IN BRIGHTEST DAY - Mod Plot [LOG POST | 1 | THE RINGS CHOOSE]

[relativityspeaking]

Who| Everyone participating in the plot
What| Finding the lost Lanterns and getting Lantern rings
Where| The remains of the sentient, once-living planet Mogo, at the edge of the galaxy
When| After the network post
Warnings/Notes| N/A for now.

Their little adventure took them to the edge of the galaxy. Towards the end, they couldn't even use the threshold gates anymore, due to star-weights and gravity wells crushing and constructing the way there. Instead, they had to rely on the stargate abilities of their ringwielding allies.

Their journey ended in a strange and beautiful nebula at the very edge of the galaxy, one that had swirling gases in blue and green and violet and indigo. There, they found a dead, broken planet, the remains of the being once named Mogo, with four ancient structures.

The Green Lantern Central Power Battery. The Central Power Battery of the Star Sapphires -- the violet Lanterns. The Blue Lantern Central Power Battery. The Indigo Tribe Central Power Battery.

And in piles and piles around these ancient sources of power...were rings. Countless rings in all four colors. All without owners.

"Who dares disturb the resting site of the Green Lantern Corps?" an ominous voice said from the shadows after they landed.

"We come in peace," called out Kid Quantum. "Several groups of ringwielders were pulled against their will into this universe from a time and place when the War of Light was still ongoing. Some of those ringwielders were from the red and yellow Lantern Corps. Those who wear rings of green, violet, blue, and indigo, want to stop them from reigniting the war in this universe. They want to capture the red and yellow Lanterns and take them back home to their universe and time."

"And who are you?" the man asked.

"Kid Quantum, of the Legion of Superheroes. The Legion protects the people of this galaxy, the citizens of the United Planets, and we offered our aid to these displaced Lanterns. We heard that remnants of the Corps that were allied against the Red and Yellow Lanterns possibly existed on the edges of the galaxy. We've come seeking your help."

"It does my heart glad to learn of you," the voice said slowly. "We wondered if anyone else had ever risen up to take our place. But we had to stay here, to guard the last remnants, to watch over the Power Batteries and the rings. To make sure they were never used again. With the various Corps gone, anyone seeking them would only have wanted to misuse them."

The man stepped out of the shadows and now he glowed with the light of his green ring.

"I am Sodam Yat." He gestured to two other glowing figures that joined him. One was just a teeny speck of light, as if the being was normally too small to be seen by the naked eye. This was because the Lantern was a benevolent, superintelligent smallpox virus. The other was a battered robot that used his ring's energy in replacement of some of his parts.

"This is Leezle Pon." The speck. "And Stel." The robot. "We're the last of the Green Lanterns."

He looked at the Lanterns the Legion had traveled with and was clearly overcome with emotion at seeing faces that were, for him, 1000 years gone.

"I never dreamed that this could happen." He inclined his head at them all. "It's wonderful to be able to welcome you home."

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[deafleppard]

Gwen stood in place as the rings flew around her. Some only stuck by for a moment before leaving, with hanging around a while longer. In the end, however, it was one of the violent rings that ended up on her finger.

Wait, a minute, violet?

"Hang on a sec. Can I get a do over? Isn't violet, uh...?"

[headinjuries]

"I don't care how violet everyone says it is, this is totally pink," Sam grumbled.

His uniform hadn't really changed, save for the color and the addition of the Star Sapphire insignia on one of the circles on the front, but the violet pink replacing the gold clearly wasn't making him happy.

[deafleppard]

"Yeah I'm a little less worried about that than I am about being practically naked over here." And what 'clothing' she did have on was an uncomfortably tight fit on her. Seriously, this was not cool.

It wasn't even that she was out of shape or anything or the sort. This was just not helping her body-image issues at all.

"Hey, you got the same ring as me, yeah? How do I make some clothes for myself. You know, some real clothes."

i spaced on waiting to put this below where it belongs, mea culpa.

[headinjuries]

"I wasn't really...consciously trying? Mostly I was just thinking about how my normal costume was better, and it kind of fixed itself. I mean, aside from all the pink, anyway."

Pink, ugh. He was a teenage boy, he had all kinds of problems with what people might think about seeing him in pink.

no worries

[deafleppard]

"So just think about how awesome my costume is and-" Sure enough, that was all it took before Gwen's actual costume came back into existence. "Oh thank god." Gwen let out a deep breath, relieved that she had gotten herself out of that getup.

Last time she would wear a thong, ever.

"Except for the parts that are supposed to be white..."

[headinjuries]

"Maybe if you think about flipping the colors. I dunno, mine came out with pink on mostly black instead of the other way around."

And thank God for that.

[deafleppard]

"What I just think about having my original costume back. Would that work? Let's give it a try." And there was no shortage of effort involved, really. But as much as she thought about it, the suit would just keep on staying like it was.

"Aw, nuts."

[headinjuries]

"Yeah, the colors seem...stuck."

There's some obvious distaste in his voice.

[deafleppard]

"Ugh, why pink. Whyyyyy!" Gwen was very distraught about this.

Very distraught! And not because her sweet costume had been tampered with.

[headinjuries]

"Because love, I guess? Which doesn't make a lot of sense to me, honestly."

Sam really wasn't sure how it applied to him. (Then again, Sam was kind of stuck on the assumption that "love" meant "romantic," in this situation.)

