With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Twelve)
- Thread starter Mr Zoat
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- Oblivion
You would think someone in the Light would have ran a DNA test on him...
After all the modifications done to him by Father Box would he still have human Genetics? I mean Sinestro couldn't even identify his organs when he was wounded and had to make an educated guess.
Where would they get a sample of his DNA anyway? His home is very well protected against intrusion and he wears a power ring whenever he leaves the house, whose environmental shield should prevent him leaving any trace DNA.
Empiricist2
Let's play doctor!
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- Baton Rouge
I may be incorrect in this, but when OL first scanned the Frees, they scanned as human but looked odd to Ophidian vision.
Plus this. I wouldn't be surprised if New Gods didn't shed skin and hair cells like humans did, in which case it would actually be rather difficult to get any oh his DNA.
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They have the Brain, I am sure he could easily defeat any precautions Grayven might think to put in place.
If he even thinks to do so in the first place given Grayven.
"Curses! Yet again my methods have failed. Clearly he's not a mere human of British descent, but how does he keep foiling my analysis that way?!?"
Grayven was the one who corrected the Justice League's security failures after they were mind controlled. I find the Idea that he would neglect his own defenses unlikely.
Empiricist2
Let's play doctor!
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- Baton Rouge
That doesn't answer the question. In what way are Grayven's defenses inadequate enough that the Light could even have access to his DNA? The Brain is smart and has lots of neat toys, he's not literally God.
Escalation (part 5)
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- Hampden Park
30th May
08:53 GMT -5
"Signed…" My pen moves across the paperwork which the Metropolis University's legal department had drafted for me. "And signed." I look up at the President of the University. "Anything else I need to sign?"
"No, no, that's perfectly fine." She coughs, then doesn't quite grab the paperwork from the desk. Still comes pretty close to 'picking up with indecent haste', though. "Since you're one of the trustees you'll have full access to the accounts, and major expenditures beyond normal day-to-day expenses will require majority approval-."
"I did… Read it before I signed it."
"Ofcourse. Of course." To be fair, I did just sign over an awful lot of money. She looks around the room, trying to think of something else to say about it. "I was impressed that you were able to get Mister Luthor interested in our work. LexCorp has made contributions in the past to our science and technology departments, but Paranormal Studies just doesn't attract the same level of interest."
"Mister Luthor lives in a city where a man flies around with his underwear outside his leggings." Her face sort of.. freezes up as I openly disrespect Kal-El's dress sense. I'm wearing a suit. "It's simply that the Centre hasn't had the assistance it needs to really progress its research work. Though I have no desire to insult the work they've done in helping individual metahumans deal with their abilities, that generally doesn't help the Human species as a whole."
"Oh. I'd… Rather got the impression that you were doing this for your.. daughter?"
I shake my head. "I'd have been generous for that alone, but what Doctor Williams and I have mostly been discussing is improving our understanding of the underlying mechanisms for metahuman abilities in general, not just in particular cases. Because -knowing what I know about the wider universe- I can tell you that what you have on Earth is not common. Just imagine if studies conducted here allowed everyone to share the abilities of the few fortunate enough to be born with them."
President Asplund frowns slightly, looking down. "I'm not sure I can. You mean a world where everyone can fly around like Superman?"
"No, no." I shake my head. "Superman's an alien. The only way you could give a Human his abilities is by turning them into a Kryptonian first. But perhaps like Geo-Force?" She looks blank. "Prince Brion Markov of Markovia?" A place the existence of which would bother me more if I remembered what shape Eastern European countries had back on Earth Prime. "If one Human can possess it there's really no fundamental reason why you couldn't all have it." She actually looks a little worried. "Of course, doing it the real-science way instead of the mad-science way takes a good deal of time. But if something's worth doing then it's worth doing properly."
"Well, I can assure you that the Center for Paranormal Studies will definitely be doing it properly."
I nod, smiling. "I'm sure that you're right. Now, unless there's anything else, I'd like to get back..?"
"I… Was… Wondering. Mister… Valjek?"
One of Queen Clea's court mages. Though she's not completely sold on the idea of developing the Greater Azores, she could see no harm in sending one of her people to study the lay of the land. And where better than America's leading magic research institute? "Oh, don't worry, I got all of the work visa stuff sorted out. There won't be any problem there."
