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

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EgyptianDio said:
I feel like we don't talk enough about how Paul has two different states and one is the guy with proper common sense in a superhero world while the other is the dumbest guy alive who thinks it's a good idea to use necromancy to bring back his girlfriend's victims cause she felt sad about them.
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He's a man of contradictions.

And it's not even that odd.

People can be simultaneously both very intelligent and very stupid.

A high IQ doesn't guarantee an immunity from stupidity.

Mr Zoat said:
I don't know what you're talking about. That worked out fine
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If you were a Satanist, then yeah, it worked out.
 
WereDragon said:
Given the whole silver skin thing her dad has to know what she has been doing. Consent for training and support should not be difficult
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Not every parent that knows their child is a superhero may be comfortable with them joining the Justice League.

Sure, training and support may be good, but the types of threats the League deals with are basically world-ending, so the parents may be worried their children will be forced to fight such threats.
 
Chojin Patriarch said:
Somehow, I suspect convincing Daddy to let her do this is going to be the hardest part of this recruitment.
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Funny, I was going to post how it should be incredibly easy. Given she's already doing the superhero thing, "Let the Justice League train me how not to die," is the easiest sell ever.
 
Grimnar said:
Ayo, heard you talkin' shit.

Dis you?
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As he said special circumstances , a child needs to be taken away of a dangerous/negative environment, if they are given super powers as a collateral... Well far better for the story


EgyptianDio said:
I feel like we don't talk enough about how Paul has two different states and one is the guy with proper common sense in a superhero world while the other is the dumbest guy alive who thinks it's a good idea to use necromancy to bring back his girlfriend's victims cause she felt sad about them.
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I find him calmingly neurodivergent, extremely capable on certain fields, mystified on why people don't think like them on certain other things, like living with inferior drinks when other options are available with a little effort
 
ziggrrauglurr said:
As he said special circumstances , a child needs to be taken away of a dangerous/negative environment, if they are given super powers as a collateral... Well far better for the story
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Also, no one in the rest of the universe speaks Daxamite-kryptonese. And they were keeping him away from combat zones.
 
Argent's powers as "kind of like a Green Lantern but not as good" remind me a lot of Starman's Cosmic Rod which is also "kind of like a Green Lantern but not as good".

Makes me wonder if what she's actually doing is channeling cosmic energy, with her biological control mechanism making it manifest as silver plasma.
 
Jankl said:
Her costume isn't that bad right? Atleast it doesn't on her wiki page. https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Antonia_Monetti_(New_Earth)
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That's her newest costume and it still has a single strip of fabric cupping a boob for some reason.


Her original costume was basically a sling bikini with less chest support, somehow:


That sort of silly shit is how you Janet Jackson yourself in front of the Lizard League, not any kind of actual work.
 
hkim said:
That's her newest costume and it still has a single strip of fabric cupping a boob for some reason.


Her original costume was basically a sling bikini with less chest support, somehow:


That sort of silly shit is how you Janet Jackson yourself in front of the Lizard League, not any kind of actual work.
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And now Paul gets to invent a power armor that runs off her own weird exotic energy!
 
hkim said:
That's her newest costume and it still has a single strip of fabric cupping a boob for some reason.


Her original costume was basically a sling bikini with less chest support, somehow:


That sort of silly shit is how you Janet Jackson yourself in front of the Lizard League, not any kind of actual work.
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I can't really imagine any teenage superhero willingly wearing that, a costume like that doesn't look comfortable to wear. Does Argent have some kind of enhanced resilience because then it might still make a bit of sense.
 
Schooled (part 11) New
22nd September 2013
16:02 GMT +2

I appear on the landing pad just behind her, Miss Monetti still blinking as she tries to adjust to the stronger sunlight of Bir Tawil.

"Welcome to my home."

Eyes somewhat recovered, she walks over to the railings and looks out towards the north. "This is the middle of Africa?"

"In the north-south sense, just about."

"I thought this was all… Desert."

"It was when I moved here."

I stroll closer, and we both take in the surrounding jungle. It's far quieter than the jungles of South America; the animals which once in the very distant past would have lived to take advantage of the intense greenery have long since moved away, evolved to cope with the increasingly arid conditions or gone extinct. Adrianna did ask if it would be possible for me to recreate some of them, and… Obviously the answer was 'yes', but it's a lot of work to do that sort of thing properly', and… Equally obviously I'm not going to have the time anytime soon.

