Your Everything Disgusts Me (DC/SI)

Maybe contempt for the lack of protection? You hate that you lack force fields, because not having force fields is stupid and just overall unacceptable. Might give at least a weaker shield maybe?

 

So, given the colors of the "spectrum" that Puce comes from, might we see recreations of the other Power Ring types from that continuity? Because they all seem to be various mixtures of the main DC Colors in some way, so someone could, theoretically, synthesize those connections between colors to recreate the alternate Spectrum.

Like, my idea here is that, for whatever reason, the core Emotional Spectrum was not used by the universe Puce comes from, and instead was used to synthesize the Lantern Power Cores, suppressing the influence of the "pure" spectrum. Or, perhaps, the emotional spectrum is the same colors in the universe Puce comes from, but the transition made "best fit" colors from the local Emotional Spectrum.

My biggest question is this: are Black and White still Death and Life, or is Black attuned to Apathy while White is attuned to something like Enlightenment? Because if the spectrum is overhauled, then what happens to the absence and full synchronization of it?

 

I meant in the reality Puce is from. It seems like an opportunity for some odd alternates that fit similar roles. I mean, Black in DC seems to be active negation of the Spectrum, but what about being a simple absence of it? Absorbing or reflecting the normal Spectrum? Apathy seems like a more logical Black to me, and having a more abstract Spectrum makes it seem like Life and Death fit less as White and Black as a result. Like, all the canon DC Emotional Spectrum powers are keyed to more or less concrete mental states, while the one Puce is from seems to be about concepts rather than states. You respect things, you have mercy on people, but you feel greed, you feel hope.

And Black is actually largely unrelated to the Emotional Spectrum. It's a side thing keyed to Nekron in particular that happens to be largely antithetical to the Emotional Spectrum, rather than an actual part of it. So in a topsy-turvy universe with a different Spectrum, it's counterpart of Nekron could be apart from the Spectrum in a less conflicting way. Or a differently-conflicting way, like the Black Light of Apathy being an eldritch thing that screws with how reality works quite severely by being an utter absence of the Emotional Spectrum. Nekron is what the Darkness Before the Universe saw as Life's interpretation of Death. What kind of being would be made from that force's view of Enlightenment's interpretation of Apathy?

Really, Nekron from Darkest Night is actually the result of a pre-universe force making something out of it's interpretation of Life's view of Death. Said force could have gone after a different concept, instead. Nekron is far from the only embodiment of Death in DC, after all. Hell, there's three different versions of the bugger.

 

The Green Light fills me with DETERMINATION.

 

What kind of mental contamination would Respect even give?

 

How open is that last issue to reinterpretation? Like, you could not respect the person you're healing but respect the action of healing them. Or would that not work?

 

Ahhh, "I can't respect myself if I don't heal them," or, "I respect my healing capabilities."

 

The Pity ring, OTOH, would likely be quite good for helping the hopeless (the more pathetic they are, the more you can help), but unless you have a great deal of self-pity, might not be so good for protecting yourself.

 

It's pretty easy to find people drowning in self-pitty.

 

Now I'm debating with myself if writing such a thing would be a good idea, because I'm fairly certain I'd be able to use such a ring if it were real.

 

The thing to remember for that Ring, almost like a mantra, would be "You should be better then me". It would actually be somewhat interesting.

This actually reminds me of how INTJs were called a "Cause with a rebel.". "This is my cause; This is my fight[...]" indeed.

 

Huh. Is 'rebellion/rebelliousness' an emotion?

 

so in the original universe that the Puce ring comes from How much mental contamination comes from the gold/glory ring? also who is usually chosen by those rings? Are they just narcissistic jackasses or are they people who do actually Glorious actions like running into a burning building to save someone/Fighting against injustice and oppression?

 

Surely, anyone who ever has to interact with Wally becomes a source of Puce Light to rival the CPB.

 

I mean, Wally is not entirely wrong about this specific situation. I just meant that my general reaction to YJ Wally could power a Puce Ring quite handily. He's just utterly worthless.

 

I wouldn't say 'worthless,' but he can certainly be very, very annoying.

 

He's a waste of perfectly good air. He's immature, misogynistic, deeply in denial about the very obvious existence of magic in his world, constantly gets the team into trouble by being less competent than he thinks he is, and has never shown a single redeeming feature. If I had a Puce ring in real life, it would completely remove him from an otherwise excellent cartoon.

 

Guiche had money, good hair, and a harem of bronze bitches- he was always a compelling character~

 

That somewhat different. The former was someone who was such as bad human that being any worse would actually be a improvement, because he wouldn't be able to do anything; He is so bad that he can be utterly dismissed due to not having anything to work with, which is sort of like being angery at grass or drying paint due to it sort of just being there. The latter, on the other, hand thinks he should be doing something, but due to not thinking about what that thing is ends up doing a impression of a parody that doesn't know they are a parody; He should know better, and even if he was just mimicing what he is trying to without adding anything onto that he could still do that if he wasn't such a fuckup about it, which make it somewhat like getting angery at fungus due to them having a whole life cycle based on making things fall apart.

 

So would you say purple/respect is the center of the Alternate spectrum like will/green is in the regular dc verse?

Also any idea on what the symbol for the respect ring would be? Cause I came up with one for glory/gold that's a triangle with the classic lantern circle/center at the tip then two prongs curving up from the circle to form "arms" kinda like a simplified trophy

 

Respect was explicitly stated to be at the edge of the spectrum. Discontent is the middle.