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

BR549 · 2026-06-08T07:08:42+0100

Ngamer11 said:
Is this supposed to be Theodore Adam/Black Adam? Because that might be a problem depending on what he's like.

By my calculations:

TA: Theodore Adam, presumably the future Black Adam

GL: Green Lantern, Alan Scott

Shiera: Sheira Hall, nee Sanders, Hawkgirl

Hector: Hector Hall, Sheira's son. If this was early in his career he was probably Silver Scarab at the point Alan is referring to.

Darko · 2026-06-08T07:10:15+0100

Guess Theo is looking to steal the powers of another ancient hero.

I'm wondering if Teth here even got the divine blessings.

With the Ancestor running around, Shazam may not have thought it was necessary to empower Teth because someone else was doing things like slaying monsters.

Duke Long said:
Actually, I was thinking his technology database might be inferior, but he probably visited Maltus at some point.

He got his lantern by having a lot of people dream about it until it came into reality.

If magic here works like it does on Earth 16, then he may not be able to use it outside of a magically active world, so he may be stuck on Earth

BR549 · 2026-06-08T07:12:19+0100

Duke Long said:
Hector is Hawkman, right? The reincarnating one, not the thanagarian one.

That was Carter Hall. Hector Hall is his and Sheira's son.

A quick look shows Hector was Silver Scarab, Sandman, and Doctor Fate at various points in his career.

GhostKing 666 · 2026-06-08T07:28:55+0100

Steelplaza said:
Another part of this might be that Thanagar's militarism is relatively recent, at least by the standards of the Guardians. The Equalization Plague and Hyanthis causing them to militarize happened in the generation of Bleez's father, so it's within living memory. It's not like the Dominion and the Reach where there is a long term generational commitment to aggressive expansionism. (Though on the other hand they apparently weren't treating aliens in the Old Colonies great even before that.)

The Guardians might reasonably hope that the whole expansionist effort will stutter out, liberalizing forces will arise in Thanagar, and they can gradually becomes... well, less evil, without the Green Lanterns having to exercise a long term offense to bring them to heel.

A bit late but something to keep in mind, is that if you were to actually list out all the expansionistic and/or aggressive powers in DC space, and order them by how horrible, monstrous or evil they are... Thanagar even at their worst is so far down on the list it's comical.

There is just so much wrong with the galaxy that by the time Paul would have gotten to Thanagar, they'd have most likely fixed their own shit just like you said.

Darko · 2026-06-08T07:31:42+0100

Chojin Patriarch said:
Because it's not guaranteed that both would occur at the same time, yes.

Yeah, with the superhero lifestyle, you may start believing in a lot of weird stuff even before you have proof of it.

Chojin Patriarch said:
Huh, Themyscira with a more active mystical side? Are we looking at a world with an advanced Themyscira, hmm?

Either that, or they saw a priestess summon a god.

Chojin Patriarch said:
Relatively speaking, I assume. Much like the Themyscirans seem to settle on mid-to-late twenties as a default, I expect the Ancestor sticks to a consistent age.

There are Amazons that look older.

The fact that Alan mentioned that he looks older than Diana indicates that unlike the main Paul, the Ancestor doesn't look like a teenager or young adult.

He may choose an older appearance in order for people to take him more seriously.

You're not exactly going to think that someone that just finished puberty qualifies as an ancestor.

Chojin Patriarch said:
attached to a youth made by Prometheus noted as excelling in beauty.

Heck, he may have helped Prometheus here.

Assuming it isn't the older version of Prometheus that screwed humanity over and gave them fire as a compensation.

Chojin Patriarch said:
His image is probably well-respected there. Although maybe a little idealised in portrayals...

Not necessarily.

They may respect him, but not idolize him because they know him personally.

Chojin Patriarch said:
Somehow, I get the feeling this Theo Adams might have designs on acquiring the Ancestor's power if he can't get Teth-Adom's first

Like I mentioned in a post above, Teth here may not have gotten his powers because the Ancestor was doing his job.

And with the Ancestor, Adams at least has evidence that he exists, while with Teth he may just have myths.

Cuchulin · 2026-06-08T07:38:36+0100

Darko said:
He may choose an older appearance in order for people to take him more seriously.

Yeah, maybe he even went for the "young" body but White/Grey hair and beard look or at least the Reed Richards white/grey temples look to be taken more seriously. That's what I'd do.

NightmareWarden · 2026-06-08T08:20:36+0100

QI wonder if this Paul, this verse with the primordial man touched by the Orange Light, is going to meet a far younger Paul. One who is deposited in this same Earth like normal Self-Insert, in space probably.

Is it possible that the primordial Paul was pulled from a different day or different circumstances than the rest...? One that was specifically in the sort of mood where the whole arc of history, our mistakes, is held up to the magnifying glass?

No, no- that's probably not where Mr Zoat is going with this character. I imagine after seeing how Paul's character development track was redirected away from GrimDark by John Constantine's field trip to Nega-Alan Scott, we might be gearing up for another Big Question. Our Paul, paragon Orange Lantern, is a bit stagnant compared to a normal human. Which is fine, it certainly works for some depictions of Superman or long-running characters in non-superhero fiction. But Paul will be better equipped to survive and defeat people like Darkseid if he challenges the more fundamental parts of himself. Meeting Primordial-Paul, who has changed significantly from the baseline, sounds like it could help. Especially if their souls touch quite closely, with the highest setting of Paul's revamped empathy-sense.

