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

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Mr Zoat said:
Shy around attractive women? Well, reserved, yes, but I've spent the last three months doing intense physical exercise to prepare for this role and I'm feeling a little more confident in my own appearance than I used to.
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Anyone else imagining Paul as Luke Skywalker and Percival as Yoda training Paul while he does handstands in a swamp?
 
Mr Zoat said:
Contact the closest police armed response unit. Fake dispatch orders.

Orders fabricated. Emergency dispatch triggered
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I'm am surprisingly excited to see the ARU show up in the middle of this. To all my fellow Americans, you should look those guys up on Google images. It's like a baby version of SWAT
 
Paul has probably become a real headache for the Alliance by this point. I hope he meets Logan and Sh'lainn soon and starts getting the first hints of Rinaker and his true motives and I really hope that we will see the episode where Athos is born. Why doesn't he talk?
 
moralrelativity said:
host -> hose ?
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Thank you, corrected.
BrotherofaStudio said:
Paul has probably become a real headache for the Alliance by this point.
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He is inconvenient, but more because they don't know what areas he operates in. Once he's a known threat, they would plan around him.
I hope he meets Logan and Sh'lainn soon and starts getting the first hints of Rinaker and his true motives
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Thing is, neither the SI nor Logan know enough to be sure how right or wrong the Alliance is. The SI opposes them because he sees them attacking innocent people and not having lawful authority. Logan considers the threat to be big enough that he'll accept a few things he's not comfortable with.
and I really hope that we will see the episode where Athos is born.
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Almost certainly not. There's no reason for the SI to go there.
Why doesn't he talk?
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Kayfabe.
 
BrotherofaStudio said:
Pardon?
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I'm sorry - I've seen the word, but don't remember what it means.

In answer to your original question, though - as Roswaul says, the less he does, the less he gives away. In the event that, say, for example, he needs to go undercover in the Alliance directly, having someone recognise his voice would be very bad . . .And while the ring might be able to utilise a voice filter that can fool humans and most technology available to the Alliance (I'm not ruling anything out), he doesn't have the advantage of a standard Lanterns' species database; who knows what kind of senses he might not fool, not simply because he can't, but because he doesn't know he should?

I mean, yes, Roswell Conspiracies generally operates on a fairly grim-and-gritty, almost pulp sci-fi approach to their aliens - but on the other hand, Sh'lainn and her species are quasi-psychics that can sense approaching death, which in a real-world setup implies an ability to detect and quantify quantum probability itself (however specialised it might be).
 
Interesting. Will isn't Paul's strong suit so it seems he's using some sort of a mental construct to manage. I'd guess his constructs are still pretty fragile, but "pretty fragile" for a lantern construct is probably still as tough as steel or so.
 
Kurai said:
I'm sorry - I've seen the word, but don't remember what it means.

In answer to your original question, though - as Roswaul says, the less he does, the less he gives away. In the event that, say, for example, he needs to go undercover in the Alliance directly, having someone recognise his voice would be very bad . . .And while the ring might be able to utilise a voice filter that can fool humans and most technology available to the Alliance (I'm not ruling anything out), he doesn't have the advantage of a standard Lanterns' species database; who knows what kind of senses he might not fool, not simply because he can't, but because he doesn't know he should?

I mean, yes, Roswell Conspiracies generally operates on a fairly grim-and-gritty, almost pulp sci-fi approach to their aliens - but on the other hand, Sh'lainn and her species are quasi-psychics that can sense approaching death, which in a real-world setup implies an ability to detect and quantify quantum probability itself (however specialised it might be).
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Okay that I understand. And very good points.
 
Senevri said:
Interesting. Will isn't Paul's strong suit so it seems he's using some sort of a mental construct to manage. I'd guess his constructs are still pretty fragile, but "pretty fragile" for a lantern construct is probably still as tough as steel or so.
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They're strong when he focuses, but the sort of focus the green light requires doesn't come naturally to him and so his 'resting strength' is relatively low.
 
