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10 Things You Didn't Know

That's it. It's Sunday, I'm bored, it's time for a meme that I stole from

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1. His first kiss ever was with Brenda on the ship. Ever. The first time he ever let anyone shake his hand was when RJ Brande shook it when meeting him when he was eleven. (Brande was the first person he met that was remotely friendly towards him. Usually when someone held out their hand to shake Brainy's, he'd just ignore it, but there was just...something about Brande that made it so Brainy didn't mind). Barring when he was held the day he was born by his mother (before she abandoned him), the first real hug he ever got he got from Spark, when he was 15-years-old, after the two had bonded a little. He didn't hug her back.

2. He was raised by robots (ones with rudimentary AIs with no personality, that tended to talk like "BEEP, IT IS TIME TO INTAKE NOURISHMENT"), in a section eked out for him in the Colugov Lab Complexes and most days, he didn't even see another living being. He would have a list of tasks to complete and once they were finished (child's play), he'd work on his own projects. Eventually, he'd sleep and share his knowledge with the SleepNet, only to wake up the next day to start it all over again. Rinse. Repeat. The two politicians that were his guardians, Council Members Dak Lix and Erz Pak, would maybe stop by to berate him once a month for violating safety protocols, among other things. Brainy is used to living his entire life by routine, which is why he hates having lab time interrupted and doesn't like spontaneity.

3. Brainy's body movements are fluid, but very very precise, and he has excellent reflexes and coordination, largely because his brain can process things so quickly, and since he can dedicate one track of consciousness to the task of consciously guiding body movement. He's a little stiff, but he can be pretty graceful if he tries. I see him as moving a bit like Abe Sapien from Hellboy, just a little more stiffly.

4. When he was a baby, it took him about two weeks to figure out that crying wouldn't bring anyone to comfort him, so...he just stopped. However, whenever he cried, if he wasn't hungry, didn't need a diaper change, or any of that, his carebots would bring a warm blanket to wrap him up in and set his crib to rock, so whenever he was feeling particularly in need of comfort, he'd fake cry to make them bring the warm blanket, squirm out of being wrapped up in it, and then would pretty much full-body cuddle the thing to compensate for all the missed contact comfort. After they decided he was too old for comfort objects, at age 1 and a half, he broke most of his toys in a temper tantrum.

5. His first friend was an AI, a program he created to be a playmate for himself. As the program was named DOX_00021 as the default, and Dox himself liked having his friend's last name, Brainy simply called him Dox. Dox was the only playmate Brainy ever had, and the only person pretty much in the universe that ever got him to play. He would do fun little puzzle games and logic problems with him and occasionally logic-based imagination games. Dox made Querl laugh for the first time when he was 2.

But then his two guardians confiscated Dox to sell him, and partially as a way of subtly punishing Brainy for having fun when he was supposed to be working. Yet again, Brainy smashed all his things in a temper tantrum.

6. Brainy met Bart Allen when Brainy was almost 3 years old. During a rare visit to Earth for him to give a presentation at a Physics Symposium, he was a given a tour of the Colugov Lab Complexes. While the adults were talking, he sneaked off and broke into one wing of the complex and found where they were keeping Bart Allen in his virtual reality world.

He watched some of the slowed down clips from what was going on inside Bart's little VR world and to his surprise, found that a copy of Dox was Bart's playmate. At first he wanted to demand they give him back, but when they told him that they were using the VR simulation to keep Bart from going insane, he decided to let him keep Dox. The reason he told them was that he had no need for the AI anyway, and there weren't any real practical applications for it, but the truth was, he didn't want someone else to grow up lonely like he was, and he knew his guardians wouldn't let him keep the AI anyway.

To this day, he hasn't told Bart this, or brought up that his Dox was called "Dox" for a reason, but it's part of why he's one of the only Legionnaires that actually tolerates the speedster, even if he does it with a great deal of vocal protest. Bart seemed fun, and the two year old Brainy had wished he could be his friend. Despite his very vocal protestations and the trouble that sometimes follows Bart around, he hasn't really been disappointed, and does consider Bart to be his friend.

7. Brainy is mostly science-sexual, but when he crushes on actual people, it's usually regardless of sex. While he typically ignores romantic and sexual feelings and focuses on his experiments, Brainy's had crushes on a fairly large group of people. Andromeda, Spark, Invisible Kid were the Legionnaires he crushed on the hardest, with a slight thing for Kid Quantum, but none of them were truly interested back or, barring Andromeda and Lyle, even realized he liked them. On the ship, he has his very obvious crushes on Brenda and Kara, but there are a few that are less obvious. Like his slight crushes on Robin, Wyn, and Billy Cranston, and--it'd take pain of death for him to admit it--he's intensely attracted to Asuka and Lois Lane.

Brainy tends to get squibbly feelings over three types of people: 1) the ones that throw the tiniest bit of affection his way (especially blonds), 2) People he admires for their intellectual prowess or for either reasons, like their virtuous tendencies, or 3) People that don't take his shit and could probably bend him into a pretzel.

Brenda and Kara just happen to fit all three categories so both girls make him a little loopy. He's very messed up on the romantic end, though, and a part of him sort of realizes how needy he is, and how easily he latches onto people, so he mostly just nips all these feelings in the bud, and tries to act very cold and distant until they go away.

8. Though it'd be damn near possible to get him to sing, he has a lovely singing voice. He's a tenor and has perfect pitch.

