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Why so silent good monsieurs?
Did you think that I had left you for good?
Have you missed me good monsieurs?
I have written you an opera!

Well, actually, more of a novel.

It has worked out to be a little over one hundred fifty thousand words. It is a little daunting, I admit.

I have an inclination to post a little scene each week, one thousand to fifteen hundred words. Two years in installments!

I should live so long.

I intend to post every Thursday or Friday without fail. You may post feedback here, or within the individual posts.

Dori Aandraison, the Rainbow Girl, has been good company during my long convalescence. Her story just sort of spun itself out.

This is the first draft, unedited, uncut.

It may become rather tedious for you.

But there is really no one else I can think of who would have any interest in it at all.

Still I hope you will enjoy Dori’s adventures in the 31st century.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0FjS3wQjno

This is really neat. Were any of the characters in previous threads in here? The name Chip is distantly familiar to me. Rainbow Girl is one of my favorite characters so I will be reading. I actually came up with some of my own ideas for children of Rainbow Girl, so if you ever would like to collaborate on something, please let me know!

I really enjoyed reading your first post Klar, I've missed your silver age inspired stories and am looking forward to more, more, more!

Emily Sivana:

I imagine this will be a very different Dori than you have envisioned.

I took Mr. Johns at his word, that Dori has a mysterious connection to the Emotional Spectrum, and does not really understand her powers. More will be revealed in Book One: Chapter Three.

Dori married the wealthy Irveang Polamar, but was tragically widowed as a relatively young woman. I imagine that her love for Irveang was real, and the loss has left her heartbroken. Unable to move on to another relationship as yet, children are therefore not really part of her immediate future.

Her continuing connections with the Polamar family will be further explored in this extended fanfic.

You once expressed an interest in collaborating on a Rainbow Girl / Color Kid team-up. Unfortunately, I ended up writing a couple all by myself! Ulu will also show up in Dori’s story again some time in the future.

Dori’s turn in the U.P. Diplomatic Corps started when she teamed up with Ulu, in the matter of the Legion of Substitute Heroes and Throon. Her ambassadorial career lasted nearly a decade, but ended before the current story begins.

Come to think of it, perhaps you could point me to your list of Dori’s kids: with your permission, they might visit Earth-K as adults from an alternate dimension in a couple of years. (First Life Time)

Or, perhaps we could co-create another paracosm for Dori.

Omni:
This is Dori’s story, so any appearances of other characters are only as second-tier actors. There are ten trillion Terrans in the known Galaxy, and uncounted trillions more humanoid aliens, so the chances of meeting old friends are… actually, pretty good. We will definitely be seeing a little more of the gang at Lightning Ring Farms—the extended family may be larger than you imagine!

Batch SW6 exists in this paracosm, which means there are two sets of the Three Founders, and many possibilities for permutations of generations. The Batch SW6 characters, teaming with others, eventually evolve into something similar to the Reboot Legion, known on Earth-K are ‘Legion 1.5’. At the point where our story begins, the adventures in the Kwaiverse and with Robotica have already occurred.

And, of course, in ten years or so, Pol II will go on to join Legion 2.O as ‘Magnet Boy’. But that is outside the scope of this novel.

Invisible Brainiac:
Nice to be back. Perhaps sometime I will give you all a litany of the health problems that kept me incommunicado for the past nearly a year.

Harbinger:

Thank you for all your kind words.

Don't worry. There is more. Much More.

Feel free to share about your health problems any time, Klar. If you need a listening ear to vent, I'm here.

Loved your story, Klar. The mentions of Zoe and Jazmin existing in this reality warm my heart, as are the mentions of the whole Legion 1.5.

Chip! Nice to see a part of Blok. I'm loving the scenes with the kids, always nice to see the family lives of the Legionnaires.

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone at Yuletide!

Also love the friendship between Dori and Lydda, so natural.

Might I also suggest you link between your two threads? That will help keep either from being buried in the forum, there is a lot of activity in Bits now

Here is the link to one post: http://www.legionworld.net/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=102539#Post102539

Please overlook the codenames; they are painful for me to look at in retrospect. I don't know what I was thinking.

I was thinking initially of doing a story involving the oldest child being kidnapped by a villain looking for the Lantern entities. Other kids at the Legion Academy would be sent to rescue him as everyone else is busy or maybe the Legion proper disbanded.

Though when I think about it a mercenary story involving the youngest son would probably be the funnest to write. I can see him sort of running away from home to join a mercenary squad. He would be a bit like Ed from "Cowboy Bebop"; the kid everyone underestimates until they need him.

The writer of fiction, no matter how edgy or unorthodox, is stuck with a simple and unalterable truth.