[deafleppard]

"I really don't want to be fighting all over the place with the power of love. Seriously, not my style."

How was she expected to deliver sick puns and amazing jokes while wearing pink? It just didn't happen.

"Need to find out if I can get a do-over or... something. Just as long as I don't gotta go through the whole thong process again." Once was enough trauma.

[headinjuries]

"Yeah, it sounds like some stupid anime?" One of the ones where everybody had to yell out lengthy attack names and shot sparkly rainbow beams full of hearts or some crap like that. The kind of stuff his little sister occasionally made him watch with her when he demanded a respite from My Little Pony.

[wieldtherainbow]

The ring spoke:

[GWENDOLYNE STACY, OF EARTH. YOU HAVE GREAT LOVE IN YOUR HEART. WELCOME TO THE STAR SAPPHIRES.]

The transformation for the violet rings was an unpleasant one, dramatic and almost painful. When a user received their violet ring, crystalline structures jutted out of their body, crystals streaming from their eyes like tears, filling their mouths and pouring out. Eventually, they were entirely encased by the crystal that was emanating from their own body. In a surge of power, the crystal cocoon shattered explosively and they emerged a Star Sapphire.

Perhaps the explosive and unnatural transformation was due to the corruptive nature of the violet light, which altered the minds of its users more than most of the other rings. Spreading love through the universe could, for some, become a dangerous obsession, more important than anything else. Those that had a hole in their hearts, because of grief or rejection or loss, would often find themselves more likely to fall prey to the mind-altering nature of the violet light.

The costumes of the Star Sapphires were in shades of violet, with a glowing star at their waists like a belt buckle, and...scanty, to say the least, usually barely covering anything at all, but like all Lanterns, Star Sapphires could alter their costumes as they saw fit.

OTA

[deafleppard]

Gwen had been told about the violet rings and the Star Sapphires but she definitely had not been told about the part where she literally started growing crystals everywhere on her body. She couldn't yell or call out for help before being encased inside a crystal. It actually pretty frightening, all things considered. She had no idea what to expect or if this was even supposed to happen.

It wasn't until her crystal exploded that she was finally able to speak. But first, some gasping, and then some shock because...

What the hell just happened?

"O-Oh god. That was..."

Then she looked at herself. Yep, that sure was a lot of skin being exposed.

"... Aw, man. Not my costume."

[kingtyrantranger]

Jason was really not sure if he should be turning away or something. He made a little noise and shrugged helplessly, glancing away. Just in case. He'd seen swimsuits that bared more skin, but it didn't make things any less awkward.

"It, uh. Looks nice, at least?"

...Probably not the best compliment he could give at the moment.

[deafleppard]

"No, no it doesn't. I feel like this is flossing areas that don't need to be flossed." Too much information? Probably so, but this is situation that were a lack of filter would easily be excused. It wasn't as though she was out of shape or anything of the sort. Exactly the opposite.

She just didn't feel comfortable in this.

"This is really not helping my self-image issues. Either."

[kingtyrantranger]

Too much information. Jason's not used to hearing about buttfloss, Kim and Trini aren't exactly the kind of girls who chatted about that with him. Thankfully. And any sort of hotness that could've been found was immediately negated by how miserable she sounded about the whole thing.

"Sorry." He willed up a small barricade about her with his power ring. Talking to someone in a dressing room was, at least, familiar. "Maybe you can, I dunno. My ring let me rearrange my costume, maybe it'll work for you. Is it too late to get a green ring?"

[deafleppard]

"I'll worry about a green ring after I've done something about hell I've been put into." Yes, this. This right here was her own personal hell. One of them, at least. Gwen's pretty sure she's dreamed about this before, too. The part where you're naked in front of everyone else. Was Gwen technically naked right now? Maybe not, but it sure as hell felt like it!

"Okay, clothes, I need clothes like, right now." Real clothes, too. Clothes that covered up what needed to be covered and...

"Oh, hey, that works." All she had to do was think about it and she was back in her costume. Well, not exactly her old costume, but a much more violet version of it.

[kingtyrantranger]

Honestly, he'd seen skimpier bathing suits. It was the way she was taking it, though. Yowch.

When he figured she's good, Jason dropped the barricade and raised his eyebrows. "Better?" It was her usual outfit. A bit more pink than usual, but... Hey. Beggars couldn't be choosers, he guessed. "I'm gonna guess that we're never going to speak of the default uniform again. On pain of death."

[deafleppard]

"Yeah uh, let's not talk about what I just went through. The memories and mental trauma are more than enough for me." At least she could just think up new clothes and they would appear, so that was cool. But she really wasn't feeling the changes, like, at all.

"Ugh, can't I just... wear my actual costume? Really not feeling the changes to something that was already pretty awesome to begin with."

[kingtyrantranger]

Normally he'd offer her a manly clap on the shoulder or something. But what if the skimpy rocks are contagious? He'll stick with the green for now.

"That's a good question. Maybe the suits are just more durable or something?" He'd ask his ring, but his ring is rude. "I dunno, it just seems like kind of a waste to give us a new wardrobe. Would the rings just ruin any clothes we tossed on over it?" Jason paused, then frowned. "I haven't worn this many rings in, ever. It just feels like my life has started to revolve around jewelry since I came here. And not even good looking jewelry."