, and began to flirt shamelessly with both Jessie and Lana.
Jonathan argued with Clark over the purchase of the ring, and Clark exploded, saying he was tired of being poor and always having to watch every “nickel and dime”. Clark stormed off, leaving the Kents confused at this one-eighty in their son’s personality: Martha wondered if maybe their not-so-normal son was displaying some normal teenage rebellion.
Clark continued to act uninhibited, joining a study group of his friends late and suggesting that they blow it off and go have fun instead. When Lana and Chloe go make coffee, Clark casually remarked that Chloe has a mole on her cheek (not that one), and shocked Pete when he admitted he was using his X-ray vision to scope out both Chloe and Lana. When it became clear that no one was biting on his offer to go do something fun besides studying, Clark wandered out, bored. It was discovered by the Kents that next morning that he’d been having “fun”, but at the expensive of their credit cards. He filled his loft with everything they couldn’t afford, such as a big plasma TV and a jet ski (in Kansas, whut), and was decidedly unapologetic when the Kents confronted him on this and the fact he’d pretty much stolen from them. When Jonathan said they would have to have a good, long talk later after Clark returned everything he bought, Clark again stormed out, jumping from the loft to the ground and jacking Jonathan’s newly refurbished motorcycle. On the way to school, he picked up Jessie, and rode onto campus despite the stares from his fellow classmates, and again flirted with her and Lana.
When Jonathan drove up and demanded his son get back in the truck, Clark told his father off, saying he wasn’t his real dad and never was, and then shoved Jonathan into the truck’s side, denting it. Pete rushed to Jonathan’s rescue as Clark sauntered off to class. Pete soon after learned that the “rubies” in the class rings were a new vein of meteor rocks and told the Kents, who supposed that if the green kind affected Clark physically, it was possible the red kind could affect him emotionally.
Clark in the mean time was growing increasingly aggressive: when he was threatened with a gun at the Luthor’s mansion by a corrupt U.S. Marshal called Palmer, Clark showed off by shooting the gun into his hand at point blank range and then forcing information Palmer. He found out that the new girl Jessie had a secret; her father possessed disks that were worth one million dollars if brought to the right people, enough to start a new life. Deciding to cash in on this, Clark confronted Jessie at her house and went after her when she took the disks, easily outrunning her in the cornfield. She escaped when Pete distracted Clark, closely followed by Jonathan armed with a sledge hammer. The two used a lead box with green Kryptonite inside to disable Clark and then smashed the ring, freeing Clark from its influence and leaving him to return back to normal.
The next complication was the discovery of the Kawatche Caves: Clark was dirt biking with Pete and accidentally discovered them when he fell through. He later encountered another high school student called Kyla, who, with her grandfather Joseph Willowbrook, told him about the Kawatche legend of Naman, a man/god who would come from the sky in a “rain of fire” and seemed to bear a striking resemblance in abilities to Clark. The symbols on the cave wall matched the ones on the Ship’s Key, although Clark couldn’t read them (yet); he noticed there was a depression in the wall that also matched the Key.
Later, after another encounter with the shapeshifter Tina Greer stalking Lana, posing as her KIA boyfriend Whitney, Clark began to have strange dreams of flying to the Kawatche Caves to insert the Key, and woke up one night to find himself out in the middle of the road without any idea how he got there. Lex Luthor almost hit him with a car (again), and gave him a ride home. When confronted by his parents, Clark admitted he was having these strange dreams for the past week, and ended up recreating the dreams on accident a few days later when he heard a strange ringing sound. Clark was compelled through the sound to go home, retrieve the Key and place it in the indentation in the caves. When he did, light shot out and he was “downloaded” with the ability to read the Kryptonian language that were on the walls.
A few days later, Clark’s heat vision went haywire while he was working near the barn, burning the Kryptonian symbol for “hope” on the barn door. Chloe’s picture of the symbol on the door was circulated, drawing the attention of a man called Dr. Swann who contacted Clark through e-mail - and through the same Kryptonian symbols. When Clark responded and demonstrated he could read it, they met and Swann told him as much of his background as he knew, telling him that he was from a planet called Krypton, which was missing, and hinted that Clark was most likely the only one of his kind left. When Clark returned to the farm, he went with his father to take another look at the Ship, using the other piece of it (the heart), to open it together, because he didn’t want to find out whatever answers it might hold alone.
