dear_mun | (no subject)

Have never seen you so down before.

[Now that's a strange comment.]

Really. I think it is a fitting tone for the moment.

Is it? Always thought ya were the more boisterous type. Then again, never really knew ya personally.

Aye, I would prefer a lighter mood. Or a battle.

That, I fear, won't happen for some time.

Make it happen then.

Make it happen. [There is a lot of doubt in that echo.]

Hey, I beat the fuckin' devil by will alone. Ya can make shit happen. Ain't easy, but sometimes ya can.

I believe my will has lived out its use. What good is there in trying to turn fate?

There's always some good in tell in' the higher ups to stick up their ass.

That message I think they understood well enough.

Apparently not if its got you moping.

I'm not moping.

Coulda fooled me big guy.

You have a better plan? I cannot force them to do more than they have. And I have already done my part.

The end has been decided for me.

Things don't ever really end.

There is an end to all things. Even for those that humans believe will last forever.

Do you believe that anything can last forever?

You're askin' that to a guy who's been ta heaven an' hell? I think that that things can run in a kinda cycle.

Just 'cause you think something's over don't mean it really is.

Yes. I suppose I am.

You have faith in heaven?

Not sure, but I suppose? So long as it don't get any new management again.

[Have some silence. Then Thor claps a hand heavily on Johnny's back.]

Good. As long as there is faith, there is hope for us.

There's always hope.

[He stumbles a little at the clap, wow, Thor just gave him a back pat, what an honor.]

Aye, there is that much left if nothing else.

They tend to have a rather low concept of 'forever' in the best of times, alas; I'd say their notion of it is equivalent to, say, forty years at this point.

Of course, when you look at where they were forty years ago it's none too difficult to see their point.

Hnh. [Wry laugh there. Forty years ago?]

Nothing lasts, as much as we wish it to. The best that we can hope for is to finish what we've started without regret.

But I do not blame them for wishing it could last longer.

Even when it's them who help tear it down?

Still, I daresay you're right to an extent; it's all we can do to build as well as we may, and hope it lasts long enough.

Helps to be around long enough to see the result, of course.

They asked me to come in order to play in their game. Now they are through with it.

People destroy what they create. That's not really a secret. Why would I want to stick around to watch it crumble?

[He's a sore loser.]

Fight fate. Fate is not set in stone; it can be changed and rewritten more easily than you know. Life is a series of twists and turns that can lead in a lot of directions, otherwise the concept of alternate universes wouldn't exist.

I've never known you to be the type to give up, regardless.

Strange, how people seem to know me, yet we have not met before. There is no shame in accepting your fate. In the end, I have done what I could. What happens from here on is up to them.

It's an alternate universe thing. In one universe, we know each other; but in most, the basic things that make someone their self are still there. If you run into Tony Stark here, ask him about it; he has a good grasp on how alternate universes work due to his forays into interdimensional science.

One of the things you taught me was to always do what's right. Is sitting back and accepting this version of fate the right thing to do?

I know what an alternate universe is.

If you know me, then you should already know I don't run from my fate. Nor do I plan on putting myself before the well-being of others. If ending our journey is what they require, then I will accept that. There's nothing to be won here.

Tony knows things like Fixed Point Event Ratios and Commonality Division Theory. He could do a course in it if he wanted to. But I digress.

And how exactly will your journey ending help anything? [Yep, he was definitely a Thor - completely convinced he was in the right.]

You have a great deal of interest in Tony Stark. Perhaps you should talk with him about such things.

The end of one journey is the beginning of another. It does no good to linger when your time has come. One day you might understand that.

He's not the one I'm related to.

Given the suicide rate at my place of employment, I've heard that sentiment before. Rarely does it lead to anything good. At the best it ends up with someone quitting their job and ending up a washed out shut in somewhere in the middle of nowhere. If anything, I'll probably go out before my time has come. That's how life and my mun work.

☠☠☠☠! You're giving up?

You. Of all the big guys.

It seems I have little choice. The decision was already made.

Then what hope is there for the rest of us if even one of the ☠☠☠☠ Avengers can't fight fate?

Avengers?

No matter what happens, there are always those who will continue on. That, too, is part of fate.

Yeah, you know, the elitist ☠☠☠☠ who think they're the best out there.

Well, that's not true. [Because he knows the best.]

Yeah it is, just because they curb stomped that guy Loki and that world eater Galactus.