1. Due to issues with external spam filters, QQ is currently unable to send any mail to Microsoft E-mail addresses. This includes any account at live.com, hotmail.com or msn.com. Signing up to the forum with one of these addresses will result in your verification E-mail never arriving. For best results, please use a different E-mail provider for your QQ address.
    Dismiss Notice
  2. For prospective new members, a word of warning: don't use common names like Dennis, Simon, or Kenny if you decide to create an account. Spammers have used them all before you and gotten those names flagged in the anti-spam databases. Your account registration will be rejected because of it.
    Dismiss Notice
  3. Since it has happened MULTIPLE times now, I want to be very clear about this. You do not get to abandon an account and create a new one. You do not get to pass an account to someone else and create a new one. If you do so anyway, you will be banned for creating sockpuppets.
    Dismiss Notice
  4. If you wish to change your username, please ask via conversation to tehelgee instead of asking via my profile. I'd like to not clutter it up with such requests.
    Dismiss Notice
  5. Due to the actions of particularly persistent spammers and trolls, we will be banning disposable email addresses from today onward.
    Dismiss Notice
  6. A note about the current Ukraine situation: Discussion of it is still prohibited as per Rule 8
    Dismiss Notice
  7. The rules regarding NSFW links have been updated. See here for details.
    Dismiss Notice
  8. The testbed for the QQ XF2 transition is now publicly available. Please see more information here.
    Dismiss Notice

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

Discussion in 'Creative Writing' started by Mr Zoat, Jan 27, 2019.

Loading...
  1. Chaoswind

    Chaoswind Lord of nonsense

    Joined:
    Jan 27, 2019
    Messages:
    1,169
    Likes Received:
    7,102

    That is what she considers herself to be... Or was it national socialist?
     
  2. nobodez

    nobodez Bringer of Context

    Joined:
    Jul 3, 2015
    Messages:
    1,257
    Likes Received:
    5,854
    The latter
     
    Jaron, infinityDivided and Cuchulin like this.
  3. Ace Dreamer

    Ace Dreamer Questioning The Nature of our Realities

    Joined:
    Feb 15, 2019
    Messages:
    601
    Likes Received:
    2,662
    Might be interesting to encounter Democratic Socialist Girl... She's probably into arbitration... Possibly doesn't make for quite as exciting comics as 'righteous face punching'...
     
    Last edited: Apr 11, 2020
    Ardy, dogbertcarroll and Cuchulin like this.
  4. Cuchulin

    Cuchulin Versed in the lewd.

    Joined:
    Jan 25, 2019
    Messages:
    1,977
    Likes Received:
    7,722
    Very much this, Democratic Socialist is more or less what our worlds Europe is.
     
    Prince Charon and Ardy like this.
  5. PDV

    PDV Revelation That Uncertainty Is Itself An Answer

    Joined:
    Apr 6, 2018
    Messages:
    387
    Likes Received:
    1,467
    Less Hulk, more Morrowind.
     
  6. LazySloth13

    LazySloth13 Versed in the lewd.

    Joined:
    Jul 26, 2016
    Messages:
    1,480
    Likes Received:
    6,669
    You could explain why magic isn't wide spread due to religious inquisition during medieval times, along with overall poor education, and how pagan groups that used actual magic were targeted with extreme prejudice by anti-magic groups despite the possible benefits.

    Not to mention there's going to be any number of self-serving assholes who want to horde magical knowledge for themselves for the power it gives them, or they want magic gone because it's one less obstacle in their way for taking control over others less powerful than them, or any combination of the two.

    It's similar to how some forms of media rail against human augmentations like cybernetics, the Deus Ex series, because it's not natural even though people gets augments due to physical disabilities or of their own free will.

    People will find some inane reason why magic or advance technology isn't more main stream, other than actual technical issues like cost or lacking proper support structure, with rants about Gods or because it goes against nature.

    If I could use magic or create advance tech I'd immediately target those people directly or indirectly to make the process of sharing information easier, mostly out of sheer spite and partly for the shits and giggles, while cynically keeping some information for myself incase the world comes close to self-destruction.
     
    Vorian, Ardy, Cuchulin and 1 other person like this.
  7. Agent Orange

    Agent Orange Experienced.

    Joined:
    Dec 2, 2016
    Messages:
    3,609
    Likes Received:
    29,697
    That might (barely) be used to explain why practice of magic is practically nonexistent in modern times but it does ziltch to explain how millenia of magic use before that 'great purge' or whatever completely failed to affect the history of the world. Different countries and empires and whatnot would've formed because everyone would have had magic users of their own with spells/potions/enchanted items/ect. in place of technologies that never existed in those time periods. Reliable magical healing alone would've probably stifled any research into mundane medicine because magic would be so far ahead of anything 'doctors' of the time could offer, etc.

