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

I thought Orion turned it off. The whole reason Paul could message anyone and touch the Ophidian when before he couldn't.

Of course, that just makes me wonder why this is a matter for LEGION if the only possible pilot atm is Orion.

Also, if the White Light fixes Orion, doesn't that mean he suddenly needs a lantern to recharge his ring? The only reason he doesn't right now is because of his Butcher Alignment. Unless he can keep that alignment even when not transformed into whatever he is now?

 

Formatting problem, presumably.

 

Inspired by Chojin above: does Hinon know about OL's encounter with Ambush Bug?

 

Thank you, corrected.

Also: XENOFORUM! I PUT THE COLOR TAGS THERE FOR A REASON! STOP DELETING THEM!

 

So Draan really died that easily? Shame.

And does Hinon not know about the Omni-Paulverse? Just sticking her in 40K should keep her busy a few centuries at least.

 

What about his soul? Even without a functional thaumosphere and with Dream's curse it should still be around, no? And he'd be defenseless without access to his symbiotes (which aren't magic). Necromancy or divine altars hooked up to portals not having enough power to get ahold of that soul seems like a solvable problem. L.E.G.I.O.N. makes use of mages on their ships after all. And Paul also managed to get a functioning altar to Hades going on Mother Mercy.

 

Orion was going to try.

But using Zoat's own logic that should have failed since he was going up against a fully developed Qwardian Titan.

 

Usually one word.

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

The only logic I saw was that you have to be sufficiently angry to interface with the Void Hound's AI. And then immediately after Orion says he will bring it to heel, and then Paul can send messages out and touch the Honden and Ophidian when before he couldn't. To me that sounds like Orion turned it off.

Unless I'm missing something.

 

You're missing that the Void Hound doesn't have an AI.

So long story short, when the Qwardians were building it they discovered that it was so complex nothing their technology was capable of could actually run it. So they went in search of something that could and eventually bound the mystically arisen sentient information net of their entire world to the task. It was not happy about this and drove anybody who even tried to control it completely and utterly insane while going on a rampage that destroyed multiple solar systems forcing the Qwardians to deactivate it.

 

Technically, he made a blue LANTERN. Which converted Alan’s green ring into blue. I think?

 

That's pretty much it.

 

For some reason I heard this in the voice of Agnes from "How to Succeed in Evil".

 

Well this was an unexpected conversation.

It puts me in mind of those villain awards from the Harley Quinn show.

And now I can't help but see the Crime Syndicate become something like the Legion of Doom from that show.

The most important question is who will be their Bane.

Zoat the link for this chapter doesn't have the date above it.

Now who could be little Zita's previous life?

Anyone have any ideas?

 

Tanya Degurechaff! It's Bolshevik Muppet time.

 

Pfffft, that sounds like Tanya alright.

Oh man, a fic within a fic!

 

I-is she the reincarnation of Princess Anastasia?

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

....Tanya / Salaryman?

 

Welcome to your new life, Tanya. You're an evil magical salarygirl.

Tanya: "Finally, something that makes sense."

 

I'm going to laugh when Tanya and Paul start taking shop. This is going to be hilarious. And when she becomes a criminal she'll be a better one then her parents.

 

Tanya the perfect argument for why Job-ing someone is just a bad idea.

 

Ah, 'Baul'. Still trying to make the villainous Earth you live on a better place without any of your criminal compatriots realising it? Hope he's been getting plenty of sleep, though, what with being a father now.

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

...I mean, if he's got heat-vision, then 'glowing' might be a legitimate expression for him. Usually right before someone starts to feel the heat...

And evidently his plan is something on the 'this is gonna be big' end of that range?

...What.

Heh. The joy of picking the inaugural categories for something like this. Gotta encourage appropriate behaviour in the ranks.

...Good point. Remember, appropriate behaviour. I can see some moronic mook with muscles for brains deciding 'hey, I could fight my boss and win a prize!'

You know someone would be that stupid.

Since someone with a buff-dispensing ability might only shine when they have allies.

...I think I see the issue with this one.

Especially if it ends up being for something that targetted someone recently joined. Joined because of a setback caused by a covert operation...

And you know someone will try to record it. Especially those with built-in technology.

After all, not every surprise is planned, nor every operation intended to be a surprise.

...Oooh. Yeah, poking that bear might be a very bad idea.

Since it's likely to end up with a lot of people you have hopes for getting hurt.

The best kind of revenge: One where you pull it off without the chance of reprisals in kind.

"All I want is some pants! Is that too much to ask for?"

...And some superhero communities take costuming seriously. Just look at Champions Online and their costume contests. Case in point: Wingspan's weekly contests.