Once it opened, Clark was horrified to read that it essentially said he was sent by his biological father to conquer Earth and rule it. After later hearing in his head “the day is coming” (someone else activated the caves, changing the symbols on it to read "The day is coming when the last son will begin his quest to rule the third planet"), Clark went home uneasy and while he tried to repair his friendships with people like Chloe, he was distracted and it went downhill the night he heard Jor-El’s voice again, stating that it was time and a light began to shine from the storm cellar, beckoning him in.
Clark stepped inside and it all went white as the Ship began to glow…
Please give us a detailed description of your character's personality: Clark Kent has been accurately described in all his past incarnations as “mild-mannered”: his character in Smallville is no exception. At the beginning of the series, he is shy around people outside his friends Chloe and Pete (especially around Lana, his crush on the girl-next-door). Over the series up to Season 2, he’s still good-natured and easygoing, but he now is able to approach people now with slightly more confidence. Clark has a habit of ditching people or vanishing for no reason to his friends, and while he knows it’s necessary to protect the people he cares about, it still eats him up inside to have to keep his secret about his powers from his friends. Because of his secret and the growing knowledge that many of the problems cropping up in Smallville are from the meteor rocks that signaled his arrival on Earth, Clark has a habit of feel guilty even for things he has no control over.
He owes his parents for making him who he is: because of their influence, he tends to hate having to keep secrets (despite their necessity), doesn’t think in the “shades of gray” that Lex Luthor says he does, and unlike his friend, prefers to see the best in people before suspecting them. Clark can be trusting and naïve sometimes, and is generally friendly to acquaintances. Additionally, being an only child on the farm, he doesn’t mind hanging out with kids, evidenced when he enjoyed playing big brother to a boy called Ryan James who had the ability to read surface thoughts.
He is perfectly capable of feeling jealous despite the fact he’s a bit of a boy scout; Clark often won’t act on his feelings in regards to Lana, instead bottling it up, and settling instead for moping quietly in a corner. And while he cares a great deal about his friends and family and has a bit of a hero syndrome, thinking he has to rescue people, Clark has a habit of charging in as the cavalry without taking a good look at what he’s getting into. While he doesn’t usually act on his romantic feelings toward certain people, he won’t hesitate to jump into the fray. Sometimes he leaps without looking and ends up causing more trouble or complicating the situation even worse because he acted impulsively.
Another important part of his personality is the issue of dishonesty. Clark in the series clearly doesn’t like it and values the truth highly, and yet, in what seems to be hypocritical to his friends, he is frequently dishonest and lies to cover his frequent disappearances or how his part in rescuing people. There was a point in the beginning of Season 2 where Clark couldn’t stand it any more and revealed himself to his friend Pete Ross, and while it probably made him feel a little better to be able to talk honestly with one of his friends now, it’s in reality added a whole mess of complications now that someone outside the family knows.
Please give us a detailed physical description of your character: Clark’s a pretty tall teenager, standing at 6’3’’. He’s a bit on the lean side and isn’t exactly buff, having more of a swimmer’s body than anything else. His brown hair has a tendency to hang just above his eyebrows and is a tad on the shaggy side. He also has a preference for baggy clothing, feeling more comfortable in worn jeans, heavy work boots and loose plaid shirts than anything else. His eyes are usually blue, but occasionally flash briefly red/orange if he uses his heat vision or being effected by Red Kryptonite before going back to normal blue. The color changes aren’t very noticeable unless viewed from very close up, so most people that I’ve seen so far in the series haven’t noticed it.
Whenever he gets near a “meteor rock”, the parts of his body nearest it tend to show the effect by his veins rippling red/green depending on the color of the Kryptonite.
What point in time are you taking your character from when he/she appears at Landel's?: I’m probably going to take Clark at between the episodes “Calling” and “Exodus” (Season 2 finale). So he’ll know about the effects of Red Kryptonite after being tagged by it again, Pete Ross will know his secret, and he’ll have some knowledge of Krypton. His current powers going into Landels would be: strength, speed, invulnerability, X-Ray vision, and heat vision.
