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

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

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  1. Darko

    Darko Connoisseur.

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    Very romantic, but I don't think Zoat mentioned how long Scott and Barda were married in this story.

    Given this whole relationship thing New Gods have they may have stayed with each other since they got to Earth.
     
  2. RichardWhereat

    RichardWhereat Aia airëa Fëanáro.

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    Actually, he may have. If they spent centuries together, or even just decades, the age difference would have been negligible at that point. They'd have been peers with comparative months between them, not the 1.5 decades of someone in his early thirties, and a 15 year old.
     
  3. iamnuff

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    I ASKED FOR THIS!
    And boy did I get it. Woo!

    Wonder how the league is taking it? Especially the world-conquering part.

    For Tao... He only showed up briefly and has barely been a character since then, so I don't really know what to say.
     
  4. RichardWhereat

    RichardWhereat Aia airëa Fëanáro.

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    "Sucks to be him"?

    It's cruel, but we never really got to know him.
     
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  5. WereDragon

    WereDragon Bookwyrm

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    Always good to see non-Paul POVs.

    On the one hand, the lack of invisitext is nice. On the other, the lack of god speech between a pair of new gods is a bit strange.
     
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  6. Mr Zoat

    Mr Zoat Dedicated ragequitter

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    Wallace mostly just treats it as a fix for his powers and tries to ignore the rest.
     
  7. Darko

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    Either they don't all know how to do it, or they just prefer to use regular speech.
     
  8. PrinceJonathan

    PrinceJonathan Versed in the lewd.

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    Yeah it is very sad. Sort of reminds me of a story I once read many many years ago about humans being granted immortality and how it is a bad thing. After a few centuries they start to develop conditions similar to Dementia or Alzheimer's where they begin to lose their mental faculties because the human brain basically doesn't have enough memory to store a millennia's worth of experiences.

    I can't for the life of me remember the name of it. Which is fitting considering what it was about I guess.
     
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  9. Maxx Crowley

    Maxx Crowley I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    As someone who skips Grayven, I have little to no idea of what is going on. I get the gist of it. Of course, as someone who doesn't read Grayven I really don't need answers and I'm more annoyed that this is here rather then OL, whatever happened with Malvolio, what's up with Flash and the like.

    Arrow-girl now much older, can't remember things. Meh..
     
  10. BlueMangoAdea

    BlueMangoAdea Alive. For now.

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    As someone who reads Grayven, I have little to no idea of why you are writing this. I get the gist of it. Of course, as someone who does read Grayven I really don't see the point of complaining about it.

    Another complaint about Grayven chapters. Meh..
     
  11. Maxx Crowley

    Maxx Crowley I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    Because I can. *Dramatic music plays in the background*


    For once upon a time I was visited by a dying alien, who handed over to me his ring of power. Then, only seconds later, I was bitten by a radioactive bug, which had the consequence of causing me to fall into a deep chasm where I was bathed in cosmic rays!

    Upon awakening, I stumbled across a strange artifact. It was covered in Eldritch symbols that I did not understand at first. But then, as if it were speaking in my very mind, the writing became clear to me.

    "Whom so ever holds this keyboard, shall be granted the power to post on public forums!"

    And I knew....I knew that nothing would ever be the same again.

     
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  12. Mr Zoat

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    It's the literate equivalent of pissing against a wall so the other dogs can smell you.
     
  13. Maxx Crowley

    Maxx Crowley I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    *Looks at avatar* Am Potat.

    Besides...it was you Zoat. You who left us at juicy questions to be answered land. But then! Off we go, away from the delicious answers! Right into the frying pan to the face that is Grayven! We've been Gray-ved!

    Hmm....Grayven themed frying pans.....It's so crazy...it just might work.
     
  14. Flightless Man

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    I was kind of under the impression the Sun eater ate everything, including emotions and memories. Even Sheeda lost anything beside a few acceptable traits, even the info they had was really spotty. they had no knowledge or history really. I felt like everyone in the future basically loses any good emotion/memory.

    Good point, Does'nt Grayven have two rings? The whole, expanding your herd thing has me wanting Artemis and Luna interactions.
     
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  15. Valint

    Valint I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    I mean, even with a lack of any romantic involvement, Luna establishing a relationship with Grayven's close female friend seems like a good idea.

    Plus, they both have that whole time-lost thing to bond over.
     
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  16. Darko

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    I don't think they lose memories in the future.

    The reason their info was spotty was due to age, with some of those recording potentially being eons old, and them not caring to preserve it.

    And the reason they lived like that was due to their rulers encouraging it.

    He may have two rings, but they probably only preserve memories when they're worn and are at full power, and renegades were not during his time in the future.
     
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  17. Maxx Crowley

    Maxx Crowley I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    Wouldn't Grayven be able to forge rings at this point?

    I know it's been suggested that Para-Paul could make an orange ring if he really wanted to/had to.
     
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  18. Flightless Man

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    Romantically, as an adopted sister, or as friends with common experiances. I can see all three ways being really fun to explore.

    Not so much that they lose all memories, more that anything not tied to Sheeda emotional mindset degrades over time. "good" memories fade faster then bad i guess is how i see it.