"We.. had a few… People… Expressing concerns. Now, I don't share their prejudices myself, but-."
"Is this about magic?"
She exhales. "Yes. Yes it is. With the attack of Fawcett City being only a few months ago-."
"I was there."
"Yes, I… I know. And obviously we don't have to worry about the funding loss any longer, but having a lot of protestors outside the Center might encourage parents to keep their children away."
"The program which Doctor Williams and I discussed would not involve teaching children thaumaturgy." She looks blank. "Ah, the operating principles behind magic. He's here to offer advice on aiding those children who appear to have developed magic abilities spontaneously."
"Wait, spontaneously? That can happen?"
"There was a rather odd religious sect in seventeenth century France who believed that Elementals had no souls, unless they married a Human. The issue of those relationships occasionally manifest abilities relating to their arcane forebear." Which is odd to say the least. It would make sense if the Human half of the relationship was female as the Elemental could use magic to trigger parthenogenesis, resulting in a near-clone of the mother with added Elemental attributes. But the surviving records suggest that the Elementals were female. Ah, I don't really know enough about how Elementals work to know how plausible it is. "And then there are those who more or less fall over a magic technique and can't recognise it for what it is. You have a parapsychic currently here as a boarding student?"
"Yes, but he's never studied magic. Or at least there wasn't anything in his file."
"Magic is a part of this world, inseparable and inescapable. It doesn't go away because you ignore it any more than ionising radiation does. Every Human presently alive uses small amounts automatically, and a few luck into something a little more potent… Just by focusing their souls, by thinking in the right sorts of way. Or, to put it in more mundane terms… You can cut hair without ever having studied hairdressing."
"A-hah. I suppose that's true."
"Look, if it starts to be a serious problem I'll talk to them." That doesn't appear to reassure her. "And I'll ask Mister Zatara to have a word as well." Yes, that worked. "If you have any concerns about magic in general, Mister Valjek is the best person to speak to. That's literally his job, and I'm sure he can do a better job of explaining it than I can." I pause to give her the chance to reply, but that appears to have been sufficient. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I'd like to see Lynne before her class starts."
"Oh! Of course."
Father Box, hush tube. No sense deafening everyone.
Ploong.
I turn away from President Asplund and walk through the tube, out into the waiting area where Lynne has been waiting. I know that this place doesn't have a uniform policy for students, but I thought that dressing her in something a little more professional would help engender the appropriate mental attitude. I don't intend to have her do her normal schooling here, but it should help her adjust to an educational environment.
"All ready, poppet?"
"I… I guess I am. You're still going to be here, right?"
"For today, yes, I'll be in the building. I need to talk to Doctor Williams' researchers about the sorts of equipment they want to get to help some of your classmates." I kneel down and put my left hand on her right shoulder. Well, the index finger is on her shoulder. The rest just sort of hang over. "But that's only going to be for today, alright?" She nods. "Okay then. Now off you go. I'll take you home at three."
I lift off my hand and she turns away. Then she turns back and wraps her arms around my neck. I smile and hug her back. After a few seconds she pulls away, smiling slightly nervously, then turns and heads towards her classroom.
"…not even close to being worried, Agent Gallagher, so why don't you make like a tree. And burn to death." I turn to see Miss Selton turn off her mobile phone and… From the way her eyes widen I can only assume that she was so focused on her conversation that she didn't spot me until just then. "Ah. Hey."
"Good morning, Miss Selton."
"Lynne starting today?"
"Yes."
She nods. "Is she going to be here permanently now?"
"I'm.. not sure how long she'll be here for. Probably until the start of the next school year, with weekend visits thereafter. Homework permitting." Hm. "I hate to intrude, but…" I gesture towards her phone with my right hand.
"Government agent. This place was getting funded by his people, so I had to be nice to him. And now it's not, so I don't."
"Glad I could help."
She regards me for a moment. "Lynne said you had other superpeople living with you. Is that so?"
I nod. "Yes?"
"You interested in another?"
I look at her for a few moments. "Perhaps we should have a conversation about that."
08:53 GMT -5
"Signed…" My pen moves across the paperwork which the Metropolis University's legal department had drafted for me. "And signed." I look up at the President of the University. "Anything else I need to sign?"
"No, no, that's perfectly fine." She coughs, then doesn't quite grab the paperwork from the desk. Still comes pretty close to 'picking up with indecent haste', though. "Since you're one of the trustees you'll have full access to the accounts, and major expenditures beyond normal day-to-day expenses will require majority approval-."