What kinds of magical/special/crazy powers does your character have, if any?: His abilities seem to grow as he approaches adulthood. So far he is aware of having super strength, speed (not sure how fast, but fast enough not to be seen usually, although slower than Bart Allen: when he uses it, he looksto just “wink out” of visibility if the episode “Promise” is anything to go by) and seeming invincibility (from what I’ve seen, he can get knocked down but he typically is able to get back up unless he gets sucker-punched with a fistful of Kryptonite - TRUE STORY). He also developed X-Ray vision, but can’t see through lead, and relatively recently discovered heat vision; he couldn’t control it at first and he accidentally set fire to whatever he looked at whenever he happened to think about sex. I’m aware that he develops other powers later in the show such as his super-hearing and breath, but I’ll be ignoring those for now.
This isn’t a power, but it’s not a typical human trait - Clark’s very vulnerable to Kryptonite, pieces of his home world that was dragged into Earth’s atmosphere with his ship when he arrived. His reactions to it depend on its color:
Green hurts him physically, making him ill and faint, and injures him the longer he’s close to it. Red changes his personality and makes him increasingly amoral and without inhibitions that he normally would have, making him more aggressive, tactless and willing to show off his powers. Under Red’s influence, he also would take what he wants and when he wants it, and is arrogant when normally he’d be patient and obedient. Under Silver’s influence, Clark becomes increasingly paranoid about everything around him and starts to hallucinate; he can’t distinguish what is and isn’t real.
So far Clark can’t fly, but there’s been one instance where he hovered in his sleep; Clark states in the series that he’s afraid of heights and wouldn’t want to fly.
Also notable is that Clark’s powers seem to fluctuate with the sun: when there was a massive solar flare, his powers alternated between not working at all to going into massive overdrive. Right now he's unaware though that the yellow sun gives him his powers.
If present, how do you plan to tweak those powers to make him/her appropriately hindered in the setting of Landel's?: I’m probably going to make him pretty human like. No invulnerability - if he gets hit, he bleeds and bruises unlike normal and is no longer bullet-proof or explosion proof. Speed would be dropped down to being human and his endurance would seem to be human (for him - ie he’s not used to feeling tired, so feeling tired at all would be strange to him). X-ray vision would probably be only used a few times a day and only for a few seconds at a time at that, instead of something he can switch on and off like he’s accustomed to doing. Heat vision would work similarly, and it would leave his eyes hurting as it did when he first developed the ability: in addition I’d probably make it so that using his heat vision too much would irritate his eyes a great deal so he can’t really see without them watering. The more he’d abuse these two vision abilities, the more he’d probably irritate them, and perhaps temporarily blind himself if he overdoes it.
Strength would have to be jumped down as well since so far he’s been able to lift up a trailer house and cars with one hand, and didn’t show that it took much effort. He’s also able to easily get through doors by just poking out the locks out or crushing padlocks, so I’m not sure if that should stay, even though that isn’t an example of his full strength. But it probably wouldn’t be a good idea if he could just poke his way through any doors he comes across. He’ll probably still be a bit stronger than the typical human, but nowhere near the levels he’s been shown in the show.
However, Clark would still have the same weakness to Kryptonite even though his own powers are weakened. Also, he wouldn’t notice his strength/abilities were gone until he actually tries to use them and finds he can’t just punch through walls or casually use his X-ray vision. Clark would feel fine physically. This would lead him to make some miscalculations when he tries to just let himself out or use his powers how he’s used to using them, since he’s grown up taking them for granted as an unwanted, but pretty much permanent part of his life. Clark also showed to be randomly vulnerable to some metahumans, and also to hypnotism and magic.
Character: Clark Kent
Series the character is from: Smallville
Character's age: Still in high school. 16 according to his Earth adoption certificate’s birth year (could possibly be older, looking at the Pilot when he first appears as a child. And seriously does not look 16. Just saying).
