Lois Lane

## Background

### 1975 - 1992: Lois Lane

Lois is the oldest of two daughters born to carrer military officer Sam Lane & his wife Ella Lane. Raised an army brat, she spent most of her life moving around between Asia & Europe. But no matter what school she attended, Lois excelled in all of her studies & made the time to join the school's newspaper.

Lois' extracurricular took a back seat when she was fifteen after the passing of her mother at the military base in Germany. She essentially became a second parent to her younger sister Lucy that day & began taking care of household tasks to help unburden her father. Now raising two young teenager girls on his own, Samuel decided to move back stateside to give his children some sense of normalcy.

### 1992 - 1999: Lois Lane

It was Lois' senior year when the family settled in the city of Metropolis. She finished the year with flying colors & earned herself a schoalrship to Metropolis University's renowned journalism program. During her second year there, she approached Perry White at the Daily Planet to apply for an internship. Impressed with her stellar grades & previous works, he agreed to hire her with the promise to hire her full time if she showed him that she was had what it takes to get the good scoop. During her senior year of college, Lois wrote a highly acclaimed piece on the caped crusader across the bay in Gotham. She was hired on the spot.

Perry loved her article so much that he continued to send Lois the best stories. He eventually starting sending along cub reporter Clark Kent with her, believing the two would make a fine pair on paper. When Metropolis had their own personal hero arrive, it was Lois that got the interview & wrote the article that won her a Pulitzer Prize (her first). Little did Lois know at the time but Superman was none other than her meek co-worker, longtime reporter rival & the man that had a crush on her for years. She even gave him the name Superman after printing her story with the title, *MYSTERIOUS SUPERMAN SAVES THE DAY!*

### 1999 - Present: Lois Lane-Kent

Around the same time of Lois' many success at work, she got a surprise in her personal life. She was pregnant. After deciding to she wanted to keep the baby, she told her boyfriend Grant who was did not share the same ethusiasm as her. Long story short, Grant dipped on Lois without saying a word leaving her to then raise the child on her own. She confided in Clark a lot as they worked on their stories as she became increasingly more & more anxious on how to naviagte being a single mother.

But her growing anxiety led to a growing relationship with Clark, with the two starting to date when she was half way through her pregnancy. She tried to stress to Clark that he would be dating a woman who was having a child that wasn't even his but he was fully on board. He made her feel a lot better about it when he also decided to confide her that he was the Superman that she was so obsessed with. Lois still says it is one of the top five best moments of her life to realize that she was dating Superman. That spring, Lois gave birth to a babygirl named Ariella after her mother.

In Christmas 2002, Clark proposed to Lois & they were married the next summer. She continued balancing life as a mom, wife & investigative reporter but not without its surprised. In the years to become, Lois became a biological & adopted mother to many humans, Kryptonians & Kryptonian hybrids. With the amount of craziness in her life, she takes whatever private & peaceful time she can get.

## Romantic Relationships

* Bruce Wayne: Dated (1996)
* Grant Gabriel: Boyfriend (1997 - 1999)
* Clark Kent: Boyfriend (2000 - 2002); Fiancée (2002 - 2003); Husband (2003 - )

## Personality

As a result of her upbringing, Lois is strong, resourceful, persistent & mature beyond her years. She is a slightly impulsive, if not head-strong woman. Lois is intelligent & has an extremely witty sense of humor. Always quick with a joke or a clever comeback, she often uses sarcasm and random, obscure references to illustrate her point. She also takes charge of or takes over in most situations. Lois' familiar relationships give great insight into her motivations and actions.

Lois is a strong individual who has always stayed true to who she is. She is honest and only puts up a pretense when she is working undercover. Due to her unique personality & perceived shortcomings (stubbornness, boldness, lack of shame), she is often misunderstood or underestimated. However, her personality is exactly how she has managed to succeed as a journalist, as an investigator & as a mother.

Lois is known to be a strong and assertive woman, more than capable of handling herself in dangerous situations & often reminding Clark not to "beat around the bush." She is also kind & open-minded, never judging someone based on appearance or physiology. As a wife & mother, Lois is very warm & loving towards her husband & children.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Hand to Hand Combat**: Since an early age, Lois has been taught how to fight from her father. She was also trained by Batman who did it as a personal favor to Clark.
* **Investigation**: Lois also has extensive investigative skills owing to her long career as an investigative reporter. Like she is a reporter, she is skilled in investigating the cases she writes for the Daily Planet.
* **Journalism**: Lois Lane is the best reporter in the Daily Planet. She is known to do anything to get a story even risking her own life to get it. She won a Pulitzer prize for her story on Superman.
* **Multilingualism:** Lois speaks fluent English, Spanish & Arabic.
* **Weaponry:** She also was taught how to handle guns & knives from her father.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **Strength:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Speed:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Occult:** 1 - Nonexistent
* **Weapons:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Range:** 1 - Nonexistent
* **Strategy:** 2 - Impaired / Below Average
* **Combat:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **TOTAL:** 23 - Threat Level 0 / No Threat

## Trivia

* Sam Lane taught both Lois & Lucy the basics of how to fight. She admitted that even taught them to throw knives with their toes.
* Once she gets a story, she doesn't let it go until she gets to the bottom of it.
* Her favorite holiday is Christmas.
* She has a pet cat named Squeaky. Squeaky's brother is Streaky, the cat of Kara Kent.
* She uses the alias "Author X" when writing her more dangerous pieces (i.e. Intergang). She did it at Clark's insisting.
* Her cousin Chloe commented how Lois is exactly the type of woman Clark needs as she treats him as her equal & not her savior.
* She is an occassional smoker, though Clark made her quit. Its hard for her to even sneak a smoke from a man with a superhuman sense of smell.
* Charles McNider helped Lois following the births of all her babies as Kryptonian-human hybrids caused much stress on her body.
* Lois won Pulitizer Prizes in 1999 for Superman, 2009 for Gotham's No Man's Land & 2015 for the metahuman trafficking epidemic.

## Notes

* Lois relationship to Grant Gabriel is a nod to *Smallville*. However, he is not based on that character.