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

For the whole durability thing, I'm fairly sure that the Danner formula should provide enough of a boost that the issue would be of little concern. That opens up a great deal more options.

As for the whole thing with Kara being under an outside mental influence, we've seen something like it happen at least twice before. Once with Zatana and the combination of the star sapphire and the dragon's greed spell, and again with Paul and the demon magic in his soul. Both times led to emotional trauma and actions that all participants would have wished had never happened.

Now this situation is happening to Kara, and it's safe to assume that the same problems will pop up again if the issue is not handled quickly. Paul should know this, and he should be working to fix the issue, because he's a good person who doesn't want to let his friend cause unintentional harm to herself for reasons beyond her own control. So far, Paul seems to be treating the situation as an opportunity for study, which I guess can be forgiven due to this being a delicate situation that requires caution.

But the point where consequences are beginning to appear has been reached, and I'll kind of be disappointed if Paul continues approaching the problem as something to be studied and understood rather than something to be solved as quickly as possible. I think the worst option he can make is to decline and ask her about her feelings. He needs an opportunity to grab the crystal, and that approach will not give him one.

 

I think Nanaue is tougher than Waylon Jones, if he exists in this continuity (we've only met the other King Sha'ark)

If we're counting Lanterns, The Calculator may also have hard light constructs (though he's only appeared in his capacity as an information broker so far)

There's also Brick, Plastic Man, Elongated Man, Metamorpho, Canis...probably a few other New Gods and Demigods around, actually.

 

Am I miss remembering something or did Paul get hit on by one of Megan's siblings when he was on Mars.

 

..... TIME TO GO TO TEH NSFW OTHER THREAD!

 

Dana has the senses of Heimdall- "Heimdall requires less sleep than a bird, can see at night just as well as if it were day, and for over a hundred leagues. Heimdall's hearing is also quite keen; he can hear grass as it grows on the earth, wool as it grows on sheep, and anything louder. "

 

I laughed so hard that my throat is hurting right now.

 

He might be able to get her to agree if he presents what he wants as terms and conditions on when he fucks her.
Condition 1 any sex happens after she's come down from kryptonite exposure, because he doesn't want to hurt her, and would feel like he was if he had sex with her while she wasn't in her right mind.
Condition 2 talk jade into going along with it. He might be willing to use his empathic understanding of people to give advice on how to do so, but he'd request that any conversation wait until after she's off of kryptonite, because he's worried that in her present state of mind she'd get frustrated and resort to threatening Jade.

Jade has seemed oddly unthreatened by other women approaching Paul, but it's hard to tell exactly why, and whether there are conditions where she would be fine with another woman actually getting somewhere, or whether it's because she knew other women weren't going to get anywhere.

Edit:alternatively stall and distract, either approach to touch or run a filament underground, put an environmental shield around Kara, and subspace the rock from where it contacts her environmental shield

 

I'll just periodically remind you whenever an eros interrupt moment arises in the story, shall I?

 

A quote from Terry Pratchet that Paul should remember.

“It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows.”

Paragon's so broken in the brain that there's no way Jade doesn't know there's absolutely no risk of other women getting anywhere with him so long as he's together with her.

 

Because she knows that anything short of "I want you to fuck me" is gonna go over his head and he won't notice.

 

It may be making her something like 'Kara Zor-El's personal definition of evil.'

The main problem is that Paul is a utilitarian to the point that his thinking was somewhat alien to most of us reading this before he got WANT Enlightenment. Everyone (whose vocabulary includes anything close enough) defines 'evil' in their own way, whether they believe in it or not (just as early-series Wally could have a definition of 'magic' without believing in it), and Paul's definition may be rather esoteric to the rest of us.

 

Wasn't his whole excuse for xenociding the psions that they are an irredeemably evil race?

 

He didn't do it, though he was fine with the Psions being exterminated since they were mad scientists. Though he probably would've saved the test subjects and maybe their young, as what happened in the Renegade timeline.

 

Also he would have gotten his Lanrerns involved so they can get some experience fighting a technologically advanced foe.

 

Yes, because that's the girl you want near black kryptonite.

 

Paul's virtue is saved for another day.

 

At least we now know that being turned evil by black kryptonite doesn't make her stupid. That was a very well thought out plan considering she only had a few minutes to think it up. Maybe Kara and Zatanna can talk about their complicated relationship with Paul after this.

 

I forget, did you retcon Brand taking time to work? I know it doesn't need a construct only Paul's need should be enough.

Because "Brand" which Kara has never seen you do followed by asking to to drop the Black Kr should have been all you need. Instead we have more stupidity where after releasing the demon Kara everyone but you should have been removed from the fucking building. I'm sorry but at this point Paul should just fucking know better.

 

Giant teenage girl spider.

 

... I kinda like her better this way

 

That was genuinely some excellent "I am acting out of malice and destructive impulses but I am not an idiot." writing.

 

I think she knows about Paul's branding ability. The problem is probably the fact that Kara is most likely fast enough to dodge it if Paul tried to brand her.

 

I'm betting Nylor is gonna use this as a distraction and escapes... again.

 

What if he faked going in for an embrace, then applied it to the small of her back just before lips could make contact?

 

Cripes, Paul did not follow the implication of his offer being "what if we got rid of your current inconvenient personality and replaced you back with someone you consider a pushover, then I'm willing to discuss having sex with you".

At least acknowledge the lead box as something that she thinks has costs, offer to taper the dose while monitoring if she considers herself still in her "right" mind maybe.

 

Paul already had a thread connected to her foot from under the floor so no. Second Paul hasn't Branded anyone in front of her so likely not, but as soon as he connected it wouldn't have mattered. Also looking back Branding is instant, it's turning people into constructs that takes time.

 

Is "You safe" deliberate? If not then maybe "You are safe" or "You're safe".

 

honestly either Kara or Zatana would be a better choice.

Between work and personal lives and their issues the Jade relatioship just isn't workable.

 

Maybe Jade could break up with him after realizing this herself. Paul doesn't seem to want to break up with her, so that would be the only way it could happen.