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

I don't think I did. I may have joked about it.

 

Can you gain more than 1 emotional enlightenment? Dr Mist meditated and jumped right to White Enlightenment. Not sure if the other way os to step by step gain the others or if that's impossible.

 

Way back in the day (around the Terror Thing stuff I think?) Zoat mentioned that becoming Enlightened to one part of The Glow makes it a lot harder to do the same for others. I don't think he said it was totally impossible, but it gets harder as you go presumably and would require a whole lot of effort most people probably wouldn't care enough to go for.

 

Well, yeah, I’m not saying he’s powerless without a ring. Obviously he’s still very strong. I’m just saying that possibly he’s somewhat weaker than he otherwise might be due to lacking a ring.
Or maybe he’s not. I was just stating a possibility. For all I know he’s stronger without a ring.

 

I don't think he needs it to do sone serious damage.

That may not be a good place for that.

Seeing as it's flooded in Anti-Life, it's population may not be even capable of feeling fear, so not much music there.

The inhabited worlds near Apokolips may provide him with fear since the people on those worlds would presumably always be afraid of being destroyed or enslaved by Apokolips.

 

I don't think the presence or lack of Power Ring makes a difference for an emotional entity. They essentially have all the power available to their electromagnetic spectrum, the only difference would be the lack AI, but they can manipulate The Glow directly and affect reality with it however they want.

Whatever construct, technique or effect they want to achieve they just directly use their power for it, they don't need a ring to channel it, nor a lantern to recharge it, etc. In fact, I think the Ophidian said something similar while fused with Paul way back when.

 

Parallax going to universe 16 to scare Paul has one possible good outcome and that is Parallax going to Earth 16 to wreck it only to find it fucked over by the anti life.




Only to get pissed that anti life has taken the light of fear off so many people.

With Parallax, Ion, Ophidian that is three embodiments, with the life entity being already on earth and thus possibly being poked by their combined efforts. Alan could probably get Adara on board and Dame Carol could maybe get the predator, so all that are left to super charge the local humans would be the butcher and the octopus thing... IE red and violet.

Humanity being restored with less anger and compassion could be a problem, but that is better than getting fucked by the anti life.

 

Paul mentioned to Malvolio that when he was fused with the Ophidian, they didn't have to care about ring charge, but that his assumption was that that was the result of the Ophidian. This was part of their conversation about how Malvolio doesn't have a personal lantern, just the Secondary Green Central Battery.

 

Something, something, Jolly Cooperation.

 

'every type in my'?

Extra space.

'A point'

 

This is like that Simpson's episode where they keep trying to fix the invasive animal problem by bringing in worse and worse animals.

LePaul... Sometimes you just need to take the L and move on...

 

I'm always amused when people ask how Paul was able to achieve something someone else thought impossible or personally failed to accomplish.

That should say 'result'.

That should say 'container'. And I think the second correction should be capitalized. Also, Lysis really doesn't know how compatible humans are with the Embodiments.

That should say 'say'.

I'm guessing Lysis isn't used to working with competent non-Qwardians?

Teamwork makes the dream work. Now I'm curious as to how Paul will get the other kinds of power rings.

 

(on the next arc, Darkest Night)
Paul: As I said before, Darkseid, we both have a common enemy. If we don't stop The Black Lanterns they will bring forthward an universe empty of life, with nothing to rule over. You can already see your hosts of parademons being subsumed unto their army.

 

As long as Jade is relatively safe, Paul is happy.

If Jade is harmed. Paul will start taking lessons from the Diplomatic Handbook of Borjigin.

 

Only about six hours lost. Not too bad, then. On the other hand, a motivated Entity with a mortal partner can do a lot of damage in that time. OL's going to have to move fast to catch up to them.

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

But first: Priorities!

Naturally, it recognises that he's being a little hyperbolic, and begins scanning from the local area out, I expect...

No doubt involving a concise summary of what happened, and an 'oops' emoticon?

Crap, someone ran off with her? But not Harrallax. What would they need her for, after all?

And here comes the "What the hell did you do this time?" rant from either Dox or Hinon...
OL: "Did you... Just express Rage through an Orange Power Ring?"

And Lysis' involvement confirmed! Not that it was a stretch.

Surviving, yes. Enjoying their life afterwards, not so much...

If he'd tried it on Earth, the local cape community would have risen up to kick his arse. In this universe's case, for trying to muscle in on their cushy operations.

Hooray for cosmic retcons...

Oh, gee, Qward's having a little bit of a civil war? Good for you.

Hell, she'll probably do some ninja meditation thing once she realises what's going on.

Funny, he wasn't the one marinating a perfectly suitable human host in fear for who knows how long...

