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You do realize the Shadows saved the Drakh after the Vorlons tried to genocide them for the grand crime of defending themselves?
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With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)
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Heh, and they say you can't go home again. I suppose some worlds have echoes of Paul's own history, even if the details are slightly different. Now, what did he find there...
Older parts of a country rarely change, especially the further you get from major cities.
Huh. That's surprising.
A true echo of Prime Paul, eh? But a suspiciously silent one.
Sometimes just seeing what might have happened can change the shape of a destiny.
No hard feelings about treating peacefully with the Vorlon, then.
Good, sometimes breaking out of your comfort zone can bring new wisdom.
Ah, a dangerous question in this universe. How will the Speaker answer?
Hardly fair to expect long-term goals without sufficient knowledge.
It'd suck if his thoughts were wide open. Some of them haven't been entirely kindly towards his passengers.
Oh-ho? And the ability still functions after death? Or perhaps some measure of emulation by the Soul Hunter matrix that captured his engram?
Very interesting indeed. Something of a fact-checker, if the Speaker wants to trust him that way.
Though in this case, I suspect it's more 'How many am I thinking of holding up?' unless they sort of flaot in a shared simulation of physicality.
Heh. Like herding undead cats.
Yes, he's a bit short of information right now, even if he's been trawling planetary databases each time he swings by.
Enough power to make others leave him alone, for a start. Guarantees of non-interference, privacy and peace against him...
Hey, now. Some folks don't find it that easy, really. And others just aren't interested.
Much the same reason he hasn't just swooped in and solved Earth's issues, here or in the DCU.
And without Enlightenment, he can't be perfectly aware of his desires and interests.
Oh, I have the feeling he's going to propose something we would call very foolish.
The Shadows, then. That would be a fascinating variation, though. A Paul not necessarily on the side of the 'angels'. Not that any one faction in Babylon 5 is truly objectively good.
By their opposition, they basically take the inverse position, eh?
And I suppose you're expected to find happiness where you can under such circumstances. The presence of trusted companions, the safety of an unassailable hold, the peace of victory?
...I will say, he's got some good points.
But you are still shaped by your memories, of experiences that you can't just set aside. Indoctrination is a thing, after all.
Since no-one else has spoken up...
In other words, it wasn't the deliverance his opponent might call it.
It would be interesting if he formed the core of a third faction. One devoted to allowing each race to find their own path, not walk in the footsteps planted for them by their seniors.
I suppose any differences from modern canon of Babylon 5 can be excused by the age of the passengers. The Narn telepath, for example is apparently over a thousand years dead, wile the drakh fellow may be from an earlier era himself. Never mind the possibility of slight degradation over time of the engrams or souls or whatever they truly are...
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Ironically that was also the wrong answer, because according to JMS Morden was the one who was already dead that Londo needed to keep alive, and his survival would have completely changed the Centauri's fate since he would have been able to moderate what came after.
Check the date... Its 2257, Icarus already woke the Shadows.
If he tries that while claiming to be a representitive of some unknown group of First Ones the Vorlons and Shadows would wipe the board clean like they did the last time that happened.
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Thank you, corrected.
The difference is that Babylon 5's history up to the 21st century is more or less the same as ours.
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Which is, as his comments regarding the 'Servants of the Black Sun' imply, the time of the last Shadow War, with victory eventually brought by Valen and his mighty station...
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You know, the Drakh themselves actually have psionic abilities of their own, though they manifest differently than how human or minbari telepaths do. While they are all connected to a type of hive mind called the Drakh Entire, their ability to perceive the thoughts of beings outside said communion is much more limited, surface thoughts at best even when they are tying(and it's possible for a strong enough mind, even one untrained in telepathic blocks, to hide shit from them).
The question here is, is Mr. Drakh here picking up surface thoughts because of his current existence(and thus they all are picking up said thoughts) or is it because he's a Drakh?
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So you forgot about the fact that he was experimenting on people without their knowledge or consent, like when he threw that mind altering crystal at Hunter, or the fact that he helped a group of terrorists, which included a guy that's wanted for the crime of mind-controlling people, or the fact that he broke into someone's private property, abducted a sapient entity, and basically mind-raped said entity.
And don't forget about the fact that Lonnie is also skilled with technology to the point where he can create Boom Tubes, and managed to break into a technological fortress like the LexCorp building.
He did all of these things long before he met Know Man, and he also did at least one of these things after he knew that Know Man was a bad influence.
I'll repeat what I said previously: sending him to a regular juvinal prison is just asking for him to either break out or be broken out.
Probably.
G'Kar's desire had an end point, so once the Centauri are dead, G'Kar has nothing left to strive for.
Londo's ambitions on the other hand may have no end.
The Drakh can't exactly do anything else but be reasonable.
If he tries yelling at Paul, then Paul may just ignore him.
Yes, and yet they continue destroying and killing billions of innocents because of their insane philosophy.
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He is charged with attempting to mind control the entire population of the earth, successfully taking people hostage with mind control, and aiding and abedding his terrorist coconspirators in their continued efforts to destabilize governments world wide. He is being held in the supermax prison because he would escape anywhere less and it is more reasonable than cryofreeze or transfer to a science cell on Oa. You are so wrong that I would think you were just rage baiting or trolling if it wasn't you saying it.
