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About You - The Player
Name: Emily
Age: 24
Contact: iluvroadrunner6@gmail.com / iluvroadrunner6 on AIM
Past Role Playing Experience: Lots.

The Character
Name: Lois Lane
Age/Birthdate: 24 / born in 1985
Species: Human
*Type: Wanderer
Canon: Smallville | 822: Doomsday
*Pre-existing powers: N/A
*Rift Change, if applicable: Shapeshifter – golden retriever and a TBD bear form because decisions are hard
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Played By: Erica Durance
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Appearance: Lois is 5’8” with long dark hair and green eyes. She has a slim but solid build, and usually dresses in solid jewel tones with pencil skirts and suits for work, with t-shirts and jeans for when she’s off the clock. She carries herself in a way that’s almost military, but not quite. It's more relaxed and casual, but she still carries herself well and tries to make an impression.

Personality:

Lois Lane is a force of nature. She knows what she wants and she goes after it. It doesn’t matter if it’s something as simple as the last maple donut or as important as a major story, she doesn’t relent until she gets what she wants. It’s what makes her a good reporter, but it’s also what makes her a giant pain in the ass (to some) and a giant trouble magnet. She often dives headfirst into things without thinking them all the way through, and while some of that has lessened over time, and she’s learned to look before she leaps, she’s still relentless. She will do whatever it takes to get things done, and if you won’t help her, then get out of her way.

Raised by a upper rank military father, Lois was brought up in the strict regimen of the US Army, which had both it’s advantages and disadvantages. Lois’s mother, Ella, died when she was six, after which Lois essentially took over as a maternal figure for Lucy. Lois learned a great deal about responsibility from a young age, and because of that she developed a strong moral compass. Lois has a very sharp sense of what’s right and wrong, even if she doesn’t always live by it. She’s been known to break in to private corporations, lie about her identity, and wear some incredibly tacky costumes to get to the truth. She doesn’t do her job by the most ethical investigative standards (and given that in those instances they’re mostly about LutherCorp and never wind up being published anyway—a pitfall when they own the newspaper you work for), she still keeps digging, even when she probably shouldn’t. She believes that people deserve to know the truth, and she will do her best to get it to them.

While she has this absolute certainty in the truth and her ability to do her job, she lacks this certainty in herself. She has come a long way in her quest for who she is, and in her professional life she has no doubt what her mission is, her personal life is another story. Lois, in her eyes, always manages to fall for the wrong guy, having developed a taste for bad boys and unavailable men. She recognizes that she makes these choices, and tries to avoid them, but in the end she usually falls anyway, even if she gets hurt. While in the end, she falls for the ultimate good guy in Clark Kent, at this point in canon there’s a part of her that holds back, not wanting to jump in because she’s afraid of getting hurt again. Also, growing up as a daughter of a military man, she knows how absent her father has been in her life and she doesn’t want that for her own marriage. She doesn’t want to worry about whether or not the person she loves will come home at night, and it’s for that reason that she ended her relationship with Oliver after finding out he was the vigilante Green Arrow. She didn’t disapprove of Oliver’s decision to do what he was doing, and she didn’t want him out of her life completely, but she couldn’t be with him. She needs someone who she doesn’t have to worry about whether or not they’ll be safe.

Above all else, when it comes to the people in her life, Lois is incredibly dedicated and fiercely loyal. She will do anything to protect her family and friends, even if it comes down to breaking the law or putting herself in danger. She and her cousin Chloe are incredibly close, and she would do anything for her, even if it means going in blind to a shady LutherCorp facility to get her back. There is nothing that she won’t do for the people she cares about, and it doesn’t matter how long she’s known them. Even when they don’t get along right away (Lois and Clark got on each other’s nerves more often than not in the beginning), she still is a supportive, genuine friend. She gives as good as she gets , and with her sharp, abrasive personality she can be a bit of an acquired taste, but that doesn’t stop her from making her friends in her own way.