    I'm not even trying to argue specifics, I just think that mere existence of a convenient alternative to technological devices and methods (i.e. spells) centuries before they would've been invented would have had a very visible effects on the world that are completely absent in comics
     
    Last edited: Apr 11, 2020
    Doccer, WereDragon, Vorian and 3 others like this.
  8. Vaermina

    Vaermina Well worn.

    Joined:
    Oct 16, 2015
    Messages:
    5,523
    Likes Received:
    20,981
    While true, I was more talking about how beings connected to the Morphing Grid regularly throw around energy levels that would make the Guardians of the Universe sit up and take notice.
     
    Doccer likes this.
  9. frozenchicken

    frozenchicken Here to Read the Articles

    Joined:
    Nov 11, 2013
    Messages:
    32
    Likes Received:
    173
    The two categories aren't even loosely coterminous, since the national socialists killed off all the socialists in their own party, leaving just the nationalist elements. It's why everyone stopped using the long form, as it became painfully ironic how misnamed it was.
     
    nobodez, Lupercal and Cuchulin like this.
  10. Chaoswind

    Chaoswind Lord of nonsense

    Joined:
    Jan 27, 2019
    Messages:
    1,169
    Likes Received:
    7,102

    Look it was a joke at the fact she doesn't consider herself what we would consider a Nazi/fascist, nothing more and nothing else.
     
    Cuchulin likes this.
  11. SotF

    SotF And Away We Go!

    Joined:
    Sep 11, 2015
    Messages:
    2,981
    Likes Received:
    21,012
    If I remember right, it was the late 1800's when it was formed (I believe that it was sometime in the 1890's) because Wilkins was mayor for a century in a 100 year long thing for his ascension plans.

    The aesthetic of the town was due to him upgrading the town to improve the trap during the post WW2 boom...
     
    Cuchulin and Chojin Patriarch like this.
  12. ForeverShogo

    ForeverShogo Not too sore, are you?

    Joined:
    Sep 25, 2016
    Messages:
    454
    Likes Received:
    2,727
    Well, she does consider herself what we would consider a Nazi. She just insists that people use the full term of National Socialist instead of shortening it to Nazi.

    Though I'll give you that she doesn't think of herself as fascist, since her usual reaction to that is, "I'm not Italian."
     
    Ngamer11, DAT_NOOB, Doccer and 2 others like this.
  13. Vaermina

    Vaermina Well worn.

    Joined:
    Oct 16, 2015
    Messages:
    5,523
    Likes Received:
    20,981
    Here's a question.

    Dimensional portals open all the time in the Buffy verse, so what really brought Glory to the Hellmouth?
     
    Cuchulin likes this.
  14. Darko

    Darko Connoisseur.

    Joined:
    Nov 20, 2019
    Messages:
    22,136
    Likes Received:
    320,310
    These new portals could be very unique and not like your average portals
     
  15. Prince Charon

    Prince Charon Just zis guy, you know?

    Joined:
    Feb 20, 2014
    Messages:
    9,741
    Likes Received:
    38,270
    I would not describe Ben (Glorificus's human host) as 'very nice,' unless I were being sarcastic. Sure, he presents himself as a nice guy, but once you get to know him... no.
     
  16. Threadmarks: Repetition (part 13)
    Mr Zoat

    Mr Zoat Dedicated ragequitter

    Joined:
    Dec 1, 2016
    Messages:
    14,700
    Likes Received:
    729,318
    12th August 1997
    23:33 GMT -7


    "Hehahahah." I shake my head. "Okay, look: who are you and what the heck is your problem?"

    "I just want to go home! Why is this so difficult for everyone to understand?!"

    "From the looks of things, because you're being a colossal bitch about it! Who are you, anyw-?"

    And then she's there, grabbing-. Ah! My left arm as she leaps and dragging me down with her!

    "I'm Glorificus, and as a goddess I really don't think I should have to deal with-. With pond scum with delusions of adequacy, like humans and-" She turns her face away. "-werewolves and don't think I didn't see you trying to sneak aw-."

    Red vomit to the eyes red electrified chains to the arms, neck and legs! She loosens her grip more in surprise than anything else, but as I rise she squeezes-.

    "Hah!" She lands on her rump as pain flares through my body! "Got your arm! And I'm going to pull your dog-pal-."

    Killing the bitch.

    My blood stops spurting, mixing with the red light and coagulating in the form of a replacement limb. Red horns form upon my brow in the shape of the red sigil. This woman ate the sanity of others to keep herself in control of the body she shares with… Whatever his name was, who murdered and stole and generally rampaged through life without a care save for the convenience her actions brought her. And those idiots who didn't just kill her or the 'key' when they had the chance.

