voicetesting

[ex_asynja827]

If you could be so kind to clarify — for what reason are we here?

You've still quite a lot of reading to accomplish, don't you? Wasting both our time and efforts is highly annoying.

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[kingofsorts]

[That's nice to hear. Being needed.]

I strive to be such to keep away from strife born of complications.

[ex_asynja827]

[NEVER FROM THESE LIPS will you hear those words.]

Funny how that worked out for you.

[kingofsorts]

[Yes, please don't. The remaining people do Asgard will die of shock.]

Save your insults for another day, Loki. I am weary. Is there no room for anything but poison in you?

[ex_asynja827]

[That wouldn't be so bad, though.]

Poison is nearly all that I've been fed.

If you offer me any kindness, then speak plain of it; it does you no good to tie it with your accusations, no matter how rightfully deserved you think they may be.

[kingofsorts]

[...No, Loki. No.]

I still smell the funeral pyres. And as much as I would like to place blame on another, I cannot. My fault lies in my act of listening to you.

[Going away now to angst and such.]

[ex_asynja827]

[Too bad for you, Loki goes where he wants to. And he wants your company for a little longer.

He cares for his family, he really does.]

I thought it's been made clear that the blame is shared. Or were you not listening?

[kingofsorts]

[Well, actually. Company would be nice.

But seriously, are you trying to comfort him? Because you suck.]

If a gatekeeper was told by a man to open the gates for the armies of Hel, would you place the blame on the gatekeeper or the man?

[ex_asynja827]

[Fine, fine, what kind of comfort will please you? Just so you'd stop being such a tiny whiny baby for five minutes.]

If he knew better?

My lord, I can't just answer that.

[kingofsorts]

[Nothing good food and company won't fix.]

And if he did knew better. What then?

I have always found reason in accepting your advice and I was proud of myself for trusting you when so many had not. Fool. Look what it has brought me. Ruins, by my hands. Yet for some unknown reason, our brother Thor wishes for me to remain on the throne, as if I had not done enough.

[MOPE.]

[ex_asynja827]

[Given the chance you'll just turn into a giant fat guy all over again, Balder, no, we're locking the kitchens, you're not allowed to compete with Volstagg no.]

You think your mistake is in accepting the throne when you've thought yourself inadequate.

You would be wrong.

[This is such a surreal experience, giving you actual advice, but eh. We're both dead, or will be. How does it matter? You won't remember this anyway.]

It is your lack of guile that leaves you open to failure, that impossible capacity to forgive and forgive without any cost. I feel honored by that, you know - I may be the first you'll truly hold to account for the things I've done.

It's almost nice.

[kingofsorts]

[... Can he at least go to Nornheim for a weekend retreat or something? Karnilla's kinda nicer than you.]

Nay, accepting the throne is an honor, it could never be a mistake. The mistake lies in having this fool remain on the throne when he has allowed all this destruction has passed. I am used to being accepted as having no fault, it is now that I wish they would stone me for the myriad of wrongs committed.

[Probably not. Even if he did, he doesn't change much. It's not in his heart to fix what he thinks is honorable.

Now look]

Thank you for your words, Loki. I know. And you are a strange creature. Why would one desire for such a thing?

[ex_asynja827]

[She's kinda your stalker wife, so, sure, maybe. Why are you asking me, you're king. I go where you go.]

Why should one not? Are you so truly content with... with this. With what you have. With being the same over and over again, like the single broken note in a melody.

Your people trust you. I doubt you have ever trusted yourself, in all the time you've held my counsel.