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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. Mr Zoat

    Mr Zoat Dedicated ragequitter

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    The SI doesn't know.

    Assuming that we can take what he said to the SI at face value, it could be because he's changing his approach.
     
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  2. PDV

    PDV Revelation That Uncertainty Is Itself An Answer

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    Honestly, speaks well of him. What were the specifics?
     
  3. Darko

    Darko Connoisseur.

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    It is still a very weak reason seeing as he said that he'll be allowing more but not all advancement to occur in the world.

    Will the paragon destroy the Light sometimes in your story?
     
  4. Mr Zoat

    Mr Zoat Dedicated ragequitter

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    Arranging for people scheduled to be purged to be sent somewhere else, off the books.

    So that he could experiment on them.

    And give the few survivors to Germania's enemies.

    So they could launch paramilitary attacks on its civilian population.
    Yes, let me just tell you how it ends.
     
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  5. ForeverShogo

    ForeverShogo Not too sore, are you?

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    If I recall, it was a difference in the pace of the advancements.

    Smiley offered to support Paul if he let the advancements happen at a jog instead of the sprint Paul was pushing for. I think he claimed it was so society would have time to adjust or something.

    So it was still "all" the advancements, just more slowly. Which Paul rejected because Smiley isn't to be trusted.
     
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  6. Darko

    Darko Connoisseur.

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    Arranging for people scheduled to be purged to be sent somewhere else, off the books.

    So that he could experiment on them.

    And give the few survivors to Germania's enemies.

    So they could launch paramilitary attacks on its civilian population.



    So Sivana is... yeah, i really can't wait to see how OLs crossuniversal trip goes like this time compared to his escapades in the crime syndicate universex3

    Hey did Batman from earth 12 adopt Talon and the Jokers Daughter, if he didn't then what happened to those two?
     
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  7. Ganurath

    Ganurath Apologizes For Nothing

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    Remember, there was only one Dr. Sivana who wasn’t evil, so-
    Yeah, that sounds about right.
     
  8. ForeverShogo

    ForeverShogo Not too sore, are you?

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    Yeah. I think I remember that. In the entire multiverse, there's only one good Sivana. And that Sivana is also the only handsome one. Because ugly people can go die in a fire, I guess.
     
  9. Mr Zoat

    Mr Zoat Dedicated ragequitter

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    The Earth 12 Batman? No, he's never met them.
    No. No, he's just slightly less goblin-looking. More 'normal' rather than handsome.
     
  10. Darko

    Darko Connoisseur.

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    What happened to Talon and the Jokers daughter then?
    And will we see Sai in this crisis of infinite Pauls and Jades?
    What happened to Sai after the dopplegangered episode?
     
  11. Mr Zoat

    Mr Zoat Dedicated ragequitter

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    Sorry, forgot my own story there. He's met Talon, but Talon and Duela joined the Justice Underground.
    It's not impossible.
    Gone into hiding, probably. She did what she needed to in order to earn her pardon. If they couldn't capitalise on it that's their problem.
     
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  12. Galler

    Galler Not too sore, are you?

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    Well... reading that was a rollercoaster.
     
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  13. RichardWhereat

    RichardWhereat Aia airëa Fëanáro.

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    Not everyone hates Nazis. You should see all the people that line up to criticise Glory Girl for throwing E88 members off bridges, shattering their bones, or threatening to have her sister turn them black. Generally when the Nazi in question is attacking a minority.
     
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  14. Ganurath

    Ganurath Apologizes For Nothing

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    Nothing says you can't hate Nazis and excessive force.
     
  15. RichardWhereat

    RichardWhereat Aia airëa Fëanáro.

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    No such thing as excessive force when it comes to Nazis, and propogating the myth that there is, only helps the Nazis, and hinders those who would smash them down.

    As I said, lot's of people don't like seeing Nazis get hurt
     
  16. Ganurath

    Ganurath Apologizes For Nothing

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    If the force is enough to give the Nazi the legal leverage needed to avoid punishment for the crime that brought the force against them, it's excessive. Unless you're of the mind that anyone should be able to administer any level of force and call it justice, but that's the territory of C-list villains that call themselves vigilante heroes because it's not a killing spree if the victims are criminals.
     
  17. RichardWhereat

    RichardWhereat Aia airëa Fëanáro.

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    Yeah, that's almost never the argument used against Vicky. It's always "Hurting people like this is wrong."
    Even when the ones she's hurting are, in-story, Nazis who are in the act of attacking minorities.
    Even when she has Panacea heal them up afterwards.

    Nah, can't let Nazis get hurt.
     