9. The monkey sleeps cuddled up to his head every night, and always has ever since he's had him. When Koko left Brainy and went off with his new family, Brainy took to cuddling a blanket by his head, like he cuddled blankets when he was little to just have something there. He also cried for a little bit. After Dox, who he'd programmed to be his friend, and RJ Brande, who'd been his boss, Koko had pretty much been the first living being ever to act like he liked him. The monkey was pretty much his first friend.

10. Querl Dox has two very disparate views of himself. Deep down, he sort of realizes he's a good person, and a hero, and he's proud of himself for turning the moniker "Brainiac" into a heroic one.

...But part of him still thinks that there is nothing valuable to him beyond his intellect. This is why he often resented the Legion at times for treating him like a solution machine that they pushed a button and got answers from, rather than treating him like a person, because it was a stinging reinforcement of the idea that he was only valuable for his brain.

He feels like he was not valuable enough to cause his mother to develop an attachment, and after being treated like an object with a very useful facet, he tends to view his intellect as the most valuable part of himself, rather than who he actually is.

This leads to a weird dichotomy, where he's exceedingly arrogant about his 12th-level intellect, but inwardly, has horrible self esteem. A big part of his ego is inflating the importance of his intellect so he feels better about himself. If he ever lost his intellectual capacity permanently, he would possibly try to kill himself, because so much of his self esteem is invested in his intellect, and he thinks he's useless without it.

11. (Because I like to take it one step beyond! Well, ten steps. I'm going to 20) At one time, he had a holo collection from Legion World's security cameras of several of his team-mates in states of undress. He is seriously sexually repressed, and kind of perverted and deviant as a result.

12. He always had wanted a little brother or sister, so he wouldn't be alone. Now, in his mind, he did have a brother. Past tense.

13. He still wants a mommy, and will probably bond with Dr. Yewande to have the first healthy maternal relationship of his life.

14. Without his facial implants, he'd actually be quite insane. Aside from allowing him a link-up to control the shields of his shield belt, they double as personality inhibitors that help him control his thoughts. He is so smart that he can barely function.

15. Like most Legionnaires, he's a vegetarian. (Not a vegan, though, he will eat dairy). His favorite Earth food is cheesecake, and even if there weren't all those other good things about Earth that there are, he'd think the planet ought to exist just for that.

16. Some of his early inventions were sold in shady dealings by Colugov to the the Titanians and the Braalians and helped cause a great deal of death and destruction during the Titan-Braal War. He now highly resents when his inventions and innovations are used by unscrupulous persons to hurt people and this is why he's so paranoid about sharing information from his omnicom.

17. Brainy's creation C.O.M.P.U.T.O and the mech life forms of Robotica were responsible for the deaths of millions on Xanthu and in space. As a result, while the UP still considered him a hero in general, he was exiled from Colu and the Xanthans wanted his head on a pike. Meanwhile, the Roboticans saw him as the great creator, and nearly worshiped him as the creator of C.O.M.P.U.T.O--the One that gave them all free will and sentience--and as the progenitor of mechanoid life and the Father of Machinekind that helped them evolve to achieve true sentience.

He likes to pretend he doesn't, but Brainy does consider C.O.M.P.U.T.O his son, and hopes desperately that Stacy's saved him, despite Computo's past sins.

18. He doesn't like them touching him with their sticky fingers, and acts like he hates them, but he likes very small children. They tend to say exactly what they're thinking, and for someone that has difficulties navigating the turbulent waters of social interaction, that's much easier to deal with than talking to adults sometimes. The crew would probably be surprised to see how patient he'd be taking care of a baby or something, but the Legion's rescued a lot of people over the years and it means they all have to be good with comforting scared people. He's actually very good at calming down small children, mainly because he's always so calm in a catastrophe himself.

19. He rigged up the game systems at Legion HQ so that he could play the villains when the others think they're playing the computer. And he pretty much always wins. He will probably do that to the Media Library if he can get away with it.

20. Aside from never having sex (I mean, he just had his first kiss at age 21, yeesh) he's never even uh, done any lap-based web-browsing if you catch my drift. This is part of why he has no idea why humans are so sex-obsessed, though a big part of that is a naturally low sex drive. (Coluans are very long lived and don't need to mate as frequently to keep the population. Humans are shorter-lived and tend to get by on adaptability and sheer numbers--ergo, they have to breed more, ergo they have higher sex drive).

That being said, the Brainiacs tend to be more passionate than the other Coluans. The evil ones tend to take pleasure in evil or divert that passion towards conquering, but Brainiac 5, like Brainiac 2 once did, tends to direct that towards certain people. With Andromeda, who he thought was pretty and had crushed on without acting on it, when she "died" (it was a fake death), he smashed up his whole lab in a teary-eyed rage.

Brainy tends to let his feelings explode out violently.

Unlike the rest of his species, if Brainy ever really falls in love with someone, it'll be nothing like the cold genetic matches most make. He'll probably be crazy-go-nuts passionately in love with them and wanna do them every five minutes.

While his outward appearance is colder, the truth is Brainy's emotions, needs, and desires, are felt far more strongly by him than most Coluans feel them. He just has much more emotional control and represses them, largely because emotional outbursts would've made people even more terrified of him, and his upbringing didn't give him the skills to process emotion in a healthy way.

