Power Boy
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Power Boy, Kevin Moon, Kovun-L
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General Biography
Kovun was born on the planet Krypton, the genetic son of two soliders of the Military Caste. As an infant he was given to Zor-L, the younger of the L brothers, and rasied as the child of the scientist and his wife. At the age of eight, Kovun's cousin, the daughter of Jor-L, was sent off Krypton by her parents, with his own parents sending him after by mere seconds.
While his cousin's ship would proceed to Earth via plotted and measured course, Kovun's ship would find its way into a temporal event. As his cousin landed, was adopted, and grew up on Earth, into Superwoman, the event would keep Kovun in a perfect temporal lock for thirty years. When it finally released the ship, it would complete it's long paused journey to the little blue planet.
Having become an active and noted superheroine, Superwoman would end up intercepting the ship as it made atmosphere. She took it to her Earth parents, the Kent, where the decision to raise the boy as family was made. Over the next five years, she'd teach him about the responsibility she felt they had to help and protect the people of Earth for granting them a second, or third, home. She would teach him the planet's customs and cultures, the languages, even the history.
By the age of thirteen, he was ready to help Superwoman, whom he regarded as more of a mother figure, despite her protests. He'd use the argument of living up to their responsibility to protect the Earth, and the reasoning of her imparting some of the martial skill of Torquasm Vo and Rao to him to discipline and control his power, eventually winning the argument. When he did make his break in to the heroism scene, he would not take the name Superboy due to some other guy he hadn't met yet using it. Instead, he'd take the name Power Boy, making his uniform mostly white with tones of Superwoman's signature red and blue.
Six months after his emergence as a young hero, his life would take another shift, perhaps the largest of all. A strange green girl would appear in a bubble, speaking of other universes and futures. After a bit of misadventure with her, he'd decide to stow away in her impossible bubble, not know that when they left, his native universe would collapse and cease to be.
Extended Biography
Krypton
Krypton of Universe Q-42 was in some respects vastly different from the more commonly known variations of the world. For instance, the citizens of the planet were most content to remain there and achieve mastery over their home world, but hadn't turned their backs on the universe at large. Even after the destruction of the second moon, when fear and paranoia were at their highest, Krypton maintained an open, if not highly restricted, hand to the universe. Travellers were still welcome, but only to certain cities for certain allotments of time. Trespassers were extradited with great speed and minimal necessary violence. No Kryptonians were forbidden to leave Krypton, though few felt the need or desire to. As another note of difference, the Kryptonian populace of Q-42 never developed any negative reactions to leaving their comfortable green world.
Home and Family
Kovun was adopted by Zor-L, brother of Jor-L, an accomplished scientist like his brother, and his wife Allura In-Z. The circumstances of his birth are considered normal for his world, but the reasoning for his genetic parents giving him were kept secret up to Krypton's death. Nonetheless, from the point of adoption until the the age of eight, Kovun had a loving family in the L's. He often followed in his mother's footsteps in the part of the arts, but still possessed a powerful curiosity for science and technology like his father and uncle.
The Death of Krypton
When Jor-L warned his brother of Krypton's imminent demise, Zor-L took to similar action. He and his wife began construction of a second ship, large enough to send both Allura and Kovun to safety into the stars. But, as with all forms of Krypton throughout the Multiverse, ultimately only two children would escape. Jor-L launched his infant daughter, Kala Jor-L, minutes before Kovun was sent into space, both children's backs to the exploding world. The two ships shared the same destination, a blue planet orbiting a yellow star, but their different courses would set them apart drastically. While Kala's ship made it to Earth safely, Kovun's found itself caught in the event horizon of a temporal event in space, where it would be held for many years.
