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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. Bigreader

    Bigreader Doom. Boom!

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    I'm kind of wondering when he was with Heenan why he didn't bother telling her that the reason the Delight disappeared is because she is now Delirium.
     
  2. Grimnar

    Grimnar Versed in the lewd.

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    That would be a good thing.
     
  3. battlespaceler

    battlespaceler Getting out there.

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  4. Chojin Patriarch

    Chojin Patriarch Veteran Lurker

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    True, true. But if her punctuation goes violet while she's got violet text, that's an overload of emotional energy. While characters like Hinon or the Guardians can handle it, a sixteen-year-old girl? Outlook not so good.
    And gaining Love Enlightenment, while stabilising, would require her to experience all aspects of love: the good, the bad and the ugly...
     
  5. Prince Charon

    Prince Charon Just zis guy, you know?

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    When did that happen?

    Might have happened off-screen. It's far from the first time something interesting has happened off-screen in this (rather long) story.
     
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  6. Zeushobbit

    Zeushobbit I use my mind and yours doesn't matter.

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    I think those quotation marks are not meant to be orange since I'm assuming it's Amon talking not Paul.
     
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  7. Buggy123

    Buggy123 I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    I think that was Paul jokingly quoting Amon, and then Zatanna realizes that he heard the nickname from Amon and tells him to stop.
     
  8. King of Frost

    King of Frost Wishing I was somewhere colder no doubt.

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    She's telling Amon to stop calling her that because OL jokingly called her that. She realized he heard it from Amon.
     
  9. Mr Zoat

    Mr Zoat Dedicated ragequitter

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    Thank you, corrected.
     
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  10. Xelloss

    Xelloss Know what you're doing yet?

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    Not in English, no.
    But in France, it's how we call it, because of reasons (I guess 'middle' or 'intermediate' is quite intuitive, but we don't do simple here - so we don't use the equivalent).
     
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  11. Unlimited Harem Works

    Unlimited Harem Works Know what you're doing yet?

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    What happened to Garth? And what’s “Purple”?
     
  12. Sceptic

    Sceptic Critical Irrationalist

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    It's a colour that can be produced by an additive mixing of blue and red.
     
  13. Z000

    Z000 If this is trash, then find me in the dumpster

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    i have no clue what Ventura is since i skip all Renegade segment like it the black plague

    so what exactly is going on, what side plot did the normal play through didn't do ?
     
  14. Mquz

    Mquz Versed in the lewd.

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    Grayven assisted a rival city of Atlantis (led by a former Aquaman villain) to remain independent through being the only city with the initiative to trade with the surface - the queen’s former supervillain connections coming in handy. In Paragon, the queen died, and was to be replaced by her daughter, who grew up and was raised in Atlantis - and would favor Atlantis over Ventura. In Renengade she is still alive, and can also name her successor due to the political power generated by being the only Atlantan city trading with the surface - they get to name prices. It’s not that people can’t go around them, but they just don’t die to difficulty involved as Ventura is close to the shore, and has set up a viable system already. That and,they mostly trade in luxury/ arcane items. Stuff people want, but don’t need.
     
  15. Coda

    Coda Versed in the lewd.

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    The first book is really good. The second book is solid, but doesn't quite have the magic of the first one. The third one is still a work in progress, but it's startlingly different from the other two in theme and content; it's a logical progression and it still feels like it fits together but there's a definite tone shift. (It's also distinctly more political in nature.)

    The writer knows this. It might be an intentional stylistic choice, because many of the main characters, including Doc himself, are acknowledged in-story as being effectively autistic due to the nature of their powers. Or it might be that the writer is writing what he knows. I suspect it's some combination of these.
     
  16. Chaoswind

    Chaoswind Lord of nonsense

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    So Paul is asking/showing controller Hinon things/people related to the other lights or high end jumped universal elementals (endless), so how come Zatanna isnt having a chat with grandma Hinon as she gets examined for symptoms of light overload? I thought Paul was working towards that when he asked Hinon about the Zamarrons, but nope.

