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

The point is that she hates being contained, having people tell her what to do and not being in control, and while I'm going the first two the third is firmly her husband's fault. I'm not sure why he brought her to the future with him

If he was guarding Gamemnae's body then he may have thought that he needed powerful backup in case she came back.

His other friends were either dead or physically couldn't help him, so Dawn was the only choice.

enough time to being

"bring"

"The fish eaters found a group of clay zombie wizards working on a giant rune-" Send it to her. "-on one-. Yeah, just like that. Apparently it's the rune for 'joy', but I can't think of any 'joy' association that would have anything to do with Atlantis rising out of the water

I mean it could be like some celebration thing like a coming out party or something, and Atlantis did come out.
 
Just remembered Green Arrow has been motherbox accended in the grayven timeline.

Can he shoot on par with Celestial Archer now?
 
7th May 2013
17:33 GMT +2


"It's not that you can't go outside-" Dawn Raven looks decidedly unhappy with me, and while I doubt that's due to my actions I'm certainly the proximate cause. "-Missus Raven, it's just that I think it's a bad idea until you've had more time to get used to your new environment."
Ah, yes, the wife of Manitou Raven. Well, his wife and later successor. A strong, independent-minded woman, from an era when that was considered a bad thing. She might do well in this era. Especially if she's studied the same magic as Raven.

Adom actually broke off a meeting about expanding Kahndaq's railway network into its new territory in order to meet Manitou Raven. He actually hugged him, something which seems to have rather surprised Manitou. Given the man's generally unkempt appearance and Adam's perfectly tailored 'power wardrobe', the image was actually quite amusing, like a powerful head of state embracing a random crazy homeless person.
I mean, Raven does clean up nicely, but he has been in sort-of seclusion for several thousand years.

"There is nothing for me to do here, and I remember what Kahndaq looked like."

Rama Khan activated his jar of dirt, and Mister and Missus Cantrell are heading this way now, so that's nearly enough for a full reunion. Just Gamemnae herself left, really.
Though her turning up would probably put a dour spin on the affair.

"It-. Ah… It doesn't look like that anymore. It's been-."

"Many years. I know."
She may know, but does she understand? There's a difference between not seeing a place for a few years or such, and not seeing it for several thousand.

"And if we weren't in the middle of a crisis I'd be happy to bring you up to speed. It's what I did for Adom. But right now there are a handful of places on the planet that wouldn't be completely overwhelming in their strangeness, and no one there would speak your language."

I could pry into her psyche, but I don't know what sort of protection or detection spells she's got running on her, and it would be rather rude even if she didn't. But from what I do remember about her from the comics...
To be fair, she can get around the language barrier with magic, though the cultural ones might be trickier.

She married Manitou mostly because no one else in their tribe would put up with her, he married her because he didn't want her to be made an outcast but focused exclusively on his job resulting in them never really getting close. She had an affair with Kyle Rayner because he actually paid attention to her while acting as her modernity tutor, and Manitou's reaction was 'I'm not really surprised' and then he died.
Admittedly, Raven was a couple of decades older, I think and a workaholic. He probably expected her to look elsewhere, as long as she returned to him.

I'm probably skipping a few things.

The point is that she hates being contained, having people tell her what to do and not being in control, and while I'm going the first two the third is firmly her husband's fault. I'm not sure why he brought her to the future with him… Frankly, it seems like it would have been better for him to handle that duty himself and suggest that she spend the rest of her life in Jarhanpur. But here she is, completely unprepared for the 21st century. And the thing is, if this had happened 200 years ago she could probably handle 1800s Kahndaq just fine.
Quite a few things skipped, yes. But I suspect that very determined and headstrong nature is why she didn't stay in the past. Raven is her man, wherever she may stray, and she will be with him.

"I could take you to Themyscira, if you like? There're a couple of women there with universal language comprehension? Or I could assign you an aide?"

"What is Themyscira?"
Ah, right, how to explain it. since they came along sometime after the Ancient League's day...

"It's an island in the Ag-. Off the coast of G-. Ah. An island in the land of the Hellenes? I'm a citizen, and I'm good terms with most of their rulers."

She looks me over suspiciously. "You are.. like them? Like my husband?"
The joy of trying to work out names she might recognise. Because names like 'Aegean Sea' and 'Greece' are much newer.

"More like the Whaler, if you remember him. As I said, we-."

She darts… To my right, towards a… Curtain-covered window-.
Wrong thing to say, given that Whaler was a bit of a psycho.

I lamely reach out with my right hand. "I don't think-."

She tugs the curtain aside and stares out at the Shiruta skyline. And she doesn't flinch or cringe or scream in panic, she just sort of blinks uncomprehendingly.
"It's taller than it used to be..."

"You see-."

