#ultraviolet lantern

[lore-of-the-silvereyes-rwby]

Lantern Corps for Ruby Characters

I’ve had this idea for a while and since RWBY is doing plenty of cross over material with DC as of late so I figured it was about time to do something like this and discuss the possible lantern corps that I think would best suit the characters of RWBY 

For those who may or may not know Lantern Corps are organizations that have rings that give their wearers superpowers and they are powered by different emotions and in order to wield one of these rings you have to have a strong connection to the emotion that wears it

And these Lantern Corps are; 

The Red Lanterns of Rage

The Orange Lantern of Avarice

The Sinestro Corps of Fear

The Green Lanterns of Willpower

The Blue Lanterns of Hope

The Indigo Tribe of Compassion

The Star Sapphires of Love

As well as the; 

Black Lantern Corps of Death and the White Lantern Corps of Life

As well as the newest corps being; 

The Ultraviolet Corps

Note; it is unclear what exact emotion powers this corps other than it is negative in origin and as such many people believe it to be Shame

With that established I will be doing 4 characters at a time starting with Team RWBY

[yourfavslanterncorp]

In the DC Universe, there are ten known emotional energies that can be channeled into a power source for Lantern Rings. The wielder of these rings are assembled into Corps, and come into conflict with one another often. This is a list of all the currently known energies and their associated Corp.

Red: the energy of rage. From righteous fury, to mindless bloodlust, all fall under the red light of rage. The Red Lanterns are led by Atrocitus, and based on the hellish world of Ysmault. Weilders of the red light boast incredible strength, and a breath weapon that can break most other constructs.

Orange: the energy of greed. The most secretive and lonely Corp, the only member is the insane Larfleeze. The orange lantern can create constructs of any foe the ring has defeated, and there have been many who have fallen to it.

Yellow: the energy of fear. Those who join the yellow Sinestro Corp are masters of sewing fear into those around them, bringing those fears to life with their constructs. The Sinestro Corp is, of course, led by Sinestro, and based out of the planet Qward in the antimatter universe.

Green: the energy of willpower. The most well-known of all the Corps, the green lantern insignia is a symbol for good across the galaxy. They are also among the most numerous, boasting numbers in the thousands. The Corp is led by the Guardians from the planet Oa, and is the most well documented of the colors here.

Blue: the energy of hope. One of the smaller Corps, but by no means weak. The Blue Lanterns are an oddity in that they cannot create energy constructs like the others, but this is made up for by multiplying the strength of nearby Green Lanterns, and by depowering nearby Red Lanterns. They are led by former guardians Ganthet and Sayd, and are based on the planet Odym.

Indigo: the energy of compassion. Unlike other Corps, the members do not wear the indigo lantern rings. In fact, they are not considered a Corp: the indigo tribe is a group of wanderers on the planet Nok, who use their lantern rings as the bindings for the galaxy's greatest sociopaths to rehabilitate them.

Violet: the energy of love. The Star Sapphire Corp used to be a single vessel for a powerful parasitic crystal, but has since grown to an elite group of female warriors. To become a Star Sapphire, one must have loved another and have that love spurned. The Corp is based on Zameron, it's crystals altered by the Zamerons to give lantern powers to its wielder.

White: the energy of life. The White Light is a rare occurrence, embodying the entire emotional spectrum, and only appears in times of great need. The power of a White Lantern is far greater than any other Lantern, but comes at a cost; the White Light has a will of its own, and will subjugate the personality of its bearer until it's will is fulfilled.

Black: the energy of death. During the Sinestro war, the Guardians lifted the life lock on the green lantern rings, allowing them to kill their opponents. This fulfilled the an ancient prophecy, and allowed the Black Lantern Ring to emerge from the Green Lantern Power Battery on Oa. It found its host in the recently deceased William Hand, who began raising an army of Black Lantern Zombies to feast on the emotions of the living.

Ultraviolet: the energy of the unseen emotions. The Ultraviolet Lantern Corp is the hand of Umbrax, a sentient star that possesses and controls all members of the Corp (save a few notable exceptions). It feeds off the unseen emotions, the surpressed and hidden emotions in the day-to-day that all life exhibits.

[ragingphantom666]

DC Dimensions project plan: Razer (Vol. 1)

This series is not an assured project. It is a concept that can still be changed or scrapped.

Synopsis

Years ago, Razer departed Oa to search for his love, Says. On his journey, he is attacked by an Ultraviolet Lantern called "The Hopeless One" who is determined to thwart his endeavor. We can only wish that Razer's hope is strong enough.

Characters

Razer - A former Red Lantern who became a Blue Lantern. He lost his love, Aya, during the Great Manhunter War. Now he scours the universe to find her consciousness.

The Hopeless One - A mysterious Ultraviolet Lantern who does not want Razer to find Aya.

Other Information

The series is meant to follow the events of Green Lantern: The Animated Series, although Anti-Monitor's involvement is excluded.

[justiceallianceunlimited]

[zal-cryptid]

The Emotional Entities

[hollow-keys]

Generally I think DC's habit of perpetually adding Lantern Corps can get tacky, but I like the idea of giving Jericho an ultraviolet ring. A ring powered by unseen negative emotions for him sounds so fitting given how he's perpetually forgiving and perpetually nice no matter how people treat him and I want to see him confront those negative feelings he must have buried.

[scottpetersen]

How Does The Ultraviolet Lantern Corps Fit With The Emotional Spectrum?

Ok. Here I’ll be going over how the Ultraviolet Lantern Corps fits with the Emotional Spectrum. Just so you know, I’m gonna get pretty philosophical on this post. Let’s dive right in.

