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

moralrelativity · Sep 10, 2019

Handlewithcare said:
This seems a little...schizophrenic.

They're heroes, they don't ACTUALLY THINK unless they're made to. All they do is pattern match; in this case, probably "evil guy on a killing spree".

Queshire · Sep 10, 2019

Conceptual freedom bullshit is a good opponent to conceptual conquest bullshit. Imagine: "I am free. Though my bones may be broken and my body bruised I will never be conquered." Well... That doesn't have the same snap to it as Zoat's technique names, but you get the idea. Hell, I'd buy Scott being able to debuff a Grayven in a fight.

Chaoswind · Sep 10, 2019

One thing I don't understand is why Grayven is being allowed to conquer shit as we know the Guardians have a dim view of it... I guess he isn't technically enslaving people thus he gets a pass?

Speaking of spotty enforcement of green lantern laws, when Paul went to Thanagar, Bleez says the aristocracy in her colony has slaves... How is that a thing when the Green Lantern policy is very much against that?

Aeess · Sep 10, 2019

Chaoswind said:
One thing I don't understand is why Grayven is being allowed to conquer shit as we know the Guardians have a dim view of it... I guess he isn't technically enslaving people thus he gets a pass?

Speaking of spotty enforcement of green lantern laws, when Paul went to Thanagar, Bleez says the aristocracy in her colony has slaves... How is that a thing when the Green Lantern policy is very much against that?

Not to mention Earth which pretty much always had slaves, and even though it has 4 Green Lanterns, currently has more slaves than ever before(total population, not percentage).

Siskulous · Sep 10, 2019

Chaoswind said:
One thing I don't understand is why Grayven is being allowed to conquer shit as we know the Guardians have a dim view of it... I guess he isn't technically enslaving people thus he gets a pass?

Speaking of spotty enforcement of green lantern laws, when Paul went to Thanagar, Bleez says the aristocracy in her colony has slaves... How is that a thing when the Green Lantern policy is very much against that?

No version of Paul - and especially not Grayven - answers to the Guardians. And as long as his conquests are either mostly non-violent or all the violence is directed at corrupt governments and criminals they're not going to be inclined to risk their forces trying to stop him.

Pinklestia · Sep 10, 2019

Mr Zoat said:
You're the Grayven from January,

"January?"

Mr Zoat said:
"I don't know, Batson. Is Kara in a position to blindside me yet?"

"Ah…"

Grayven can learn.

Mr Zoat · Sep 10, 2019

Pinklestia said:
"January?"

Yes?

CTrees · Sep 10, 2019

Chaoswind said:
One thing I don't understand is why Grayven is being allowed to conquer shit as we know the Guardians have a dim view of it... I guess he isn't technically enslaving people thus he gets a pass?

Guardian enforcement actions are really strange. If they cared about that sort of thing, you think they'd go after Mongol, or like, the regular Grayven. My recollections of the various Lantern-centric comics are outdated and faded by time, but still, seems pretty random, the threats they go after.

thebishop8 · Sep 10, 2019

Mr Zoat said:
16th January 2005
Recently on Earth 12

That should be 6th February. That's what the actual chapter says, along with the more recent Earth 12 chapter that happened on the same day.

Come to think of it...if it's early February on Earth 12, that means their timelines aren't perfectly aligned with Earth 50, which is still in late December. Unless the Earth 12 Justice League waited more than a month to talk about their encounter with Orange Lantern.

Lord Ernest · Sep 11, 2019

Playing Devil's (Guardians') Advocate, maybe they aren't against stellar empires unless they reach (no pun intended) a certain level of... inhumanity? In-sapien-nity? (sounds really Terra-centric, needs a better term) Or maybe they make a calculation based on the evilness of the empire, their level of technology, area in the galaxy, patterns of movement/growth, and that way they determine if they would make an existential threat? They seem to defend more the spirit of the freedom for the species and their rights to do what they can advance enough to do. They stopped reproducing because they wanted to give "the rest of us" a chance and they let each planet/culture do their own thing, even if it's stupid and/or evil to themselves.

