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

There's an easy solution to this problem, you know - simply don't read chapters about this version. They are marked on the front and everything.

 

I, at least, can find a villain well written, hateable, and deserving of death all at the same time. In fact a villain pulling off that reaction is a sign they're doing their job. None of the nonsensical sob-story leading into hackneyed instant redemption tripe. About the only two ways this guy ends would be someone finally taking him down, or the fabled reset to original personality.

 

Wholesale family moments in the legion of doom

 

Three kids already? They've been busy.

 

Ah, my favorite Alt! And we finally have development on his SI daughter! Poor girl must be freaking out being surrounded by supervillains; wonder if she remembers the setting, DC or is completely lost.

By the way, this Paul really didn't lose time. 3 kids already? Who was the instigator for that, Zorina and her family values?

Who is Skud, again?

And Capo Al Scott named his kid Pavor? Too on the nose, no? Or is that someone else's kid?

 

Considering that her family is Catholic I'm betting even money on Zorina being the instigator on that. Hell she even mentioned that she was expected to basically be a house wife to show she's a woman and it threw Paul for a loop.

 

Meanwhile, on Earth Minus Fourteen... I see Baul has been busy. Making the hellhole that is a Negative-Morality universe a little better place for everyone. And it's been a while since Our last glimpse, too. A good three or four years, in fact...

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It's not like some of the criminals of the Injustice Gang might want to be better people than their parents were, surely...

Goodness. Super-powered toddlers. There's a nightmarish image. Especially if they have some of the stronger kinds of magical abilities.

Ah, the joy of being smarter than your peers, but not mature enough to reach for older peer groups...

Well, I see Zorina's being quite fruitful. I suppose having lots of kids is a tradition in her family, given the sort of magical assassinations that might take place.

Let's not destroy what's left of the poor girl's childhood just yet.

...You know little kids never work like that. Especially ones with more adult outlooks...

As long as Zoe isn't literally screaming things into dust (Which is a possibility, given her family line...)

Trying too hard to be grown-up. Girl needs to cut loose and play. As it was said: "When I am grown up, I put away childish things... Including the fear of being seen as childish.'

Relax, girl. It's not like this is a military camp.

...Oh, my. Has Alan's child inherited a little of his father's talent with Yellow Light?

<internally eyerolling>, no doubt.

Face it, kiddo, he knows what you were doing with it. And it wasn't origami.

Simple enough that the other kids won't question it, eh?

Not quite open ostracisation, but I can't imagine they like her.

I don't doubt that she knows how to play chess. Unless she was about to say 'checkers'.

No doubt some of the kids have a measure of superstrength, if the furniture is made of metal...

And even if he has to conserve his charge, this world not having much hope to recharge from, sometimes it's easier to subspace something than go looking for an undamaged checkers set.

Adorable. Though no doubt she'd be mortified if you pointed that out.

I have no doubt she knows full well what Reincarnation is...

Deja Vu, as most people call it. Quite the disconcerting experience when it hits you...

And she's immediately worried, huh? Thinking if she's something bad without realising it...

No urges to tinker yet, though, I assume, that'd be fairly noticeable.

Ah, one of the things that makes any child's panic better: A hug from daddy.

Hey, now. Don't be in such a rush to grow up.

I wonder just how much? Because having a near-adult mind in a child's body would be hellishly frustrating.

And it's always hardest with the first child, too. They end up being the one you make all the mistakes on...

I think she'll need some comfort, after being so... public with her emotions, especially around her fellow children.

Well, they knew it coudl happen. I don't remember who she's supposed to be a reincarnation of, but I take it they were someone notable in the magical circles the Zatara family moves in. Still, I hope she doesn't rush into pushing aside her childhood. It goes by so fast, she'll regret it later. After all, being an adult is a lot tougher than being a kid. More stress, more responsibilities, and I suspect she'd take that seriously.

 

Is this reincarnator anyone important? Because the only one who comes to mind is Tanya from Yōjo Senki.