"I did… Read it before I signed it."
"Ofcourse. Of course." To be fair, I did just sign over an awful lot of money. She looks around the room, trying to think of something else to say about it. "I was impressed that you were able to get Mister Luthor interested in our work. LexCorp has made contributions in the past to our science and technology departments, but Paranormal Studies just doesn't attract the same level of interest."
"Mister Luthor lives in a city where a man flies around with his underwear outside his leggings." Her face sort of.. freezes up as I openly disrespect Kal-El's dress sense. I'm wearing a suit. "It's simply that the Centre hasn't had the assistance it needs to really progress its research work. Though I have no desire to insult the work they've done in helping individual metahumans deal with their abilities, that generally doesn't help the Human species as a whole."
"Oh. I'd… Rather got the impression that you were doing this for your.. daughter?"
I shake my head. "I'd have been generous for that alone, but what Doctor Williams and I have mostly been discussing is improving our understanding of the underlying mechanisms for metahuman abilities in general, not just in particular cases. Because -knowing what I know about the wider universe- I can tell you that what you have on Earth is not common. Just imagine if studies conducted here allowed everyone to share the abilities of the few fortunate enough to be born with them."
President Asplund frowns slightly, looking down. "I'm not sure I can. You mean a world where everyone can fly around like Superman?"
"No, no." I shake my head. "Superman's an alien. The only way you could give a Human his abilities is by turning them into a Kryptonian first. But perhaps like Geo-Force?" She looks blank. "Prince Brion Markov of Markovia?" A place the existence of which would bother me more if I remembered what shape Eastern European countries had back on Earth Prime. "If one Human can possess it there's really no fundamental reason why you couldn't all have it." She actually looks a little worried. "Of course, doing it the real-science way instead of the mad-science way takes a good deal of time. But if something's worth doing then it's worth doing properly."
"Well, I can assure you that the Center for Paranormal Studies will definitely be doing it properly."
I nod, smiling. "I'm sure that you're right. Now, unless there's anything else, I'd like to get back..?"
"I… Was… Wondering. Mister… Valjek?"
One of Queen Clea's court mages. Though she's not completely sold on the idea of developing the Greater Azores, she could see no harm in sending one of her people to study the lay of the land. And where better than America's leading magic research institute? "Oh, don't worry, I got all of the work visa stuff sorted out. There won't be any problem there."
"We.. had a few… People… Expressing concerns. Now, I don't share their prejudices myself, but-."
"Is this about magic?"
She exhales. "Yes. Yes it is. With the attack of Fawcett City being only a few months ago-."
"I was there."
"Yes, I… I know. And obviously we don't have to worry about the funding loss any longer, but having a lot of protestors outside the Center might encourage parents to keep their children away."
"The program which Doctor Williams and I discussed would not involve teaching children thaumaturgy." She looks blank. "Ah, the operating principles behind magic. He's here to offer advice on aiding those children who appear to have developed magic abilities spontaneously."
"Wait, spontaneously? That can happen?"
"There was a rather odd religious sect in seventeenth century France who believed that Elementals had no souls, unless they married a Human. The issue of those relationships occasionally manifest abilities relating to their arcane forebear." Which is odd to say the least. It would make sense if the Human half of the relationship was female as the Elemental could use magic to trigger parthenogenesis, resulting in a near-clone of the mother with added Elemental attributes. But the surviving records suggest that the Elementals were female. Ah, I don't really know enough about how Elementals work to know how plausible it is. "And then there are those who more or less fall over a magic technique and can't recognise it for what it is. You have a parapsychic currently here as a boarding student?"
"Yes, but he's never studied magic. Or at least there wasn't anything in his file."
"Magic is a part of this world, inseparable and inescapable. It doesn't go away because you ignore it any more than ionising radiation does. Every Human presently alive uses small amounts automatically, and a few luck into something a little more potent… Just by focusing their souls, by thinking in the right sorts of way. Or, to put it in more mundane terms… You can cut hair without ever having studied hairdressing."
"A-hah. I suppose that's true."