Mongul has his empire, and the guy may be a nihilist or something, but he isn't in a permanent campaign of annihilation (I don't think, at least) like that guy that had a piece of the Anti-Monitor's armor; so he may be super bad, but not existential threat level bad, plus he has other civilizations in his way (including the Reach, apparently) so the Guardians may think that it's not worth risking substantial assets to take him out when maybe his son and/or daughter, another warlord or a retaliation strike of one of his enemies can take him out in some years. They're immortal, they have the time.

The Khunds, I think, have an empire, but their technology isn't advanced enough nor are they that evil enough to pose an existential threat to the galaxy; besides, it seems to me they are like the Okaarans or Branx, in the sense of not being all that united.

The Crown Imperium isn't that bad, apparently, even with a caste system that probably treats the most lower castes worse than some slaves, plus their technology isn't all that great either and they also have some obstacles in their way, Vega and their species most of all.

The Thanagarian Empire, to me at least, doesn't seem that bad either, even with a upper echelon that seems corrupt to some degree, being really militaristic to the point some dictators in our planet would be their #1 fans and treating the Lizarkons like third class citizens or something; Nth metal is great, but besides that I wouldn't call their technology that great.

The Dominators are probably really dangerous, really bad and are xenophobic in extreme, to top it off, but they don't really seem to have the motivation to pose an existential threat. Besides that, they seem to be toeing the line with the Guardians, so they may think that they don't have what it takes to fight the Green Lantern Corps.

The Spider Guild seems advanced and dangerous enough, not the top notch technology of others but almost there; they aren't that unified though, each Chapter just looking for themselves unless another gets taken out, so they seem to be more of a recurring problem than a proper existential threat, although I see the potential for it.

I don't know if the Cooperative (was that their name? The society from which Icon comes from?) counts as an Empire, but they seem pacifistic enough, the Alignment is going to get realigned (no pun intended either), the Citadel Empire doesn't exist, I don't know if we are going to see the Gil'Dishpan or even if they count as an Empire, and I can't recall at this time any other Empire in the Galaxy that might warrant the Guardians' attention.

With all of that, one can see why they have only fought (from what we know) just three serious wars: the Reach, Apokolips and the Empire of Tears. One tie, one lose, one win, respectively. They represent an existential threat and are dangerous/advanced enough, be that through technology, magic or both.

AverusBlack · Sep 11, 2019

Mr Zoat said:
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaiiiihhhhhhhhhhh!"

Broken link

Mr Zoat said:
Mister Queen looks as unhappy about that as I feel, but I doubt that I'll get a better deal by negotiating further. It takes a very particular mindset to fight gun-armed criminals while wearing tights. She wasn't going to back down just because the Titan of Oceans is bearing down on us.

Broken link

Mr Zoat said:
"Any Titans they caught were imprisoned in such a way that the gods could strengthen themselves with their magic. Melinoë explained it to me. Well, she only explained it in reference to Hades but I assumed that the others did the same thing."

Broken link

Mr Zoat said:
I nod. "Thank you." I armour myself before transitioning into the sky above the mountain. No vengeful plasma explosions or anti-matter beams greet me, so it seems likely that my people were victorious. In fact, looking down… Ah, good. I allow myself to plummet, not bothering to break at all as I slam into the ground with enough force to crack the rock… And make me bend my legs slightly. Fortitude: not just for taking punches.

Shouldn't this be 'brake'?

Mr Zoat said:
"I told them." She stops dead, facing away from me. "As I said during our first conversation, the plan was always to destroy the Shadows. Once I knew enough. Of course, knowing what I know now I obviously had to destroy the rest of the Light as well. Took some doing."

Linked to SV, dunno if you wanna update that for QQ

Mr Zoat said:
A yellow and red striped man shoots upward, propelled by the shovel. He flails around as he falls to the ground, and as he turns to look at Zatanna she slams a custard pie into his face hard enough to break his nose.

