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If Demon Clariss can Speed Steal that's serious trouble. That power, if used logically, could incapacitate nigh-anyone. In order for any attack to hit, it first needs to traverse the distance between the attacker and their target. In order to do that, it needs speed. Even SI Paul's constructs propagate from his ring.

Granted, it would probably be more limited than that in practice. But the potential is terrifying.

Paul can use micro thin filaments to support his constructs, so it would be a matter for Paul of being sneaky.

it wouldn't stop telepathy.

Depending on how magic is used it could also get around this, but it would have the usual problem of having to cast the spell before the speedster reacts.
 
Not potential. John's actually very good at Synchronicity Wave Traveling. Better than most Laughing Magicians in the past were.

The problem is that his dead twin brother is a goddamn savant with the stuff. To the point where in the alt-world where he lived he managed to turn the world into a utopia. He's basically Wizard Jesus in any timeline where he's alive. And in the timelines where he's dead he spends his time fucking with his brother for killing him.

soooo....he's a petty little asshole who doesnt care how many people he murders-by-proxy for revenge?
sounds like John-16 made the right call back in the womb.
and makes me wonder whats under the Shiny surface of Golden boy's quote unquote "Utopia"
 
Oh, they're doing that with all of them. Hellblazer, Supergirl...

Damn, that White Martian fight was disappointing. Writers, if you can't do a fight with a second tier DC property and make it better than My Super Ex-Girlfriend, go home and reconsider your life choices.
Constantine got cancelled, and Supergirl has improved quite a bit since then. Around episode 6 or 7, it started to get better, but its has some really great episodes since it found its footing. They've got M'gann appearing in season 2, along with Mon El. Fight choreography has greatly improved and so has most of the CGI. Not all of it, but most of it. Melissa Benoist is the real heart of the show though. Just look at her face of pure joy. Absolutely adorable!
 
It would depend on whether or not they were using an organic inner ear for balance purposes.
Best speed up perception to drop those and a lots of other tricks as well to increase odds of success then since it will be a bloodbath if that is what the demon with superspeed wants unless Jay comes out of nowhere to help fight it since he would have the power and experience to do so.

Even if he gets yelled at by his wife later he would still do it if it meant he was saving lives he knew he could save.
 

I'm rather surprised he'd made that kind of mistake, considering his intimate knowledge of the universe. Speedsters in the Flash category can tap into the speed force to increase their kinetic energy. It only stands to reason that they can use it to remove it as well. Zatanna would've been a better choice, or trapping him in a regular force-field in phase with Rocket's would've been better. OL is getting complacent in his old age. ;)
 
I'm rather surprised he'd made that kind of mistake, considering his intimate knowledge of the universe. Speedsters in the Flash category can tap into the speed force to increase their kinetic energy.
Not on Earth 16, as far as the SI knows. They actually can, but it's not instinctive and actually quite hard to learn.
It only stands to reason that they can use it to remove it as well.
He had no evidence that Edward Clariss knew how to do that.
Zatanna would've been a better choice,
She's at school.
or trapping him in a regular force-field in phase with Rocket's would've been better.
He'd batter down any force field they could have deployed quickly enough.
 
that he has some way

brings me up to

Wonder how the possessed speedster nullified a kinetic absorption barrier?
Any speedster needs the ability to remove as well as add kinetic energy from objects. Namely themselves, or they couldn't stop when they wanted to. Ditto for any objects they're carrying. I'm guessing he's figured out how to remove kinetic energy from objects he's touching - and since this particular shield is powered by absorbed kinetic energy...
 
I float in the direction of the door, him dangling at one removed from my construct bindings as the muzzle construct evaporates.
No, I don't like that.
How about something of the form:
dangling two (chain) links (away) from
(or one, if you don't count the manacle rings as part of the chain)

If you want the family/relation sense of removed, the problem is you need to avoid saying that he'd been freed, while using the same two words as for the indirect relation.
dangling "once removed" from?

This also came to mind:
dangling from my {magically isolated/custom/hybrid/multi-material} bindings.
dangling from my chain of many colours as the ...
 
He has better things to do then watch over Hell 24/7.

Like chase after a rather vexing detective, solve crimes, have drunken sex parties, keep his mother from destroying the world, and spend family time with his brother.

That's from the TV series. In (comic) reality, he opened a bar, killed a minor God, created a new Universe, installed a new God over everything, then went away. After New 52 he supposedly came back, but I ignore everything after New 52, so I don't really know.
 
Oh, not that it matters much but I found something I found interesting considering Obsession has shown up in this work- In the 60s, DC had a licensed comic based on Captain Action, in the comics Captain Action had powers from greco-roman and norse deities thanks to magic coins. I just thought it might be interesting if Obsession turns out to be a legacy character.

Anyway, with Paul being interested in human improvement and making mad science mainstream, I have to say that Dr. Andrew Zagarian deserves some funding. He invented plastalloy, artificial flesh, as a source of transplants for people who find themselves needing new body parts. The result is the Shaggy Man, a mindless beast who thanks to superstrength, resistance to injury, and a healing factor, is so powerful that the JLA once gave up on defeating him.

The purple healing ray, in this fic, if memory serves, doesn't cover regenerating missing body parts, so plastalloy could help revolutionize medicine by growing replacements that are even better than the originals.

