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

I thought that was Hub City. The place so comically nice that it’d kill demons in it’s borders like Qwa Matter if it didn’t redeem them on the spot.

 

That should say 'the Ophidian'.

 

About the only place in the universe where you find really truly HONEST Politicians.

 

Ophidi-me. Paulphidian.

 

Didn't realize that until you pointed it out. Thanks.

 

Now I'm wondering if Antimatter Vega has the plucky underdog resistance the Citadel fighting the Dread Tamaranean Imperium.

 

Wasn't there some mention of how Paul thought that the only way complex society could develop if everyone was evil was via the stronger ones dominating others around them into a hierarchy?
Fear Elemental would be pretty good at that.

 

Remember back in what feels like the dawn of creation when Paul used to shit bricks at the mere possibility of running into some of the mid-tier threats on Earth? And now he's just casually talking terror campaigns with All-of-the-Fear.

 

Thank you, corrected.

Modified.

 

Parallax calls him Joe. It is now entirely valid to be afraid of Joe Mama jokes. I can see it now:
"Who's Joe?"
"I am." Cue screaming in terror

 

.... A world that runs on the favor system vs the Fear Elemental.

That's not a good combination. Not at all.

Is the Blue Paul there?

 

Guess it is time to gank another jumped up elemental.

 

I was thinking along similar lines.

 

No, he doesn't come from that Crime Syndicate.

 

Does that confirm that a Crime Syndicate exists on Earth -16? If yes, I hope they'll contact Earth 16 in the future, and that Joseph Harrolds reveals that he only became a member thanks to Paul's advice.

 

’does and doesn’t’?

 

Well, the good news is that Paralax didn't attack Paul and there's no indication he's going to be an enemy in the near future. Paul stated Paralax was being a dick, but I think Paralax was just eager to taste a different fear.

Now for the Guardian and Controller reaction to this news.

 

Blue Paul is Earth Negative 14.

This is Earth Negative 16.

 

Thank you, corrected.

Which doesn't necessarily mean that there isn't a Blue Lantern there.

 

Let me specify then. The only Blue Lantern Paul we know of so far.

On another note, where did you get the idea of each regular Earth having its own Antimatter counterpart? IIRC the original Antimatter Universe in the comics was way bigger than a regular universe because it served as the counterpart for all universes.

Of course then that begs the question of what Earth Positive 3 and Earth Negative 3 are like in this setting.

 

Justice League: Goddammit! Can't he go a single week without doing something crazy or morally ambiguous?!?!

Hinon: stares

Paul: It's really not as bad as you think.

Hinon: stares

Paul: I can handle it.

Hinon: stares

Paul: Llease say something!

Hinon: I hate my life.

Meanwhile...

Guardians: Get the Corpse ready.

 

Well either of those option would prove her being worthy.

If she equals it then she's as skilled as a highly skilled Weaponer, if she surpasses it then she's perhaps one of the greatest if not the greatest Weaponer.

Or the entity just searched his memories for something he once overheard, or maybe they plugged into the fears of a scientist.

Plus it was his first fitting.

Well if he does panic then it's likely Joey will put him in a cage so he can sing.

Nope.

 

This is the just OL's equivalent of Wikiwalking, it's not his fault that clicking on the not-yet-purple hyperlinks has an affect on objective reality!

Literally, OL and Jade were on a date, Jade asked a question and OL did the equivalent of "I don't know let me Google it" and five minutes later suddenly they were watching execution videos on vice dot com and the food is cooling down in the table.

 

This happens to everyone.

I mean seriously, you can't tell me that the moment you have some free time or start watching TV or using your computer you don't soon start watching murder shows.

 

He should have tempted him with fighting the antilife. We have a whole world that has forgotten how to fear! Help us fix it!
(Ok, no, maybe that would have ended up worse...)

 

Ignorance, mostly. I mean, there are plenty of matter universes. Why wouldn't there be plenty of anti-matter universes?

 

That kinda bugs me too...but it's rule of cool names....I mean the Green Entity isn't a Charge Particle Giant Space Whale after all.

But if you want to try and shoehorn a reason for it:

Etymology

From Middle French parallaxe, from Ancient Greek παράλλαξις (parállaxis, “alteration”) from παραλλάσσω (parallássō, “to cause to alternate”) from ἀλλάσσω (allássō, “to alter”) from ἄλλος (állos, “other”).

Hal was significantly Altered, in outlook, personality and power when he snapped/was possessed.

Edit: Now calling it Para-Lux would make sense, as it is a Parasite of Light

 

Mayhaps Parallax actually came from some obscure alien language and is a false cognate?

 

The meaning of the word is why he's called Parallax.

Hal had a change in perspective, this is the reason he actually gave in the comics from memory- Whether the Guardians are worth following. Whether heroism means drawing within the lines or doing whatever it takes. A metaphorical "the difference in apparent direction of an object as seen from two different points not on a straight line with the object."

The author also had a second reason not stated in character by Hal- What are the green lanterns? Points of light in space, like stars. He grew distant from them. So a nod to the meaning on the astronomical level.

 

That's a fun idea, the Noble Citadelian Patriarch sacrifices himself through his clones over and over again in the name of justice, for why should others suffer when he can, in fact, take on the entire burden all by himself, and himself, and himself, and...