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

Cuchulin · Apr 9, 2021

That was fast.
Also they should probably have some sort of party or ceremony or something that they can invite Starfire and other members of Kom's family.

Mr Zoat · Apr 9, 2021

Darko said:
Remove one "
'feel Komand'r"

Thank you, corrected.

Darko · Apr 9, 2021

Cuchulin said:
That was fast.
Also they should probably have some sort of party or ceremony or something that they can invite Starfire and other members of Kom's family.

Komand'r hates practically anyone aside from Raul, especially Kori.

Granted with her personality change, she may do it.

Handlewithcare · Apr 9, 2021

Aww, our two adorable rage filled murder-babies got hitched :')

I can now see the Dalek officiating the wedding, with a little bowtie and whatnot:

"Dearly abhorred. We've been forced here together to witness these two fleshbags swear an ill considered oath of fleeting loyalty to each other.

His enemies shall be her enemies! And her enemies shall be his enemies! And together. They shall...EX-TER-MINATE!

You may now punch the bride"

Cuchulin · Apr 9, 2021

Darko said:
Komand'r hates practically anyone aside from Raul, especially Kori.
Granted with her personality change, she may do it.

True, but there are certain obligations like informing the family and letting them celebrate. Which doesn't have to mean she sticks around to do so with them even if she will have to spend more time with her family in the future for the sake of her child.

Darko · Apr 9, 2021

Cuchulin said:
True, but there are certain obligations like informing the family and letting them celebrate. Which doesn't have to mean she sticks around to do so with them even if she will have to spend more time with her family in the future for the sake of her child.

Assuming Tamaranean or Zamaron wedding ceremonies require family to attend.

Cuchulin · Apr 9, 2021

Darko said:
Assuming Tamaranean or Zamaron wedding ceremonies require family to attend.

Tamaranean ones almost certainly do given how open and sharing they are when it comes to emotions.

Darko · Apr 9, 2021

Cuchulin said:
Tamaranean ones almost certainly do given how open and sharing they are when it comes to emotions.

Yeah, but Komand'r still hates Kori, so unless her mood swings cause her to invite her, I don't see her honoring any Tamaranean traditions.

Seeing as she betrayed her family and people, I doubt she cares all that much about certain aspects of Tamaranean culture.

Chojin Patriarch · Apr 9, 2021

Mr Zoat said:
24th January 2006
08:23 GMT -5

Zamaron is busier than I was expecting. Towers in the styles of a dozen species cover the planet, interspersed at apparently random intervals by cultivated areas of greenery. I can even see what appears to be a vertical farm in skyscraper form, a hollow column of greenery covered in flowers and fruit.

Ah, Raul. I take it you've explained about the whole meteorite thing? Still, it's interesting how diverse the appearance of different versions of various mainstays can be... You should see the LEGO DC-verse's version of Zamaron. Pink. Crystal. Ridges. Everywhere.

The Zamarons themselves are easy enough to spot. The ones acting as our escort all look like human women in hoplite armour, their hair done up in curls. But I've caught sight of others dressed the same way but wearing faces of other species. They're still all women and all humanoid, but I've seen blue, purple, orange and yellow skin, two eyes, four and six, conventionally attractive and unconventionally… Unconventional.

I assume. I don't know all of these species.

Not interested in having your brain punched by your Ring's database, eh? i can understand that, it's probably already a bit woozy from the earlier cockblocking...

There are plenty of aliens, too, male and female and children. Though none are in the air as the Zamarons appears to all be, and there's a certain… Distance between the two groups even when they're close together. I haven't seen any non-humanoids yet, but we've only flown over a relatively small part of one urban area. I also haven't seen any male Zamarons, Guardians, Controllers, or any other Maltusians.

Komand'r doesn't look impressed.

She probably had a very different idea of things in her head. Maybe something a bit more like Ysmault, but pink and purple... I see these Zamarons aren't quite as extreme in their views on men as some versions, at least. Benefit of the universe being a kid's show, more or less...

"What's so great about this place?"

"It's not quite what I was expecting. But-."

Well, enjoy being pleasantly surprised.

"What were you expecting?"

"More violet crystal. And fewer men."

I know, right? Seriously, it's a pity I can't find easily linkable pics of the LEGO DC version... Violet rocks and pink crystals... Which makes me wonder what a Paul in the LEGO DC universe might be like. Would he be a human amongst the minifigures or...?

One of the Zamarons looks around, her artfully styled left eyebrow arched.

"The crystals are for the direction and storage of energy. Why would we make buildings with them?"

For aesthetics? I don't know...

"Why do the Guardians make all their buildings look like giant lanterns?"

She rolls her eyes.

"A truly mortifying lack of imagination. Why do you think we dumped them?"

...This one has opinions about her race's masculine half, doesn't she?