"Then-. What, you did all this?"

"No. If it had been me, there'd be giant desalinisation plants sticking out through the canopy. And probably a fertiliser plant as well. And a microbiology laboratory, because I'd need to change the soil microbes to support this sort of plant growth. And the plants would all be small, because they wouldn't have had that much time to grow."

"Okay, so who did it, then?"

I frown slightly, and then shrug. "Huh."

She turns her head to look at me. "What?"

"I'm never sure exactly how familiar regular people are with what we do. I wouldn't expect people to know the precise details of what I do, but I did sort of think that the regreening of Africa might have come to wider attention."

She half-raises her right arm and then stops, frowning. "Is t-? Wait, is this all that woman in Kahndaq?"

"Arianna Tomaz, yes. Her and the goddess Isis, whose power she's channelling. She's increased food availability, shade, ended soil erosion and annual flooding, and generally made a broad swath of the continent a much nicer place to live."

She turns back to the jungle, perhaps trying to see the end of it. Which she can't from here.

"Damn."

"Is there..? Something wrong with your arm?"

"I just, er…" She sort of wiggles her forearm. "Didn't think I was 'regular people' any more."

"Like a lot of things, 'regular' is a relative concept."

"Are there a lot more silver girls out there that I just don't know about?"

"There's an Amazon who's skin is a mirror. She doesn't look quite the same as you, but it's similar."

"Was she born like that or did it turn silver?"

"Oh, there was a magic incident a couple of years ago. She spent most of her life with tan skin, and then she's suddenly silver. How did it..? Happen for you? Was it like..? Patchy to start with?"

She shakes her head, crossing her arms defensively. "No. In happened in a couple of minutes and it really hurt."

"Was there an..? External trigger..?"

"Yeah!" She nods. "The Anti-Life! Didn't you get told this stuff?"

"No, just that you'd been active as-. Do you want me to show you your file?"

She calms down slightly. "I guess..?"

I fabricate a copy and pass it to her. "Keep it." She takes it and begins flicking through it. "Basically, you were noting as being an active hero in the Washington area, which is significant because that means that you spent more time in the vicinity of Bruno Mannheim that just about anyone who didn't get justified." She nods slowly, her attention focused on the document. "We didn't have a record of you before that, but the Justice League doesn't keep records on every metahuman or magician on the planet, just the ones who come to public attention or that members personally meet."

"Okay. Okay, I-. Yeah." She closes the not particularly thick folder. "I got hit by the same depression wave as everyone else. And then.. this happened." She exhales sharply. "And yaknow what? It fixed my brain first. I was completely clear-headed when my skin was changing. I had like half a second of 'it's gone?', and then I was on fire."

"That's somewhat atypical, but it might indicate that you're capable of getting more power as a stress response."

She looks decidedly nervous.

"What?"

"Is that what training is?"

"Huh? No?" Ah… "Not intentionally. I suppose that if you actually wanted to do something like that-."

"No."

"Then no. There are plenty of better ways to increase your strength, if that's even something that you want to do. Nothing about being a metahuman means that you can't learn magic, for example. And if you don't have the time for that, I'm happy to improve-." I look her over. "Ah, make you equipment. Or maybe you're happy how you are and just want to practice in a safe environment."

"Why wouldn't I want to get stronger?"

"Because the more time you spend improving yourself, the less time you have to spend actually improving the world. If the worst you run into is pistols and baseball bats, you don't need power armour. If the toughest thing you run into is a normal human in a padded jacket, then you don't need anti-tank rounds. In fact, you'd probably be better off learning how to use less force."

She nods in understanding.

"I've spent a lot of time increasing my own power because I fight alien space fleets. I don't know what you want to do."

"Does the Justice League… Not want me to fight space aliens?"

"The Justice League is a volunteer organisation, not an army. If you're not volunteering, they're not expecting anything. They also don't have any specific idea of what they'd like you to become… Because they don't know what you can become."

"Aaaaa-"

She nods slowly. "Okay. So what are we-?"

"-aaaaa-"

"Huh?"

"-aaghoff!"

My crash mat construct catches Ian just before he can face-. Body plant onto the landing pad.

A moment later Kara drops out of the air in her new white costume. "See! I told you he'd catch you!"

Miss Monetti stares at her. "Ah..?"

"Miss Monetti, meet Kara the Course Hazard. She'll be assisting me."

"I'm not coarse! I'm polite!"

"Is it too late to go home?"
 
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