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

Well I'll be honest, I was going to marry my girlfriend first but...

//No, we want orange power rings.

////I mean marry you and your girlfriend would be cool too, but we actually meant the rings of ultimate power from space alien god people.

 

This is gonna go one of two ways. 1) Paul calmly and rationally explains the difficulty of having orange rings and these two goddesses will be consulted about ring use at a later date preferably with Hinon present. 2) Paul"s gonna make a big mess. Can't wait to find out which.

 

This seems like a time for Eris to pop up. Too bad she can't track Paul. The second he comes to Earth, this happens.

 

Arent gods masses of power that are strong enough to create bodies of flesh for themselves? Would a power ring do anything for them? It would like giving Best Snek a ring.

Side thought, since Snek desires all things. Would she want the other colors or power rings? Just to complete her collection.

 

She has no desire for them. I'm fairly sure that she said green tastes like concrete, and I'd imagine similar feelings for the rest of the colors. When she saw the life entity, she chose to completely ignore it.

 

I approve and there is no way this could possibly go wrong!

 

Coming soon from Zoat, a new lewd spinoff in the same spirit of Eros... Put a Ring On It. Paul just flies around the universe, recruiting all the lonely and lovely lasses, lewding them up in the process. It would be a great success.

 

If nothing else, it would give them the benefit of billions of years of Maltusian coding to use as a conduit for shaping their power

 

I can't actually find anything on Gaudia or Aporia. Help?

 

You're google fu is weak.

Virgil, Aeneid 6. 268 ff (trans. Fairclough) (Roman epic C1st B.C.) :"[Aeneas is guided by the Sibyl through the Underworld :] On they went dimly, beneath the lonely night amid the gloom, through the empty halls of Dis [Haides] and his phantom realm . . . Just before the entrance, even within the very jaws of Orcus [Haides], Luctus (Grief) [Penthos] and avenging Curae (Cares) have set their bed; there pale Morbi (Diseases) [Nosoi] dwell, sad Senectus (Old Age) [Geras], and Metus (Fear) [Deimos], and Fames (Hunger) [Limos], temptress to sin, and loathly Egestas (Want) [Aporia], shapes terrible to view; and Letum (Death) [Thanatos] and Labor (Toil) [Ponos]; next, Letum's (Death's) own brother Sopor (Sleep) [Hypnos], and Gaudia (the Soul's Guilty Joys), and, on the threshold opposite, the death-dealing Bellum (War) [Polemos], and the Eumenides' [the Furies'] iron cells, and maddening Discordia (Strife) [Eris], her snaky locks entwined with bloody ribbons. In the midst an elm, shadowy and vast, spreads her boughs and aged arms, the whome which, men say, false Somnia (Dreams) [Oneiroi] hold, clinging under every leaf."

 

I wonder if any of the Titans would be interested in a ring?

 

Like in the cartoon series.

Just brilliant.

What, they couldn't make robotic servants that didn't go crazy.

Some may be pissed.

Also the fact that the individuals who enslaved them, not just their species or group, are still alive may piss them off.

'to build'

That would be New Chronus.

Yeah...

Really Paul.

Didn't you learn anything during your last space adventure with her?

...

Ohh, who am I kidding.

You rarely learn.

I think 'Genesians' would be better.

 

narcotics of my homeworld, that a sizeable proportion of the population lack the receptors to actually get addicted to it, yet use it anyway. “

what? Is that in reference to nicotine ?

 

Yes, not exactly the most subtle of weapons. Certainly quite the logical terror weapons, especially if the prospective victims have limited ways to counter it. And with an unfortunate track record of going AWOL, in the comics...

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

Ferro Lad, for the record. Brave young man...

Ah. Now we see why Hinon's sending him instead of another Controller handling it.

Well, scientists think it happened. I rather expect the slave race, meanwhile, has long since forgotten their bondage... Which could be a worry if they've also forgotten about the Sun-Eater manufacturing site.

Probably because of the sheer scale of the timeframes and events involved.

So any trip will have be to undertaken very carefully. But since it's a major asset to the Controllers and a major embarrassment if it gets misused...

Thinking too small, OL. A Dimensional Warp could well serve as a portal into other universes in the right conditions.

Ah, and there we have it: no Team...