Blackfire wrinkles her nose. "Aren't Guardians, like, three-" She makes a 'you must be this high' gesture with her right hand. "-feet tall? And don't they all look like babies?"

The Zamaron huffs. "Those characteristics didn't help." Then she smiles. "Now we attract paramours from across the universe! Most of whom have feelings they don't mind talking about, a reasonable knowledge of armour couture and an acceptance that we're more important than their stupid Lantern Corps!"

...Okay.

Just gonna back up now...

Ah.

"Bad break up?"

"I'm perfectly fine! Why does EVERYONE say I'm not?!""

...I reserve all comment. I have no experience with this kind of thing.

I.. look awkwardly at one of the other Zamarons, who subtly shakes her head and makes a 'stop' gesture. I nod, and float away from Unexploded Zamaron and towards head-shaking Zamaron.

He's a wiser man than most. Though even a Shonen protagonist could catch those warning signs...

"I wanted to talk to someone about holding our wedding here. Is that really something I need to speak to your current Queen about?"

"Weddings are a celebration of love, one of the two most important things in Zamaron society."

...

What's the other? Please don't say 'encasing lovers in indestructible crystal...

Komand'r frowns in a 'I'm nearly interested' sort of way.

"Oh? What's the other one?"

Who knows, maybe they can bond over it...

"Punching people in the face."

"Huh?"

...'Love hurts', huh? Knocking some sense into dunderheads who are thicker than harem anime protagonists?

"I'm one point two billion years old. Have you got any idea how many cities I've seen? Heck, this is the seven hundredth one I've seen just at this geographic location alone. Seriously, razed to the ground, built up again, seven hundred times. Only two things still make me feel alive: genuine emotional attachment to another intelligent being." She smiles beatifically. "And the brutal rush-" Her expression becomes a little more manic. "-of bloody combat."

Komand'r nods. "Oh, I totally get you. This… 'Love' thing's kind of new for me, but I've always liked fighting."

...Oh god, they are going to bond...I can just see Komand'r with a Violet Ring now...

The Zamaron glances my way. "He is your first?"

Komand'r hesitates.

"When you say first..?"

I mean... He's not the first she's fought alongside... Depending on how dark you consider their backstory to get, not the first in other places...

"The first person for whom you have felt romantic love."

"Oh! Yeah, definitely."

She sounds almost relieved that's what the lady meant...

"You don't sound very convincing."

Komand'r huffs.

"Just watch me, beeyatch!"

"Ugh, fine. He's the first person I think I can be completely honest with, the first I trust enough to be w-." Twitch. "Vun-." Twitch. "I don't have to constantly assert myself when I'm around him. Who I know will be there for me because he's proven that he loves me too, who I can trust not to abuse that trust."

The Zamaron looks at me.

Amusing that she can feel that way, yet still not say the words 'weak' or 'vulnerable' aloud.

"And can she?"

"You're not going to ask me if she's my first?"

Double standards much, my dear Ladies?

She shrugs. "I probably would if I was being fair, but we picked female forms for a reason and I'm not."

Komand'r frowns at her. "I am." She looks curiously at me. "I never asked that. Am I?"

To be fair, I don't think any of us want to know, anyway. Even if OL was probably the first to share that about himself...

"Yes. I love your passion, your fury-."

"That's just a tamaranean thing. I want to hear about me.""

She's got a point. Tamaraneans are anything but subtle in emotional displays, whatever that emotion be.

"I've never been more alive than in the time I've known you. Your adventurousness, your vivacity, your determination to wring every bit of excitement out of life made me actually embrace what we do rather than stumble from job to job out of a sense of obligation, or… Because I couldn't think of anything better to do. Heck, the way I put aside all of my reservations about letting my anger and hate run free, the.. whole way I was able to channel the Lesser Sign of the Butcher… That was you, what you showed me."

Dang, Raul. You sweet talker, you. Looks like she was definitely good for him.

Komand'r's eyes are wide and watery as she drifts over to me and lays her hands on my chest.

"Awww…"

"If we weren't in public, I would be ripping that armour off you..."

And then head-shaking Zamaron drops a pair of necklaces over our heads.

We both blink, pulling away slightly to look at… The glowing violet crystal attached to each of them.

Wait... Did they just...

"Congratulations! You're married."

…

Huh. Well, talk about your quick versions. Not quite "Do you? Do you? Good, you're married! Kiss her!" but it works.

Okay. That's.. why we're here… But…

"Isn't there supposed to be a ceremony?"

To be fair, if people come to Zamaron to seal the deal, they're probably in a hurry, or looking for a big show, so...

"Usually we send a couple who want to be married by us on an epic quest to prove their worth and test their love, but we heard about Vega and you two have pretty much done all that. The Queen can officiate a ceremony with guests if you want, but this is the important bit. Two people who complete each other finding each other."

