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

Oh. Yes. Mumm-Rana makes more sense. I was rather confused how one could have trouble finding pictures of the main villain, but I clearly rolled with what my tired eyes were telling me.

The only picture I could find that even attempted to give her a 2011 re-imagining was this.



Which is certainly a step up from her original incarnation. Because original Mumm-Rana was, us, kind of ugly.

 

I think the reason is more that this Paul didn't mindfuck himself.

 

Paul has shown a great degree of violet in his speech when speaking about Jade, so he loves.

While Paul did somewhat mindfuck himself he is still able to feel other emotions.

Jade on the other hand due to her past isn't so eager to feel those types of emotions, unlike Khoah who was just an ordinary farmer before she met Yaul and thus lacks many of Jades issues.

When I made my previous comment I was talking about the fact that Khoah shows more violet than Jade because of the previous mentioned reasons.

Also nice pic of Mumm-Ra

 

I liked the Renegades solution to genetic reconciliation.
Where he knew what traits Kon's human genes coded for, what traits kryptonian genes coded for, and then swapped out the human genes for their kryptonian analogues.

So if he had an easily charged ring, he could use its AI to analyse human dna (if that isn't already done and on file thanks to database sharing), and once the same analysis is done to thunderkat dna, he could just take a sperm sample from himself, and convert it to a sample of thunderkat sperm that represented equivalent thunderkat genes.

No hybrid complications, or troubles with his children having their own children later on, but still keeping to the 'half of you, half of me' essence of children.

 

Yaul may be a bit more cautious than renegade as he doesn't have a Fatherbox that has data on both Kryptonians and Humans, and while his ring can take a scan of thundercat DNA there is no guarantee it can safely make it so they can have children.

And if he is like Paul then he may be unconcerned with having children and would love Khoahs children with her late husband like his own.

 

When new forms of government are set up I always like to extrapolate to future generations, even if immortality might make it unnecessary.

Right now Yaulistan, if Yaul lives a couple years and then dies, will have a civilian Queen-Mayor, an advisory council that may or may not become hereditary, and a military headed by someone with a yellow power ring (or three) that in truth is only as beholden to the Queen and government as they want to.

Over the longer term this seems inherently unstable to me. The military commander will have the Great Founder's magical tool of office and will clearly and evidently be both a Lord and have taken the role of the nation's Protector, just like the Lord Protector. In the near future either a heir of Khoah learns to wield the ring and reunites the hereditary head of state position with the Protector role or there will almost definitely be a military coup.

 

He explicitly said that he doesn't want to form a hereditary monarchy so he doesn't need biological children. If he wants more kids than his stepchildren he can always adopt - it's not like there's ever going to be a shortage of orphans even in a prosperous world, much less a war-torn world like his.

 

The system does have its risks, but it may also be a necessary thing as if he is gone then at least the civilization wont descend into anarchy.

Yellow Rings may not make the user immortal like orange ones, but I may be wrong on that.

His enlightenment can greatly help him with viewing other peoples emotions so that he can make sure they don't have any thoughts of betraying him or abusing their powers.

The system may be unstable, but then again so is the system of letting a single individual be a linchpin that holds everything together, only for that person to be taken out and everything to collapse.

 

The system is only unstable if the positions of ring wielder and head of state become codified as separate. Pumyra might accept Khoah's primacy over civilian matters, but even she I expect to follow her own preference if they disagree on foreign policy or military matters. And Pumyra will probably follow in Yaul's footsteps as judge/jury/executioner. Best case scenario one of Khoah's children joins the military, excels before Pumyra's death, and is able to attune to the ring. It would avoid an ugly coup or a potentially hateful and terrorized civilian population by keeping a clear line of legitimacy without perceived injustice and tyranny.

 

As long as the yellow ring has a proper AI and a wielder fearful of their own mortality, I don't see a reason why it can't render death-by-old-age a non-issue.

 

For an enlightened user it should work just as well as an orange one when it comes to immortality as long as they fear death even a little.
A non-enlightened user with a fear of death might become more undying than unaging and become more and more similar to a lich over time. Like Alan Scott -14 for instance.

On that note, Mr Zoat how does Lord Protector Yaul actually look, when compared to you?

 

I’d assume it to be a more conscious process than what Paul went through with an orange ring, but yes.

I’m pretty sure the laugh is supposed to be orange.

 

Al Scott doesn't fear death. He's just soaked in it.

As with most variants of me, he's a good deal more muscular. He's also thinner, as there really isn't much food around and -like Alexander the Great- he wanted to make it clear that he wasn't getting more than anyone else. His irises are yellow, his hair is shorter and by now his default facial expression is markedly harsher.

No, the laugh is the sound he actually made. The orange stuff is translated. In theory, I should have written what he actually said in white to go along with it, but I don't speak norse.

 

Alan's lantern was also damaged and leaking light so it is possible that the same is true for his -14 counterpart.

He may not be so much a Lich as he is a guy that looks a bit like a corpse.

Yaul may look like Paul before he got altered by his ring, so most likely fairly average, possibly somewhat thin as Zoat mentioned that the yellow ring burned off all unnecessary fat from the body like the red ring did and he may not have any of the musculature that Red has because he may not be that physically active as he is ruling his society and not fighting like Raul is.

Something about the Einharjer was preventing the ring from being able to use its normal translation effect.

 

I meant in appearance. Al Scott is immortal for the same reason Scott 16 is, right?

 

Alan doesn't exactly fear death but he isn't in any rush to meet her yet.

Another part of that may be because they absorbed so much of their respective lights they automatically got a slowed aging process even if they weren't knowingly slowing down said process.

Alan 16 didn't know about what happened to him and Alan -14 also probably didn't know that too.

Zoat are paragons irises orange?

 

On the one hand I do enjoy Paultector updates.
On the other trying to read yellow with the site-style I prefer remain annoying.

 

At this point I have to ask; does Lord Protector have the Gauntlet of Plun-Darr?

 

Ah, yes. That lean and hungry look.

 

I've heard that described as 'engineer/programmer under a bus' on one or two jobs I've done... Who is critical to the project, and, are they making sure that no project-critical stuff only exist in their head?

Until/unless we get industry-approved necromancy this will be a continuing issue.

Or, we get the staff to take proper, regular, backups of themselves, as well as the systems they use.

 

Agreed, for most of human history it was "Mama's baby, Papa's maybe" as you could never be 100% a woman hadn't getting it on with the milkman or a traveling salesman or what ever at some point (men did that kind of thing all the time after all). So raising those kids is more important than getting their mother pregnant.

 

Yes.

I'd have to rewatch the series to give a definite answer, but if it wasn't with the Rats then no.

 

Here is a clip of Lion-O and Pumyra retrieving the sword and gauntlet from Mount Plun-Darr:

 

Add "give" after "America".

 

Oh this'll be fun. Also, I really hope he backs Hong Kong. He should absolutely back Taiwan, given they're an independent country already.

 

That's going to be awkward.

Edit: Ah what was here wasn't a typo. I misread something.

 

Not necessarily in this universe they're not.

Also let us all pray to the jumped up elementals that this episode doesn't get Zoat banned from this site due to its no modern politics rule.

 

I mean earth very much is a threat to the universe if we're honest.

and I re-hash a previous point, any supervillain need merely declare themselves in rebellion against the state and the justice league can't stop them.

Pauls perspective on this is stupid.

 

"Yes, it's called: 'Plan: We Have An Orbital Battlestation, and It's Pointed Downward'."