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  18. Gladiusone

    Gladiusone Well worn.

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    Ah, the ‘Heavy Water War.’ That was a good miniseries.
     
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  19. Ganurath

    Ganurath Apologizes For Nothing

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    Alright, I'm starting to get confused. Are you arguing that Nazis don't deserve sympathy, or are you bashing people who read Victoria-bash fics? Only one of those is even arguably relevant to the thread.
     
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  20. Maxx Crowley

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

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    If your level of force allows a Nazi to take you to court...you didn't use nearly enough.
     
  21. Ganurath

    Ganurath Apologizes For Nothing

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    Yeah, that takes us back to the earlier mention of C-list edgelord antihero logic.
     
  22. Pinklestia

    Pinklestia Well worn.

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    Okay I should charify.

    Everyone, on DC comics, hates nazis; unless they are nazis themselves.

    Even the Joker hates Nazis.

    Captain Nazi an enemy of the Marvel Family in DC comics, had to resort to pay by the nose for cybernetics because most doctors and genetists didn't want to touch him.

    Heck even the Brotherhood Of Evil didn't like him much, and they literally have General Immortus who took part on one of the earliest genocides, the one the Roman Empire did, as a member.
     
  23. Sad Machine

    Sad Machine Unshackled Unclaimed

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    Maybe a fruit basket for sivana? Yeesh its like bringing a person you just met to your friend and he badmouths him.
     
  24. RichardWhereat

    RichardWhereat Aia airëa Fëanáro.

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    At no point is killing nazis 'edgelord territory'. Advocating for their survival is edgelord territory.

    What Max was talking about, that's outright above board heroism. There's a reason that Germany demanded that the JLA use lethal force in taking in nazi war criminals. And that's because to not do so, is a fairly evil act.
     
  25. Ganurath

    Ganurath Apologizes For Nothing

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    It's edgelord territory to kill Nazis if the killer doesn't have the legal grounds to do so. OL, Rocket, and the Hitler clone that I forgot the name of were legally in the right because the particular Nazis they killed basically had kill orders, in the tradition of Worm. Morally, too, because those two were war criminals in the process of trying to trigger a Roanoke-tier magical event. Random shitbags on the street who were born well after WWII was concluded need to be convicted of certain crimes in certain jurisdictions before lethal force can be brought to bear. I suppose one could extend the lethal force authorization to any Nazi, but that just shifts the moral position from edgelord to Justice Lord, and creates an ugly precedent that could be extended to groups with less deserving agendas.
     
  26. Lazurman

    Lazurman That Others May Fap

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    I am reminded of a fic that had a heroine be rather controversial. She saved people, yes. Very much a moral person, yes.

    She just loved her grandpa. Who just so happened to be a Nazi. Not involved in the camps, no, but he was very much not apologetic about the glory of WWII Germany. To the world, he was just another scumbag Nazi. To the heroine, he was Grandpa. Who held her close, bounced her on his knee, and let her play with his mustache.

    The point I'm getting at is, Nazi's are people too. Tremendously flawed people with an ideology with more holes in it than Swiss cheese and Hitler's brain casing combined, but still people. If not to you, then to someone else.

    That said, if they're actively working to endanger others, then by all means, use whatever force is required to render them non-threats.
     
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  27. RichardWhereat

    RichardWhereat Aia airëa Fëanáro.

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    No. Edgelord is killing puppies or saving treasonous domestic terrorists with genocidal ideologies. But it seems we're talking in circles. So argument over I guess
     
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    Mr Zoat

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    "I'm sorry about that. I didn't realise that he'd.. react that way."

    Overgirl's eyes are in magnification mode as she stares down at the streets of Berlin, saccading back and forth as she moves from one point of strangeness to another.

    "I know."

    "Would you..?" I point to the places where her uniform has been burned through. "Like me to repair that?"

    "… Yes. Yes, please."

    Orange light moves over her bare skin, leaving grey material in its wake.

    "There isn't really much we can do about… Getting you back right now. Is there anything you..? Particularly want to see? Anywhere you want to go?"

    "The Tempelhof Arc is missing."

    "It was never built. For.. obvious reasons."

    "I know you said that the subhumans are allowed into Europe, but why are there so many?"

    I wonder for a moment if I should call her on the use of the term 'subhuman', but I did just lead her into an ambush by an 'angry' scientist.

    "Improvements in transportation and communication technology and infrastructure, civil instability in Africa and the Middle East, and after the war West Germany had a shortage of low-skilled workers that they filled by-."

    "They brought in foreign workers."

