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

Ooh... sounds cool... link?

 

Sorry, that was years ago. I've got no idea what it was called.

 

I wouldn't be at all surprised if Luna digs into the way Star Swirl's Mirror works. It would seem to combine inter-universe transport and shape-shifting in quite an elegant way, maybe a magical intelligence of some sort to figure-out the target shape. Now, if you can unpick this...

Could be rather useful if you want some shape-shifting done, without using your own power...

 

She was warned. Some people just have to pee on the electric fence for themselves though.

 

*dryly* that's only because the inmate who has a pet holding a "lobotomize AI into mindless puppet with access to anything network connected"button for the person running it is an idiot with a complexity obsession/ was seceretly a corpse-puppet for his own Shard. the birdcage as of the start of the story is compromised due to the AI running its systems being compromised-
even without the idiot salvage diver's stolen admin credentials, there's the free-will override forcing her to follow "lawful orders"from higher authority....

if Teacher was smarter/was still in control of his own body (timeline is vague) by that point, well....
... you know, i was thinking....
ironically, if the reveal had happened in a less traumatic way, there's a decent chance that there'd have been a Demand for Dragon to hand over control of the 'cage specifically because she COULD be ordered to let people out if higher authority was of malicious intent/subverted,instead out of Frankenstein-complex induced paranoia...

 

Point of order: That is entirely within Jack Slash's powerset. Mind you, I'm not debating that Shards aren't willing to play GM as necessary (see WoG about how if Moord Nag had had her monster nom down on a bunch of cloned nonsentient beings, it would let her get away with it for a little bit before balancing how much that's worth), but Jack Slash's "primary power", if his slasher ability is his secondary power, is a combination Master/Thinker power that gives him information about other parahumans and alters the 'conflict drive' that parahumans normally have to instead be thoughts useful to Jack. Thoughts like "this guy is too dangerous", "I should go left", etc etc. Both of those combine together to make him seem much more intelligent than he actually is: he expects you to go left even though that's a bad move, you move left because your gut instinct, as supplied by ShardCo, told you to.

 

My understanding is that his 'official' power is to instintively understand how to persuade parahumans to do things, not to compel them to do things.

 

Funny enough almost the knock offs I have seen look like G1 ponies or G3.5 ponies. Nickelodion at least has cared to use a different art style for their knock off shows.

 

Has the Renegade been cleared by Scott yet? If so, how did Scott react to finding out about a potential 'cure' for the Anti-Life?

 

Most likely with a little happy dance.

 

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/worm-quotes-and-wog-repository.294448/page-11#post-20250752

"A combination of what Jaki said (Imp gets nudged away by her shard, she gets a bad feeling as she prepares to attack, and if and when she does attack her attack is off-target, or she hesitates, creating a window), intuition on Jack's part (suspicion, a hyperawareness of odd details, the movement of air in the room, 'it's too quiet', etc., happening to move to another location just as Imp strikes out), and leverage of the broadcast... Crawler wakes to initial commotion, he uses his full senses with his shard happening to kick into full gear (a la Skitter and her varying range) and/or moves across room, forcing Imp to back up from Jack, Shatterbird lashes out in a blind attack that happens to connect.



On that last point, the Nine can be considered to be an [editing to add 'unconscious'] extension of Jack for all intents and purposes. To Imp, it's just a 'This feels like a bad idea, I'm going to do it anyway! Fuck, missed! Oh shit, ow! Well now I'm bleeding and, it's pretty damn serious. That must be why it felt like such a bad idea!'"

If WoG disagrees with the text I tend to ignore it, but this fits with what we see in Worm.

 

I remember suggesting a Worm snip a while ago. It feels like ancient times now.

 

Thank you for the swift reply.

Sorry for not being clear on the first part, my feelings at the time were split between the sympathy I built up for the specific struggles of many of Worm's characters and the Lord Protector's decidedly swift and extreme response to a number of those characters (particularly nazi mom since she was trying to be better), with a little bit of back-of-my-mind lingering on why he wasn't dealing with the Slaughterhouse 9 (although tbf I do realize that us seeing his realization about the brain modifications probably means he had only been in-universe for a few minutes).

Looking forward to the next entry in this storyline, whenever that will be.

 

I have more questions that I just thought of for the "week in the life".

Is Raquel (Rocket) still trying to become a leader on the team? I assume so, but would like to see her develop more.