    The blood-fingers of my new left arm form into razor blades, enhanced not just by my hate but by the righteous anger of all those she-.

    Violet's Supergirl strikes her like the wrath of Rao! The shocked Glory is knocked onto her back, then her attacker goes to work, punching face and diaphragm, heat vision burning into her eyes for a second before Supergirl's thumbs dart in-.

    The bitch is stealing my kill-. No. No! No, not stealing my kill, helping me.

    Helping me.

    This is why I don't fight with people who aren't Komand'r.

    I drop down and pick up my discarded arm in my remaining hand, then fly up out of lunge range before pushing it into the red light simulacrum. A sharp-

    -bwugh-

    -and then I'm whole again. For the moment. It's not a secure reattachment, but it'll do for now.

    It didn't irritate her eyes or lungs. My acid vomit isn't a completely reliable attack, but the lack of non-comedic impact leaves me concerned about her exotic resistances. Supergirl's clearly doing some damage, but I'm only seeing tiny amounts of blood. Less than a normal person would show after another normal person attacked them like this. My constructs hit less hard, and I don't have another tool to leverage. That leaves using ritual magic to supercharge myself or that old fallback 'toss her into space'. I seem to remember that Willow teleported her into the air once and she couldn't fly-.

    Glory headbutts Supergirl hard enough to knock her off, but she catches herself with her own flying ability after three metres and surges back down! Glory ends up with her head pushed back so far that it's underground, her face facing dirt while her body lies on the cracked pavement. Looks like Glory never learned to fight efficiently with her human-seeming body whereas Supergirl clearly has. Heh, I wonder if this is the real-world version of a bullet sponge boss? Glory's never going to manage to do anything to her, but Supergirl can't inflict enough damage quickly enough to beat her.

    A shame that she won't actually kill her, but I think there was a prison in Angel that could actually cope with beings like her.

    "Stop."

    Glory manages to catch Supergirl's right wrist with her left hand, prompting Supergirl to twist into a position that lets her kick Glory in the fa-.

    "Doing that!"

    The air shimmers between Glory's right hand and Supergirl's face-. Her sanity-draining ability.

    Supergirl isn't quite stunned, but she's clearly off her game for a moment and Glory slugs her hard enough to smash her into the front of the library. Ah, looks like-

    I dip down, grab Glory around the waist with a construct and haul her into the air, keeping myself at a safe distance.

    -plan 'lob a bitch' is back on. I gain height rapidly, hoping that this isn't the film version of Buffy where vampires could fly. No, no flying vampires and no mayor deciding to shoot me with demon lightning, just a patch of violet where my alter ego is heading into town-.

    "How dare you even touch me you-"

    "Heart ready for harvesting."

    "-filthy-!"

    Her chest bursts, a gore-covered.. hand poking through, and what I presume to be her heart held between its fingers. The heart glows a faint red for a moment before decaying and flowing back into… The black ring on the hand that had been holding it.

    I drop the body at once, ignoring it as it continues in a ballistic arc towards the outskirts of town, and back the heck away from my super-zombie alter ego.

    He looks pale, naturally enough, and unlike both myself and Orange he appears to have kept our long hair. He.. breathes in deeply as the red light he absorbed from Glory's heart flows through him, running from his ring and through his veins into his mind. My own ring pulses in sympathy as the stolen rage threatens to overwhelm him-. Which at least suggests that he's not a pawn of Nekron.

    "Power level two point four percent."

    Or not. We could perhaps try some sort of magic to pull his soul back into his body, but if he's ripping hearts out of people then I'm going to accept-.

    "Who are you and what are you doing here?"

    He's angry, yet coherent. Possibly a hopeful sign, except that I remember that Nekron had his Black Lanterns feign having the personalities of the bodies they animated. So… Is that his anger, or a form of concealment which uses hers?

    Either way, there's no obvious benefit to lying. Time Trapper wants him. Glory is about as powerful as enemies get around here and he pulled her heart out.

    "Or are you incapable of speech? Did you get a ring that makes you insane?"

    "Yes, I can talk. Am I talking to Nekron, or-"

    "Heart ready for harvesting."

    I eye his ring.

    "-am I talking to me?"

    "Not yet. I take hearts to feel emotion. I'm only about half myself at the moment, and in a few hours I won't even be that." He regards me impassively for a moment. "Why are you here?"

    "Krona's abducting versions of us from parallel universes. We all came from Earth Prime and we all got power rings, but you're the only Black Lantern."

    "Lucky everyone else."

    "I'm happy to help, but we need to deal with Krona first."

    "Alright. I just need to make one stop first."

    I frown. "Why?"

    "I'm a vampire. I feed on blood to get stronger. And right now Glory's god-blood is going to waste on the Sunnydale pavements."
     
