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

It's not impossible, but it is unlikely. I simply don't know those characters well enough.

 

Hoo boy. Someone really doesn't want them finding anything useful.

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

Mystically appropriate, even if it's really annoying at this moment.

"Make that another place."

Volcana isn't local, certainly...

Fascinating...

Very fascinating. An intentional effect of the transformation spell, or an accidental side-effect?

Odd, most people doing a Superman symbol would have made the pentagonal shield, not knowing the significance.

But they do fit someone caught up by it in need of rescue.

This would have been asked sooner or later...

"During my one conversation with them, they were emphatic...

especially when the symbol is so well known."

Slim to none, most likely.

Oh, that's a familiar silhouette...

So, sort of a hybrid of classic Kara and Linda Danvers costumes. Or the post-Infinite-Crisis costume...

That would be stupid if they were.

At least people aren't that stupid. Even if a tiny mask can fool them.

Understatement of the year, OL.

This is getting really weird now... A lookalike for Supergirl, despite the fact she isn't an active hero yet...

 

Well well well...

Now we have the testimony of a skilled magic user who has access to one of the most powerful sources of Order magic on the planet.

A skilled magic user who has spent a considerable amount of time in a house which includes, among other things, the former library of a immortal, millennia-old magic expert.

Would you like a fork for those words?

 

The Children of Juru would beg to differ.

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

I am trying very hard not to laugh right now given you rather obviously have no idea who that person actually is.

 

So I'm guessing this is Matrix Supergirl?

 

Or a variation anyway, I don't remember her ever using white fire, her fire is of the standard yellow and/or orange variety.

So I'm suspected some butterfly flapped its wings and altered her somewhat between New Earth and here.

 

Honestly, yeah, Buggy is trusting what a different Constantine read in a book again. Not much better this time.

 

who is this person

some of us isn't made out of wiki of DC character

 

Here. It was the second result from Googling "matrix supergirl" after the generic Wikipedia article.

 

Should be singular.

 

That's just Matrix.

This is the Supergirl in question.

 

Yes yes yes, it's technically a sorta-Constantine except with a different nationality from some specific tv show.

Point is, he's now someone who knows what the fuck he's talking about.

He's the guy who helped plan OL's invasion into hell, the guy who used his magic hell-seeing orb to do extensive research on hell and the things in it, while planing to invade and take out a major demon lord. Research that almost certainly included learning the basics about the other demon lords.

That Constantine.

 

So....obsession?

 

No, she has lightning powers, and in this continuity the subject of her namesake is Paul.

 

Paul already knows that, Sephtian explained it to him

 

And not even that, as he unwittingly derailed her becoming a villainess by getting her an interview with himself and a couple other heroes that boosted her career.

She probably still has the coins that would give her powers, but thus far it hasn't appeared that she's felt the urge/need to use them.

 

Huh.....something stuck out in that link under Earth-Born Angel bit.

"She also discovered that she could teleport in a S-shaped burst of flame."

I think that covers Robin's find.

She bamf'ed her way across the world, burning things with a demonic taint.

So we have:
-Buzz
-Linda Danvers
-A Linda Danvers/Matrix looking person with Flame/Flying powers.
Considering the lack of evidence for Matrix in this world, short of universe hopping, we're looking at the Earth Born Angel side of things without her.

I figure that Linda was in the cult with buzz, somehow awakened her angelic powers. Likely during the whole angelic invasion, as they did seem to strike at demonic presences during that period. Also Zauriel himself makes an appearance in the original story covering his explanation of what the Earth Born Angels actually are, parts of God's feminine side, kept within the earth, and reincarnated throughout history (the Earth part makes me wonder...Gaia ? The White Light Entity? the actual "Shechina" ? or just another archangel getting by with humans again?)

Burning things that could be connected to Buzz could be her going after her former cult leader for trying to sacrifice her. Buzz might have been the supplier of the book, and other items burned. She's not wiping evidence so much as cleaning up all the dangerous stuff Buzz has left laying around. Likely been leaving it out as part of some Hell scheme to propagate demonic magics and powers now that the world is waking up to the fact that magic exists (Thanks to OL).

Only thing really left is....is she actually wearing a supergirl S on her chest? Why?

Is she wearing it because she, having suddenly found herself in a role of a hero, wanted to use Kal-El as an example and reminder? Is there an actual Kryptonian cult out there? (DC's used them a bunch, particularly around the resurrection stuff)

Or maybe she was just a fan girl and thought it looks cute?

With those boots....I think I'll go with the latter.

 

Forget the boots, what person flies with a skirt? Does she want that to be the first thing people see whenever she's above them?

 

There's maybe some interesting parallels with Proty, from Silver Age Legion of Superheroes? I suspect ideas from that went into Matrix, though you might say, shape-shifters, and created beings, have a hard time in DC. But, then so does everyone else...

Are angels (and demons) in this setting effectively souls, beings made of magic, which may or may not have some physicality as well? Or, magic faking-up physicality?

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

Who’s trislele again?

 

Depending on how much she's the Linda who was corrupted by Buzz, yes. Alternatively, she may be wearing shorts under her skirt, or just not care. Female flyers in skirts are very common in comics, whatever their Watsonian reasons.

 

Triskele was/is the mother of succubae, Zoat provided a helpful link earlier:

The tl;dr version is that she’s a vicious and greedy schemer, but not necessarily a big fish compared to some of the other things you might meet at the crossroads if you’re unlucky.
Oh, and she also looks like a long skeletal snake with a woman’s head.

And boy, Matrix’s story line seems convoluted even by comic book standards. I could barely make sense of it, even with the wiki.

 

That's saying something different. Sephtian is saying that Atlanteans find manipulating water easier than they do fire. Tula is saying that being an Atlantean actively impedes the ability to learn non-water elementalism.

 

He also mentions that this is a result of conceptual connections, most likely from them being Atlanteans.

 

Indeed.

But admittedly, the only surviving member of their order, Thul-Kar, is likely currently trapped in the Phantom Zone after sending himself there to escape Krypton's demise, unlike his fellows who apparently committed ritual suicide. Poor guy tried to get out eventually, but...

Well, let's hope Superman manages to free him from that horrible purgatory along with all others who don't deserve such a fate!

 

Oh come on now Buggy, you know better than that. We've had WoZ on topics that Vaermina still insisted were wrong.

And when you openly tell the author of a story that they themselves have the final say, that they are wrong about the fictional shit that they just made up and clarified....wow. I mean WOW. That is impressive.