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

Not sure the alterations made her mode avaricious, but they just allowed her constructs to be somewhat stronger, even if her avarice isn't all that much.

 

Doesn't it? If More Will = More Power for Green Lanterns, and More Avarice = More Power for Orange Lanterns... Wouldn't stronger orange constructs be an indicator of greater avarice? I can understand the effect being temporary and fading over the months since (sort of like muscles atrophying due to lack of use, if that's how it works in the story). But the power effects appeared to persist for at least several days/weeks which suggests that she was continuing to use the power - hence my question.

 

Even if the power up persisted it still may not come naturally to her, like how wielding a blue ring might.

 

I wonder if we'll ever see Constantine, Lord of Chaos again.

Maybe he'll possibly be engaged in a bout of fisticuffs with Willoughby Kipling over who's most deserving of being the archetypal chain smoking, alcoholic, streetwise mage with a trenchcoat?

 

'limbed'

maybe 'front'

'drawn'

maybe 'to them, swimming among them' , just add a comma.

So these things came from the Dreaming?

Huh, maybe Morpheus kicked them out because they refused to sleep with him.

He did send that woman to Hell for refusing him.

 

...I dont think even Khan would believe this one.

 

Haaaaaaahahahahahahahahah! HAAAAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

Earth the place with all the weird stuff.

 

You wanna bet on that

Technically this was Pluto.

 

Haha, yep!

GG scrub!!

 

Oh god dammit did Guardians try to martian-ize the Star Conquerers and end up making them worse? That's totally something they would do, and they absolutely would get the GL core to clean up after their mistakes.

 

hosts -> host

 

.... Is this why Dox won't send more lanterns or fleets? Because of giant starfish gods and stuff like this?

 

think it should be 'or even'

 

Reminds me of justice league 3000.

The leaguers were rather annoyed to find a planet of starros, who were allowed to enslave the planet because they had filled out the proper paperwork first.

The league illegally picks a fight with the starros.

To discover that the aliens they were possessing were psychologically rabid animals that would tear each other limb from limb in a self-genocidal orgy of violence. No, I won't pretend like that revelation makes sense.

 

Do the Star Conquerors simulate a... utopia(?) for their hosts while the host are being enslaved? Do the hosts retain their... dream while being controlled? What?

 

So basically this:

 

The JLU cartoon did have an episode with starros that showed the POV of the thrall. I believe superman had a wife and son on krypton and Batman saw his father beat up the mugger that in reality killed him.

 

So, a completely anti-climatic ending.

And if Zoat were playing things straight, Paul would have just been infected by the Hatorei's madness. Because that's what this particular bit was about, but of course the "no negative side effects" SI protection is in effect so nothing will likely come of it.

Nope, that's just the story of how Starro the Conqueror came to be.

 

I think you're thinking of the black mercy from mother of mercy. Specifically still under villainous control at the time.

 

That was a Black Mercy, one of the things Mother of Mercy makes that gives people good dreams while they slowly die.

It would make sense if the Starros give their hosts good dreams to keep them docile.

 

Well that was...a trip.

And good riddance to Manga Khan. He outstayed his welcome...and made the OLC look really damn bad.

 

I... Find myself struggling to figure out what the point of this episode was. Or the previous one for that matter.

• Manga Khan showed up, mildly upset global politics and trade, is now fucking off with no consequence
• Russians launched a space fleet, it got stolen by freaking star conquerors, resolved with minimal fuss
• Turns out Pluto is a Mother Star... But it died two updates after appearing without intervention
• Atlantean politics is chugging along at no particular consequence

Is... Is that it? I mean feel free to remind me if I missed anything but it feels like most of the last forty updates did absolutely nothing, save for a couple of funny moments.

 

Heh, I bet that empire came to regret that. Have to wonder if this is the Mother Star's own memory or one inherited from a progenitor.

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

This is trippy, just like i thought it would be...

I concur... This can't be something real...

I have to wonder what part the Starros played in this culture? Were they fitted at birth with a Starro symbiont? What if someone's Starro died but they lived? Would they be ostracised, euthanised or simply fitted with a new one? This raises so many questions!

...That just raises even more questions!

Seriously, has the world gone mad, or just this Mother Star?

Blank of emotion? You'd expect there to be something in an un-bonded child...

Presumably the 'perfect' world he saw first was the dream, and the latter the reality.

And that just makes it so much creepier...

So, something shattered their imagined world? Did the Starros believe they were bringing the dream to people, when it was actually the latter reality? Did... Did the Starros consider themselves to be helping people?

And the contradiction between perceived and real drove them mad? Was this Dream of the Endless taking action to stop a perversion of his realm?

Oh this is bad, isn't it?

...Was... Was that the birth of a Starro god? a Nightmare? What is going on?!

Maybe... Maybe it eats the dreams of the people with Starros applied?

Cue the trippy music.

This feels like some trance writing or something... The Mother Star must be having one hell of a trip.

Hopefully without contamination... I shudder at the thought of a Starro embodiment.

It sounds concussed... I suppose it is, given the circumstances it's awakening in...

...Wat.

And the spring's run down. Looks like it's gone.

Meanwhile, what of Pluto? Is it cracked open like an egg, or was the Mother Star just laying under the surface? I think there's going to be repercussions from this...

Once he works out what the hell just happened. Maybe the Ophidian was looking through the things he just saw?

And it's nothing you'd care to repeat in polite company, I'm betting.

Well, if it's comforting for him... Are you sure that's actually L-Ron, or just a dummy chassis, like some sort of body pillow?

...What? Wait, what are you talking about? Don't you have responsibilities to...

...Wow. Okay. Not even he's prepared to deal with Earth's bullshit. I guess there's not enough money in the universe to make it worth it?

"No need to sound so disappointed, Illustres. If it's any comfort, I, Manga Khan, shall spread the word: If you come to Earth, be prepared for anything!"

Well... Got to wonder how he'll write that up for his reports to Batman and Dox. If they didn't know him as well as they do, I suspect there'd be drug tests in his future. I suspect Dox is going to be annoyed at losing Manga Khan, too. And what happens to Venturia now?

Could probably delete the I.

 

Wait, so are mother stars "born" directly from the Dream when enough hosts are subsumed by Starro? The dreams/emotional energy that they would normally have catalyzes into the Mother?

So they're actual gods, then, aren't they?

 

Earth got a massive wake up call for how fucked they are without a unified government, and Paul got to chase off one of his lanterns who wasn't aiding his alliance under-the-sea. With a bunch of funny bits.

 

Okay... That happened last episode. Except then it was undone because the bad interstellar merchant left Earth never to return. Great job Justice League! Earth is in your debt once again! Now let's all go back to the status quo and pretend it didn't happen, as was established to be our problem when this situation cropped up in the first place!

No he didn't. Manga Khan left of his own accord. Paul had nothing to do with him showing up, nothing to do with him leaving, and Manga Khan didn't actually do anything whatsoever in his entire time in the story except be comic relief.

 

Thank you, corrected.

No.

Thank you, corrected.

No, this time the odd structure is intentional.

Thank you, corrected.

 

Pretty much.

Welcome to the end result of continually nerfing things in a story so there's no real conflict.