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

That was mostly him joking around with Diana, I doubt he wants to play matchmaker for entities that tend to get... indiscriminate when overly emotional.

 

And Persephone hasn’t put out in 3,000 years, everyone has issues

 

Persephone not putting out doesn't result in thousands dying of magical plagues.

 

Grandma Demeter is laughing.

No that would be Demeter extending winter with extra blizzards because Persephone didn't drop by to visit her this spring.

The Greek pantheon needs so much couples and family therapy they'd have to add a new position in said pantheon for god/godess of therapy.

 

There is a Goddess of Therapy in the fanmade 'Codex Equestria' universe.

She's called Mentalne.

If this whole miltiverse thing keeps happening then maybe they can go and visit her.

 

Getting caught up from the last few days...

Conventional guns accelerate the round a couple hundred times faster than a magnetic weapon. It's the difference between all the acceleration in the first instant and accelerating the entire time the round is in the barrel. A magnetic gun would have recoil, but it would be significantly less than a traditional gun, possibly even enough less that an experienced shooter could perceive it as "no recoil".

To illustrate that point, when I was a teen and shooting regularly I perceived a particular rifle - a .22 my dad had inherited from his grandfather - to have no recoil at all. Probably because I was used to an old 30.06 that kicked like a mule. Fast-forward to my late 20s, a time when I hadn't fired a gun for most of a decade*, and I was surprised to notice that gun having a perceptible recoil (and the gun I'd shot many competitions with during my teen years having far more recoil than I remembered for that matter).

The difficulty with coilguns and railguns is one of power. If you know what you're doing you can build a rifle sized coilgun in real life that can put a round through an engine block. You just have to have a big, thick power cord going from it back to the bank of capacitors that's filling the bed of your pickup and takes a couple minutes to charge between shots. And since Paul's already revolutionized the power industry that's not a problem anymore.

Your barrel would need that time to cool off too, unless you also have a refrigeration line going back to a very efficient cooling system. So I suppose it's less a "rifle sized coilgun" and more a "truck sized coilgun with a rifle sized business end".

I would be very much surprised if Vril Dox turned out to NOT be an undiscriminating sapiosexual.

So Persephone is the kind of overbearing parent who won't let her adult daughter make decisions for herself. Noted.

Refresh my memory. Is this one of the versions where Persephone ran off with Hades and just let everyone think she'd been kidnapped to save face? Or did he actually kidnap her and coerce her into marriage in this story? I ask because this Hades seems a bit too reasonable for the second, but at the same time his wife apparently hates him.

Hyppolyta may approve, but those would both be odd matches for Paul IMO.

Starfire is one of those characters who was originally written as an object of fantasy for teenage boys and later expanded into an actual fully fleshed out character. DC seems to have a lot of those for some reason.

 

Neither. He didn't intend to coerce her, but that was what it felt like to her, especially when he said that he had her father's permission.

 

Well his comic self didn't exactly have all that high a bar with who he was dating.

He did date comic Kom after all.

Georgia even at her worst is practically a saint compared to her.

Granted that isn't exactly all that difficult.

Zeus arranged their marriage, but apparently forgot to tell Persephone and Demeter about it.

That priestess of Hades said that when Herakles freed Prometheus Zeus was off fucking Ganymede.

So we know he may not take all his responsibilities seriously.

When Hades came to get her she was so terrified because he is a pretty scary guy, even if he's mellowed out now, and apparently one of the only people who can stop him agreed to give her away.

Hades also thought she knew that she was arranged to be married to him.

I don't think she hates him, but she probably doesn't love him, even if she probably appreciates the fact that he didn't force himself on her after he found out about the mistake.

The likes of Zeus and Apollo don't really respond all that well to the word 'No'.

Diana would be an odd match, but Donna is a member of the Team and he tends to spend time with her because of it, so the chance of them potentially starting something is possible.

Even Diana is a possibility, albeit one that would happen years down the line.

He could join the League sometime in the future and spend more time with her, and considering that he's immortal they can be around each other for decades before they decide to start something.

Yeah.

She did get more characterization in the Red Hood comic later on though.

 

Oh, hey, it's Zag!

... dammit, not I can't get over the desire to see a sidestory relating The Mortal Adventures Of Zag And Spot.

You know you want to, too.