Broken link

Mr Zoat said:
That particular greeting went through several revisions during rehearsals. In the end, she ruled that it should stay in. Everyone else is told to call her Marla from the start, but 'formal and polite if a little stiff' is perfectly fine for a superhero and because she can't really use my name. There's no way to explain why I can't introduce myself by name in a way that makes any sense on television, so by skipping the whole issue there's no implied power inequality or distain.

Disdain, if that's a british-ism in spelling I've never heard about it before. I could be wrong.

Mr Zoat said:
The second railgun reorientates itself so that it points towards the ceiling, where one of the soldiers appears to have hoped that I'd make the mistake of someone only familiar with 2D combat. Realising that he's been spotted, the soldier tries to throw himself aside. At this range, it doesn't help. The hit shuts down his force field and turns his controlled leap into a tumble. I grab onto him with a reptilian hand construct, poking a claw through his armour and stunning him before depositing him onto the floor.

Broken link

Mr Zoat said:
"After that, there are things that I would like to help you doing. I hadn't realised that the princesses were elsewhere, so I imagine that I'll be spending some time recovering them.. and… Whatever other Tamaranians I can find."

Do

Mr Zoat said:
"Reminds me of a film from Earth Prime. The villain of the piece asks a senator he kidnapped whether or not he considers himself a God-fearing man, as he himself has always preferred to think of God as kind and loving. Not someone to be feared. Then he.. suggests that the senator should be afraid of him instead." My smile falls away. "In this case, being afraid of Darkseid is considerably more sensible. The Christian God is unlikely to turn up inside your home."

Broken link

Mr Zoat said:
Her face appears above my ring. "I have no idea. I'm not on J, I'm on Treigst. But unless watching plants grow is something you find entertaining I very much doubt it.

Missing quotation mark at the end there

PRETTY sure I didn't include any not-broken links in there but if I did by accident I apologize now

EDIT: Actually, to hijack my own post here. Zoat, I should like to pick your brain a little. Indigo light users borrow other colors only when another ring is nearby, yes? From what I understood from the comics, it's a sort of... faux light. A lantern could recharge off it but it's not like charging from a battery, IIRC. If being able to channel all 7 colors is the first step on a path to becoming a white lantern, does that make indigos more or less likely to begin that journey apropos of other factors, I wonder?

e.g.: Somebody with an indigo ring who isn't compelled to feel compassion because they were capable of it before is studying the uses of other light colors with their ring. Is it possible that person could handle white light at some point of eventual comprehension?

Vaermina · Sep 11, 2019

Buggy123 said:
With all the metaphysical oomph that implies.

You mean metaphysical oomph that hasn't really been shown to have any effects outside of a very small radius?

Coda · Sep 11, 2019

Vaermina said:
You mean metaphysical oomph that hasn't really been shown to have any effects outside of a very small radius?

No, he means the kind of raw power that comes from having your body and soul derived from the reproductive capacities of the most powerful individual in the universe.

EDIT: And even beyond that... We literally just saw a synthetic New God be able to reach across the galaxy and even across dimensions with his power. I don't think you have much ground to be able to claim "very small radius" here.

Mr Zoat · Sep 11, 2019

26th December 2004
21:23 GMT -6

I ignore the thanagarian refugees shrinking back from me as I scan Kara In-Ze, while she glowers feverishly up at me.

Richard looks at me impassively. "So what's wrong with her?"

I lean forward slightly. "Have we been visiting our hermitage-dwelling foster-brother?"

"Yes. He needs.. to know someone still.. cares."

Richard looks concerned. "Are you saying that whatever the Justice League did to the Lords is infectious?"

"No." I shake my head. "But Kara breathed in a little of what I did to Kal-El to make certain that his powers never came back."

Richard blinks in surprise, while Kara just closes her eyes. I hold out my left hand and generate an image of gold kryptonite's molecular structure.