I’m gonna start off with which Lantern Corps the Ultraviolet Lantern Corps is the opposite of. In order to find out which Lantern Corps the Ultraviolet Lantern Corps is the opposite of, I have to pin down what the Ultraviolet Lantern Corps is powered by. It was left a bit ambiguous in the comics. A YouTuber called BC Bud on his The Ultra Violet Lantern Core [DC] Lore Explained & My Theory on the True UV Power Source! YouTube video believed that the Ultraviolet Lantern Corps is powered by instinct. He came to this conclusion because he believed that what powers the Ultraviolet Lantern Corps is like a negative picture to the traditional Emotional Spectrum’s positive picture (I recommend checking his video out for yourself in order to get the full gist of what he was getting at). He later touched on the fact that one of the things that powered the Ultraviolet Lantern Corps are raw impulses (one of the things the Justice League Vol 4 comics said powered the Ultraviolet Lantern Corps). He compared impulses and instincts as if one and the same thing. According to an Internet search he showed on the video, emotions represent the inner feelings of an individual while instincts represent our Human behavior. In the context of the Green Lantern lore, that would mean that instincts encompass the entire Emotional Spectrum. And since the White Light of Life (the light that powers the White Lantern Corps) is the entire Emotional Spectrum and its opposite is the Darkness of Death (which powers the Black Lantern Corps), that means that the opposite of the Ultraviolet Lantern Corps would have to be something that technically isn’t the entire Emotional Spectrum but still encompasses it all. And that would be: the Green Light of Willpower which powers the Green Lantern Corps.

So, the Lantern Corps that the Ultraviolet Lantern Corps of Instinct is the opposite of is the Green Lantern Corps of Willpower. That makes sense because instinct is all about giving away control of ourselves to our impulses while willpower is all about asserting control over ourselves thus asserting our free will. Instincts are completely automatic while willpower is completely triggered by us and our consciousnesses. As shown throughout Geoff John’s Green Lantern comic book run, the Green Lantern rings assert absolutely no control over their wielders while the Ultraviolet Lantern rings, as stated in Justice League Vol 4 #3, completely control their wielders unlike the other Lantern rings. I highlighted the word completely because in Justice League Vol 4 #3, John Stewart, while telling the rest of the Justice League about the Ultraviolet Lantern Corps, said “It’s called the Invisible Spectrum. While you control the Emotional Spectrum, the Invisible Spectrum…it controls you.” The Emotional Spectrum includes Lantern rings that can alter a person’s emotions. Technically, that’s mind alteration. And as John Stewart pretty much said, the Emotional Spectrum doesn’t control you but the Invisible Spectrum (and thus the Ultraviolet Lantern rings since what powers them is a part of it) does. So, I think that John Stewart was saying that what the Emotional Spectrum does is mind alteration and what the Invisible Spectrum does is mind control. In order to explain the difference between mind alteration and mind control in the context of the Emotional Spectrum and the Invisible Spectrum, I also have to explain someone else’s work.

@dorizardthewizard came up with a theory on his or her (he or she didn’t quite say on his or her blog profile what his or her gender is) Symmetries in the emotional spectrum post that there are symmetries in the Emotional Spectrum. 3 of the ones he or she theorized are that the Red Lantern rings and Violet Lantern rings take their respective emotions of rage and love that’s already there and then amplify it through the roof, the Orange Lantern rings and Indigo Lantern rings force their respective emotions of greed and compassion into the wielders thus brainwashing them and that the Yellow Lantern rings and Blue Lantern rings are powered by their respective emotions of fear and hope that’s already in the wielder and also incites those emotions in the people around the wielder. I think I agree with those theories. So, in the case of the Yellow Lantern rings and the Blue Lantern rings, they slightly alter the emotions of other people and in the case of the Red Lantern rings and Violet Lantern rings, they take the emotions of the wielder and amplify them through the roof. That means that in both cases, while the emotions of the people and wielders are strengthened, the emotions were already there to begin with. And in the case of the Orange Lantern rings and the Indigo Lantern rings, they force the emotions into the wielder and pretty much brainwash them. But in my mind, there’s also something else at play with the Orange Lantern rings and Indigo Lantern rings. I think that while the Orange Lantern rings and Indigo Lantern rings do indeed brainwash a person and warp their very identity, there’s still some amount of the person’s former identity left even after that. Take Munk AKA Indigo-2 for example. When Fatality asked Munk who he was before he got inducted into the Indigo Tribe after she noted to him how he behaved a lot like a warrior in Green Lantern: New Guardians Vol 1 #5, Munk looked down in shame. To me, this heavily implies that the warrior-like behavior Munk was displaying was part of how his former self behaved. If the Indigo Lantern ring completely wiped away Munk’s old self, then, the brainwashing-induced compassion aside, he wouldn’t be displaying any distinct personality traits like the warrior-like behavior. I think the same thing applies to Glomulous whose someone who got turned into an Orange Lantern construct slave by the Orange Light of Greed. The way it works is that it steals the identity of the being the Orange Lantern ring wielder killed and then turns it into an Orange Lantern construct that behaves like the person it once was except more greedy and a lot more obedient to the Orange Lantern ring wielder. For example, Glomulous still has some of his old self’s mannerisms like his traditional “Hee” that his former self showed to have had in Green Lantern Vol 4 #40. So, the difference between a normal person and a person whose been taken over by either an Indigo Lantern ring or an Orange Lantern ring is the difference between a TV operated manually and a TV operated by a remote. Those 2 TVs are operated by 2 different things but at the end of the day, they’re both still TVs. Same goes between a normal person and a person taken over by an Indigo Lantern ring or Orange Lantern ring. Their identities may be operated by different things but at the end of the day they’re both still their identities. This is what mind alteration is all about but mind control is different.