Also noteworthy? Primordial Paul has either aged, or he has been locked into his pre-ring age, physically.

Mr Zoat · 2026-06-08T08:35:18+0100

Duke Long said:
'weeks'
'to'
'an'
'knew'
'thought'
'contest'?
'built'?

Thank you, corrected.

Hector is Hawkman, right? The reincarnating one, not the thanagarian one.

Hector was Hawkman.

Chojin Patriarch said:
The joy of such a format: we get no idea which Green Lantern this is at first...

The address is a clue.

BR549 said:
Hector: Hector Hall, Sheira's son. If this was early in his career he was probably Silver Scarab at the point Alan is referring to.

Thank you, corrected.

Vaermina · 2026-06-08T08:46:22+0100

Adam and Eve were real beings in Hellblazers.

Stsword · 2026-06-08T10:18:19+0100

Vaermina said:
Adam and Eve were real beings in Hellblazers.

And according to Sandman #40, not from Earth. "They (the Endless) didn't look like humans, none of us did back then," and "None of this happened on Earth."

Although the Garden of Eden being on a different planet wouldn't really work with Zoat's cosmology which treats magic as a local thing.

Darko · 2026-06-08T11:06:35+0100

Stsword said:
Although the Garden of Eden being on a different planet wouldn't really work with Zoat's cosmology which treats magic as a local thing

Ehh, it may work.

If I remember correctly, Renegade mentioned that magic was everywhere, but then the Guardians did something that changed the connection with the Dreaming, and so now magic is rarer.

Antares1883 · 2026-06-08T11:51:46+0100

What I don't understand about the ancestor is that presuming he's a normal human from our earth and not a displaced version of OL Paul, why is it that he had the local humans wish for an Orange Lantern and not something even more powerful like a White Lantern.

mastermenthe · 2026-06-08T12:09:36+0100

Antares1883 said:
What I don't understand about the ancestor is that presuming he's a normal human from our earth and not a displaced version of OL Paul, why is it that he had the local humans wish for an Orange Lantern and not something even more powerful like a White Lantern.

Didn't Ancestor!Paul start with an Orange Ring but no Lantern? IIRC every version of Paul starts with only a Ring and has to find/commission/simulate an Orange Lantern.

Antares1883 · 2026-06-08T12:17:30+0100

That's possible and I may have missed it.

iamnuff · 2026-06-08T13:03:19+0100

Hmm. What should i search for to find all of The Ancestor's chapters?
It's been so long.

Ngamer11 · 2026-06-08T13:07:04+0100

iamnuff said:
Hmm. What should i search for to find all of The Ancestor's chapters?
It's been so long.

I would suggest the TV Tropes recap page. It has a legend to help search for specific POV characters. However, keep in mind that almost all Ancestor POV labeled episodes are actually through the POV of those who met him or talked to people who met him.

Frozen20XX · 2026-06-08T13:28:12+0100

Frozen20XX said:
Paragon Onik: An ex-Yellow Lantern and a nondescript crew.

Random question, but anyone wonder if Onik's construct lanterns would address people with the standard 'Master' or if they would use terms like 'Great Master' (like what Onik calls Paragon OL)?

(Also, wow, Onik making Spider Guilders his underlings, huh? I counted at least three completed assimilations and I assume he assimilated the entire crew... @Mr Zoat would he have let them be standard prisoners or would he just assimilate them regardless?)

Mr Zoat · 2026-06-08T14:08:06+0100

Frozen20XX said:
Random question, but anyone wonder if Onik's construct lanterns would address people with the standard 'Master' or if they would use terms like 'Great Master' (like what Onik calls Paragon OL)?

I suspect that it would just be 'Master'.

(Also, wow, Onik making Spider Guilders his underlings, huh? I counted at least three completed assimilations and I assume he assimilated the entire crew... @Mr Zoat would he have let them be standard prisoners or would he just assimilate them regardless?)

I think that he'd be willing to take prisoners. 'Turn their entire fetid species into tools' would have a certain appeal, but he'd probably resist it as a morally decent person.

mastermenthe said:
Didn't Ancestor!Paul start with an Orange Ring but no Lantern? IIRC every version of Paul starts with only a Ring and has to find/commission/simulate an Orange Lantern.

He did. He was blooming tired of hiding from intelligent monster cats by the end.

Thundersmight94 · 2026-06-08T14:08:06+0100

Mr Zoat said:
TA: I suppose there's still a division of responsibilities-. Sorry, it's just that I've been… Interested in the Ancestor for.. most of my life. Finding out that there are people who actually know him-.

This was interesting, I'd be interested in seeing how this Paul has lived in this reality, and how he has changed things for both the people and hidden societies like Themyscira, Atlantis, the Tibetan Monks, and other hidden places. Or how he and Vandal Savage & Klarion react to one another. Finally whether in all this time he gained enlightenment to the White Light of Life or any other light, as he has lived a very long time with his base Orange Ring and had time to learn and experiment.

Oglymogly · 2026-06-08T14:45:52+0100

Hell yeah, I love seeing a Ancestor chapter. I can understand why they're so rare, but the puzzle of when, where, and who in the chapter is fun, and finding out what Paul did is great.

If he was there for Hercules' conquest, I wonder if he was there at the Sinking of Atlantis. Of course the arrogance of the key figures there means nothing much changed even with forewarning, I guess.

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