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

Discussion in 'Creative Writing' started by Mr Zoat, Jan 27, 2019.

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  1. Mr Zoat

    Mr Zoat Dedicated ragequitter

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    No.
    No. Those injuries have long since healed.
     
  2. BR549

    BR549 This is filth! FILTH!!

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    You might have noticed most of the names the Equestrians call those who came through the mirror by are slightly off.
     
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  3. Darko

    Darko Connoisseur.

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    Really then what did he get from them if not the visitation rights?

    I thought that she told Paul she still had those injuries because they were making some kind of point to her to stop trying to contact their souls.
     
  4. Mr Zoat

    Mr Zoat Dedicated ragequitter

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    Effective elimination of their 'default service provider' status and an allowance for contact by his priesthood. Probably some other things that also aren't important to the story.
    I really don't remember.
     
  5. Darko

    Darko Connoisseur.

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    By elimination of default service provider do you mean that souls that would have gone to Heaven or Hell, even if they worshiped other gods, but not that much, like the souls in Limbo, are now going to go to the afterlives of the gods they worshiped even if it was not that much, because that's what I'm guessing?
     
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  6. Mr Zoat

    Mr Zoat Dedicated ragequitter

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    No, it's agnostics and others with no strong opinion who now aren't automatically shifted into the monotheistic structure.
     
  7. RichardWhereat

    RichardWhereat Aia airëa Fëanáro.

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    Oh. Good. I was a little worried there. I've numerous atheist and agnostic friends and I'd much rather see them in the Elysium Fields than them having to suffer hell.
     
  8. Darko

    Darko Connoisseur.

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    So if they don't worship for example the Hellenistic gods, but were still somehow inspired by them, either by reading stories about them or something similar, then they would go to Erebus, instead Heaven or Hell?
     
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  9. Mr Zoat

    Mr Zoat Dedicated ragequitter

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    They might. Or to a different afterlife entirely. Plus, it allows innovative afterlife service providers like the Japanese pantheon to expand their market.
     
  10. Darko

    Darko Connoisseur.

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    The Japanese afterlife may not be all that nice if they're using the methods they used in Lucifer.

    Leaving people that haven't accomplished anything too good or too evil in small rooms while depriving them of their senses isn't exactly something most people would want, unless their masochists of course.
     
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  11. Mr Zoat

    Mr Zoat Dedicated ragequitter

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    I never said that their product was any good.
     
  12. NullVoid

    NullVoid Getting out there.

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    This should be "shearing". (sheer vs. shear is one of those things that drive me nuts)
     
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  13. Mr Zoat

    Mr Zoat Dedicated ragequitter

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    Thank you, corrected.
     
  14. Ace Dreamer

    Ace Dreamer Questioning The Nature of our Realities

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    So, would the Home For Infinite Losers be a suitable such provider? :)

    Some might like blue ogres (oni), and the odd martial artist dropping in from above...
     
  15. Zig

    Zig Not too sore, are you?

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    Speaking of innovative providers, is Mormon heaven a thing in the DCverse / Zoatverse? Cuz that seems like a good way to munchkin your way to superior powers.
     
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  16. Ace Dreamer

    Ace Dreamer Questioning The Nature of our Realities

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    What if your religion is Science Fiction, and your heaven is the Omega Point? :)

    (Yes, both of the links cover similar stuff, but, the perspective is different. And, maybe you want the book titles? :) )

    If you've got the right religion, can you be reincarnated as a robot?

    (Dalai Lama on the subject.)
     
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  17. Jus4532

    Jus4532 Versed in the lewd.

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    Mr Zoat, this question kept bothering me for a while and I just have to ask. When OL was possessed by the Ophidian, and started singing New York New York, did he also danced while he was singing it? What kind of dance was it?
     
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  18. RichardWhereat

    RichardWhereat Aia airëa Fëanáro.

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    I have always imagined it as a Sinatra like tapdance.
     
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  19. dogbertcarroll

    dogbertcarroll Random lurker

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    While some may dislike them, I love the pony sections!
     
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  20. TheEyes

    TheEyes Well worn.

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    Makes me wonder if people who are members of the Jedi religion get absorbed into the Green or Red when they die.
     
  21. Threadmarks: Duplication (supplementary, Renegade option)
    Mr Zoat

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    2nd April 2012
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    Luna and I cautiously trot forwards towards the broken edge of the… Room, I suppose.

    "I.. have my issues with Celestia's teaching style, but to the best of your knowledge-?"

    "Be assured that Our Sister is not in the habit of hurling her students from buildings."

    We both look down to where Sunset appears to have survived her crash landing and is now sprinting across the courtyard garden for cover as skull-sized rocks get pelted at her.

    "You alright, Sunset!?"

    "Yes!"

    "Because we're getting slightly worried up here!"

    "Short version?!" I just about manage a wing-shrug. "Equestria does have a native earth pony magic tradition!"

    "Um! Good?!"

    "I know! Ah!"

    A boulder the size of a car slams into the ground just in front of her, forcing her to throw herself to the side to avoid running into it. She trips, rolls, then climbs back onto her hooves again just ahead of the next rock.

    "It's going to save so much time!"

    I turn my head to Luna, who appears to be staring at the scene with the same bewilderment I feel.

    "Luna, is this some sort of.. pony thing I don't know about?"

    "If it is, then there are two of us who do not know about it. Our Sister's student! Wherefore art thou not using thine unicorn magic?!"