But there's more, the Shaggy Man doesn't eat. So plastalloy might help solve world hunger too.
 
luckily the demon is now facing the worst enemy of a speedster: ballistics. By which I mean it's high up in the sky and only falling at normal speed until it hits the ground
 
right....never even attempt to be merficul to deamon constintine, just go for the kill end him he's too dangerous to let live.
If you are refering to this:
"Ah. That's how it works." His voice is normal. Given how his face has twisted that's a little surprising, but I suppose he hasn't altered his vocal cords. "But Max knows that we can do far more than adding kinetic energy to things."

His hands stop moving, and the barrier disappears.
then it's Clariss-possessing-Max Mercury that said it, not The Demon Constantine (TDC).

A surge of speed brings me up to the kinetic barrier in which Raquel has Max imprisoned.
alternatively, 'brings us up', since OL's hauling TDC around.
 
This rather pointedly shows that Paul does still consider The Demon Constantine to be a person. A reprehensible one to be sure but still a person and still deserving at least a minimal level of restraint on Paul's part.

Against something he really does view as not a person any longer? The Orange Dawn is unleashed.
Nah he's just waiting for the branding to be done first since it'll make things easier and he probably doesn't want to risk getting all his energy stolen the same way it happened last time.
 
Now that Paul has a ghost I wonder if he can pull a Captain Triumph- A golden age hero whose origin is that half of a pair of twins died, coming back to possess his brother, gaining superpowers through the synergy.

Not that Triumph is a real powerhouse or anything, but every little bit helps. The twins' superpowers are- superstrength and resistance to injury, flight, invisibility and presumably illusion based disguise.

While certainly not twins, two souls both formed of the orange light ought to be pretty compatible.
 
"Identity Theft complete. Identity partially corrupted. Nameless Hellshade, you belong to the Orange Lantern Corps."

"
Assail your brethren wherever you find them."

"Yes, Master."
I feel like people aren't talking about this much. OL finally gets a Construct-Lantern that is both intelligent enough to be useful and that he doesn't have moral qualms about using. He can finally have a useful scout. He can send the Hellshade out to be a pseudo-Lantern when he can't be everywhere at once. It will completely suck at stealth because it glows bright orange, but other than that this is the biggest increase in power OL has got since he got Stewart's ring.

Not sure about "Identity partially corrupted." but I assume it will be relevant later.
"Eat the shadow things before they get into people."
When they eat things that are able to be assimilated, do they automatically assimilate those things? That's how it worked for Larfleeze's Construct-Lanterns.
"Ah. That's how it works." His voice is normal. Given how his face has twisted that's a little surprising, but I suppose he hasn't altered his vocal cords. "But Max knows that we can do far more than adding kinetic energy to things."

His hands stop moving, and the barrier disappears.
Suspend him in the air with wind turbines? Chain him in locations he can't strike effectively? Manipulate local gravity so that he just floats in one spot? There's loads of options to consider before he hits the ground.
or the speed powers provided by the Garrick formula are versatile enough that the lack of a speed force is just a semantic difference.
It was mentioned that Max Mercury didn't use the Garrick formula, but something else. Not sure how much of that applies to the Demon possessing him.
This rather pointedly shows that Paul does still consider The Demon Constantine to be a person. A reprehensible one to be sure but still a person and still deserving at least a minimal level of restraint on Paul's part.

Against something he really does view as not a person any longer? The Orange Dawn is unleashed.
Not entirely sure he intends to assimilate the Demon Constantine, but if he did, branding first would be a good idea. That way he could be questioned at length about all the countermeasures he and Satanus have taken against assimilation before committing. Look at what happened last time OL tried assimilating a moderately powerful Demon.
"Lantern, Max is doin'... Something?"
Not sure who is talking here. Rocket seems too informal to call OL "Lantern", and Canis wouldn't abbreviate.
Strands of orange light leaps from the rings and latch on to its ethereal form.
Strands ... leap from the rings
 
I feel like people aren't talking about this much. OL finally gets a Construct-Lantern that is both intelligent enough to be useful and that he doesn't have moral qualms about using. He can finally have a useful scout. He can send the Hellshade out to be a pseudo-Lantern when he can't be everywhere at once. It will completely suck at stealth because it glows bright orange, but other than that this is the biggest increase in power OL has got since he got Stewart's ring.

Not sure about "Identity partially corrupted." but I assume it will be relevant later.
It's a bit stealthier than it seems, given that it can possess people. Probably gives them glowing eyes, of course, but it's better than nothing.
 
Not sure about "Identity partially corrupted." but I assume it will be relevant later.
My assumption was that it's due to the thing having had its former mortal personality essentially destroyed by its torments in Hell.

Also, Hell's bad enough that it removes most of the moral qualms of assimilation even if you do consider it a person. Even being one of Larfleeze's constructs is probably better than being a damned soul in Hell, much less OL's.
 
Not sure about "Identity partially corrupted." but I assume it will be relevant later.
Souls don't remain intact in Hell indefinitely. The Ghost he just acquired is a partial imprint that could only access the world with Clariss' aid.
When they eat things that are able to be assimilated, do they automatically assimilate those things? That's how it worked for Larfleeze's Construct-Lanterns.
Not ordinarily.
It was mentioned that Max Mercury didn't use the Garrick formula, but something else. Not sure how much of that applies to the Demon possessing him.
All of it.
Not sure who is talking here. Rocket seems too informal to call OL "Lantern", and Canis wouldn't abbreviate.
Raquel. She was more than a little worried.
Strands ... leap from the rings
Thank you, corrected.
 
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