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

I think that was my fault- This story inspired me to reread Trinity, and the art was inconsistent.

Alan, Carter, and Jay first showed up as TV talking heads.

Carter and Jay looked old, Alan looked more middle aged to me. I thought maybe wearing his ring for over five decades left him healthier, or maybe he just naturally aged more gracefully.

Then later panels had Alan looking as old as Jay and Carter, until they were de-aged enough to take to the front lines once again.

So apparently Zoat is going with Alan aging in real time in Trinity, I guess Trinity Alan's ring didn't leak into his soul for the last fifty plus years.

Which considering Zoat likes having details be consistent, is a tad surprising.

 

I mean, they didn't come right out and say "We don't know that orange means avarice," but they were explicitly searching for the orange light, and when they found it (with the standard OL glyph), their reaction was "What light is it?" "What does it matter?" When looking right at the orange battery, the statement was "Whatever light it contains, it is strong."

It feels not unreasonable to interpret that as saying that they knew full well that it was orange light that they had found, and just didn't know what orange meant.

Though, of course, your Controllers are completely different from these guys, so don't take this as me trying to insist that this has any meaning in the context of WTR.

 

Since it was later established that the Guardians chose the green light of willpower for it being the least mentally corrosive, and that Krona kept all the emotional electromagnetic spectrum entities as pets and made the orange lantern and the gauntlet that was the prototype for the green lantern rings, so it doesn't really make sense that the Controllers didn't know more about the emotional electromagnetic spectrum.

Since the Guardian/Controller split happened after Krona was punished for his misbehavior.

DC writers contradicting each other, truly, a shocking development.

 

Obviously With This Ring is chock full of examples, but do you have any beautiful examples to share?

I vaguely recall one example with Danny Phantom and Vlad Plasmius. I think it was the Dani episode…? That was mostly power-related though.

 

Lots of the Wandering Inn web serial, it's really my main draw to that story. A couple D&D games I've played in- one that's running as I type this. A few webcomics- the Adventures of Dominick Deegan had a bit at the end where the main villain got his mind asploded that the MC wasn't his fated rival.

 

Thundercats 2011 has some great ones. Wonder how relevant they will be to the plot with the Yellow Lantern Paul.

 

Comma instead of semicolon. The comma connects further detail to the noun being described.

His environmental shield is connected to his ring.

That said, I think he hides the glow of the filament inside the glow of his environmental shield rather than producing the filament from the shield directly. I'm not 100% sure since it's been a long time.

 

Ah. Nothing like a spot of god Genocide to start the day. Really get's this old chap feeling that British pride.

 

I sometimes read that the Controllers were an offshoot species of the Guardians that evolved differently after they split.

So they're not the same individuals that left the Guardians, but their descendants.

That could explain how they forgot about the light.

Though yeah, contradicting writer is the most likely scenario.

 

Eh, Krona was kind of a tool so it wouldn't be surprising if he kept information on the other lights to himself.

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

That's because your Jordan knows you enough to be wary of you.

Also, I don't think you ever offered before a battle.

"see if it"

 

Updating the database? Good job, Dox.

 

That may be Plan A. Plan B to Plan Ω is for when Plan A fails or needs to be altered in some way.

 

Told you he would fling singularities around.

Also, I really wished the JSI was here to see this. Might knock their arrogance down a few pegs >

 

Indeed, the Guardians would vehemently deny that they could ever panic over anything short of a Crisis. Much too marinated in Determination to show that kind of weakness before anyone. Though Larfleeze on the rampage would probably come close to a Crisis-level of concern.

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Ah, some of those visual sensors getting a little too close for comfort.

On the upside, them being cautious would make them slow to take the offensive... On the downside, it might make them break out some of the creative responses.

I know it probably doesn't look like that, but I can't help but imagine him in the Kingdom Come armour.

Would GLC regulations even allow personal protective equipment, if only to prevent renegades having defences the Guardians can't turn off at will?

Well, very pragmatic of him. No doubt he's had run-ins with nastier weaponry before...

Don't get cocky, kid. They're probably geared for anti-Lantern combat...