How is Wallace's Alchemy studies coming along? Is he about to become one of the youngest Billionaires with his breakthroughs? (I assume not, mostly because Boss Smiley has not been beaten yet, speaking of the devil.)

When are we going to hear see Paul confront Boss Smiley? I know Paul was questioning whether or not it actually happened after he escaped pseudo-purgatory.

Mr. Truggs has been quiet as well. Are we going to get to see him study the dialer he stole?

I also really want to see Ganthet and Siad again. I hope that All will be well with them soon.

 

Well. Apparently if you ever feel like using him for any reason, DC has decided to bring back Snowflame.

 

Oh, god, the Eighties-ness. It burns like his cocaine flames...

 

Anyone think that Snowflame may be the mystical avatar of the eighties use of cocaine?

Kinda like how Uncle Sam is the embodiment of America, Snowflame could be the embodiment of eighties drug use.

 

Do they make Grayven sized couches? 'Cause otherwise his sleeping situation might be awkward for a while

 

Time for another exciting episode of "Rascal Does Not Dream Of Alicorn Sempai".

 

Hey worse things can happen.

Just ask Juan Marine.

 

This would have been the absolutely perfect moment for Krypto to fly by.

 

He has a power ring. Grayven makes Grayven sized couches.

 

Plus, yeah, they do. Couches tend to fit 3 - 4 people lengthwise.

 

Muhahahahaa... Oh, this is going to be adorable. And hilarious.

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

She's technically her own pony, thank you. And bless that boy for asking the important question.

At least the Brood are giving Luna space. I don't foresee the rest being quite so restrained.

Haha, the nerves got to her! She only uses Royal Canterlot Voice when she's nervous!

Not a good first impression, Luna. Not helping Grayven's image either, with the evil queen impression.

"Please make her stop shouting..."

At least she understands that she messed up. That's progress.

Like really loud, yes. But a horse, she is not.

I like this one. He understands the importance of correct nomenclature.

Oh, Luna... You shouldn't have dropped the Princess bomb.

And cue the starry eyed awe.

...A fair point. But he was a dog. A perfectly normal dog.

To be honest, most dogs in Equestria don't speak Equestrian either. Do they?

Can't argue with that logic.

Yeeesss... Touch the pony... Touch the fluffy tail.

Adorable! I do hope Grayven is recording this. Discreetly, so he can show it off later.

Either one would be cause to sneeze, yes. Probably best to try and hold back though. Don't want to ruin her first meeting with regular humans by covering someone in alicorn snot.

Daaaaw. Just watch for the grabby ones.

See? Betcha she tugged on something she shouldn't have.

Betcha she won't ever pull someone's hair again.

She talks. That's not magical enough for you? Did they not notice the swirly, floating mane and tail?

In other words, don't go tugging on it, it will not come off.

Heheh. Rifle is gonna become first stop on the Pony tourist trail.

Adorably and inoffensively compact.

At least she can control her reflex to kick someone touching her from behind. You wouldn't do that with a regular horse.

Wow, he just drops the bomb so casually. And it's not so much 'bumped' as 'she attacked me assuming I was someone else'.

So it's not zoophilia, it's xenophilia. Probably a distinction most people won't get...

Well, he is a prince, after all...

oooh, wrong thing to say. Especially in front of Luna.

Yeah, if they were living together, that'd earn him a night on the couch. Or two.

Oh, don't worry, let her get petted by the kids for a while, she'll calm down.

Oh, this was great. And she managed to not make too many mistakes. But the idea of Equestrian Tourism on Earth? Hilarious. Can you imagine a group visiting New York? "Wow, it reminds me of Manehatten!"

Spellcheck's picking this up as an error. Perhaps 'DIMINUTIVE'?

"Our horn is assuredly affixed to Our face...

Extraneous space.

 

Luna is best princess.

Deserves all the heckin pets.

 

And then Darkseid shows up and sits on it. Because he's Darkseid.

 

OMG I'm loving Lunyven (Grayuna?) so, so much...

 

I'm pretty sure that Krypto in the Young Justice universe is named Wolf, and I think Grayven killed it in his timeline?

 

They aren't sleeping together as yet.

I did think about what their first time would be like, and I decided that since what the Renegade finds attractive about Luna is her personality rather than her appearence that he'd probably struggle to get an erection at the start.

Thank you, corrected.