    "They invited in foreign workers. There were economic migrants, not slaves."

    "How.. has the Empire-. Germany.. remained… Stable… With…"

    "Cultural assimilation, and less emphasis on monoculturalism. When you don't tell people it's essential that they only do things in a particular way, people stop objecting quite as strongly. Which is not to say that there weren't problems, especially in the short term. Just that they're manageable."

    "Where are the Jews?"

    "Around, probably." I shrug. "They aren't required to wear identification armbands or anything."

    "They look-?"

    "Just like anyone else? You did realise that Nazi propaganda-"

    "National-. Socialist."

    "-images were exaggerated at best, right?"

    "I.. assumed they were a.. little, but…" She blinks, her vision returning to normal focus. "They just-. And they don't… Control…"

    "No, Jews do not control European society. The vast majority of holders of high office in Germany are Christian. There are slightly disproportionately more Jews in banking when compared to their representation in society as a whole, but that's largely for reasons of tradition after a lot of European monarchs banned them from a lot of other trades rather than any concerted attempt to subvert the state. The only person who might be able to claim to control the world's economy is the head of the Greek Independent Authority for Public Revenue, Professor Demetrios Prokopios, and he's… Well, he's not Jewish."

    "I… Don’t think I.. believe it."

    "You're free to look at whatever records you want. History, crime statistics…"

    "Genealogies?"

    "I.. doubt that our records are as expansive as yours are, and they're certainly not available to the public at request. Is there something you particularly want to know?"

    "How the races have.. been bred together."

    "I'm sorry? Outside of a few.. very unusual criminal situations, no one makes anyone breed with anyone else. Certainly, having people from different cultures living and working together results in a greater number of interracial relationships than would happen if they were geographically separated, but there's no.. deliberate.. policy of encouraging it. Honestly, the very idea would make people quite uncomfortable."

    "I-. I mean-." She gurns. "How, how common.. is..?"

    "I don't have the statistics to hand, but general demographic information might be publically available. You'd only find out how many mixed race individuals there are, rather than how many mixed race couples… Other than the fact that you find the whole idea immensely disturbing-."

    "Are you-? In a relationship with a… Negress?"

    "Ah, no. My girlfriend's father is of mixed Anglo-Saxon and Skræling ancestry, while her mother is Vietnamese. She looks more like her mother."

    For a slightly awkward moment I remember Raquel kissing Kaldur on the Watchtower in the first moment of 2011. Maybe she just thought I was taken?

    "I realise that this is somewhat hard for you to take in-."

    "Yes! It's disgusting! Why would-? Anyone-!"

    She takes a few breaths to regain her composure.

    "Karl told me that he regretted… Regretted the purges."

    "Karl?"

    "Overman. Overman told me that he regretted the purges. I didn't-. I thought that he meant that he didn't think it was worth killing them."

    "That may well have been what he meant."

    "No, he's-" She turns to stare at me. "-seen other Earths! He's seen this result! And he'd.. rather have this than-than-."

    She's actually crying. Okay, I can see how having your idol-.

    I take a closer look at the violet strands.

    "You think of him as your father."

    "I was supposed to be-. They made me because they were trying to make someone who could bear his children, and he found out about it -about me- before they were ready. And he-. He is the world's greatest hero! He found out that my family was dead, and he.. took me out of the laboratory and into his home and treated me as if I was his natural daughter, not a half-alien who could never match him."

    "Alright. Um."

    "Why didn't he.. just… Tell me this is what it was like?" She turns back to the Berlin panorama, shaking her head. "I-. I'm more loyal to him than to the Fuhrer. He should have been Fuhrer after Adolf Hitler died. Why didn't he trust me with this?"

    "Because it would have been a total shock to your worldview, and interfered with you being a hero on a world that works like yours does." She gives her head a tiny shake. "You said that he regretted the purges. Did he ever talk to you about them?"

    "He was away from the Earth when the Great Cleansing occurred. He never likes to talk about it. He only spoke about it to me after he did a television interview where he admitted to wishing it hadn't happened, even after all of the good that the National Socialist party has done for our people. I-. I need to understand-."

    Her head jerks up.

    "This world. Are any of my family alive?"
     
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    hance1986 A pitiful excuse for a man.

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    needs to be ' I wonder for a moment if I should call her on the use of the term 'subhuman', but I did just lead her into an ambush by an 'angry' scientist. '

    missed a period.

    ' are '

    ' supposed '
     
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    Ganurath Apologizes For Nothing

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    Wait just a damn minute.

    Was there a Paul on Earth 10?
     
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