    "Did you know that benitoite can stop unicorns using magic?!"

    "Neigh, we did not!"

    The rain of rock stops and Sunset braces for a novel form of attack.

    I smile. Good girl.

    "Well it can and it works really well!"

    "Daddy, should I stop them?"

    I look further down to where Lynne is standing next to my right foreleg and looking up at me, a faint orange glow around her horn.

    "No, Sunset appears to be enjoying-" I glance down at the garden as a circle around Sunset becomes liquefacted, causing her to drop into the ground and frantically try to 'swim' to the edge. "-herself. Ponies aren't good swimmers, are they?"

    Luna looks away from the garden in order to throw me a quizzical glance.

    "And apes are?"

    I nod. "Hominids are. Humans can swim straight from the womb."

    "That must be a strange sight."

    "Compared to a pony trying to swim through earth?"

    Sunset reaches the edge and gets her forehooves on solid ground, only for the rest of the soil to become solid as well. Sunset's eyes widen as she's caught halfway.

    "Daddy, can babies really swim?"

    "Yes, but not very well." Sunset wiggles, trying to use her alicorn strength to force the soil to release her. The soil covering the front part of her torso falls free easily enough but she can't get the leverage to pull herself out of the hole. "They tend to float and they hold their breath, but they can't do more than doggy paddle and they're not very strong."

    The earth on the far side of the courtyard erupts, rock pillars shooting upward to form a series of steps from the roof to the garden as a small grey mare in a dull blue dress calmly jumps from one to the next like a mountain goat funeral director.

    "Sunset."

    Her voice sounds curiously disinterested, as if fights on the palace grounds are something she gets into every day.

    "You know you can get out with magic."

    "Yeah… But when I said I like hooves-on-" She strains against her earthy prison. "-research, I still meant a training area, not just -uhh- 'throwing down' in the palace."

    The grey pony reaches ground level and lightly stomps her forehooves, causing the rock pillars to sink back into the ground. Dread to think what the subsidence is going to be like in a few years…

    The grey pony then stops and stamps her back right leg. The ground around Sunset slowly rises up in a wave of earth.

    "Um. Um. Um."

    Sunset takes a deep breath and lets the wave collapse on top of her. I don my goggles so that I can make sure that her life isn't in danger, but… I don't want to intervene yet. And not just because she brought this on herself. Given the day she had yesterday, I'd probably give her a bye on that one. No, it's because I can tell the difference between outright panic and a momentary burst of fear. Sunset was worried about the soil, but she didn't genuinely believe that she might die. So that-.

    Soil explodes in all directions, though I note that anything that hit the grey mare dropped to the ground immediately, rather than sticking to her fur or clothing. Sunset stands unsteadily in the centre of a gardener-horrifying crater. She's still pretty muddy, but-. Oh, that was lacertomancy. She removed the soil with a super strength flex, rather than geomancy. Still a one-in-four improvement on her earth pony magic skills since yesterday, but probably not what she was trying for.

    "It worked!" She looks up at us. "Did you see that!?"

    "Yes! Very nice!" I frown. "Luna, have you got any idea who the grey mare is?"

    "No, though We think that We may need to make her acquaintance once this bizarre display has been concluded, both to learn from her expertise and to sentence her for vandalism."

    "Daddy, can we learn to do that?"

    "Pro-bably, but you'd only be able to do it in pony form." I glance down at her. "And if you're interested in magical strength-training, I can show you how to do that."

    "Okay."

    Sunset clears the edge of the crater by awkwardly flapping her dirt-encrusted wings and doing a trot-landing on what's left of the grass.

    "That wasn't rock magic."

    A spear of rock shoots out of the ground and Sunset has to jerk her head to the side to avoid being speared!

    "You should try listening to the rocks. They say all kinds of interesting things."

    "Ah…" Sunset leans towards the spear. "Hello.. rock..?

    Another spear comes at her from her left, and she drops onto her belly to fully evade it!

    "Ah! Bad rock!"

    "Hey, Luna." I frown as Sunset keeps trying to 'talk' to the rock and the grey mare keeps firing spears at her. "Can you control rocks?"

    "We cannot. And… Having seen this tomfoolery, We think that We will wait to learn until Sunset Shimmer can instruct Us in a more decorous fashion."
     
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  22. RichardWhereat

    RichardWhereat Aia airëa Fëanáro.

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    You're missing a size bracket in there.
     
  23. darlene'sdarling

    darlene'sdarling Likes Darlene back

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    I did not know who Maud Pie was before today, and now my life is a little bit more complete.
     
  24. Citizen

    Citizen Well worn.

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    I think you wanted to close those brackets.
     
  25. Ganurath

    Ganurath Apologizes For Nothing

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    Wait until they find out about the Earth Pony (or maybe just Pie family) precognition.
     
  26. Handlewithcare

    Handlewithcare Versed in the lewd.

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    MAUD IS AN EARTHBENDER!

    YUSS!

    THIS PLEASES ME!
     
  27. Mr Zoat

    Mr Zoat Dedicated ragequitter

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    I think I want to open them.
     
  28. moralrelativity

    moralrelativity Recovering pendant.

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    what's -> what
     
  29. Mr Zoat

    Mr Zoat Dedicated ragequitter

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    Thank you, corrected.
     
  30. Ganurath

    Ganurath Apologizes For Nothing

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    Would you say that it...

    *shades*

    ...Rocks?
     
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