1) Looks 16, is 50 years older than that
2) His best friend was Maria Robotnik, niece to Professor Gerald Robotnik, making Maria Eggman's cousin.
3) Was created as the means to cure Maria's NIDS disease (which, apparently, is something like AIDS. That, I need to relook up)
4) He isn't the only Ultimate Lifeform. The other is Biolizard, a massive lizard that was held in stasis after Shadow was created.
5) The bracers on his gloves? Regulate his powers.
6) It is rumored that, because Sonic removed one of Shadow's bracers during his fall at the end of SA2, that Shadow survived.
7) Despite no training, he knows how to drive AND use a gun.
8) Attempted to kill himself and destroy the machine Emerl because he felt that, as weapons, they needed to be put down.
9) Still doesn't like humans, but is starting to warm up to them, especially after joining the Outsiders
10) He still thinks Sonic's a faker.

1: Despite all appearances, she's not actually all that slutty. She likes sex, and does what she must for her duties but she definitely has standards and won't just jump on top of whatever throbs.
2: Has unresolved egotism from her time as a child messiah. Knows this.
3: Her favorite thing to do when she has long stretches alone is sculpting. Painting is a close second.
4: She's a bit of a prankster. She sets some of the other Sisters against each other on Chapterhouse, just to see what would happen.
5: Conversely, she's actually good at peacekeeping and getting people to make up. She just doesn't do it when she doesn't have to.
7: Will never admit to anyone how intensely she misses baklawa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baklava)
8: She has an intense interest in humans in states of trance and/or ecstasy. Yes, this includes sex, but it can also be riots, religious rituals, wild dancing, siaynoq (which is all three of those things), etc.
9: She keeps her feelings for Duncan in a little mental jar labeled "to examine later".
10: Has the sneaking suspicion that her life on the meatship is reliving all her previous choices in a twisted way.

1; Claire is a motorcycle fanatic, and a bit of a speed demon. She's also a relatively skilled amateur mechanic.

2; Her major in school before the Raccoon City incident was Early Childhood Education. She wanted to be a kindergarten teacher.

3; Claire does genuinely want to settle down someday. Probably not in the traditional aspect of "settling down" but she wants to start a family, she's just never been able to find the right person to start one with.

4; Raccoon has followed her throughout her adult life. It changed a lot of the things she'd planned ahead of her, some for better some for worse. She avoids using her status as a Raccoon City Survivor whenever she can, because she hates the kind of looks it gets her.

5; She's skilled at lockpicking. She's always been the type if person who liked sneaking in where she shouldn't be, and she liked exploring old abandoned houses. Learning how to pick a lock was a step up from kicking in the door. It's a skill that comes in handy far more often than she'd like to admit.

6; Claire can't honestly say she's ever been in love. She's had a total of six boyfriends throughout her teenage and adult life (seven now, counting Leon), all of which she liked very much, but she always felt like there was something missing.

7; She considered leaving TerraSave after she found out about the vaccine she had indirectly been hindering the production of. She likely would have, and joined the BSAA, but she was abducted by Stacy first.

8; She's a fan of horror movies, despite what she's been through. Mostly the old classics, but she'll go see the new ones, too. Even ones with zombies.

9; Despite the fact that she's only about 5'9" and 145lbs Claire is deceptively strong and more than capable of taking down someone twice her size. She has taken defensive classes, in addition to her crazy overprotective brother teaching her things ranging from how to shoot a gun (and she is a damn good shot) to throwing a knife.

10; Claire wishes she was more like her mother. While she is a very maternal person, she feels like her mom did it so much better, and sometimes she feels a little lost when it comes to being Sherry's mom.

Edited 2009-12-07 19:13 (UTC)

1: Sometimes she wonders if Sherry and Roxie aren't an alternate universe Kumi and Kasumi
2: Her relationship with Red Snout has gone exactly back to how it was before, only now it's worse because Red Snout's terrifying her in order to "toughen her up". Nothing is worse than someone who thinks they have a good motivation.
3: She may seem rather immature in comparison to the other girls her age. This is a semiconscious choice by her. Ever since she joined the Alien Party, she was forced into trying to be more grownup, at an artificial pace. Saying "no, i'm a human kid and this is the rate human kids grow up" is an act of rebellion.
4: She's unsure of her feelings about being "the sweet one" of the group. Yeah it's nice to have people like you, but she wonders if it's preventing people from seeing how great Roxie and (to a lesser extent) Sherry and Vega are.
5: Cowardly in face of personal danger, she will rollerblade into hell itself to protect her friends.
6: She's more used to aliens and other gross things than most kids. A little more than Sherry at this point.
7: She has her suspicions about the real purpose of the Alien Party but has no way to investigate. Borg ain't talking.
8: Yeah, she has big ears.
9: Is not, and never will be, someone who blooms into grace. Come puberty, she will be just as awkward, but taller.
10: Due to events of her canon mirroring those of magical girl and -mons shows, has become dangerously genre savvy. That doesn't stop her from getting her image of romance from shoujo manga.
11: ...Which, when combined with her enjoyment of playing matchmaker, tends to result in things like triplines to force people to trip into each other

Mostly head canon.

I. Written out in Japanese Kanji, her name is 惣流・アスカ・ラングレー. Both her middle and last names (Langley and Soryu, respectively) are the names of World War II aircraft carriers. It may be worth noting that both carriers were sunk in combat. In Japanese, Soryu means "blue dragon". Her first name, Asuka, is written with the Japanese characters for "tomorrow", as well as "smell, incense, perfume". It roughly translates to "Smell of Tomorrow". As an interesting side note, the first part of her mother's name, "Kyo" (from "Kyoko") translates to "today".