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Some more fan art from my part; carry on. I did get to the bit where Doomsday tore down a building in my country and in my city... which was kinda cool? Interacting with predominantly Western media since pretty much forever, sometimes I think I've sort of reversed-colonized myself? Idk where I am going with this. Nice to see Paraguay mentioned. Anyways, I'm churning along with the fic. Slowly catching up.
So have some Paul and his best Snek. I hope there's more Ophidian; she's kinda gone to nap in the central power battery, where I am in the fic at the moment
Ps: If someone could recommend an enduring image host or a tutorial or something? my images keep breaking. On my end, at least; I think for everyone else as well. Please and thank you
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To be fair to the G-Oni, most of the damage was done by Nam-Ek.
I use ImgBB.
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Something just occurred to me.
In the main story lines and most others where OL's operate in the open, this isn't really an issue but here where he's under the radar I think something subtle might have been missed.
Looking back it isn't huge but it stands out retrospectively to me right now.
When Paragon Paul first met Alan Scott, he wore the ring but nothing stood out, later when Wonder Woman visited he was more actively using the ring. And his eyes were orange, much like how John Stewart's were green in JLU.
It was called out later when he had his first real orange overload and took off the ring that it was when WW found out he had green eyes.
So, are most ring slingers operating with coloured pupils? It doesn't appear to be an issue when he first talks to Alan, unless they were orange then too and the old man didn't consider that odd. As for … 'Speaker' Paul here? He Is operating incognito. Does his eyes not glow? Do they only glow when using the ring actively?
Does he just wear sunglasses all the time?
In the main story lines and most others where OL's operate in the open, this isn't really an issue but here where he's under the radar I think something subtle might have been missed.
Looking back it isn't huge but it stands out retrospectively to me right now.
When Paragon Paul first met Alan Scott, he wore the ring but nothing stood out, later when Wonder Woman visited he was more actively using the ring. And his eyes were orange, much like how John Stewart's were green in JLU.
It was called out later when he had his first real orange overload and took off the ring that it was when WW found out he had green eyes.
So, are most ring slingers operating with coloured pupils? It doesn't appear to be an issue when he first talks to Alan, unless they were orange then too and the old man didn't consider that odd. As for … 'Speaker' Paul here? He Is operating incognito. Does his eyes not glow? Do they only glow when using the ring actively?
Does he just wear sunglasses all the time?
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People can have unusual eye colors, so maybe they don't comment on it because they think it's rude.
And in this universe it wouldn't be that odd for people to assume that Paul's eye are the result of genetic experimentation, cybernetics, or exposure to strange elements.
Or they could just think that he's a humanoid alien.
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No, but aliens don't know that humans don't have orange irises, and humans just think he's wearing contact lenses.
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Welp that's me answered, Thank You.
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I don't believe 'will' is capitalised unless it's being used as in 'the Last Will and Testament of [Name]' specifically. As a title, that is.
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Thank you, corrected.
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I'm not sure if this is a comment on the stability of the UK through their history (ignoring the occasional royal purge and civil war) or just a Paul being a Paul.
Two-hundred-year periods tend to pack a whole lot of innovation; I mean, any random village/town/city high street in the UK in 1826 may look relatively similar to the same high street today (during the day, electrification would make the actual differences VERY evident, but the population has bloomed. Ignoring Ireland (because who wants to look into that nightmare time), the UK population in 1826 was 14.1 million. Today, the UK population, again ignoring (Northern) Ireland, is around 68 million, or just shy of a 5-fold increase.
I would hope that the school has been renovated 'at least once' over 200 years, with 5 times as many students.
A sort of segue into UK Schools. In the '70s and '80s, I pulled a couple of tours at the Holy Loch in Scotland, where US SSBNs were serviced and stocked before deployment. On my first tour, I met and married a local girl; on my second, most of 10 years later, we had a son, now 8 years old. My wife was thrilled beyond belief that Alex would attend Dunoon Primary, her school.
Me, I figured a school was a school, but if they were both happy...
Anyway, I got home from work around 6 pm (an early day for the Holy Loch) and found my kid all kinds of pissed off, so I asked what was wrong. "He got paddled," my wife explained.
I'd warned him about that; corporal punishment had faded in the US Education system, but was still a thing, at least in Scotland at the time. "What did you do?" I asked.
"I told the Teacher that Los Angeles wasn't the capital of California."
Evidently, because the school had so many U.S.-dependent students, the classes included age-appropriate instruction in U.S. history. I said, "No, tell me what you did."
That was what he had done... well, he didn't just mention it offhandedly; he insisted the teacher was wrong about the state capital.
I made a few calls to my supervisors and had the next morning off. Alex and I were at the school prior to classes, sitting in the Headmistress's office, waiting for Alex's teacher.
This clown was the classic British schoolboy antagonist. "Must we do this every year? Your pampered child disrupted my class."
"This isn't about corporal punishment. I use it myself, but I don't use it to cover my own ignorance. Los Angeles is not the capital of California."
"I assure you, sir, I am a fully qualified Instructor."
"And I'm a fully qualified Electronics Technician. More than that, I'm a citizen of the state of California." I pulled out my wallet and removed my driver's license. "The Capital of California is Sacramento, and has been since 1854."
Alex got an apology in front of his class.
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Guess the guy thought the most famous city in that state was the capital.
It can happen.
Lots of people know that Istanbul is one of the most famous cities in Turkey, so they may think that it's the capital, but that's Ankara.