...Oh, yes, that would work so well. I suspect the actual result would be Parallax going 'Wut? Lulz no', eating her soul and fucking off.

Well, he just... OL'd at him for a few minutes. Honestly, you've met OL, how did you not expect something like this when he turned up?

...Ah. Evidently you have different ideas about how this sort of thing goes, do you?

Sounds... Plausible. And logical, really. Mere flesh is not really designed to act as a lens for one seventh of the universe's emotional energy.

...Sadly, Humans have quite the advantage in that respect. Comes from being soaked in the Life Entity's energies.

Sharpened quite aggressively, but it seems so.

...Maybe he thinks of OL as a rival? I mean, OL basically does hold the Ophidian's heart...

Let's see: In the time you've been here: You and the Ophidian... Guy and Ion... And now Parallax and Not!Hal Jordan... I'd say that's abnormally frequent.

...And if OL should happen to be able to arrange a leasing contract for those Rings between Qward and NEMO... Well, who'll argue?

Seems kind of foolhardy to go into this without some options, yes...

...I expect Kalmin will have questions. Once he calms down and stops smashing things. I expect his initial expletive will be audible in orbit.

And believe me, you want him focused on what you need, not what he wants..

Ha! Indeed. After all, Sinestro's not a member of an omnicidal society of, well... Weaponers.

Aw, it took him a while, but he'll finally match the Renegade's Rings.

I bet Lysis is half-wondering if he did something to make her... Agreeable to his requests.

Ah, jolly co-operation wins out again. Well, half-heartedly jolly at the threat of annihilation at the podomeres of the giant Fear bug. Because once they're done messing with OL, I don't expect Harallax wouldn't turn their attention to the Weaponer who 'imprisoned' their human half. And if they couldn't find her easily, then let her whole race suffer for her. So...

 

In the past, I’m pretty sure it was ‘q’ardajin’.

For no particular reason, I’ve always loved the word ‘vacuole’. There’s just something about it.

 

Ah, in no time at all he, Lysis and Parallax will be work colleagues.

Hanging out at the water cooler, talking about trips they will never take, dreading to go back to their cubicles, their lifes and souls slowly dissolving into grey nothingness...

The sheer, mind numbing horror of it all will teach even Parallax to fear

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

Soon Paul's going to have his own entourage of evil teammate weaponers.

Interesting how Hallalax went for bugging Paul first, instead of attacking Jordan Harrold's enemies. Paulphidian seemed to go after what Paul wanted without regard for anything else

 

You aren't exactly a normal person to begin with.

Plus, the decay may take a lot of time to finish and you weren't merged with the Ophidian long enough for it to affect you.

I'm guessing the only way she acquires competent aliens is by kidnapping them.

The fear they have of dying a gruesome death probably makes their work a bit more difficult than normal.

Now I can't stop imagining him as being something like Colin Robinson.

 

Take the L by leaving Jade to die and leaving Earth consume by antilife? Weren't you the one saying Earth being consubed by antilife is more important than anything else?

 

Paul. This deal would give a qwardian data on Anti-Life. And on Darkseid, if he really is puppetting Bruno Mannheim.

 

Does this not concern Paul at all? He's seen some ways for people to mess with his ability to summon best snek, now he's going to help someone that's not an ally come up with another way? Oh Paul...

 

This is far from the first time that Paul has helped people that he shouldn't have helped and that will eventually bite him in the ass.

 

Hinon/Dox: Bitch, I'm a genius! I do what I want and I like what I do!

They haven't known each other all that long, so she does not fully realize the full scope of his...thing.

She may have fought that no one is that stupid or weird.

Now she knows.

Plus the fact that said entity is a sadist probably doesn't help.

Probably those that do not trust the Qwardians to not screw them over, which is a possibility.

Paul has done some foolhardy things before.

 

No, it will give Weaponer Lysis data on Parallax and Joseph Harrolds. It isn't an agreement to wider data sharing.

 

Oh. I assumed the data she requested was regarding whatever Paul planned to do with the yellow ring.

 

Even if she did get data on that, at that point it hopefully would be 'an attack they've already beaten off'. If not, it's 'a weapon someone else already owns'.

 

I thought so too. Was that not what was implied at the end regarding telemetry data from the yellow ring he would get?

At the beginning I thought the Illustres was making time to find Lysis and greed-port to her to free Jade, not actually make a deal with a relatively unknown Weaponer whose motives and goal he can't actually be certain of. And Qward may be in shambles, but with the possibility that Sinestro may be working with Lysis, being totally uncaring of them getting an unlimited supply of power rings sounds like the coming of the War of Light.