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

If I had to guess it's just ring translation making it that, but it could just be a part of their standard lexicon. Who's to say with an isolationist alien species really?

 

Thank you, corrected.

No.

 

"Reasonable Aliens? Quick, everyone! Take your cyanide tablets!"

 

Paul: Gozzi, get outside the ship.

Gozzi: Why?

Paul: Just get outside the ship!

Granted she's probably seen something like that.

 

This is genuinely interesting. The more you know

 

now that that's out of the way: i always enjoy the orange light "you can be in my cult if you want" negotiations that follow

 

Oh, their philosophy might be like the Liir from Sword of the Stars. Our civilians are peaceful and have never known violence, we permanently exile those who have been exposed to violence so that they can enact our wars. Such people are considered dead from the outset. We can't allow anything to return to contaminate our peaceful culture with violence.

 

What does this mean? The Leentniar pirate captains and their crew? Are substantial non-Leentniar crews normal?

 

Should be 'Chance'.

 

'What would help your people' I believe.

'Change' -> 'Chance'

 

Should be wear.

 

I am.

'your'

Or accept help from an alien.

'have been'

 

Geez OL, pushing a little hard there aren't you? I get that having more people join The Snek Cult Of Best Girl The OLC is important, but I don't think there are many species that wouldn't find that creepy.

 

You know, used to be to use a Power Ring you had to exhibit Great Will/Rage/Hope/Love/ or Inspire Great Fear...and orange is supposed to drive you batshit insane, and indigo brainwashes you though that's likely by design of the staff rather than the Indigo light itself...

 

Ah, still a little business left to handle here, I see. A few last details to hash out...

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Indeed, they haven't really done anything to show their trustworthiness yet.

Make sure no-one tries to poke the sleeping bear, eh? Or takes exception to their new neighbours.

Huh. I guess she's accepted the reality of her death? Respectable, but wasteful.

In other words, shut up and accept it. Is that so hard?

A masterwork of understatement. I'm guessing she looks more like a chemo patient in a spacesuit...

In the face of that, what's a little more 'contamination', after all?

A clever way to frame the question. Given the clear focus on value to the whole, it's going to be interesting to see her desire networks in action...

And as useful as Lanterns are in combat, some just aren't suited to war. So it makes sense to recruit some gifted with construction and rebuilding, to fix what the warriors break.

Especially since that would basically mean a lifetime's exile, given the 'contamination' it would entail...

Now, for most other races, that would be an easy question...

...But here... Well, their devotion to a collective whole seems to make them less suitable.

If only to prove that these aliens do have their best interests in mind.

So, most people he's healed come out with a free beauty treatment on top of the patching up? Amusing image...

Betting she hasn't been able to do that without pain in a long time...

Hmm... Compassion, maybe, or a tint of Love? I mean, there's conceivably a shade of emotion for anything... We only see the big seven because Canon.

OL, getting just a bit pervy there. Keep it professional, man.

So, no Leentniar Lantern just yet... It would take a fairly aberrant mind by their standards to be a good Lantern, I think.

Time for a private chat, eh? Wonder what Gozzi was making of all that...

Underestimating him is easy to do. He looks so unassuming, doesn't he? Then he busts out a shield big enough to cover a planet, or tears apart artificial singularities and you remember why he's the Illustres...

So, how much charge did it cost him? Even with three or so rings to provide extra capacity, that must have been a toughie.

Again, you'd have to find someone with even self-interest to look beyond the crew, and be willing to surrender themselves into exile... I doubt most would fulfil those conditions...

Interesting. Showing them a modicum of respect by trusting that they'll comply. Given they probably realise that he's capable of carrying out his threat, I bet betrayal would be a hard sell...

Letting her have a headstart, eh?

And the leadership goes 'Are they gone yet? Thank the homeworld...'

Couple more chapters seeing them settle in, I suppose, to finish out the episode. Assuming nothing goes wrong, like their neighbours refusing to play nice, or something ridiculous like a giant planet-eater rolling up... Still, OL has it covered, I think.

 

The indigo brainwashing seems to just be the result of giving a ring to someone without empathy.

People who already have empathy don't seem to have any problem remaining themselves psychologically when getting an indigo ring.

Likewise the Star Sapphires have no trouble brainwashing people to join their ranks.

So some rings need compatibility, other rings make compatibility.

 

There was this fic on SB in which the ring used joy and was teal colored.

Murphy lover.

 

Their mentality reminds me of Pierson Puppeteers if anything. Pretty exteme xenophobia, ambassadors being effectively insane/sucidal exiles and all that.

 

Thank you, corrected.

Ah, the bunnyfic.

 

Not going to lie. I was expecting her battle royal collar to go off after OL healed her.

 

Collars? How primitive.

 

Mr Zoat, I was just reading old posts, and found one that says that the Renegade will meet Hitler. Will that still happen?

 

Um. The original idea was that it would happen long after the end of the story. The Renegade decides that demons offer absolutely no value to anything and decides to do his own Harrowing of Hell.

 

So he goes Doomguy on them. Nice.

 

i know with their isolationist tendencies that his probably wouldn't happen, but it would be cool if the Leentnair, with their need for a new home and apparent talent for the shipbuilding industry, would make a perfect crew for Ranx.

 

To be a good Lantern by Paul’s definition of it, a ‘normal’ Leentniar Orange Lantern would likely function quite well as the protector of their people because that is all they want to do, to serve.

 

Zoat nerfed Ring requirements... A lot... And removed most of their downsides...

 

Leentniar, in multiple places

That wasn't the requirement to use a power ring. That was the requirement to attract a power ring. The strength of your constructs is also based on that qualification, and failing to maintain your focus on that emotion will disrupt your constructs.

What the main character of this story has observed is that while having too much greed does make you a ridiculously powerful Orange Lantern, it also makes you -- as you correctly point out -- crazy. So instead of sending orange rings out into the universe to automatically seek out powerful bearers, he's taking matters into his own hands and finding recruits that are suitable not based on their innate strength of avarice, but based on being in tune with their ambitions so that they control their avarice instead of being controlled by it.

A Leentniar Lantern would work just fine. A desire to be helpful to one's people that's stronger than one's own desire for self-preservation would be a valuable mindset for a military-oriented Orange Lantern. The problem with this particular candidate, I think, is that her desire for self-preservation is too weak. She wouldn't be driven to uplift other people in her kind of position, which is what OL was hoping for.