[hanwriting disguised, but someone who knows him might guess who he is]

[thirdboywonder.livejournal.com]

I saw the word "Superboy" used several times.
Is that some kind of a joke, or just a code word?

Comments

[gottabetactile.livejournal.com]

It's not a joke, it's my name OK? Like Superman and Supergirl, yeah?

What's it to you anyway?

[thirdboywonder.livejournal.com]

Funny sort of name. You got a real one, or are you just making it up?

You could say I have personal interest in the matter and leave it at that.

[gottabetactile.livejournal.com]

It is my real name! So why don't you back off huh?

[thirdboywonder.livejournal.com]

Right. It's your name, and I'm the pope.
All superheroes have other names. Even if they're secret.

[okay so I just realized that I responded to your other note thinking it was in this thread. PLEASE LET ME GO CORRECT THAT RIGHT NOW.]

[gottabetactile.livejournal.com]

Yeah? Well it's great to meet you then, your holiness, 'cause it is my real name! OK, I have another name too - it's Kon-El - but it doesn't mean Superboy's not my real name too!

Who the hell are you?

[undisguised handwriting, just to see what happens]

[thirdboywonder.livejournal.com]

Kon

You've got to be lying

Oh give me a break

If you can't figure out who I am, you can't possibly be who you say you are.

[okay, this is much better, forgive my fail.
Strikes illegible.]

[gottabetactile.livejournal.com]

What is that supposed to mean? Why should I know who you are jerk?


...Wait, you might have me confused with a different Superboy, from another reality. That's how I got here - I was travelling to other worlds and there were other Superboys there. Seriously, who is this?

[Sadly I think the intricacies of handwriting styles escapes him. Sorry Tim.]

[thirdboywonder.livejournal.com]

This is so like you

I've only ever met two Superboys, and you're more like the one I don't hate than the one I do. Other realities be damned.

[Cue facepalming; strikes again illegible.]

[gottabetactile.livejournal.com]

Well, two is more than any one world should have - I am entirely too awesome for the world to need more than one of me. Why do you hate the other Superboy? And are you going to tell me who you are already?

[See? Five minutes and it's like he was never gone!]

[thirdboywonder.livejournal.com]

Two is too much to handle. You're right.

[There is a lot of space here, as if he didn't know what to write.]

I hate the second Superboy for killing my best friend.

[gottabetactile.livejournal.com]

I- He did? ....I'm sorry. He can't have really been Superboy then, there's no way anyone who calls themselves a Super would ever kill anyone.

[thirdboywonder.livejournal.com]

He wasn't really Superboy. He just called himself that.

[gottabetactile.livejournal.com]

Well I promise I'm the real deal. I'll prove it if you want.

[thirdboywonder.livejournal.com]

All right. Prove it, then.

[gottabetactile.livejournal.com]

Uh- geez, you don't screw around! How am I supposed to-

Sure, but I can't do it like this. I mean, if I'm a different Superboy to the one you met then it's not like I can write something only he'd know.

[thirdboywonder.livejournal.com]

Try me.

Alternately, figure something else out.

[gottabetactile.livejournal.com]

You sure are demanding. How close were you guys? I mean, if you didn't know each other that well then I don't want to say something only a few people know. A guys got to have some secrets.

[thirdboywonder.livejournal.com]

If you're Superboy, I probably already know your secrets.

We were close enough.

[gottabetactile.livejournal.com]

[strikeouts may be legible to those with an obsessive attention to detail]

Way to be creepy. You're really not making me want to trust you whoever-you-are.

Fine, how about the guys I'm cloned from? Not many people know that part of me comes from that creep Westfield.

Or, what about.... one of the members of Young Justice? The one Fite n' Maad are so interested in. Man I hope I didn't just screw up big time. But this is another reality right?

[thirdboywonder.livejournal.com]

Of course you don't trust, me you never

Okay, Superboy. Tell me who you're cloned from, if you want.

Last I checked, everyone knew the members of Young Justice. Not that it exists anymore, where I'm from.

[added as an afterthought:]

Can't be any more screwed up than it already is.

[gottabetactile.livejournal.com]

I told you! They used DNA from Superman and that loser Westfield - from Cadmus - to make me.


Wait, what do you mean Young Justice doesn't exist? It does in my world! We only made the team a few months ago, there's no way we'd have disbanded already. What happened in your world?

.....And what's that supposed to mean, huh?

[thirdboywonder.livejournal.com]

Oh, did they? Well that explains why you're not

It doesn't mean anything, Kon.
It doesn't mean anything at all.

[gottabetactile.livejournal.com]

Oh, so now you believe me, huh? Are you going to tell me who you are already?

[thirdboywonder.livejournal.com]

I don't know what I believe yet.

I...can't, right now.
Sometime.
Later.

[gottabetactile.livejournal.com]

Whatever. Let me know if you change your mind and actually feel like talking. I'm sure you know what I look like.

[This is why we don't post when we should be working, I forget half of what I meant to write.]

[thirdboywonder.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I know what you look like.
I won't keep you in suspense forever, but it's not worth talking about here.