II. Asuka is an avid video game player. Most of her gaming takes place on consoles and like most things, she's rather good at them. Her favorite genres include racing games, JRPGs, First Person Shooters, and aircraft simulators.

III. Asuka graduated from the Technical University of Munich at the age of thirteen with a bachelor's degree. Her major was in Physics, with a minor in Mechanical Engineering.

IV. Asuka is a fan of football (European) and followed the German Football Association, rooting for and supporting FC Bayern Munich.

V. Asuka's relationship with her father is distant, as it is with her step-mother. After her mother's death, she resolved to be an "adult" and not rely on anyone. As such, she doesn't give more than a lip-service amount of affection to her parents. Her own smarts may have contributed to this.

VI. Asuka was born in and spent much of her early life in Berlin, Germany. She went through various Eva training programs there before transferring to Munich to attend university.

VII. She didn't have many friends growing up. In fact, she didn't really have any "friends". She had people she hung out with, people she knew from her schooling (both at university and before). She was popular enough (although thought a bit odd, for being eleven and in university), but she never opened up to any of them and they remained merely "acquaintances".

VIII. During university, tutored a few of her older classmates.

IX. Asuka's favorite type of movies are military or war dramas, which usually end with the hero (or heroine) being congratulated and celebrated by their home nation (or planet, if it's a sci-fi). She scorns "giant robot" anime.

X. Science-fiction novels are a guilty pleasure - after all, only nerds are into science-fiction. She prefers "hard" science-fiction over the soft stuff. Ray Bradbury, however, remains one of her preferred science-fiction authors.

XI. She did receive an education in the classics of European literature, along with music and other cultural subjects. Music is really the only thing out of all of that which interested her.

XII. Although she acts very adult about flirting, sexuality, and her own body, her actual knowledge and firsthand experience with such things are virtually nil. She tries to cover this up as much as possible, although she tends to get flustered when she's not the one initiating such things.

XIII. Her signature "hair clips" are, in fact, her A-10 Nerve clips, which allow her to better sync with her Eva unit. She wears them as a badge of pride and to show off her elite status.

XIV. Asuka is (would have been) single-handedly responsible for wiping out most of a JSSDF assault force sent to attack NERV HQ inside the Geofront. She's probably responsible for at least a few thousand KIA, WIA, and MIA by herself, along with millions (if not billions) in property and equipment damage.

XV. Asuka is, in fact, only one-quarter Japanese. Her father was American and her mother was half Japanese, half German.

XVI. Asuka is trilingual. She speaks German, Japanese, and English fluently (this includes swearing), although she still has some difficulty with Japanese kanji.

XVII. Asuka enjoys both tea and coffee, having acquired a taste for both during her college years.

VXIII. Asuka is an active athlete, when she gets the chance and is proficient in a variety of athletics, including swimming, scuba-diving, running, and some degree of martial arts and self-defense.

XIX. Asuka remains as fashion concious as she possibly can, including subscribing to and reading fashion magazines.

XX. She has a fondness for classical music, although her moe modern tastes run along pop lines (along with the occasional bit of rock and heavy metal).

1. Roxie had a boy she liked just a little, just before she was empowered. They talked sometimes. He liked her a little, too. She sacrificed that relationship in an oneiromantic dealing for power. She doesn't know anything about it now, of course: all she remembers is that she gave up something important, but not what it is.

2. A hidden little track of her mind speculates, in off times, about her parents, who she doesn't remember and has never known anything convincing about. It would be an easy thing to trick her with.

3. Her relationship with Shyama is weird, weird, weird, seeing as he is both a father figure, and the only being she's ever been entirely sure unconditionally loves her.

4. In the time before she kills them, Roxie treats sacrificial animals with the utmost kindness and gentleness.

5. Roxie doesn't like people, per se; she likes the presence of certain people. This disconnect is part of the strangeness of her behavior.

6. Though she stays outwardly cool, internally Roxie gets easily frustrated, annoyed, or angered. This dichotomy is part of the reason for her being chosen by Shyama.

7. She's (mostly) good at seeming otherwise, but Roxie bullshits a lot of what she does, and makes answers up to support her own position when she's not sure of something. Eventually, this will backfire.

8. Roxie finds cephalopods and crustaceans the cutest animals of all, directly after snakes.

9. If she hadn't been chosen, Roxie would have started to kill people anyway. Just less discriminately.

10. If she ever survives long enough, Roxie may start to turn into something of a god. Ironically enough, she'd become more human emotionally at the same time she starts to become less human (meta)physically.