"Look, if it starts to be a serious problem I'll talk to them." That doesn't appear to reassure her. "And I'll ask Mister Zatara to have a word as well." Yes, that worked. "If you have any concerns about magic in general, Mister Valjek is the best person to speak to. That's literally his job, and I'm sure he can do a better job of explaining it than I can." I pause to give her the chance to reply, but that appears to have been sufficient. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I'd like to see Lynne before her class starts."
"Oh! Of course."
Father Box, hush tube. No sense deafening everyone.
Ploong.
I turn away from President Asplund and walk through the tube, out into the waiting area where Lynne has been waiting. I know that this place doesn't have a uniform policy for students, but I thought that dressing her in something a little more professional would help engender the appropriate mental attitude. I don't intend to have her do her normal schooling here, but it should help her adjust to an educational environment.
"All ready, poppet?"
"I… I guess I am. You're still going to be here, right?"
"For today, yes, I'll be in the building. I need to talk to Doctor Williams' researchers about the sorts of equipment they want to get to help some of your classmates." I kneel down and put my left hand on her right shoulder. Well, the index finger is on her shoulder. The rest just sort of hang over. "But that's only going to be for today, alright?" She nods. "Okay then. Now off you go. I'll take you home at three."
I lift off my hand and she turns away. Then she turns back and wraps her arms around my neck. I smile and hug her back. After a few seconds she pulls away, smiling slightly nervously, then turns and heads towards her classroom.
"…not even close to being worried, Agent Gallagher, so why don't you make like a tree. And burn to death." I turn to see Miss Selton turn off her mobile phone and… From the way her eyes widen I can only assume that she was so focused on her conversation that she didn't spot me until just then. "Ah. Hey."
"Good morning, Miss Selton."
"Lynne starting today?"
"Yes."
She nods. "Is she going to be here permanently now?"
"I'm.. not sure how long she'll be here for. Probably until the start of the next school year, with weekend visits thereafter. Homework permitting." Hm. "I hate to intrude, but…" I gesture towards her phone with my right hand.
"Government agent. This place was getting funded by his people, so I had to be nice to him. And now it's not, so I don't."
"Glad I could help."
She regards me for a moment. "Lynne said you had other superpeople living with you. Is that so?"
I nod. "Yes?"
"You interested in another?"
I look at her for a few moments. "Perhaps we should have a conversation about that."
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- Australia
Of course. Of course.... Or perhaps you meant to run the first words together.
RichardWhereat
Feanor did nothing wrong.
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- Australia
There's a Grayven harem? Godsdamnit. I thought I was paying at least a moderate amount of attention.
"Have to ask the wife first. She thinks I'm building up a harem, which makes my harem-building more difficult."
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- Hampden Park
I did.
No. Several of his employees are female, but he hasn't shown any sort of romantic or sexual interest in them.
Xavier Bronze
The Avatar
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- Metropolis
Prince Grayven's Home for Metahumans and Renegades, coming soon to ABC Family.
Next week on Grayven's Home, Sunset and Lynne explore an abandoned train tunnel. Jade and one of the Genomorphs get into a prank war.
Next week on Grayven's Home, Sunset and Lynne explore an abandoned train tunnel. Jade and one of the Genomorphs get into a prank war.
Harem name suggestions?
Grayven's gravy train?
Grayven's gravy train?
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- she/her
Phrasing! D:
I am not sure why but that is just gross.
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- texas
In the Vext series there's someone with a "steal divinity" device.
So Brain could be working to fix that.
RichardWhereat
Feanor did nothing wrong.
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- Australia
The G-Gnomes rewire her toilet training memories so she leaves a mess in the kitchen.
Jade kills eighteen of them before Grayven stops her.
*Canned laughter*
The laughs don't stop on ♫ The Gravy Train. ♫ Tonight on NBC 8/9P
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- Pacific Northwest
Sure, but have they shown an interest in him?
Actually, scratch that. If Paul didn't notice, I don't know why Grayven would.
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- Hampden Park
Vera checked him out once, when she saw him in his pyjamas. Sunset isn't sure that she can find humanoids attractive. Jean is only female honourifically.
Silverias
Seeing is Believing
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- Squiddy Places
Zoat...Zoat...come on. Come on.
Come on, Zoat.
There's enough MLP fanfics around.
Come on.
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- Hampden Park
I'm not sure whether your comment means 'there are enough, therefore you do not need to write one' or 'there are enough that show her being attracted to humanoids to justify it'.
For decency's sake, I hope you pick the right choice.
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