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

The dial sounds kinda TARDIS-y. Sapient, I mean. I guess we're shorting out the 'Robbie gets innate dial powers' timeline.

 

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My guess? "There's never a hot woman around to look at when you need one."

 

Turns out Zoat has been planning to move the main story to QQ a long time ago

 

If they do find the Dial that shit needs to got into secured storage: Amazon Vaults, Atlantis, League Tower, hell even Guardians or Controllers.

That shit is too much power for one person and as seen messes with that mind.

Sure OL and others should study it to see if it can be useful but still needs to be locked up.

 

If we assume that he was in his early teens in the sixties, that's at least sixty now. The version in H-E-R-O was probably in his forties or fifties, with the help of comic book time. In my playthroughs I found that Doctor Christopher King is a better recruit, even with a less powerful dial. You can recruit Robert Reed, but he's a unreliable brawler because you never know precisely what he's going to roll or how mentally stable he's going to be.

Not necessarily, but this iteration would hate using them if he did.

Technically yes, but not for that reason.

It's not really 'too much power' so much as 'side affects can include mental rewrites, the provider accepts no responsibility for actions taken under the influence'.

 

Considering the transformation has not faved away yet for certain someone, is either the original or a very good copy.

 

Isn't there something in the Evil Overlord's List that mentions clearly labeling your deathtraps as something innocuous, and vice versa? It'd be a lot sillier Master just doomed that minion to a lifetime of powering his private spa or something.

 

Probably not.

 

Hmm... Mr Hamill may have just left off the O, now that you mention it.

 

I wonder what ERROR would get.

 

Missingno

 

I feel like if this were a Quest, our curiosity would get us killed the second our hands touched that dial.

 

Farm tools are seriously dodgy business. Just ask any hip hop artist.

 

Well of course. It's not like he killed a person.

But that's more of a 60s reasoning: by the 80s Marvel were doing Holocaust stories and Dark Phoenix accidentallying a few billion aliens, and DC were doing the Killing Joke, the Comics Code was clearly on the way out already.

 

Yeah, I don't know why. But for some reason I was thinking that when the Master and the Wizard reintegrated Robbie was still the same young age as when he split, and that had me thinking he'd be younger if OL tracked him down.

Running on like...4 hours of sleep in 3 days.

 

'C' is for 'cookie', and that's good enough for me.

Have you tried walking on that instead?

 

Hm. He probably should be. Injuries disappear, but I can't remember another example of anyone staying in their boosted state for a prolonged period of time. But if he used the SPLIT command in the late sixties and reintegrated in the early eighties, he'd be in his late forties or thereabouts.

 

He could still look like "Alan on a bad day" in his late forties-fifties. Extreme stress, while it won't exactly cause premature aging, can certainly make you look like it. And living with what his alter-ego did certainly seems to have caused him some stress.

 

It's a comic universe....there is NO such thing as secure storage. Heroes just hold things until villains want them.

Hell, it's already happened a couple of times in this very story. Circe basically walked right into the Amazon's house, slapped them around a little, and stole their shit. Some sort of herbs if I recall.

Given the Amazon's track record with getting their ass kicked...I wouldn't trust them with anything.

 

Given the Dial exists it likely doesn't matter where it's locked up since it will still somehow find it's way from wherever it ends up back into the hands of Robby Reed so he can send it back in time.

 

So there is only only way to get rid of it properly: give it to Rip Hunter or another time traveler and close the time loop on purpose since Robbie Reed doesn’t seem capable/willing - this would essentially destroy it without actually doing so (assuming Robbie knows it’s in a time loop). Or maybe give it to the Sivanas, who seem like the dial wouldn’t be particularly useful to, and have probably one of the most secure hideouts (and are villains, who nobody ever steals from), excepting attacks by time-travelers from the future, though that might explain how the dial got back in time. (I just want to see what’s going on with them in OL’s side of the story.)

 

Might work... Might also destabilize the paradox and cause an ever expanding rip in the fabric of space/time that destroys the universe...

 

Yeah, but considering loops like Chrona seeing the creation of the world and creating evil, while also probably not being able to do so without evil, are a thing anyways (confirmed by Zoat in that particular case), the universe would likely either let it happen or stop Rip Hunter from landing in that moment- maybe destiny will show up or just give a sign and say no, especially if the person doing it just stops if told to. Basically I feel it’s more likely to just not work than break the universe if people are more reasonable about it.
Edit: I’m assuming grandfather paradoxes either resolve themselves most of the time, especially if you’re just making sure they do.
Edit: Or create a new universe like flashpoint - actually nevermind you’re right, this is DC, and that would probably cause something bad to happen - like a super villain actually finding this future version of the dial and changing a whole lot of the timeline just to make things interesting and do another flashpoint scenario.

 

So the ring couldn't translate that?

 

The ring did translate it, just not for everyone else.

 

It does, but only for OL. Wonder if it’s an alien language the ring actually knows from experience? Though I suppose it might just has really good natural language processing/ reads mind surface layers for desire to get a meaning across.
Probably the former.

 

Heh, It's been a while since he flew the friendly skies, hasn't it...

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

...What hapenned to Vicki? I'm guessing nothing good. More evidence against allowing the Dials to remain in the wild...

Stray Quotation marks and colour tag

"-got no idea. It usually gives me something I can use...

Mr King looks at him sympathetically for a moment, then raises his left wrist.

Oh god, the Dial plays by Silver Age Rules... Announcing their name and tagline on first appearance...

Okay, I'll need to head back to the bridge, then I should be able to follow exactly where it went!"

...And it doesn't speak English. Of course.

At least things are picking up. Shouldn't take too long to find... Unless Murphy's or Sod's Laws kick in.