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#this goes for vril dox ii as well
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Love the narrative of Querl being extremely low empathy but does the right thing and that's why he's a good person. I love that we see a person who is a hero that struggles with perhaps feeling the "right" feelings and saying the right things but does the right thing regardless because he knows it is the right thing to do.
Being nice and feeling "appropriate emotions" =/= being good.
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do u think you could rank the brainiacs in most to least likely to follow lab safety?
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Most likely to least likely is as follows following the PZH continuity.
1.) Brainiac 2 Vril Dox II - He was likely beaten and threatened with immediate death if he didn't follow lab protocol 100% while acting as a lab hand to his father so it just became second nature to him.
2.) Brainiac 4 "Fabala" (name uncertain) - Likely born and raised on Colu she just follows what is protocol because it is protocol and there's not much motivation to ignore it.
3.) Brainiac 3 Lyrl Dox - Like, he knows what lab safety is, and he'll follow most of it but there's also a part of him that is arrogant enough he feels justified in NOT wearing those safety glasses because "the splash back/vapors can't possibly get in my eyes". He also sometimes likes flagrantly breaking various lab safety protocols just to push the panic button that resides within his father.
4.) Brainiac 5 Querl Dox - Not only has this gremlin blown up his lab as part of this methodology, he's likely banged Lyle in one as well, in which case he might have blown it up to conceal any evidence that the banging took place. Experiments are often just left out in the open, doors are unlocked, cupboards are dubiously organized and very few things are organized. It's just HIM in the lab after all, he knows exactly where everything is. He doesn't NEED to worry about the safety of everyone else because it is HIS LAB so his own safety is the only thing he needs to consciously be aware of.
5.) Brainiac 1 Vril Dox/Daddy Dox-est - Look, he might have been a stickler for lab safety and protocol when his son was a child while he was working with the Computer Tyrants on Colu, but the moment he got that skull ship baby, all restrictions were blatantly disregarded. He goes through 4-5 robot lab hands a DAY. Their fault! He has no need for labels, anti-slip mats, fire extinguishers, faucets or even first aid kits. There is no safety when it comes to his labs and no will to follow any sort of lab safety of any other lab.
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need some sort of space Young Justice adventure where they end up in Colu and Bart gets them all to start booing for Querl's sake. Just a big "You guys SUCK in the future"
Bart is VERY serious to his teammates that going to Colu IS a very important mission and no one really gets it, Bart doesn't really explain why, but everyone goes along with it because if Bart is THIS passionate about something then it's probably important, and Tim has a hard time telling Bart "no", Kon's bored so he's all for it, Greta goes because Tim's going, Cissie doesn't want to go but she feels like she should because Bart's going, Slo-bo goes because he knows it's probably going to be disaster and he wants to watch, Anita goes because Slo-bo is going, Cassie emphatically DOES NOT CONDONE THIS but she goes because everyone else is going, Ray gets left behind (sorry).
So they board The Max, Bart flies them to Colu, still doesn't tell them why they are there, why they invade Colu, why they burst in on the current council and Bart just yells at them that they "Are a bunch of sprocking scroaches in the future!" in Interlac AND THEN LEAVES.
Everyone is bewildered. No one on his team (other than Slo-bo) knows what the fuck he says. Slo-bo gives Bart a fist bump. Everyone is confused.
The story eventually gets out and an investigation is launched but no one is talking, and it's not like they did any damage or anything, Bart just cussed them out, so it's dropped entirely with a reprimand of "Don't EVER do that again!" and meanwhile Vril Dox at L.E.G.I.O.N. is amused but also equally confused so HE does an investigation (bc he's a nosy jerk) which leads him to Bart because he wants to know why some zippy twink bitched out his people (he'd agree they deserved it).
Vril finds Bart eventually in his ship at some time and just orders one of his officers to give him some made up frivolous speeding ticket to take him into questioning because this man cannot fucking have a normal conversation with anyone. Vril can't just track Bart down and ask him "WTF happened back there?" he has to go through multiple hoops that are ablaze first.
So he gets Bart on Cairn, he cannot keep him in one place, literally he cannot. Bart is untouchable and it frustrates the fuck out of this man because he's able to control Lobo but he cannot get Bartimus II to just relax because he impounded his ship for a speeding ticket that doesn't even exist. Eventually Bart gets bored running around with no way of Cairn because his fucking ship is impounded by green man who looks an AWFUL lot like his buddy Querl from the future.
When Bart drops Querl's name Vril reveals that is the name of his great grandson and Bart is suddenly the most docile and well behaved person on the whole planet. Vril agrees to drop the ticket and release his damn ship if he just tells him what he knows about the future (because he also just wants to know so to have an edge over everything) so Bart tells him everything he knows about Querl and that Colu are going to be JERKS to Querl, and Earthgov is going to be JERKS to him too and everything in the future is JERKISH, and it sure is interesting that he had a nanny AI named Dox in the future with his L.E.G.I.O.N. symbol on it, didn't know where that symbol came from.
This of course makes Vril all sorts of confused because he doesn't want anything to do with Earth, why his L.E.G.I.O.N. anything or his family name would have some tie to Earth is confounding to him but Bart did answer his question, and while he was running around Cairn he uncovered an assassination plot against him so that's a bonus in his eyes so he thinks generally highly of him but kicks him off his planet, but he lets him be an honorary member of his corps because it's too good of an opportunity to let go of because having a Speedster ally is more beneficial than an army of Lobos.
So this is another mystery that bothers the fuck out of Vril but eventually, centuries down the line he begins investing more in Earth and he just remembers in the back of his head what Bart told him.
He knows it's not wise to tamper with the future too much, particularly in matters that involve him personally and his own blood and Querl did come back in time and he helped put his dad away (that he broke out in the first place) and it prompted his people to STOP advancing and Vril doesn't know if it would be a good idea to convince them to get MORE advanced considering THEY ARE JERKS so he leaves his great grandson alone (hey he turned out okay, right?).
But Bart is something else entirely and for reasons he doesn't fully understand himself he is compelled to make sure he gets his damn friend while being poked and prodded and gaslighted in the future so he makes sure he develops various AI tools and sells them to Earth, of course because he cannot be normal (he cannot be NORMAL) he makes them all fucking spyware but Earth never figures this out.
Vril dies sometime in the 2600s probably but the AIs are solid and they are built on and advanced, they shift some but the emblem still remains and various personalities are saved that last through the 4 centuries after Dox II cacks.
And that's how Bart got a nanny AI in VR named Dox with the L.E.G.I.O.N. emblem on it in the first place because he bitched out Colu.
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