Character's gender: Male
Character’s “Real Name”: Kal Jefferson
Please give us a detailed personal history of your character:
Kal-El - renamed Clark Kent on Earth - was born on Krypton. For reasons unknown, he was sent from Krypton by his biological parents, with his ship aimed toward Earth. On his ship came a message from his father that essentially stated Clark would be a God among men on the planet third from Sol, and that humans were a flawed race that he would conquer and rule. Once reaching Earth, Clark’s ship descended through the atmosphere and dragged the shattered pieces of his planet after him: this resulted in a meteor strike in Smallville, Kansas in 1987.
His ship was found by Martha and Jonathan Kent when they were driving back to their farm, a near miss by a meteor across the road causing them to crash and flip their truck. When they came to, they encountered a toddler wandering around the cornfields and debris, and ended up taking him home. Jonathan ended up giving Lionel Luthor and his injured son Lex a ride to the hospital after the meteor shower, which resulted in the offer of a favor that Lionel gave to the Kents. They took up the offer and had the adoption of Clark go through with no questions asked, although it left some consequences that left Jonathan hating all the Luthors initially (although by Season 3 the Kents are friendly toward Lex Luthor, if a bit guarded about what they say around him).
During Clark’s childhood, the Kents were considerably surprised when their adopted child began to develop inhuman speed and other abilities as he matured; despite their surprise, they remained supportive and took on the challenges his developing powers presented gamely. By the time Clark reached high school, he already possessed his strength and super-speed, but wasn’t aware of his apparently invulnerability until being accidentally hit by Lex Luthor’s car - full-on at 60 mph. Clark fell off the bridge and into the water miraculously unharmed, and was able to rescue Lex before he drowned.
Finding out that he came out of the collision without any sign of injury, Clark was confused and angry, and demanded an explanation from Jonathan after shoving his hand in a wood chopper to show he couldn’t be hurt. Jonathan then revealed a small spaceship hidden in the Kent’s storm cellar, explaining that was what they found Clark in during the meteor shower. He was understandably upset, but eventually forced to come to terms with the ship and the fact he was apparently not human. Around this time Clark was starting to get friendly with Lana Lang, and was “chosen” by her then boyfriend Whitney to become the next human “Scarecrow” (a tradition during Homecoming at Smallville High: the jocks of the school pick an unlucky victim, strip him to his boxers and paint a red S on his chest, leaving him out on a pole all night). Clark was incapacitated by the Kryptonite necklace that Whitney had on him and was strung up half-naked in the middle of a cornfield for several hours until Lex Luthor discovered him, with the necklace around his neck.
During his freshman year, Clark ran into more and more “meteor freaks” - people who were mutated in some way by the effects of the meteor rocks that fell on Smallville, giving them special abilities - and had to frequently step in to stop them or rescue his friends. He also, as well, began to develop his powers during some of these encounters; for example, Clark gained X-ray vision after running into an obsessive shapeshifter called Tina Greer, and accidentally triggered it again when he fell off a climbing rope in the school’s gym, giving him a front row seat to the girl’s locker room right through the gym walls. He ended up using his X-ray vision to identify the shapeshifter who’d been involved in a robbery, and to save Lana from being buried alive in a graveyard.
When he discovered a young boy called Ryan James who had the power of telepathy (though only surface thoughts), Clark discovered that he got along well with younger children and enjoyed the company. In the brief time they knew each other, Ryan followed Clark around like a little brother, although he accidentally found out Clark’s secret by reading Martha Kent’s mind.
Clark during his freshman year also experienced his first experience with what it would be like to be a normal, non-powered human when his abilities were transferred over to another student called Eric Summers during a lightning strike while the other boy was holding a piece of meteor rock. Surprised and then relieved that he was now normal, Clark adjusted to having to live his life like every other kid (though his chores on the Kent farm took much longer), but was now able to play the sports he wasn’t allowed to before. However, at the same time, Eric took to showing off with his powers at school and acting increasingly dangerous, at one point attacking Clark and injuring him for the first time when he was thrown at a car. Realizing that it was his responsibility to get his powers back, Clark went after Eric alone and mimicked the accident from last time.
