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Umm... /backs away slowly/ I doubt one could write Lois and Clark as fraternal twins and lovers without it coming across as weird...

That would definitely be a new one.

What might also happen is that Alt-Lois ended up, or almost-started-out as Lois's twin sister because somebody thought it fun to dump her in the delivery room. This we could get all the fun stuff with two Loises, one who's slightly wrong/out-of-place/off, with the resolution of sending her home, too, in the end. And yeah, I know there's been a fic once that hat Alt-Lois co-inhabit Lois's body.

Michael

Interesting theories. Particularly the Loises and Clark one

But I like the idea of having twin Clarks. I had an idea where Clark had a younger brother- but twins would be very interesting. Can you imagine poor Jonathan and Martha raising *twin* super-siblings back in Smallville? That would be difficult.

And as if Clark doesn't have enough identity crisis issues already! Really! The idea that he would take shifts being Superman with his brother rings true to me- but I think that Clark's twin would want to be his own person, and each individual would take shifts being Superman- but then that would further confuse Lois- and if she knew Clark and then met his twin, the idea of Clark or his brother ever being the *one* Superman would be confusing.

Assuming Clark's twin would be *good*. Maybe his/her nature would be evil, despite the loving family Jonathan and Martha provided. Then there would Superman and an equally powerful villain.

Evem better - what if Clark was a twin and his brother's/sister's navigational computer on his/her space ship was knocked out during the journey to Earth? Clark would still wind up in Kansas and be found by the Kents. But maybe his twin winds up crashing elsewhere and is found/raised by the Luthor family! He/She would be raised as Lex's sibling and perhaps wind up just as evil as Lex...Lex would have his very own, personal, anti-Superman/Superwoman.

Now that is scary.

I enjoy being evil every once in a while.

<<Hee-Hee>> Virginia R titters in her evil writer's laugh. "I've got another twisted take on this idea." she says, still tittering. <<Hee-Hee>> "I'm use it in my Green-Eyed Monster story if you're curious." <<Hee-Hee>>

"My apologies to Lois Lane," she belatedily apologizes, continuing to titter as she fades back into her writing. <<Hee-Hee>>

Sorry about my last post.

I'm feeling better now. Thank you.

Whoa, DC. I think you hacked my computer - maybe you're the reason why I've been having so many viruses and malware issues of late! I actually am WIP on a story like this... only it was for Superman fanverse not LnC and instead of being Clark's twin it's his younger bro who was kidnaped by the Luthors cuz they didn't realize there were two alien babies that crash landed, just thought one and Kents cant speak up or anything because they'd have to admit to finding alien babies and his brother grows up in a completely different environment... and now I've given away about 2 chaps of my plot Oh well.

Whoa, DC. I think you hacked my computer

I would never leave viruses behind. I might, however, change your background to shirtless Dean Cain pics.

I'd be interested in reading that story once you post it!

Sorry, buddy. But I beat you to the punch there Google images is one of my best friends, and Dean Cain is near the top of the box of things I commonly search... :p

I've got the S sheild as my current background.

Ah, but who's to say that a super sibling raised with Lex would be on Lex's side? If he ended up as evil and self-centered as Lex, I would think that Lex would end up squashed sooner rather than later. Sibling rivalry would be pretty unevenly matched in that scenario.

True, but Lex IS pretty manipulative! I'm sure he could find *some way* of controlling a super-sibling.

Which is exactly what makes Lex so pissy at Superman later on
And also, on a side note, depending on how it is that the super-sibling came to be apart of the Luthor household changes the sibling rivalry aspect. If kidnapped, then maybe there was kryptonite involved, and Clark's bro was forced to do bad stuff until he snapped or even just gave in to the dark side... or if just found by the luthors, then maybe he just grows up differently, not evil, and his "good son" act drives Lex off the deep end... *rambling thoughts inside my head* :rolleyes:

I just remembered that Lex was an orphan at the age of 13. Wonder what happened to his parents?

I'm certainly no comics expert but isn't there a tradition that Lex killed his own parents for the insurance money, which he used to start his financial empire?

Or am I mixing that up with Lionel Luthor from the "Smallville" TV show?

(too lazy right now to look this up properly)

I can't seem to get this thread out of my head.

I've got another scenario. What if Clark had multiple personalities. One was Clark, one was Superman. And he didn't know he was both men. It would be like twins only in the same body. And of course Lois didn't know they were the same man either.

Of course that would mean a whole different upbringing. Maybe it would work better for alt-Clark. Someone without a family.

I'm not sure how you would remedy it, but my guess it would be Lois's love that allow Clark to realize the greatness of both sides of himself and allow him finally be whole.

Interesting idea. Multiple or spilt personality is good. Somewhere on my computer I have a schizofrenic Clark scampering around, but it makes for an interesting subject... I might just drag him out for an appearance...

But back to your thing. That would be very interesting. For instance, how would he switch between Clark and Superman without realizing it? Would it just be him moonlighting in tights and not know it? And there's not really a down side to his second personality-- or would there be a down side simply because there are two different personalities? Lois falling for both would be a definite problem- if it were later on when she was actually dating him, maybe *she* would see the switch and make the connection, and probably be furious to start and think he's covering it up... ultimately I think it would be up to Lois to fix, whether she's aware of the change or not. And yes, it would work better for Alt-Clark, or an alternate Clark at least. Otherwise you would think that Martha and Jonathan would constantly jump in and gently break it to him, trying to keep him stable and that might make for a whole new slew of problems...

Goodness, now I've rambled. Look at the mess you made, Virginia... Maybe someone would like to clean this up for me?

There is a story with this premise. IIRC Lois discovers that sleepwalking Clark=Superman and then has to convince him that he is ala Nightfall. Good story but I don’t have the name at hand.

Going back to the original theme—what if it was Alt-Clark that almost-started-out as Clark’s twin? Suppose Tempus decides to dump Alt-Clark in Kansas right after Clark’s ship landed. Tempus gets a Clark-free zone and the Kents would find two babies, one in a spaceship built-for-one and another identical in every way outside the ship. Clark could be explained by the Cold War experiment/alien theory, but there wouldn’t be any reasonable explanation for Alt-Clark until Martha read about cloning in the late ‘70’s.