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

I do wonder what Paul 12 did after his ring ran out of power, like we know he lives in England, but hes stil a pretty rational guy who is afraid of dying in a dangerous world and he likely still mined asteroids at the beginning, so he should have enough money to buy some crazy tech. That seems like the perfect set up for a Supervillain origin.

 

There also aren't any Blue rings active in 14. Saint Walker hasn't happened yet. (Paul has referenced it anyway, and Zoat said this will eventually cause him some difficulties.)

 

Time travel is a thing.

Alternatively, she is hoping to wait a decade and see if Ih Oh El is single by then.

So... is Blue dead?

 

Dame Carol's type are knights errant, honourable vanquishers of evil. She is even now mentally preparing herself for a fight with an evil version of Grand Marshall Aga'po.

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No, the problem isn't finding his planet. It's getting to a parallel universe.

Google shows more hits for my way.

No, I think that's fine.

 

Nah, he should be fine. He's pretty powerful and respected in his own right and he's now the official boytoy of married to a fairly powerful young lady. I don't foresee him coming to harm unless she decides she doesn't want him anymore. And if that happens.....well, unless he's a good deal less oblivious with regards to interpersonal relationships than most other Pauls he'll never see it coming.

 

Yeah, that's what I was thinking, that she might wait till she was a little older, at least over the age of legal adulthood in the US.

As for Blue, he and Zorina are on their honeymoon in outer space and things went to hell in a hand basket while they were away, thus the Syndicate parallel universe hopping again and roping OL into seeing if he can figure out a solution. Zorina was much more assertive and said, and I'm paraphrasing the conversation here, "When I turn 16, we're getting married, no ifs, ands, or buts about it" along with Don Giovanni talking him around to seeing the merits of it.

 

PDV I believe you meant 16, as in Earth 16, parallel universe where the SI's adventures happen. And in that one, there's at least one Blue Ring, Alan's. That may not be indicative of a future Corps of Hope wielders but who knows what may be going through Ganthet's head if he has read a report about that.

Or through the rest of the Guardians, I can't believe they aren't seeing the writing on the wall with confirmations of so many different Emotional Spectrum users. Red and Violet are, effectively, the only ones missing coherent and/or powerful users, I believe (And on Earth there's already evidence of the Black Light). That's not much when we are talking about the possible coming of Blackest Night and the War of Light.

 

Red rings were made from the blood of the other five inversions.

Star Sapphire rings are made of the crystal that grows on Zamora from the skeletons of the Hawks's Egyptian incarnations. So the Star Sapphires still use crystals, they just gave them AI and fashioned them into rings to be less crazy making.

Indigo tribesmen forged their rings from rivers of liquid compassion that run underground in the planet Nok.

Kyle's orange power ring was in fact a member of the Orange Lantern Corps shapeshifted into a ring, so Zoat's "orange power rings are people!" is a possible explanation for orange power rings in the comics.

Nowadays DC is going for a "rings are made out of solid emotion," it seems, since it had Hal forge a ring out of pure willpower.

 

The first Yellow Ring was made of the fear and paranoia of an entire planet that was tortured to death by the Qwardians.

 

Sure makes it come across as one hell of a powerful object to require so much in its creation.

 

I assume since it was a first attempt the Qwuardians just weren't very efficient at making them yet,

 

Stop trying to ruin it.

 

No.

 

I assume the planet was what it took to make something like a power battery, which they then used to make the actual ring. Also to make whatever failed prototypes.

 

Then she is flabbergasted to see that they are a bunch if love obsessed shut ins who research how to better mate with mortals. That'll be hilarious.

 

So the Earth 12 Paul was the common sense Paul.

 

Okay I assume this is Paul and Another Universe one where he didn't get a power ring? But I'm having trouble placing both the time. And how exactly he's making super technology.

 

This is Paul of Earth-12 isn't it?

 

No, Common Sense Paul is in a variant of Young Justice, like P!OL and R!OL.

I am remembering Fool's Canon, where Paul said it would have been interesting to see a pure uplift version of himself. I think we have found that version. Wonder how he got started?

 

I assumed that his atom smelter was a lie and he had just used his one-and-only ring charge to mine an asteroid and return the platinum to Earth-12 to set himself up for life.

 

It seems really strange that the "convincing lie" that he uses to avoid having to explain his possession of a power ring is that he possesses a teleporter. Having it become public knowledge that the source of his wealth is a teleporter seems like something that would cause as much or possibly even more problems than having it become known that the source of his wealth is a power ring.

I would also think that a Bank employee would be rather concerned over the revelation of a new invention that will effectively destroy the market for Gold and Platinum. This seems like the type of thing that could cause a massive economic disruption. It seems strange for the Bank employee to simply take calmly.

Are there any actual advantages to this lie and do they outweigh the disadvantages?

 

It would be rather easy to do this with a power ring (assuming you had a way of recharging it) at which point it would make sense to hide how you're doing it by making an overly complicated looking machine to appear be the method by which you achieved it. Stick a remote detonating explosive inside and if anyone steals it... BOOM!

Oh well I'll just build another later.

Earth 12 is in the future of Earth Prime. While hardly common, Schizo Tech is all over the place and another teleporter doesn't really stand out.

 

Well Earth 12 Paul may have an early start but considering the massive chip the JLU of 12 has with Paul's I think Paul just royally fucked over Paul.

 

Earth 12 is the animated justice league one right?

That has... bizarre implications with the most recent arc. I'm not sure how they square together.

Shrug. Willing to see where this goes.

 

Dang, early timeline. I'm guessing in parallel with the Justice League airdates?

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Welp, that's actually a word.

I nod. "Thank you." Convincing lie mode time.

Interesting cover for the Ring, and probably on some level how it works...

I should think so.

...That is a lot. Also: 'concerns'

IE Is it radioactive?

Heh, I'm reminded of that geokinetic mentioned in Grrl Power.

Indeed.

...the matter to them at the conclusion of our meeting."

Do you need a moment? Maybe a cigarette?

Congratulations, you are now richer than Lex Luthor and Bruce Wayne combined...

They may even have to invent new taxes just to cope.

How very.. British.

Ah. So, like Grayven, he's going to drag Humanity up the tech tree.

Good way to avoid the 'spontaneous combustion of fiat currency' problem.

After all, he now has all the money.

Oh, man. This is so understated. Perfectly British.

 

The biggest issue I see here is that it's not a long leap to assume "if someone invented it once, then a different person can invent it again.". Translated into money-speak: "Get the fuck out of the precious metals market, and don't invest in any currencies or economies that are gold standard, because they're all about to crash like a gold brick out the back of a airplane."

Teleporters, though; a lot of Earths have schizo-tech of some sort or another; I'm not sure about Earth-12, but if it's anything like Earth-16, then the average person probably thinks of teleportation as a weird, hard-to-understand thing that superheros sometimes use.

 

Wow, did the Justice League cartoon really start in 1996? I feel old. Q_Q

 

He seems to be in the UK, so the only one likely to even take note would be Lex Luthor.

And Lex would only really care in the "Business competitor" sense.

 

No. Batman Animated air dates.

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