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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. Vaermina

    Vaermina Well worn.

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    Orange Lantern Construct Lanterns are just orange light copies of beings, not actual Souls and the like.

    Hence why Blackest Night sucked so bad for Larfleeze, with all the beings he turned into constructs getting their souls dragged back from the afterlife to go after him.
     
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  2. Darko

    Darko Connoisseur.

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    They might as well roll in broken glass and then take a bath in hot sauce mixed with a lot of salt.

    And we'll see if Paul will attack him as soon as he realizes that it's Nabu, or if he can restrain himself.
     
  3. Ngamer11

    Ngamer11 Experienced.

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    I'm pretty sure it is their souls trapped there, both in comics and this fic.
     
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  4. Vaermina

    Vaermina Well worn.

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    Then how were their souls free to be brought back by Black Lantern rings in the Blackest Night?
     
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  5. DrThoth

    DrThoth I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    Not 100% sure but I believe it's from the initial Books of Magic run by Neil Gaiman, when Timothy Hunter travels to the far future with Mister E and sees a bunch of shit from a magic multiversal war and things. It has an evil/twisted Nabu who forces his host to put him on.
     
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  6. Ngamer11

    Ngamer11 Experienced.

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    Black light trumps orange light?
     
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  7. Z000

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

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    it a bit sad nowaday since Paul stop using construct minion

    oh sure making them is unethical and morally wrong but i like minion class
     
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  8. transhumansage

    transhumansage Versed in the lewd.

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    i was starting to get attached to them. dammit.
     
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  9. Mr Zoat

    Mr Zoat Dedicated ragequitter

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    It would be fairly hard to justify.
    No.
    No one knows.
    To be fair to John, he had nothing to do with causing it to happen. This time.
    That's the one.
     
  10. PrinceJonathan

    PrinceJonathan Versed in the lewd.

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    Future Nabu: "You fool! I have 70 alternative accounts!"
     
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  11. Stsword

    Stsword Versed in the lewd.

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    Because Black Lanterns don't require souls.

    Hence Robotman being attacked by his own body, hence Deadman seeing his own body running around, hence Hawkman's previous incarnations becoming black lanterns, hence Deathstorm running around while Ronnie is alive, hence Solomon Grundy being a black lantern while Cyrus Gold was in Hell, hence Katana being attacked by her husband whose soul was in Soultaker, or Batman Who Laughs getting his brainless body reanimated while the actual Batman Who Laughs was busy elsewhere.

    Now some Black Lanterns most noticeably the Spectre were exceptions.
     
  12. Z000

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

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    yeah, Black Light don't 'revive' revive you, it just make a black light thing to puppet the body around i think

    basic Necromancy stuff really, animating the body with a spiritual construct
     
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  13. Stsword

    Stsword Versed in the lewd.

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    Although the Spectre was an obvious exception, all free willed Black Lanterns imply more exceptions, and the Solomon Grundy storyline suggests that Black Lantern status and other forms of undeath are compatible and are very very very bad news for anyone in the vicinity.
     
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  14. cookiemontser

    cookiemontser Getting out there.

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    Will we finally discover what happened to Constantine? Feels like years ago since we last saw him.
     
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  15. Massgamer

    Massgamer Not too sore, are you?

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    Alternate Nabu is most likely.

    Watch as New Kara tries to ripe the helmet off with her pure strength, stopping short of doing real harm.
     
  16. Baladar

    Baladar Know what you're doing yet?

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    Great. It’s the asshole lich again.
     
  17. BartlettMagic

    BartlettMagic peekaboo, you fucks you!

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    aww. if i'm not mistaken, that's the last of the orange light minions?

    that was one of my favorite parts of the orange light gimmick. i miss the demons that ate everything. i also loved it when, i think Renegade?, assimilated R'as al'Ghul and Vandal Savage for their lifetimes of information.

    anyway, tangential question: has anyone at the OLC besides Paragon been assimilating things? is that something taught at a higher level of training or something frowned upon or...?
     
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  18. Ngamer11

    Ngamer11 Experienced.

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    Paul should still have Dr. Morrow, the Saremite, and the Reach Thralls. Also, we saw Komand'r assimilate a Citadelian, and Onik assimilated the Spider Guilder he defeated.
     
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  19. BartlettMagic

    BartlettMagic peekaboo, you fucks you!

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    oh wow, i have zero memory of any of that
     
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  20. Mr Zoat

    Mr Zoat Dedicated ragequitter

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    I think that the saremite was assimilated by the Ophidian.
     
  21. Senevri

    Senevri Not too sore, are you?

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    I'm hoping this is an alt or corrupted Nabu amd not a future Nabu. See, last time I saw a skull-Nabu, removing the helmet was lethal to the wearer.
     
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  22. DrThoth

    DrThoth I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    The Saremite was, yes, but Paragon was directing it when he rescued Brainiac 2 from the Dominators; it was part of his threat against the high-caste ones that prompted them to choose Green Lantern custody. So it should still functionally be his construct Lantern. I still forget what Paragon used to create the construct ring he had for a bit a few episodes ago (sorry if someone answered and I missed it).

    I forgot about TO Morrow entirely. Is he helping out with the Kordtech weather drones based on his tech?
     
  23. Michael Vonica

    Michael Vonica Know what you're doing yet?

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    Paul went to visit him once, and realized that his own subconscious desires were dictating Morrow's actions. So Morrow was simply living with Red Tornado, and not causing any evil trouble, which was about all that Paul wanted him to do.
     
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  24. DrThoth

    DrThoth I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    I remember that, yeah. Just wondered if he was doing anything else. Though I really don't know how much time has passed in-universe since then.
     
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  25. Vaermina

    Vaermina Well worn.

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    At which point all the black lanterns were brought back to life by the White Light and fought their Orange Construct counterparts. :p
     
  26. Stsword

    Stsword Versed in the lewd.

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    I'll take things that never happened in Blackest Night, Alex! For crying out loud, The Orange Lantern Corps and White Lanterns were on the same side.

    Something that did happen in Blackest Night was that Deadman, a ghost, was resurrected as a White lantern despite his soul very very obviously not inhabiting his body at the time of resurrection.
     
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  27. Bramble Thorn

    Bramble Thorn Verified Silhouette

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    Ok, this seems like one of the ways to trigger OL really, really hard.
    Like that one family that found the Doctors button and all got locked away in fates worse than death.

    ...OL really doesn't look to kindly on possessive Lichery around these here parts.
    Should have just used a spare soulless corpse like a normal lich.
    But Golden helmet face huggers he takes about as well as the GLC does Starro infestations.
     
  28. Michael Vonica

    Michael Vonica Know what you're doing yet?

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    What if that's the plan? Push Paul's berserk button, get him to make a mistake, and take him out of the game early? Paul could easily be seen as one of the leading organizers of magical and demonic research and defense.
     
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  29. Bud-E

    Bud-E Stand up so I can push you down!

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    Wanna bet Truggs pulled this Nabu specifically to fuck with Paul.
     
  30. LazySloth13

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    If I had to guess Trugg's, and the remaining members of The Light, plans and resources have been hit hard by Paul's actions thus decided in order to fight the League they need to summon corrupted versions of known heroes to act as either cover or to test experimental magic-tech.
     
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