Tenth Trick: Permavideo

[doeswhathewants]

[The NV flicks on, propped up on a table, focused on Loki who sits cross legged on the floor, a baby sling across his chest. The sling is occupied by a lump that is invisible to most, save for a hot pink mohawk and a hot pink collar with a little silver hammer shaped tag dangling from it. The hellhound looks plump and happy to everyone who can see her.]

This- [He speaks with his head bent over the hellhound] -is Thora. Say hello, Thora-

[He helps her wave a faintly pink paw at the NV and she tries to nip his fingers in retaliation]

She's kind of the best hellhound ever. [In that condescending way only thirteen year old boys are capable of. And then suddenly serious, green fire in his eyes] And if anyone were to harm her, I would put their insides onto their outsides and join her in having a nibble. Just saying.

[And then that jovial demeanor returns again.] I've been learning much about the mortal world thanks to Google- the browser of webs. But so much information conflicts. I wish to know more. Midgard and humans are so different than what I always thought.

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[ex_chocoboing98]

[Midgard...? Seriously what's with this kid and the names... Overlooks the threat, he's not interested in harming a dog.]

Information conflicts?

[doeswhathewants]

Yes! One website will say something is perfectly natural and another website will say that it is an abomination. Though, I am not entirely sure those who write about abominations know that of which they speak.

[ex_chocoboing98]

... Maybe they don't. What do they talk about exactly?

[doeswhathewants]

Hipsters. And penguins who enjoy relations with the same sex. Humans who can change genders. Goth people, though I am as yet unsure what being Goth entails since obviously they are not sacking Rome.

[ex_chocoboing98]

[...]

Most conflicts come from the fact people think differently. That's about it.

[doeswhathewants]

That is rather what I like about mortals. They think differently. At home, on Asgard, most people think rather alike.

[ex_chocoboing98]

And those who don't?

[doeswhathewants]

Are largely unwanted and considered bad.

[ex_chocoboing98]

Though luck.

I don't think it is so different from the way... humans act.

[doeswhathewants]

Don't you?

Are you human?

[ex_chocoboing98]

Yeah. [At least in a good part!]

[doeswhathewants]

If you did not believe in the same things as your fellows, would you be considered outcast or different? Or would they listen to your ideas?

[ex_chocoboing98]

Me and some other friends back home, were persecuted constantly because we wanted to do things different than the majority.

[doeswhathewants]

Oh. At least you had some like minded companions?

I always thought of mortals as inferior. Ants in a little glass box to shake and bait.

[ex_chocoboing98]

Yeah, I did.

Why?

[doeswhathewants]

That always helps, I should think.

Because they were so short lived, like fruit flies to a human. Lacking in power and inconsequential in my purview at the time. Mostly.

But I realize that I was wrong.

[ex_chocoboing98]

Reading all that stuff made you realize that?

[doeswhathewants]

Of course not! Being here, meeting the mortals brought to this realm has shown me that I was wrong. People are as varied as gods.

[ex_chocoboing98]

... [Excuse him he's been distracted.] You're a god?

[doeswhathewants]

[It's okay, he gets that sometimes.] Yes. It is ... complicated.

[ex_chocoboing98]

I suppose...

Is it for you?

[doeswhathewants]

Complicated? No. Yes. Sometimes.

I used to be bad. But now I am trying to be good.

[ex_chocoboing98]

Maybe I don't know you that much, but I never thought of you as a bad guy.

[doeswhathewants]

Quite bad. But then I died and was reborn as this and thus no longer bad.

[ex_chocoboing98]

Oh. That's good. [Way to embarrass yourself, Cloud.]

[private]

Say, did you ever find a way to talk to the Core?