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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. Sorrow

    Sorrow Getting sticky.

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    Holy Spidercide Batman! I never thought I'd use the words "spider" and "cute" in the same sentence!
     
  2. Kalem_Lee

    Kalem_Lee Well worn.

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    ...:V:V:V

    Aquaman: The Hell Man?!
     
  3. SotF

    SotF And Away We Go!

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    You've obviously never seen Lucas...

     
  4. Darko

    Darko Connoisseur.

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    Yes but most of them were cute vampires/demons, this is a cute spider alien thing. Both are completely different.

    With all the multiversal crap that was going on recently maybe OL can get some help from a certain bald, alien, studio executive.



    Truly he is a fountain of parental and child raising wisdom.

    Paul really is a bad father and partner for not being there for the birth of his child/ren and helping his woman, isn't he?

    At least he has the excuse of not knowing his woman was pregnant at the time, unlike Vegeta who probably didn't care.
     
  5. BlueMangoAdea

    BlueMangoAdea Alive. For now.

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    To be fair, Koriand'r is Paul's subordinate, while Paul wasn't Orin's.
     
  6. NightmareWarden

    NightmareWarden Versed in the lewd.

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    Wellllll you’d talk to the Controllers about it. And the Controllers (hopefully) managed to learn about the Third Army hinted at in Oa’s Book of the Black. Said Third Army, if observed by any future-seer, can be described as mass-produced green lanterns. Genetically engineered ring-bearers don’t really act like people, which is a problem.

    Also is nameless-female-spider-guilder going to be the protagonist of WTR’s sequel?
     
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  7. Vaermina

    Vaermina Well worn.

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    This is a comics universe, genetics don't work there like your real world common sense seems to think it does.

    And on someone with a human mentality that probably would have worked.

    Sadly Paul traded that in awhile ago.
     
  8. Mr Zoat

    Mr Zoat Dedicated ragequitter

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    Thank you, corrected.
     
  9. Grek

    Grek (she/her)

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    Depends on if cloned spiderkids actually make good Lanterns. I personally am not convinced.
     
  10. BlueMangoAdea

    BlueMangoAdea Alive. For now.

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    Well, yes. But did they focus on engineering them to not going crazy, instead of WILLPOWER?
     
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  11. Darko

    Darko Connoisseur.

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    You shut you're filthy mouth.

    No one insults this little cutie, NO ONE!

    Though yeah we'll see if they really are capable of wielding a ring.
     
  12. thepsyborg

    thepsyborg Not too sore, are you?

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    I feel obligated to offer one internet cookie to rkyeun, because they fucking called it.
     
  13. Chojin Patriarch

    Chojin Patriarch Veteran Lurker

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    Holy crap, I think his brain just broke...

    Well, at least the peanut gallery is enjoying themselves.

    OL? You, uh, wanna say something? OL?

    Uh, Ring, you want to reboot OL now?

    Even the Amazons are getting worried. Wow.

    o_O Seriously, is he all right? <grabs a stick for poking>

    <poke> Anything? No? <poke>

    Okay, time for percussive maintenance. Someone wanna whack him one, ladies?

    Oh, hey, there he goes. Looks like he finally rebooted.

    And probably surprising her a little.

    Yes please! Enlighten us!

    Seriously, Kori, why are you not talking? Make with the mouth-noise thing quick-quick!

    Yeah, did he ever drop his environmental field in the spider-queen's presence at any point in his interactions with her? Because that is the only way they could have gotten any DNA traces.

    x3 Oh, god, the cute is strong with this one...

    Logical enough. So the 'Daddy' thing is a respect thing then.

    So not as creepy-crawly arachnophobe-triggering spidery. But not more humanoid? Odd choice.

    Again, logical. Why even assume a non-specialised Guilder could manage to achieve the mindset?

    Honestly, given the chattiness of the Amazons, the story will already have spread across Themyscira. He's gonna be called 'Arachneros' by people who weren't even in the city that day from now on...

    <Shudder> :eek: Oh god, if she keeps that up I'll need Diabeetus meds...

    And this is why she's not getting a ring yet. Also: Stop being so damn cute! :p

    Oh, thank goodness, news is unlikely to have spread far, then...

    She better be taping every second of this. If only to share with the other Lanterns. It'd be great for morale in the rookies.

    :confused: Seriously, how old is she? Mentally, I mean; she can't be more than a couple of months out of the egg...

    In more ways than one, if you know what I mean...

    And Space Elevators tend to be big investments in time, materials and energy, even for advanced civilisations like this.

    Poor guy, he's just not ready for fatherhood, is he? At least the Renegade has some practice now, between the Succuvamps and Lynne...

    And now Corps member are going to call him Daddy, once they hear about this, for the lols... Looks like Dox isn't going to have to worry too much about people respecting OL more than him now...

    Huh, she probably could, couldn't she? Though I doubt the Green Rings' seeker protocols would consider them a good target unless no-one else were closer, given the Spider Guild's reputation elsewhere.

    Which she probably knows as well as she does the hairs on her hands... Given it's wired into her psyche...

    And she's smart too. The Queen really pulled out all the stops with her...

    Honest, too. Though given that OL can see her subterfuge, there's no reason to hide it, is there?

    That's a matter of opinion... :rolleyes: The behaviour helps, I suppose...

    Huh. o_O That actually makes good sense.

    The optimism is admirable, but it's a big hill to climb...

