repmetsyrrah Cub Reporter Offline I Love Superman Posts: 61 Joined: Mar 26th, 2009 FDK- Revelations- Ch 10/? Sep 5th, 2009 at 5:22am Starting the thread... IP Logged
Brin_Londo5 Cub Reporter Offline I Love Superman Posts: 178 Location: Missouri Joined: Oct 8th, 2008 Re: FDK- Revelations- Ch 10/? Reply #1 - Sep 6th, 2009 at 1:49am repmetsyrrah wrote on Sep 5th, 2009 at 5:22am:"The thing is, Mom's fully human, like 6 billion others on the planet, and Dad's fully Kryptonian. But we're not either of those- we're just stupid half-breeds." "Half-breeds? Ella, no one has ever called us that," he assured her. "We'll thanks to Dad's stupidity they will now, won't they?" She continued to glare at him, daring him to disagree. (SNIP) Dean remained in the tree a moment longer, before shooting into the sky and heading toward the Daily Planet. He'd promised not to mention anything to their father but Ella hadn't said anything about the others, and Dean knew he'd need all the help he could get if he was going to make his sister see how wrong she was. Wow. Where in the heck did she pick up those borderline racist ideas? Yeah, Den will need help figuring that out and then fixing it... IP Logged
Marcus Rowland Cub Reporter Offline Posts: 83 Location: London, United Kingdom Joined: Aug 17th, 2008 Re: FDK- Revelations- Ch 10/? Reply #2 - Sep 6th, 2009 at 10:37am That seems a really odd way of looking at things - Kryptonians and humans are pretty obviously the same species, otherwise kids would be impossible; you might need alien intervention to explain it, and there are obviously some differences (flight, invulnerability, etc.) which were maybe engineered into them by said intervening aliens, but they are no more alien as a species than (for example) Eskimos. Marcus L. Rowland&&Forgotten Futures: The Scientific Romance Role Playing Game WWW IP Logged
repmetsyrrah Cub Reporter Offline I Love Superman Posts: 61 Joined: Mar 26th, 2009 Re: FDK- Revelations- Ch 10/? Reply #3 - Sep 14th, 2009 at 9:30pm Brin_Londo5 wrote on Sep 6th, 2009 at 1:49am:Wow. Where in the heck did she pick up those borderline racist ideas? Yeah, Den will need help figuring that out and then fixing it... All will be revealed in time (the story is called Revelations after all Marcus Rowland wrote on Sep 6th, 2009 at 10:37am:That seems a really odd way of looking at things - Kryptonians and humans are pretty obviously the same species, otherwise kids would be impossible; you might need alien intervention to explain it, and there are obviously some differences (flight, invulnerability, etc.) which were maybe engineered into them by said intervening aliens, but they are no more alien as a species than (for example) Eskimos. Really? I've never thought about it that hard but I think they're definitely different species. Perhaps the same genus or family though. (Like lions and tigers- different species who can breed- it's called a liger). But I'm basing Ella's feelings more on the people who feel ashamed to be half-black or something like that, back when it was a really big deal. IP Logged
Brin_Londo5 Cub Reporter Offline I Love Superman Posts: 178 Location: Missouri Joined: Oct 8th, 2008 Re: FDK- Revelations- Ch 10/? Reply #4 - Sep 14th, 2009 at 11:55pm True enough, but hybrids like Ligors and mules tend to be sterile, and (Pre-Crisis comics canon, I admit) in the future, one of Clark & Lois' descendants (Laurel Kent) is a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes. (I tend to remember her because she had one of the most risque' costumes in Legion history: ankle-boots, a black thong bottom, and a red serape' or poncho with the S-shield along the bottom gold hem. And that's ALL she wore. ) IP Logged