sirenspull | Ninth Trick: Permavideo (earlier in the day~)

[The NV feed shows Loki in profile, backlit by a bonfire in the middle of a street in Sector 3. Focus shifts in as an impromptu altar set before the bonfire, carved with runes and decorated with a slaughtered ram comes into view.

Vikings loiter around the fire with piles of suspiciously modern goods, hoisting drinking horns and distributing wares, singing traditional songs of praise for battles won and companions lost in heroic sacrifice- no flyting, not with Loki around to best them all. Behind the whole scene are a few storefronts with suspiciously smashed windows.

Loki turns to the NV and his grin is all even white teeth, predatory]

To whom it may concern, I've contained the Vikings.

[He raises his own drinking horn at them and calls out] Mein Skol, Dein Skol, Alle Vakkera Flikka Skol! [They raise their own horns and call a hearty response before drinking.

Loki throws back his head laughing and drinks from his own horn, eyes glowing the green of bale fires.]

I'd forgotten how fun mortals were.

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Magic.

[Looks petulant]

Then what are most people like? And what is the right word?

[Right, okay, this is getting weird and he's talking to a child about this and honestly, Jack is just going to drop this. And try not to think about this.

Instead, he gives Loki a little grin.]

That's like me askin' what most gods are like. They're all different, ain't they?

That's different. We're mostly immortal, that tends to heighten ... peculiarities in one's character.

[Probably a good thing, he prefers new, happy topics.]

No, havin' a personality does that. I'm as different from Edgeworth as he is from Xavier as he is from Re-l.

But at the heart you've all shared qualities of your species; likely seek to do right. Altruistic. Seeking comfort and belonging.

Yes?

[The genuine smile slips off his face, only to be replaced by a wry, rather bitter one.]

Nah. Not everyone is like that.

Not counting villains.

My brother is fond of humans. So, I should think the vast majority have something of great worth in them to earn his affection. I can see it in many here, you and Youko and others.

But you ain't fond o' us?

I wasn't fond of anyone, before.

Now... many of you are endearing yourselves.

We're not pets.

I don't mean it like that.

Then what? Just that we're earnin' your affection?

No.

That I was wrong before, about a lot of things. And that we are not so great or above humanity.

[That takes Jack by surprise, but it also makes him smile.]

Well, good for you. That'd make you the first god or angel or whatever to say that.

Here, perhaps.

And only some. Some mortals I still find negligible.

Well, yeah, but so do I, that don't count.

Why doesn't it count?

Some of the rules are difficult to puzzle out.

Cuz everybody's got people they ain't fond o'. Or hate. That ain't cuz we're human, I bet, I bet it's cuz they're annoyin' pricks.

I know a lot of annoying pricks back home.

And those are the people one is allowed to have a bit of fun with?

Depends on the fun, don't it?

Bloody, humiliating revenge.

Might be takin' it a bit far. Dependin'.

Depending on what? I do not consider the strength of the offense in giving a response. If someone slights me, I put the full force of revenge behind it so that in crushing them, they remember never to slight me again.

And a lot of pricks in my world deserved it.

And what if they don't deserve it? What if they didn't mean to slight you, or they had a good reason behind it-- or it were just a little slight? You really gonna crush em just for somethin' small?

If they did not mean to.. I suppose that is different, but even a slight offense cannot be allowed. It would be seen as weakness.

Though... truthfully, I think I shall be swallowing many slights at home.

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SHIT SORRY I thought I'd replied to this.

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