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

OOhhhhhh What kinda stuff you hiding here truggs?

 

'let me know'

'Bit of a'

I don't think he'll do that.

Yes you can, New Kara, yes you can.

 

Is anybody else getting the feeling Paul is holding a wee bit of a grudge?

 

Truggs: "This is such bullshit! You just resorted to using a super OP version of Supergirl to steamroll through all my clever defenses rather than figuring them out!"
OL: "Unlike Batman and the Riddler, I have a point where I rather just break the games than go along with them."

 

OL: No Dana Nylor's just my side piece.
Nylor: (Dramatic gasp) he acknowledged me. (Single tear drop)

 

Nylor: Senpai acknowledged me!

 

Huh. I suppose that kind of makes sense. Truggs has called him up enough times, I'm sure he has a few phone numbers that OL could backtrace. I would have expected him to use disposable burner phones for his calls, but... Ego, probably.

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And it looks like Truggs has been notified that you're ringing his phones off the hooks. Another chance to gloat, after all...

The impressive thing is that she can likely hear him from there, but then... Near-clairaudient super-hearing. Heck, some versions of Kryptonians are basically psychics anyway, so not a great stretch for their supersenses to be applied psionic scrying...

It's amusing how civil these two are. I mean, Truggs has no reason to be salty, after all, and OL is, well, English.

Geez, you make it sound like you were dating. If only you weren't on opposite sides of the law...

At least he's smart enough not to go messing around with concentrated non-existence. Let's hope he can keep his bosses from making that mistake, though.

Ah, OL. the bearer of good news. I'm sure Truggs is ready to break out the party-poppers any second...

Surprised Kara-1 didn't blush at that. Or react at all. I mean, Fifties morality... Guess she's just too focused on Trugg's voice to hear anything closer... Glad to see it wasn't just me who thought that about those two, though.

Call-backs for the win. ...Not that I can remember more than the bare bones of that bit, besides Persuader showing up?

Given that Trugg's brain is only human, enhancements or not... I rather suspect he'd have trouble recognising if he's forgotten something.

Heh, there's a change of tune. That shut him right the eff up.

Evidently your preparations weren't sufficient. No doubt he'll already be scrambling to think up new options...

It's impressive that Truggs just believes him. It's too fantastical to be a bluff, so surely...

...Not quite as far as you came, Nylor, my boy. But technically, yes.

Easy there, OL! You don't just drop that on someone like that. I think you derailed his train of thought.

Good thing he's got fairly reliable physical enhancements, or he might well have had a minor heart attack there. Certainly a momentary panic attack...

Temporal mechanics probably give Maltusians a minor annoyance. Imagine how bad it is for everyone else?

Goddammit, OL, you actually said it? Good thing everyone already thinks you're a gifted idiot...

Hey, he was close. Only one (or two) syllables off...

"Are all Orange Lanterns like this, or is he just, uh... Special?"

Love it when you barely have to Bluff them. Just feed their expectations and bam, they fool themselves...

Hmm... Out of curiosity, Nylor. Were there any Supergirls in your timeline's Legion? Or Superboys?

Oh, he's quick. Or knows something. Then again, there's only one Supergirl in public right now: Loriel. Angelika has been using Overgirl, and Kara-16 hasn't really gone out in costume. So any use of plurals, well...

Good girl! Go get him, then!

Presumably you gave her a League communicator so you could track her? Or is the computer just hacking satellite feeds to try and spot her in flight?

Please, don't. I doubt he'll be happy about having his reading time interrupted, especially for a continuity snarl like this.

No doubt that was for Kara-1's benefit, since I doubt Truggs is paying much attention to him right now... What with having a small but very strong hand on his shoulder...

Magical concealment, of course. Too bad he didn't think to make it sound-proof...

Please, do. Heck, hold him by the ankle if you'd like. Once he's suitably restrained, then perhaps you might like to help patch up the road you smashed through? People have kind of a thing about casual collateral damage...

That was almost anti-climactic. But, what can you expect when a Silver-Age Kryptonian is involved? There's a reason a lot of the stories of that time were more comedic soap operas, simple puzzles or social challenges and less endless super-punching... At any rate, this is quite the find. Not just Truggs, but a whole stockpile of weird science stuff to take into custody. Bet the Light won't be smiling when they hear about this...