Lafiel:

1: Is very much a cat person. She's knowledgable about caring for them and their breeds. Perhaps the only time you'll see her act gentle and tender is with kitties.
2: Still has no idea what the hell she's gotten into with Meluly. She likes her but it'll take hell and high water to get her to admit that: she won't be over Jinnto for a long time.
3: Misses her little brother and (never thought she would!) dad.
4: Harbors deep feelings of inadequacy about being empress. Normally she would have done another decade in the Star Forces plus fifteen years as a merchant before the possibility of ascending the throne would even be considered.
5: Despite her slight stature, she's pretty damn tough. Most don't believe she's served two long campaigns plus miscellaneous missions if they're not familiar with the Abh.
6: Her favorite drink is Teal Nom with Lop. It is a kind of peach tea with a slice of lemon.
7: Very vain about her hair. Will not let anyone else cut it and hated having to dye it on Sufugnoff
8: Her ears are actually smaller than normal for an Abriel because she's a 'child of love'. They do provide her with very sensitive hearing though.
9: Abh do not have words for 'homosexual' or 'heterosexual' and only for 'asexual' as a negative compound word.
10: Her father did not tell her the true identity of her female gene donor (biological mother) and legally wasn't required to until she was 21. Once he convinced her it was the family cat, as a prank. It turned out to actually be her first CO, Captain Lexshu of Gosroth.
11: Abriels are forbidden to cry.
12: The most intimate act an Abh can allow is to touch their froce (sensory organ located in the forehead) because it is so vulnerable and causes sensations of distance displacement if touched anything but very gently.

1. Red Snout has a soft spot for Yuri (and children in general). Good luck getting him to admit it.

2. Red Snout is only about 14 or 15 years old.

3. He has a fascination for all things human, but again, would never admit it.

4. Has an ambition to unit all sorts of squabbling raptors into one large tribe. Probably will never happen due to raptors constantly squabbling, though.

5. Red Snout is smarter than he seems. He comes off as a blowhard and a bully, but is quite calculating and clever, just not in ways most humans would think of.

6. Taught himself to read via a combination of bullying Yuri and sheer force of will.

7. There are seven hash marks on the butt of his rifle. They represent the three humans and four raptors he has killed with the weapon.

8. Wishes he had opposable thumbs. Will never admit this.

9. Carries the scalps of the humans he's killed and the talons of the raptors he has killed with him as trophies.

10. Hates, hates, hates that Picard got the better of him, and quietly plots a revenge of some type.

Jamie:
1. Is pretty short - around 5'6" or 5'7".

2. A bit shy when it comes to anything romantic, and will tend to not actually admit if he has feelings for someone - unless, like Victoria, it's well after the fact. Kisses would be...awkward.

3. Is perfectly willing, however, to protectively hold onto someone in a scary situation.

4. Talks more on the ship then he did with the Doctor, because the Doctor tended to cut him off when he was speaking.

5. Does not like being cooped up in enclosed spaces.

6. Has a bit of a sweet tooth.

7. Believes in the Phantom Piper - legend has it the the Piper appears to a McCrimmon when they are about to die. The first time he saw a Cyberman while feverish, he believed it was the Piper.

8. Actually rarely dresses in full 18th century regalia while with the Doctor, usually wears more modern clothes with his kilt.

9. Can repair as well as play some musical instruments, such as the bagpipes.

10. Believes completely that the Doctor needs him.

Dude, since Allen is an OC, technically all of this is headcanon.

1) What attracts him most to women is intensity, drive, and badassness in some field. His first childhood crush was on Xena, his college girlfriend made business and law her bitch, and he had a huge thing for his evil boss due to her intense scientific skills and drive. The woman he eventually married was determined from childhood to become a cop, right wrongs, triumph over evil, and in the process ended up resembling his first crush more than she ever suspected she would. While he's not one to put on a pair of blinders for a wet t-shirt contest, what keeps him coming back is intensity in some form or other.

2) He graduated high school at age 12. He obtained his first Bachelors' at age 15, his Masters at 17, and immediately began his quest for PHD candidacy while taking on a prestigious engineering job at 18 - and this was all before half his brain was a computer.

3) His mom sort of left when he was 6. By "sort of" I mean she realized she wasn't happy in her marriage, divorced his father, and moved to the other side of the country to follow the hippie art circuit. She left Allen in his father's custody because she acknowledged that a stationary, stable life would probably be better for a child genius, but kept the baby when she became pregnant a year later. Intellectually, Allen is not confused about this scenario, but it bothered him for a while.

4) Flakiness is his least favorite feature in any sort of person. He's forgiven his mom for it, and loves her, but isn't sure he likes her very much.

5) He has two half siblings - Amy on his mom's side, and Daniel on his dad's side. Daniel, his younger brother from his dad's second marriage, is 19 and wants to be a doctor. Amy is 23 and to be honest, I have no idea what she does. Maybe she doesn't either.

6) Allen broke the geek stigma by being something (only something) of a ladies' man in his late teens. He would visit his friends at their schools or universities, pose as a student from whichever school he wasn't at, and rope smart girls into tutoring him in subjects he already knew. By the time they saw through the lie, he would have already figured out their interests and how to hook them with information he'd learned from scientific papers on relationship psychology (screw Cosmo).

7) He's adventurous now, but spent his childhood being a basement dweller, apart from a few months of traveling with his mother and camping trips with his dad. He was always interested in the notion of adventure, but his focus on knocking education out of the way kept that something to do "later" until the point in his life where "later" became "now." Which it did.

8) He's been shooting since age 10 - under careful supervision of his cop father.

9) He always wanted to learn how to pilot a helicopter.

10) His favorite smell is bergamot. He doesn't know why, but doesn't really care.

1. Despite ragging on Tim for liking Enya, Superboy secretly likes the Zesty Girls, DC's version of the Spice Girls. He justifies this with the fact that they're hot babes. He also has been known to listen to gangsta rap. You haven't really seen hilarity until you see a three year old cloned alien white boy grown rapping about bitches and ho's.