Literature is, inescapably, an act of seduction, whether the writher hopes to seduce millions with a story of an adolescent vampire in love, or a handful of readers, wh are willing to take a darker, stranger, more enigmatic ride.

Which involves a certain element of what I’ll call: You Won’t Believe What Happened Next.

-- Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize Winner for The Hours (1998)

I realize that I am writing for a very small audience: only three or four. But I am sure that of the seven billion other inhabitants of Earth-Prime, there are very, very few-- if any-- who would be interested in my take on 'Rainbow Girl'.

So, I post here. In bite-sized chunks.

Someday I am going to have to investigate this location in the 31st century:

[color:#99FF99]The Greater Green River Intergalactic Spaceport[/color]

So with Book Six we finally get a super-hero battle... but it occurs "off-panel".

Well, there are plenty of other stories on the board with swell hero-on-villain action. Dori just has a quieter life.

Right now.

The Rainbow Girl series was written while I was extremely bored in Arkham the hospital between November 2014 and March 2015.

Unfortunately, it was written out longhand in notebooks provided by my grand-daughter.

It is taking me quite some time to transcribe it all into electronic format.

But hey, what better hobby for an old man to pursue?

Dori is both passionate and mercurial. She tends to throw herself whole-heartedly into an enterprise, but then will suddenly lose interest, and move on to something else.

This is why each Rainbow Girl "Book" can be read pretty much separately.

Gaal Jindrich is based on an actual person I knew back in the 1960’s.

He made his fortune during the Alaskan Gold Rush. He invested his money in a luxury retirement home and hospital. At least one of the doctors in his hospital had been poached from the local University Medical Center, and was an M.D. / Ph.D in geriatric medicine. There was a walking garden on the property with flowers and wild strawberries. The kitchen-cafeteria was open 24/7.

He and his wife planned to eventually sell their home and check themselves into their own retirement home when they were no longer able to take care of themselves. All the staff knew it.

I worked there cleaning the pool.

Well, I spent the last week in prison the hospital, for my annual bout with bronchial pneumonia.

My days were brightened by my granddaughter, who dropped by for an extracurricular lesson in poetic textual analysis, also known as “help with my homework, Grandpa”.

Bright girl. She is determined to write a poem in alternating lines of pyrrhic trimeter and tribrachic dimeter.

And the… it was… so we…
It was of, so we did.

I had debated whether or not to include the 19th & 20th century poetry in Book Nine. But that's the way it was written, that's the way it came to me, so I decided to be loyal to the creative choices of my past self.

I found it necessary to create quite a number of original characters as Dori explores the Earth-K paracosm. I think this is a complete list. Some of them have not been introduced on this board yet.

Dori’s Family & Other Xolnarans
Andres Aandraison, Dori's Father
Eva Jindrich, Dori's Mother
Gaal Jindrich, Dori's Uncle
Natalia Kovsky, Gaal Jindrich's wife
Alder Lokasenna, Dori's Attorny on Xolnar
Mr. & Mrs. Toorbin, Dori's Renters
Baby Girl Toorbin, Dori's Renters
Dockmaster Belinda
Unnamed 2nd Dockmaster
Unnamed Appliance Salesman

From Iridium House on Earth
Ellyn McIlhenny, (Mrs. McIlhenny's Granddaughter)
Miri McLeod (Goblin Girl), Butler-in-Training (Mrs. McIlhenny's Niece)
Mr. Robertson, Handyman
Mrs. Banx, Housekeeper
Mrs. Brill, Cook
Mrs. McIlhenny, Butler
Wonn Ez, the Gardener
Wonn Ez (female), the Gardener's Wife
3 Xudaran Children, the Gardener's Children

Other Earthers
Mari Polamar, Dori's Cousin-by-marriage
Baron Rocksalt, Dori's Friend
Baroness Rocksalt, Dori's Friend
Bil Katz, Code Name 'Pimpernel'

From Jahnson’s World
Bernardine (Bunny) Chandrasekhar, Ennis Jahnson's Chief of Staff
Olea Sharrik, Bunny’s Husband
Marrita Sharrik, Bunny & Olea's Daughter
Reina Zenon, Ennis Jahnson's Ex-Wife
Cacia Jahnson, Ennis Jahnson's Daughter
Ciardo Jahnson, Ennis Jahnson's Son
Judith Gideon
Xiphias Gideon
Josh (Joshua) Gideon, Judith & Xiphias’s son
Cal (Caleb) Gideon, Judith & Xiphias’s son
Moe (Moises) Gideon, Judith & Xiphias’s son
Miriam Gideon, Judith & Xiphias’s daughter
Giulio Kerioth, Judith Gideon’s uncle
Nurse Dora (Titan)
Nurse Gemma (Bokkite)
Thom Greyson
Jorn Albens (Papa Bear)
Manna Albens (Mama Bear)
Joss Albens (Baby Bear)
Bell Aden, Josh’s fiancé
Mr. & Mrs. Aden, Bell’s parents
Dr. MacArthur, Bell's doctor
Dr. Foster Mumby, Dori's OB/Gyn
Dr. Leslie Marion, Dori's Pediatrician
Meredith, Dori's daughter