    If Hinon is going to check on Alan (hope), shouldn't she also check Zatanna (love) as well? might even help distract Zatanna if Hinon asks her to be present the next time she calls Aga'po also would create an opportunity to have the Justice league sent a mission to the controller homeworld (Zatanna, a green lantern, one of the Hawks, Supergirl, etc) and gives Zoat the setup to have more earth characters in his space adventures, as those are more interesting for Paul (because he is powerful) while also retaining one of the main reasons most of us are here for IE the earth side DC League/Team characters.
     
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  17. Ganurath

    Ganurath Apologizes For Nothing

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    Garth's eye color, according to the Young Justice wiki.
     
  18. 9adam4

    9adam4 No emotion, only "peace"

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    Fusion isn't a chemical reaction - it's a nuclear reaction.

    Electricity conduction isn't considered a chemical reaction either, I don't think. Unless you're using a combustible fuel, I think you can go the whole power cycle with turbines and the like just using physical and electromagnetic interactions, no chemistry.
     
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  19. Belenus

    Belenus Versed in the lewd.

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    This not the same as "I need to know if you are"


    Might be good eventually. Probably should wait until she reaches the age of consent though.
     
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  20. 9adam4

    9adam4 No emotion, only "peace"

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    She has already reached the age of consent, almost anywhere in the States.

    She just hasn't reached the age where depictions of her aren't considered child porn. Meaning that she can do stuff, but we can't talk about it.

    EDIT: She's at least 16, right? I thought she was 16.
     
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  21. Mr Zoat

    Mr Zoat Dedicated ragequitter

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    Former Wonder Woman villain.
    15 for another few weeks.
     
  22. Mquz

    Mquz Versed in the lewd.

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    Doesn’t matter - both are exothernic, and therefore close enough. Not much further from fire than ATP creation. While the sun is nuclear, it still produces fire / energy. Shut that off, and the sun no longer produces light. Electricity - at the very least batteries use a chemical reaction to basically conduct electrons from one material with too many to a material with too few. So I believe it’s still a chemical reaction - just sort of long distance. Everything uses batteries/ electric potential.
     
  23. 9adam4

    9adam4 No emotion, only "peace"

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    Well, certainly if by "control all exothermic chemical reactions" you actually mean "control all reactions of any kind, whether or not they involve chemistry or produce heat" - then, yeah, that's overpowered.
     
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  24. 9adam4

    9adam4 No emotion, only "peace"

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    At which point she'll go, in most States, from "able to bang other teenagers" to "able to bang anyone."
     
  25. Valint

    Valint I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    Not so much.

    New York (where Zatanna lives) has an age of consent of 17. They also--contrary to what some sites claim--do not have a close-in-age exemption for sex. At 15 or 16, it becomes only a misdemeanor for a 16-to-20-year-old to have sex with her, but it's still a crime, prosecutors still actually charge it, and it still gets you put on a sex offender registry.

    (And, yes, this does mean that if two 16-year-olds have sex, both are committing a crime; the statute is gender-neutral. New York is one of those states that has a close-in-age exemption for "sexual contact", but not for actual sex.)

    Rhode Island (where Happy Harbor and the team's lair is) has an age of consent of 16... but any time you have a minor crossing state lines for sex that's illegal in their home state, that raises potential issues that an aggressive prosecutor could pursue.

    ... of course, if we're talking about this in the context of Zatanna's obvious interest in Paul, that's a bit of a red herring, in that Paul's issue with that relationship was never whether it would technically break the letter of any laws, but more whether it'd be wrong according to his moral code.
     
  26. Mquz

    Mquz Versed in the lewd.

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    Yeah, there’s probably a few more things to do with chemical reactions that are op - and I do get the difference, but I’m not a chemist. I can’t come up with them on the spot.
     
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  27. 9adam4

    9adam4 No emotion, only "peace"

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    Excellent point. I have to be constantly reminded that state laws applicable to "most States" will almost always be different in at least one of the big three (California, New York, or Texas).
     
  28. 9adam4

    9adam4 No emotion, only "peace"

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    TBQH, "stopping oxidation reactions" would be OP enough, we don't need to give her more. :)
     
  29. Mquz

    Mquz Versed in the lewd.

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    What about forcing them / catalyzing them? Explosive heat release from nearly any piece of metal.
     
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  30. Mquz

    Mquz Versed in the lewd.

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    If anyone is looking for a good summary of the Ventura situation: Here is Grayven’s summary of in-universe politics to King Orin. Edit: Sorry - next post after linked.
     
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