By the end of the first season, Clark was unwittingly being followed by an Inquisitor reporter, Roger Nixon, who was working for Lex Luthor. The reporter snuck an explosive on the Kent’s truck, and blew up the truck once Clark tried turning it on: Clark was able to walk away with from the burning hulk with only a few scorch marks, as he told his parents, and the explosion was chalked off as some kind of accident, although Nixon had covertly taped the entire incident. Unaware of this, Clark went to the freshman spring formal with Chloe Sullivan, only to have to leave in the middle when there was a tornado warning in order to rescue Lana Lang, who was caught out in it in her truck after dropping Whitney off to leave overseas. The Ship in the storm cellar attempted to activate and come to Clark’s help, but was flung away by the tornado once it was separated from its Key, leaving Clark to try to protect Lana himself as her truck disintegrated around them.
During Clark’s rescue attempt, Jonathan Kent was trapped underground with Nixon, who had snuck into the Kent’s storm cellar and discovered the Ship. They eventually agreed to work together to escape on condition that Jonathan destroyed the tape Nixon had, but Nixon backstabbed Jonathan when Clark tried to rescue them and was rendered almost unconscious by the presence of meteor rocks in the debris. Nixon, realizing his weakness, planted a piece of the green meteor rock on Clark and began dragging him away from an injured Jonathan; he didn’t make it far before he was killed by Lex, saving both Clark and Jonathan.
Not long after the tornados, a heat weave hit Smallville and Clark discovered his next power when he accidentally lit a projection screen on fire in the middle of class, after ogling the new biology teacher. Jonathan and Martha discussed his heat vision and suggested that he should try to practice with it, with Jonathan setting up a scarecrow to practice on: Clark was embarrassed and unable to do so immediately when he realized that he couldn’t get the same “burning feeling” in his eyes without thinking about sex, which was what he’d been thinking about when he lit the fire in class. Eventually he was able to control it after going through a few of the resident scarecrows (as well as the Kent’s mailbox).
Sometime later, Clark’s friend Pete came upon a road accident and, while pulling out one of the drivers to safety, encountered the Ship lying dead in a cornfield. Excited about what he claimed was an alien spacecraft, he went over to the Kent’s farm the next morning and recruited Clark in retrieving the Ship. Clark had to pretend he didn’t recognize it and while he tried to tell Pete that it was probably some kind of “new crop duster” or a “Russian satellite” (echoing his parents when they were trying to guess what it was), Pete insisted on stowing it in his tool shed. Clark and Jonathan tried to go over to the Ross’s property to steal the Ship back, but someone had beaten them to it. They drove away empty-handed - but not before Pete saw their truck driving away and jumped to the conclusion that they stole the Ship.
Pete confronted Clark the next morning, asking where the Ship was and telling him he was a terrible liar when he said he’d no idea where it was. Angry, Pete started to drive off, leaving Clark confused and feeling sick and tired of all these lies: he seemed to “vanish” when Pete looked in his rearview mirror only to reappear in front of the car and stop Pete from leaving. Clark said they had a lot to talk about and then told him everything he knew - that he wasn’t human and that was his Ship - in the storm cellar. Pete was alienated at this, saying that everything he knew about Clark was a lie and refused to talk to him until he was abducted by the cause of the roadside accident, a Professor Hamilton hired by the Luthors who was now dying of Kryptonite-exposure and obsessed with the Ship he’d stolen. Realizing that Pete was missing, Clark tracked him and Hamilton down to one of Hamilton’s research warehouses, just in time to prevent Hamilton from injecting Pete with a “green liquid”. Clark started to untie Pete, but was weakened by the presence of meteor rocks around the barn; he then revealed to Pete that he was “allergic” to them.
Hearing this, Hamilton grabbed a beaker filled with more of the green liquid and demanded that Clark, as the owner of the Ship, tell him how to open it, and was about to pour it on him when Pete knocked him away. The beaker’s contents fell instead onto Hamilton, killing him even though Clark and Pete tried to save him. Clark was helped away by Pete and they reconciled over the returned Ship, with Jonathan Kent reminding Pete that he had a burden to bear with this secret and Clark telling him that was his way of saying “welcome to the family”.