I think I-. I close my eyes-. I can feelKomand'r through the violet crystal. Komand'r blinks as she realises the same thing.

Nice. The best kind of mental link. One that reinforces positive bonds.

I hold out my left hand to her.

"Let's go and see the Queen."

...Seriously, Raul? You didn't explain the Meteorite thing?

And so Raul gets to be the first alternate Paul married on screen (though Lord Protector probably got there offscreen.) Doing the Tamaranean version for the sake of her family is probably unlikely, though. Wonder how Atrocitus and the other senior Reds will take the news. "It's about damn time, boy." Or something like that, I bet. Yes, I do think Atrocitus would be Rage-Enlightened. Who better to understand his own anger in all its' facets?

...the first I trust enough to be w-." Twitch. "Vun-." Twitch.

Guessing she was saying 'Vulnerable' here, so 'Vuln-.' probably fits better.

Cuchulin · Apr 9, 2021

Darko said:
Yeah, but Komand'r still hates Kori, so unless her mood swings cause her to invite her, I don't see her honoring any Tamaranean traditions.
Seeing as she betrayed her family and people, I doubt she cares all that much about certain aspects of Tamaranean culture.

She is changing and Raul might very well insist on it. Also some times it not about caring or not caring as being unable to conceive of not doing it because that's just how your people/family do things. Lastly she'll need someone to baby sit her child while she goes off to beat the $h!t out of people or brutally murders them.

Slayer Anderson · Apr 9, 2021

Mr Zoat said:
"Let's go and see the Queen."

Love the Rage and Rage the Love.

Darko · Apr 9, 2021

Chojin Patriarch said:
Not interested in having your brain punched by your Ring's database, eh? i can understand that, it's probably already a bit woozy from the earlier cockblocking...

I also think he mentioned in a previous chapter that he lacked a database.

Chojin Patriarch said:
This one has opinions about her race's masculine half, doesn't she?

And they're not positive.

Chojin Patriarch said:
Okay. Just gonna back up now...

Good man.

Chojin Patriarch said:
Oh god, they are going to bond...I can just see Komand'r with a Violet Ring now...

Well she loves Raul and is crazy, so I can see her being a crazy stalker-like Violet Lantern.

Chojin Patriarch said:
Double standards much, my dear Ladies?

She's a sexist.

Don't expect much.

Darko · Apr 9, 2021

Cuchulin said:
She is changing and Raul might very well insist on it.

She also seemed to be getting more control over her mood swings so those may not influence her so much now, and Raul may also not even think to have her invite her family members to the ceremony.

His relationship with the Titans seemed to be fairly tense before he was enlightened.

Also he may drop it even if he did ask her to since it may upset her and he probably doesn't want to do that.

Cuchulin said:
Also some times it not about caring or not caring as being unable to conceive of not doing it because that's just how your people/family do things

Again, she hates most people so even if she thought of doing it, she may quickly decide not to.

I'm also betting Tamaraneans view family loyalty as being a big thing and that didn't stop Komand'r from betraying her family.

Cuchulin said:
she'll need someone to baby sit her child while she goes off to beat the $h!t out of people or brutally murders them.

She can have someone else do it for her, like that big Tamaranean guy that had a hand in raising her and Kori.

Kori would probably be a great babysitter and influence for the kid, but Komand'r may not want her anywhere near the kid.

Why would you want your kid to be around someone you hate?

w34v3r · Apr 9, 2021

Stsword said:
Belle Reve has inhibitor collars that work on supercriminals from Abra (nanotech) to Black Adam (divine magic) to Ultra-Humanite (gorilla physiology).

My theory is that they work by disrupting the nerve signals that activate the person's abilities, especially since they can be programmed to let the subject use chosen abilities.

Although you are right about not being one size fits all, they have to be programmed correctly for the target before being put on.

Also that does diddly for triggered or passive abilities, and what part of Ultrahumanite's powers were suppressed? They still had the body of a gorilla.

Hell techies and super operatives shouldn't be kept around other people, and neither should mages.

Handlewithcare said:
Aww, our two adorable rage filled murder-babies got hitched :')

I can now see the Dalek officiating the wedding, with a little bowtie and whatnot:

"Dearly abhorred. We've been forced here together to witness these two fleshbags swear an ill considered oath of fleeting loyalty to each other.

His enemies shall be her enemies! And her enemies shall be his enemies! And together. They shall...EX-TER-MINATE!

You may now punch the bride"

I think you're joking but that may actually be a thing with Tamaraneans.

Mr Zoat · Apr 9, 2021

Chojin Patriarch said:
Guessing she was saying 'Vulnerable' here, so 'Vuln-.' probably fits better.

Thank you, corrected.

Vaermina · Apr 9, 2021

I really hope we get a full volume about the wedding.... Because there's no way it doesn't get Super Villained.