Members of the Legion Academy
Aalma Atlew of Carggg, Positive / Negative Girl
Ludi Jarb of Txanz, Pitagora Girl
Seven of Kurlijo, Symbiote
Will Gibbs of Faustoll, Fizz

Members of The Substitute Legion of Super-Heroes of Throon
Kid Coma
Thylakus
Willow
the Glass Cat
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Girl
Adonais of Geeqou, Prince Charming
Beauregarde Boulang of Auxgate, Pastry Chef Kid
Madeline Proost of Auxgate, Cake-Frosting-Hair Girl
Rhoda of the Citrus Clan, of the Jade People of Lapidarius Yu , Goldbrick
Flavour Lass
Kid Viscera
Rock-Softener Lad
Hippopotomaiden
Papagena
(plus a cast of thousands)

Members of the New Legion of Substitute Heroes of Earth
Adrianna Nocks of Kathoon, Owl Girl
Algolla Drang of Planet Langstrom, GirlBat
Amge Jyoti of Earth, Tiny Alice
Dagny Wentimm of Zwen, Rock Lass
Groucharpchix of the Hydra World, Triple-Threat
Kalr Zlotny of Tharr, Cold Kid
Maryaliza Niwtyn-LaFeaugh of Earth, Eye-Stalker
Thello Baekt of Somathur, Allergen Boy
Vajezatha of Fwang, Fortress Lad Two
Vera Danforth of Earth, ‘K’

Others
Ngyah Ngyah Ngyang of Maltus
Qwon Quinn Qwagga of Maltus
Reqluus, the Lone Controller
The Associate, another Controller,
The Seventh Son of Darkseid,
Jon Apollo, a Demon
Stewart Farmer, the “Unknown Hero”
Thuvia Carter Allon, Gim's 2nd Wife
Elijah Allon, Gim & Thuvia's Son
Juula Daggle, Reep's Wife
Reneé Daggle, Reep & Juula's Daughter
Jacques Daggle, Reneé's twin brother
Dryscoll Foccart, Drura & Jacque's Daughter
Aaron & Lloyd Taine, Chuck & Lluornu's bouncy, triplicating twin sons
Chip, parthenogenetic son of Blok
Violet Ranzz
Princess Lycanna Brianna Valiente Voxvanna Annaxandra Londo Vauxhall of Orando, (the Wolf Princess)
Princess Mynaudra Nahtahnie-Mallor, Grev & Kahnya's Daughter
Kitsune Dogstar (aka Dudley Sirius) (first appeared in my Subs story)
T'Proot the Mock, of Arbro

So with Book 12, Dori tries to go back to an ordinary, mundane life. Not much super-heroing in these chapters. Move on, move on, nothing to see here.

I have an itch to write The Untold Adventures of Candi and Jan, a Monstress-Alchemist teamup. Maybe next year. Maybe 2018.

I have a Monstress story, I, Monstress that has been percolating in my head for the past decade. This isn’t the end: I have a vague idea of what will happen in the future. (Frankenstein will join Legion 2.5, for example, which means he needs to find his way back to U.P. Space somehow.) But for the time being, we must to leave her where she is.

This is a sort of prologue to my present Rainbow Girl series, and an introduction to the ‘Earth-K’ paracosm generally:

“How It All Started”
http://www.legionworld.net/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=818730&page=1

This is how it really all started:

“Why You Don’t Want Me To Write The Legion”
http://www.legionworld.net/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=765725#Post765725

And here are a few more of my pieces set in my ‘Earth-K’ paracosm:

“The Tragic Tale of Elastic Lass”

“Whatever Happened to Fruit Boy”

“The Talok Awakening”

“The Death of Lightning Lad”

“Duplicate Boy and Shrinking Violet Have ‘The Talk’”

The following was written when I was ‘Tom Tanner Issue #1’:

The First Legion

TIME AND THE SILVER AGE

Lena Thorul first appeared in Superman’s Girlfriend, Lois Lane in 1961.She was Lex Luthor’s younger sister. It had already been firmly established that Luthor had been a peer and classmate of Clark Kent in Smallville. Lena was ten or fifteen years his junior. When it became apparent that Lex had become a teen-aged super-criminal, Lex’s parents disowned him, changed their last name to Thorul, and moved away from Smallville. Lena was too young to have clear memories of Lex; her parents told her her older brother had died in a tragic mountain-climbing accident.

