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

Heh, gotta say I'm looking forward to the next few days then. Whether or not I'll actually have time to catch up on the story before the middle of next week is questionable though.

 

I mean, there is only so far he can go with making super tech widely available without like actually involving the modern super community.
Still, I wouldn't be that suprised if in this verse Adam Blake's spacetech was still around somewhere, and it's entirely possible that he could use thinking cap tech to do space stuff, so it's entirely possible he left Earth a long long time ago, and just didn't ever come back.
He could also pretty easily have a 'rocks fall you die' moment, though I doubt Zoat will go for that, though he might get conscripted by a supervillain or something like that.

 

I wonder if he would want to hire Victor Fries. He is a brilliant cryogenicist and would want to heal his wife, if there was a way to loan the ring(?), he could get the loyalty of a very loyal man.

 

Are we going to see Mr Gisler the Banker again? If Earth 12 Paul's company blows up, Paul could be his favorite client.

 

He's totally going to be one of the main guys responsible for Gotham turning into the cyperpunk dystopia it was in Batman Beyond, with flying forklift trucks and laser guns easily available on the street.

 

Yeah, he is not Mad Science Paul.

Still, while someone using common sence in a comic superhero world might be fun to read, it kinda gets boring after a while.

 

Might be interesting in a few years to see business magnate Paul at Earth-12 Buckingham Palace knighted by the Queen for services rendered to the United Kingdom if his company manages to propel Britain forward technologically and economically over Europe or the US.

 

Also, don't think you said anything about what was going on with Captain Comet after his recovery. Honestly, it seems like he'd make much more sense to teach Effigy then a greenie.

 

Civilian firearms? Do you think he's a colonial or something?

He's on Tamaran, which the SI is much less involved with than his renegade-aligned counterpart.

 

He could gain Victor's service simply by offering him funding and then upholding whatever deal he makes with the guy.

 

"Mister Wynne" that's actually a fairly clever name for this Paul. Took me a second to get.

 

wasn't he physicist?

 

Didn't Gods and Monsters have Sivanna die before he had the chance to snap?

 

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Neat, ouu, if he's early enough on he could hire Quinzel on to tell him when he's being stupid.

 

Oh man. And we get at least two more of these?

This is an interesting one. I like the idea of a businessman SI in a superhero setting.

 

Well that- Wait. Lemme- Huh.

You got the punctuation on the last sentence here, but not in the Story Only Thread.

 

Can this be the new main story? I really really like this version of Paul.

 

It's like living in medieval times. When you wanted to communicate, you actually had to talk to them.

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

"Dad? Some English guy wants to talk to you."

So, he got mind-whammied on the DCAU here. Par for the course.

Almost as powerful as a power ring, really.

...which can enable a man to fly may be generating...

Who would? Besides a psychopath like the Joker.

And this is why we read this story. Rational uplift, by hook or by crook.

Too true. Unless you have a power ring.

That's putting it mildly.

Like a caveman.

Hmm... Could be a worry. I doubt Lex could get any progress by flashing money at someone richer than he is.

Looking good so far. I wonder how much part he'll play in the JL's support structure...

 

He has a way to power his ring right?

 

Help me out: does an Orange Ring recharge from ambient greed? If so, this Paul could probably staff of his death for a very long time.

Also, if he proves himself to be a good guy for long enough he might be able to persuade the Guardians to gift him a Lantern.

 

Thank you, corrected.

No.

 

These Guardians still use Manhunters.

 

It would be an interesting story on its own. I’ve only seen a business uplift SI a couple times before this, but it honestly doesn’t really fit with the whole ring aspect of With This Ring.

Otherwise, ‘Peter’ is doing some great stuff, Paragon Paul should be taking notes and upping his uplifting game.

 

Every Paul should still be thanatophobic, I believe, so it would make sense this version would try to find a way to prolong his lifespan ethically. I can’t think of anything in the DCAU that fits the description off the top of my head; possibly Lazarus Pits, but that would require technical expertise (if Nyssa is around, that could help).
The Philosopher’s stone might do the trick- I was always annoyed that J’onn destroyed it stating the price was too high, when they’d shown the Hugh Hefner stand-in profiting quite well from it with no explicit drawbacks (and J’onn was probably referring more to Morgaine’s help being the high price rather than using the Stone, but again the Hefner character seemed to use it without any mystic knowledge or assistance that the audience saw).
Unfortunately Hades is kind of an asshole in this setting, though he’s marginally better in JLU compared to Justice League (my headcanon was always that the Abrahamic Hell was expanding into other nether-realms and annexing them, so Hades-both person and place-had been demonically corrupted). The Greek afterlife here might not be the best one to connect to, at least compared to Earth-16Z.
Odin and Germanic paganism might be a better prospect; he and Paul both value knowledge, though Paul prefers to spread it while Odin is self-interested in an unenlightened way. Tora/Ice and the invulnerable Viking prince are the only indications of Norse magic in the setting I remember, and he can probably track the former down fairly easily.
Dark Heart nano-tech could possibly help, as long as he uses the ring to alter its programming first.

Paul is probably conserving ring charge but he may decide to use it once every few years to maintain his youth (I’m assuming he did instinctively alter his appearance in space like Paragon and Renegade, since that should have been consistent across universes, though the SGN banker doesn’t comment on his apparent youth so maybe he didn’t). It’ll be a few years till things really kick off with Justice League Unlimited after all.

 

Just read an old post from Mr Zoat which described Paul 12 as a billionaire industrialist. I wonder if the majority of his contributions are centered more in Europe, hence the lack of change in JL 12, which is mostly seen in America before their expansion.

 

I'm pretty sure the only canon ring to charge off ambiant emotion is the yellow one, which apparently doesn't have a canonical link to the fact they originated in the antimatter universe (but it should).

 

Judging by neither Batman, Superman, or Wonder Woman existing in universe according to the update, the Justice League won’t happen? Or am I missing something? This could be the live action tv show universe?

 

Wait, I just realized, this Paul doesn't have a lantern (and isn't interested in superhero work), but is generally working towards the same goals as Earth-16 Paul and has resources that Paul-16 does not.

If the League's recent activities become public knowledge, then Paul-12 could get in touch with Paul-16, and make a deal along the lines of "I'll give you the latest version of Doctor Knight's clean-energy machine and some other uplift tech, if you let me stop by every few months and top off my ring from your lantern."

The main issue being, he has to figure out how to get there. Paul-16 doesn't have reality-shifting tech, and Paul-12 might not either.

 

Nah, it's just too early in the timeline for them. Since 1996 is supposed to be the start of the Batman animated series he's probably doing the Urban Legend thing in Gotham at the moment. With 1996 quality internet Peter probably hasn't heard of him yet.

EDIT: Whoops, rembered wrong. 1996 was the end of the Batman Animated Series.