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C H A R A C T E R   I N F O R M A T I O N
Name: Lois Lane
Canon: Man of Steel (Snyderverse)
Original or Alternate Universe: Original
Canon Point: After she and Superman were taken aboard Zod's ship. Superman becomes grievously ill, and Lois gets tossed into a small Kryptonian prison cell, with seemingly no way of getting out.
Number: Random please!

Setting:

Everyone knows the story of Superman. Yes, [it's] Superman-- that strange visitor from the planet Krypton who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can leap tall buildings in a single bound, race a speeding bullet to its target, bend steel in his bare hands, and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great Metropolitan newspaper, fights a never-ending battle for truth and justice. Are we on the same page so far? Great! Now, take that little blurb, and whatever it is you know about the history of Superman, and just stamp a giant reboot sticker over it.

Everyone needs a new look at some point.

In Zack Snyder's (Christopher Nolan's) version of the tale, there are still all of those classic elements. Clark Kent is still the last son of Krypton, sent to Earth by his scientist father, Jor-El, and found in a cornfield by the wonderful Jonathan and Martha Kent. He's raised in the idealistic town of Smallville, and will one day go to work in the great city of Metropolis for the newspaper the Daily Planet. You still have Earth, you still have Krypton. Now, just add a touch of... gritty realism to it. The primary setting is modern day Earth, with Krypton serving as a background piece from time to time. Aliens walk the planet, not that the people know any better, because he (they) looks just like them.

History:

Unfortunately, this version of Lois hasn't been around for 75 years, nor does she have TV canon to fall back on. So, for the sake of all things game-wise, I will be pulling some information from her comic history, simply to fill in some gaps. We can assume that she is still the eldest daughter of Sam and Ella Lane, and older sister to Lucy. Whether or not she has army roots in this incarnation remains unknown. The Man of Steel novelization does indeed confirm that Lois is a former army brat. She pursued a career in reporting, and quickly rose in the ranks at the Daily Planet under the supervision of Editor and Chief, Perry White. Eventually, she came to win a Pulitzer Prize for her work.

"So if we’re done measuring dicks, can you have your people show me what you found?"

In the film, we first meet Lois on assignment, sent to investigate the military presence on Ellesmere Island. Something not many were all too pleased about, given the efforts they went through in attempting to cover up their true reasons for being there from Lois. Ever the unyielding reporter, Lois kept herself one step ahead, arriving a day earlier from what they had planned. She received frigid greetings from Colonel Hardy and Dr. Emil Hamilton, the men in charge of the operation, but Lois refused to be cowed. She was there with a job to do, and she was going to get it done. Even if that meant freezing her butt off at the dead of night in the middle of the Canadian Arctic while following one of the site's workers. She was led to the mouth of a cave, one that looked as though it had been carved out recently. Steam hissed off of the ice. A certifiable site for doom if there ever was one, but Lois Lane was never one to back down, especially not for what could be the story of a lifetime. Within the cave, buried deep within the ice, was alien spaceship, aka the anomaly the government was desperately searching for. Clearly her presence was not welcome, as the robot guarding the ship attacked her right after she took it's photograph. If the worker - Joe, the hunky baggage handler, the name she gave him upon her arrival at the site - had not come up from behind and crushed the 'bot with his bare hands, it would have no doubt killed her. Not that she wasn't dying already. According to Joe, the wound the robot had bestowed upon her was hemorrhaging internally - said as though he could see through her clothing and flesh, in the type of soft tone most doctors hardly ever use. He told her he could do things other people can't, before taking her hand, and cauterizing her wound with heat vision. The pain caused ultimately caused Lois to pass out. When she awoke, above ground and bundled up to stay warm, her mysterious savior was gone.

"How do you find someone who's spent a lifetime covering his tracks? You start with the urban legends that have sprung up in his wake. All the friends of a friend who claim to have seen him. For some, he was a guardian angel. For others, a cipher, a ghost who never quite fit in. As you work your way back in time, the stories begin to form a pattern."

Lois took the story to Perry White. He refused to publish it, on the account that she could have possibly hallucinated half of it, along with the fact that the people of Earth could react poorly over the notion of someone amongst them being 'more than human'. Lois, unwilling to give up, had her story published online, for the sake of telling her mystery man that she knew the truth. Her further investigation took her to Smallville, Kansas, where she came to learn of the amazing feats of Clark Kent. She paid a visit to the Kent farm, first introducing her self to Martha Kent, before querying if they could speak about her son.

She and Clark did speak, eventually, leading them to a mutual understanding of the need to keep what he can do a secret from the rest of the world. Lois returned to the Planet, telling Perry that she was giving up the story, explaining that her leads didn't pan out. Unconvinced, and furious that she leaked her work online, her Editor gave her two weeks leave without pay.

Worse things could have happened.