Not long after, Pete and Clark went to go buy ruby class rings: Clark, while he’d earned the money to buy it, was knowingly buying it against his parent’s wishes, and put it on just as Lana showed up with a new girl, Jessie, transferring into the school. The “ruby” of the rings turned out to be made from a vein of red meteor rock, and Clark began to act increasingly different and erratically the longer he had it on: he began to hit on the new student by saying the way she dressed was “hot”, talked back at the principle, tried to talk Pete into going to a bar that catered to the underage, and began to flirt shamelessly with both Jessie and Lana.
Jonathan argued with Clark over the purchase of the ring, and Clark exploded, saying he was tired of being poor and always having to watch every “nickel and dime”. Clark stormed off, leaving the Kents confused at this one-eighty in their son’s personality: Martha wondered if maybe their not-so-normal son was displaying some normal teenage rebellion.
Clark continued to act uninhibited, joining a study group of his friends late and suggesting that they blow it off and go have fun instead. When Lana and Chloe go make coffee, Clark casually remarked that Chloe has a mole on her cheek (not that one), and shocked Pete when he admitted he was using his X-ray vision to scope out both Chloe and Lana. When it became clear that no one was biting on his offer to go do something fun besides studying, Clark wandered out, bored. It was discovered by the Kents that next morning that he’d been having “fun”, but at the expensive of their credit cards. He filled his loft with everything they couldn’t afford, such as a big plasma TV and a jet ski (in Kansas, whut), and was decidedly unapologetic when the Kents confronted him on this and the fact he’d pretty much stolen from them. When Jonathan said they would have to have a good, long talk later after Clark returned everything he bought, Clark again stormed out, jumping from the loft to the ground and jacking Jonathan’s newly refurbished motorcycle. On the way to school, he picked up Jessie, and rode onto campus despite the stares from his fellow classmates, and again flirted with her and Lana.
When Jonathan drove up and demanded his son get back in the truck, Clark told his father off, saying he wasn’t his real dad and never was, and then shoved Jonathan into the truck’s side, denting it. Pete rushed to Jonathan’s rescue as Clark sauntered off to class. Pete soon after learned that the “rubies” in the class rings were a new vein of meteor rocks and told the Kents, who supposed that if the green kind affected Clark physically, it was possible the red kind could affect him emotionally.
Clark in the mean time was growing increasingly aggressive: when he was threatened with a gun at the Luthor’s mansion by a corrupt U.S. Marshal called Palmer, Clark showed off by shooting the gun into his hand at point blank range and then forcing information Palmer. He found out that the new girl Jessie had a secret; her father possessed disks that were worth one million dollars if brought to the right people, enough to start a new life. Deciding to cash in on this, Clark confronted Jessie at her house and went after her when she took the disks, easily outrunning her in the cornfield. She escaped when Pete distracted Clark, closely followed by Jonathan armed with a sledge hammer. The two used a lead box with green Kryptonite inside to disable Clark and then smashed the ring, freeing Clark from its influence and leaving him to return back to normal.
The next complication was the discovery of the Kawatche Caves: Clark was dirt biking with Pete and accidentally discovered them when he fell through. He later encountered another high school student called Kyla, who, with her grandfather Joseph Willowbrook, told him about the Kawatche legend of Naman, a man/god who would come from the sky in a “rain of fire” and seemed to bear a striking resemblance in abilities to Clark. The symbols on the cave wall matched the ones on the Ship’s Key, although Clark couldn’t read them (yet); he noticed there was a depression in the wall that also matched the Key.
Later, after another encounter with the shapeshifter Tina Greer stalking Lana, posing as her KIA boyfriend Whitney, Clark began to have strange dreams of flying to the Kawatche Caves to insert the Key, and woke up one night to find himself out in the middle of the road without any idea how he got there. Lex Luthor almost hit him with a car (again), and gave him a ride home. When confronted by his parents, Clark admitted he was having these strange dreams for the past week, and ended up recreating the dreams on accident a few days later when he heard a strange ringing sound. Clark was compelled through the sound to go home, retrieve the Key and place it in the indentation in the caves. When he did, light shot out and he was “downloaded” with the ability to read the Kryptonian language that were on the walls.