Mind control is all about completely overriding a person’s identity and replacing it. I know that the narration box in the image above says that the Ultraviolet Light of Instinct is basically making the wielders’ true selves take over but I think that’s pretty much just a half-truth just like Nekron’s half-truth about how he all the people that came back from the dead over the years back to life in Blackest Night #8. In that same issue, it was revealed that while it was true that Nekron unlocked and opened the door that led back to the land of the living, it was the people themselves that chose to walk through it. In the case of the Ultraviolet Light of Instinct supposedly causing the wielders’ true self to take over, while it is indeed causing the wielders’ own instincts and by extension their positive and negative emotions to take over, the instincts and once again by extension the positive and negative emotions are, in my mind, only half of a person’s true self. The other half of a person’s true self is, in my mind, their willpower and by extension the core of their identity. Like I said earlier in this post, willpower is all about asserting control over ourselves thus asserting our free will. So, since the Ultraviolet Light of Instinct controls a person, it throws their willpower and free will right out the window. Now, to explain how and why our instincts and our willpower are 2 halves of the whole of our true selves, I’m gonna use planet metaphors with the instincts being the planet’s crust and the willpower being the planet’s core. [Disclaimer: My planet metaphors aren’t meant to be scientifically accurate.] Our willpower is the core of our identity as a whole AKA our true self and our instincts are the crust and underlying mantle of our true self. A planet’s core makes the planet’s underlying mantle and crust stay together and allows it to form its terrain. Our willpower pretty much does the same thing by making our instincts stay coherent and allowing them to form our positive and negative emotions. Without the planet’s core, the planet’s crust and underlying mantle would fall apart and crumble to pieces. Without our willpower, our instincts’ coherence would fall apart and the chaotic instincts would take over. Without the planet’s crust and underlying mantle, the planet’s core would still be there but it also wouldn’t have any of the underlying mantle and/or crust to support and thus help the crust form terrain and the planet’s core would pretty much stop functioning for any practical purposes. Without our instincts, our willpower might still be there and drive us but it wouldn’t have any instincts to mold into emotions. So, without our instincts, we would be rendered completely emotionless. Both the planet’s core and the underlying mantle and crust are necessary to make the planet whole. Both willpower and instincts are necessary to allow us to live life to the fullest. And willpower and instincts are necessary to form the whole of the White Light of Life as BC Bud kinda implied in his The Ultra Violet Lantern Core [DC] Lore Explained & My Theory on the True UV Power Source! when he noted that he liked how the people of Earth used the White Light of Life to fend off the Ultraviolet Lantern Corps as to him it represented using instincts for good.

As I said earlier in this post, the YouTuber BC Bud mentioned on his The Ultra Violet Lantern Core [DC] Lore Explained & My Theory on the True UV Power Source! YouTube video that the Ultraviolet Lantern Corps are like a negative picture to the traditional Lantern Corps’ positive picture. Given everything I’ve gathered here, that means to me that the Ultraviolet Light of Instinct is like destruction and the Green Light of Willpower is like creation. The formula on how the 2 combine to make the White Light of Life is like this. What lies in the middle between creation and destruction is change. Change makes creation and destruction go on their continuous cycle. For example, when ice is melted, the ice is technically destroyed but at the same time, it’s not destroyed. It’s just changed into water. This transformation from ice to water is like this: When the ice is melted and destroyed, it’s being changed and then water is created in its place. So, that means that the White Light of Life is like change.

In conclusion, these are my thoughts on how the Ultraviolet Lantern Corps fits with the Emotional Spectrum.

See you all next time.

[tardisman14]

Screw Hogwarts houses. Put a character in my inbox, and I’ll tell you which Lantern Corps they’d be in

No OCs, please

[wandawillkill312]

The Ultraviolet Corps.

Okay...

Yes. The UV Corps does not represent "Shame", but "Negative Emotions." But hear me out!

What if "Shame" led to those emotions?

What if the feeling of "Shame" over who you really are inside; and the fact that you feel you can't reveal your true self to anyone, leads to you forming negative emotions, such as: hate, disgust, etc.

Things that no one would ever see, as you'd keep that to yourself?

Ergo; I think that "Shame" should be the lead/representing emotion of the Ultraviolet Lantern Corps, as it plays a big hand in conjuring up negative emotions.

What do you think?

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@yellowskinnedwackyman

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Active regions on the Sun combined to look something like a jack-o-lantern’s face on Oct. 8, 2014. The image was captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, which watches the Sun at all times from its orbit in space.⁣ The active regions in this image appear brighter because those are areas that emit more light and energy. They are markers of an intense and complex set of magnetic fields hovering in the Sun’s atmosphere, the corona. This image blends together two sets of extreme ultraviolet wavelengths at 171 and 193 Ångströms, typically colorized in gold and yellow, to create a Halloween-like appearance.⁣ Image description: The Sun is surrounded by a plain black background. Bursts of light from active regions create the shape of a jack-o-lantern’s face – including glowing golden eyes and a mouth. ⁣ ⁣ Credit: NASA/SDO⁣ ⁣

[mutable-manifestation]

The Heart of the Matter Ch.4

Chapter 1 (Parts 1-3), Chapter 2, Chapter 3

Info: Some background for how the other Lanterns fit the AU is present - some of their basics are changed up to better work with the AU as well. I’m also not using the Ultraviolet Lanterns.

