Stratagemini
Totally a Fire Ferret.
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Clearly, Tren was a replicant.
With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Twelve)
- Thread starter Mr Zoat
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I think you might want a threadmark.
He's trying to convince Mother Box that the Psions are all evil, recall; he wanted Tren to "convict" himself thoroughly.
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see a Tortoise
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Thank you, corrected.
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Obviously in this metaphor the Tortoise's name is Tortoise.
Blazinghand
O cursèd spite
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Well, mission accomplished in that case. Seemed pretty open and shut!
The "i" in ping is missing italics.
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It's actually a Blade Runner reference; I don't know if Pratchett parodies the same source, it's been a while since I've read Small Gods but this is definitely the Voight-Kampff test. I believe the idea is that it measures stress response while asking a human-imitator to justify an inhuman act.
Think you meant "begin" here.
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Pictured: the would-be founders of the Psion Sentient Liberties Union
ThrawnCA
Carbon-based biped
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can't do that if you've
without
sheathe the blade
pack rearranges itself
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nmWarden
Webcomic Glutton
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Does everyone remember how Grayven locked himself out of the rewards of the Befriend Themyscira questline that Paul greatly benefited from? If Grayven is lucky we'll see a reverse of that here in which Grayven picks up a Psion (or Psion experiment) as an ally.
I wonder what the Psions would do if they had a captive emotional embodiment to experiment on .
I wonder what the Psions would do if they had a captive emotional embodiment to experiment on .
Probably something similar to what happened with X'Hal. They'd poke and prod and torment until they made just the wrong mistake, and then get annihilated. Or worse.
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He could always run into Gorius Karkum, female Psion who became a green lantern in the comics.
As for Psion experiments, in REBELS they actually made symbiotic Starros they dubbed Dark Stars.
Looking her up, only female Psions are capable of empathy. And they spend their lives being constantly raped by the males. However, it appears in this story that they don't have females anymore:
ThrawnCA
Carbon-based biped
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Hmm. No reason it can't be both? Small Gods definitely includes the tortoise flip. And I'm pretty sure Blade Runner has nothing specifically about tortoises.
On the whole, I wouldn't have said Grayven was looking for an emotional response, nor trying to distinguish human from imitator, so much as looking for a moral response. The Psion did, in fact, display emotion in the scenario, but since it was mostly orange, he failed the test.
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Evil Plan
Not nearly so nefarious as my name signifies
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- They/Them
I really like this bit. Those initial letters combined with their use earlier in the chapter, it's clear that he really wants this to be the case, but is holding that desire in check pending more details. Mmm. Love it.
I can't tell if those Sphere bits were supposed to be italics and just got missed, or were supposed to be italics plus emphasis and so wrapped around to appearing non-italic.
That's our Graven, alright.
Considering it's more work to get only parts of a word to be in italics....
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Two points: I actually feel a little bad for Tren, because he seems like a kid who pulls wings off of flies because his psychopathic daddy tells him how smart he is for doing so. He really did seem...innocent. Not kind or good, mind. Innocent. I don't know what the race he referred to is, though, so maybe he'd already done more than tortured cats because he was told it was clever. In short, I think he or somebody like him might be redeemable, given reason to understand that sapients are valuable in their own right. You can have a good-aligned sociopath as long as he's got a strong sense of enlightened self-interest. Empathy is a short cut to the more useful aspects of enlightened self-interest, but sufficiently intelligent sociopaths can learn the same things. (Psychopaths, no, because they enjoy torture for its own sake. Tren, here, seemed to enjoy it because it proved he was good at something his superiors found praise-worthy. Like a kid who enjoys excelling at sports or math or puzzles or chess because he enjoys the challenge and has been told it's a worthy one.)
Second, here's how you mix fear and avarice: Fill people with the terror of what you will take from them. Your greed for their stuff combined with their terror of the avaricious monster come to claim it.
You can't do it while being a good person, though. At least, I don't see how. Avarice as motive for inspiring fear is just generally going to require disregard for others' rights.
Second, here's how you mix fear and avarice: Fill people with the terror of what you will take from them. Your greed for their stuff combined with their terror of the avaricious monster come to claim it.
You can't do it while being a good person, though. At least, I don't see how. Avarice as motive for inspiring fear is just generally going to require disregard for others' rights.
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Can you just want to make people scared? I can tell how that would be a precarious mindset because you wouldn't want to slip into fear for its own sake and that might be what Grayven is dealing with, especially since he's out of practice channeling Orange.
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That sort of juxtaposition really isn't easy, and the Renegade's level of ring skill is much lower than the SI's. Mastery isn't called that because most Lanterns ever reach it.
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