The best defence is to simply not be there.

Would make it a bit hard for him to claim to be an 'impartial observer' if he was armed with a low-lethality weapon... Even harder if he has to use it.

Ah, they've cottoned on that this is not a fakeout.

Not all that concerned about the fight, are they? That will change.

An expensive way to say hello.

And when they're not looking at OL, he kicks them in the fork.

A good way to force a bunch of ships to go after it to stop it.

Saves on energy during manoeuvring, no doubt. Lets the smaller ships keep their reserves high for combat.

Ooh, nasty. I bet more than a few of the crew of the damaged ships are now painting the walls...

Sensible, but it does leave them prime targets for focused attacks, if the attacker knows what they're doing.

Ah, just in time to get smoked by the wash of the blast-wave, Macross-style.

Not so effective now, are they?

And there's that focused attack I mentioned.

Neatly executed. Now, to see what they do in response...

Not going to be much help, since said overlords are now energised particles.

Let's hope they continue to be predictable.

So, a solid start. No attempt to access their systems, or will that come later, once they've been softened up a little? Either way, I bet Jordan is taking notes about what OL's doing, both for his report, and for future reference. And as word spreads, I expect the Dominators will be starting to worry, especially if anything gets a look at those responsible.

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

Paul, you still need to give this universe’s lanterns the “Power Rings are a tool, not a weapon” explanation. A tool that is good at making weapons, mind you, but the point stands.

 

Given how much green they have flowing through them, they may honestly no longer be capable of panicking.

He kinda is armed with one; his ring.

 

What does concertinas mean in this context?

 

I think it means that the ship expanding and contorted.

 

A concertina is a musical instrument a lot like an accordion. Due to English's habit of verbing nouns, "accordion" and "concertina" have both entered the language as verbs meaning "to collapse in a manner similar to a bellows in said instrument".
Think Wile E Coyote after an anvil falls on him.

 

I've been distracted for the past month, and happy to be back and all caught up.

Some possible corrections for you, Mr Zoat:

as -> has

swing -> swings

their -> theirs

sept -> sect

I once span -> I once spun OR once I span

on -> one

 

Practical, businesslike, curious, inventive, and calm.

If the Dominion hadn't stepped out for veal on the day morals were being handed out, they might have been some of Paul's favorite people.

 

Well now that's simply unacceptable.

Hmpf.

Thank you, corrected.

He's referring to one.

Thank you, corrected.

No, they're called septs. They'll all the same sect.

Ah, I think that if you accept the use of 'span' for what should in modern English be 'spun' then the sentence works as-is.

Thank you, corrected.

 

Hmm, I have a feeling the gravity based weapon is going to come back.

Suspicious, yes, but I have a feeling that this version of Hal also knows that Paul is the reason Hal is working with them and potentially might have a way to work with the JSA to operate on Earth. It's not ideal, but still.

 

Did… Alan just leave a big rock on a direct course for a colony world? The Dominators are bad, but I thought they were specifically not ‘kill the civilians because they’re combatants too’ bad.

Presumably one of the surviving shield ships could get I, but that seems cold for him.

 

Doesn't really work.

For one thing, the Maltusians became immortal before the split, so barring incidents, the OG Controllers would still be alive.

And despite this fic, I'm not sure there are female Controllers in the comics.

In the comics, the male and female Maltusians separated because their children had all the god-like powers coupled with the wisdom and self control of children.

The first time a Maltusian mosquito bit a Maltusian kid after their evolution, to the cornfield, all of them. The first time an evolved Maltusian child was bitten by a Maltusian puppy or scratched by a Maltusian kitten, no more Maltusian dogs or cats.

The Maltusians self segregated to avoid temptation.

When the Guardians and the Zamarons decided it was time to produce a next generation, they exiled themselves to another dimension to avoid inflicting their children on the universe until they could be trusted to act appropriately.

And this gender segregation happened before the Guardian/Controller split.

 

No, it's a relatively easy intercept mission. They moved because that was a very unGreen Lantern thing to do, and he might throw more.