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

I'm reasonably confident that it's still a valid usage for someone from the 17th century.

 

...... I don't think he'll take the news that God has bailed on heaven quite well.
But I do think a man like him won't lose his cool even were he were to be seated at a table with the damned.
His ring/nature should stop any unnecessary rampages from happening.

 

Marvollo winding up as an ally would fit Paragon's MO lol.

 

Well. They're certainly getting along swimmingly.

 

Though hardly simple or undecorated, no doubt. Still, good to see him not flaunting rank here. I guess having taken some time to reflect, his anger has cooled off a lot. So, we're not looking at a punitive expedition...

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Well, when someone as... Potent as you goes a-travelling, those in his path naturally feel some concern...

Surprised that comes as a surprise. The term Illustres does convey a measure of rank and command. And one as well-read as Malvolio presumably was would have heard of the usage in later Roman times.

The thought that he might be unique amongst those who wield Will? I suppose after this long, he has some desire for peers.

Probably a good idea to keep mum about the White Entity, after all. Since most of Earth's uniqueness stems from that.

Yes, definitely looking for more men like himself. Brothers in the Green Light who share the same gifts and burdens.

Probably a measure of confusion at the concept of a secret identity. Since such things - concealing the identity of an executioner, for example - would have rare in his Earthly days.

Well, at least you have someone to ask about it now. Imagine the things you could learn about history, if only as anecdotal stories, from someone who was there...

So sometime in 1649, going by that. Yes, quite a bit has changed in that time. I hope OL isn't going to...

...Ah. Please, OL, try to contain your urge to exposit. You can discuss history later.

Heh, even Malvolio's not that interested in English history. Still, I suppose he might be curious as to the fate of some of those he knew back in the day. And a good way to frame the Cape Culture to someone not used to the modern age.

"They come in blue, too? Are there ones for all the colours of the rainbow, then?" Surprised Malvolio didn't comment about that. Though unless OL was popping up images of each Lantern, I doubt names alone will mean much.

Admittedly, she's not from this Earth, but I suspect dropping 'Oh, there's multiple universes' on him might be a bit much.

Yes, you'd think there was something atypical about Earth, wouldn't you? Imagine, having four serving Green Lanterns all at once. On one planet! Even if his ring had a severely truncated database (as Alan's did) he'd surely have heard about the two-per-sector rule...

Indeed he is. Not quite the exact same manner of near-elemental as Malvolio, but he does have the ear (and Heart) of an Embodiment of Light... Though I wonder if Malvolio knows of such things... And now I wonder how Ion would get along with Malvolio.

A necessity to keep at the same eye-level, eh? Since Malvolio is quite the big guy.

Ah, so it is a friendly visit. Presumably the fleet accompanying him is an honour guard of sorts. Not that he needs it, but a man of his rank, well...

Ah. So the Orange Lanterns might find themselves evicted if the new Abbot of the temple hosting them bears a grudge over his predecessor's retirement. That could be awkward.

Not quite as advanced, I think. But then, he is only a century old, and spent less time with the Green Light. Still, given the healing nature of Blue Light use, he's going to have plenty of time to see what happens.

Science has come a long way since your time, Malvolio. Especially the sciences of magic.

Not quite as long and storied a trip as the Divine Comedy, but yes, you might say that.

A measure of Uncanny Valley at seeing a normal person of such size, eh? Given that sizes beyond six feet tend to have quirks of proportion, I can see it. On the other hand, OL is familiar with more exotic humanoid forms, so it's not going to creep him out much.

Ah, sharing stories. Quite the pleasant pastime of Malvolio's day, eh? Might want to let Lantern Dul know all is well so far, though?

Okay, that went much better than expected. Once OL lets everyone know Malvolio's not here to make trouble, I expect things will be a bit calmer. Perhaps he can even be persuaded to visit Maltus one day, so Hinon can look over his enhancements. But that's for the future, methinks. At this point, though, this sounds like a good chance for a time-skip and a cutaway back to Renegade or another alternate.

 

I love the whole 'peacful resolution' thing going on here, it's nice and enjoyable.

Paul and Marv, just a pair of bro's shootin' the breeze.

Can't wait for the local greenie to get ideas and fuck it up because the guardians don't like the idea of a Green/Orange 'Alliance'/Friendship.

 

Honestly OL, he's from an era where wars were fought on the regular about HOW you worshipped the same God in the same faith, let alone in other faiths, let alone other Gods. I do not see the discussion of your views on Heaven going over well.

 

"So you're saying the position is currently vacant? ...Iiinteresting."

 

Or Paul will fuck this up himself.

Or Malvolio has alternative motives for coming here and is now just acting friendly.

 

This is Paul.

Showing off is a pretty big characteristic.

To be fair I don't think a lot of people are.

I think most know things like Shakespeare, Victoria and Churchill, but aside from that nothing.

Or they may be thanked since they exposed a very deep corruption.

In places like Atlantis maybe, but I doubt Malvolio went there, and the magic on the surface world may not have advanced all that much.

Funny thing, the Divine Comedy is basically a self insert story.

A guy goes on an adventure and meets his heroes and a bunch of people he hates.

 

I imagine that the local GL is screaming internally as Paul sits down for a nice tea with the scary uber lantern.

Also the guardians are screaming internally at the thought of those two co-operating.

 

IIRC, it's widely believed by scholars that the origin of the story was Dante fantasizing about people being put where he thought they belonged, and then he decided to show others (the story being so well-known would greatly please him for that reason, methinks). So, both a Bible fanfic and a revenge fic.

 

That would be B, as A is Jordan which he already knows and Stewart is both secret and B everywhere else

 

You could probably flip a coin to determine if it's Paul or the Guardians that cause the problem.

 

Jordan was also made an Honor Guard Lantern alongside Guy, right? So he is no longer 'assigned' to Sector 2814 and his designation would no longer follow that naming convention. A should be John now, with B being Anya.

 

A thing that seems interesting to me is that this guy says "our people" when talking about humans, so he sees a degree of kinship to them

 

Well, he is human. From Earth, no less. It was a long time ago, but there's still a history there.

 

Well, let's just find one and ask!

 

Half human who grew up on Earth. What his father was has never been revealed.

Priest had the intention of having him form a team of Freedom Fighters with him, Ray, Black Condor, Phantom Lady, the Hawks (Hawkman and woman, or Hawkman and girl? He didn't elaborate), Starman, and Arion of Atlantis.

DC passed on the idea.

 

Humanity, in works of fiction, often is shown as a state of mind rather than a state of being.

We have yet to see if reality will follow suit, but I would like to believe that it shall.

 

Paul and Malvolio being friends is not a direction I expected this story to take, but I'm loving it.

 

Both from Britain, no less!

 

Maybe, but I like to think it would mean that he would be at least agreeable to human-like people.

 

It would be nice if such a state of affairs would continue, but for some reason I have a few doubts about that.

 

Britain didn't exist until 1707. Malvolio came from the Kingdom of England.

 

I think it's more likely to be the Guardians. We'll see soon enough.

 

Some godspeech:

Spoiler: Be Revealed!

 

New line, probably not deliberate.

 

I was thinking of some Ponies to New God parallels (as one does) and Celestia= Darkseid and Sunset=Metron jumped out at me.
Lol.