 

He is arrogant.

That hasn't stopped Paul before.

Hah, good luck.

Either they didn't receive transmissions from Earth concerning homosexuality, or while her Krypton may have similar morality that America in the 50s had, they have nothing against homosexuals.

To quote Leonard from TBBT.

"He's extra special"

Paul can do it.

He owes her for catching this human shaped cold sore.

Every few months or years he just shows up.

 

If they're really lucky, they could find the Hero Dial, and then there goes the potential metahuman army for the Light.

 

I think Truggs may have had copies, but I'm not sure if I'm remembering it correctly.

Still, if he finds out that Truggs had it then he can at least know to be prepared.

 

Okay, now brand that fucker and interrogate him.

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

So... how about two or more versions of the Legion each fighting to make their future their canon one?

 

At long last, Paul finally gets to squash this insignificant but persistent insect.

 

Okay, just watched the first episode of series 4. Why do they conflate 'lower caste' with 'racial minority'?

 

I haven't watched season 4 yet, but I think reds are the least populous, greens the most, and whites in the middle. Since the reds are royalty, the only ones who can be discriminated against are the whites.

 

I haven't yet heard the numbers of each caste stated. Given that children of mixed colour heritage can be either colour, I'd assume that most of the population was green/white mix at this point and therefore the numbers would have to be about the same.

 

From what I understand, mixed marriages aren't common, so I would bet that numbers aren't really close to even for whites and greens.

 

Yes, but that's not common over thousands of years for a species where large families are normal. How many generations would someone check?

 

Yes it's heavily implied that they all have some level of mixing and are just being really stupid with their racism.

 

I think most writers fall back on a common idea of racism; discrimination against some group for their appearance, using arbitrary logic/flawed science as to why a person's phenotypes determine what kind of person they are, and how it affects their living conditions in society. Not to mention its easier to understand martian racism when its just human racism with extra steps, plus its an easy source for drama since M'gann is technically a 'minority' who also is dating/marrying someone of a whole different species.

 

That's basically racism in a nutshell.

A very stupid thing.

 

Its nice that Paul has such a good relationship with his Adversary

 

Key word there, Adversary. Not enemy, both have pretty much the same goal in mind just very different ways of going about it.

 

Megan comes from a family with 27 kids from a mixed marriage and only two popped out white.

That does not imply roughly equal numbers, that suggests the majority of the time the children of a mixed marriage will be green.

 

I looked up John Constantine again. His mother's maiden name is Quinn.
So there's definitely something up with John Quinn.

Can't decide whether the guy is John's evil twin, or whether there's something weirder going on. Like John splitting himself in half and letting one half go order while the other went chaos. Or creating a golem or Jekyl/Hyde split or something.
Not sure about the evil twin thing, The man is too helpful and honest to be an evil twin.
Regardless, the Tower of Fate is one of the few areas where it's really really hard to find Constantine if the man is a prisoner.
Not sure whether Paul has tried a quintessence waveform scan, but I'm not entirely sure that'd work on the tower either.

While I'm at it:

Whatever happened to those Berrith Paul stabbed with the Sword?
He stabbed a bunch of construct-Berrith and an Alpha. and supposedly the Sword turns things into baseline humans.
I'm not sure what effect their atypical pack instincts would have on their behavior as humans, and I'm not sure whether they're resourceful enough to bootstrap themselves up from starting as baseline humans(what was their tech level again? and would any of the constructs have been engineers?), or even get together well enough to form a baseline gang, but one of them has practice using an orange power ring by drawing on the Avarice of a bunch of the others, and the others were constructs, and so might be even easier than normal for the Alpha to dominate.
I sort of expect the Alpha to wait for an opportunity, then draw on the avarice of the whole group once they've got them together again to try and either call an unused Ring from somewhere, or rip a ring off the finger of some Orange Lantern Paul has visiting.

 

I posted about this a while go. My bets on John going the order half and chaos half route, with an end goal of fusing back in order to make a lord of balance, or something. It might also explain why we haven't seen demon Constantine. He could have been coopted for the process, seeing as how he already has half of Constantine's soul. Just replace all the demon parts of him with order (similar stuff has already happened, multiple times), tie him to the helmet of fate, and boom. You've got John Quinn. Timeline doesn't match up, though...

 

That bracket should be removed.

 

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