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

An amusing bit of trivia, and no evidence whatsoever that it's true in YJ- but in the comics Aquaman does in fact have telekinesis. Only time I can recall him using it is to enhance Black Canary's sonic scream as a combo attack.

Probably powered by the Clear like his marine telepathy.

 

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No, the SI just used bad grammar.

Thank you, corrected.

 

With all the ultimate power that is common sense, the Light might specifically target CS!OL specifically due to A)him being far too effective and B) catching a small dose of common sense from him opening his mouth around them or their spies

 

If they did blackmanta would have gotten scry and die a while ago, so either they don't or he has some magic to shield him since he is an agent in the employment of ocean master aka Prince Orm.


But good effort on everything else.

 

I think it's "grant rise", not "grant risk".

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

Ah, my favourite department. This time shown scuttling one of the stupider plots in YJ.

 

Rereading this, from the Nehekharan perspective on the nature of the soul, the young lady had her "Kha", her mortal shell fully restored, but lacks the "Ka", her ego, ability to reason, and have abstract thought, the "Ba", her subconscious self and emotions, and the "Ab", her Conscience, her ability to choose right from wrong.

While the Liche Priests ARE rather lacking in transmuting dead flesh to living flesh, (unless they figure out how to perform such a feat through ritual/divine magic by observing how Paul does it), I imagine they have methods and means to restore those lost or diminished portions of the handmaiden's "Akhu."

Perhaps by learning and using her "Ren", her True Name?

 

missing ‘is’

Pranks and riddles... such is the way of chaos.

 

oh god, John

what did you do this time, did you dump your Chaos magic stuff onto a new born god of machine

 

Smart.

If his first exposure was due to Constantine, then it's understandable.

And the things in the middle, like Roanoke, Oceanus, the Angel invasion, Hell in Fawcett, probably didn't help.

Poor bastard.

Magnus knows how you feel.

'Where is'

Of course it would involve him.

 

Ok see in the common sense verse the response would be "Fuck no, John Constantine can bloody well stay lost."

I love it when he's on screen/page causing mayhem, but one does start to wonder if it'd be better for the inhabitants of the world if he just wandered off and stayed wandered.

 

I'm a be honest as soon as the clock did this I'm right there with dad and handing the fella a flame thrower after dousing the thing with holy water. It brought up John Constantine by saying it knows where he is, If it was John he'd have contacted them through something much more practical like the phone. The only conclusion I can draw is that a Demon is involved, and that's an instant nope not doing anything that thing tells me or asks me to do I'm a burn it to ash, and then any other inanimate object I own that tries to talk to me like that. Dat's some bad bad mojo.

 

Maybe being connected to Chaos messed with John's head? Which caused him to mess with the god-fetus to "halp"?

 

So the other John locked Constantine away somewhere, and Constantine woke the sleeping machine god as a way to reach out and contact people about it.

 

Constantine doing something ill-advised and dangerous in order to offer his version of 'help' only to have it horribly backfire and cause pain, suffering and mayhem?

Sounds legit.

 

Indeed, his "help" may solve usually the problem but almost as often it leads to a bigger mess being created.

 

He always fixes the deadly problem. In the process he creates a larger less deadly problem in its place.

 

Like replacing an experienced arsonist with a brushfire.

 

I.. am not even sure what that's saying. 'Let's talk', maybe? That is really hard to read. Therefore, I shall assume it's trying to say, "Hey, Listen!" Which makes me both respect the Machine's old-school taste, and hate it for making people think of Navi.

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Sensible advice... When a Constantine is involved, things get weird. And then comes the screaming and the running and the dying...

...Typical teenager, giving a mathematician's answer without even thinking about it...

The Catholics, if you remember, are tolerant of magic unless it involves bad stuff. Like Demons. I suspect most religions are having a lot of issues working out their stances about Magic in general after the Sheeda invasion...

Before anyone says 'that sounds too smart!', remember: She's a Constantine. Not being well-read on magic stuff would be foolish. If not suicidal (in the Ankh-Morporkian sense.)

And given that she was introduced to us after an attempted abduction by lesser gluttony demons, that should not be surprising...

