And thus we have every way Paul messed up thrown in his face with zero understanding. I understand that he wants the world to be a certain level of rational, but blindly pretending it already is will not make it so.
She's so angry that she's going to mindlessly throw herself at you in fury.
Probably not captured from a contemporary source, though I don't doubt they had some manner of visual recording at that point. I just doubt they would have been concerned with posing for art that might get made someday.
Though I'm sure the fellow (or lady, it doesn't mention) is depicted with suitably heroic physique......Yeah, no hope of that. Humans are extremely compatible with other anthropoids, to surprising degrees. Just for half-Thanagarians, besides the JLU character Warhawk (We've seen him as a baby in Renegade's visits to Earth 50...) there's also Charley 'Golden Eagle' Parker, though I suspect he's not present on Earth-16 in that identity...
Though he'd win any duels offered handily, as we've seen before.
Like I said, not from a contemporary source. Probably a bit of 'artist didn't bother to check his models and their props were correct.' anachronisms going on. Like so many 'historical' paintings where the subjects are clearly wearing far more modern armour, clothing or props.
...No, no, I think he's actually going somewhere with this. Though I imagine their observers are facepalming right now.
Let's not forget the fact DC Earth is soaked in the White Light Entity's essence.
...Er, I could have put that better... But anyway! Humans are so infused with Life that they are supernaturally compatible with damn near anything with a suitable body shape.... And more than a few things that aren't...Not without feeling a bit eugenical, anyway. I doubt any serious place of learning would accept that proposal.
Heh. Imagine humanity's reaction to that: An entire planet of suntanned, unspeakably beautiful Space People who have next to no inhibitions (by Human standards, at least.) Traditionalist sects would die of strokes from the sheer religious rage.
Dude! Don't kiss... Er, grope and tell!
An interesting variant of Third Base there.
I suppose there's no less awkward moment to approach them. Bet he's hoping they don't continue chatting about alien reproduction...
Guess it's a bit sensitive to send in an e-mail, then. Bet that was frustrating for them, though: "Gods-dammit, why can't he stay in one place long enough?!"
I'm sure he's at least cognizant of the concept... I hope.
I'm sure the flight was expensive. And impressively fast. It's probably a couple of weeks' trip at conventional FTL speeds, I should wonder...
Which Hawkwoman, there are several of them around now. Mostly thanks to OL, in fact.
Surprised he doesn't have a cybernetic replacement. Or maybe he does, and just wears the eyepatch for looks because it isn't bothered by a little scrap of cloth...
Ah, the Justice League's Hawkwoman. On the other hand, has he been around anyone aware of the fight long enough to have been told whatever he did wrong?
Nothing untoward's happened to her, I hope...
...Let me guess, he was too merciful?
...Ah. I get it... She's been feeling a little dishonoured?
Yeah, I can see where that might be insulting...
I can feel his frustration.
Is that a trick question?
...Oh. That might well have been the worst possible thing you could have told, I bet.
Oh, just a little thing like racial tensions. Nothing important, surely...
Today on things Paragon utterly despises because they spit in the face of how he thinks the universe should operate.
No, but it does make you look like an idiot given you could have looked up the cultural information in like twenty seconds.
And rightly so given he was working on a revolution.
Let's not forget the fact DC Earth is soaked in the White Light Entity's essence.
Thank you, corrected.
Quoted for emphasis. I mean, she's been on Earth how long at this point? She should know that things work differently. Of course, being raised from birth to think that way, it may be instinctive.
Honour in general is not stupid (unless you're using a much narrower definition of the word than I am), but many specific codes of honour are, or seem stupid if you don't have some critical information. 'Honour' from people/cultures who are obsessed with their concept of it often is pretty ridiculous, though (as in this case). In part, this is because if your honour-concept includes 'this just is, you shouldn't question it' and you hold to that for a few generations, its going to drift anyway, and can drift into some pretty unfortunate and objectively-suboptimal (stupid) directions.
OK, we are clearly using different definitions.
It happened in Episode 72: Rampage.
On the one hand, it is reasonable to say that Paul put no thought or effort into accommodating her cultural expectations.
I agree. My only response to this clown-show is 'boo hoo.'
So a big part of the problem here is that they weren't following either European or Thanegarian duelling traditions.
It isn't. There's also the pointy stick launcher challenge with Artemis fairly early in the story, but in that Paul had the self-awareness and empathy to realize he'd been an ass and sought out reconciliation. Ever since he got self-awareness and empathy as superpowers, he seems to have lost the mundane capacity for both. For example, his dismissiveness of Jade's continued frustration with his working when they're supposed to be vacationing together.