For instance, far too many 90's costumes with insufficient armouring, far too many sharp edges or just improbable material choices.

Maybe have their mentors place the nominations? Those rookies who make a good showing would score well.

...Because it sounds like a big middle finger to those in charge?

But you don't want to encourage them to start having thoughts of 'wait, if I'm stronger than those chucklefucks, why are they the ones in charge?'

And it encourages creativeness with less obviously strong powers.

...At least append 'criminal use' to it? Unless you want to encourage getaway drivers to start entering car shows...

...Ah, they grow up so quick!

Stow that eyebrow-wiggling, kiddo. Opportunities like that are few and far between these days.

Decently well, since she's not injured or grumpy?

Depends on whether it was part of a spell or something. Like, 'bury my mind in my descendents DNA until the time is right, so that I can take over their body'. An actual plot point in stuff like Symphogear. (Spoilers there, mind!)

Yeah, I expect the Silver City would get in the way of reincarnation stuff...

Assuming she remembered anything at all. But if they mentioned it, she will be.

Or a mix of both, even.

...If that's a reference, then it cruised over my head like an airliner in mid-flight...

Well, good to see things are going well for Baul and family. Still, amusing that they're considering an awards ceremony for the Syndicate. I suppose if it improves morale amongst the ranks, then it's not stupid. And it might set up some clever rivalries for the future. After all, if someone wins a top prize, then others with the same skill-set will be itching to take next year's award.

 

Some people have pointed out that it's probably Tanya from The Saga of Tanya the Evil.

 

Idk why but I immediately started thinking of Rasputin

 

Man, Tanya can't catch a break, first getting bullied by Being X, now getting dumped in the Presence's sandbox. Well at least she's got proper networking so she'll be able to join Paul in a decade or too when he finally kills God, should be three lifetimes of therapy right there.

 

Krona is a pretty decent stand in for Being X.

 

That........that sounds like Tanya.


So, for the people who never watched it, Youjo Senki is an Isekai staring Tanya Degurechaff, once Japanese Salaryman who was pushed in front of a moving train by an employ he fired. In the moments before his death, he encountered a godlike entity complaining about how bullshit humans are that was quickly dubbed "Being X" due to the Salaryman saying roughly "Even if God was real, he wouldn't be so bored as to stop time the moment before my death to complain and talk shit."

Depending on which version you've read/watched, there's some mouthing off(in the LN, prompted by Being X reading Soon to be Tanya's mind and responding to his thoughts as if he spoke them) followed by Being X deciding to test the old adage about atheists and foxholes and promptly reincarnated the Salaryman as Tanya Degurechaff, a little orphan girl in Not!Germany in an alternate world shortly before politics would lead to the equivalent of World War 1.

Tanya was discovered to have magical potential(magic being a thing in this alternate world) and having brushed up on the relevant laws decided that they meant she could be drafted as an imperial mage. Deciding to get ahead of that, she decides to enlist in an effort to get a safe comfy job in the rear rather than being forced out into the battlefield.

Unfortunately, Tanya proves too good at murder and her attempts at "Signaling Theory" only serve to convince her superiors that she wants nothing more than to charge off into the front lines, which eventually leads her to being given command of an battalion of aerial mages meant to be used as a fast response unit in the war effort.

Complicating things for Tanya, Being X has not forgotten her. As part of his efforts to convince Tanya to sincerely pray to him and worship as God, Being X "blessed" her magic computation gem(magic is basically math based) to basically supercharge her whenever she prays. How sincerely is irrelevant. Also, again depending on version the gem is also slowly and steadily brainwashing her.

Tanya as a person self describes as being "Twisted with every complex imaginable." Her biggest issue, frankly, is that she tends to think everyone is far more rational and practical than they actually are(including herself) and doesn't tend to consider emotional reactions until the consequences of such start to cause her problems. She's a social chameleon that looks for the "rules" of any group or organization she's apart of and matches them to the best of her ability. She's also taken the Chicago School of Economics as her personal guidelines for how to human and has a deep and unabiding hatred of communism as a concept.

And she has the most precious smile imaginable!

Spoiler: must protect

Magic wise, Youjo Senki's has a lot of similarities to Nanoha style magic. There's a persistent rumor that it began originally as a MGLN fanfic, but I can't find anything one way or another. As an aerial mage, Tanya's capable of flight, protecting herself with a magical barrier, enhancing the destructive power of bullets and causing explosions, creating life like illusory holograms, and my personal favorite replicating the effect of various combat drugs on her brain chemistry.

Oh, and mage blades!

Spoiler: can't forget the mage blades!