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

[Mr Zoat]

I was under the impression they worked thr same, cursory googling says the same.

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"Daxamites are basically mildly mutated kryptonians. They absorb a wider variety of wavelengths but get hurt by materials with a high attenuation coefficient as a result. So, very tough."

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It's not impossible that I put that in due to misremembering something canonical that I read years ago, but it has been established as being true in this story.

 

[DAT_NOOB]

Paul: "YOU FOOL! I WAS THE REASONABLE ONE!"

 

[WereDragon]

I think she mistakenly assumed Coutara would be less disruptive/confrontational than Paul.

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Coutara is a mother who's child is being threatened. Do Arisia's people not understand the concept of the Mama Bear?

 

[boo600]

I do not think that the fact that a culture exists is a good enough reason to sustain it.

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Fuck yes.

Getting a definite feeling this is more about Cara feeling like OL stole something belonging to her than it is about Sodam.

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That's how many parents see their children, yes. And we don't exactly discourage this mindset. "I brought you into this world, and I can take you out!" "I put a roof over your head, and fed you!" As opposed to getting arrested or giving them up for adoption.
Our media is stuffed to the gills with the same messages abusive parents use to control their children, and when children look at said media, they understand that what is done to them is OK and normal, that they are not people and do not have rights - that only Sportsmaster-level comic book abuse is abuse, and that if people think that's going on, then they will be sent to an orphanage - an institution I have never seen portrayed positively, or even less negatively than the one in Annie. Here on Earth, CPS is a threat, used by parents on their children if they complain. I wonder what the threat Cara used on Sodom was?

Paul: "YOU FOOL! I WAS THE REASONABLE ONE!"

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Yes. Very much so.

 

[iamnuff]

Arisia winces faintly. "Paul, I think.. you should let Lantern Coutara answer."

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It's hilarious that they think that Paul is going to be playing 'bad cop' here.

No, Paul is taking the role of slightly condescending peacemaker.
Coutara is going full hostile.

Because there's no point in trying not to provoke someone who's going to be angry no matter what you do.

 

[Clell65619]

Cara Yat's right hand clenches through the table. "Bitch."

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My first thought was 'that's an oddly Earth-specific insult', but then I remembered 'Oh, yeah, Krypto.'

 

[Steelplaza]

I really think I may be the person in this thread most sympathetic to abusive parents. It's a tough job, and the only training most people get is their memories of being children themselves.

Most abusive parents aren't really evil people, they're just fucking up a job they'd like to do well because of bad ideas and poor self-control.

 

[Whenever Possible]

Arisia: Coutara will be reasonable, right?

Coutara: Am I going to get a chance to destroy a second civilization that threatens one of my children?