"When I visited him I introduced a small amount of gold kryptonite dust into his farm."

"I offered to help out."

I nod. "And I imagine that your powers have been waning ever since. Unreliable flight, perhaps? Stuttering heat vision? Disease vulnerability is a slightly surprising-."

"Is it permanent? Can you help her?"

"Sure. No problem. At this point, her natural force field is so weak that it isn't interfering with my rings at all. Then she'll just need some sunlight and she should throw off the rest of the flu herself."

I stand there for a moment, waiting-.

"So are you going to do it, or just stand around all day?"

"I am.. prepared to offer my services as part of a wider cooperation agreement, certainly."

Richard's eyes narrow. "What… Kind of agreement?"

"Stormwatch will cooperate with me until my brother and sister in law are safe. Then, I will peacefully return to my own parallel."

"I don't think they're in any special danger, so sure."

"And Ms In-Ze will take me out to dinner."

"What? / "What?"

"It seems to me that she is the one most likely to be carrying some lingering frustration towards me relating to our previous encounter. I think that getting to know me socially will help to counteract that. And she'll owe me personally for fixing her up."

"You said all you wanted was to make sure that Mister Miracle was alright."

I roll my eyes. "Well, if you want Kara here to have a mystically enforceable unpaid debt to an alien god, by all means-."

"Just.. do it."

I smile. "As you will. This shouldn't hurt."

I reach out with my left hand and remember how much fun I had during our last meetings. Not exactly a deep relationship, but I do genuinely want her healthy again. Orange light pulses out, the kryptonite in her system being reduced to its component atoms. Hm. Extensive organelle damage. It's irregular, she should be able to regain a portion of her exotic abilities almost immediately, but… Undesirable. So I repeat what I did with Kal-El 16 and give her a full restore. And that nasty virus and a few of the side effects…

I step back half a pace as she sits up. "How do you feel?"

"Better." I raise my eyebrows and look expectant. "I hope you like takeout. Cheap, quick to eat takeout."

I smile back. "Oh, it's the company more than the food. What's with the new costume?"

"I didn't want to wear Kal's colors anymore."

"But they're not Kal-El's colours. They're the colours-."

"Colors of House El, I know."

She gingerly floats herself off the bed and onto the floor, using her flight to bear her weight until she's certain that her legs can manage it.

"Which means that -however much of an arse he's become- they also represent generations of other people who mostly lived up to their ideals. Like Bur-El, who invented the telescope to better calculate tidal patterns, or Shu-El, who-."

"And Pir-El, who blew up four cities and killed their entire populations in a pointless war, and still got a statue made of him."

Oh she's just a treat.

"So is that House Ze's emblem?"

"No, we're not a noble house. It's…" She looks away. "The logo for my dad's favorite chariot polo team."

"As good a reason as any." I raise my eyebrows. "You know, you could just make it your house emblem. I doubt anyone would complain. Or I can. True, it would be in the Apokoliptian peerage, but-."

"Why are you-?" Her eyes widen and she puts her hands on her hips. "You're annoyed I stopped wearing the costume you made!"

I shrug. "I thought the colours looked better on you. More upbeat. The black's just-."

She blurs forwards and up, floating just in front of me with her head a little above mine. "How I dress is not-" My smile broadens. "-your con-." Her face freezes for a moment. "Are you getting turned on by this?"

I nod my head to the left. "Little bit. You're just so spunky. Hey, do you want to-?"

"Dick." She leans around me. "Why are we still here?"

"Well, Kyle's still tracking down Wonder Woman and finding out what the thanagarians using the base are doing. But if you're feeling better you don't have to stay in the infirmary."

I raise my left hand. "Grayven to Lantern Rayner."

"Green Lantern here. Oh, it's-. What?"

"Are we dropping off the refugees yet?"

"Can you put Nightwing on?"

I shrug and generate a body construct for him to use.

"The thanagarians are mostly the survivors of their attack on Earth, with a few others they've picked up around the place. They aren't all that interested in taking on civilians, and… I'm… Not sure they've got the resources for it, anyway."

