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Post by Starsky Hutch76 on May 3, 2021 14:33:48 GMT
Wow. The Earth-2 Luthor married the sister of his E-1 doppelganger and had a kid! Nasthalia is more Luthor than Luthor!
George R R Martin would approve.
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Post by DocQuantum on May 6, 2021 20:23:22 GMT
Great story! I liked the easter egg you left when you referred to the computer thinking 1976 and 1963 were the same year -- basically Earth-1 and Earth-2 time differences in play. I have an unfinished story that plays along similar lines. One question I had: did Alexei Luthor fully age for those 7 or so years while he was on Earth-1, so that he returned to 1943 almost a decade older? Or did some vagary of interdimensional time travel end up restoring him to his original age in 1943? Actually, another question: 1943 was also the year of Libbylawrence's epic time-travel story, The Space-Time Gambit (archived on our website here: www.5earths.info/earth-2/timespast/), which involves Luthor as one of the main villains. Would this story take place before or after that story? I suppose this story probably take place after, since by the time of The Space-Time Gambit Luthor didn't appear to have developed his own time travel inventions but instead relied on Dr. Doome's time travel machine. On the other hand, this story could take place before, and Luthor could have developed disdain for time travel based on his own "failure" resulting from this story. www.5earths.info/earth-2/dcu-e2-spacetimegambit-tp1943-01/
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Post by DocQuantum on May 6, 2021 20:27:26 GMT
Wow. The Earth-2 Luthor married the sister of his E-1 doppelganger and had a kid! Nasthalia is more Luthor than Luthor! George R R Martin would approve. Yeah, there's a bit of a creepy factor at play, though I'd guess genetically the two Luthors are fairly different, their DNA resembling that of cousins rather than brothers or twins. But the royalty aspect works for it, since we know royalty is traditionally very inbred. LOL
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Post by shlomo on May 6, 2021 23:19:40 GMT
Great story! I liked the easter egg you left when you referred to the computer thinking 1976 and 1963 were the same year -- basically Earth-1 and Earth-2 time differences in play. I have an unfinished story that plays along similar lines. One question I had: did Alexei Luthor fully age for those 7 or so years while he was on Earth-1, so that he returned to 1943 almost a decade older? Or did some vagary of interdimensional time travel end up restoring him to his original age in 1943? Actually, another question: 1943 was also the year of Libbylawrence's epic time-travel story, The Space-Time Gambit (archived on our website here: www.5earths.info/earth-2/timespast/), which involves Luthor as one of the main villains. Would this story take place before or after that story? I suppose this story probably take place after, since by the time of The Space-Time Gambit Luthor didn't appear to have developed his own time travel inventions but instead relied on Dr. Doome's time travel machine. On the other hand, this story could take place before, and Luthor could have developed disdain for time travel based on his own "failure" resulting from this story. www.5earths.info/earth-2/dcu-e2-spacetimegambit-tp1943-01/I'm going to rely on the vagaries of time travel. Honestly, for a moment, I considered explicitly mentioning that he aged, for the following reason. After Luthor's first three appearances, in Superman 5 he has grey hair, and in Superman 10 he's bald. This story would have been the explanation (and, obviously, have been set in 1940). Of course, then I remembered that the earth-2 Luthor never went bald, so I left aging unaddressed. Of course, if I really wanted to, I could say this is an untold story of Earth-2a, but that's not what we're here for. Yes, the Space Time Gambit. I chose 1943 as the year of this story because Luthor only made a single, cameo appearance from Sept. 1942 to Nov. 1944.
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Post by johnreiter902 on May 7, 2021 1:18:07 GMT
Great story! I liked the easter egg you left when you referred to the computer thinking 1976 and 1963 were the same year -- basically Earth-1 and Earth-2 time differences in play. I have an unfinished story that plays along similar lines. One question I had: did Alexei Luthor fully age for those 7 or so years while he was on Earth-1, so that he returned to 1943 almost a decade older? Or did some vagary of interdimensional time travel end up restoring him to his original age in 1943? Actually, another question: 1943 was also the year of Libbylawrence's epic time-travel story, The Space-Time Gambit (archived on our website here: www.5earths.info/earth-2/timespast/), which involves Luthor as one of the main villains. Would this story take place before or after that story? I suppose this story probably take place after, since by the time of The Space-Time Gambit Luthor didn't appear to have developed his own time travel inventions but instead relied on Dr. Doome's time travel machine. On the other hand, this story could take place before, and Luthor could have developed disdain for time travel based on his own "failure" resulting from this story. www.5earths.info/earth-2/dcu-e2-spacetimegambit-tp1943-01/It makes sense for it to be after the Space-Time Gambit. Luthor comments in the story that he was sure he could build his own time machine, better than Doome's, he just hadn't gotten around to it yet. It makes sense that after the adventure his ego would demand that he prove his boast by building his own time machine.
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Post by DocQuantum on May 7, 2021 18:17:04 GMT
It makes sense for it to be after the Space-Time Gambit. Luthor comments in the story that he was sure he could build his own time machine, better than Doome's, he just hadn't gotten around to it yet. It makes sense that after the adventure his ego would demand that he prove his boast by building his own time machine. I like that reasoning.
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Post by shlomo on May 7, 2021 18:36:55 GMT
Thank you. I have edited the story, and you also helped with a bit of a plot-hole, actually.
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Post by Starsky Hutch76 on May 14, 2021 3:59:12 GMT
Great story! I liked the easter egg you left when you referred to the computer thinking 1976 and 1963 were the same year -- basically Earth-1 and Earth-2 time differences in play. I have an unfinished story that plays along similar lines. One question I had: did Alexei Luthor fully age for those 7 or so years while he was on Earth-1, so that he returned to 1943 almost a decade older? Or did some vagary of interdimensional time travel end up restoring him to his original age in 1943? Actually, another question: 1943 was also the year of Libbylawrence's epic time-travel story, The Space-Time Gambit (archived on our website here: www.5earths.info/earth-2/timespast/), which involves Luthor as one of the main villains. Would this story take place before or after that story? I suppose this story probably take place after, since by the time of The Space-Time Gambit Luthor didn't appear to have developed his own time travel inventions but instead relied on Dr. Doome's time travel machine. On the other hand, this story could take place before, and Luthor could have developed disdain for time travel based on his own "failure" resulting from this story. www.5earths.info/earth-2/dcu-e2-spacetimegambit-tp1943-01/It makes sense for it to be after the Space-Time Gambit. Luthor comments in the story that he was sure he could build his own time machine, better than Doome's, he just hadn't gotten around to it yet. It makes sense that after the adventure his ego would demand that he prove his boast by building his own time machine. I vaguely remember a story with the e-1 story where a time traveler was stuck in the 20th century for years, aging naturally. Yet somehow, when they were returned to their own time, they were their original age.
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