Worse things did happen. Across the world, over every electronic device, the same ominous message was transmitted. General Zod demanded that the people of Earth and over Kal-El, a fellow refugee of his world. If they did not, Earth would be destroyed. The FBI and US Military soon learn of Lois' knowledge on Kal-El, and have her arrested for it. She ultimately refused to tell them anything. She was brought face to face with Clark again soon after, though he no longer looked the part of someone trying to hide. A skin-tight suit clung to his frame, with a red cape hanging off of his shoulders, and the letter S stretched boldly across his chest. Handcuffs decorated his wrists. Lois knew that could only mean one thing. He was surrendering himself - but not to Zod, he informed her. To the people of the world. There's a difference. They talked, carefully, of course - never giving anything about Clark away to Big Brother. She asked about the S.

"It's not an S. On my world, it means hope."
"Well, here, it's an S. [...] How about... Supe--"
- Clark and Lois.

Clark and the military reached an agreement. When Zod's ship arrived, they demanded to not only take Clark, but Lois as well. She agreed, and boarded with them. A breathing mask was granted to her, as the air aboard the ship was not made for humans. When Zod's people were distracted, Clark placed an oddly shaped key in Lois' hand. She tucked it away so that it could not be found. They were brought before General Zod, but the meeting did not last long. Clark collapsed, stating he felt weak, before coughing up blood. He had spent all his years so accustomed to Earth's atmosphere, that once he came in contact the Kryptonian one, his system would react poorly. Lois begged that they find someway to help him, but with no avail. They dragged Clark's body off in one-direction, and Lois' in another. She was tossed in the Kryptonian equivalent to a prison cell, and it seemed there was no way for her to get out.

Personality:

"Her origins are from strength, and that's the one thing that runs through the character. They'll put her in peril, but she always still has some level of strength."

Lois is tough, unyielding, and incredibly stubborn when it comes to getting her point across. In her writing - and at times her interactions with those around her - she is passionately truthful about her topics. Others can simply call it being genuinely blunt. She firmly believes people need the truth, and makes it her goal to get it to them. Loyal and compassionate, though many would argue it's not often she employs the latter, simply out of the nature of many of her stories. When Lois first meets Clark Kent as her savior on Ellesmere Island, she wants nothing more than to tell the world his story. A mysterious hero who can perform feats no other person can. Information the world had to know. But when she hears Clark's side of things, she has a change of heart. He tells her why he kept himself hidden for so long, and why he must continue to do so. His conviction had her promising not to tell a soul who he was, no matter what the consequences. What can she say? He had excellent character, and Lois considered herself an excellent judge of character. She became a very loyal supporter in the good of Clark's presence when she rest of the world wanted him shipped over to General Zod.

There's a curiosity in her that simply can't be sated, making it incredibly difficult for anyone to dissuade her from any situation. That, and the simple fact that she doesn't take any crap from anyone. She's proactive, never the type of person to just sit on her butt and let someone else grab the best scoop. She loves her job, and everything that comes with it. She won a Pulitzer, but that little thing wont stop her from diving recklessly into situations, and coming out with a better story in the end. Smart and capable, she's proven to the most powerful being on the planet (farmboy turned savior Clark Kent) that she is trustworthy, and, as it was said before, loyal. She's sharp and quick-witted. Even if she knows someone doesn't want her around, she's right there anyway. If there's an unwillingness to share right away, that's fine, because there's always a chance she'll be back for round two. She doesn't back down easily, that's true, but she can respect when someone doesn't want to share right away.

Bold and brazen are two words that can always be found when looking Lois Lane up in the proverbial dictionary. Dangerous situations are like breathing to her. She can rush into them without a second thought, though, more often than not, that can usually lead to a bad experience. But she's not one to let those get her down. If anything, they just make her more determined. Independent is easily another word to describe Lois. She does things solo, and that's a-okay for her. Her blunt, snarky remarks are more than enough to send people away, or at least be less-inclined to want to spend more time with her than necessary. Though she doesn't like to do it, she can admit when she's wrong about something, and she will back off if you plead your case properly.

For all of her brash, blunt, and stubborn traits, Lois is still an incredibly kind and compassionate individual. She's always there (or at least tries to be in one way or another) for those she is close to, to comfort if it's required. She doesn't like seeing the people she cares about in pain, emotional of physical.

A natural skeptic, she is almost constantly sorting through what's true and what's false. When you're career involves you interviewing people who might invent even taller tales just to get a little extra time in the limelight, you have to have a sharp sense of it. Lucky for the Planet (and unlucky for some of her interviewees), Lois is one of the best.

Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations:

( - ) Lois is only human - one who has more curiosity than the cat, and whose many special skills involve her getting into all sorts of trouble. She finds herself in life and death situations on a frequent basis, and if it weren't for a certain friend in red and blue, her obit would have been in the Planet long before the movie was over. So yeah, she's vulnerable to bullets, having things fall on her, falling out or off of objects, dangerous alien technology, and anything else that can kill a human.

