#clones

A huge, sad whale eye the colour of wine stared at the knight. She could see her reflection in the jelly surface.

“We don’t know what it is,” she heard. “Some kind of monster that makes a perfect copy of whatever it eats. They think that was how the Dark Lord made his armies, feeding his minions to it so that it would make hundreds of copies of them. Do you recognize it?”

The knight opened her mouth. She hesitated. “Yeah,” she murmured, drawing out the word. “We found it in the Dark Lord’s tower, right?”

“That’s right. That’s where it ate you.”

The knight turned around and looked at her other reflection. This one appeared to be about ten years older, and had doffed her armor for a loose blue tunic and breeches.

She was holding a cup of tea. She had pressed another cup into the knight’s hand when she woke up here. It had been a shock finding herself suddenly out the obsidian dungeons of the Dark Lord’s tower and into this tall room of stone and straw. The warmth of it in her hands steadied her a bit.

“Everyone else in the party was worried, but then it started making copies of you,” the copy went on, staring up at the tentacled thing. “And all of the copies helped fight against the Dark Lord, and we won, and peace was restored across the land, but then nobody could figure out how to kill the damn thing or just to make it stop. Dozens of copies of us in a day, hundreds in a week, and then someone decided that the only thing we could do is just bring the thing here, seal it off and hope it starved to death.”

She sipped her tea. “Anyways, that was two-hundred years ago and it’s slowed down a bit. It can only make a new copy of us every few weeks now.”

The knight looked down into her tea. The copy had also draped a blanket over her shoulders.

“I have so many questions,” she said.

“I figured.”

It’s a running joke in all my dc x dp fics that either Danny or Ellie always suggest that conner should try killing clark to break the ice between them, but it would be hilarious if it actually worked.

So phantom is in the Justice league but they have no idea Spectre/ellie is his clone. It just never really came up so they think she’s actually his cousin.

So Ellie pops by mount Justice to mess with the protégés and is thrown off by superboy because she had no idea superman had a kid.

Things are a bit awkard until Robin introduces Ellie to Conner and explains that he’s actually Superman’s clone.

Ellie does not react the way any one would expect.

Something like:

“Nice! You should definitely bully him into helping you with a costume upgrade! The T-shirt and baggy pants are cool, but you could totally do better.” She said with a sharp grin.

Conner glared at the floating menace, “we aren’t exactly on speaking terms at the moment.” He spat out, ready to turn and leave when she spoke up again.

“Oh? Have you tried killing him yet? It does wonders breaking the tension!” She said, laying on her stomach in mid air like an annoying impression of the Cheshire Cat.

“What the hell!?!? I’m not some crazed lunatic! Why the hell would I try to kill superman!?!” Conner lashed out, held back by aqualad and m’gann

Ellie looked at him, confusion flashing across her face, “dude, you gotta try to kill him at least once, get it out of your system yknow?” She said, looking weirdly supportive. “Trust me, it does wonders establishing boundaries with your template.”

“And what the hell would you know about it??!!!” Conner yelled.

Ellie looked at him with a deadpan before turning to Robin, “wait, did you not tell him???”

“Tell him what?” Robin asked as he typed out a message to batman.

“That I’m a clone, duh!” They all froze, turning to Ellie like she just told them the world was flat but she just waved them off. “I mean, i get that it can be kinda awkward to bring up, but it feels like something you should have told him.”

She rolled her eyes. “Anyway, there’s a party in china I don’t wanna miss, so I’m gonna go,” she pointed at Conner “I’m serious though, you gotta try killing him, it really helps.”

Later after the team scrambles to get more info on Ellie and confirm she is in fact Phantoms clone…

Conner was only in Metropolis for 10 minutes before superman approached him.

“What are you doing here? You should be with the team.” He was ready to call batman to have him pick up superboy when Conner started rubbing the back of his neck and looked around nervously.

“I-uh-I’m here to try killing you.” He flinched at the glare Superman gave him. “Spectre said it was a good clone ice breaker, it I-uh, didn’t think it would be a good idea to try here so I was wondering if there was somewhere with less people around or-“

Conner just continues to ramble and Clark has to hold back a laugh at this awkward kid trying to work out the details of where and when he should try to kill him and Clark…

OBI WAN DROPPED HIS LIGHTSABER AGAIN

Recently I’ve been working on drawing as many different clone helmets as I can think of, and this is the result! I’ve actually drawn quite a few more clones than these, chances are if you don’t see your favourite copy paste man here I have already drawn him I just had to limit the number to 50 as these are going to be stickers available via gacha at a couple upcoming cons :)