Lois arrived in Chicago in the middle of the meteor shower, because she’s from Smallville and her mun can’t help herself. In her past year in Chicago, she’s been doing a lot of living under the radar and learning about how this world works. It’s safe to say that a fair amount of it really pisses her off. At the same time, it’s only made her more determined to try and make a difference. With the lack of a support system, she’s going to attack the likes of the CLF and other organizations who are against Wanderers through the best weapon she knows—the news. She’s still a journalism junkie through and through, and while wherever she ends up may not be the Daily Planet, she’ll still be able to get to the bottom of the story and do what she does best.

Events:

The first event that shaped Lois into the person she is, is the death of her mother. Lois was six years-old when Ella Lane died, but she stepped up almost immediately in taking care of her father and her younger sister Lucy. With no mother for them to stay home with, Lois and Lucy were taken from army base to army base, following in the footsteps of their father, General Sam Lane, and raised in a military upbringing. She was a mother figure to her little sister and a partner to her father, and while she still had a rebellious streak that would put even the most trouble teenager to shame, she knew when to fall in step with her father’s orders. She was raised like a soldier, and she and her father are very close for that reason. She values his opinion more than that of any other person on the planet, even if it doesn’t seem like it.

Still, while it did bring her and her father closer together, it did force Lois to grow up rather quickly. She learned responsibility and duty at a very young age, and she still takes that with her to this day. It’s this sense of duty and loyalty that she transfers to every aspect of her life, whether it be her job (and the truth), her friends, or even something as nebulous as the right thing in any given situation.

The second event is Jonathan Kent offering her the job as his campaign manager. Lois was just barely 21 years old, directionless, and having no idea where he wanted her life to go. Jonathan offering her the job not only showed faith in her that an adult previously hadn’t beyond her father, and even then he didn’t have the time to really support her, but it also gave her the opportunity to really prove that she is capable. While she didn’t stay in the world of politics, this job was the springboard that launched her into finding her way into the working world and putting that determination and willpower to the best use. While the Daily Planet is Lois’s one true love, working for Jonathan Kent is her first, and she may have never made it there without him.

Writing Sample:

Lois Lane comes back to Chicago almost a year after she arrived. There are no meteors, no monsters, and no pandemonium and mayhem. If she had fallen through the rift today, she probably wouldn’t have believed the crazy story as easily as she did that day, but it doesn’t really matter at this point. She would have known that this was another world the second that she couldn’t find Metropolis or Smallville or even Star City. Still, at the same time, it’s not necessarily good to be home.

This isn’t really home. Not yet. It’s a temporary weigh station between here and getting home. The ring that got her here (or so she believes) in the first place is still burning a hole in her pocket, waiting to send her home again, she just needs to figure out how. In the meantime, Chicago is a place where she could do some good, even when it seems like words would be futile in this kind of world, and even if she never finds her way home, she can still be useful. She’ll get the story out, no matter who doesn’t like it. Besides, she has a rift ability to deal with. She’s not going anywhere until she’s sure she’s not going to turn into a damn golden retriever at the drop of a hat.

It’s on her to-do list.

She pulls her non-descript sedan in front of the Kashtta, and slumps back against the seat as she turns off the car. Her eyes roam over the people in the street, milling about and going about their days. There are times when it all could seem so normal. People just walking around as though they weren’t living in a world where monsters could come out of the woodwork at any given moment. It isn’t just via the rifts, either. Lois had learned the hard way after her year in this world that monsters in this universe came in all shapes and sizes. In fact, if it weren’t for some native friends she had met along the way, Lois might have wound up dead long before she had gotten back to Chicago. She owes it to them to do what she can. They kept her alive—it’s up to her to kick it in the ass.

She takes a deep breath before she reaches into her glove box, taking her gun and shoving it into her duffel bag. Once it’s out of sight, she climbs out of the car, sliding the bag over her shoulder and striding into the Kashtta. In her time in Chicago previously, she never really had the chance to check it out. As she crosses the threshold of the lobby, she turns on her heel, eyes taking in everything until she gets to the front desk. She comes to a stop, pulls her sunglasses off her eyes and flashes the woman behind the desk a smile.

“Lois Lane. I’m checking in.”