    Oh yeah i know his rings were dead in Sheeda land, i meant now that he is back and are charged he can give her one. Misunderstanding over giving her a ring ensue for laughs.

    I'm pretty sure 1-2 months worth of charges is all he needs to make a new one.
     
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  19. Darko

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    He hasn't exactly focused all that much on his ring abilities as Paul has, so he may not be capable.

    Still he could assimilate someone and order them to become a ring like Larfleeze did.

    However after the AL Equation he hasn't really done it, aside from Klarion, because I think he compared it to being similar to the Equation.

    I think that was more their shitty life than Starbreaker eating their good memories.

    Though he did feed on their pain during the war, so maybe he also munched on the positive emotions sometimes.

    It would be funny, but it still may not work.
     
  20. Maxx Crowley

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    True.

    OL has really neglected his ring powers I feel. Like, he hasn't tried to really explore what his ring can do, or discover new things he didn't know about. Sometimes I almost forget that he is a Lantern. At times his ring feels more like a bag of holding.

    Then again, OL is sorta confusing me more and more lately. I'm curious to see where he is going.
     
  21. Darko

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    Ah, Paul hasn't been neglecting his ring abilities.

    If you remember in the last several episodes he displayed a number of new techniques and abilities.
     
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  22. Maxx Crowley

    Maxx Crowley I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    I did say that I feel that. It could very well just be me, as Zoat and I have two different outlooks on Power rings.

    Though, that brings a thought.

    Given that the Greek Gods can give literal blessings that grant powers. I wonder if people/countries will start entreating with them more and more now after the Sheeda invasion? It's got to be one hell of a rattle after the Hell attack and Pigeon of War attack.
     
  23. Darko

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    If that priestess of Hades is still preaching then she may have new converts.
     
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  24. Agent Orange

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    That sounds like a good idea so I'd say it has about as much chance of happening as humanity embracing magic and schizotech without Paul bribing and blackmailing them into it 24/7... So, around 1% chance on a good day.

    Status Quo, an unbroken winning streak since mid-30s ;)
     
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  25. Maxx Crowley

    Maxx Crowley I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    I mean, I get that OL wants to be hands off with this "uplift". But I think a time will come where, if he really cares about it, he's just going to have to do it himself. As I've said, at this point, OL seems so hands off with all his projects I'm not sure what he wants at this point.

    I believe that's pretty much what Grayven has been doing.
     
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  26. Gantradies

    Gantradies Not too sore, are you?

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    especially given the presence of malevolent forces actively trying to keep the status quo-
    even without considering smily's metaphysical interference,there's a lot of inertia against change on E16 still-
    i prettymuch agree- going hands-off is almost begging for someone else to snap like silvana...

    ..... one the subject of change, does the paragon timeline iteration of luthor still have an adult watching him? its been a while since he was involved/partially (willingly or not) involved in CAUSING a global disaster,and he's been..almost worryingly quiet for an megalomaniacal egomaniac...
     
  27. Agent Orange

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    I don't think so. OL gave up on him around... I can't actually remember. Quite a while ago. Around the end of the Nabu mess/start of the Space Adventures - the founding of OLC. Either just before or just after?

    In any case Lex has no adults watching him (unless you count other Light-ers and I don't).

    Speaking of, the Light - OL sort of... gave up on looking for them around the same time he gave up on Lex. What the hell is up with that? Did he just decide that they are unimportant or not his business or something? Just because the League are dragging their feet about it why does he?
     
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  28. Vaermina

    Vaermina Well worn.

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    He wasn't able to find out anything more about The Light after taking out a couple of the leaders.

    So lost interest in it and effectively gave up.

    A big thing to remember about Paragon is that he has mind fucked himself so much that he is suffering under an almost constant state of Ohh! Shiny! Hence the way he flits from thing to thing to thing never really doing a good job fixing the various problems.
     
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  29. Maxx Crowley

    Maxx Crowley I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    Yeah, these days it seems like OL is really rather uninterested in Earth. That or he's completely exasperated to the point of near apathy.

    He keeps trying to be that hands off parent who merely guides the child to knowledge, and then gets quietly frustrated when the child tosses that away to go back to porn and sportsball.

    I wonder if OL will get to a point where he realizes that, if he truly wants change, he's going to have to make them.

    The OL that cleaned up the ocean and yelled at Hippies understood. But does this new, enlightened OL?

    Or is he truly that detached at this point?

    Because, honestly? At this point he really does seem detached. From Kon, the team as a whole, being a super-hero, Alan, improving the various super-heroes he comes upon.

    Where is the OL that acted as a drug dealer of super powers to ever "Badass" normal he came across gone? Where has the man of the danner formula, the super speed serum, the powered armor....where has he gone?

    **for those who don't get it. I'm bored and this is all in good fun**
     
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  30. Gilhelmi

    Gilhelmi Know what you're doing yet?

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    I blame Mr. Smiley. That walking Walmart mascot is messing with his head.

    OL did get Georgia Sivana to research why technological and sociological progress is being slow. I am hoping that she discovers the dark truth and Orange Vengeance comes swift.

    Real question is, does Chuckles influence extend past Earth? Because if not, it would explain why OL's plans are going better off-world.
     
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