2. Superboy is picked on at school, because of his nerd persona. It doesn't cut into his self esteem at all, but he really, really wants to pull a "I'M A SUPERHERO AND THEREFORE I'M AWESOME! AND MY GIRLFRIEND'S WONDER GIRL! SUUUUCK IT!" kinda thing. He hates having to keep a low profile because being a superhero is more natural to him than faking he's a normal person. Superboy is who Kon really is, Conner Kent is the mask. He also doesn't grok most average teenagers, mainly because they know all the social stuff he doesn't, but also tend to worry about sort of petty things he doesn't.

3. After a particularly busy week, when he was really hungry, he once made the owner of an struggling All-You-Can-Eat place burst into tears. He felt REALLY bad, when he realized just how much he'd eaten for nothing, and paid for three more people that weren't there to compensate.

4. He's lived in six different places in the last five years, and been to just as many (if not more) funerals. Superheroing's a rough life.

5. Back home, he ordered the T-shirts he did his superheroing in off the internet, and just wore Levis. Cheap costume replacement, FTW. It definitely beat the days of going through leather jacket after leather jacket. He is more comfortable in spandex than normal clothes though--for years, that was practically all he wore.

6. Kon is sort of fascinated by children, because he's in a weird place where he's an adult, comparatively, and still something of a child (it's been a busy five years, but he still is just five). In some ways, this means he's just as immature--or even more immature--than some kids, but he also has been through a lot in a very short amount of time, so he tends to settle on an "I'm a kid like you, but I'm an older kid and I know stuff" kinda role. Even if he doesn't really know how to deal with them, and he doesn't get along with all kids, they tend to gravitate to him though and eventually warm up to him like the kids on the ship did.

He really wants to know what childhood is like, because he didn't get 16 years to dick around and play and be taken care of--he had to grow up from infancy to near-adulthood in five years.

Aside from just liking kids in general, he has a mega softspot for disabled kids, and has done a lot of charity work doing a "Make a Wish" foundation kinda stuff with them. Back in the beginning of his heroing career, he did a lot of stuff just to look good, but that was one of the things his agent Rex set up that he just...really enjoyed and felt good doing. Also, to someone who was born with the ability to fly and smash through walls, that these kids wouldn't be able to walk and still have the outlooks some of them had was incredible to him, and this is part of why he doesn't make a big fuss during the times he's powerless.

7. There were 12 "failures" before his cloning attempt took. Kon saw them all in tubes at Cadmus, and they weren't pretty. One of them died with him by his side. Despite being a clone, and pro clone rights, Kon is vehemently anti-cloning, and part of why he worked at Cadmus was to keep an eye on them for Superman to make sure they'd stopped cloning people.

8. Kon was technically U.S. government property and not recognized as a human being back home, but they knew that if they ever laid a finger on him, they'd have one pissed off Kryptonian staring them down with heatvision with the Titans, former members of Young Justice, the JLA, the JSA, and allll their friends at his back. In fact, when Superboy-Prime showed up and beat him half to death during the Crisis, that's close to who showed up just to save him. The titans, the JSA, and the Doom Patrol. And the Flashes...

Aside from the fact that DC heroes just tend to DO that for each other, Kon's kinda a popular guy.

9. Kon thinks Batman hates him. Like haaates him. What with the whole Bad Influence on Robin thing, dating Cass (Batgirl, yes, he's dated two girls named "Cass") and getting her into trouble (and nearly getting her killed), and oh, the whole cloned bioweapon thing... yeah. In return, he resents Bats a little for the Brother Eye debacle, since that nearly tore all the heroes apart, and meant that it was he, Cassie, and Nightwing against Superboy-Prime, Alexander Luthor, and like a kajillian OMACs. By themselves. After finding out he dies in that fight, even with the coming back part, he sort of resents Bats for the Brother Eye thing. Just a bit. He wouldn't throw it in his face unless Bats was throwing something in his own face, but the resentment is there and he tends to avoid Batman on general principle and reassures Tim all the time that he won't turn into Bruce, that he'll never be Batman someday.

10. Kon likes to have his hair petted. He's a very tactile, gregarious, touchy-feely person. He gets more uptight with it around guy friends so as to not look wussy, but he likes hugs and stuff, not just receiving, but also giving them. He's the type to throw an arm around someone's shoulders when talking to them a lot.

11. He really is pretty vain about his appearance. He's not shallow, and doesn't judge others on appearance and would love Cassie even if she got her face burned off in a fire or something, but he does think he's a fine specimen of manly sexiness.

12. He has broken up with girlfriends to date someone else (although the person was manipulating him mightily), but he would never, ever cheat on a girlfriend, despite the roving eye.

13. If Cassie died, especially if it was violently or his fault or something, he'd probably never date again, because it would be the second girlfriend he's lost that way. After the first girlfriend, Tana, died right in front of him (to get to him), he was insanely protective of Cassie, to the point of shoving her out of the way of stuff when she was just as invulnerable as him. He'd realized he was falling for her and couldn't stand the thought of losing her like Tana. He's backed off since then, but he still frets about the idea of her getting hurt a lot.

14. Most of Kon's underwear back home had little S-shields on it.

15. Kon will try anything once, food or activity-wise, as long as it doesn't overstep moral boundaries. That includes wearing stealing someone's underwear, wearing women's clothing, and hunting giant apes while wearing a loin cloth. (All things he has done).

