Sinestro work doodle 3.16.26 💛🖤
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Hi I do not post my art here enough, have a massive art dump of my lantern ocs + sinestros here too
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Actually the thing i like best about Sinestro not being a gl anymore is that he isn’t wearing his gl fits those were not it omg
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I love Lyssa so much so am gonna mention her every time when i draw yellow lantern AU.
I really wish to draw Lyssa bullying hal next.
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When Sinestro was forced to yield and gets captured in his solo series it was my favorite thing ever. More of that please.
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Sinestro: everyone knows that you’re the worst Green Lantern and Blue Lantern the universe has ever seen
Blue Lantern intern: Guy, did you hear that? People are talking about us!
Guy: that’s right kid, we’re known across the universe!
Sinestro: why do I even try
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This fanfact is only relevant for my au (I’m not actually sure, but comics make it very easy to cross-pollinate aliens, lol, TOO easy).
The Ungars and Korugars share common ancestors, but they were separated a long time ago, and since they lived on separate planets, they’ve become very different, including genetically. So Sinestro and Arin weren’t sure they could have children at all, and no one expected Soranik to appear. But they were still very happy (but Sora is a hybrid, and she can’t have children of her own).
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did you know this was going to happen, too?
(receipts under the cut)
[[MORE]]OK, was trying to make the retcon about the yellow ring being powered by fear work. Off hand it doesn’t make that much sense. Being stranded with no apparent hope of return in some heretofore unheard of swath of reality and surrounded by hostile aliens who you may not even be able to communicate with is absolutely typical of Green Lantern adventures. Which he has been going on. For the duration of his career as. a. Green Lantern.
He’s also survived some pretty personal betrayals (the loss of Soranik) and loses (ditto, plus Arin and Abin and whatever went down during the civil war he was involved in during his youth) before this point, so we can’t chalk such a dramatic change up purely to Hal’s participation in the whole disaster.
My interpretation of Sinesto leans on the assumption that he perfectly fulfilled the two requirements of being selected as a GL - fearless and honest. It’s a challenge to justify his first experience of fear at this point in the narrative. I’ve worked the question from two angles: his sense of obligation, and dislike of confinement - and the friction between the two.
To start out, we have one later example of how Sinestro acts under similar circumstances: the Sinestro solo series (2014) #1. After with departure following the destruction of Korugar, he is not influenced by fear until Lyssa brings him the news of survivors. It is explicitly his sense of responsibility, and the awareness that he’s currently not fulfilling it that reignites his ring.
In a later discussion with Soranik about her sense of responsibility to the surivors, he mentions “We are all prisoners of our choices.”
(Sinestro #1 “My people…suffering now because of my inaction?” Now, after so long, I remember what it is to be afraid.
Sinestro #3 “As you get older, you’ll find we are all the prisoners of our choices.”)
On the dislike of imprisonment side, I’ll mention that by the 90s, Sinestro has a reputation in-universe for escaping any and all prisons - a result stemming from his earliest published appearances. In the context of his meticulous self-control and overdeveloped sense of retribution, its easy to see how confinement and an inability to act would be frustrating to him in particular, even more so than the average person. “There are many forms of imprisonment, all of them tedious.”
(Tales of the Green Lantern Corps Annual, “Well Sinestro, you’re renowned for your escapes from Guardian justice…”
Sinestro #14)
Over time, his attack on the Guardians evolves to include revenge for Abin Sur, and the fulfillment of his legacy, but the essential object of overthrowing and eliminating their influence over the universe remains the same. Jumping from that point - there’s a possible interpretation in which Sinestro arrives on Qward, comes to the conclusion that the guardians must (morally) be destroyed, and also to the conclusion that no one else in the universe is both capable and willing to do so, and finds himself - just as he is released from one strenuous obligation - shouldering another comparably difficult challenge, and so is imprisoned by his conscience and circumstances to one fate, regardless of what his chances of success or the price the effort will require.
We can make a jump to the conclusion I have come to: that his first fear proceeds from a recognition of an inescapable obligation.