Mr Zoat said:
Well, reserved, yes, but I've spent the last three months doing intense physical exercise to prepare for this role and I'm feeling a little more confident in my own appearance than I used to.
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It is incredibly disturbing to see this Paul somehow fail the standard "With This Ring, I Fleshsculpt My Body To My Envisioned Ideal" every other version of him pulls off.
 
mastermenthe said:
It is incredibly disturbing to see this Paul somehow fail the standard "With This Ring, I Fleshsculpt My Body To My Envisioned Ideal" every other version of him pulls off.
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Actually, that's a... Orange-only thing. I specifically mentioned that the red version couldn't do it either.
 
mastermenthe said:
That's... ominous. What makes the other Emotional Lights incapable of such a feat?
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Green Light isn't the best at healing and the like.

Not really something that Zoat can ignore since if the Green Light was good at healing neither Sinestro or Hal would have ever become lanterns.

Yeah, Sinestro has basically the same origin Hal does, except his predecessor could have been saved, Sinestro let him die to keep the ring.

And if the green light was better at healing the zombie/lich Green Lantern would have probably been resurrected by his ring instead of reanimated.

I wouldn't say that's its impossible for the green light, just difficult.

Arisia aged herself up to snog Hal.

Three of G'nort's fellow idiot lanterns made themselves superhumanly strong and tough. Two brothers to "fight each other heroically." One wanted to be a professional mover and thought superstrength would be good for moving furniture. To be fair, he's not exactly wrong.
 
It's interesting because, yes, there's an evil alien infiltrator deliberately manipulating the Alliance to be more aggressive . . . But a decent chunk of these alien refugees are outright predatory or malicious in their own right so it's not like the Alliance doesn't have reasons to act the way it does.
 
Darko said:
Aside from making him physically stronger, it can make him more willful.

Working out can be stressful and painful, so it can help to have a strong will.
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You don't even need to stretch it that far, having better cardiovascular health just objectively makes you better at dealing with stress and focusing on stuff.
 
Bud-E said:
Anyone else imagining Paul as Luke Skywalker and Percival as Yoda training Paul while he does handstands in a swamp?
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I'm now imagining Percival being a fan of those movies and wanting to play out certain parts of it.

Mr Zoat said:
Actually, that's a... Orange-only thing. I specifically mentioned that the red version couldn't do it either.
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I think it was mentioned that both Raul and Lord Protector had their bodies altered by having any excess fat burned out but it left them looking emaciated.

The yellow ring may have done that to make Lord Protector look scarier.

mastermenthe said:
That's... ominous. What makes the other Emotional Lights incapable of such a feat?
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I have read a fic where the Indigo SI was able to find a way to make himself more conveniently attractive by using compassion.

Originally he had trouble, but he was able to think of the fact that people may be more at ease around attractive people and used his compassionate need to help people and put them at ease to make himself look better.
 
Doccer said:
And I don't recall goblins from the show?
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The Conduit is implied to have a lot of minor species associated with it. There may have been one in a background shot, or I may have made them up.
mastermenthe said:
That's... ominous. What makes the other Emotional Lights incapable of such a feat?
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Wanting to have a better body is very common, but how do you make a desire work in consort with other colours? A green light user could do it... If they could picture the exact changes they want to make.
Darko said:
I think it was mentioned that both Raul and Lord Protector had their bodies altered by having any excess fat burned out but it left them looking emaciated.

The yellow ring may have done that to make Lord Protector look scarier.
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No, the Lord Protector just hasn't had a lot to eat due to the famine.
 
Red Paul is mega fit because of how much exercise he's getting, but did he age down like Orange Paul did? There was no mention of the dissonance of seeing a 30 something year old with Blackfire, who looks (and is) in her teens.
 
