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

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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.
 
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"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.
 
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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.
 
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No. After killing thousands of people worldwide, the Joker was beaten down and restrained. Then, in front of the assembled Justice League, the SI killed him because it was obvious that he was going to do it again as soon as he could.
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I remember this fic. Joker pretended to surrender and was lifting his hands in the air, but was actually still controlling the smilex plants with his hands and about to set them all off like he did in canon. Only Batman and Jacob noticed what he was doing but Batman was too far away to stop him. Jacob was forced to use his power to behead Joker just before he could set the plants off.

Batman immediately dumped him in Belle Reve without trial and neglected to tell anyone that Joker was about to set off the plants.
 
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I carefully scan the… Device, sitting on a small office chest of drawers that's had the drawers removed. The only thing that it immediately reminds me off is the clock that Commander Sisko made on Deep Space Nine while under the influence of some sort of alien personality download. It looks a little baroque but it's not; the parts are relatively simple and the apparent decoration isn't decoration; I recognise runes and… Other arcane symbols. It looks like intricate decoration but it's not.
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"Yes, I know, and it's less that we've got now. And it's temporary."
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Well, one obvious suspect for this sort of government fuckery is Boss Smiley. I'd be a bit surprised since we saw him recently (I've forgotten how, but he was involved in that Gamemnae business), but it's possible.

Another suspect is Batman, as others have said, because he's a bit mental now and he apparently had involvement in some versions of the OMAC thing in the comics.

The last possibility I see is Mister Atom, since he does in fact want to rule the world. Turns out giving an AI who wants to rule the world joint command over the global reconstruction may have been a bad idea, who knew. Beyond his goal, the main evidence of this is the fact that he was mentioned as being involved in writing this new legislation. But Batman also advocated for it…

Maybe Batman and Mister Atom have teamed up to take over the world? A 'who watches the watchman' situation, where they're supposed to keep each other in check but have instead collaborated.
 
AmericanNumbers said:
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.
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Thats a fun idea. That would also give a clear, recurring, and important magical objective to the patriotic embodiments of the world's countries: stop magical viruses from getting hidden in your legislation. I imagine the embodiments in the UK and bureaucratic China would have some experience there.
 
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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.
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Who is Vic shade in this scenario? The shade?
 
Man if Anarky/Lonnie thinks the Justice League taking over the world is bad imagine his reaction to the existence of The Light and Boss Smiley who embodies business/societal corruption.
 
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