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

Most haven't seen supercalifragic expialidocious written down before. If you were writing a storyline with Mary Poppins would you have it spelled differently for every character that says it aloud but Mary Poppins?
Until they've written it down there's no point in making note of them thinking it's spelled a certain way.

 

That's Renegade, Oh El just nuked the Light. Renegade reformed it, gave Circe Gohood and helped Sunset Shimmer become an alicorn.

 

I don't know what you're trying to say with this.

When I said 'You kinda do' I was referring to the fact that Truggs works with a group that has members who can kinda perform dark miracles, like Satanus, Klarion, Boss Smiley and Circe.

 

Nehru.

Good on you, OL, those things are offensive in nature.

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

You know,
From a legal standpoint, Truggs might actually have difficulty getting a fair and unbiased trial- I mean, he’s a direct (or second tier at best) member of the Light- the deranged murder cult that Klarion the child-killer was a member of/essentially ran at one point- (which is exactly what I suspect people in-universe will assume it is when informed they were it’s most powerful member)he’s a former close “business” associate of the man responsible for one of modern humanity’s most traumatic experiences before the Sheda invasion-
was he an active member at the time? Legit can’t remember, it’s been a while…

i rember OL repeatedly burning out his ability to make constructs from compassion+desire fatigue at the time, and the man did try to murder him… somewhere between two and four times- I don’t think OL’s being entirely unreasonable making sure he doesn’t smuggle an antimatter bomb into his cell or the like…

 

It'll never get to trial, Truggs has too much to offer the US Government in exchange.

So he'll be paperclipped and end up working at Darpa or something.

 

true. im not personally against harming someone like psycho but it would set a terrible precedent if someone got away with that.

obviously this is terrible, but it is still a shame. he seems closest to Paul's temperament. a pretty chill dude, and he has a noble goal. maybe he'll change his mind about working with Paul this time.

 

He's pretty much set up as a twist on Paul's philosophy/intentions. Both want to improve Earth, both to prepare for future problems they know about (Paul from having read the comics on 'Earth Prime', Truggs from being from the future), as well as just improve things in general, but their methods and tools differ drastically. Paul has his Ring, which allows him more personal agency in affecting the world. He's also willing to take 'no' for an answer so long as it isn't blatantly self-destructive or going to affect people who are willing to accept his help.

Truggs, on the other hand, has less personal power, having to do things like his back alley enhancement clinic here, but much less restraint on what he's willing to do to achieve his goals. He'll work with criminals, steal, and so forth. And, as mentioned, willing to see people killed if he feels that they are keeping things that 'should' be actively used locked away for no reason.

 

I just remembered something.
A Star Trek novel I read once. Don't remember much just this one line in there.
They came across some invading aliens that look like monsters from every local species old world legends.
It was something about a warrior's doll of himself he carried. Some practice of carrying a doll of herbs of your likeness to throw into a pot of hot water to make a soup so the living can taste your life.

When they researched it one of the trio likened it to a Celtic practice their research showed them. Except the spelling was Seltic.
Then one of the others said "Huh? No no. You say it with a harder 'c'. Like back in the old days. Like a 'k'. Keltic."
Thought it was a very smart piece of literature. Showing how changes of speech and spelling can happen overtime and a future man with his eyes on other species and planets not his own like Kurt wouldn't know that.
In written literature intentional misspellings are acceptable for spoken words when trying to get across accents or misspoken pronunciation.

 

There was an in universe planet called Selik that they might have conflated with it, word wise. The Setlik III massacre during the cardiassian-federation war was something that became 'front page' news for them I'm sure. A bit odd to have such things happen when you have a universal translator and a full library of human languages, but it'd be a bit strange to keep past revisions on file?

 

Never heard of that.
Don't know about that.
It was Star Trek novel that where all these old timey monsters are actual species and apparently got booted off their planets by current sentient Alpha Quadrant species and now they are back.
It opens with their method if space travel affecting E=mc² and everything AQ local gets shredded at high velocity upon arrival. They fix that after the first 2-3 tries before the main force arrives.
That's all I remember. My copy is likely up stairs some where.

 

The aliens were called Furies if i remember correctly.

 

I'm quickly getting tired of this smug asshole. I hope the Legion takes him away already.

 

They may have a better shot at defending themselves compared to the other people the Sheeda raided.

'humans to'

 

Oh Nylor.

For a moment I was ready to sorta forgive him,because I remembered that to him the people he killed were long dead victims of the atrocities he tried to prevent.

Then he pulls of a stunt like that.

 

This is why no one likes Truggs, he can't get over himself at all and when he sees a chance to personally get ahead he takes it. For all that he says he is all about working towards a better future he has no problem benefiting it from it and avoiding punishment whenever he can.

 

' humans '

' know '

 

I am tired of him personally, he just makes the story worse

 

Never heard of that Zombiegirl.
I get the link going to a pic titled physicssaywhut? But what is the reference of the pic itself?