16. Things he has fought: giant robots, Nazis (actual Nazis in WWII), snot monsters, dinosaurs, animal people (man sharks included), alternate evil selves, alternate evil future selves, deranged clones of himself, tons of aliens, superpowered hicks, clones clones and more clones. He...there really is nothing left to throw at him that'll make him bat an eyelash. He's defeated emotion-eating aliens by riding them up into space on a space motorcycle playing the semi-limp, non-threatening beats of white bread soft rock favorites. When you've saved all of LA with Barry Manilow, well.

17. Kon's favorite board game is Twister, but only if there's chicks.

18. Kon thinks mankind's greatest invention is not the printing press or the wheel or any of that. He thinks it's the Slip N' Slide.

It's even more fun when there's rocks underneath, when you have invulnerability, because then you BOUNCE!

19. There's very few things Kon is afraid of. Family and friends getting hurt, yes, but it's not a freezing, crippling fear. There are two things Kon has a genuine fear of, like that kind that freezes you in place and makes your blood run cold. One is Lex Luthor and the related idea of losing his free will.

The other is Granny Goodness and Apokolips and Granny's "orphanage." It's something the members of Young Justice don't really talk about, their time on Apokolips. It's something they've all tried to forget, it's something Kon still blames himself for, getting them all caught. Despite them all being brave kids, a surefire way to get them utterly terrified would be the prospect of any of them having to go back.

20. He's never killed anyone, but he did launch his enemy Amanda Spence into space at like mach one million out of a space ship. She didn't need to breathe anymore to survive. That means, while he hasn't killed anyone, he did doom an enemy to a cold and lonely eternity in space. Considering she was the one that killed Tana Moon, then cloned her and also killed the clone?

No. He doesn't regret it.

1. The Seer is currently 792 years old.

This age was not achieved through supernatural means.

2. "Seer" is not his real name. (This should be a "duh" moment, right here)

3. The reason he hides his eyes are always hidden or covered whenever he appears to the crew?

He has no eyes.

4. Despite his affinity for things esoteric and supernatural in nature, the Seer is quite a skilled warrior and tactician, having personally fought in hundreds of wars over his long life.

5. The Seer has killed a countless number of innocents in his quest to fight the forces of the daemonic, just as all of his order have.

Though this does not cause him any grief or suffering, he still takes the time to enact a ceremonial funeral rite for each of those he kills when he has the chance, as he feels it only "proper" to honor the dead.

6. His favorite tea is Calixian Blue-Leaf, an unfortunate rarity, especially on the meatship.

7. As a young warrior, the Seer gained the habit of drinking to a fallen comrade's honor after every battle after he had spent some time amongst the "common" soldiers.

Since then, he has gained a fondness for high-grade liquors, especially since his physical body has the benifit of being immune to the effects of alcohol. It is a vice he indulges in somewhat rarely.

His favorite liquors include high-grade Amasec and Theosophist's Philtre.

8. Related to the previous one, he only drinks low-grade, bitter distillations of Amasec when toasting the dead.

His reasoning? The harsh, bitter taste reminds him of the pain of loss.

9. While his motivations are mostly pure, the Seer is extremely manipulative. However, he only uses his skills in manipulation in attempting to persuade people into doing the "right" thing, whatever that happens to be depending on the situation.

He reasons that it is better to trick someone into doing the right thing right away then spend unneccessary time persuading them normally.

That, and he lacks a lot of skills in interpersonal relations.

10. Best for last:

The Seer is the only member of the crew to willingly and knowingly board the Transmigration 9.

For what reasons, only he knows.

01. Jeka is one of the few Legionnaires who isn't vegetarian. Orandians are actually incapable of properly digesting vegetables and soy products, although her now-mutated physiology may allow her to do so. She refuses to test this because she still really, REALLY hates what happened to her. She says a prayer for the animal before she eats, even though the meat eaten in the 31st century actually consists of cloned cells.

02. Her mother died when she was thirteen. She left home a year later and spent the year after that traveling around the United Planets. She contacted her father and younger brother regularly to let them know that she was all right, and always left whatever planet she was on almost immediately afterward. As the anniversary of her mother's death approached, Jeka heard that the Legion was holding try-outs. The rest, as they say, is history.

03. Her mentalism is actually closer to empathy than telepathy; but she can perceive words and images if she concentrates. Furthermore, she can only do that to one person at a time. However, she can hijack the senses of a large crowd and show each person something completely different without so much as breaking a sweat. She finds the disparity unsettling, and tends to be a bit freer with listening in than she possibly should. This is intended as a continuous reminder that the people around her are real people who rely on the accuracy of their senses, so she shouldn't sprock with them for no reason. She's not above playing with her illusions, though.

04. She doesn't find humans/humanoids attractive. It isn't that they're ugly, she is quite capable of discerning who is and is not attractive as those things go, she simply doesn't see the draw herself. It's not just humanoids either, she's really only attracted to other Orandians.

05. She wishes that Candi (Monstress) had been around to help her through recovering from her transformation, because she knows that Candi would have been able to understand at least part of what she was going through. She hopes to one day be as proud of her new appearance as Candi was able to become of hers, but she also doesn't think that will actually be possible.

06. She likes 'dressing up' with an illusion when she goes out for fun, mostly to keep a low-profile/keep the staring down. She prefers real accessories though, especially hats. Visiting Zuko's tea house was the first time she's 'gone out' since her transformation.

