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

’shorter transmitting range’?

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

Who's the Mistress anyway?

 

Alright. Did a bit of a reread while procrastinating finals and started quoting the rotted links I found. There’s plenty more, as these are only the ones in the section I reread. Still, there’s… quite a lot of them rotted, especially the images, which are almost entirely gone. Going forward, I strongly recommend you upload photos to Imgur and link to there. It’s a much more resistant site and would be a far better host for anything you want to last more than a few years.

 

Three (probably crazy) thoughts on the identity of Mistress:

1) someone who showed up for three issues in the 1960s that everyone forgot about, probably actually going by the name Mistress. This is Zoat we're talking about, after all.

2) Catwoman. She hasn't shown up in ages, but she has the sort of strong personality that could grab a leadership position in these circumstances.

3) Jennifer Gordon-Hewitt. She has shown up in story (searching Catwoman's appearances is what reminded me of her, actually). She's old, but she's in Gotham and she has an extensive collection of superhero and supervillain memorabilia. Which normally wouldn't lead me to guess "prospective warlord," but this chapter mentioned the old Gotham villain tech that's lying around for the taking... might also explain why she is *only* being called Mistress - if it was someone whose older name was well known by our recent viewpoint characters (like Catwoman), there might be a mix of names used.

 

I think that lady was killed by (I'm blanking on the name it's 7 am where I am) Paul's time travel rival.

 

Bah, you're right. I did search, but made a bad assumption that the search results were in any sort of order. So what I thought was the most recent appearance wasn't.

 

Note about Imgur - under new ownership (MediaLab AI, Inc. since 2021) and with machine learning tools to remove images that may or may not comply with their new Terms of Service (see the Safety & Standards section in the Help section). We'll see. We all remember Tumblr's automated image removal tools flagging so many non-violating images right?
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/202...ve-explicit-and-anonymous-content-next-month/

 

Not just explicit pics that's bad enough. Any pics that were uploaded anonymously which has gotta be a large percentage of them, so anyone who uploaded there thinking it was more resilient, well we're about to see a whole lotta dead embeded pics.

 

It‘s really not a problem if you make an account. You can use a temporary email and make a nonsensical username and password once, and you’ll never have to worry about images rotting again. Well, nothing lasts forever, but Imgur is going to be around for a long time.

 

Not sure how it is in show but does seem more and more like Alliance treating all alien refugees as hostile and not bothering with diplomacy.

 

"you our"

 

Spoilers!

Spoiler: Spoilers

That's being done deliberately by an alien infiltrator who has subverted the Alliance

This Paul doesn't even try to talk with them? What would Enlightened Self Interest Paul think!

 

I mean, you can't just enter a country illegally, call yourself a refugee and then be shocked when the government doesn't agree.
Replace country with planet. Why should that be different?

Edit: Keep in mind I have never even heard of this show, let alone watched it.

 

Ah, one of many classic alien species from the 'golden age' of UFO encounters. And I'm guessing the more belligerent alien species make the Alliance a lot more willing to hit hard, ask questions later.

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

So, pretty much confirmed outright that... <Sigh> Roswaul... is the glowing green knight previously encountered.

Heh. Not confident in the sound of his voice? I suppose his accent would be recognisable. Or maybe he's just trying to cultivate the 'silent man of mystery' image amongst them?

Can't deny the appeal of interestingly-coloured alien ladies.

Now, how will he answer?

I wouldn't call it a fight, given the capabilities of a Lantern Ring, even one in the hands of a relative rookie.

So presumably the last time the Alliance saw him, he just took them all down easy.

Or maybe he's something neither of you have seen before. The galaxy is a big place, after all.

Except in an ugly-cute way. Hey, it happens.

...Dammit, why am I suddenly picturing him as dressed like Goblin Slayer now?

Ah, Percival had him working out, eh? A fit body benefits a fit mind?

Heh, playing up the chevalier image, eh?

And I bet the lady is a little annoyed right now.

The joy of working without more than a rudimentary AI. And it looks like the Alliance are unhappy.

Looks like Roswaul is going to have to fight...

...Or a lot of these people will die.

Well, rude. Not like they could have run for them in front of the Alliance's guns.

Still, if it can make them back off a little... More of the wounded might make it to safety.

Imagine taking that call at the station.

True, the British police have never been the most aggressively armed of peacekeepers.

And the amount of back-and-forth shouting will help distract the attackers.