    Last edited: Apr 22, 2020
  17. RichardWhereat

    RichardWhereat Aia airëa Fëanáro.

    Joined:
    Oct 1, 2016
    Messages:
    2,842
    Likes Received:
    15,034
    Oh nice. I imagine that it'd be a bit more potent than Slayer Blood.
     
    SaltyWaffles, ribbons8, RGFJ and 18 others like this.
  18. Idkusername

    Idkusername Versed in the lewd.

    Joined:
    Nov 8, 2019
    Messages:
    1,463
    Likes Received:
    13,996
    flares
     
  19. Darko

    Darko Connoisseur.

    Joined:
    Nov 20, 2019
    Messages:
    22,136
    Likes Received:
    320,310
    'the eyes red electrified' should be 'the eyes, red electrified'

    'flares' not flare'

    'stealing' not 'steal'

    Welp time for a demon god version of Paul to appear, assuming he gets her powers of course.
     
  20. thebishop8

    thebishop8 Umm, ackchyually...

    Joined:
    Jun 25, 2019
    Messages:
    360
    Likes Received:
    2,257
    Remove the full stop.
     
  21. DeathlessProficiency

    DeathlessProficiency Know what you're doing yet?

    Joined:
    Aug 27, 2019
    Messages:
    190
    Likes Received:
    1,886
    Fghhjiooooooooooooo
     
  22. Ganurath

    Ganurath Apologizes For Nothing

    Joined:
    Aug 18, 2014
    Messages:
    2,533
    Likes Received:
    20,684
    There's a link hidden in the last paragraph, for the curious.
     
  23. Breadnaught

    Breadnaught Experienced.

    Joined:
    Feb 22, 2017
    Messages:
    2,745
    Likes Received:
    70,165
    Huh. Okay, so I'm guessing, he arrived in town with a Black Ring, which took his soul and acts as a phylactery.

    Not willing to indiscriminately heart-rip people, he ran out of power. Then a vampire happened.

    But once turned, the new demonic spirit setting up shop couldn't take control, because his soul is still in the Ring.
     
  24. Sorrow

    Sorrow Getting sticky.

    Joined:
    Jan 27, 2019
    Messages:
    81
    Likes Received:
    306
    Is it just me or is it terrifying that Black Lantern ripped out a gods heart? I mean yeah, she just got the shit beat out of her by minor league Nazi Supergirl, but still...
     
  25. Handlewithcare

    Handlewithcare Versed in the lewd.

    Joined:
    Feb 6, 2019
    Messages:
    1,289
    Likes Received:
    12,979
    Yeesh. BLaul really got the rough end of the stick.

    But the Scooby Gang has access to the Put-Soul-into-Vampire spell, right? I have no idea how that would mesh with a Black Ring, but worth a try, right?
     
  26. Vaermina

    Vaermina Well worn.

    Joined:
    Oct 16, 2015
    Messages:
    5,523
    Likes Received:
    20,981
    Because of course you would nerf Glory to the point one of your SI's could easily kill her...
     
  27. Breadnaught

    Breadnaught Experienced.

    Joined:
    Feb 22, 2017
    Messages:
    2,745
    Likes Received:
    70,165
    My Black Ring lore is a bit limited, but I think his soul is currently in the Ring, remote operating his body.

    Meaning any demonic spirit that tried to set up shop, has either been consumed, or is a prisoner in its own head, like Angelus.
     
  28. Darko

    Darko Connoisseur.

    Joined:
    Nov 20, 2019
    Messages:
    22,136
    Likes Received:
    320,310
    Glory isn't exactly what one would call smart and she was just ranting at Raul without paying attention to her surroundings.

    Zoat didn't so much as nerf her, as he had Zaul surprise attack her.

    Ripping out the heart tends to kill most things.

    Zaul's ring may also be an anti Glory weapon not because it is more powerful but because it attacks her structural integrity, the thing keeping her together.
    Like how the First of the Fallen didn't overpower his two counterparts, but just used their version of kryptonite on them.

    She may not even be dead, or that injured really
     
  29. BlueMangoAdea

    BlueMangoAdea Alive. For now.

    Joined:
    Dec 30, 2019
    Messages:
    4,734
    Likes Received:
    17,223
    As a being from Earth-Prime, Paul never had the arcane construct the locals(DC and Buffyverse) call souls.
     
  30. Prince Charon

    Prince Charon Just zis guy, you know?

    Joined:
    Feb 20, 2014
    Messages:
    9,741
    Likes Received:
    38,270
    Also, 'serious/overwhelming threat to a street-level hero' is far from the same thing as 'serious threat to a cosmic space cop.'
     
    RGFJ, Mors, Alexandercctv and 12 others like this.
Loading...