 

I've been kinda overloaded with work so I haven't read the thread in... several days. Catching up but skipping the discussion...

Uh... I have no idea why I quoted this and I can't find anything that needs corrected in that post.

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If he's imitating the SI's accent, shouldn't this be "arse"? Or is it really that bad of an impression?

 

I can't help you there.

Thank you, corrected.

It's pretty bad.

 

This has Eris's fingerprints all over it.

Is she trying to start another Trojan war?

"Oh Persephone, you should keep an eye on Paul. He is becoming close to your Daughter and is quite the rapscallion. I am sure you have heard about the number of Amazons he's impregnated."

(All hail Eris!)

 

Wait, who would be doing that? Demeter Persephone or Hela? Or does Hades just get a serious case of Buyer's Remorse and wants some heroes to come put him out of his misery?

 

I think he meant Hel there.

Though I'm not completely sure.

 

Yes. Hel, Goddess of Disease and ruler of the dishonoured dead.

 

Hel is the Norse goddess of Death...

 

I dunno. I've always held that Zeus is, among his more widely acknowledged mantles, the god of adultery. In which case fucking Ganymede would absolutely fall within his responsibilities.

I dunno. That seems more likely to prevent chaos than to cause it. If she'd wanted to cause it she'd pen a love letter "from Paul" asking Melinoe to come visit. And not tell Paul about it until she showed up with popcorn a minute or so after Melinoe got there.

 

No, it's guardian is not someone who uses the power to save the world, it's guardian is someone who hoards it like a dragon's gold.

The problem was not Sivana stealing power from the Rock of Eternity.

The problem was that the foolish fucker was going to empty it like a stereotypical dumped girl eating all the ice cream while watching romcoms.

The Captain Marvel family could have more members than the Legion of Superheroes. The Power of Zeus could provide clean infinite energy to everyone on Earth. The Wisdom of Solomon could run all the machines on Earth.

The energy taken to Marvelize Georgia amounted to basically a rounding error.

 

She's probably the goddess of disease in this story.

Disease does tend to bring death.

Also myths tend to be fairly conflicting a lot of the time, so it isn't unusual for one myth to say a god is responsible for one thing and another to say they are responsible for something else.

In Norse myths Odin also qualifies as a death god.

It's possible that he's the only death god the Norse have in this story, and Hela just rules over a group of dead people. Kinda like how Hades is the God of the Dead, but not the God of Death, which is Thanatos.

She may also be a goddesses of death for all we know, seeing as Old Gods are apparently able to have more than one Divine Domain, but Zoat decided to mention just one of her domains.

Did you... forget the fact that the Marvel family uses that power to save lives, the world and stop threats?

The same goes for the Wizard.

Yes they may not use it in the most efficient manner, and that's assuming it can be used the way you're suggesting, but to claim that they don't use that power to save the world when they very clearly do is just foolish.

 

What a convincing argument!

I shall now discover the corona virus vaccine and proceed to administer it to my select chosen few.

Pshaw! *waves hand in dismissal* What do you mean I’m massively wasting the potential of the one wholly unique thing only I can provide!

 

Welp. Persephone isn’t going to be happy about that. Hades, while he’s usually chill, is also not going to be happy about it, either.

 

Wait...

Did he bring someone that's the embodiment of dreams and nightmares to a alien starfish thing that possibly EATS dreams?

This seems poorly thought out...

 

Yep, she's right, that's certainly interstitial.

 

remove the first star

'hop'

 

You know you say that, but I don't think so. It's a starfish of the stars. Star starfish.

 

Paaauhaaauuul, did you loose a Goddess again?

Well, I do so hope that this will mean he will get to meet the Endless now.

I am honestly excited about what Zoat would do with DCs/Gailman's Death

 

Not if you’re using a blue power ring - then you hope between systems.

 

Thank you, corrected.

No, that one's intentional.

 

Well if he has Alan help him, or have Kori, who may try to use the blue ring in space, sure, but he's going to be using his own ring.

Do you mean that because the thing is a 'god from the stars' i.e. a god from outer space, or something else, because the sentence doesn't make much sense?

If it is that then maybe you can add a / between star and starfish, like star/starfish god.

If it's not these things then can you elaborate on what you meant, because the sentence doesn't make much sense to me when I read it aloud?