Anything to slow the Alliance down, after all. And the sheer public nature of the encounter might raise some alarm bells upstairs, so to speak.

Pfft. They could barely hurt him. If he got distracted.

So they may injure themselves trying to damage him. Tough luck for them.

This would already have been over, if he'd had a more user-friendly Ring. Bet that's why Mr Zoat picked Green for hard mode.

The Alliance are clearly in the wrong here. Don't feel too bad about chastising them.

Assisting an ingroup is a powerful drive, after all. And Roswaul has thrown in with them...

Well, this should be noisy. Wonder what the series protagonists will make of this display? Because an armed response like this seems excessive for a group they expect to have large numbers of injured and thus handicapped in a straight fight. Or perhaps someone is taking advantage of this to escalate matters a little.

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...though their faces look more like a bat's.

The goblin widens his arms in a gesture of appeal...

Perimeter breach.

 

they're -> they've

 

Especially when most of the myths of your people are evil, or you prey on human.

 

I now can't stop picturing him yelling "GAAAHBLINNSSS!" whenever he speaks.

And making people drink goblin urine.

Aside from making him physically stronger, it can make him more willful.

Working out can be stressful and painful, so it can help to have a strong will.

 

Should be 'breach', unless they used the butt (or breech) of a *really* big gun to do it.

 

Thank you, corrected.

1) Because the Alliance has no legal authority
2) Because a lot of them entered before those countries existed
3) Because genuinely can't leave.

Take the banshees, for example. The Republic of Ireland came into existence in 1922. They've been in Ireland for a lot longer than that. Why should they need the Irish government's permission to stay? Take sirens. According to Homer, there were sirens around when the Trojan War was happening, somewhere between 900 and 600 B.C.. Modern Greece won independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1830 A.D.. Even the Kingdom of England is only 1100 years old, and Percival is far older than that.

Ti-Yet would like nothing better than to take his people home. But they were brought to Earth as slaves and have no access to spacecraft.

 

Yeah, that's pretty important. Not uncommon for the protagonist-group in these sorts of shows, though.

Well, that says a lot more about the situation. Might still be an issue for the modern governments if/when they find out, though (because politicians being hypocrites happens a lot), but a pretty useful thing to argue in court. An 'alien' who was born in the UK isn't an alien, after all, but the court would still need to decide whether a non-human is a person.

 

Um... Maybe.

Unlike the United States, most European countries don't count you as a citizen just because you were born there. Britain doesn't, Italy doesn't, and I think Ireland stopped a few years ago because people were taking the piss.

 

host -> hose ?

 

The whole thing I took away from Roswell Conspiracies was that a bad boss will and can get you into trouble more often than not by withholding information.

The Paul of the setting got information immediately upon arrival and a job offer for ring charge and pay. So far I am loving the whole X-Com vibe and I think the series took a lot of hints from that game series and other sources naturally now that I am older and can buy all the games I was too broke as a kid to play and or learn of.

I can appreciate the attention to detail immensely as always with Zoat's work when he slips into another media setting. How the characters act like they did in the show and or setting considering reboots and alternate universes are a thing.

I am also glad there was a mention of working out for the sake of physical fitness by the SI due to not having an Orange ring to automatically perform Biomancy due to latent desire. Too many ignore the cardio thing, you really need endurance to survive short fights that drag out into long ones. So constant training is a must and heck, anime does love its training montages as an example.

 

Anyone else imagining Paul as Luke Skywalker and Percival as Yoda training Paul while he does handstands in a swamp?

 

I’m am surprisingly excited to see the ARU show up in the middle of this. To all my fellow Americans, you should look those guys up on Google images. It’s like a baby version of SWAT

 

Paul has probably become a real headache for the Alliance by this point. I hope he meets Logan and Sh'lainn soon and starts getting the first hints of Rinaker and his true motives and I really hope that we will see the episode where Athos is born. Why doesn't he talk?

 

Thank you, corrected.

He is inconvenient, but more because they don't know what areas he operates in. Once he's a known threat, they would plan around him.

Thing is, neither the SI nor Logan know enough to be sure how right or wrong the Alliance is. The SI opposes them because he sees them attacking innocent people and not having lawful authority. Logan considers the threat to be big enough that he'll accept a few things he's not comfortable with.

Almost certainly not. There's no reason for the SI to go there.

Kayfabe.

 

Pardon?