***

Danny listens patiently as Clockwork weaves a tale of Ghost Zone history.

He’d learned the legends of the previous High Kings - his predecessors - before he took the throne, so Clockwork skims a bit.

But where the story should end, with Pariah Dark being sealed away - skipping over the time of his absence and subsequent defeat that Danny himself had wrought - he keeps going.

He hadn’t expected much from the glossed over history - his first years as a ghost had been a part of that era. He assumed he was familiar enough with what went on in the Zone in that time frame.

He was wrong.

The Observants had been a pain in the neck for as long as Danny had known them; he certainly hadn’t expected their history to be happy or uplifting.

He had expected to be bored to tears; just another history lecture about paperwork-this and proper-procedure-that.

Instead, he got a horror story.

He’d lain awake countless nights in that first year of being a halfa, fearing what his parents would do if they caught him. Then fearing what the GIW would do if they caught him - especially after that near-miss when they started employing more competent agents.

He’d spent hours and days and weeks and months worrying over the laws of the Living as pertained to the Dead. Even more so after his coronation.

When he finally revealed his halfa status to his parents, they had come around. They accepted him as he was - their son, just as he’d always been.

And, like a veil lifting from their eyes, they realized how much they’d allowed their biases to blind them.

They started doing real science - not just with the weapons, but with the ghosts themselves - and they’d come to the same conclusion Danny and Tucker and Sam and countless other residents of Amity Park had: that ghosts are sentient, sapient beings with both physical and emotional feelings, and they deserve to be treated as such.

Ever since they had worked tirelessly to have the Anti-Ecto Acts repealed, countless hours of real research and data gathering.

Presentations.

Protests.

Petitions.

Even Vlad - who had, for whatever reason, begun slowly but surely turning over a new leaf ever since Danny had outed himself as Phantom to his parents - had chipped in, throwing his money and political weight around.

Danny had been hopeful about the future of Living-Dead relations, as limited as they were by nature.

That hope makes a slow, swirling journey down a metaphorical toilet drain the longer Clockwork speaks.

Countless ghosts, stolen away and sealed screaming into their own cores as a fuel source. A barbaric practice that even some of Pariah Dark’s supporters had found distasteful - for all they hadn’t dared say it to his face - when he invented and subsequently made use of it.

Danny had been a fan of the Green Lanterns since he had learned of their existence - space cops, hello? - but thinking of them now, he only feels sick.

Flying around unknowingly using the dead as a battery.

The Oan had deceived them into inflicting the very same cruelty - the evil - that they had been sworn to oppose; causing sapient beings to suffer in the name of their so-called peace.

Learning that there were more Lanterns should have been exciting.

Instead, he only grew increasingly horrified as Clockwork listed them off.

The Yellow Lanterns, founded by a Green Lantern in conjunction with a living, psychic fear parasite - just a Fright Knight flavored version of the originals.

The Orange - a single, furious ghost that had managed to gain control over a small prototype battery and flee, drawing shades into its prison in an attempt to overload the battery and escape.

The Blue Lanterns: Green Lanterns, hope edition.

And the Star Sapphire Lanterns: a brief attempt by a few Oan to be a bit more symbiotic about things, but who eventually became just a different kind of Green Lantern. And who could’ve guessed that the ghost wouldn’t be happy about being enslaved to a fate as magical fashion statements.

Were Danny in human form for the meeting, he thinks his blood would be boiling.

He is furious, disgusted, dismayed; his core cries out to help the trapped.

He has to ask - “Why now? Why wait to tell me?” - even though he’s sure he’ll get a cryptic answer.

He doesn’t.

And oh, how carefully the Observants (and he spits the name like a curse within his own mind) had trapped Clockwork - the one being they knew would learn of their indiscretions. The one being who could and would oppose them.

They’d trapped him in a web of his own making; carefully prompted words, seemingly careless requests, and meaningless questions.

Clockwork had been young once, too, and the incaution of his youth hadn’t allowed him to anticipate the growing cruelty and callousness of those he had trusted with keeping the balance in the interim until a new king could be found.

Danny doesn’t ask him to explain why he hadn’t changed the past; he had seen for himself how poorly that could go.

But Danny Phantom is the High King of the Infinite Realms.

Names have power.

Titles have power.

Belief has power.

And the High Kings have been sought out as mediators since even the first.

It is the work of a single sentence to break each and every contract that once bound the Master of Time.

For good measure, he demands: “Tell me about everything the Observants have been hiding from me.”

He gets more than he’d hoped for, but no less than he’d expected.

Cover-ups - most of the cores they had fed to the Lantern Corps had been from ghosts who wanted to improve the Realms again - to make things more peaceful, to help with mediation or do something about the increasingly erratic natural portals.

Ghosts who threatened their power over the Realms

Anyone who doubted the strength and terror of the Green Lanterns - and their eventual variants.

Those who were a danger to their complete control.

Who might expose the cracks in their flawless image.

The only opposition that had managed to survive their careful cullings were known as Red and Black Lanterns.

The Red Lanterns, Clockwork tells him, are ghosts who chose to oppose the Green Lanterns despite the odds - or who were forced to by their leader, Atrocitus. A being that opposed the Lanterns even in life, he willingly threw himself and his fellows into the jaws of death when he learned the truth behind the Green Lanterns’ powers, founding his own Corps.

His consideration for his fellow ghosts is secondary to his rage and grief, making for a mix of volunteers and conscripts among their number. They believe it is worth temporarily stooping to the enemy’s level if it means eventually crushing them and freeing all those who have been entrapped.

