Alignment-swapped AU, same as anticking but different journal. Considering Abax?

[sorcerous]

If you know certain... elaborations on events are accepted in places few and far between, why not simply play me as I was shown on the silver screen? We are not so far divorced, he and I; the seeds of him, the roots of him are in my heart too.

I do thank you for finding fellows, those who will know me as I am: a King, not a villain. Though I fear Thor is beyond rescue.

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[mankindly]

Oh, hey, you should go there! Though I s'pose you and the other you wouldn't get along much.

[sorcerous]

Like ice and springtime, I imagine -- one always trying to choke the other.

[mankindly]

Yeah. I know a little bit about that. I mean, not having a double or anything, but..

[sorcerous]

Having an equal? An opposite.

[mankindly]

[ he taps his chest. ]

My opposite's in here. Though I guess it isn't an opposite so much as it's.. just.. what was s'posed to be my nature.

[sorcerous]

I have too many of them. Not just one reflection of myself, but a hundred, as though a mirror was shattered.

Who's to say what I was supposed to be?

[mankindly]

See, that's the thing, innit? Free will.

[sorcerous]

If all choices exist, in some twist of time and world, then free will and fate are delusions both. And we are all of us shadows of possibility.

[mankindly]

Don't think so hard about it. People make themselves miserable thinking about whether we do or don't have free will, if there's such a thing as fate. I make the world the way I want it to be. Which basically means I leave it alone.

[sorcerous]

I am not in Fate's hands; I am what Fate's hands have wrought. This is a place out of time and story. Why would I agonize, then?

[mankindly]

Ineffability's just a big joke.

[sorcerous]

And there's nothing wrong with a joke.

[mankindly]

As long as it's a good one.

[sorcerous]

So, tell me: why should I strand myself, in this city?

[mankindly]

Why should any of us strand ourselves anywhere? If I get in, it'd be nice to meet you.

[andtheotherguy]

Sometimes the results are more important than the starting parameters.

[sorcerous]

Shouldn't she strive for results, like the rest of us?

[andtheotherguy]

No, I mean - you and him.

[sorcerous]

I know. If she wants it so badly, she should play through it. She should take it from the beginning.

[andtheotherguy]

It matters that you're different. Seeds or not. So - I can see why she cares about it.

That's all I meant.

[sorcerous]

I didn't have to convince you.

Do you know something the rest don't?

[andtheotherguy]

Most of the other people in my mundane's headspace are, uh, divergent. And she was around when you were made, so.

[He waves a hand vaguely. Bruce could awkward for the Olympics.]

I've overheard things.

[sorcerous]

And you, are you 'divergent'?

[andtheotherguy]

[shakes his head]

Same mess as usual, sorry.

[sorcerous]

Still with a monster locked inside you.

[andtheotherguy]

That would be the mess in question, yes.

[sorcerous]

I hear you dealt a terrible humiliation.

[andtheotherguy]

[He's not going to smile. Oh, damnit.]

I guess I should be happy that's the tantrum people remember, huhn?

[sorcerous]

It paints you in an amusingly heroic light.

[andtheotherguy]

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, right?

[sorcerous]

Hardly accurate. If you were stopped, you wouldn't be right when we needed you.

[andtheotherguy]

And I was there a lot of times when people really didn't. Just because there were finally some bad guys around to trample -