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

What do you mean?

 

Before.

People in Avatar can live a pretty long time, and Azula wouldn't accept anything less than physical perfection from herself.

 

If Comment A is a reply to Comment B, but a forumgoer C has blocked the poster of Comment B, then Comment A will not display any quoted text from the blocked comment in that forumgoer’s page. So Comment A will seem like a strange response to the new update or the thread in general. The mention of Vaermina helps avoid confusion, such as I experienced recently.

Moving on- I’m curious if the recent murders have shaken any of the Team to their core. This whole scenario feels like a replacement for the old League of Shadows/Assassins plan to eliminate junior heroes. Who, aside from the defunct group, would have the motivation to do all of this?

 

Mr Zoat, I don't remember if you said something about this topic, but how did the Light react to the Harrowing?

 

The only thing that's come up in the story is Lex Luthor trying to sell power armour to Greece.

The Light are mostly taking the opportunity to 'rationalise' certain aspects of Earth society.

 

On one hand, what they are doing will probably help Earth prepare for future invasions. On the other hand, supervillains are getting more influence on some parts of the world.

 

I remember DeSaad/Desaad being brought up before, and you either correcting it. Or not. So it sounds like you did at one point. And possibly forgot which way it was supposed to be, and then started correcting it the wrong way.

Obviously what you need to do is pick a spelling, add it to the FAQ at the beginning so you don't forget, and then go and search the Story Only thread for every hit of DeSaad, Desaad, De Saad, and De saad and make them conform to the standard. Luckily, I don't think the old French nobleman has made an appearance, which should keep things simple.

She can't be he his daughter because if she was his daughter it would mean he failed in his responsibilities (by having had a daughter?)...

Just decide the brat isn't yours no matter what anyone says, on account of paternity being bad for you?
Is your SI by any chance trailer trash, or perhaps a scion of a rich political family?

 

Mr Zoat, found a broken picture.

It's the "Salaak putting the Alpha Lanterns in their place" image. I'm pretty sure you fixed a previous link to this picture before.

 

By not being involved in her life at all.

What?

 

He's basically saying that your SI is a horrible person for not taking care of his daughter and refusing to accept her as his because admitting that she is his daughter would be bad for him.

 

This whole daughter discussion is confusing. Princess isn't Paul's daughter. He doesn't, and never has, had any responsibility towards her. If there was mutual interest in it, he could offer to act as a father for her, but he wasn't interested, and he clearly turned down this possibility for her. If he had entered into a fatherly role for her, then from that point on he would be expected to provide care for her. And only then could negligence on his part be considered failing as a father. Point is, he never had a chance to fail as a father, because he wasn't ever her father.

 

Oh.

No. She's not his. He was horrified that he might have had a daughter and not known about it, becaue that would have been failing in his responsibility.

 

Isn't that circumstantial? Take the whole Kon situation. Kon is, genetically, Superman's child. But Kon existing without Superman's knowledge was not a case of Superman failing his responsibilities. Where Superman failed was in not openly, directly, and clearly telling Kon that he would not be his father. I guess it would be a little different for Paul, seeing as how he might have gotten the spider queen accidentally pregnant when he was feeling her up, in which case Princess would be a direct result of his own negligence in considering the biological processes of other species. And only then could any sort of blame or irresponsibility be pinned on Paul.

 

Though that didn't happen since the Spider Queen created Princess without any of Paul's genetic material.

Paul gave the Queen his book on the orange light and desire and the Queen later on created Princess so that she'd be the perfect orange ring wielder.

Paul gave the Queen inspiration.

 

Also, having spent more time exposed to Kon than Superman, the SI thinks that Superman made an understandable but wrong decision.

That is not Me The Author saying that he's right, that's just how he feels.

 

Mr Zoat, just in case you missed it, there was a broken link to a picture.

It doesn't show the picture, but I remember what it is supposed to show.

 

I saw it, thank you, but I'm at work at the moment and unable to do anything about it.

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

I found another broken link to a picture.

 

If Zuko's surprised she's not dead I guess Azula doesn't spend much time on world after she becomes a Lantern.

How does her presence affect the rest of Lok?

 

Huh.

You know, I think I've been spoiled by modern fan art. I'm struggling to find a good drawing of Dr. Blight with Mal. Or a good one of her at all. Even widening the search to include pornographic images there are... Maybe three that are any good.

