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

As far as the SI can tell from a quick scan, yes.

Near-human. He was assimilated while heavily bound.

In thist story, the Omega Effect can only do that on people who are completely broken. Like Apokolips natives, the Justifiers, people with no emotions to break and Construct Lanterns.

He's a low level character at the moment. Level him up a bit and all sorts of things can happen.

 

I wonder if Thornton being “killed” as a construct impacts the deals with the Belle Reve prisoners?

 

He just wrote them up. I'm pretty sure Paul ensured that the contracts will still be valid even if the guy who wrote them up no longer has powers. This isn't something they'd want to have any problems with, after all.

 

Inconsistent apostrophes. I’m not entirely sure, but I think the apostrophe should be removed.
Also, I’ve realised that Finality Man’s pronouns are inconsistent both in this chapter and between chapters. Should it be ‘his’ or ‘its’?

’minute’

I like Finality Man, very cool guy. I already expected him to defeat Karshon, but it’s interesting to see that he has so much versatility with the Omega Effect.

Glad to see the deployment of a powerful Construct-Lantern. I always feel like they’re a bit underused. I’m guessing that he’ll simply be re-assimilated once they’re in a safe spot, but maybe he’ll teleport away or the Omega Effect will have lingering effects that prevent it.

 

Thank you, corrected.

To quote Deathstroke, "I didn't check the undercarriage.'

He. It should be 'he'.

Thank you, corrected.

The issue there is that Satanus would just teleport away. A human Colin Thornton on the other hand isn't someone he could morally justify assimilating because he's not as much of a threat.

 

I may have missed if the following has been discussed, as I've been catching up on the latest arcs in the story only thread, but what about the Omega Sanction? AKA when Darkseid goes 'Fuck you in particular' and Gold Experience Requiem's a guy (I will declare it a Jojo reference to my dying day ) and traps them in an infinite loop of progressively shittier lives.

I must admit don't know if there's a limitation in the canon work, as it's arguably a more dangerous use of his Omega Beams when a character can block or tank them.

 

Fair enough, besides, OL only really needed him for that one thing. Plus, in terms of power, he does still have the one Karrakanian Shipmaster he assimilated back when he recruited Allyn. Wasn't he an Ascendant of something? He also has Nabu 666 and Gary the fungoid, so he's not sort on powerful Construct Lanterns.

 

KKiiiiyyyyyaaa.

So, next Eros chapter when?

 

I don't know. When I next have a day booked as holiday, probably.

Annoying thing is that I have the next Eros episode planned out. It's this one I don't have anything special for.

 

I just realized that if anyone killed by the Sword of the Fallen returns as a base line human. What happened to the Praexis Demons Paul had to put down after they swallowed what was basically miniature portals to hell?

 

Presumably the same thing that happens to other hell stuff? It's just that nobody cares about a nameless normie.

 

So when Batman initially asked, Paul said that construct-thornton mostly lacked his magic, and the demon contracts were about the limit of what he could do.
Did something change to make these portals?

Huh.

If the omega beams can turn people from constructs back into people, and Paul learns that Grayven(the same one fighting the Reach), can produce the effect, do you think he'd prioritize getting that one Guardian which Larfleez turned into a ring turned back into a biological creature?

 

This is less than what he used to do.

How? Grayven's made it clear that he isn't interested in cooperating.

 

Harsh words and that’s true to an extent. But we’d have to assume the ‘living’ hell gate orange lantern construct, he became shortly before his death didn’t somehow muddle the transition.

Ehhh, maybe will never see a reunion. So much has happened on earth since then that the population won’t recover for decades. His reincarnation could very well have died since then.

 

Yeah I guess he'd have to go with trying to brand or turn Grayven into a construct and hope the Omega effect still works.

Aquire alternative means of mind control maybe?

 

Interesting to see a Paul falling into Superman’s tradition tanking niche.
The main SI will probably not be impressed should they meet.

 

'restraints'

One or the other, I think.

'pier under her feet'

haven't

Should probably have somebody do something about that orbital debris soon...