    I should think so... She's gonna have some 'splainin' to do, Lucy...

    Huh. Well... That happened. This could go so many ways... At any rate, if they can avoid the obvious issue of custom-made ring-bearers (the whole 'thinking what their makers want them to think and nothing else') this has potential. I suppose it might work better for orange than some colours. Rage-Zombie Reds? Bad idea. The <Shudder> New 52's Third Army of Will-users? No, no, no! Gods, no!

    Broken spacing between the Ellipses and the timestamp.
     
  14. TheEyes

    TheEyes Well worn.

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    Yes, yes, you have been successfully manipulated.

    It's important to look beyond the immediate cuteness and recognize the political power-play that's going on here. With this, the Spider Guild has more or less announced that there is little in principle stopping it from breeding up an entire generation of orange lantern Guilders. Now, conceding that, if I were the SI, I would not feel bad at all to essentially ceding the cesspit of Vega to the Orange Guild, even going so far as recalling Lantern Kommand'r's ring and giving it to the newest spiderling, it does make me worry that the Guild is planning an even larger power play than that.
     
  15. Sockmonkey

    Sockmonkey I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    Orange-light compatible or not, OL still gets to decide if someone gets a ring or not. He could add a requirement that if they want rings, all future generations should have an inborn aversion to eating sapient creatures. This would actually work to the queen's benefit as well since a nest that isn't eating people is less likely to be attacked by enemies of their species.

    Also we want pics of best spooder
     
  16. BlueMangoAdea

    BlueMangoAdea Alive. For now.

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    Yes. It's now about politics that actually matters to him. It's going to be great.
     
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  17. Mr Zoat

    Mr Zoat Dedicated ragequitter

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    Thank you, corrected.
     
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  18. Vaermina

    Vaermina Well worn.

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    Probably not?

    I mean, technically speaking Paul isn't actually a very good lantern himself relying almost exclusively on his ring's AI to do everything for him.
     
  19. BlueMangoAdea

    BlueMangoAdea Alive. For now.

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    Yes. Using the ring's functions makes him a worse lantern. Of course. /s
     
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  20. Cuchulin

    Cuchulin Versed in the lewd.

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    He is a lot better than most of Earth's current Green Lanterns at least, also you probably need to reread the parts of this fic where Paragon shows that he is actually a lot better at Ring Slinging than Hal Jordon and helps Guy Gardner train in ring use.
     
  21. Darko

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    Kori must be finding this to be so cute.

    Remember her Teen Titans counterpart had Silkie as a pet and he was brought into the pages of DC comics in the n52 in the 2015 Starfire comic.

    [​IMG]

    In the fic Assimilation where they go to Atlantis Kori is instantly smitten by a magically enchanted isopod and rubs its belly. Kaldur also sees why she is attracted to the MC because of that.

    You do realize that Paul is able to wield his ring without going insane and is capable of performing feats that virtually no other orange lantern is capable of, right?
    And that's because of his own accomplishments and training, not because the AI decided to make him enlightened or give him automatic knowledge on how to wield a ring.

    He relies on his AI to provide him with info, something that virtually all other lanterns do, except maybe Dox, not with doing his job for him.
     
  22. Darko

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    Zoat how much of a ring charge does Lord Protector have actually?
     
  23. w34v3r

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    Wow... Spider lady cracked memetic reproduction as a meat being.

    I think that's putting her on par with some of the hyper cognitives on earth, especially if it actually worked.

    So in exalted terms are they first circle demons of Paul or the Spider lady?
     
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  24. NightmareWarden

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    Rereading the first few threads of With This Ring is quite the wild ride. Paul was so bemused by everything, even dangerous missions. I feel sorry for all of the new members of The Team that have not gotten to watch Super Giraffeman Seven with Paul, he’s really changed.

    I’m not trying to insult our beloved author, this is just bittersweet feeling of nostalgia I wanted to share.
     
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  25. Darko

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    Zoat in the second Lantern Coprs Ho chapter it says 'they want to go home'

    Maybe it can be 'they wanted to go home' because LP is explaining what happened in the past and you may also have to change 'won't allow that' to 'wouldn't allow that'
     
  26. Vaermina

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    Using the AI function doesn't make him a worse lantern.

    Over relying on the AI as much as Paul does on the other hand, does.



    No, it's not because of his own accomplishments and training, it's because Zoat the author massively nerfed how corrupting the Orange light was in story, compared to how it's actually shown to be in both the comics and shows.

    And on a note, we know from comparing Paragon Paul to the baseline JLAU Paul who ran down his ring, that Paragon Paul actually is insane.
     
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    How exactly does Paul over rely on the AI function? Honestly I'm not sure he's using it enough.

    As for the orange light, if you know going in what it does, and specifically prepare yourself mentally and philosophically for it, and you still come out some form of insane avarice exalt instead of a human that's pretty heady stuff, I don't think it's been nerfed, just channeled effectively.
     
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  28. Dragonvx100

    Dragonvx100 Not too sore, are you?

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    He probably did and is probably already experimenting on it.
     
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    Mr Zoat Dedicated ragequitter

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    It varies between 0% and 100%.
    No, it's as it's supposed to be.
    Why waste time trying to genetically engineer new people when you can just do neural rewrites on the ones you've already got?
     
  30. BlueMangoAdea

    BlueMangoAdea Alive. For now.

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    How long does it take for him to charge from 0 to 100?
     
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