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

Thank you, corrected.

 

I like this.

 

‘They’

Inconsistent apostrophes. I think both should have an apostrophe, but maybe neither should.

‘robot’s’, I think.

I’ve only ever seen it spelled ‘matte’. Always interesting to learn that there are other valid spellings.

‘your’

‘objectives’

I think these should both be ‘Council’, given that was used earlier in the chapter and Google is giving me results for Council.

‘a comic’

‘whom’, I think, though I could be wrong and you might not care.

’if I wave’, maybe.

I’m still going through my backlog. I’m liking this parallel universe plot, even though it seems like we’ve had about a million of those by this point. It interested me that the Spider Guild was considered a priority, since they seemed like chumps given that Paragon pretty casually bombarded one of their planets.

 

If he sat in orbit, used his ring to find the masters, and sniped them from space? Probably not. As I am reminded every time I read a Fate crossover fic,, there's some pretty serious bullshit in that universe, but some of OLs abilities are an OCP to the Grail Wars. I do recall that there are some reality warpers, and mystic eyes of death perception could conceivably kill even the Ophidian if OL actually bothers to touch down on the planet the war is takin place on?

Could be a fun sidestory, though, if OL got summoned as a Servant in a Grail War.

 

Huh, Interceptor was raised on Earth. That explains a few things.

OL interacted with a lot of aliens: Controllers, Queen of Alistair, the plant planet whose name escapes me at this moment. Heck, if he just points them towards Dox and says 'this guy hates the Dominators and is their prisoner' then having a 12th level intellect on their side isn't the worst.

 

Finally caught up.

 

Thank you, corrected.

Oh, if the Dominion is going all out, the Spider Guild is far less dangerous. But the Spider Guild is ersponsible for far more evil on a day by day basis.

 

Just like the original comics!

 

Though they're still committing atrocities.

Though they're still Nazis and few of them are growing out of it.

 

I don't think we ever did find out what happened to the Superman of 666 after he was freed, did we? Last sight of him was unconscious and alive. There was talk he might kill himself, but no confirmation he did so and no one has mentioned his actual fate. Maybe he put on bondage gear, called himself Penance, and is helping rebuild in disguise so no one knows who he is?

 

Maybe superman's soul collapsed on itself and that's why he is in a coma because his body is fine but his soul had a big chunk torn out of it.

 

‘slices’, I think.

‘so’

‘amounts’

‘in’, I think.

‘cyborgs’ ‘,I think.

‘backups’

‘once-over’, I think.

Isn’t that millions of years? Impressive that they’ve lasted so long while being so unabashedly evil.

This made me think about whether the dominators use cybernetics or genetic enhancement for their troops. They’re certainly advanced enough for it.

I’ve been liking the look at the dominators, since I always thought they were kind of neat. Despite it being kind of the most generic in some ways, I really like the people who just use ‘standard’ science rather than magic or bullshit like emotional tech. I like the idea of people harnessing meta humans, since meta humans kind of seem like one of the most bullshit sources of powers, even if most of them are pretty weak. I still remember Paragon (that guy who worked with SHADE, I mean).
I’ve been liking the Transformers chapters a lot, even though my only knowledge of the setting comes from the Michael Bay movies, an animated movie I watched where Optimus Prime died in the first half hour, a comic with zombie transformers that I read in a library, and this-

-game (which I loved).

 

Unlimited Fanwanks

 

Genetics is their goto.

They've created Dominator/Daxamite hybrids, implanted the metagene to make meta-dominators, and even created BION- They took the Computo operating system and installed it into a body genetically engineered with the abilities of the Legion of Superheroes.

 

If he's summoned as a Servant, he'd be a weaker copy of some version of Paul, in a Class Container that limits his abilities to those that fit it. If he shows up with his current powers and equipment unrestricted, though, he'd stomp anything that isn't sufficiently weird conceptual stuff that's too different from the things he's already prepared for.

 

Or he was just so traumatized that he went into the coma.

I'm now picturing him showing up as a loli girl.

 

Plus I think the place served more as a group for them to socialize.

"from the"

Nabu could have erased their memories.

"others"

"in contrast"

"thing with"

Quote marks should be orange.

 

*Looks at the whole Justice League Rogue Gallery that always come back for another round due to the Justice League following the classic superhero schtick*
I don't know OL, I would say that your way of doing things was better than what we had on Earth 16. Call me crazy, but this looks like *puts tinfoil hat* a insidious plot by Mr. Smile to make you become a normal superhero and not rock the boat anymore, making you preserve the status quo that he wants. For all we know, Constantine was affected by Smiley inside theTower of Fate, that close to.the Dream and outside the mortal realm. Will leave the tinfoil hat on for the time being

 

Contrast?

 

Is it made of aluminum foil or real tin? Tin foil blocks the mind reading machines while aluminum acts as an amplifier to make it even easier to read your mind.

And if it's made from aluminium foil then it's not safe for me to even talk to you. That stuff turns you into a signal booster so they can read the minds of everyone around you.

 

Thank you, corrected.

