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[Oh dear.]
Interesting. I wasn't expecting anything quite so...intricate.
Interesting. I wasn't expecting anything quite so...intricate.
Edited 2020-08-30 00:32 (UTC)
Yup. Completely different person. Though...some similar traits. Maybe.
Both. If I were in my right mind I would have recognized you even if some features were different. Probably.
[ A rustle of cloth, as he lifts an arm to look at the back of his hand and his robe falls away. ]
And it's also just interesting knowing what it feels like to HAVE different features that you wouldn't have picked yourself.
[ A rustle of cloth, as he lifts an arm to look at the back of his hand and his robe falls away. ]
And it's also just interesting knowing what it feels like to HAVE different features that you wouldn't have picked yourself.
[Loki decides not to point out that, although he hadn't run the train like he'd run Sakaar, the Grandmaster's alternate self wasn't truly that different.]
My other self had his advantages, starting out. And yet he still ended up in prison. It's as if that's a constant for me, even when I didn't commit the crime.
[He sighs.]
Was that the point? Just to drive home the fact that I'm a criminal? I didn't exactly need the reminder.
[Although, perhaps, the real lesson is that it doesn't matter if he's a criminal. He'll always fail. Always fall.]
My other self had his advantages, starting out. And yet he still ended up in prison. It's as if that's a constant for me, even when I didn't commit the crime.
[He sighs.]
Was that the point? Just to drive home the fact that I'm a criminal? I didn't exactly need the reminder.
[Although, perhaps, the real lesson is that it doesn't matter if he's a criminal. He'll always fail. Always fall.]
[ You can hear him pouting. ]
You're so down on yourself. Don't do that. There's no point to those; they're random.
You're so down on yourself. Don't do that. There's no point to those; they're random.
It was too...intentional to be random. It paired us up, after all. As if it knows something.
[And obviously he's the main character of the story, so.]
[And obviously he's the main character of the story, so.]
You think we are destined to meet again and again, even in different universes and different lives?
[ Chuckle. ]
That's a romantic notion.
[ Chuckle. ]
That's a romantic notion.
[He actually feels some heat crawling up his neck at that.]
I. No. That's not really what I was getting at.
[He forces himself to exhale slowly before he goes on.]
I just mean that it seems like that world was trying to tell a story.
I. No. That's not really what I was getting at.
[He forces himself to exhale slowly before he goes on.]
I just mean that it seems like that world was trying to tell a story.
Buuut you're thinking about it now.
[ Soft crunching. He listens but doesn't speak until he's finished chewing. ]
Every world's got stories to tell, Loki. Let me ask you a question: Do you think it would be as pointed if this were something we were shown rather than made part of?
[ Soft crunching. He listens but doesn't speak until he's finished chewing. ]
Every world's got stories to tell, Loki. Let me ask you a question: Do you think it would be as pointed if this were something we were shown rather than made part of?
Are you suggesting it only feels significant because I lived it?
I'm getting the sense that you're not used to identifying with other people, actually. Which. I get. I think so, anyway.
If it weren't for these breaches I wouldn't have any memories of what it is like to be mortal, after all.
If it weren't for these breaches I wouldn't have any memories of what it is like to be mortal, after all.
I'm not really like many other people, so. No, not really.
And you don't feel as if being made mortal was some sort of attempt to humble you?
And you don't feel as if being made mortal was some sort of attempt to humble you?
If so then it was a terrible plan. It's too novel.
And yes you are.
And yes you are.
You're just saying that because I'm more mortal than you are. That doesn't mean I can understand being other mortal beings any better than you.
I'm saying that because that man was very much like you and is probably carrying on that way even now.
And there are likely many more.
And there are likely many more.
Maybe you just want him to be like me because that would mean I'd be serving you again.
Much as I enjoy your company, I have all the servant I need here.
...Are you referring to you warden?
[Hm. Betelgeuse does seem malleable enough to be a servant. He might be able to pull that off.]
In any case. Do all breaches assign us relationships with other people on the barge against our will?
[Hm. Betelgeuse does seem malleable enough to be a servant. He might be able to pull that off.]
In any case. Do all breaches assign us relationships with other people on the barge against our will?
Of course I am. I'm the only person he's here to advocate for.
[ And he ought to take that personally and may yet still. ]
...Can't say it's happened to me often but then breaches aren't as frequent as floods. I know some of the people I became in breaches knew other people that other people became, at least professionally.
[ Is he aware that was worded a little...jumbled? Possibly. ]
[ And he ought to take that personally and may yet still. ]
...Can't say it's happened to me often but then breaches aren't as frequent as floods. I know some of the people I became in breaches knew other people that other people became, at least professionally.
[ Is he aware that was worded a little...jumbled? Possibly. ]
[Loki has to pause to piece that into actual words.]
When you say "professionally", what do you mean by it?
[Are they professionally acquainted, in the Grandmaster's parlance?]
When you say "professionally", what do you mean by it?
[Are they professionally acquainted, in the Grandmaster's parlance?]
[ He has no idea what Loki is reading into what he's saying but he seems to be pretty dim about that sort of thing in general. ]
I mean in one of the previous breaches, the person I became for a while had professional ties to the others. Colleagues at the place of learning he once taught at. People seeking him for financing on expeditions.
I mean in one of the previous breaches, the person I became for a while had professional ties to the others. Colleagues at the place of learning he once taught at. People seeking him for financing on expeditions.
Hm.
[He's...kind of surprised. It does speak to there being some greater plan with these events. The Grandmaster wouldn't learn much just continuing to have orgies all the time, after all.
Loki doesn't know what to make of the idea that his entanglement on the train was more...if not romantic, certainly intimate. He still feels lingering affection he can't seem to shake, though from what he's heard at this point it sounds like that fades more than the memories themselves do.
And distractions probably help.]
No lovers, then? Well. Before the train, I mean.
[That's...more blurry, certainly, but he's pretty sure that was part of the "services" he had provided for the Grandmaster.]
[He's...kind of surprised. It does speak to there being some greater plan with these events. The Grandmaster wouldn't learn much just continuing to have orgies all the time, after all.
Loki doesn't know what to make of the idea that his entanglement on the train was more...if not romantic, certainly intimate. He still feels lingering affection he can't seem to shake, though from what he's heard at this point it sounds like that fades more than the memories themselves do.
And distractions probably help.]
No lovers, then? Well. Before the train, I mean.
[That's...more blurry, certainly, but he's pretty sure that was part of the "services" he had provided for the Grandmaster.]
Edited 2020-08-30 21:50 (UTC)
Well, there was a curse here about six months ago or so, where people kissed if they stood under this herb hanging in doorways. Kissed a lot of pretty people.
But lovers? Disappointingly, no.
[ He tends to read fairly well and nobody's given him that kind of energy, and he's not the sort to doggedly pursue; if they want him, they tend not to play hard to get because the Grandmaster is not one to chase. Running is boring when he's the one doing it. ]
But lovers? Disappointingly, no.
[ He tends to read fairly well and nobody's given him that kind of energy, and he's not the sort to doggedly pursue; if they want him, they tend not to play hard to get because the Grandmaster is not one to chase. Running is boring when he's the one doing it. ]
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