"What about the fake distress signal?"

"They thought Hawkgirl betrayed them to Grayven. They wanted to trick her into investigating."

I raise my right hand to my mouth. "She didn't! She was barely alive throughout that whole thing!"

The Rayner construct glances at me while Richard nods. "Did you find Wonder Woman?"

"She's why I had such an easy time getting in. Are we making some sort of deal with the Lords as well?"

"We might have to. And.. this was a humanitarian mission. I don't know about you, but I'd feel bad about discouraging them."

"Yeah, okay. Are we giving them a ride home? The thanagarians blew up their javelin."

I shake my head. "No need. I can open a boom tube."

Kara frowns. "Hold on. If they can't take the refugees, where can we take them? They're not going to get a very friendly welcome on Earth."

Richard shakes his head. "It's our only option right now." He walks over to a wall-mounted intercom and activates it. "Barbara, set a course for Earth. We'll leave once Kyle's back on board."

I smile at Kara as I open a boom-

Boom!

-tube down to the surface.

"Pick me up at seven?"

Simonbob · Sep 11, 2019

What hilarious guy.

Poor Kara. So confusing.

Slayer Anderson · Sep 11, 2019

Mr Zoat said:
I nod my head to the left. "Little bit. You're just so spunky. Hey, do you want to-?"

"Dick." She leans around me. "Why are we will here?"

I think you wanted 'still here' instead.

Also, eww... I watched almost three minutes of Dragon Ball Super. That was more than enough to remind me why I now consider Dragon Ball GT an unrecognized classic of its age.

AverusBlack · Sep 11, 2019

Grayven continually reminds me of the kind of person I'd end up being if I had a power ring.

moralrelativity · Sep 11, 2019

Mr Zoat said:
bear her wait

weight

Chojin Patriarch · Sep 11, 2019

Mr Zoat said:
I ignore the thanagarian refugees shrinking back from me as I scan Kara In-Ze, while she glowers feverishly up at me.

Oh-ho, someone's not feeling well?

"No." I shake my head. "But Kara breathed in a little of what I did to Kal-El to make certain that his powers never came back."

Yes, he didn't tell anyone about that, did he?

"Is it permanent? Can you help her?"

Hmm... Concern for a teammate, or something a little more?

"Sure. No problem. At this point, her natural fore field is so weak...

"Sure. No problem. At this point, her natural force field is so weak...

"So are you going to do it, or just stand around all day?"

Now, now, you've got to make it worth his time.

"Stormwatch will cooperate with me until my brother and sister in law are safe. Then, I will peacefully return to my own parallel."

"I don't think they're in any special danger, so sure."

"And Ms In-Ze will take me out to dinner."

Ah, Grayven, you magnificent troll!

"It seems to me that she is the one most likely to be carrying some lingering frustration towards me relating to our previous encounter. I think that getting to know me socially will help to counteract that. And she'll owe me personally for fixing her up."

I hope he's using his rings to say that with a straight face... Or is he just giving them a full-on Smug smile?

I roll my eyes. "Well, if you want Kara here to have a mystically enforceable unpaid debt to an alien god, by all means-."

That's not even a thing! ...Is it?

I reach out with my left hand and remember how much fun I had during our last meetings. Not exactly a deep relationship, but I do genuinely want her healthy again. Orange light pulses out, the kryptonite in her system being reduced to its component atoms. Hm. Extensive organelle damage. It's irregular, she should be able to regain a portion of her exotic abilities almost immediately, but… Undesirable. So I repeat what I did with Kal-El 16 and give her a full restore. And that nasty virus and a few of the side effects…

Empowering an ally. How very Acquisition of you.

I smile back. "Oh, it's the company more than the food. What's with the new costume?"

What, a lady can't change outfits without an inquisition?

...using her flight to bear her wait until she's certain that her legs can manage it.

...using her flight to bear her weight until she's certain that her legs can manage it.

