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

[BR549]

A small lead weigh generates gravitational potential energy,

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'weight'

 

[xSieg]

Ha, has Batman gone full Sinestro because he's mainlining the Yellow Light? He stands to profit the most from carte blanche executive powers

 

[RichardWhereat]

Ha, has Batman gone full Sinestro because he's mainlining the Yellow Light? He stands to profit the most from carte blanche executive powers

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I hope he does. Earth needs unification, and Batman would make a good King.

 

[Mr Zoat]

"budget"

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...I would have said ten-foot-pole, but I suppose it's narrow quarters.

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'weight'

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Thank you, corrected.

 

[Ngamer11]

For all that I dislike Anarky mucking around, I hope he's on to something so that we can see Paul fix things in a way Anarky wasn't expecting. Also, I really hope Anarky will eventually be recruited to the OLC. It would be a good way to broaden his horizons and help him develop a more reasonable modus operandi on how to improve society.

 

[AmericanNumbers]

There's reasonable ways that this can get cocked up. Justice Lords. Someone hijacking the law to rule the world in the league. The light using it. Some sort of memetic spell.

Honestly, Paul should run it by Vic Shade, John, Mist and Dox. Probably John first.

 

[WereDragon]

"No. I just needed attention. From you, and from other people."

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"A supervillain? Is that what you think I am?"

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"There are few things as permanent as a temporary solution. You should look into it a little more closely."

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This arsehole is not quite as narratively annoying as Nylor Truggs. But he is close enough that I would already prefer OL prioritise hunting him down and marooning him somewhere before putting any thought to his vague warning.

 

[Ilphros]

Because he knows Paul is going to read it all very carefully in any case.

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And if he doesn't point to something, it's nearly impossible to prove that Lonnie was wrong about his assumptions. Paul is likely to find something suboptimal, after all - and so long as Lonnie hasn't expressed an actual, specific complaint then there's no way to prove whether his enhanced intelligence and focus on doing other things than the Justice League is doing, on his own time, might have turned up... whatever Paul found.

That would be unusually deceptive for Lonnie to do for that reason directly... but I am also somewhat annoyed that he went and smashed a major public works project to send a message. And it would be entirely in character for a more generic someone who doesn't want to lie, but also doesn't want to be emotionally vulnerable by expressing an opinion directly - so it might simply be that I don't have a clear read on where Lonnie draws the lines of hypocrisy and deception, or Lonnie justified it to himself one way or another.

If Lonnie built this communicator, and this communicator is sufficient to keep him insulated from OL's investigation, there are many, many other - similar, even! - ways to get the device sent to OL. Lonnie picked... this one. Which showed off Lonnie's ability to sneak and sabotage and control technology - but also showed that off instead of his subtlety or care of other people.
(So, you know, a good foil for OL. But that doesn't necessarily make one a good person!)

It is also interesting as a contrast to Truggs, who... If I recall correctly, Truggs DID manage to slip multiple messages to OL, while maintaining his own safety against OL's immediate and active attempts to track him down, often without disrupting even one other person's day. Although sometimes by exploiting immediate, bigger problems. Lonnie falls so far into an interesting in-between, there.