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

Doesn't he already know a lot of Johns, though?

 

Its

 

.... Is the fungus eating Anti-life?

 

My guess is the fungus is eating the rot caused by Anti-Life. If they could get rid of Anti-Life that easy I doubt Pam and Euthane would have locked themselves away.

 

The fungoids seem to be opportunists, like a lot of bacteria that live on the skin. Interesting. Though having a being that feeds on decay and can cause it could be very useful in the future.

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

From previous days:

‘right hand’?

‘part’

Holy shit that’s small. That makes Starbreaker eating the universe a lot less impressive. I mean, still incredible, but orders of magnitude less so.

From today:

‘Rot’?

‘led’
Also, maybe ‘were’

‘casual’?

’fronds’?

Tangentially, I discovered and watched Freeman’s Mind over the last couple of days, and I saw a comment from the Mr Zoat YouTube channel on one of the episodes. Small world, or something.

 

Thank you, corrected.

The SI doesn't know that that's a distinct place.

No, I think that's okay.

If a thing's popular enough, it's not that strange.

 

Sure, but I think it’s at least worthy of a little surprise that I saw your comment of all the thousand plus that were there.

 

Given how much Zoat Loves the New 52 its surely that!

edit: rip that was wrong

I think the rot zombies are people, Brazil really shouldn't have gone the tree people route

 

Just call it J.R. for short.

 

The no should be orange as well.

 

Spermatokinesis?

 

Looks like Ivy got transformed into a plant elemental.

 

This has me wondering if you can Anti-life Mr Smiley.

 

That sounds like a phenomenally bad idea, considering how plugged into the status quo it is. Around the level of Mannheim getting the Spear of Destiny bad.

 

Damn, Pamela pulling through.

I guess she is actually better than Euanthe to combat the rot, as part human.


A nature spirit, for which rot is a necessary part of the lifecycle, is probably not as spiritually hardened as humans who did and do their best to invent things impervious to decay.

 

That would kinda be like enforcing a depressing genre shift onto the DC brand. All their media, comics tv shows and movies, suddenly becoming 'Anti-Life' flavor. I imagine that would be unpleasant for people like Paul who live in there.

 

Man, OL is just roasting everything around him. Probably for the best. Any flesh the trees have lost to the fungi is dead, and as long as the trees have enough nutrients left in their root systems to begin regrowth, the fire is an inconvenience.

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Well, of course he does.

Too bad for everyone and everything else, though.

To be fair, it's like breathing. Short of holding your breath or covering your mouth, there's not much you can do to manipulate what you breathe out.

...Define 'seeds'. Because OL has some freaky talents...

Oh god, we did not want to hear that. Ew. Odd reaction from the spores, though. The Construct Lantern doesn't register as being alive, but it didn't trigger any hostile response, either? Could be useful.

So, what you're saying is... Burninate the countryside?

Well, then. Not much use, are you?

Best to start at the edge and work your way inwards, then. Once the source is blocked, anyway.

I mean, how far have you flown? Not that time and distance mean all that much in an eldritch realm like this...

Not unexpected. Not much need for emotions when your only purpose is to consume and reproduce.

I expect 'insufficient data' or something...

Huh. To be fair, it probably does have more cognitive abilities now than it used to.

Very easy-going, then.

To be fair, that logic works. Humanity looms large within Earth's thaumaturgic networks, with its' minor variations like Atlanteans a mere blip in the noise. Belief shapes existence, and all that.

What would a fungus have needed names for? It is what it is, and all else is fodder.

Which is a worthwhile question, as both terms do have metaphysical weight to them...

Ah, good catch. After all, it has little need to differentiate between the aspects...

Interesting. VEry interesting. Even the Black has a concept of what should not be...

Praise the Emperor and pass the blessed promethium! Catachan Guardsmen would feel right at home.

...There must be a hell of a lot of it down there...

Heh. Not much defence against being incinerated before you can even assume a battle-ready pose.

Looks like the Green is already fighting back, with a little of the pressure off.

They most be close to a major node of green consciousness, then, if it's taking direct action. Looks like you've found someone.

Heh. Regrowing faster than they can consume. But how long can the being keep that up before they expend all the resources nearby?

...Nice. I guess you could say she's now got huge tracts of land?

Well, then. Looks like Ivy done evolved into Alraune. (And boy, if that ain't an easy subject to find a worksafe image for... So many monster girls...) I wonder if it was her own doing, Euanthe's, or some kind of mystical accident. At any rate, I bet this has really improved her ability to command plant-life. Which she's definitely in need of, with what's going on...

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Other fungoids… Larger ones, pull their way out of the mire below and adopt a hostile posture…

 

What does conk mean? I tried looking it up for an obscure definition, but I couldn’t see any that fit.

 

Wonder if this is how she becomes the May Queen in this continuity- or attracts the attention of that elemental if it exists.

Trees and fungi have important symbiotic relationships in real-life, but I'm not sure how much of that translates to how the Grey and the Green interact in comics canon. Though this is the Grey and not the Black that was used by Anton Arcane, right?

 

Thank you, corrected.

It would explainj a lot, though.

Thank you, corrected.

Flat fungus growth projecting from the side of a dead or dying tree.

 

Most of the chapter is orange. I don't think that's on purpose.

 

Hm -

There's a missing /COLOR tag after that first "...

..and another after the " at the start of this...and another after the " at the end that is spilling over to make the rest of the chapter a harbinger of Orangest Night.

 

I don't know why, but everything from here on and below is orange to me.

 

As mentioned above, there's a (few) missing closing tag(s) in the chapter. It's a lot more readable in the story only thread.

 

So that's confirmation the fungoids aren't controlled by anti-life and are just taking advantage of the situation and vibing. Poison Ivy will probably be glad for the help.

Given some eras of comics and certain media adaptations, that would explain a thing or two...

 

Fuck you, Xenoform. Fuck you.

Yes, I know that it looks like it makes sense to amalgamate two areas of the same colour when they're next to each other, but actually I PUT THOSE TAGS THERE FOR A FUCKING REASON! They can be used to indicate very differnt things and I don't appreciate you moving them around for me!

And another thing. When I edit something and then click on save, I want you to save it. If I didn't want you to save it, I wouldn't have clicked on 'save'. I would have clicked on 'cancel' or 'x'. So when I edit something and save it and realise that I missed something and click on 'edit' again, DON'T GO BACK TO THE PREVIOUS ITERATION!

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Okay. I'm good.

 

Should that say 'looks'?