Later, Lena was orphaned by a more mundane automobile accident.

In typical DC it’s-a-small-world fashion, the teen-aged Lena eventually became acquainted with Lois Lane (some ten or fifteen years her senior), and Linda Danvers (her peer). Eventually, she became acquainted with Superman himself. All these members of the Superman family, through some plot device I cannot recall, were aware that Lena was Lex’s sister, as was Luthor himself. This presented something of a problem, as Lena was a powerful telepath. It was necessary for them to constantly shield their minds in her presence, lest she discover her true identity. Despite mental enhancements being characteristic of her family, she was evidently not good at anagrams.

As the years rolled by, Superman, Lois, and Luthor remained the same age (29, I understand) but Lena grew up. As an adult, she married Jeff Colby, an FBI agent who was acquainted with Lex in an official capacity. Lena’s husband died of a space-disease or something, but not before they had a son, Val. Being a Luthor, he was gifted with powerful telekinetic abilities, and by 1978, Val looks to be about ten years old.

Val Colby

(There is a very cute story where Luthor breaks out of prison to secretly give his nephew a birthday present- a super-stretchy Superman cape.)

So here is ageless Lex Luthor, not yet thirty, interacting with the 10-year-old son of his fifteen-year-younger sister.

The main characters don’t age. The supporting cast does.

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Van-Zee of Kandor was a distant cousin of Superman’s, who looked exactly like him. On an enlarged visit to Earth, he married Sylvia DeWitt, an Earthling heiress, (who was an exact physical duplicate of Lois Lane) who returned to Kandor with him.

Oddly enough, he also made his first appearance in Superman’s Girlfriend, Lois Lane. Van-Zee took over the original Kandorian Nightwing identity from Superman; his niece’s husband, Ak-Var, took over the Flamebird identity from Jimmy Olsen.

[url=http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rLV-ZuNPwJ4/SD2zwuuaW1I/AAAAAAAABjQ/AVTnQyTQwe8/s400/lois_lane_021_10.jpg]Lois plays peeping-tom with the Van-Zee family[/i]

Sylvia and Van-Zee eventually had twins: a boy named Lyle and a girl named Lili. I guess that would be Lyle-Zee and Lili Van-Zee, using the Kryptonian naming conventions at the time. By the time Superman had finally enlarged Krypton, and created the world of Rokyn, they were (at least) pre-teens, and Van-Zee was an elder statesman in Kandor.

Meanwhile, Superman and Lois just… well nothing.

If the Silver Age Earth-1 had survived to today, Val Colby and Lili Van-Zee might be the parents of a teen-aged super-girl, one-quarter Kryptonian, with psychic powers…

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Here is a partial list of DC comics characters who look *exactly* like Superman. (Or, Clark Kent) Enough to be mistaken for him.

“Brat” Derek, aka Super-Menace
Bizarro Bizarro
Carl Markson, Jr.
Dan Smith
Dasher Drape
Dazor
Dik-Zee
Don-El
Dr. Richard Occult
Erok-El
Gregory Reed
Guy Vandevier
Gypo
Harry Winters
Houdini Watson
Hyperman of Oceania
Jack Wilde
Joe Poleski
John Corben
Kell-Orr of Xenon
Lionel Maxwell
Mala
Manuel Baez
Mark Benton
Marvel Man of Terra
Miggs
Ned Barnes
Prince Mark of Sardinia
Prince Rama of Bosmir
Ralph Bridgson
Roger Warner
Ronald van Horton
Roz-Em
Snake-Eyes Sullivan
Tom Tanner
Ursus
Van-Zee
Varn-Don
Vol-Don
Zak-Kul


This is likely a result, in part, of Golden Age and Silver Age stories being retold over and over again.

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The Legion aged gradually, from teens to young adults. The Bierbaums even devised a standard: two years real time was equal to one year comic time.

After the five-year gap, time really caught up with the Legion. In more ways than one.

In the Earth-K paracosm, time still marches on.

At this point in the story, (Book 15) the original Legionnaires are mostly in their mid-forties. Most of the Subs are only a few years younger.

The Batch SW6 Legionnaires appear to be in their late twenties or early thirties.

Graym, Garridan, and Ivy are fifteen or sixteen by now, and forming their own Legion.

Dori Aandraison is fifty, Ennis Jahnson is fifty-two or fifty-four.

And they will continue to age.

And of course, each character is developing a history which is increasingly hard to follow. This would not make a satisfactory comic book at all.

But I am continuing to post here because, who else would be interested?