WereDragon · Apr 9, 2021

Mr Zoat said:
"Usually we send a couple who want to be married by us on an epic quest to prove their worth and test their love,

Sounds like they would get more funerals than marriages out of that.
Unless they are very good at tailoring 'epic' to the individual and fairly broad in their definition of 'quest'. I suppose there must be quite a lot of Master In-Piles in the galaxy.

Darko · Apr 9, 2021

WereDragon said:
Sounds like they would get more funerals than marriages out of that.
Unless they are very good at tailoring 'epic' to the individual and fairly broad in their definition of 'quest'. I suppose there must be quite a lot of Master In-Piles in the galaxy.

Or they take the whole 'love conquers all' thing extremely seriously.

And, yeah, I can see them doing it.

Mr Zoat · Apr 9, 2021

WereDragon said:
Sounds like they would get more funerals than marriages out of that.
Unless they are very good at tailoring 'epic' to the individual and fairly broad in their definition of 'quest'.

You want to get married by the Zamarons? Earn it.

I suppose there must be quite a lot of Master In-Piles in the galaxy.

What is a Master In-Pile?

Pinklestia · Apr 9, 2021

The Guardians didn't originally look like that, that look is the result of getting too much green energy while focusing on duty and nothing else. Add the fact they basically decided to block their emotions and is no wonder they got dumped.

Pez · Apr 9, 2021

This was cute. I wonder what the little rage baby will look like.

Is there a version of Paul out there that ended up wooing Diana? Seems unlikely, but a guy can dream.

Mr Zoat · Apr 9, 2021

Pez said:
This was cute. I wonder what the little rage baby will look like.

Is there a version of Paul out there that ended up wooing Diana? Seems unlikely, but a guy can dream.

...

Technically...

Doccer · Apr 9, 2021

Mr Zoat said:
One of the Zamarons looks around, her artfully styled left eyebrow arched.

What is the Millennium?

Mr Zoat · Apr 9, 2021

Doccer said:
What is the Millennium?

The year 2000.

A television series.

A different television series.

Or a comic event that never mattered and everyone promptly forgot about.

Finagle007 · Apr 9, 2021

Mr Zoat said:
...

Technically...

Other than the utterly vile moron who thought drinking Dr. Jekyll's serum was a good idea.

Darko · Apr 9, 2021

Mr Zoat said:
The year 2000.

A television series.

A different television series.

Or a comic event that never mattered and everyone promptly forgot about.

Don't forget a Nazi organization of artificial vampires, as well as a werewolf and, oddly enough, a cyborg.

Finagle007 said:
Other than the utterly vile moron who thought drinking Dr. Jekyll's serum was a good idea.

I think Zoat mentioned that Goldie, formerly known as Anti Green Lantern Paul, may get together with Diana and princess Audrey.

Though I'm not a 100% sure.

WereDragon · Apr 9, 2021

Mr Zoat said:
What is a Master In-Pile?

…I know I shouldn't be surprised that you don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of all drawn media but somehow it always comes as a shock.

The Master In-Pile is from Futurama. The bureaucrat Hermes, due to shenanigans, has to sort and file a multi-story pile of incoming mail in four minutes.

Mr Zoat · Apr 9, 2021

WereDragon said:
…I know I shouldn't be surprised that you don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of all drawn media but somehow it always comes as a shock.

The Master In-Pile is from Futurama. The bureaucrat Hermes, due to shenanigans, has to sort and file a multi-story pile of incoming mail in four minutes.

Ah, the bureaucrat song! Now I remember!

Darko said:
I think Zoat mentioned that Goldie, formerly known as Anti Green Lantern Paul, may get together with Diana and princess Audrey.

Though I'm not a 100% sure.

It's more a confusing mess where no party involved could work out who the other parties were actually interested in.

Pez · Apr 9, 2021

Mr Zoat said:
...
Technically...

Finagle007 said:
Other than the utterly vile moron who thought drinking Dr. Jekyll's serum was a good idea.

Yes, I was referring to one that didn't have to resort to brain rewiring. I'm not overly informed on Diana's various incarnations and her romantic tastes, and completely ignoring all the old weekly bondage romp and the Steve Trevor that kept her in her Lasso to try and force her to marry him, and outside of her Themysciran romances, there's been the solider Steve Trevor, Batman, and Superman. She's a warrior, but Zoat's version has her being more a paragon of Justice than anything (to me, at least). I don't think Paul is her type, but who knows? Maybe he found a Diana that isn't like our Paul's, and their boning right now.

Infitie Pauls, so... there has to be at least one, right?

Mr Zoat · Apr 9, 2021

I while ago I said that Alric was from the Celestial College. I got confused between two pieces of fiction in Battle Magic. He is in fact from the Light College.

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