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

Uh oh. Parallax and the Ophidian going at each other?

Well, at least it's only a negative universe that will get vaporised.

 

So, since LePaul can't follow him with the Greedport the question begs how many Nemo planets Parallax will destroy before LePaul is able to catch up.

And given this whole thing is LePaul's fault, it better be at least one.

 

Note what the ring reports at the end.

AM Parralax just transited to the positve-matter universe...

 

Are we sure about that?

 

...That's rather sudden. Suspiciously sudden, in fact. The timestamp suggests it's been over a day, yet he didn't cover any of the intervening time in his log? No comforting Jade after her encounter with Fear itself? No way is this real.

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A lone ship surviving to tell the tale? Not really the Reach's methods, is it? Never mind glassing a planet thy had been trying to convert.

Harralax: Oh, yes, that's the stuff...

Other side of the system and all. The big bug's not being subtle, are they?

Which makes it all the more odd that they seem to be working together all of a sudden. Something OL was concerned about, of course.

Coldly logical. Your best defence against Fear...

Oh, come on, now, Harralax. That smash-cut scene change wasn't even subtle.

Well, that brings a new immediacy to 'Danger Close!', doesn't it?

No point giving the bug any ideas. Not that they can pull off Identity Theft.

Ah, trying the 'everything-proof shield', huh? Like a child.

Yep. One too many inconsistencies...

Heh. If only you could be that confident in front of an actual Reach fleet yet.

Let's hope you don't have to go to the extent you did in the no-win-scenario training exercise...

After all, they don't want you dead. They need you scared...

Because hurting you isn't the only way to make you afraid...

Yeah, I suspect his little song of fear isn't very entertaining yet.

Especially in a second 'hot' emotion. Gaining Hope or Compassion Enlightenment would probably balance you out... Though I can't imagine Mr Zoat wanting to try to render dual Enlightement in text. Different colours of opening and closing quotes? Sounds like a nightmare.

Trying to make you feel afraid of losing what's yours. How pedestrian.

Not gonna find her without more clues, huh? 'Wanting some manner of Spectrum-based weapon' is probably too vague a lead.

Welp. As long as he's corporeal, Harralax can affect him, huh? But he can't do much from the Honden...

That's probably just getting annoying now, huh?

And each time he does that, it's probably like a slap in Harralax's face...

Ah, hello there, giant space locust of Fear. So they are at least the same as canon in that respect.

...Oh, that can't be good.

Aw, dangit. He pulled a 19-63.

Crap. Wrong thing to say, OL. Looks like Harralax is going to go play with the real thing. Get Jade up and about and get after them, then, before they break something important. I do find it amusing, though, that Parrallax is now hyper-focused on messing with you, instead of the usual obsession with Hal Jordan... The joy of being the protagonist.

 

Is there one Elemental of Fear in total or one for each universe? If each universe has a seperate one then there are now 2 in Paul's home universe.

 

"Baring" to "Barring".

"in a show of"

 

Didn't they have tech that blocks parallel teleportation after Blue Paul and friends visit?

 

It's not completely comprehensive and this is the antimatter version of Earth 16 (I think at least) so it's either getting around the block by virtue of being a Emotional Entity or the block is for parallel not antimatter universes.

 

It blocks the specific form that Blue and his group used.
I think Paul was hesitant to call upon his Ophidian connection when he was in an alternate parallel on the possibility that he would get in contact with the local variant rather then the one from his parallel.
Edit: Although he seems to have gotten over that fear.

Its also not completely clear if its one Emotional Embodiment per universe set (Say, Universe 14 and Anti-Universe 14 share an Entity).

 

Or it only blocks it around Earth. It would be a little ridiculous for travel to be blocked across the whole universe.

 

Paul: "Look, you can't make me afraid using fake things"

Harrolds: "So I should do it for real, got it, killing your friends brb"

Paul: "Wait no"

Maybe telling the incarnation of fear that is desperately trying to make you afraid that the only way to make you afraid is by *actually* doing all the terrible shit it was *pretending* to do was not the brightest move to make, who knew.

 

I don't know I think that would probably make Paul more balanced and besides Paul just knows the source of his desire and why he has them he can't lie to himself about why doing something, So fear enlightenment probably wouldn't be a bad thing. Is Doctor Mist technically what we would get if Paul enlightened all his emotions?

 

IRCC The New 52, there was one for each universe for the Relic storyline, and since we know how much Zoat likes the New 52, it is the likely answer!

 

Nah, once Paul realized it was an illusion, it was too late. Parralax would have realized sooner or later that illusions weren't enough.

Though I wonder...Is Parralax going to Earth? Paul specifically didn't call on the Ophidian there because he didn't want to risk infecting an entity with Anti-Life.

 

If that's why, then given that Earth is where the Life Entity is, that's a concern that he should already have.

 

I have a question Mr Zoat: How do the Emotion Entities work with regard to the positive/negative universe pairs? Is there an Ophidian, Ion, Parallax and so on in each, meaning that this was probably the Anti-Parallax or something? Or do the Entities bridge the matter-antimatter gap and travel through it freely? Or do the antimatter universes (or at least -16) simply not have Emotional Entities for some reason or another?

 

Thank you, corrected.

I'm going to tentatively say that each positive/negative pairing shares one.

 

Unless and until Paul manages all seven color/emotional enlightenments, then combines what he's learned and understands to finally achieve Life Enlightenment.

 

Well if he goes there and is affected by it then he may die and there's one less threat.

Granted that would probably have a lot of negative consequences for everyone, like people suddenly not being afraid of jumping into a fire.

Or maybe he can overcome it, but then Earth has a new problem to deal with.

He could also destroy the planet without getting too close.

Paulphidian was able to move the moon with his finger, so the new guy could just have the moon crash into Earth.

 

This guy doesn’t have a ring whereas Paragon did. Not sure if that makes a difference at all, but it might.

 

‘‘Hello.’’

Mr. Zoat has already said that that basically won’t happen; he compared Life Enlightenment to some ridiculously difficult video game achievements. It’s not something that you ‘just need to know about,’ it’s the Infinity +1 Sword. If you aren’t lantern Jesus (Kyle Rayner, I think?), it’s not worth your while - unless you’re an ancient super mage who acted as a peeping Tom to the Life Entity, a la Balewa.


Still, fear enlightenment wouldn’t remove his fears, just increase his awareness of them and aid in his control of fear mindstates.
That being said, Compassion is the ‘cold’ emotion that complements and opposes Avarice. If Paul was going for a Dual Enlightenment, I’d assume that (given the choice) Indigo would be optimal, for balancing him out and empowering him. The power to teleport farther doesn’t help him much (unless he’s trying to go to a place without people quickly, since he can only Greediport to beings with desires), but the ability to use all the colors would probably help with the inhumanity.

 

Compassion would also boost his stealth, since Indigo Lanterns are nearly undetectable if they don't want to be noticed.

 

Well. Not as calm as we thought. Parallax wants to taste fears... he should go to Apokalypse

 

Zoat's gonna suffer enough with Raker Qarrigat on the Renegade timeline and he only uses two differently colored rings

 

LePaul has the common sense of a Goldfish.

This is known.

 

Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Mr Zoat actually plan for him gaining Fear Enlightenment with Siskin, realize he’d have to do extra colored qoutes, and say fuck that?

 

Parallax's host explicitly doesn't have a ring but was able to trap Paul in an illusion.
And then there's the fact that Paul thought to himself somewhere earlier that Parallax has a tendency to take hosts without rings.

 

Jaaaaaade? Are you still here, or have you been kidnapped to serve as a fear-dispensing juice box?