The Black Lanterns, led by a death deity ghost named Necron, are apparently an attempt to form an army against the living, both to reclaim the cores lost to the other Lanterns and to ‘increase the domain of the High King of the Infinite Realms!’

As if they weren’t already infinite.

Necron worshiped Pariah Dark when he reigned, and has apparently worshiped Danny from the moment he took the throne. He adores death, as he was born of its concept, and wants to create more dead people through murder and mayhem. He also wishes to protect the dead from the living.

The ghosts that align with him both like piloting kind-of-living bodies and see opposing the Green Lanterns - who ‘trespass upon that which is rightfully the king’s,’ aka enslaving ghost cores as fuel sources - as their sacred duty.

The two remaining Lantern Corps had been hidden from him out of fear that drawing his attention to the fact there are more corps might incite enough curiosity for him to look into the matter more, eventually leading him to the awful truths behind the Lanterns.

The Indigo Lanterns were created by a hive-mind like psychic ghost forming a symbiotic relationship with the living to fulfill its obsession in the living realm - not that the living involved are aware that their power source is a ghost benefitting from their partnership. Apparently the ghost just steals whatever ecto-energy or -plasm they need from the Green Lantern battery’s metaphysical shunting system - it’s not like the frequency is a secret, what with the Oan not expecting any of the cores to be conscious enough to intentionally siphon from it.

The White Lanterns were created by a being simply known as Balance - the balance equivalent of Clockwork. They disapprove of the artificial destruction of life the Black Lanterns are aiming for, instead acknowledging that the Living Realm and the Ghost Zone are two sides of a coin and wanting the living to flourish as much as possible so that more die in the long run. The ghosts working with them agree - and also want to kind of pilot human bodies for a bit.

Silent tears - of sadness and anger both - trail down his cheeks as he takes it all in, grieving for those who had been wronged.

Atrocitus, who had spent so long lost to his grief.

The orange ghost, stuck failing to save themself for billions of years.

The countless other ghosts that the Observants had personally delivered into a nightmare even worse than anything Danny himself had managed to conjure up on his worst nights.

Something occurs to him.

“Wait…you said you couldn’t bring this up before, because of the restrictions. But the restrictions were still in place when you came to me. What changed?”

“A man named Jason Todd,” Clockwork tells him, “Who crawled out of his own grave in the second most ecto-contaminated city on Earth to swim in some of the most sub-par ectoplasm present in the living realm. Jason Todd, the halfa who doesn’t know he’s a halfa, whose complete lack of ghostly knowledge has left his life in shambles.”

And Danny’s core aches with the familiarity of it.

“Unable to manage his obsession, fully unaware that there’s anything to manage as he is. Too little ectoplasm to be stable and healthy - mentally or physically. And it is only by the grace of his city’s contamination level that he gets any ectoplasm at all.”

He pauses, dramatic as ever - or maybe perfecting his timing.

“Jason Todd, supposedly dead son of Bruce Wayne, who recently met with a Green Lantern. Ghosts can sense each other, even reduced to our cores, and this ability is passed onto the Lanterns.”

Danny bristles, practically flinging himself from his throne and into the air.

“The Lanterns don’t know the truth about their rings,” he continues, “The Oan hid it from them after the first few had to be mind-wiped because, for some reason, the people chosen for their exceptional morals and force of will were generally unwilling to condone what amounts to a combination of slavery and torture.”

Danny is flooded with relief at this; it didn’t fix what had happened to the ghosts involved and the Oan would need to be managed, but there was hope that the Lanterns would help them. Would free the ghosts’ cores willingly.

That the Justice League hadn’t willingly worked with a torturing enslaver.

That there were allies to be had among the living, even beyond the close-knit borders of Amity Park.

Still, if Jason Todd was safe then why bring him up.

“Unfortunately,” Clockwork says gravely, “This means that the Lantern he met with reported what seemed to him like a ring lodged in someone’s chest straight to Oa. And the Oan are all too eager to have him lure Jason Todd in with false medical concern and promises of their so-called ‘aid.’ It will work, and the events that would be set in motion-”

Danny doesn’t need to know what else will happen, another person’s core getting ripped out and them getting fully killed is bad enough.

He’s gone before Clockwork can say anything else.

He knows roughly where Wayne Manor is; he can look up more specific directions on his phone once he’s in New Jersey.

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Danny is gone before he can finish speaking, all too eager to help.

To save.

Let him think of his own disaster timelines-that-might-have-been, none he can guess could be as cruel as the truth.

(What difference a single friend makes - a segway to a peaceful meeting that would have been combative. To alliance.

Knowledge is power, but it is also protection. Jason Todd leads to Bruce Wayne. Bruce Wayne leads to Hal Jordan.

It amazes Clockwork almost as much as it appalls them, sometimes: how a simple conversation can divert disaster. A single friend leads to diplomacy instead of a fire-fight, leads to peace instead of the King’s family being killed and their cores crushed in an attempted coup by the Observants while the Oan dealt with the King - as if they ever stood a chance.

How a small slackening of the leash could lead to the whole thing being ripped to shreds.

It had been too long since Clockwork had spoken to the other ancients; perhaps it was time for him to change that.)

***

Info: The Observants lied - a ghost with a satisfied obsession can become infinitely powerful in the human realm. They’ll need ecto eventually, just like humans need food/water, but it isn’t a limitation of power. The rings' energy channeling and restriction method prevents the ghosts from forming anyway, but the Observants don’t want to give away too much and risk being turned on and left with no cards to play. They are very aware that the Guardians are using them for resources and see little difference between themselves and any random core mounted on a ring.

