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

I found a picture that doesn't work anymore. I know it was an image of a younger Shazam, but I have no idea on what it looked like.

 

Well I don't know if it was this picture but here's what he looked like.

 

My alerts say you quoted me with this. Somehow.

 

I would ask Heph about the lightning before asking zeus. He's a lot more likely to actually know, and a lot less likely to tell you to fuck off.

 

I can definitely see and believe that Aphrodite is more about desire and using love as a tool but Hephaestean made it seem like the Olympians don't have a god of Avarice and that was why Hades may consider kicking him upstairs if he were to die.

 

Best guess : Zeus' lightning doesn't work because you now need electrical and metrological knowledge to operate it.

Quick Billy, being good at school is needed if you want to save the world, time to hit your physics books !

 

But that's not what he said. He said it wouldn't be quick to cut him off.

He was working with the titan who made the spell Zeus was using so cutting him off isn't the problem. And the titans getting powered up isn't the problem because they were pulling small bits from many titans so not much difference in strength now that they have it back. The big problem is Zeus is now a mortal target if he doesn't keep his head down it will probably get cut off.

 

The spell on Billy is different than the one on Adom and it's more connected to the Wizard.

I think he wore a blue version of the Captain Marvel costume.

 

I'm pretty sure most casual fans thought his name was 'Shazam' already, so at some point you might as well just give in to the inevitable.

Also, the fact that DC could not legally use 'Captain Marvel' as part of the branding for anything makes it better to just switch to a name they could use that way. (I find the story of how that happened kind of fascinating.)

 

The same time they renamed him, they also made it so he can say it without transforming.

 

I'd have gone to Hephaestusian first. He did bottle some of that lightning in the fight and he almost certainly can make up a tech solution.

 

Whatever happened with visiting Shazam's daughter, she knows the ritual after all, suee she did it for Mighty Adam using different Gods but she knows it.

 

No it doesn't. "Ex" means "from," while "in" means... um... "in." "Deus ex machina" means that the god came out of the machine. That clearly has not happened here. He's still in it.

I mean, I suppose all's fair.

Why not? Hephaestus is the one who forged Zeus's lightning bolts in the first place. He's got a claim to it, and lightning is just unharnessed electricity, and harnessing electricity is WELL within Hephaestaean's domain.

Colon instead of semicolon.

Pretty sure there's only one of the Wizard?

Missing a blank line between these paragraphs.

 

Wasn't the Thunderbolt created by the Cyclops or Hekatonkhieres? I vaguely recall that they were the original armorers of the God side in the Titanomachy. They gave the invisibility helm to Haded and the Trident to Poseidon as well, no?

Although, being mythology, there's probably different interpretations, so it depends on what version this story is using. However, I get the impression that Hephaestean and the other younger Olympians were born once Zeus already was king and, as such, after the Titanomachy so I would personally go with the Cyclops/Hekatonkhieres version.

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

The cyclopes Brontes, Steropes and Arges, whose names mean Thunder, Lightning, and Bright are Heph's assistants at the forge.

Although some myths have Heph's cyclopes assistants killed by Apollo out of revenge for someone Zeus killed with their thunderbolts, other myths that Apollo killed their sons instead.

 

Once he's done with this, Paul should start testing fate:

" Nothing except The Reach suddenly all ceasing to exist will stop me from going after Constantine"

 

Shaham!

 

Hephaestean steps in to huck lightning at the Marvel kids. "SHAHAM"

Everyone thinks they're really hungry.

 

cameras

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

'explain how'

Not necessarily.

He may have only come down to Earth to fuck men and women, so he may only have a general idea of how modern society works.

'narrate'

'beings'

Remove 'unto'.

He's not happy to see you.

Well to be fair, they may sometimes embellish things.

Yeah Paul, at least take the trash out.

'reduces'

'though'

Though then they'll be missing a hunt god.

Not surprising, seeing as he's a fairly minor character in the mythology, so people may not have thought or prayed too much to him, so he wouldn't have developed too much if an attachment to the god job.

Don't worry, I doubt he'll castrate you, but he may lock away your divine powers.

Maybe 'Weren't you'.

And I think Artemis would be working as hunt god.

Time for another divorce.

 

Still not explaining how Hephaestus just randomly gained the ability to de-power Zeus.

With almost any other author I would give it a month before the majority of other gods are conspiring with Zeus to return things to the good old days.

But this is Zoat, so this will almost surely be ignored and nothing bad will come of Hephaestus's takeover.

 

Alright Zeusy-boy, that got a chuckle out of me.

 

Olympus had alot of unhappy marriages before Paul.

Man with how much Paul has changed they could call the time before him B.P. on Olympus.

 

And that's the short list of shitty things he's done. OL proves himself a better man than me, because if Zeus talked shit to my face right after that entire last arc, on top of saying in no uncertain terms he has no plans to make himself useful, I'd've had the Ophidian just eat the bastard. I'm sure Heph would understand, and it's not like you couldn't just make a new weather god if you put your mind to it.

 

Killing Zeus would have all sorts of unpredictable effects on the everything. If Paul wanted to be vindictive he would imprisoned Zeus somewhere say with a eagle to eat his liver.

 

"Paul, where is my father?"

"Ah, well, you see, some unforeseen consequences popped up, so I was talking to him about how it could be fixed. Short story shorter, Zeus Zeus-ed and so I fed him to my primordial space snake."

"Gods dammit, how am I supposed to get back at him if he's dead?!"

"Er, the best revenge is letting go?"

"Oh, fuck off. You, of all people, did NOT just say that to me."

 

Nah, turn him into a fly and feed him to Cronus