With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

Ah, turns out I got that wrong. She just phoned the police after talking to him for 10 minutes or so when he broke into her room. It’s called the Michael Fagan incident.

As for royal powers: these include being chief executive (so power of arrest), and the ability to grant royal pardons. She herself can’t be arrested. She also has the ability to issue passports, which she grants to her ministers. She has the ability to shut down parliament by proroguing it, and technically does so at the end of each parliamentary session. She also appoints the Prime Minister after an election, so I assume she can technically do that at any time.

On the the other hand, if she were to do something without due cause, I assume deposing her illegally would be trivially easy at this point, so it’s a fine balance where she now has these powers, but no real ability to use them outside of specific situations.

 

"Ignored" likely isn't the right word. "Failed to notice" would probably be much more accurate. Honestly, how likely are you to notice that a gnat on your shoe is trying to talk to you?

I'm not British, so grain of salt, but according to a very recent video essay on the powers of the Queen done by the Today I Found Out YT channel - who's face, Simon Whistler, IS a Brit - the Queen legally could, if she chose, rule with an iron fist. She chooses to mostly not get involved in politics because, let's be honest, it wouldn't take a whole lot these days for the monarchy to be completely abolished if public opinion turned against them. But the thrust of the essay was that the technical power of the Crown is basically undiminished from what it was a few hundred years ago when the monarch of the time ruled in actuality instead of just in name.

Though, again, another grain of salt here, I got basically everything I know about the subject from an educational YouTube channel. Thus there's every possibility my knowledge is not quite accurate.

 

No, that was a reference to the 'no modern politics' rule. Some powers are were twenty years ago only technically exercised by the monarch, but Australian readers may remember The Dismissal.

 

She lacks judicial power except for royal pardons, and how much she can actually use her powers without a revolution happening is questionable, but she does have to approve all laws and can cancel parliament, as well as technical control of the executive branch, so she very much legally has the entire thrust of the royal family power.

 

I know that I've been joking about it, but talking about what powers monarchs have in the present day does violate the 'no modern politics' rule, so please stop doing it. I don't want to have to move again.

 

Ok, sorry. Didn’t seem very politically relevant to modern times, since the British queen hasn’t done much politically relevant for a while now.

 

Although now I'm picturing an alt.Paul in a setting that incorporates Royals: Masters of War material.

Royals was a Vertigo alt history series set in WW2 in which divine right of kings might be more metaphysical than metaphorical. Royals have freaking superpowers. All of them. British, Russian, Japanese, etc.

 

He did not believe that his son-in-law would be a good emperor, but he trusted his daughter, she had an agrarian reform plan to help the newly freed slaves, avoiding the systemic poverty that afflicted the freed slaves of Brazil historically, it was prevented by the Republican coup.

The spokesman for the Republican movement, was a personal friend of the emperor and the literature says he was feeling bad about it, but was convinced to the coup by a lie.

One more fact of Brazil in a nutshell.

 

The laws have changed a tad since a hundred years ago and a hundred years ago most of the government duties weren't done by the queen or king anyway.

Considering the British Royal family seems to even have lost the privilege to do whatever the fuck they wanted with money, the Royal Family taking back the power would need a huge mayority of popular support.

It technically can be done, but is very unlikely.

It would need the next queen or king to be more popular than Lady Di and for the British government to fuck up so badly that the idea of a strong monarchy would be appealing.

 

Unfortunately, as has been proven, there’s something appealing to people about totalitarian rulers. There’s nothing technically stopping Britain from having the next Hitler come from the royal family except for the fact that it’s unlikely for someone to be that charismatic.

 

Raul's back!

...And he's still Paul at heart!

 

Ooh.

Ouch.

That's gonna sting.

 

Perhaps he should have been third to last after yourself?

 

When was the last time Raul came up?

 

This seems like a bad way to react to a yandere with a red power ring.

 

I think if you have a red power ring, yandere can be assumed.

Heh. I just had a thought that Raul's second ring would probably be violet based on this scene.

 

Ah, back to the Teen Titans cartoon-verse Red Lantern alt. How long's it been? Fools Canon?

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Thank goodness the main SI's version isn't quite this bad.

ooh, Romantic... For a rage-driven beast of a lantern

Extraneous word.

Would 'been in any' or 'been at any' work better?

Oh dear. Raul, you cad!

Because Tamaraneans probably have different ideas about age of consent than you do, Raul...

One of the high points of the Red Lanterns comic book: these two guys.

"That's not how humans do things, Skallox."

Careful there, Raul...

Atrocitus would beg to differ, I think.

Interesting. Atrocitus keyed the aggression level down enough to allow Construct creation?

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Oh my, I think the environmental shield is the most telling aspect. She surely knows what it collapsing means...

Teenage embarrassment. So cute.

Hey, it's not a refusal. Presumably she needs to think about it...

These alternates are always such a nice palate cleanser after an episode, aren't they?

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

Ha, classic Raul. Dropping the "L" word after just a few mass slaughters together...

That is a discussion for after your first genocide together at the earliest.

 

Wouldnt she have been 14 considering that they started having sex 13 months ago.

 

Oh my I'm soo to look forward to crisis of infinite pauls.

also since Yanderes are back on the table, I would like to see a magical girl go crazy and murder everyone although seeing Red lantern paul go love crazy and commit genocide is a decent consolation prize.

do I hear 13?

 

To turn the situation on it's head, I'm not sure I'd want to say no to a Red Corps member crawling into my bed, regardless of age. The consequences seem...marginally less bad in accepting, instead of refusing.

Morality does usually take second place to a survival instinct.

Edit: Heh...you're screwed no matter what you do, might as well enjoy the ride.

 

I might be wrong, but I believe the last time he was discussed was when Zoat described a possible future episode involving the Titans inadvertently protecting mad scientists doing experiments on people who, after forming a suicide pact, received a red power ring and started slaughtering the scientists who did these horrible things to them.

The Titans get called in, realize they're using a red power ring, call Raul in to help them, get angry when he refuses, and then he points out that they're basically helping Mengele there.

 

Seems like something that would happen to Blue Lantern Paul.

 

Dawwww, those two are so adorable together.

On that note, I am pretty sure Blackfire was 17-18 in the TeenTitans cartoon given Starfire was somewhere around 16 herself.

 

It still amazes me that Hynden Walch voiced both sisters.

That's called "rape", and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.

 

Raul was pretty clear about consent and such during their first encounter, so I doubt that was the case.

Well, except for the whole "under 16" thing, but I'd argue that's a more complicated issue. Generally those sorts of laws exist to ensure that the person in question is old enough to provide informed consent, minimize pressure due to age differences, etc. But none of that is based on age so much as emotional maturity and such, but because there's currently no practical way to determine that quantity (nor, even a good way to define it), the law just has a blanket ban for everyone below a certain age.

But uh, living among a enslaved and brutalized population, being kidnapped and tortured, and fighting for your life all do wonders for speeding up emotional development, so I'm sure she's mature by now. And traumatized.

 

I highly doubt many Red Corps members would care. If they even noticed the distinction.

 

Seems like something that should happen to regular paul