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

Good morning Mr.Zoat. Thank you for your work.I start read it on SB then i see what happened on SF and i end on this site. Bcs of you i find this place,and thank you for this. You work help me to relax in this tough time. I am Ukrainian, and today i was waking up bcs of explosions so it could be last chapter that i read before russians will arrive. Thank you for all fun and inspiration.

 

Be safe, man.

 

Best wishes and take care out there.

 

I think there's something wrong with the pictures, because they won't load.

 

.... Well. It looks like Adora needs redemption.
And we're going to miss it.

 

They load fine for me. Anyone else?

 

Also having issues with first two images. Long loading, then total failure.
(Commentary soon.)

Edit (30 minutes later) - Fixed now, thank you.

 

Works just fine for me.

 

Whelp, I'm now imagining all this in the art style of the She Ra cartoon.

 

While the pictures won't load, from context... This is the future She-Ra, still in her Horde-flunkie phase, and we are looking at a 2002 version of The Secret of the Sword. And oh, boy, does that ever mean Lantern is in way over his head.

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

I suppose it saves on Ring charge to not have to create active imaging constructs.

The young lady seems a little confused. This was clearly not an intentional trip, then.

Are you even listening to yourself, Lantern? Of course he is!

While there's no good image of a theoretical 2002 Sword of Protection, I'm picturing a more slender version of He-man's Sword of Power. Possibly with a less spiky guard...

Ah, reading the lady in on the big secret, huh? Necessary, if risky.

And if Skeletor had ever learned that little tidbit, everyone would have been royally fucked.

To be fair, it's a lot easier for 2002 Adam to Clark-Kent his way through things, since He-man gains about six inches of height and a good hundred pounds of muscle on him, never mind the hairstyle and clothing changes.

Given that the events involved took place something like a thousand years ago, I'm not surprised no-one's ever given the matter any thought.

In other words, she's carrying the back-up key to Castle Grayskull, without knowing it. Presumably Hordak gave it to her in hopes of just this happening.

No, he's more like a teenage boy with his aunt's car, and little idea of how to use it beyond 'this pedal makes it go, this makes it stop. Don't mix them up.'

Which could mean anything from 'the sword is broken' to 'She hasn't re-synched it up to the castle yet.'

If I remember right, she was largely a junior officer in a minor branch of the Horde's service. Hardly likely to be involved in meeting Hordak's agents, except maybe as a security guard...

Because of course she wasn't named Shadow Weaver by her parents. And I have to say, that robe must be magic to be that figure-hugging yet loose at the same time.

To be fair, most of the hench-folk we see are freaks and geeks (in the carnival sense.) But it's not like he didn't have female officers. They just showed up more in the She-Ra show.

She's also technically older than she seems. Given her backstory involved time-travel courtesy of the Faceless One.

Honestly, it'd be a hell of a coincidence given they were just discussing her earlier... But Eternia seems to run on narrative convenience.

Admittedly, if her She-Ra forms remain consistent, he'll only have an inch or so on her, and her armour can make up for that.

Don't underestimate her just because of her age, either of you.

Ah, Filmation, and their sparkly, sparkly transformation sequences.

And here's the dilemma. Let her have a little power, which with her skills, she could easily upgrade into a lot, or let her battle at a handicap, when she's primarily a caster, not a warrior.

Like I just said. Let's hope she'll understand if you can't take that risk.

Welp, there goes some of that friendship rating with her, then. Understandable, though.

...As an Orange Lantern? I guess he has major issues with recharging, then. So no direct application of constructs.

Whoops. Someone failed their Spot check... And someone else passed theirs.

Well, leading off with an insult. This is off to a fine start.

Let's hope we get to see more of this, alternating with the search for the Crimson Avenger on Earth-16. I'm honestly not sure which I find more interesting. Still amusing to think that this is happening on Eternia's equivalent to Valentine's Day, while the Sorceress is off bedding her sweetheart, Duncan. Boy, is coming back to this going to ruin that afterglow.

 

know -> known

 

I didn't know what this word was till today.
But even though I can tell it's an insult by the context, if it was me? I'd still open up with a joke about nit being this Mr. Caitiff.

What does he mean a Holistic way?

 

Thank you, corrected.

As a coherent series of events. It's like how you can't understand the histroy of a place by only looking at one moment in time. 'Evelyn works for Keldor now' rather than 'she left Zalesia here, she was seen working with Keldor here and was with him when the barrier went down here, which means that she was with him for this long'.

 

"This is castle Grayskull."

 

Which could be the worst thing to tell her, if she has even the slightest inkling of what Castle Grayskull is supposed to be.

 

"This is Castle Grayskull."

 

Mr Zoat, since the Sorceress is spoken for, who would Orange Lantern of Eternia go for when it comes to a romantic partner?

 

Female Hordak? Didn't see that coming. Now it's implied that this Hordak is actually Adora but there's nothing certain yet. I'm sure that Paul and Evelyn will figure something out but I will repeat that I am hopping that we will get a sort of timeline for each alternate Paul that will go over their stories including everything we didn't see.

Good question. But while there are roadblocks, it does seem pretty obvious if they move past them.

 

And people say the SI is obtuse.

 

Just wanted to make sure. How is he supposed to woo the woman who set her previous "lover" on fire?

 

Very carefully.

And... Probably holding a fire extinguisher, or something.

 

Mr Zoat, if we consider all of the romantic partners that we are aware of for Paul and his counterparts, a majority of them are either reformed criminals, have a cat theme somehow, or both. Do they all just have that as their type? If so, I want someone who's met various versions of the SI to make a comment about that, possibly to the Team so they can all look at Paul afterwards.

 

I've said it before and I'll say it again.

Paul is the gender-swapped version of the Nice Girl that tries to fix the Bad Boy and falls in love with him.

 

If someone were to say this in-universe, who would it be? Right now, I'm thinking Kid Flash or Robin. This kind of joke seems like something they'd say.

 

Historical trends indicate Catra would be his type, but I don't see that as being realistic.

 

Don't forget Artemis or Raquel.

Those two seem like the type that would draw attention to it.

 

In the Mandated universe, Paul went into a relationship with Jade, who is neither a criminal, nor has a cat theme. But that was only after encouragement from Jade, who while not a criminal in that universe, still probably has a cat theme. But even ignoring criminals and cats, they are both still dangerous, which seems to be a third factor.

 

I'm not so sure about that version of Jade Nguyen.

Lawrence Crock Jr. was apparently still a criminal there, albeit he now works for the Chinese in their version of Suicide Squad, so it's possible his daughter also started out as a criminal.

 

Perhaps. But he would have gone straight before Paul's arrival. And after he went straight, I'd expect him to drag Jade with him on that path, even if she had started as a criminal. And if Jade had ever committed a truly serious crime, I doubt the government would have given her a pardon simply because her father had earned one for himself.