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

Rainbow lantern corps.

 

Reminds me of the Atrocitus ending from Injustice 2.

 

On the bright side, he has good reasons for doing this, and is happening to people that I think at least most of us consider pretty damn bad.

 

Hardcore Paul. Hardcore.

 

Assuming this one cares about their homeworld.

Given the fact that a lot of the people recruited in the comics were sociopaths they may not have had much attachments to their planets.

Maybe change the orange to standard color or yellow.

Edit: Never mind.

He may have changed his view on them, or chose to use them since he couldn't be all that choosy.

'Onik'

'ring'

 

Ring communication has consistently been the color of the receiving ring.

 

Getting Onik his confidence back by having him beat the Spider Guilder would require you not help him in any way Paragon...

Mind you... I am sure Zoat will ignore this point when writing the scene...

 

The speech to Onik would be pretty cool.

The 'I cut my limbs off and throw them at the cannibal' bit is so weird and out there I was so baffled that it utterly ruined the potential coolness of the speech to Onik. What the fething hell? I get that Paul's values are kinda weird, but really, what the shit?

 

Oh Paul, you so crazy

 

For a being so invested in inspiring fear in others, of course they would be put off balance by someone utterly unafraid of them. And being emotionally off balance is serious for Lanterns. I still remember the weird Scooby Doo crossover where Shaggy and Scoob beat Sinistro by being incredibly okay with being cowards, to the point that his ring recognized them as inspiring the greatest fear in the universe in themselves. Norville “Shaggy” Rogers as a Yellow Enlightened never ceases to amuse me.

 

I think branding the Guilder after they take away her ring so they can learn more about its history is strategically important. I'm assuming Paragon will step in just before the Guilder dies (unless something happens that leads her to escape) to take over.

I think you should have the Guilder scan the first limb Paragon gives her to eat, though, because it's quite a stupid thing to do, though I guess it does convey her personality pretty well, and stupidity is hardly unrealistic.

 

And now i think this might be a holodeck training scenario.
Lol.
Since it is a rather convenient way to train up his lantern.

 

Well, Paul has officially reached the end of his patience.

And he even uses a spiderguilder threatening to eat his pupil as a learning excercise.

While casually proving that even the instinctual fear of dismemberment and being eaten alive can't weaken him.

Damn.

 

I'm now thinking of this.

 

Not that they would have been much use once he ran down the size scale. Below a certain tonnage, they'd have simply burnt up or exploded in atmospheric re-entry... At which point, he could have turned to simple kinetic bombardment. I'm sure he's got plenty of tungsten in subspace.

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

At this point, the only reason the Yellow Lantern isn't already dead is that Agent Orange wants to play with his next kill.

Probably attempting a sinister leer. Not particularly effective on a non-humanoid face, though. Can't wait until they realise just how fucked they are.

Indeed, the whole situation was very foolish. If Sinestro was behind it, then he messed up his estimate of OL's responses. If not, then I suspect he'll be very unhappy with whoever is.

Yes, I'm sure your first-hand experience was very enlightening...

I'm not sure she was expecting you to appear so suddenly, nor to start mutilating yourself... I suppose that's one way to put her on the back foot.

That wasn't a request, honey. It's going inside you one way or another. He's at least offering you the choice of hole.

Yeah, your Illustres can be pretty damn scary when he wants to be, can't he?

Giving her a good last meal, at least. Because she doesn't get to leave...

"I... I can only swallow so f-fast..."

And she's just starting to realise that OL isn't quite right in the head... And that bag full of cats is focused on her... Scary, ain't it, honey?

She's capable of causing great fear? Not as much as OL is. I'm amazed her ring isn't already trying to leave her for this badass.

The blandness is probably down to the fact his body is only a few weeks old at this point. It hasn't had time for the interesting flavours to settle into his tissues...

Rightness Wholly Fucking Assumed.

Yeah, he did that while waiting for you to arrive. Care to imagine what he's got planned for you now?

And he didn't think it too much.

You know that sinking feeling in your gut, right alongside the limbs he just fed you? One guess what the feeling is...

True, some rings are very user-friendly. But you're talking to someone who had all kinds of tricks figured out in the first six hours of owning his ring...

