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[doeswhathewants]

[It's a sleep rumpled Loki, sitting up in bed, the NV floating in front of his face.]

One would think that by literally kicking the sandman in his sack- by 'the sandman' I mean Nightmare and by 'his sack' I mean his newly forged magic crown- that I would be granted a reprieve from terrible dreams and given only the good kind involving magic and all of the shaken milk I could drink.

Terrance, when next you speak to your father, do inform him of the wonderful Midgardian invention called a dance belt. With his penchant for tight, sparkly jumpsuits, it was rather like a hitchhiker's thumb, and a second navel.

Loki out!

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[doeswhathewants]

It is a cycle. Our world must end and I must be the one to end it. Then it is reborn anew- only, my brother Thor, he stopped the cycle back home. He is a hero.

And I do not remember why I did those things. Anger? Jealousy? I- only know I do not wish to do those things again.

[motioned]

Why did you have to be the one to end it? You never have to do anything.

Well, it's good you don't! You don't remember anything from then?

[doeswhathewants]

Mortals might not, but as gods, we did. We were bound to that fate. But as I said, my brother freed us.

No, I remember nothing at all from those days. I wish I did, it would make the insults and hate from my fellows back home more tolerable.

[motioned]

You want to remember? Wouldn't that just make you feel guilty?

[doeswhathewants]

I have a high threshold for guilt. [He says this as though it is a positive thing.]

[motioned]

...Maybe you should get that looked at.

[doeswhathewants]

Alas, there is no treatment and no cure.

[motioned]

Are you really sure about that?

[doeswhathewants]

Would I lie to you?

[motioned]

Yes.

[doeswhathewants]

So I am either lying and what I said is the truth or I am telling the truth and thus... what I said was the truth. [He's just trying to confuse her.]

[motioned]

...Or you could just be lying!

[doeswhathewants]

I repent and will feel guilt over everything.

...or am I lying now?

[motioned]

Now you're definitely lying.

[doeswhathewants]

I am highly insulted. This was my one genuine effort to repent. I shall never try again.

[motioned]

I'm not that gullible, you know!

[doeswhathewants]

Aren't you? Aren't you really?

[motioned]

I am not, not at all!

[doeswhathewants]

How do I know you are not lying?

[motioned]

Because I don't lie!

[doeswhathewants]

Everyone lies at some point.

[motioned]

Not everyone!

[doeswhathewants]

A lie by omission is still a lie. You have never told any lie, ever?

[motioned]

That totally doesn't count!

[doeswhathewants]

Does so.