Next chapter we finally get to the meet-up!

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Some thoughts:

While I certainly won't deny that Len has some anger issues, he doesn't really strike me as having the explosive rage you see in the Red Lantern Corps. That's more Lisa's thing. If anything, I think Captain Cold is a Green Lantern. He's stubborn to a fault, he's managed to keep a team of supervillains with widely disparate personalities together for at least a decade, and, when faced with an opponent who is far more powerful than he is (the Flash), he continually and insistently keeps fighting him, coming up with new strategies and plans to stay one step ahead of the Scarlet Speedster. He also faces down much more powerful villains regularly, and without much fear. All that takes serious willpower, and I think that that's ultimately a more prominent part of his character than his anger. Also, Len didn't originally create the Rogues. It was Sam who came up with that idea, and who was originally often the one calling the shots. Len sort of fell into the role later as a result of being the only remaining Rogue with his head screwed on straight.

I agree that Sam Scudder would be an orange lantern. He loves his money and his shiny, shiny mirrors, and he loves attention even more. Evan McCulloch, though...I honestly think he'd be a better fit for the Sinestro Corps. He's basically an Eldritch horror, and borderline unstoppable. Of all the Rogues, he's easily one of the creepiest. I do, however, agree that both he and Sam would be interesting in the Indigo Lantern Corps (particularly Evan, since he's had so much trauma and done so many messed up things). Also, I kind of hate the retconned backstory of Sam having killed someone in a botched burglary before he became the Mirror Master. In his original stories, he was arrested for robbery, and there wasn't any indication that he'd killed someone, and the retcon darkens all his fun Silver and Bronze Age appearances. I love Geoff Johns' Rogues, I really do, but he really needed to lay off on the grimdark retcons.

I agree that Grodd is either a red or a yellow lantern, though I would strongly lean towards the yellow end of the spectrum myself. Usually Grodd isn't especially angry. Brutal, yes. Angry, no.

Captain Boomerang being a red lantern does work, though honestly I would lean towards him being part of the avarice corps myself. Like Cold, while he does have a lot of unresolved anger issues, he doesn't really have that obvious burning rage that seems to characterize a lot of the Red Lantern Corps---and he is very greedy and gluttonous. I also agree that him being a part of the Indigo Tribe could be potentially interesting.

Weather Wizard as a Red Lantern makes sense, since he's frequently very prickly and was very revenge-motivated in his first couple of appearances, but he could be part of the Orange Lantern Corps as well. He's a thief, of course, but, more importantly, we know that he craves power and respect, and it seems very likely that on some level he envied his older brother, who was always his parents' favorite child. I also have to admit that an Ultraviolet Lantern would be a good way to learn more about him, since unfortunately he doesn't usually get as much characterization as the other Rogues do. I will also say that Mark's New 52-and-onward backstory (the only part of which I like is the fact that he and his family are from Guatemala) does make him lean more towards the Red Lantern Corps than he would have previously, since in that version his brother was killed by someone else whom he then took revenge upon.

Eobard being a Red Lantern does make total sense (especially since Barry is a Blue Lantern), but I could see him fitting into the Orange Lantern and Yellow Lantern Corps equally well. As the video mentions, he wants to have Barry's life, which would mean he could slot in quite well to the Orange Lantern Corps, and, of course, as a time-traveling murderous stalker, there's no doubt that he's scary.

Killer Frost is NOT a Flash villain! ARGH! I do agree with the Lanterns assigned to her, at least if we're assuming this is the Caitlin Snow version of her (the Crystal Frost version would have been a more malevolent/stalkerish Star Sapphire or Orange Lantern, and the Louise Lincoln version would have been a Red Lantern).

I mostly disagree on Heat Wave. While the New 52 Hothead McAngryman version of Mick would indeed be either a Red Lantern or a Yellow Lantern, I'm inclined to think that classic Mick part of the Star Sapphire Corps. Not only does that group need some men in it, but, more importantly, Mick is traditionally incredible devoted to and supportive of the people he sees as his friends. You know, I think I now know why the person making this video doesn't like Heat Wave. It's because he's only familiar with the most terrible version of him.

The three rings the person making the video gives to the Pied Piper work pretty perfectly for him. We know that he was lashing out against society and his cold, controlling parents when he was a villain, so a Red Lantern ring does make sense for him as a villain, he did, of course, reform, and he probably does inspire a lot of hope as a hero and social activist. That being said, I think he could simply stay as part of the Indigo Tribe from his reform onwards, as he is extremely compassionate. And hey, he knew about Piper's stint in Breedmore! And...didn't know that William Magnus was paid to give Hartley the hearing aids that allowed him to hear. Piper didn't build those himself.

I definitely disagree that Trickster belongs in the Orange Lantern Corps. James is many things, but one thing he is not is greedy. Back in the Silver Age, he explicitly said that he didn't care nearly as much about money as he did about messing with the Flash, and he's much more interested in showing off and in outsmarting people than he is in simple financial gain. I'd put him in either the Green Lantern Corps or the Blue Lantern Corps myself. He's a persistent little imp, and he certainly holds out a lot of hope for his own future, being as he is generally cheerful and optimistic. Axel would probably be a Green Lantern (due to his teenaged stubbornness and general recklessness), although the very early Axel who was a total sociopath might have fit into the Yellow Lantern Corps. Either way, neither one would be an Orange Lantern.

