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

Well yes, that's what dashes like that do. That's what they're for. (It's called an "appositive.")

Commas aren't used for pauses, though. (Case in point, I'm not pausing in that previous sentence.) That particular comma wasn't representing a pause anyway; it was denoting list membership. And commas can also set off appositives. So in its grammatical role as a comma, a dash does a perfectly good job of doing the same thing. So you don't need the comma there.

 

I'm thinking of it more like Confucius showing up in the People's Republic of China.

 

Like someone commented earlier, this is essentially a powerful wizard claiming to be Merlin showing up in modern-day England and trying to restore Camelot with an army of changelings/ fey by force. He might even have Excalibur to prove he is Merlin or something.

Hm... that could make a good sci-if short story / anime plot. I’d set it in Steampunk England though.

 

I made a joke that Gravy could deal with the goatfucking babyeating conspiracy that rules DC England by waking up King Arthur.

 

I don't know if anyone cares, but I mirrored the sufficientvelocity part of this story here:

https://sacrarium0.github.io/wtr/

I will take this down if the author objects.

 

Don't the Sorcerer-Priests who effectively rule Mars consider Karmang to be their founder and most prominent source of inspiration? I thought that he was more like a Jesus or Buddha figure in that the Sorcerer-Priests claim legitimacy through their professed adherence to his teaching. My perspective was that Karmang's return and opposition to the established order was as much a religious crisis as it was a political crisis.

 

I thought that people who don’t know magic don’t care as much, and that Martians were likely polytheistic (though nothing has been said on if they worship the source or not), he might essentially be considered a demigod. I am assuming that since he likely isn’t the main focal point, it’d be at most like the Prophet Muhammad (Founder of Muslim religion). From what I know, this is similar to Merlin in that he’s essentially a famous historical figure, who passed down the word of God, but never claimed to either have divinity or know the one true way (guided by God, but not infinitely wise himself) / be the one valid prophet himself, effectively expanding on previous works, whereas the Buddha is the one founder of a religion, who invented something new entirely by himself.

Maybe Moses is a better comparison? Brought the 10 commandments, one of the main prophets behind the YHWH trifecta of religions?

Also, as someone who doesn’t know much about Buddhism, isn’t the entire point that the Buddha managed to break the cycle of reincarnation, and therefore never be reborn? Instead of them being happy, wouldn’t him coming back just break the entire point of the religion/ invalidate it?

 

Buddhism has a whole group of entities that have put off escaping the cycle in order to help others do so.

 

And no bitching about it, this bastard deserves everything coming to him...

Change of gender in mid sentence. Mistake, or a scan correcting the reference?

Dammit, Grayven, I'm a Power Ring, not a miracle worker.



Invisitext:

 

I guess every once in a while they have to act like dumb supervillains.

I've gotten too used to everyone acting in a reasonable manner in this story.

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

I think you mean dying thoughts?

 

Well I guess Karmang is less a "You get more flies with honey than vinegar" and more a "If you really want flies, nothing beats blood and rotting meat" kind of guy.

 

There's no way a realistically portrayed Motherbox actually follows through with that request.

And Martians can survive that.

 

Grayven's Motherbox has known him for a while, and is probably willing to give him at least a little slack. Also, "bomb the home base of that guy who just lied and killed a entire planetary council, possibly dooming the planet to a bloody civil war" is not that ridiculously evil of a request.

Possibly. Shame that at that point half of them were dead, the other half were mostly dead, and Grayven was probably not at his A-game after he lost that much blood. Might've worked, might not, but it never got tried.

 

Not necessarily on Earth-16.

 

Thank you, corrected.

Actually, some flies are specifically attracted to vinegar.

Do you believe that the New Gods of New Genesis never use their Boxes in combat?

 

How exactly did Graven lose all that blood again? I mean what did you do?

 

Evil DeSsad bomb?


YES!

 

I am sure those of New Genesis have.

But that's not this.

This is someone from Apokolips sending a weapon of evil horrific death and destruction to a location that might have an untold number of innocents living in and or around it.

And there's no way a Motherbox would do that.

 

Noooo, it's the hyperclan headquarters... everyone there is Hyperclan, and they consider it a holy place so they don't allow anyone else there.
This is basically bombing the military headquarters of a terrorist organisation.

While Mother Box is from New Genesis, that means that it is nice, not a pacifist.

 

Also she probably recognises that the Hyperclan are all horrible people.

 

Yeah, building on this:

Z'onn Z'orr was clearly stated to be at the top of Mount Olympus (the tallest mountain on mars), and remained undiscovered by the rest of mars. And given that all martians live underground anyway, it was probably very thoroughly isolated.


"really evil bomb" does not necessarily mean "horrific death". Or at least not "horrific slow death". It might just be a terrifyingly effective and scary bomb, like a dirty bomb, or a fuel-air bomb, or a neutron bomb, or cluster mine bombs, or a chemical weapon payload.
All rather scary and unpleasant and generally avoided for reasons like collateral damage and lingering dangers that can kill or horribly injure civilians, but if you're targeting somewhere where all structures are military fortifications, all people are enemy combatants, and where absolutely no one else lives, has lived, or will live for hundreds or thousands of years... well, a whole lot of the evilness of all those bombs is sorta irrelevant. Especially when immediately and permanently denying it's use to the enemy, and killing any present enemies like VIPs, is very important.

 

Hm... DeSaad was studying part of the Anti-life equation, right? (Not certain). This could be an Anti-Life bomb, if that’s a thing. Everything gives up on life and just dies inside. In addition, no structural damage and you can go back in immediately. Possibly even interrogate some of the Hyperclan. Fairly certain that Anti-Life would be a little overkill however.

 

Updates like this make me regret not being able to understand Mother Box. I half expected that second Ping. to be a Pi- instead.

 

I think it's something like how the Royal Victorian Order is 'in the Queen's (or King's, when the UK has one) personal gift,' meaning that QE II doesn't have to consult with the PM or Parliament before granting any level of the RVO to someone, she just chooses them. I might be misunderstanding, though.

Yeah, it's good to be reminded that for all his Renegadeness, Grayven absolutely is a hero. Arguably more of a hero than ParaPaul.

 

Also, the mother box had a choice of bombs, given that Grayven merely specified "one of those really evil ones". So it probably picked one that doesn't work by the tortured souls of children or whatever. The lesser of several evils, if you will.

 

One of the Martian bad guys cut his arm to the bone.

 

Just one Grayven? I'm disappointed in you. I expected you to send ALL the bombs.

*while sitting on his couch