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

Having to zoom in on each individual word to read is kinda annoying, but I’m not exactly hopeful that might change even if I ask.

 

Change "be" to "my" or something else that makes sense.

 

Haha, he is so unbothered by everything.

It's bad for him of course and I do feel sorry, but it's hilarious to read.

"All of existence appears to be in danger. I suspect I would be bothered by that if I was in a non-dead state"

 

Blood from a stone, my guy. Zoat does as Zoat does.

EDIT: People have been telling him the way he spells 'wow' ('whaw') is stupid and distracting as hell for literal years. He still does it. Just as an example.

 

I suggest switching to a lighter theme for a moment.

 

but they really are not vampires, tho.

 

Thank you, corrected.

It's like punching a mattress. Made of stone.

Thank you, corrected.

 

When debating fictional terms, there's an argument to be made (if still a pedantic one). When you're in that world, where that's what vampires are and always have been and the fiction was based on the real thing but got it wrong? No. They're vampires. When they've been dealing with this shit for literal thousands of years you don't get to swan in like you know better.

EDIT: Thinking about it, this is probably the speech Giles gave him. But because he's both Paul and an emotionless Black Lantern, he was unmoved.

 

So... bedrock?

 

But isn't that Paul's job, to apply metaknowledge and be right because he's protagonist-kun?

/s, because if I don't people will think I'm serious.

 

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Ohh boy, this is interesting. I wonder if they'll be able to fix him entirely. Slam him with enough white light and send him back to the buffyverse.

 

Ah, Zaul. Always such a treat.

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Heh, bet that's a surprise for Brian.

I have to admit, his deadpan politeness always puts a smile on my face...

Of course, just because he's dead, doesn't mean he's Dead-dead... This is the DC Universe, home to Death's Revolving Door as decided by popularity.

Ah, Zaul. Pedantic as every other Paul, and so matter-of-fact about it.

As evidenced by the lack of a Link.

A not particularly nice goddess, so not anything to feel sorry about...

"I mean, it was just sitting there, dripping and soaking into the ground..."

Moving about while dead is okay by anyone's standards.

And that alone should be ringing a few alarm bells if she's read her files.

Surprised there was no reaction at that, but I doubt Zaul is paying any particular attention right now anyway.

Yeah, I suspect anything about Nekron in the Guardian's files is gonna be lowballing it, just by the by... Unless the fallback plan is "Evacuate the universe ASAP."

And it's kind of hard to care about what you're doing, without emotions...

Yeah, probably a safer option...

Though given how little he actually does with it, I suspect any charge lasts a long-ass time...

Yup, pegged it. Though he's getting by without things like translations, and only an emergency Environmental field, I bet.

Though it's no coincidence that the Embodiments are all animal-forms of some sort...

"Yes, that's what I just said."

Eh... Not such a smart idea...

Only if his ring can eat the other ring's charge for itself, and that's bad...

Huh, she only just got to that point? Though I suppose talking to an animate, erudite corpse is a good distraction...

And she should immediately be on guard. Manhunters mean Maltusians...

He says it so casually...

Called it, she was a mole!

Well, that's that question answered. The alternate Red Queen appears to be a mole. Presumably that's why the factory was a smoking crater... I suppose we'll soon see.

Correction:

Your facial movements aren't natural.

 

I was going to say blonde is just an alternative spelling, but it turns out blonde is the feminine declension, while blond is male. I've learned something new today, thanks!

On a completely different note, talking to Baul must be incredibly creepy due to the complete lack of emoting.

 

Nope.

Heck it's beyond even pedantic, given their particular definition of vampire predates the one he is used to by over ten thousand years.

 

I like deadpan. And this Paul is capable of nothing but deadpan. He's (unintentionally) hilarious

One thing though:

How does he know this? Can he maintain consciousness without a ring? Could he keep going just on blood as 'not-a-vampire'?

 

He maintained his consciousness after throwing his ring through a portal for a bit.

 

He wouldn't be a Paul if he wasn't pedantic to the point you want to commit violence upon him

Still not sure that RQ is the mole though.
She could have just transferred herself to the body of the version of her in the Manhunter, but it is still possible that Krona can track them through her

 

Thank you, corrected.

No, that's because he's already had a link once in this story.

Except Nekron himself. And the life entity.

Thank you, corrected.

 

I wonder if you could motivate him by pointing out Non-Existence =/= Death and Nekron probably wouldn't like it? I mean the dude wouldn't be Nekron anymore. He wouldn't be anything.

 

Could you please post where you put that link?

 

Here.

 

Maybe it would bother Nekron but this Paul is basically a dead flesh robot.

 

I mean, are you really surprised? He's British, they've been doing that for 400 years.

 

It wouldn't bother Nekron either.

Despite equating Nekron with death, that doesn't work, since Nekron predates life according to Blackest Night.

Death by necessity can't predate life.

So Nekron is not the cessation of life, but the absence of life, which would make him oblivion.

Blackest Night is Nekron's attempt to get those darn kids off his lawn so he can go back to peaceful nothingness.

 

Yeah, but you're not supposed to do it to other British people! Them's the rules! The rules that British people made up!

 

English. And they do it to the Welsh, Scottish, and Irish all the time; doing it to other British people is traditional by now.

 

That is… mildly yet intensely horrifying.
To be both fully cognisant and utterly unmotivated.

Although the fact he is able to do anything indicates that he would be an immensely powerful Will user if he could be restored to life.

Paul is not the arbiter of nomenclature. The vampires of the Buffy-verse are called vampires by all parties. Thus their official and correct name is vampire. When Paul invents his own language he can rename them.

 

Question, who is the Red Queen that keeps getting referred to? I do a web search and I get told about the London Hellfire club.

 

She is an OC character in this fic technically.
She is an alternate version of Jade.

The Red King was a comic character that used a machine that gave him a connection to dreams to travel the multiverse and live various lives.

He was a version of John Dee after Morpheus took the crystal back.

 

No, he's a guy called Darrin Profitt who mugged John Dee.