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

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Huh.

I'm going to be honest, I was never a fan of the ParagonOLxJade pairing, but it's nice to see Paragon with Kon. And I did briefly ship OL with M'gann for a bit at the beginning.

I mean this is probably that Black Mercy thing people are talking about, or Zamaron fuckery, but still, nice to finally get something like this involving OL.

The only thing missing is the Ophidian, making it a fivesome, but having her only really in it for OL.
 
This is Paul, not Grayven. Our wonderful author is experimenting again! Text color, invisitext, secondary accounts, and now the Andalus font.

Text that was in Andalus were the words: Where-, done for a while, stuck under, the rest of my family, Oh he's probably still too tired to remember Mother's, Mother's, I frown for a moment.

And then there were two words from "Jade" that were in Andalus: Quiet. Mother.


I'm going to suggest that Desire of the Endless is involved here. Hopefully Eris didn't contact her. This situation may not be Paul's greatest desire, but it lacks realistic elements which Paul would not want.
Also we're now in a vision, in a flashback (being told to a Korugarian), in a time skip (unless "the present" is the Korugar translated conversation).
 
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I don't think it's a lotus eater/black mercy scenario. If it was, I think it would focus more on his corps, the things he's done, or something else in that vein. The SI has orange enlightenment, not violet, and this is a love-fantasy more than an avarice-fantasy.

On the other hand, the SI has a stable and conscious connection to the orange light. Attempts to influence him through it are bound to fail. Not so much the case with the other colors.
 
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Mr Zoat said:
16th August 2016
06:33 GMT
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Uhh... I'm thinking timeskip and while it's not out of the question that giving Paul a decade could result in reliable contact with Earth Prime and a visit from his mother... my sinister senses are tingling...

Although, looking at all that violet light... think Paul's visit to Zamora was slightly more eventful than Grayven's?
 
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Got to say the different font is nearly completely indistinguishable for me (on mobile). They are both humanist sans fonts with maybe a 1/4th of a point x-height smaller than the default. Even words specifically called out it takes me several seconds to see it :(
 
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Truly terrifying.

Personally I would consider this not being a lotus eater machine to be a twist.

This... really isn't Paul though is it? Most of these ships sailed and he let them, if not actively pushed them out.
 
I'm so confused. I mean, I figured that this wasn't real, but knowing that just made it kind of...pointless to read, to me. Like, it was so detached from reality that I didn't really see the point in immersing myself in it.
 
The way that the Andalus seems to be focused on correction particular glitches rather than randomly placed makes it seems less like he's being subject to a Black Mercy and more like he (and possibly the others?) are being subject to some other kind of trap.
 
This reminds me of that arc in Worm where Taylor goes

"Huh, the System is not screwing me over, and my bullies are getting punished for their behavior. Am... I being mind-controlled right now?"
 
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hmm, what point was Mother Mercy controlled again?

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Now that I've read up on her a little, I reckon it's likely that Paul deliberately let himself be taken by Black Mercy in order to have a chat with Mother Mercy and attempt to recruit her. That's why 'Mother' is coming to visit. He's probably prepared some method of breaking out of the dream before hand and is just indulging himself in the false paradise the Mercy is showing him.
 
Man, I never thought I'd have sympathy for Agent Smith, but SV managed it:

Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world, where none suffered, where everyone would be happy? It was a disaster. No one would accept the program, entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world, but I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from.
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