"And Pir-El, who blew up four cities and killed their entire populations in a pointless war, and still got a statue made of him."

Something of the black sheep of the family, then.

Oh she's just a treat.

I knew before clicking that was Abridged Alucard.

"No, we're not a noble house. It's…" She looks away. "The logo for my dad's favourite chariot polo team."

So, she's wearing the Kryptonian equivalent of a team jersey? Ha!

"Why are you-?" Her eyes widen and she puts her hands on her hips. "You're annoyed I stopped wearing the costume you made!"

I shrug. "I thought the colours looked better on you. More upbeat. The black's just-."

I don't think she likes your fashion sense, Grayven.

I nod my head to the left. "Little bit. You're just so spunky. Hey, do you want to-?"

Oh, he is loving this.

"Dick." She leans around me. "Why are we will here?"

"Dick." She leans around me. "Why are we still here?"

I raise my left hand. "Grayven to Lantern Rayner."

"Green Lantern here. Oh, its-. What?"

Wow, has he seriously never used ring-to-ring calls before? Or is it surprise at getting a call from an Orange ring?

I raise my right hand to my mouth. "She didn't! She was barely alive throughout that whole thing!"

Nth metal poisoning's a bitch.

Richard shakes his head. "It's our only option right now." He walks over to a wall-mounted intercom and activates it. "Barbara, set a course for Earth. We'll leave once Kyle's back on board."

Ah. Batgirl or Oracle mode?

"Pick me up at seven?"

Always has to have the last word, doesn't he?

Ah, Grayven, it's fun to watch you troll people...

thebishop8 · Sep 11, 2019

Mr Zoat said:
"They thought Hawkgirl betrayed them to Grayven. They wanted to trick her into investigating."

I raise my right hand to my mouth. "She didn't! She was barely alive throughout that whole thing!"

Aren't you the one who said something about Hawkgirl when you attacked the Thanagarians 11 months ago?

Mr Zoat said:
"Barbara, set a course for Earth.

Barbara as in Batgirl?

DeathlessProficiency · Sep 11, 2019

Mr Zoat said:
26th December 2004
21:23 GMT -6

I ignore the thanagarian refugees shrinking back from me as I scan Kara In-Ze, while she glowers feverishly up at me.

Richard looks at me impassively. "So what's wrong with her?"

I lean forward slightly. "Have we been visiting our hermitage-dwelling foster-brother?"

"Yes. He needs.. to know someone still.. cares."

Richard looks concerned. "Are you saying that whatever the Justice League did to the Lords is infectious?"

"No." I shake my head. "But Kara breathed in a little of what I did to Kal-El to make certain that his powers never came back."

Richard blinks in surprise, while Kara just closes her eyes. I hold out my left hand and generate an image of gold kryptonite's molecular structure.

"When I visited him I introduced a small amount of gold kryptonite dust into his farm."

"I offered to help out."

I nod. "And I imagine that your powers have been waning ever since. Unreliable flight, perhaps? Stuttering heat vision? Disease vulnerability is a slightly surprising-."

"Is it permanent? Can you help her?"

"Sure. No problem. At this point, her natural fore field is so weak that it isn't interfering with my rings at all. Then she'll just need some sunlight and she should throw off the rest of the flu herself."

I stand there for a moment, waiting-.

"So are you going to do it, or just stand around all day?"

"I am.. prepared to offer my services as part of a wider cooperation agreement, certainly."

Richard's eyes narrow. "What… Kind of agreement?"

"Stormwatch will cooperate with me until my brother and sister in law are safe. Then, I will peacefully return to my own parallel."

"I don't think they're in any special danger, so sure."

"And Ms In-Ze will take me out to dinner."

"What? / "What?"

"It seems to me that she is the one most likely to be carrying some lingering frustration towards me relating to our previous encounter. I think that getting to know me socially will help to counteract that. And she'll owe me personally for fixing her up."

"You said all you wanted was to make sure that Mister Miracle was alright."