Let's hope he's not too busy. Who knows what's been happening back on Earth, after all.

...I hope OL's not interrupting anything naughty... But then, Alan wouldn't have picked up in that case.

Yeah, that'd qualify as busy. Now, predictions on which crazy Cult it is?

Well. A pity you haven't really got any friends outside of the League and the Team, OL...

And when Orange Granny says something, she expects it to be listened to. On the other hand...

...She never said how big a staff he should take.

Well, you do qualify as a Hero under Greek definitions. And they have a long history of taking day trips into the Underworld.

Hmm. Not shades, their speech would be all black. Death-infused, though. Local lesser dieties, then...

Please, not the Noblewoman's Laugh of Japanese Animation infamy. "OOHOHOHOHOHOHO!"

After all, the children of Hades are somewhat obscure in mythological circles.

All those guilty little pleasures people enjoy? The ones you'd be embarrassed if anyone found out about? Heh.

A goddess of Wants? Yes, I can see the benefits of having her on your side... Until she realised you're basically invisible to her.

Ah, OL... Think about how that statement could be taken?

Yes, I see their minds went exactly where I thought they might.

I wonder if they actually were, or if they just want to see her face when he shows up...

Ah, what's the catch, ladies? Besides OL's bachelorhood?

Now, I'm sure they aren't proposing a threesome or something like that... Not on the Worksafe side of the site, anyway.

And now I wonder what the theological implications of a deity wearing a Power Ring are...

Well, this is a fine pickle, OL. Whatever you say, I'm sure someone will feel offended... Though I heartily recommend consulting with Hinon about the possibility of recruiting them. She's probably got a much better idea of what giving two goddesses of desires a Ring empowered by Avarice might do. On the other hand, I wonder how the Titans will take you turning up with several Olympians for your first meeting.

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The shorter one covers her mouth with her right hand as the taller one laughs.

 

Even if it wasn't, something being a bad idea hasn't stopped Paul from doing it.

Yep, these are Paul's go to choices.

It could give them a chance to leave the planet and can give more power to the lesser ones.

I'm now imagining something like the Bachelor.

Paul has a weird competition for various women and if they pass he gives them a ring.

 

Unless they've discovered archeological evidence that it's happened.

Ohh, there are so many.

He does actually.

Holly and Karen, Ted, Hephaestus etc.

Not really.

I read the previous chapter in which a shade showed up and his speech wasn't black.

 

Im gonna need a bigger boat.
That is one whale of a link.

 

Some time past, when Paul recruited Mother of Mercy, Hinon said this:

Whether it's a good or bad idea is irrelevant. The only question is "would doing so beat out recruiting a planet?"

 

This reminds me: Desire is one of the Endless, is he the Ophidian in different form? Something else? Would he like a ring?

 

WE GET TO SEE MELINOË AGAIN!

No. I'm Richard. You're google fu is weak.

Coffee, probably.

Given when Desire tried contacting Paul last, I doubt he's going to offer them one. Desire's a dick.

 

once -> one

I think so. IIRC that's about the right percentage of people who the right receptors.

Yes, a whale and a great one. Any link you don't need to click on is a good link IMO.

 

I am disappointed in this development.

But not in this one!

 

And a cunt. I seem to remember that Desire is the one that is both, innit?

And I hope we spend some time in Erebos, I'm always happy seeing the Illustres bringing chaos to the underworld.

Although, can someone remind me what happened after the weird thing with Pluto being a Star Conqueror?

 

Aporia is the spirit of want.

I kinda want paul to just say. "to cause chaos" and leave.

Edit: ninja'd kinda

 

The one time I would have approved of making a white character black.

Thank you, corrected.

Yes. Don't ask me to reference the study, it was years ago.

Thank you, corrected.

 

Don't swear, swearing makes you look like a cunt.

Yeah, Desire is ambiguous, and likely changes upon, desire.

 

Paul took Melinoe there to examine it but she was kidnapped by some Dreaming residents.

 

well i like where this is going so far

 

Do you think she means a Prince Albert?

 

Want and powerlessness. And a companion of the spirit of poverty. From context this implies she was not the spirit of Want as in desiring things, but rather the spirit of Want as lacking necessities.

Pulling from the dictionary,

Aporia would be exclusively the former, the personification of deficiency, not desire.