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

with a name like that they better have superpowers if they want to get through middle school

 

He can control pretty much any part of his body. He could fill his testicles with milkshake if he really wanted to.

 

An adventurer is just a professional lost person. They keep getting stuck in places no one wants to be, and then are professionally good at levaing.

 

Doesn't Paul end up slowly losing whatever extra magic his tattoos pickup? It's why he say, doesn't have energy from when he was in Desire's domain left over. It basically bled off.

 

Considering Alan started transforming into a will elemental from so much green light soaking into his soul I suspect there is a point of no return, but before that, yeah, whatever effects of his tattoos soaking in a particular form of energy seems to be temporary.

 

I mean, there's always the Most Common Super Power...

Missing blank line.

Unless this is a stock phrase, "caitiffs" I think is the plural?

begins

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

Any guesses on which of the Forever People will pop Paragon!Paul's humerus back into his shoulder socket? Or do we think Paul will delay until he can employ his preferred technique of removing the limb and regrowing it fix it himself?

I remember a few years ago readers suggested that every Paul should wear their ring on one of their ribs or another internal finger-sized body part in order to counter of the most common Lantern weaknesses. Well I'd say this arc's rituals are a point against such paranoia. God, having to pull something like that out of yourself with a knife or something, what a terrible thought. Though the rest of the Corps doesn't have this excuse... unless "I don't want it inside me" generally hard enough to overcome...?

 

A spare ring. Not his main ones.

 

Honestly that's probably just his Godspeech. I suppose that if OL isn't listening specifically for it, all he picks up is a slight tickle in his soul. Still, the fact he was able to muster that much power bodes well for you all getting out of there.

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...Not quite how faith works, but given his rather mercenary relationship with his deities (Eris and Hades) I'm not surprised.

I'm betting the Anti-Life exposure preyed on his fear that he could never be as cool as the cowboys he seems to idolize. That he'll never amount to anything special...

Honestly, unless one of you can fly, you're stuck following the paths you can find...

...Boy, that sounds like a rather desperate shortcut. Sure you don't want to take the safer route?

One sample does not a standard make. But it still feels foolish to do this...

...Magneto-style? I suppose that might work. Though it might be a little uncomfortable, depending on what parts of his costume are metal.

Yeah, that kind of puts OL in an uncomfortable position of his own: Not In Control.

Interesting. Trying to find some measure of Want in this realm? Seems like long odds.

Yet what can you want when you have that kind of power?

Goddamit, talk about rolling a natural twenty on his skill check...

Like a giant moody filter over everything. But turn your head the right way...

You're really lucky the DM likes you, OL. Most would put the kibosh on those sort of shenanigans.

Phrasing! Dang, that sounds more like it should be on the NSFW side...

And now he's doing the accidental double entendres too!

Like a school of deep-sea fish. Strange, ethereal things that no man has ever seen.

Let's hope it's not carnivorous, then. Like a Whale Shark.

Ah, preparing some grappling gear? Time to ride the worm...

Just don't send it haring off before you get on it, OL.

Oh, this is gonna suck. And hurt.

Ugh, falling blindly is the worst kind of falling. Can't even brace for...

...Impact. Hopefully he landed with his knees rather than somewhere more sensitive.

Goddamit, Vy! Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, will you!

...Ow. I suppose that's only natural when you get a 95-kilogram-plus (about 200 pounds in American weight) humanoid moving at speed suddenly pulling on one of the weaker joints of the human body.

And having that weight swinging back and forth with your shoulder as the fulcrum point isn't fun, either.

Worry about getting him settled first.

Well, as long as it doesn't go too fast, you should be fine now.

There's always the Lethal Weapon method...

Seems a bit risky to hitch a ride of a flying... Fish? Whale? Thing. But I suppose they feel moving slowly across the paths would be too inefficient, especially given the loose time pressure they're under. After all, nothing says Lyssa Drak has to keep whatever portal she made to enter this place open. And I doubt they have the metaphysical oomph to force a way out from this side...

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A few corrections, Mr Zoat:

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Missing Closing Quotation Mark.

"It allows me to control magnetic fields.

...but there are less extreme mind-altering abilities available to me

Likely 'erupting', unless he was dragging it out for style.

...assume that they're not designed for normal light.

 

I'm not on that "internal ring" camp, honestly, the most dangerous adversaries are those that can supress power rings, bypass constructs and/or pinpoint your Emotional Spectrum energy device. And for those type of enemies, I don't think where the ring is exactly, is all that important.

For the rest of the Corps, I believe most have seen the demonstrations of the Illustres "sparring" with other members and removing from them the rings as a humbling lesson. Unless they believe themselves more in control of the Orange Light than the Illustres himself, knowing that is possible for someone to remote call the ring would discourage any idea of "internalizing" it, I think.

 

The only Paul we've seen who literally internalized his ring was Sybarite, and he did it in part to stop people from realizing it was a Power Ring.