...Yes, threaten his stuff, that'll make him scared. Or are you scared of Sinestro, my dear?

Bitch, you may eat people. He eats souls. And then puts them to work for him. You are not the big dog in this fight, little arachnid...

No, you got lucky with your timing. Don't fool yourself, honey. If he was in the right mood, Onik would have squashed you.

Ah, OL. The Yellow Lantern thinks she can inspire Fear... But you know how to instil Want. Now, which is stronger in Onik right now?

Pass the Mortein. Onik's got a bug to put out of his misery.

Onik: "MINE."

Not so confident now, are we, fangs?

Heh, no escape now. The spider lady is about to get a lesson in fear...

Oh, he is going to enjoy this.

Not quite how I expected this to go down - I expected the spider to find a foot inside her from the other direction - but damn effective either way. If whoever empowered her is watching, I expect them to feeling a little worry themselves. Because once they're done with her... They will be coming looking for her backers.

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...the spider abandons her construct and...
Edit: Well, my mistake.

 

I remember back when an Apokaliptian war machine/creature was attacking Kahndaq (or maybe Qurac or Bialya, I forget) and tried using yellow light against Paragon when it recognized he was a Lantern, though it didn't work because he was already enlightened at that point, plus yellow apparently works better against green than against orange. Was it actually tapping into the emotional spectrum? It's believable that New God tech/magi-tech can do so, given their advanced nature (Scott was able to use Renegade's rings as a power source for his metaphysical surgery after the latter was Anti-Lifed, after all), so I wonder if that's an avenue of research worth exploring. I guess Mister Miracle and Barda are confining themselves to Earth, though, so it would have to be someone else. Paragon could probably manage a better introduction to New Genesis than Renegade could (though that's a very low bar).

 

She didn't really enjoy it.

Too bland.

And this is just a small part of the crazy iceberg that is Paul.

Paul isn't really focused on causing fear so he may not be such a good candidate for the ring.

Sinestro may have also had the ring return to him upon death of the user so he can choose its next wielder and make sure they're loyal.

 

Yellow Ring users should be at an even bigger disadvantage facing an enlightened lanterns compared to other colors, now that I think about it. Their greatest strength relies on their enemy being afraid of them. Enlightened people are not so easily shaken.

 

Meeting a scary disgusting cannibal being that gains power from intimidating you with ripping off your own arm, throwing it in their face, and then looking them in the eye and demanding they eat it is just such a power move.

I love it. It completely threw her blatantly pre-prepared speech out the window and demonstrated him just being so utterly done, and completely disregarding her as a threat. Which is kind of the best thing to do to a Yellow Lantern, given their need for Fear.

 

Paragon has become a cold motherfucker.

I mean, I should've noticed it when he committed genocide the first time and then jacked off a spider, but the complete apathy to burning a planet and then tearing off his own limbs and feeding them to an opponent to show that he doesn't give a fuck about them really just hammers it home.

 

I thought someone would yoink the yellow ring.

 

One of these things is not like the others

 

Answer: It doesn't find an effectual opponent but we get some interesting conflict by, instead, smurfing.

 

Exactly how important is Chughraghahh to the Spider Guild? If it's on the higher end of their well-defended bases, then Paragon should be able to take them out fairly easily. Or are the Guild too spread out in the galaxy/universe for that to be feasible in the short-term?

 

I think it may be their homeworld.

Though I'm not a 100% sure.

 

Beings all across the Universe kill Green Lanterns with (relatively) no consequences. It appears Paul is going to make sure everyone and their mother knows not to mess with the Orange Lanterns while giving his Acolyte a lesson in establishing Fear, not experiencing it...

 

Allllrighty then.

 

You know, I think that we might be onto something referring to Paragon as Agent Orange.

I mean, on the one hand, he's been under a lot of novel stressors lately, but his reactions still seem a little bit on the extreme side compared to the baseline we have from before he got mission-killed by a qwa matter Trojan horse. Even before this; he didn't used to jump straight into firing off singularities like they were candy.

Our man might need some therapy.

 

Free Yellow Ring! Who's a good candidate to give it to?