The Top is either a Green Lantern or a Yellow Lantern. While I don't deny that he hates the Flash and isn't very fond of society generally, his anger is fair outstripped by his willpower and just how scary he is. This is a man who taught himself everything he could about tops and engineering, who taught himself how to spin at super speed, who tried to take over the world, the country, and the city on separate occasions, and who repeatedly dug his way out of the grave several different times through his own sheer willpower. If that doesn't qualify him for a Green Lantern ring, I don't know what does. And, of course, the fact that he's a power-hungry, bomb-building ghost that possesses corpses makes him very scary, so he would also be a natural fit for the Yellow Lantern Corps. But hey, props for acknowledging the fact that Roscoe is mentally ill, and that that does affect his behavior. I can't say that the ultraviolet corps would be bad for him per se, just that I think Yellow or Green would fit him better. Especially since they're already the colors of his costume.

The Orange and Yellow Lanterns would both work well for Savitar.

Characters who weren't mentioned in the video, but who I will classify anyway:

-Zoom (Hunter Zolomon) would probably be either a Red Lantern (because of his anger at Wally for refusing to help him) or a Yellow Lantern (due to his sheer power and willingness to kill). Before he became Zoom, he would probably have qualified for a Green Lantern simply because of all the terrible things he managed to survive.

-Golden Glider is 100% a Red Lantern, being almost entirely motivated by the desire to seek revenge for Roscoe's death. Prior to his death, she would have been either a Green Lantern (because of her incredible determination, bravery, and ability to overcome her abusive father) or a Star Sapphire (because of her deep love for Roscoe).

-Albert Desmond is a Blue Lantern, always hoping that he'll be able to live a normal life with his wife, Rita (who also qualifies for a Blue Lantern ring). Mr. Element is an Orange Lantern; he was primarily driven by a desire for profit. Dr. Alchemy is a Yellow Lantern, as he was disturbingly detached from his humanity, and possessed of almost unlimited control over the elements.

-Alvin Desmond would either be an Orange Lantern (he's a lot like Digger in many ways, but much more power-hungry) or a Yellow Lantern (for the same reasons as Albert when he's Dr. Alchemy).

[stealingyourbones]

Throwing this to the winds along with some ox bones, with some marows and meat, steeped in broth and vegetables and aromatics - good soup...

Anyway I've seen some Jazz or Danny as Green lanterns, but what if the ring of rage is the OG? Like people know of it and wanted its power and poof - a ring with its power core functioning as that ring's heart.

I dunno if I wanted this to go the One Ring or Ring Primordial route, but either works to be honest. But it's pretty unaligned to the emotional and ultraviolet spectrums. I'm curious how will Oa react to this, as well as the different corps. Will they try to take it? Or try to...sway...the lone wielder?

gOOD SOUP!!! oh man this is SUCH a neat idea. I genuinely adore this. If i'm not mistaken, ultraviolet rings ARE a thing already? none the less, having the ring of rage being like the first crude creation of a power ring is a fascinating idea to tap into.

edit: fuck i misunderstood the last part. uH. Oa would probably NOT react to it well. it's an unknown threat and could possibly disrupt order and balance. They send out GL's to identify and collect data on this new entity/threat

[ethics-committee]

Assigning SCP Doctors to DC Lantern Corps

Long post, so click the read more to... well... read more.

Bright/Shaw - Black, pretty obvious because of how many times he has been revived.

Clef - Yellow. People literally think he is the devil. Fear is his #1 weapon. There could be an argument made for pink, as his daughter's safety is behind a lot of his actions and why he does what he does.

Kondraki - Green. Just an average man who faces up against anything with a camera in hand.

Gears - Hard to say, but maybe indigo. It doesn't come naturally to him, but the compassion core is about either complete lack or completely full of compassion. I feel like him saying goodnight to 273 proves he does have some, as well as his humane euthanasia of Crow.

Crow - Green. Man got himself trapped in a dog's body and still managed to become one of the best engineers of his time.

Iceberg - Red. Self explanatory.

Talloran - Ultraviolet. Because I'm evil like that. But seriously though, GREEN.

Light - Pink, because of how she killed Clef out of vengeance for killing Lament.

Placeholder - Green. Easy to explain.

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Dawn of Dc fucking slaps my dudes.

I've been meaning to make a post about the Dawn of Dc for quite a while but haven't due to depression and 80 hour work weeks.

My pull box used to be one third marvel, one third dc and one third indie. Nowadays, with marvel focusing on more of those godawful movies it's producing more and more garbage. Meanwhile, dc-who has been struggling since the 90s-seems to have found its stride. My box is honestly two thirds dc and one third indie.

I've maybe three or four marvel titles. Captain marvel, mckay's avengers run and ewing's thor. I did also pick up Sentry but havent read it yet. I was about to deep dive into the fall of the house of x stuff but the whole 'Genocide' storyline is in bad taste to say the fucking least. With last year's Symbol of Truth sam wilson run over i dont have much more marvel stuff catching my eye.

Meanwhile I'm collecting most of dc's catalog. The Dawn of Dc rebrand has been phenomenal through and through. Part of it is due to color coding which my autism especially likes. Mostly, it's great storytelling.

Here is how I would rate the Dawn of Dc titles I've been collecting so far on a scale of 'bruh' to 'BRUH'(all of the ratings are made up terms):

*******Spoilers*********

Jon Kent Adventures of Superman: absolute banger...if not a tad formulaic. If seems poetic to have Jon kent-a product of Joshua Williamson- fight injustice superman-a product of Dan Didio. Dan famously hated legacy characters and loved the idea of fascist superman so-get fucked Dan. 11/10 because he beats him with a hug

Action Comics: fuck yeah dawg. It's been great. The wholesome super family shenanigans, the inclusion of Kenan (finally) on top of just damn good story telling. 10/10 would super again.