 

Well.... Maybe

 

Just reread the previous Baul chapter, and realized that it most likely is Tanya. Mr Zoat, did you read/watch that story before starting this one? If yes, would Baul remember it?

 

https://forum.questionablequesting....i-thread-fourteen.8938/page-2067#post-6754686

The last appearance of Baul of Earth -14 as far as I can see for those looking for a refresher.

 

Rocket's doppelganger, named after the scud missile.

I want to think she might be a cyborg here, but that might not be true and I might be thinking that because of the Syndicate's love for do it yourself augmentation.

 

Assuming this is indeed Tanya, I really hope we get to watch a talk between her and Paul about "upjumped elementals."

 

She was experimented on using the technology found in the ship that carried Icon's counterpart. The experiments had an adverse effect on her brain.

 

some -> someone

you -> she

 

I don't think that a Japanese person of her generation would know much about DC outside of Superman and Batman. Maybe not even that.

Yes. Zatara family tradition is that only those with the family magic can inherit. As such, you're supposed to keep having children until at least one demonstrates it. Also, Catholicism.

Raquel Ervin, Rocket.

Olympia picked it.

I don't think I did, no. I'm treating it as if he has no idea.

Owlman's experiments with Terminian technology left Raquel brain damaged, but after seeing how worried she was about her capacity to function as a mother Jackie Quick started asking around to see if anyone knew how to fix brains. Reliably. And it turned out that the answer was 'yesish', thus her new implant.

Thank you, corrected.

 

Who knows, I don't follow the series where the character's from, but many isekai characters seem to be Geeks or versed enough in pop-culture and DC and Marvel have even Manga, so the settings are known enough in Japan by Otakus or whatever. Then again, if this is that individual's second reincarnation, they might have already forgotten most of their original life.

So is Al and Olympia's kid? Damn, future Fear Demigod, then.

Hopefully most of these kids get influenced by Blue Lantern's smart thinking in the same way that he's steering their parents in more constructive methods. The planet needs it when we can't even trust all the heroes, at the moment, to strive for peace.

 

The series is about an otaku salaryman getting reincarnated as a not!German girl in magic World War 1 and becoming essentially the Red Baron as an 11 year old. She was an atheist in her past life, but I don’t think it’s ever been said she was particularly an otaku. Her salaryman past life got murdered in 2013 and the novel generally avoids talking about her past life or hobbies. She might or might not be an otaku, but she was definitely physically strong and not the general image of an isekai protagonist. She doesn’t act particularly chuuni at any point either.

 

Or a minor curse that prevents modern birth control from surviving in her house. How hard would it be to lay a curse of entropy over condoms using similarity principles?

 

It was more like mind-murder, if Tangseid was correct. The original person is just gone, not still in the backs of their head, screaming.

... of course, if Tangseid was wrong about that, it may have actual consequences for him later.

 

‘just how’

‘she wants to’

Extraneous ‘total’?

I wondered when we’d be seeing this universe again.

At the beginning of the novel version, he gets berated by Being X for, among other things, enjoying violent FPS games. As far as I’m aware that’s as close to ‘otaku’ as he got. He seems to have tried to act like an upstanding citizen, so he probably wouldn’t want to do anything too ‘weird’.

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

Wait, do all his kids are actual isekai reincarnators?

 

One of the things I still can't tell is whether she's misunderstood and thinks that b-paul is a terrifying supervillain.

Certainly she seems to react with fear relatively often in this conversation, though we haven't really seen enough of their relationship to be able to draw firm conclusions.

 

I might be wrong, but I get the impression it's not really about fearing her parents but internalized feelings of being "unnatural and/or wrong" in nature.

She expects rejection from her parents because she's not reconciled with herself.

It's possible that I'm seeing this as more of a metaphor than Zoat intended, certainly.

 

Not too far off.

 

kaahuite

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After seeing the above correction, I found these two corrections.

Those should say 'kaahuite' and 'Kaahuite'.

 

Thank you, corrected.