07. Reep (Chameleon) is the only one allowed to call her 'Princess' or 'your Highness' or anything like that. Everybody else gets quick instructions to call her Jeka or Sensor instead. Likewise, she's the only one allowed to call him 'your Holiness'. He's also the only one she's ever allowed to see her break down (granted, part of that break down included her lashing out at him, so it's not all as sweet as it sounds).

08. Her boobs serve no purpose. At all. They're not even particularly sensitive, which is why she doesn't wear anything to support them. And the only reason she didn't shave all of her hair off was because it helped her hats fit better.

09. Brainy whipped up a pair of cyber-arms for her when she joined the Legion, and putting them on felt like being untied after being bound all her life. Having them felt natural. If there's one thing she doesn't hate about her transformation, it's having arms.

10. Prior to her transformation, she loved performing and being, if not the center of attention, not far from it. She still retains some of her showmanship, but now prefers to hang back and not be stared at.

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11. Jeka's voice quality has actually been commented on in the comics. It's a husky alto.

1) Before getting caught up in the world of tights, Jean-Paul Valley was studying computer science in Gotham University.

2) He doesn't remember his birth mother.

3) He's actually a test tube baby, modified with animal DNA to give him greater strength and agility.

4) He claims that his name is the same as his father's, but apparently, the series proves otherwise.

5) His biggest failure, as well as his driving point, was being beaten by both Killer Croc and Bane while taking up the Mantle of the Bat, the latter which called him out as fake.

6) Though it's still debatable, the main reason Jean-Paul is insane is because he never properly filtered out the Scarecrow's Fear Gas. (In a set of sidestories, Jean-Paul as Batman encountered the Scarecrow alongside Anarky. Scarecrow injected the two of them with the gas in a liquid form, infecting JP... only for the System to take over and snapping him out of it.)

7) The suit he wears? He designed and built it himself. Modified it twice as well. All thanks to the System.

8) Has met Superman twice as Batman. Once after the Man of Steel returned from being dead and again during the Bloodlines incident. Both times Supes realized that JP wasn't Bruce.

9) Is actually awkward towards women.

10) Prefers working alone.

Well said \o/

...Man, I wish we had an Inara.

1. Really? I got the impression that he was taller---must be because Patrick Troughton was short too. That would make Jamie and Billy the same height. *notes*

8. And I love him for it.

11. In regards to tactile contact, Billy doesn't mind receiving it (as long as it's not the ears). He won't admit this, but he even likes it. He was jumpier about it when he was younger, as the only people who would touch him then were bullies shaking him down for lunch money, but constant petting and hanging-on from Jason and Zack brought him around. ((No, seriously. Watch any episode of MMPR. Those Rangers can't keep their hands off each other. And Kim and Trini aren't any better about keeping their hands to themselves.))

12. Being the somewhat socially awkward one Billy doesn't touch people as freely as his friends would, but he tries. If he knows a person well and doesn't think they'll yell at him for it, he'll rub an anxious person's shoulder or pat their arm. When they succeed at something and it's celebration time, he'll gently pat their back. He doesn't do the hearty macho backslap thing because it can dislodge things if you aren't careful. Hugs are reserved for ~~Trini~~ ~~Adam~~ people he trusts in emotional situations, whether it's a happy or scary one.

13. The key words Zordon used to describe Billy are 'patient and wise'. The words Dulcea used (in regards to the ninja powers he never got the chance to quest for before being rescued) were 'cunning and swift'. The word his actor David Yost used was 'loyal'. I tend to agree with Yost, but characterize it as 'stubborn' also.

14. He was a bit disappointed to go from having a Triceratops to a Unicorn zord, but he's felt better about it since Jamie told him about the vicious unicorn he met. (And, as Adam keeps insisting, Lion to Frog is a worse downgrade.)

15. Even though he has the body of a Greek god, he's incredibly shy about showing it. He's the only male Ranger from MMPR who never takes his shirt off onscreen, not even while swimming. Part of this stems from bad gym class experiences, and the rest stems from the quite noticeable scar on his stomach left by an appendicitis surgery accident.

16. He's mostly come to terms with B5's death, but he's still avoiding Brainy out of an irrational fear that he can't shake off.

17. Despite his concern with appearing adult and responsible and his firm belief that work comes first, he loves to play games with friends. His arm just has to be twisted a little.

18. One of Billy's bigger weaknesses is his love of the unusual. Though he constantly fights off monsters, he will happily try to befriend almost anyone who doesn't attack him first, no matter what they look like. Thus his ready acceptance of Goliath, even if he kinda looks like Goldar.

19. Billy's brain is his most precious possession, so the fact that Stacy and certain crew members can read him that way is quite an unsettling adjustment. He really doesn't like that his memories were altered, no matter how horrific the Ohm attack was.

20. Finally, he is afraid of fish due to a fish bite from his childhood. Yet he eventually marries a fish/human hybrid. Go figure.

*happily laps up tl;dr*

Reactions:
-Oh. Oh my. Damn right those facts are depressing, but I'm glad I read them. Brainy and Bart---that right there is adorable. I can't wait 'til he comes back from hiatus.

-12 made me wibble all over again.

-7. Uh, wow. You've earned my favorite icon, because I never would have picked up on that in a million years. Like you said, strong and obvious crushes are obvious, and I could sorta see specks of feeling for Robin and Wyn, but...I'm clearly as thick as a rock.

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