10 Things You Didn't Know

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

RULES
1. Post with your character
2. Post ten things that you believe are true about your character that people might not know - nobody cares if you use headcanon, it's up to you.
3. Watch as others do the same; comment IC or OoC!
4. ???
5. PROFIT!

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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.

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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.

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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.