She clenches her fists, and dives at the window in.. what is actually an impressive display of athleticism. Naturally the modern hardened glass-
A suitably durable window can be surprisingly resistant to impact. I remember seeing a video of a man running from police in a motel room trying to jump through his window and simply bouncing off and looking rather foolish...

"Akgh!"

-survives and her hands get the worst of it.
So, jsut some bruised knuckles, maybe a bleeding scrape or two. Could have been worse if she had broken it, of course.

"Our glass is much better than it used to be. Would you accept me healing you?"

"I am not injured."
Nice bit of 'you saw nothing' energy there.

"Not seriously, but that's going to hurt for a while."

She glares at me for a moment, then goes back to looking out of the window, her hands rubbing each other in front of her.
I suspect she's very old friends with pain, given her origins.

Ring, contact Lantern Son of Great Mother and ask him to come here.

Compliance.
...Probably safer than giving her a handsome young man to work with.

And… Ugh. Dawn-. This is me trying to be a good person, but the fact is that I'm not going to prioritise her. I'm just giving Teth Adom and Rama Khan enough time to being Manitou Raven up to speed without crowding him before we move onto the next stage. And I-.

Incoming communication.
Nice of him to be self-aware enough that he's not going to play the 'kyle' role here.

From?

Zatanna Zatara.

"
Excuse me."
Ah, that'll be her calling in to let him know what she found.

I take a step back and raise my left hand to my ear. "Orange Lantern here."

"Does the name 'Joy' mean anything to you?"
...There's quite a few Joys about. None I know of in superheroic circles, certainly...

"The nurse in the Pokémon games?"

"Is she a magical nurse?"

"No-. Probably not, but it's never really explained why there's a copy of her in every Pokémon Centre."
In the games, it's probably just sprite re-use that became a tradition. In the anime... It was weird. Apparently it's a family name, and business.



"Has Dad been talking to you?"
No, OL isn't trying to get you to ease off on the superheroing.

Huh? "Ah. Not recently? Why?"

"Oh. N-. Never mind."
And somewhere, Giovanni Zatara shudders without really knowing why.

"So where did you get 'joy' from?"

"The fish eaters found a group of clay zombie wizards working on a giant rune-" Send it to her. "-on one-. Yeah, just like that. Apparently it's the rune for 'joy', but I can't think of any 'joy' association that would have anything to do with Atlantis rising out of the water."
Ah, right, the rune OL and Balewa found. So they're the same one? Interesting... Not necessarily one used in the sinking or raising of Atlantis, then.

"Because it would make the people joyful?"

"No, it-. Someone could gather power through joy, but the rune would need to focus that energy and this just… Doesn't."
Interesting indeed...

"But the focus could be somewhere else, couldn't it?"

"I.. think so? You'd still need some sort of mark to link them."
Unless that's what some of the zombies were doing: Collecting it manually as some manner of group...

"Ahri'ahn used a group of triangles as his personal emblem, but… I think that the Ahri'ahn we're seeing is another clay zombie. I think the person actually responsible is Queen Gamemnae."

"Isn't she dead?"
Like that would stop some powerful mages.

"They sacrificed her to the Aztec gods. You know what happened to them."

"Does that change anything for us?"
Which raises the question of how long she's been involved in this, if she is at all...

"It might make removing the mental effect easier if we can dramatically blow her cover. I… Guess she's pretty joyful about the return to the surface?"

"I'll… Keep looking. Zatanna out."
still so many unknowns yet to solve...

I nod, lower my hand-.

There's a flash of orange as Lantern Son of Great Mother appears. Dawn turns around, knife in hand.

"I am ready to serve."
Okay, she might take a little longer to get used to things like this...

"What is that?"

"Lantern Son of Great Mother will be your escort. He can take you anywhere and tell you anything. Excuse me."
Admittedly, he might be a little blunt about certain subjects. I hope he's been studying interactions with humanoids.

So, the mystery continues to grow. What are these sigils for, then? I doubt it's something as simple as mere emotional energy collection. Doctor Mist didn't seem to think they were projecting any effect over Atlantis, if I remember right. But the clay zombies are lurking around some of them. This is going to be quite the explanation once they work it out, I expect...
 
Thank you, corrected.
Just remembered Green Arrow has been motherbox accended in the grayven timeline.

Can he shoot on par with Celestial Archer now?
Not yet due to Celestial Archer getting powered up by his goddess, but he's a good deal closer than he was.
Ah, yes, the wife of Manitou Raven. Well, his wife and later successor. A strong, independent-minded woman, from an era when that was considered a bad thing. She might do well in this era. Especially if she's studied the same magic as Raven.
No, she hasn't. As far as I remember from the comics, she basically used his equipment and had to learn magic nearly from scratch.
 

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