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

Heh, I've seen other fics where Earth is described as the red light district of the galaxy.

Really Paul should just explain how one of the Endless was imprisoned on Earth for awhile. If that's not enough to make a Lantern wary then frankly she kind of deserves what she gets.

Why do you hate Zatanna? Poor girl is trying to get over pink purple light addiction and you think she needs a Ring of Yandere?

 

purple is Indigo = Compassion

Pink = Violet

 

Briefly. But while comics Rayner's constructs are more 'fanciful' than those of most of his contemporaries, they weren't particular functional. And Rayner 16 doesn't read have having a strong emotional resonance.

 

When did that happen? I think I missed it.

 

Time travel shenanigans episode that introduced time trapper Paul, at the end Dana Dearden got left behind in the year 3000... A complete waste of a complex character if you ask me... But c'est la vie.

 

I feel like this is overly harsh - by this standard of 'good enough for earth', the only people who would pass would be the lanterns and maybe a handful of the magic types. In practice, it seems mostly like having armor like that (beyond just having a spell eater) is a useful edge with some interesting edge use cases, but not a decisive advantage. The 'needing it' angle is at best a manipulative framing of a true fact.

 

Dude, we ARE the native animal life. And DC humans are fucked up.

A Death World. You call it a Death World.

 

Batman: “Orange Lantern. Why do I have a report of you staring through the windows of a public high school muttering to yourself about a student not being ‘emotionally prepared for your snake’ yet?”

 

To refine the statement... A dwarf planet can't be a satellite of another object (except for a star, which doesn't count), which rules out moons. Of course, that's what Paul's retort is all about.

That list is out of date. There's at least one additional dwarf planet that's been confirmed (Gonggong) and at least three more that some scientists assert qualify as such (Sedna, Orcus, Quaoar) but haven't been officially given the designation. (And then Haumea might end up being reclassified away from being a dwarf planet.)

 

You know, I think Paul really enjoys when he gets to be all smug like this.

It's rather fun to read, too.

 

Space Australia, I think.

 

Earth, its a perfectly nice place to live and do business, right up until you run into one of the thousands of things that can kill you in ways you won't find anywhere else. Just like Australia ;p

 

Gotta be careful though, or a Space-Dingo'll eat your Space-Baby.

 

No, no, Insane Death World fits better. The key word is Insane. Australia is basically British Texas, so Space Australia would be Space British Texas, which while odd doesn't do justice to the sheer nuttiness of the DC setting.

 

The thing is that it's not so much the lethality that's unique to earth, there is incredibly lethal shit all over the place, including whole planets capable of hating you in particular, Darkseid, random access to the shadowlands, the old demon gods of thanagar, formerly larfleeze. What's unique to earth is that it's full of people who look at shit on par with all that, tell Igor to hold their beer, and then proceed to macguyver the universe into letting them in on the fun with the equivalent of some chewing gum and paperclips.

 

Just a shame about the inhabitants.

Dang, "Space Australia" is sounding more appropriate all the time...

 

You underestimate Australia - It’s like Texas crossed with Florida’s insanity crossed with a healthy dose of WTF is that thing? If Lovecraft has ever learned about Australia, he’d stop writing sci-di start writing nature books. There’s a reason dropbears are associated with Australian Everglades. Pandas are mean bastards.

 

Well yes, probably because they try to completely control their people, in a field where the most successful are strict individualists.

It's a shame that Grayven can't just kill their superfunctionaries and mind control their leaders into offering him the crown, which he turns down for a 20 year presidential term.

 

I mean... he could... but he would have to create a reason to make it seem reasonable, like a Starro invasion of the government - but make sure the starros make the targets permanently unable to function without them. Or having one of the superfunctionaries go rogue kill the government while others are unable to stop him. He could use a construct Starro to make sure nobody finds out - he hasn’t demonstrated the ability to turn living beings into constructs to anyone else on Earth not part of his group, and Starros are good at hiding the fact they are controlling people.

 

I feel like you are referencing something I am just not catching.

 

Mind control their leaders? What does he do about the other billion people?

 

"You understand that you're making that precocious little shithead of a child genius look reasonable, right? Is that really something you want to do?"

 

Most of them won’t really do much - for all that people say, most of those billion people are poor and mostly too concerned with living day-to-day to care about the future / government. Things are made in China, and not often invented there.

 

That bad, eh?

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

And what part does the Life Entity play in matters, which Grayven is likely aware of but unable to prove correlation?

Ah, complaceny born of comfort. They think they're too important to... censure?

Ah, that explains the previous snippet of Renegade activity.

Presumably the inmate was judged not a great risk of anything other than drooling on someone?

August General in Iron, wasn't it? I see the Party has had Words with him over Grayven's last interview.

In other words, he buggers off somewhere, the project is left severely hampered by lack of knowledge...

Oh-ho?

<Snaps fingers> Damn. Could have managed to negotiate with them...

Poking them via American television probably didn't help.

Ah, they're put out that he won't help conquer the world? Of Course!

This could take a while...

Because of course they're suing. It is a trademark, I suppose, and GW are aggressively defensive of them.

What part of 'not helping you take over the world' did they not understand?

Except America isn't. An American is, but the two are not the same thing.

What he said!

Obstructionist Party members with fingers in the energy industry pie, no doubt...

It was excellently milquetoast-y.

I'm sure he's seen a few bad eggs, but how many of them survive his team's 'recruitment' process?

How very short-sighted of them...

Well said. And something the Party needs to hear... Now, whether they'll listen to what they heard...

Even Hogwarts wasn't built in a day. It probably took two or three, tops.

And if her response isn't "Agree, or I will castrate you in such a way that you cannot grow it back!" I will be surprised.

Well, that was an enlightening insight into the politics of this story's China. Let's hope Grayven hasn't pissed off too many Party members.
(And let's keep the discussion in-universe, please?)

 

Eh... this is what most major country leaders are like these days, unfortunately. International cooperation and helping other countries doesn’t tend to be as big on anyone’s agenda as it used to be during, say, the Cold War

 

You would be too if you lost a pair of your setting's deities to litigation by comic writers who've been sitting on the characters ever since.

*points at the international effort to make a massive fuck-off space fleet to defend the Earth against invasion*

 

“Points at it being a mostly privatized and commercialized effort that China is, according to the update, still considering pulling out of”

 

If you want to turn humans into telepaths wouldn't it be better to get Doctor von Schadel involved directly?

I mean he is part of the light, an expert in human augmentation and a telepath, not to mention that he had access to Atlantean magic over the last couple of months, which we know can gramt telepathy(Aquaman)

Like he would probably be even more useful than the Chinese.

 

Ugh, even in fiction I can barely stand this Chinese businesses.