( + / - ) Being a former army brat, she no doubt has some physical combat training. Handling alien weaponry, however? A totally different ball-game.

( + ) She's smart, and very good at her job as an investigative reporter. Lois is excellent when it comes to her research and tracking down leads.

( - ) Stubborn and reckless. As you can guess, not always the best combo.

Inventory:

[1] Kryptonian breathing mask x
[1] Kryptonian key x
[1] Everyday Earth outfit (blouse, vest, dress pants, heels) x

Appearance:

Amy Adams as Lois Lane.

Age: There's never a specified age set for her, so for now, let's just say 33-35.

AU Clarification:

S A M P L E S
Log Sample:

She doesn't know how long they've been there for. Minutes? Hours? Days? All Lois Lane is acutely aware of is the man in her arms. Because, she permits herself to think. That's all he is right now. Just a man, who had the weight of the world - two worlds - on his shoulders. Her hands run soothingly through his hair, only small comfort at best.

Superman's cry of anguish still pulses in her ears. It's a sound Lois wont forget any time soon. She knows it wasn't just Superman expressing his grief. It was Clark Kent, who can't stand the thought that the lives of the many out way the lives of the few. She knows him well-enough from just these past few days to see that with his abilities, he thinks he can still save everyone. Even when Jonathan Kent told him he shouldn't. It was Kal-El, who couldn't make his people understand that ideally, Krypton and Earth could live as one. But even he must have known that that could never be. The Kryptonian titans would have snuffed out the human race without so much as batting an eyelash.

He's not shaking with sobs, or moaning out of grief. He's not doing or saying anything, other than holding on to her like she's some sort of lifeline. For a moment, she almost thinks he isn't breathing, until there's a puff of air warming through the hip of her flight suit.

A noise prompts Lois to lift her gaze. The terrified, near-victim family picks their way through the wreckage, giving their savior and the corpse of their would-be murderer a wide berth. Superman is on his feet faster than a speeding bullet, his gaze locked on the people before him. The family freezes, obviously petrified that he might just attack them the way Zod did. Lois is exhausted, but not exhausted enough to not feel annoyance. He just saved your lives! she's tempted to snap. Don't look at him like he's one of them.

Because he's not. He's better than they are.

The little girl sees that. She tugs out of her mother's grip, ignoring the soft protests that come with it. She trips forward until the toes of her shoes are touching Superman's. Huge eyes blink up and up, meeting the shocked eyes of the man clad in red and blue. A shy, "Thank you" is uttered, before small arms wrap around his waist.

Lois can see that he's stunned. It takes a few seconds, but eventually, he hugs her back. The girl simply seems to disappear in those arms that are stronger than steel, but will hold you more gently than a mother with her newborn baby. Sheer relief pours off of Superman in waves, making it undoubtedly clear that this one, small action means the world to him. Lois smiles faintly at the family, who shift nervously in response. When the girl rejoins them, they nod slowly, backing off until they are out in the street.

Silence follows. They both look at one another for a moment, saying more than words could even come close to. Quietly, Superman moves towards Zod's body. Stooping, he picks the impressive form up in his arms with something that could almost account for tenderness. Lois doesn't look at the way the head lolls, or the bone that sticks out from the neck. Her gaze never leaves the Man of Steel.

He can't let the government get their hands on Zod's body, he explains, and Lois agrees. The last thing they want is for the station to turn into the next Area 51. He wants to give Zod a proper send-off by Kryptonian standards.

"Even after everything... It's the least he deserves."

Lois wonders what big daddy El will say about that.

They share another look. Lois knows that if it was a different time and place, more would be said. But there's not much two people can really share in the middle of the biggest wreckage a city has ever seen, with the body of one of the culprits between them.

Even if they did share... something not long before this. It's not exactly the thing to be thinking about in the here and now.

Sirens sound outside, and Superman leaves her with a promise.

He'll be back.

Well, it's not like no other man has ever said that before.

Comms Sample:

[ The feed buzzes to life. Lois peers at the camera for a moment, but the only expression that really shows on her face is frustration. Here is someone who can barely change the toner in her photocopier, and now she has to learn how to use... this. This alien tech really is going to be the death of her. ]

Hi. Lois Lane, Daily Planet. [ It might be a long-shot here, but there's still some weird, thinly-veiled hope that someone might have heard of the newspaper. ] Well, if there's one thing to say off the bat, at least this ship is gentler on your lungs. [ She pauses, glancing away briefly, as she gathers her thoughts. When she turns back, there's a determined look in her eye. ] If anyone could give me the full explanation on the 'why are we here', that would be much appreciated. [ said in the type of tone that demands a no bullshit answer. ]

Thank you.