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

I feel like this arc ends with John as a whole being reformed. Technically that includes the demon.

 

Just the excess stuff, he's always had a surplus supply.

 

I feel this might result in John as a whole being de-formed.
Like, recombine John Constantine's many selves and powers into one whole, then split him apart again into a family of fraternal twin selves with a hive-mind telepathic link between them, everyone gets everything, but its all diffused, no one gets a concentrated piece of X or y or z, no one gets all the chips magic or all the order magic or all the demon magic, instead you have a dozen mediocre John Constantine knockoffs who can never pull off Constantine-tier disasters except by working together as a team.

It's foolproof.

 

The first time he showed up he staged a terrorist attack that killed over 40 people, he later started distributing a drug that turns people into demons, helped free Oceanus, tried to turn Paul into a demon, helped criminals etc.

 

It makes perfect sense. "Turbo" means "powered by a turbine" and the earliest practical jet engines were turbojet engines. In this universe, public discourse clearly chose to abbreviate the "jet" part instead of the "turbo" part -- which actually makes MORE sense than what we chose in our universe, because strictly speaking rockets are jet engines, but they're definitely not turbo engines.

You mean "one of their barrels", right?

Semicolon instead of comma.

 

Not to this SI, it doesn't.

No.

Thank you, corrected.

 

Well this is connected to Constantine, so it's highly likely to happen.

 

At least they made it to Fate's tower relatively in tact.

 

well... more unhinged...

 

For the record, "superbomb" was used for a bit as the popular term for a nuke before the fact that it was based on fission was released ("Army's New Superbomb Wallops Japs Again!" and the like), and indeed, if these were fusion (hydrogen) bombs instead of the fission (uranium) bombs used in combat IOTL, the original code phrase for them was "'Super' Bomb," to limit the spread of the knowledge that they were fusion devices; that was dropped entirely after we confirmed that the Soviets had independently developed a Teller-Ulam fusion design.

"Turbo" engine annoys me for the same reason "turbojet" became "jet" in popular use IOTL--there were already "turbo" engines in use. Most of the high-altitude fighters and bombers from WW2 used turbochargers (or, as they are more technically called, turbosuperchargers) to be able to breathe at 30,000 feet; if you just called it a "turbo" engine, then you have to differentiate from a turbocharged engine that uses an exhaust gas turbine to pump more air into the intake manifold.

Very first thing I thought of:

 

That last part is obviously a lie.

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

"at them"

Some.

Oh, it's popular, but it's not your type of football.

 

You can paint power ring constructs? What happens when he dismisses them or their destroyed?

 

...That's not an understatement. 31:65 GMT? What kind of planetary rotation is that tied to? A yo-yo? Or one with multiple suns? See, this is why most fantastic 'otherworlds' still work on a roughly 25-hour day. Less complicated for authors to keep track of.

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Maybe the place it counts for is a giant planet with a longer day? Just don't go reading the labels, it could be some mind-breaking arcane script.

To be fair, the division of time is largely arbitrary, beyond 'early light-time', late light-time and 'dark time'...We only use the times we do (60 seconds, sixty minutes, twenty-four and a bit hours) because maths.

Much closer to the human biological tempo, innit? And a little less imprecise when it comes to counting solar orbits.

No, you mean 'hand-egg.' Most of the world plays sports that don't require play to stop completely every time someone get tackled...

And does it still wear Kent Nelson's face? Or has it updated to resemble John? ..Ooh, let's hope it doesn't share the original Constantine's personality.

Great. So the rogue doesn't know how the traps work or how to disarm them, the wizard can't detect them easily, and the Clerics might have trouble healing. A fine adventuring party this is...

Well, that depends. Do you trust it to treat you as guests, not intruders, since you didn't exactly get security passes at the front door...

Feeling a bit guilty? But breaking and entering is a fine vigilante tradition, don't you know? Might be harder to make a silent exit, Batman-style, but still...

That won't get confusing at all, no sir.

Now hang on, didn't you say he might be like you, or was that someone else?

...Oh. He's not a Constantine because he didn't earn it in blood and pain. Petty.

So, much like storing a loaded firearm, then. One that's prone to going off half-cocked, and often while pointing at you.

Although doing so would mean removing his own memories of how to, and we know he's been covering his tracks well.

Ever seen a carpet someone walks on a lot, compared to, say, a spot that's been under furniture for years? Quite a difference.

OL can sometimes miss things as plain as the nose on his face, you know...

Certainly, whoever managed that would be crowing it to the high heavens.

Hooray for semi-immortality.

Ah, he hasn't quite grasped the full implications of being silicate-based, hasn't he?

Still says a lot that you had to take a moment to do the math, Sandy.

And hopefully it's not a 'reverts human biology to previous saved setting' deal whenever he transforms, so he can let a little gray in later.

Even if said heavy armour hasn't exactly made a good showing of itself some of the last times you've used it?

Well, at least they have a plan now...

And so the sneaky part begins... With OL putting himself in full plate. Better hope it's enchanted with silent movement. Meanwhile, once this is all over, Sanderson might need a little therapy, if only to help him come to terms with his new-found quasi-immortality. Assuming they survive the inevitable 'excrement hitting the rotary cooling device' that anything involving a Constantine, ersatz or not, tends to invariably descend into...

 

He is referring to his normal power armour he cares in subspace, I believe.

 

The armour is physical, not a construct. He keeps it in subspace.

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

And the name of the sport is an accurate description of what happens in it and what appendage is used.

It wouldn't be a proper band of murderhobos if they weren't slightly incompetent.

He's a Constantine, so of course he'd be petty.

Ohoh, yeah.

 

commiserate him -> commiserate with him

 

I...

I genuinely didn't know that's how it was said.

 

Reading the word pointlessly literal, to commiserate someone would be to make them as miserable as you are.

So more a John thing than Alan.

 

I can't find the quote, but it reminds me of something Rupert Giles said : something like "I don't understand why Americans needs to wear pounds of armour to play rugby"

 

It's commiserate with.

Aww Sandy. Probably not great for his concept of self, but there are worse things than finding out you're immortal.

Though it would be utterly hilarious if Quinn really was innocent and/or not a Constantine.

 

Oh, he doesn't say 'Americans'. He says 'a nation that prides itself on its virility'.

Edit: Can't find a clip, but here's a better quote.

 

I would imagine the paint falls to the ground.

 

Usually one word

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

Technically things like boxing gloves and football gear make it so the sport is more dangerous, not less. The athletes in question are able to exert more force against one another without being damaged commensurately.

Things like bare knuckle boxing or Rugby, believe it or not, are less dangerous than actual boxing or football. So it's always funny to hear takes like that.