Superman: BRUH. So, after years of piss poor 'superman' books we get the warworld saga (certified banger) followed up with this delightful story from Josh Williamson. All of the classic villains get the correct treatment. Lex, parasite, banshee-with the current 'Chained' reveal. Im so glad somebody understands how to write superman. This has genuinely become a title i look forward to every week. 10.5/10

Superboy Man of Tomorrow: Certified Banger. Listen, Connor Kent was the first love of my life. 90 percent of my personality is Teen titans and Young Justice was always my favorite flavor of teen titans. Either way I was always going to love a boom about Connor Kent. That said: this book is pretty good. It clearly skews young as far as its obvious intended audience but it was still fun.

Steel: CERT-FIED BANG-ER! God I love Worf. I'm glad that my boy Steel is getting the proper treatment. Michael Dorn does a damn good job. It was a good run, just read the last one (6 out of 6) today.

Powergirl: fuck yeah dawg. I love powergirl, and this series is not as annoyingly thirsty as previous stories. She's presented as a complex yet baddass character. Her motives are complex and her actions are badass. I also like that she's part of the super family officially.

Blue Beetle: Certified Banger. Pretty damn good. Once again it's a tad formulaic but still a fun read. 8/10

Green Arrow: Certified Banger! Pretty damn good, tbh. I love the fact that my boii Roy Harper is back. Pretty strong familial vibes all around. 9.5/10

Green lantern: bruh. Listen, I only picked up this title originally because it held the preview to John Stewart's 'War Journal'. Its well done, don't get me wrong. Jeremy Adam's is an asset to D.C. at this point. Quality wise, it's a knockout. Unfortunately, it's also Hal Jordan. He's as much of an unbearable p.o.s. as he's ever been. 6/10.

Green Lantern War Journal: BRUH!!! Fucking Slaps. John Stewart is back at it in an incredibly endearing story. I was really interested to see where they would take it after Gregory Thorne basically made my boii a demigod. The ultraviolet corps are super interesting and the b plot with his mother is heart wrenching. 100/10

Green Latern Alan Scott: fuck yeah dawg. Pretty good. Love the gay representation. Been meaning to get back into JSA stuff. Haven't read the huntress or sandman stuff yet but might after this.

Hawkgirl: absolute banger. Ngl, they kinda phoned in the antagonist but that's ok. Its a fun read about a cool character we've always wanted more content on anyways. Also Jadzia is god tier. 8/10

Wonder Woman: BRUH!!! I've never been a huge fan of Diana honestly but this story had me hooked from the beginning. It's a complex, heartfelt political intrigue. Tom King can do NO wrong. 20/10

Birds of Prey: absolute banger. Super fun to read. I definitely look forward to it every month. I love cass and I love barda so- 11/10

Batman and Robin: bruh. Listen, I love Joshua Williamson but all the love in the world won't make me tolerate Bruce fucking Wayne. After the catastrophic mess that was the Gotham War event we get this run by Joshy boii and Simone DiMeo. It's a decent little story which I follow only to ensure that Robin is OK. The breakout star of this title for me was DiMeo's art. It's so kinetic! Honestly, the art is the only reason this isn't a 0/10. That said...6.5/10

Outsiders: Fuck yeah dawg! The this series only has two issues out so far but it's been fun. I love Kate abd Luke respectively and together they are lots of fun. Also this title seems to lean in to the whole 'superhero fatigue' thing. So fuck yeah! 8/10

Nightwing: BRUH!! Tom Taylor has been in charge of what is honestly the best Superhero title on the market for the past couple years-and its Nightwing. His Grayson is charming, endearing and resilient: All of the good qualities of his deadbeat dad without any of the bullshit brooding and class warfare. This Dawn of Dc title feels different because it's less a relaunch and more a continuation. It's a super interesting deep dive into the BludHaven lore that Taylor began teasing years ago. Also pirate Dick Grayson-90/10

Titans: BRUH. 10/10 MY BOIIS (boiis is gender neutral) ARE ALL GROWN UP!! THEY'RE IN CHARGE. THEY RUNNING SHIT NOW. Seriously it's very good.

Titans/Beast World: heartbreaking but ill allow it. Crossover events are always iffy, we'll see where this goes. So far-7/10

Cyborg: fuck yeah dawg! I love cyborg and I love to see him getting his own title. It's been a good one and I can't wait for the finale next month. 9/10

Flash: BRUH! So far it's a very good Wally story but we're only a few issues deep. I like the Linda subplot. 9.5/10

Speed force: fuck yeah dawg. MAS AND MINOS ARE BACK!!!!! listen I was almost ready to write this series off as another story pandering to the youth. There is a Panel wherein someone describes the scene as 'bad vibes' and is told-'bet'-in response. That said, Joshy boii is clearly happy to be writing Wallace and Avery again AND MAS AND MINOS ARE FINALLY CANNON LETTSSSSS GOOOO!!!! 7/10

Jay Garrick Flash: fuck yeah dawg! Pretty good so far. I love Jay. Love the addition to his family. 7/10

Spirit World: BRUH! Crazy fucking good. I ADORE the way this title handles deadnames. Cassie, Envoy and John make a pretty good team and this depiction of the afterlife is really neat and engaging. 15/10

City Boy: BRUH! A+ for originality dudes. I love this character's motivation, powers and personality. This title genuinely makes a positive impact on the overall dc universe. 10/10

*note* I tried to color code the titles with the corresponding comic colors but tumblr mobile didn't have yellow so