A few days later, Clark’s heat vision went haywire while he was working near the barn, burning the Kryptonian symbol for “hope” on the barn door. Chloe’s picture of the symbol on the door was circulated, drawing the attention of a man called Dr. Swann who contacted Clark through e-mail - and through the same Kryptonian symbols. When Clark responded and demonstrated he could read it, they met and Swann told him as much of his background as he knew, telling him that he was from a planet called Krypton, which was missing, and hinted that Clark was most likely the only one of his kind left. When Clark returned to the farm, he went with his father to take another look at the Ship, using the other piece of it (the heart), to open it together, because he didn’t want to find out whatever answers it might hold alone.
Once it opened, Clark was horrified to read that it essentially said he was sent by his biological father to conquer Earth and rule it. After later hearing in his head “the day is coming” (someone else activated the caves, changing the symbols on it to read "The day is coming when the last son will begin his quest to rule the third planet"), Clark went home uneasy and while he tried to repair his friendships with people like Chloe, he was distracted and it went downhill the night he heard Jor-El’s voice again, stating that it was time and a light began to shine from the storm cellar, beckoning him in.
Clark stepped inside and it all went white as the Ship began to glow…
Please give us a detailed description of your character's personality: Clark Kent has been accurately described in all his past incarnations as “mild-mannered”: his character in Smallville is no exception. At the beginning of the series, he is shy around people outside his friends Chloe and Pete (especially around Lana, his crush on the girl-next-door). Over the series up to Season 2, he’s still good-natured and easygoing, but he now is able to approach people now with slightly more confidence. Clark has a habit of ditching people or vanishing for no reason to his friends, and while he knows it’s necessary to protect the people he cares about, it still eats him up inside to have to keep his secret about his powers from his friends. Because of his secret and the growing knowledge that many of the problems cropping up in Smallville are from the meteor rocks that signaled his arrival on Earth, Clark has a habit of feel guilty even for things he has no control over.
He owes his parents for making him who he is: because of their influence, he tends to hate having to keep secrets (despite their necessity), doesn’t think in the “shades of gray” that Lex Luthor says he does, and unlike his friend, prefers to see the best in people before suspecting them. Clark can be trusting and naïve sometimes, and is generally friendly to acquaintances. Additionally, being an only child on the farm, he doesn’t mind hanging out with kids, evidenced when he enjoyed playing big brother to a boy called Ryan James who had the ability to read surface thoughts.
He is perfectly capable of feeling jealous despite the fact he’s a bit of a boy scout; Clark often won’t act on his feelings in regards to Lana, instead bottling it up, and settling instead for moping quietly in a corner. And while he cares a great deal about his friends and family and has a bit of a hero syndrome, thinking he has to rescue people, Clark has a habit of charging in as the cavalry without taking a good look at what he’s getting into. While he doesn’t usually act on his romantic feelings toward certain people, he won’t hesitate to jump into the fray. Sometimes he leaps without looking and ends up causing more trouble or complicating the situation even worse because he acted impulsively.
Another important part of his personality is the issue of dishonesty. Clark in the series clearly doesn’t like it and values the truth highly, and yet, in what seems to be hypocritical to his friends, he is frequently dishonest and lies to cover his frequent disappearances or how his part in rescuing people. There was a point in the beginning of Season 2 where Clark couldn’t stand it any more and revealed himself to his friend Pete Ross, and while it probably made him feel a little better to be able to talk honestly with one of his friends now, it’s in reality added a whole mess of complications now that someone outside the family knows.
Please give us a detailed physical description of your character: Clark’s a pretty tall teenager, standing at 6’3’’. He’s a bit on the lean side and isn’t exactly buff, having more of a swimmer’s body than anything else. His brown hair has a tendency to hang just above his eyebrows and is a tad on the shaggy side. He also has a preference for baggy clothing, feeling more comfortable in worn jeans, heavy work boots and loose plaid shirts than anything else. His eyes are usually blue, but occasionally flash briefly red/orange if he uses his heat vision or being effected by Red Kryptonite before going back to normal blue. The color changes aren’t very noticeable unless viewed from very close up, so most people that I’ve seen so far in the series haven’t noticed it.