I roll my eyes. "Well, if you want Kara here to have a mystically enforceable unpaid debt to an alien god, by all means-."

"Just.. do it."

I smile. "As you will. This shouldn't hurt."

I reach out with my left hand and remember how much fun I had during our last meetings. Not exactly a deep relationship, but I do genuinely want her healthy again. Orange light pulses out, the kryptonite in her system being reduced to its component atoms. Hm. Extensive organelle damage. It's irregular, she should be able to regain a portion of her exotic abilities almost immediately, but… Undesirable. So I repeat what I did with Kal-El 16 and give her a full restore. And that nasty virus and a few of the side effects…

I step back half a pace as she sits up. "How do you feel?"

"Better." I raise my eyebrows and look expectant. "I hope you like takeout. Cheap, quick to eat takeout."

I smile back. "Oh, it's the company more than the food. What's with the new costume?"

"I didn't want to wear Kal's colors anymore."

"But they're not Kal-El's colours. They're the colours-."

"Colors of House El, I know."

She gingerly floats herself off the bed and onto the floor, using her flight to bear her wait until she's certain that her legs can manage it.

"Which means that -however much of an arse he's become- they also represent generations of other people who mostly lived up to their ideals. Like Bur-El, who invented the telescope to better calculate tidal patterns, or Shu-El, who-."

"And Pir-El, who blew up four cities and killed their entire populations in a pointless war, and still got a statue made of him."

Oh she's just a treat.

"So is that House Ze's emblem?"

"No, we're not a noble house. It's…" She looks away. "The logo for my dad's favourite chariot polo team."

"As good a reason as any." I raise my eyebrows. "You know, you could just make it your house emblem. I doubt anyone would complain. Or I can. True, it would be in the Apokoliptian peerage, but-."

"Why are you-?" Her eyes widen and she puts her hands on her hips. "You're annoyed I stopped wearing the costume you made!"

I shrug. "I thought the colours looked better on you. More upbeat. The black's just-."

She blurs forwards and up, floating just in front of me with her head a little above mine. "How I dress is not-" My smile broadens. "-your con-." Her face freezes for a moment. "Are you getting turned on by this?"

I nod my head to the left. "Little bit. You're just so spunky. Hey, do you want to-?"

"Dick." She leans around me. "Why are we will here?"

"Well, Kyle's still tracking down Wonder Woman and finding out what the thanagarians using the base are doing. But if you're feeling better you don't have to stay in the infirmary."

I raise my left hand. "Grayven to Lantern Rayner."

"Green Lantern here. Oh, its-. What?"

"Are we dropping off the refugees yet?"

"Can you put Nightwing on?"

I shrug and generate a body construct for him to use.

"The thanagarians are mostly the survivors of their attack on Earth, with a few others they've picked up around the place. They aren't all that interested in taking on civilians, and… I'm… Not sure they've got the resources for it, anyway."

"What about the fake distress signal?"

"They thought Hawkgirl betrayed them to Grayven. They wanted to trick her into investigating."

I raise my right hand to my mouth. "She didn't! She was barely alive throughout that whole thing!"

The Rayner construct glances at me while Richard nods. "Did you find Wonder Woman?"

"She's why I had such an easy time getting in. Are we making some sort of deal with the Lords as well?"

"We might have to. And.. this was a humanitarian mission. I don't know about you, but I'd feel bad about discouraging them."

"Yeah, okay. Are we giving them a ride home? The thanagarians blew up their javelin."

I shake my head. "No need. I can open a boom tube."

Kara frowns. "Hold on. If they can't take the refugees, where can we take them? They're not going to get a very friendly welcome on Earth."

Richard shakes his head. "It's our only option right now." He walks over to a wall-mounted intercom and activates it. "Barbara, set a course for Earth. We'll leave once Kyle's back on board."

I smile at Kara as I open a boom-

Boom!

-tube down to the surface.

"Pick me up at seven?"

