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

no, as in gigastalins- it’s not a metric system, half the units and scale points don’t make consistent sense!

 

Thank you @ThrawnCA for the reminder. 'Seven' refers to the fact that Grayven said he would pick her up at seven.

 

No idea what that was so I'll just delete it.

Changed.

Updated.

I seem to remember that the tense thing was intentional.

Thank you, corrected.

She's punctuating it as a tamaranian name.

 

Wasn't that hinted in this whole Arc? That the reason he can feel alternate universe Scoot Free is because the native Scoot helped him with his whole "Anti-Life" problem?

 

I think the real problem is that there is no known life equation, even to Scott.

 

Or put another way:

 

However, given Zoat's much-professed love of the new 52 perhaps he knows of the white lantern's light being the life equation? unless that came after the start of the story.

 

The Life Equation has been a term in DC for decades before Flashpoint actually.

In a New Gods series, Highfather referred to the Source as the "Life Equation" I can't recall if that was in the seventies or eighties.

And in one history of Darkseid's obsession with the Anti-Life Equation, he got the concept from the Martians explaining their concept of the Life Equation to him.

 

Yeah - but the Life Equation being the source is kind of mutually exclusive with Scott knowing it.

 

Mother Boxes literally run on the Life Equation.


companionship + understanding + assurance + joy + altruism ÷ respect ÷ commendation ÷ sympathy x innocence x dignity x success x acceptance y=n where y=despair and n=caution, love=truth, death=rebirth, and self=light side

 

Among other issues one would think it would be ”Self = Valid” but what do I know.

 

In anti life is Self = Dark side

But if you want to have fun...

self=Be a Bro!

 

That's five different equations.

Also, only altruism is multiplied/divided by respect, commendation, and sympathy... and it's divided by them, in series, so the overall 'value' of life goes down with more respect, sympathy, innocence, dignity, success, or acceptance?

I'm not saying Highfather is bad at math... but mmaaaaaybe he should try to find a New God of Arithmetic? No wonder Darkseid usually wins.

 

Well, this is the anti-life.

loneliness + alienation + fear + despair + self-worth ÷ mockery ÷ condemnation ÷ misunderstanding x guilt x shame x failure x judgment n=y where y=hope and n=folly, love=lies, life=death, self=dark side

 

Yeah, but life = pain isn’t part of that dark side equation. The light version would also probably have Life = pleasure in there. Also, we still have no indication that Scott knows it.

 

[Points vaguely in the direction of the FAQ.]

[Goes to have a lie down.]

 

that moment when you realize the softer lighter version of you is also more bad ass then you are.

 

*my boom tube

And a space is needed between these lines.

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

Things at which Paragon is better: coping with Anti-Life.

Given that Darkseid is (one of) the big bads of the DC Universe, and especially seems to be Renegade's endgame boss, I feel like that's going to be the biggest difference between the two paths Renegade and Paragon have taken.

Can't wait to see you curse at the Source Wall, "Grayven"!

 

Did Scott's fear and avarice help stabilize Grayven via his rings?

 

Wow, Scott can deal with the Anti-Life pretty easily

 

The thing a lot of people forget is that the Velvet Glove does a lot to protect the Iron Fist.

Paulven's views of "The biggest badass is not the guy who gets in all the fights; it's the guy who ends them." probably isn't that obvious to a native Apokoliptian.

Thanks
Luc "'The Velvet Revolver In The Latex Glove' on the other hand..." French

 

Well, yeah.

There's Always a Way Out, after all.

 

Yeah, Grayven-50 ain't getting out of this without loosing stuff. Just a matter of how much he can save for himself.

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

She has no chance. Interesting power, though... A Psion experiment?

Hey, she might have gotten away. Don't doubt the Girl-Unicorn.

Heh, G-50 seems shocked. Daddy didn't like him enough to give him a little gift?

The Renegade isn't trying to control it, though... Grayven-50 has so much overconfidence, it's making him stupid.

And now he's learning how much overconfidence can backfire. Trying to grab more than he can hold? Big mistake, especially where Earth is involved.

Oof, unlucky for her. I doubt she deserved the full force of that, but working for Grayven-50? Probably not a nice person anyway.

That's it, cut and run. Doubting your resistance to Anti-life, are you?

Surprised he bothered to save his flunky. Maybe she's the one thing he bothers to care for?

Damn, that hurts to read, and I don't just mean the text colour. Seriously, if not for the Anti-life, that would be Violet and Indigo as fuck.

Ooh, John and Shayera must be pissed.

Ah, possibly the one man who can help the Renegade right now.

I like that confidence. 'Just a little one', eh?

Ah, that's how he got caught, eh?

Ah, I see. Channel Emotion at him to weaken the crippling depression of the Anti-life chunk.

Ha!

There we go, Emotion back at the wheel.

Well, that's one way to keep the New God of Freedom from escaping: a cell that constantly changes.

In the words of the Fifth Doctor: Brave Heart, Renegade.

If Ring-nestro is as complex as he seems, I doubt that felt particularly fun.

Home, I would hope. As much as Grayven-50 deserves it, there's not much hope of tracking him down and feeding him his ass.

Well, Godzilla has come and gone. I bet Grayven-50 feels a little bit like Tokyo right now. No less than he deserves...

A little Godspeech, free of charge:

 

It is kind of the man's shtick

 

It's kind of ironic and amusing that the Renegade's worst moment, one can argue, has ended up being his last option double edged poisonous sword. And that both times he has used or showed it is against his Grayven alter-ego.

Besides that, Scott is 'best bro', and that 'Doctor Nobody' guy better run or he won't like when the Renegade gets his hands on him. I mean, I don't think Scott will let the Renegade exercise his right for lethal retribution but 'mishaps' happen, you know.

 

In a non fan-fiction world to New Genesis to have the Anti-Life equation that's slowly killing you removed.

But since this is a fan-fiction I am going to guess to go pick up your miraculously surviving allies. (Except maybe the Genomorphs who are pretty much faceless clones so don't really count on the "always survive" scale.)

 

.... Random question but did we ever find out what happened to the Earth-50 Paul?