 

But doesn't his Power Ring provide a universal translator? I suppose because he's been playing mute that he hasn't used it much, but that's a fairly basic part of a Power Ring, he should have noticed that he can understand everyone, everywhere, no?

 

"Slam"

 

’It doesn’t work’?

 

To be fair, this Paul is a Green Lantern, so how he needs to think to effectively use the ring differs.

 

To Be fair, Green ring users are stuck with simple stuff until they achieve a high level of mastery.

 

His ring lacks that program, he lacks an AI assistant like modem GLs. Heck he probably doesn't even have a subspace pocket. He is basically doing everything with his own mind plus Green Energy from the ring.

 

It's nice to know that we all agree that crisis of infinite pauls 2 electric boogaloo is inevitable.

 

Which is why the 80's fear of a Japanese-led corporate future, so central a foundation of things like Cyberpunk, never came to pass: Their economic bubble popped. Though I have no doubt the local 'non-indigenous sophonts' took full advantage of the recession and falling prices.

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Thought so. No doubt in the guise of Yakuza, who do trade in legal real estate deals.

Ah, and there they are. With quite illegal guns, you'll note, as Japan has quite severe gun control laws.

So, did she go for the figure-skating outfit, the gothic lolita outfit or something practical? A Rider suit, perhaps?

Heh. Not really necessary to go in for melee, but with all the lead flying around, someone might get hurt...

Ah, the tanking job. Not easy, often maligned, but always needed.

Heh. Nice little mythic shout-out there. Leaning on their mythological similarities, I see.

...Bit of an awkward name there. Though I can see the mythological synchronicity.

Might have to get Percival to check the language sub-routines, then. Surely you can run the Ring through a stack of multi-lingual dictionaries, failing that.

...That would be Shuten, then.

...Goddammit, Zoat. You really did give us a muscle-girl Oni. ...And damn if that description doesn't sound like Princess, from 'Kill Six Billion Demons'. Damn good taste, sir!

And maybe some soap, since she seems the sort to have a potty mouth...

Man, she telegraphed that punch so much, she'd have been better off mailing it.

Hey, if you have what looks like an obvious weakpoint all over you, of course someone's gonna try to poke it.

...Oh, hell. She's casting 'Summon Bigger Fish', isn't she?

Whoops, that's not good. Don't panic, Emerald Knight!

...Well, at least she pulled you out of the water. So not drowning now.

And this is why you have armour under the armour.

Honestly, having a Blue Ring show up would be a bonus to your combat capabilities...

Time for the Knight to cast 'Summon Even Bigger Fish'.

...Don't tell me he actually looked up the translation of 'It's Clobbering Time!' Because that is pretty damn close. ("It's time to destroy!" according to Google Translate.)

I half expect someone to ask later 'So, which of you is Number One?' on the assumption they're numbered like Sentai.

At least all human eyes will be on the big show they're putting on out front.

And why do I get the feeling that Emerald Knight will hit Enlightenment sooner or later through sheer bloody-minded determination... Unlikely as it is that he'd ever need it.

And I hope that wreckage is heading out to a splashdown far out at sea, or someone is going to have a bad day.

No wasting time getting down to business for the Mighty Three, I see. ...Heroic Team Xeno-Rangers? They really do need a couple more hands for a good team, though the Japanese might find it odd that Green is their leader. Let's hope they never need a giant mecha, though. I bet the media will have a field day with all this, though, since it's a little hard to cover up orbital laser strikes on the shoreline of what I assume is a coastal town.

 

Thank you, corrected.

Yes, but that doesn't mean that he understands the language. He just sees and hears English when he sees or hears Japanese. If she picks a Japanese name then he'll either hear a translation or a word whose meaning he doesn't know.

 

Paul's idea for the Conduit cosplaying as Superheroes seems to be going well. This universe makes me wonder how an alternate Paul would handle being in Ben 10. Any chances of that?

 

No. I'm far too old to have watched that.

 

Ben 10 Ultimate Alien released the same year as Young Justice and was aimed at the same age group. The original released in 2005 and was aimed at a younger age group though so if you skipped that I guess it makes sense that you'd skip a sequel series too.