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Red Paul is mega fit because of how much exercise he's getting, but did he age down like Orange Paul did? There was no mention of the dissonance of seeing a 30 something year old with Backfire, who looks (and is) in her teens.
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He did not age down.

The other characters are more concerned about his massive body count than his consensual relationship with an alien whose sister isn't bothered by it and doesn't seem to grasp why they might be.
 
The Unaligned Player said:
One would think anger at one's own weakness would mould the bodies of any Red Paul's.
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I would, yes - likewise, one's fear of being harmed because of being weak/unhealthy could, in theory, be intense enough to be focussed into purging that weakness from the body.

Neither, I expect, would anywhere near as easy as the Orange Light version; as noted, the Yellow Light doesn't heal well (though I would think focussing on fear of dying might help there), and I imagine that the Red Light "heals" in the same sense that cauterising an open wound with a blowtorch will staunch bleeding . . . Ultimately, though, few Power Rings have truly unique capabilities from one another (heck, they all have the Guardians' "deputising" function as part of their design, when it makes no sense for almost any of them to do so), and it's generally a matter of focus.

(Actually, that may in fact be why green rings are bad at healing - their users tend to have the "will to power through the pain/injury" instead . . . Up until they don't, anyway.)
 
Kurai said:
I would, yes - likewise, one's fear of being harmed because of being weak/unhealthy could, in theory, be intense enough to be focussed into purging that weakness from the body.

Neither, I expect, would anywhere near as easy as the Orange Light version; as noted, the Yellow Light doesn't heal well (though I would think focussing on fear of dying might help there), and I imagine that the Red Light "heals" in the same sense that cauterising an open wound with a blowtorch will staunch bleeding . . . Ultimately, though, few Power Rings have truly unique capabilities from one another (heck, they all have the Guardians' "deputising" function as part of their design, when it makes no sense for almost any of them to do so), and it's generally a matter of focus.

(Actually, that may in fact be why green rings are bad at healing - their users tend to have the "will to power through the pain/injury" instead . . . Up until they don't, anyway.)
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Canon DC wise, all rings but Blue are bad at healing to the point they just straight up can't do it.
 
Lantern Conspiracies (part 5)
3rd November 1999
21:22 GMT

Some of the fire falls off as I storm forward, probably them trying to assess what caused the door to move. But-

"Maintain fire!"

-my shield and the golem's body are still taking a lot of fire. I sight the mech to my left and charge in that direction, my eye slit fixed on the Alliance pilot. They spot me and try to back up-

"Target the aliens! Fire team two, overwatch!"

-while maintaining fire, but it's nothing that my shield can't handle. There isn't much cover here, but the woodlands are blocking some of the Alliance operatives' lines of fire, and the second mech pilot appears to be torn between shooting the entrance, me, or the golem. The tilt of the gun makes it look like he's decided on 'me', then a purple beam from the golem's plasma cannon striking his canopy causes him to reconsider.

Closed the distance and I bring my sword up, clearly picturing in my mind the blade slicing through the mech's leg armour, needing it to, refusing to accept even the possibility of it failing. The blade responds by lengthening and shining as I swing it, getting under the angle of depression of the mech's main gun and striking it hard in the left shin.

The metal parts.

The metal parts.

The metal parts.

My sword pierces the armour and the mechanisms beneath, shearing through the leg and causing the mech to lurch sideways. It jams its stump into the ground as it tries to remain balanced, and either the pilot is on the ball or the computer is because it bends its right leg to try and remain level. Fire from other sources slacks off as Alliance soldiers want to avoid friendly fire, but since they're well trained they use the opportunity to reposition. I use the opportunity to change direction and cut into the right leg.

The metal parts.

The metal parts.

The metal parts.

There's a shower of sparks as the shin is severed, the mech overbalancing and collapsing onto its front, cockpit slamming into the ground! I stop, turn to face the rear-mounted engine unit and stab, piercing the armour and wrecking the generator and battery.

Try moving that before the legitimate authorities arrive.

Ugh!

