UPDATED SUPERMAN DR INTRO!!
this is important so here!
so to start off, i come from the rao system’s concord, a red star civilization made up of six core terrestrial worlds that functioned like one singular unit instead of completely independent nations. each planet had a role. boron handled our concord’s energy production. phalon preserved biodiversity, medicine, ecological engineering, and historical archives. krypton produced defenders, explorers, and officers. daxam handled diplomacy and law. thalon built all major megastructures and architectural systems. and our colony argo specialized in astrophysics and navigation. beyond them were outer systems like dheron (a planet we’d long rejected from our alliance for being power hungry and exploitative) and thoron (a neutral people that ended up being intimidated into working with dheron’s forces). they became the eventual reason for our system destabilizing and the destruction of our worlds.
i, sol-ari, originate from phalon, the conservator world. while clark kent, known elsewhere as kal-el, comes from krypton, the defender world. both of us carry mixed traces of multiple worlds due to centuries of interplanetary integration. this caused many of our natural instincts to be quite aligned even though we grew up with different ideologies.
it should be known that our bodies develop differently because of our natural attunement to a red sun. when clark and i came to earth, it was 1971. we were both babies. and we continued to age like human children up until 24 years of age when our rapid growth suddenly plateaud into a state of maintenance. it’s presently 2032 in my dr and he and i have only physically aged a couple years since turning 24. this is because by early adulthood, our cells shift into solar assisted repair instead of purely focusing on growth. and on top of that, my phalonian adaptation is slightly more efficient due to our planet’s closer orbit to rao, giving me a minor advantage in energy absorption, endurance, and recovery.
on earth, i live under the identity solana mercer, usually called lana. i run and work within a massive metropolitan conservatory that functions as both botanical archive and living ecosystem hub, located within the city’s prettiest architectural center. clark works at the daily planet as a reporter, though his public identity as superman becomes globally known after he chooses to reveal himself in response to information tied to his origins.
his emergence unintentionally draws attention from the forces that destroyed our system but they won’t show up in bulk for at least another year or so.
our first official meeting happens at the conservatory during a press visit for an extinct plant rediscovery. he interviews me before either of us know each other’s secret identities. later, when we come into contact again it’ll become apparent that we’re the last children of our red sun. and while he’s open and curious and wanting to learn more about me, i’m very closed off and (honestly) kinda pissed he exposed himself to the humans. clark explained that he did it to try to lure me to him, and that it was the information that he wasn’t alone on this world that finally made him come out officially since he’d already been saving humans secretly nearly his whole life. knowing he had dawned the suit to get my attention had an opposite effect on me though, and i promptly left the scene before our conversation could continue.
we don’t align at all at first. i resisted his pursuits, avoiding him despite our repeated collisions as he tried to understand me and i tried (and failed) to maintain distance. it became a pattern of near-meetings across the city, always orbiting the conservatory and the daily planet, until that stopped being sustainable. eventually, clark managed to corner me again and this time, it was long enough that i couldn’t run off. that’s when our relationship truly began to develop and take strides. but it’s also when it became dlesr that my avoidance of the naive hero had little to do with him and everything to do with my own past.
you see, there’s a relationship from my past that shaped my stance on attachment and time. it ended roughly a decade before present events after longevity differences became impossible to ignore. we’d met when we were both still young. when i was still growing at the normal human rate. but when my growth rate stopped while theirs continued… well… that history is part of why i resist connecting with clark even though i do feel something brewing between us.
we complete each other in a strange way. clark is instinctively protective and extroverted. i am driven by self preservation and highly introverted. together, we mirror the original split in our worlds: defender and conservator, force and atmosphere. on top of that, our abilities aren’t exact replicas of one another, they express themselves according to our specific planetary adaptations. for instance, clark’s abilities manifest as raw output expressed through his strength, flight, and heat ray vision. he directly projects all his stored solar energy outward, making him more physically dominant and like a force that can’t be stopped.
whereas my abilities lean more toward controlling the environment around me rather than purely projecting my will onto any given environment. i can generate force fields which allow me to manipulate the energy within them while also preserving that which might be harmed by external forces from getting damaged. my force fields act as shields but also generators. it is not uncommon of me to use them in a way where i can lift or redirect objects (essentially a cheat code to telekinesis as well).
it should also be mentioned that i did not arrive on earth alone. i was placed under the protection of a phalonian guardian who had once served directly under my biological family and swore an oath to keep me safe, no matter what. they raised me, keeping us off the grid and moving locations whenever there was even the slightest risk of detection. i was allowed to experience the world but in fragments that they controlled and permissed, using my abilities only in isolation where no human could see me. despite the secrecy and instability, i was not deprived of love.
however, when a signal tied to some recently discovered ancient raoan aircraft compromised our location, my guardian made the decision to go off-world in that same ship and draw the attention of the threat away from earth entirely. they did not fully disclose the scope of what was coming, only enough to ensure i would survive if their plan succeeded, and before leaving they revealed that i was not the only survivor from our system on earth. and that’s why when clark exposes himself i’m so vexed by him. because all it reminds me of is the sacrifice my guardian made to protect me and how even a little bit of exposure could lead our enemies right back to us.
so my dr is about me standing up to my fear and choosing to share in the hope clark brings to the world, and also continue the legacy of our home planets by preserving and defending the earth, as our destinies always intended. <333