If you watch the animated film about the start of the Corps, the brief view we see of the villain shows that it's the dominators.

Thank you, corrected.

 

I don't really think Paul will be able to square out being a true superhero and Caesar at his worst empire building moments, honestly.

 

Nah, he never got a copy of them, did he? unless Interceptor slipped him a copy while working with him on Earth 666. And I doubt there are enough, if any, metahuman military units in the world to have developed any sort of handbook.

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Pfft, as if. The League are talented amateurs. Most of them are used to working solo, or with a like-minded sidekick. I suspect Batman is the only reason they have any rules about leadership and membership practices.

True, the Society was more of a boy's club. Hell, their first real roster was all male (Hawkgirl wasn't even listed as a member at first...)

Yeah, I doubt the men he served with were about to speak out about his real identity. And back before TV, his face would have been basically unknown anyway. If anything, people might have recognised his voice, after he became a radio star.

It's amazing what saving a man's life in combat will do to earn their loyalty.

Well, I'm sure OL could, but it's all be guesswork.

No, there's too many variables in their history, never mind the lack of a Wonder Woman, Batman or Superman.

Yeah, Green may have the least mental side-effects of the Spectrum, but it still has them. Increased steadfastness and determination, for a start.

...For fear of going the same way? Hardly. Different lives, different circumstances.

And coming from OL, concerning the League, that says a lot.

Admittedly, some of that might be based solely on their reaction to an entirely accidental interdimensional arrival. They did threaten to arrest you, after all.

Hopefully, they only interfered with politics if said dictator was a super-human criminal elsewhere...

Much like the Marvel universe reluctantly putting up with Doom in Latveria, since anyone else might be worse.

Extraordinary Rendition. A not-entirely-legal form of extradition, without the permission of the arresting state... Not a pleasant affair.

...In a kind-of benevolent way? I mean, if you weren't a powered jackass, you'd be fine?

...Let's not mention any recent names, shall we? Rule 8, and all that...

The eyes proving bigger than the stomach. Consuming an energy field larger than your head. Uttering the immortal words 'There's no way I can lose now!'. That sort of thing? Yeah, pretty typical Golden Age stuff...

Or they're the type who wants to own the world financially. Like Luthor.

Curious as to whether Todd Rice and his sister existed here? Yeah, OL could find that out...

Starting to realise what you might have missed out on all these years, Alan? At least now, you've got plenty of time to go out and gain that.

I suspect he'd have been noticed, yeah.

Such a contrast to the Renegade and his Shade's relationship...

Checking in on his trainees? Dates with Jade? Attending to business dealings? No doubt all those sorts of thing happen off-screen.

You'll probably have to dial down the lethality quite a bit. Unless you want to earn that 'anti-hero' label. Might we see the return of shock-crowns?

Murphy: Oh, the phone's ringing off the hook! Wonder who it is?

And you jinxed yourself, OL. What are the odds something absolutely gigantic blows up in the next few in-universe days, just to spite his intentions for a quiet time? The only question will be what, where and by who? Remember, there's more than a few beings out there with a grudge against OL, and this might be a great chance for them to get even...

 

The Controllers Paul is familiar with apparently don't even have the resources to send a Darkstar to Earth to protect it, so busy are they with the Reach. Not until Paul handed them a lantern corps.

And it's Queen Hyathis of Alstair. The Alstair Paul is familiar with is in a perpetual war with all three of its neighbor planets and the Thanagarian Empire.

But potential allies with no resources to spare wouldn't be the top of my list.

Although admittedly the local situation might be different than what Paul has encountered.

But logically, if we assume that the local situation isn't more or less similar to what he's encountered before, than his suggestions would be as reliable as random guessing anyway.

 

I hope paul makes a quip explicly about practicing his one-liners.

 

Lets see how long LePaul can last before resulting to either deadly force or mind control.

 

Paul:"Okay, for the sake of some perspective I will stop playing in the slighly-above gods league and do the plebeian thing of being a run of the mill top tier superhero"

 

Hmm. Chapter 1 began on August 14, 2013. This is the August 7, 2022 update. Just shy of nine years of With This Ring, and Paragon!Paul is finally living up to his name. The most Paragon of the Paul alts (and no, being on the Suicide Squad did not make Angel!Paul more moral). Paragon!Paul is finally willing to wear his underwear on the outside, setup a secret identity, and play cops & robbers with dastardly supervillains.

This is a momentous day.


Joking aside, I’m surprised (wait…) fhe isn’t getting a few choice words from Jade before making this change. Never mind, that isn’t the order Paul does things. He is a more decisive man than I am, I was thinking about my own reservations. I think there’s a fifty percent chance he messages Jade within four updates. A seventy percent chance he messages her before the end of this arc. I predict a little bit of banter between them, perhaps a comment from Jade about if he used the ring to change his brain like she did, but ultimately she’ll give a comics-appropriate principle for Paul to ruminate on. They doesn’t mean it’ll be a heroic principle. It might be horribly cynical in fact, hard to guess.

 

Damn.