This is fine but doesn't show Mal, this isn't particularly good, I'd use this except the whole point of the segment is that she doesn't have the chemical burns any longer. Same with this. Anyone got any better ideas?

Yes. Basically, she came to the understanding that her behaviour was self-defeating and her environment was just encouraging all of her worse traits. She apologised to Zuko and then left. He thought that he was dreaming, or that she'd died and was visiting him as a spirit, an idea that was reinforced when she just disappeared.

About a hundred years later, she's about to take over as Clarissi but wants to achieve enlightenment first. That involves going home and confronting the route of her problems.

I want to say 'Korra's less of a fuckup', but honestly I'm not sure Azula or the SI would spend much time with her. They might cause Kuvira to win, because Azula would see a lot of herself in Kuvira, but other than that I'm not sure.

 

What a clusterfuck.

 

This ones just a basic flat tone skin so it's easy to edit, I was able to whip this up in paint 3d, what do you think?

Spoiler

 

Well this should be uncomfortably awkward when their relationship is discovered.

'leaps past'

'manages'

Ahh, "almost".

To paraphrase a certain bureaucrat, he is almost correct, which is the best type of correct.

 

Is this an actual thing with He-Man magic? Because that seems like a major weakness to have. Then again, I suppose it's no different from a lich and their phylactery.

 

Wait did the spell work? Or are the rest of Hordak's forces in Eternos?

 

...It took her that long to tell him 'no'? I'm guessing she had to use mental diagrams to lay out just how badly he's sent things tits-up. I hope she and Duncan were hurriedly dressing and running for his location while she was doing so. This situation probably deserves no less a reaction...

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

Well, be glad the castle didn't feel the need to give you a pointy hat. Because you'd probably be feeling even more dunce-like.

Well, at least they've been listening to whatever suggestions he's offered about improving security.

Ah, the Trollan. At least he can't mess things up with his magic any more...

Of course, he's probably just oblivious enough to human physiology that their resemblance wasn't noteworthy.

Pffft, now why would they ever be sensible? They're teenagers!

Baw-ha-haa! Hoist by your own paranoid petard, Lantern.

...Not unless it has a natural time-limit and fail-safe end-state. No, I would not try that one...

...It might be as good as you get with him, even if his magic is more stable.

Please don't be Duncan, please don't be Duncan...

...Phew. On the other hand, that setup sounds like nothing but a recipe for disaster.

...Let me guess, he's just being stupidly confident.

Yeah, I don't see her not getting frustrated and increasingly lethal.

Eh, not Lantern's type. Too young, for a start.

Oh, she is so tsundere for him, isn't she? And please, don't let this become a Skywalker Twins situation...

And that sounds so wrong...

...Lantern, you got some 'splainin' to do. Man, the debriefing after all this will be a thing of legend, won't it?

Well, good to see they're reasonably evenly matched, at least.

Yes, it does sound like something out of a... I doubt Eternia would have soap operas... A bad adventure-romance?

This is going to end in explosions, isn't it?

Methinks she had kind of a plan involving Adam. Possibly one not even she was actually aware of...

Certainly, He-Man is rarely far away when he's out and about, after all.

And her temper seems to be wearing thin. Better be quick before you get a case of royal fratricide.

And how likely is it that 'Despera' there will take it as a sneak attack? ...'Yes'. The answer is 'yes'.

Oh, she's good... But I suspect it still went off.

...Let's hope it takes effect before she can shave down those Trollan ears...

...And there's the explosions!

I'm betting this is actually Orko's spell taking effect, and they're just seeing the events of the night Adora was taken. Admittedly, knowing Orko's history of misfires, they're probably going to have to fight for their lives anyway, with the enemies seeming completely real to them. On the up side, the twins can bond over battling a common foe! And Lantern can put off his dressing-down by the Sorceress for a little longer...

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Mr Zoat, Many Corrections!

Spoiler: Corrections, Ho!

Which means that right now all she can do is turn into a bird.

Come on, come on, open already!

...makes memories play outside your head.

Teela lowers her staff, staring at Adora and Adam...

It recreates what happened in the minds of everyone affected...

 

Even when his magic works Orko is gonna Orko.

I think they are all experiencing the memory now.

 

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Good question, I’m not sure either.