Whenever he gets near a “meteor rock”, the parts of his body nearest it tend to show the effect by his veins rippling red/green depending on the color of the Kryptonite.
What point in time are you taking your character from when he/she appears at Landel's?: I’m probably going to take Clark at between the episodes “Calling” and “Exodus” (Season 2 finale). So he’ll know about the effects of Red Kryptonite after being tagged by it again, Pete Ross will know his secret, and he’ll have some knowledge of Krypton. His current powers going into Landels would be: strength, speed, invulnerability, X-Ray vision, and heat vision.
What kinds of magical/special/crazy powers does your character have, if any?: His abilities seem to grow as he approaches adulthood. So far he is aware of having super strength, speed (not sure how fast, but fast enough not to be seen usually, although slower than Bart Allen: when he uses it, he looksto just “wink out” of visibility if the episode “Promise” is anything to go by) and seeming invincibility (from what I’ve seen, he can get knocked down but he typically is able to get back up unless he gets sucker-punched with a fistful of Kryptonite - TRUE STORY). He also developed X-Ray vision, but can’t see through lead, and relatively recently discovered heat vision; he couldn’t control it at first and he accidentally set fire to whatever he looked at whenever he happened to think about sex. I’m aware that he develops other powers later in the show such as his super-hearing and breath, but I’ll be ignoring those for now.
This isn’t a power, but it’s not a typical human trait - Clark’s very vulnerable to Kryptonite, pieces of his home world that was dragged into Earth’s atmosphere with his ship when he arrived. His reactions to it depend on its color:
Green hurts him physically, making him ill and faint, and injures him the longer he’s close to it. Red changes his personality and makes him increasingly amoral and without inhibitions that he normally would have, making him more aggressive, tactless and willing to show off his powers. Under Red’s influence, he also would take what he wants and when he wants it, and is arrogant when normally he’d be patient and obedient. Under Silver’s influence, Clark becomes increasingly paranoid about everything around him and starts to hallucinate; he can’t distinguish what is and isn’t real.
So far Clark can’t fly, but there’s been one instance where he hovered in his sleep; Clark states in the series that he’s afraid of heights and wouldn’t want to fly.
Also notable is that Clark’s powers seem to fluctuate with the sun: when there was a massive solar flare, his powers alternated between not working at all to going into massive overdrive. Right now he's unaware though that the yellow sun gives him his powers.
If present, how do you plan to tweak those powers to make him/her appropriately hindered in the setting of Landel's?: I’m probably going to make him pretty human like. No invulnerability - if he gets hit, he bleeds and bruises unlike normal and is no longer bullet-proof or explosion proof. Speed would be dropped down to being human and his endurance would seem to be human (for him - ie he’s not used to feeling tired, so feeling tired at all would be strange to him). X-ray vision would probably be only used a few times a day and only for a few seconds at a time at that, instead of something he can switch on and off like he’s accustomed to doing. Heat vision would work similarly, and it would leave his eyes hurting as it did when he first developed the ability: in addition I’d probably make it so that using his heat vision too much would irritate his eyes a great deal so he can’t really see without them watering. The more he’d abuse these two vision abilities, the more he’d probably irritate them, and perhaps temporarily blind himself if he overdoes it.
Strength would have to be jumped down as well since so far he’s been able to lift up a trailer house and cars with one hand, and didn’t show that it took much effort. He’s also able to easily get through doors by just poking out the locks out or crushing padlocks, so I’m not sure if that should stay, even though that isn’t an example of his full strength. But it probably wouldn’t be a good idea if he could just poke his way through any doors he comes across. He’ll probably still be a bit stronger than the typical human, but nowhere near the levels he’s been shown in the show.
However, Clark would still have the same weakness to Kryptonite even though his own powers are weakened. Also, he wouldn’t notice his strength/abilities were gone until he actually tries to use them and finds he can’t just punch through walls or casually use his X-ray vision. Clark would feel fine physically. This would lead him to make some miscalculations when he tries to just let himself out or use his powers how he’s used to using them, since he’s grown up taking them for granted as an unwanted, but pretty much permanent part of his life. Clark also showed to be randomly vulnerable to some metahumans, and also to hypnotism and magic.