 

QuestingDuck
You know what you did. Remove it.

Thank you, corrected.

 

He does look like he's the youngest member of his team, so he may desire to prove himself worthy, so that could be it.

Though it could be something similar to Bear and he was forced to use his talents for killing and may have been shown that "cowboys'' were far from noble heroes that are of ten seen in old movies.

Instead if a John Wayne movie he got Blood Meridian.

 

he got stuck in blazing saddles

 

It's nice to see Lyssa Drak getting surprised by Paul doing something unexpected. Paul hasn't really done anything like that lately, so I hope she'll be decisively defeated even if she'll probably get away.

Vykin just means that they can work together now, right? Not that they'll try to summon Infinity Man? Also, Paul really needs to give Serifan a pep talk or something.

 

the sum total of their parts.

 

This is quite interesting, but I can't help but go on to think that even if (when) they get out of here, they don't have a lead on an Indigo Lantern anymore.

 

Not "sum total", just "sum".

Oh, but I think they do.

Lyssa Drak presumably still has our lizard-bird lady's Indigo Ring.

And Lyssa Drak is right there.

 

Close to what, I'm sure they're about to find out. Hopefully they can dismount without suffering any more damage. Especially since OL doesn't have access to any healing equipment right now, so every injury suffered is a liability.

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Trying to use a giant negative space wedgie as a landmark seems a little tricky. I doubt it obeys simple laws of optics like parallax.

...I'm amazed Moonrider let him try three times, much less two. The whole thing sounds rather painful, after all.

But sometimes, OL, you can let others take the slack for a while. Even if you have to put up with the niggling sense that they're doing it wrong.

He is going to be so happy when he can fix himself up, isn't he?

Careful about thinking directions, OL. Don't want to zag when you wanted to zig.

No doubt if it is making 'sounds' they lack the equipment to perceive them.

Better a few wire cuts than being useless in combat, eh?

And boy, for someone who was afraid of Death when they began this story, OL sure has become cavalier about it these days.

Hopefully this doesn't affect your loose control of the critter, because this is surely going to hurt.

Careful, or you'll tense up and that'll make it harder.

Ow. I kind of felt that.

I think this might be the perfect moment for a "Wha-ha-ha-hoooey!"

Yeah, the worst part of a fall: The sudden stop at the end.

He'll be feeling all that later.

...Or right now. At least he can work through the pain without his Ring.

Given she probably expected you to still be sitting on the rock you started on, that's to be expected.

He ain't got time to die.

...Oh, very eloquent, OL. Then again, you did drop out of the sky without a parachute.

Interesting that they're all together right now. I guess she tossed Vykin elsewhere to deprive them of their leader and assumed they'd crumble without him.

...Oh, right, their ride's still heading this way.

Bizarre alien biology at its finest.

Heh. Reminds me of MCU Loki post-Hulking.

Because of course gravity is purely a matter of perspective in here.

Heh. I guess he wasn't ready for a blow like that.

Yeah, best to get rid of the stage hazard now its usefulness is ended...

Okay, a nice battlefield for a boss fight. Pity OL's at HP Critical status.

Firing off a beacon for Vykin to track, eh?

Ah, youthful enthusiasm, without thought for pain or tiredness.

...Wait, do each of them contribute some spiritual aspect to their combined skillset? Are we going to have a Captain Planet moment? ...But who gets to be Heart?

Looks like the gang's almost all here. Just one squirrelly green lantern left to locate...

So perhaps she needs a reason to. Courtesy of you lot...

Ah, there we go, that's all of you. But, oh dear, someone's not on board?

Looks like their spirits aren't entirely in agreement on their course of action, courtesy of Serifan. Although even if they were, I'd have to wonder what they'd be trying to call up. Because the material shell of their big buddy is still on Earth and corrupted by Anti-Life. And I doubt the spiritual part isn't built to survive without some form of avatar.

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

To be fair, "trap Finality Man here" wouldn't be the worst plan I've ever heard.

 

Paul could surprise Jade with a new pet!

How does oversized shadow-manta sound? Should be easily housebroken, right?

 

In the material universe, sure, but they're currently in the Shadowlands. The rules are different.

 

A headband would be best. During a space battle, any attack does get through a lantern shield has two insta-kill points instead of one when worn on the hand.

 

He's too busy.

Even if they can't call Infinity Man, they may still be able to somehow synchronize themselves so that they can boost their powers.

 

Spoilering various recent references to internal ring positioning:

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Note this passage from Otherworld Part 18 from Paragon Paul's viewpoint:

Which lead to this passage from Faed Away Part 14:

After which, he tried to get Canis (that's who he's speaking to, in case that wasn't clear) to cut one out of him, but Canis said that it wasn't something he could do in combat without Aurakos getting Paul.

Some time after that when he had some time, he switched to having at least one ring outside in the usual position.

This of course doesn't settle anything, but is another data point.