I'm knocked aside by a plasma beam-. Continuous beam. The only way to really-.

I clamp down on that thought. My armour cannot be pierced, and I get my shield in the way as I recover. Two Alliance operatives dash out of cover to recover the stunned mech pilot, and since a wounded man does more to slow a formation than a dead one I don't interrupt.

Across the glade the golem makes it to the other mech and grabs the leg, heaving it off the ground and hurling it in the direction of the closest concentration of Alliance soldiers. They rapidly abandon cover, throwing themselves out of the way as the mech comes down with a colossal thud!

The man who shot me ceases fire as smoke rises from his gun. He tosses it aside with a grimace before drawing some sort of baton weapon. Yes, that's why you don't fire them like that. He gestures, and another squad-.

He's the agent in charge? Right then.

Head down and shield up I charge towards him. Plasma fire from my right slams into my shield, which turns it aside or absorbs its energy without difficulty because anything else is inconceivable. Not much on my left: the other side of the Alliance formation is occupied with the golem.

I raise my sword and point it at the lead agent, in a clear challenge. He snarls.

"Another alien mercenary."

He takes in the damage that the plasma weapons pointing at me aren't doing, and the fact that he's got about five seconds before I'm on him.

"Fire team, four and five, pull back and set up overwatch. Other squads, prepare to retreat."

His offhand moves, and I crouch further behind my shield as the plasma grenade goes off just ahead of me, shoving me back slight-.

And he's there, off-hand grabbing the edge of my shield and right hand swinging his baton at my head! I plant my feet to resist his charge and swing my sword at his wrist. He pulls back his swing, catching the tip of my sword in the strongest part of his maul's plasma field-

The sword remains whole and I remain standing strong.

The sword remains whole and I remain standing strong.

-for a moment until the edge of the sword shears through one of the containment prongs, causing it to explosively discharge! He's knocked back, right hand blackened and burned and-.

WOOMP!

Agh-! He dropped a grenade as he fell, this one making it under my shield where I raised it to hold him off. My armour is fine, my legs are fine, but I'm off my feet and he's pulling back.

I pull my legs back under me and stand, walking out of the smoke and dust. No need to chase them down. Them leaving is probably the best solution-.

The mech I wrecked explodes! That shouldn't-? Scuttling charges. They blew it to disguise what it is. It'll still look suspicious as heck-.

One of the Alliance squads shoot me, but they're using the smaller plasma guns and my armour is fine. I could pursue, but I think that the police have enough prisoners for the moment and I don't really-.

"Knight!" I jerk my head around to look at the golem. He looks battered, but he doesn't appear to be bleeding and nothing is obviously broken. "They got past me!"

I turn and run towards the bunker entrance, the broken ground solidifying under my feet as I cover the distance in seconds. I didn't hear an order, did they just take the initiative?

Their sternguard steps out of cover to swing his baton at me but I just shield-charge him and slam him into the wall with a crack. Then I run for the stairs and down, down and charge through the halls towards-.

"…vampires?! Where are the vampires?!"

Back into the medical room. The nurse is standing between an Alliance soldier and an injured faun in a wheelchair. He doesn't have a weapon.

The soldier's head jerks towards me, and his eyes widen slightly-.

His finger tightens-.

I lunge, sword outstretched, and run him through the heart.

He shudders, expression fading as his gun drops from nerveless hands. He looks directly into my visor, lips moving weakly…

Then his eyes roll back and-. And my sword slices its way out through his shoulder as his body falls to the ground.

…

I didn't-.

…

The sword disappears, and-.

Focus. I make eye contact with the nurse. I need to know if there's-.

"Thank you. I thought we were done for." He grabs the handles of the wheelchair and begins pushing the faun out of the bunker. "I didn't see any others in the bunker, but we can't hang around. And neither can you."

I crouch down, dismissing my shield as I roll the body onto its back and shut its eyes.

No. I suppose that I can't.
 
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