 

I'm not strictly tired of Nylor Truggs? He's a could have been kind of counterpart to Paul's ways in my view. His ego and the fact that he feels too close to things like the Reach exploitation of Earth to be objective and succeed on a wider scale are interesting flaws. I liked him earlier when he was first introduced and him being a novel enemy to Paul and blindsiding Paul with tactics and schizotech. Looking back on it I liked him best during the New Year's arc with him and the shadow creature and the mercenaries and the Bozo robots.

There might be something to the feeling that Truggs has gone for too long without a conclusion. A little. Paul's actions and his impact on others mean the Reach don't have a foothold on Earth. The same drive of a desperate time traveler looking to cross every line and work with the bad guys because shit needed to get done and there was no choice feels like it fizzled out a bit.

 

I actually kind of like him, though mostly because superhero stories really need nemeses to play out the full range of character interactions.

Now I'm wondering how many Supergirls Nylor has. I'm worried it might be more than five.

 

Where'd that picture of unholy abomination Supergirl come from? Is that Matrix?

The Lovecraftian Justice League from Seven Caskets look better than that.

 

I've always kind of liked Nylor.

He's fun!

 

Step 1: Take Nylor away from earth beyond the thaumosphere so that any magic escape teleport tricks he might have are neutralized.

 

Not something in his historical records, I bet. Which means they likely never attacked in his timeline. I mean, given how much history gets lost simply because of time...

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Even in this age, with information as spread out as it is, things will get forgotten or confused. Just look at pop culture's tendency towards reboots with the same name...

And what would make them consider Trugg's timeline to not be worth attacking, hmm?

And say what? "Hey, just so ya know, Humanity's future descendants come a-raiding every so often. Might not want to annex the place, yeah?" They'd laugh at him, then shoot him, and then laugh more.

Joy of not working with self-centred lunatics and maniacs. The Light would only improve things if they got to be in charge, after all...

And then he met them, and decided 'eh, this is fine' while setting his house on fire...

Meh, his ego would get in the way of any possibility of cooperation. Toss him in jail, monitor him, and if he's feeling a little more community-minded when he gets out, then look him up.

Given his enhancements, he's probably resistant to most forms of execution that people would use anyway.

To be fair, you didn't think he'd do the things he did either, did you? Assimilating Teekl was an act of opportunity to beat a threat...

I doubt they'd sweat over any conventional threat. And... Big grey guy? Not ringing any bells, outside of... Ah, wait! Lantern Xor! Right. No way are you getting a ring, boy-o.

You made your bed, Truggs, now you get to lay in it. And you chose to lay down with mad dogs... No crying when you get up with fleas.

At least, one that couldn't be read as villainous posturing, anyway.

Evidently they didn't improve any in the centuries between the current war and Trugg's era.

Now that's a callback. And a nice sense of rightness, using an idea from a dream to draw the Dreaming forth.

Or some clever researcher could find himself having a daydream that provides that 'A-Ha!' moment. It all depends on how Dream feels about the plan.

Though most of them don't have the firehose of mana that Earth has. They've had to make do with a mere garden hose.

Oh, hell! Was Truggs just stalling?!

Don't tell me, he's got a Bizarro.

Though I suspect that's the only damage done, Silver Age Kryptonian and all...

Well, this is a surprise. I have no idea where she's from, but the art looks decidedly late-90's or early-2000's. I see a Bat there as well...

Yep, the asshole was stalling. Presumably he got a message off while Kara-1 was kicking in the door, and the result is only just arriving...

Ooh, I spy some Torquasm Rao. For reference, that's a Kryptonian Martial Art which supposedly lets the user tell Physics to shut up, sit down and hold their beer.

Presumably following some programmed command related to the 'S' symbol. Let's hope it doesn't get out of hand.

Ow. I hope she's resistant to heat and flame... Otherwise she's gonna be out of the fight until she recovers her vision...

Looks like Angelika's got things handled for now.

Enough to kick anyone's arse, especially since they include a Silver Age Kryptonian. While we haven't seen the extent of her abilities yet, I suspect Kara-1 will be able to settle things quickly... Once she pries herself out of the wreckage...

So, something of Trugg's personal collection, or aid sent by one of his allies in the Light? At any rate, I suppose it'll fall to the Supergirls to handle it while OL continues to mind Truggs. It evidently has a narc on for them anyway. Though I would not be surprised if simply painting the mark of El on their foreheads would make it shut down.

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Double Space.

 

Fucking Brand him already! On anyone else who was this much a threat Paul wouldn't hesitate to brand him the moment he could and ask him nicely to disarm his fall back plans and tell him exactly what he thinks he is doing.

 

Quick, duplicate that bioluminesent brand!

 

Unless they choose to ho with decapitation.

I thought he was talking about that Kobra Venom enhanced guy that worked with Bane, but yeah, Xor makes more sense.

Angelikaused it when she met Time Trapoer.

He trapped her in some time bubble and she used her martial arts skill to escape it.

She was also teaching it to Kon, Match and Clark.

Truggs had it appear on his forehead, so it could work.