<sigh> Do we have to restrain you, pappy? This is an ongoing investigation. Would you pull that shit with a police officer?

Until the Machine finds something else to communicate through. Do you want the TV talking to you through the Subtitle function next?

How short-sighted... Out of sight, out of mind? Not going to work...

Indeed. Yes, he has very good reasons to be the way he is. That doesn't make it any easier to adapt, though. And there's probably a lot of people feeling the same way out there...

It's like living with a ticking time-bomb, then. One that can explode repeatedly...

The problem is, none of these things are necessarily good.

Did the car incident actually hurt anyone? Or just leave a lot of scared people and near-misses behind it?

And daddy grumbles under his breath... But it makes sense, she's the closest contact to it...

Oh, she's been waiting for something like this, has she? I have to wonder what her favourite kind of fiction is... Urban Fantasy, perhaps? Or would that feel too familiar?

Well, to be pedantic, it's signalling to you. No sound involved on it's part, after all.

Ever heard of the Speaking Clock? Probably before many people's times, given every smartphone these days includes an internet clock-sync...

Well, she sounds disappointed. What a let-down, eh?

Well, it's trying to be helpful. If it were a toaster (and somehow able to communicate) it's probably be asking how dark you'd like your toast.

What, you thought this would be a profound communication with something ethereal? Be glad it isn't trying to kill you. Constantine, after all.

Indeed. Everything else the Machine has touched thus far has simply tried to do its perceived job, but better.

...Ah, children.

Not sure what the crucifix could do against a god of machines. Or much else. I doubt he's pious enough to use theurgy. But hey, whatever makes him feel better...

I suspect that would wear its welcome out right quick.

Well, that was a whole waste of...

Hello! Okay, now that's important. Any reason why you couldn't lead with that, digits?

I don't know. What do you say, Admiral Ackbar?
Ackbar: "It's A Trap!"

Well... Might we finally see John Constantine, Lord of Chaos, at last? And what part is he playing in the God of Machine's birth? Good gravy, this raises so many questions... At least we'll get some of the answers in the days to come.

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Missing End Quotation mark.

 

Thank you, corrected.

She was copying what the clock radio said.

Thank you, corrected.

 

I feel a bit sorry for this Mr. Anthony Masters, but I have to be honest, I miss John's presence on the story and have been desperately waiting for his eventual return. John Quinn was a poor replacement. Effective though he was as mystical support, I prefer John Constantine, with his banter and his street magician experience. If this is his return I will be glad for it.

 

I'm reminded of an episode of Supernatural where Sam, Dean and I think Castiel were pulled into the television, specifically in a Scooby-Doo show.

Things go off the rails and eventually the Scooby gang has a collective emotional breakdown and start questioning what part of the supernatural is real and even the existence of God.

I kinda want to see something similar happen here.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

You probably picked it up from Zoat.

When Paul went to see a vampire he brought along a bunch of religious symbols and she seemed to not like them there, even though Paul isn't exactly a pious man himself, or even that much of a believer.

This guy appears to have some faith so even if he can't use theurgy, some of that faith may be useful, like making said god be careful around someone that may have some protection from another, more powerful god.

 

she only not like them when she know what they meant

weirdo vampire survival instinct

 

You know what a crimson red flag ? Any Constantine being invited to find on otherworldly voice

 

So with this information I have a new suspect. Richard Simpson, the purple energy guy in Hell. Maybe this is him circumventing Mammon and is ascending to tech godhood, or perhaps something manifested from when he was first transformed.

 

Actually, it would be far worse. The entire point of the Laughing Magician is for Humanity to punch over it's weight class against gods, monsters and demons.

Without John and his line humanity would have been fucked a hundred times already.

 

I am too. Can someone help translate 'clock speech', or tell the trick of understanding it?

 

Okay...

You just told your name to it? Or is the name thing something that started before she introduced herself?

With the connection with John firmly established, it seems like the nascent god of tech may have been how John was casting his "erase all significant information about me" spell. And the last time he cast that, he did so with the power of a Lord of Chaos. I wouldn't be surprised if there was some carryover influence from the burst of power.