Can we PLEASE get an Eros interrupt in the NSFW thread out of this?

Handlewithcare · Sep 11, 2019

I'm not sure how a Paul in the Dragonball Universe would fare, yet I'm sure it would end with someone in tears.

Also, petition to rename Grayven as troll-Paul. Traul.

Cherico · Sep 11, 2019

you know what I'm ok with it, as ships go you could do a lot worse then super girl.

Lord Ernest · Sep 11, 2019

I love it when Grayven is in this mode, if I didn't know any better I would ship him with Kara as well. But I think the distance and the work commitments would kill that relationship faster than it being build upon troll-flirting.

thebishop8 said:
Barbara as in Batgirl?

I don't think she would be Batgirl in this parallel, people would associate it with Lord Batman and that's bad rep I bet. Maybe she's Oracle without being on a wheelchair?

Mr Zoat · Sep 11, 2019

thebishop8 said:
That should be 6th February. That's what the actual chapter says, along with the more recent Earth 12 chapter that happened on the same day.

Thank you, corrected.

The Crown Imperium isn't that bad, apparently, even with a caste system that probably treats the most lower castes worse than some slaves, plus their technology isn't all that great either and they also have some obstacles in their way, Vega and their species most of all.

They have a largely hereditary aristocracy, if that's what you mean. There isn't a caste system outside of that.

AverusBlack said:
Actually, to hijack my own post here. Zoat, I should like to pick your brain a little. Indigo light users borrow other colors only when another ring is nearby, yes? From what I understood from the comics, it's a sort of... faux light. A lantern could recharge off it but it's not like charging from a battery, IIRC. If being able to channel all 7 colors is the first step on a path to becoming a white lantern, does that make indigos more or less likely to begin that journey apropos of other factors, I wonder?

e.g.: Somebody with an indigo ring who isn't compelled to feel compassion because they were capable of it before is studying the uses of other light colors with their ring. Is it possible that person could handle white light at some point of eventual comprehension?

I don't know what the canon conditions for Indigos using other colours is, so I can't use it. Mine therefore is something original, though it will be a while before it comes up.

Mr Zoat · Sep 11, 2019

Slayer Anderson said:
I think you wanted 'still here' instead.

moralrelativity said:
weight

Chojin Patriarch said:
"Sure. No problem. At this point, her natural force field is so weak...

Thank you, corrected.

DeathlessProficiency said:
Can we PLEASE get an Eros interrupt in the NSFW thread out of this?

If you write it, yes. Or pay Cambrian or something. If I were writing an erotic scene between any of the people shown here I wouldn't write it here.

Imperator Pax · Sep 11, 2019

I don't know why I expected Conqueror's moon to involve War World...

Vaermina · Sep 11, 2019

Coda said:
And even beyond that... We literally just saw a synthetic New God be able to reach across the galaxy and even across dimensions with his power. I don't think you have much ground to be able to claim "very small radius" here.

No, we saw him utterly fail to do that.

AverusBlack · Sep 11, 2019

Mr Zoat said:
Thank you, corrected.

They have a largely hereditary aristocracy, if that's what you mean. There isn't a caste system outside of that.

I don't know what the canon conditions for Indigos using other colours is, so I can't use it. Mine therefore is something original, though it will be a while before it comes up.

Awwwww.

Give you a guess as to which color I align to the most. T: The research I did suggested the necessity of the presence of another ring but some of the comics were kind of ambiguous about that? I remember Indigo-1 channeling fear without Sinestro being around, for instance. It's all rather confusing.

Stsword · Sep 11, 2019

AverusBlack said:
Indigo light users borrow other colors only when another ring is nearby, yes?

Channeling other lights without an appropriate lantern around is apparently an advanced feat.

An indigo tribesman wasn't shown channeling a light independently until Stewart channeled the Black to destroy Mogo when Krona infected the GLC and the Guardians with the Emotional Embodiments.

And if an indigo tribesman can channel the black, they might be able to channel the white too...

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