Mun just got her hands on "Thor: the Dark World" prelude

[jotunblooded]

Why are you so surprised? Everything happened exactly as I planned it to. Odin's plans for me are well and truly ruined. If victory is impossible, sometimes smashing the game board is an acceptable alternative.

I am even back home at long last! Or at least until he decides that trading me away to my old masters for the good of Asgard is one way to be rid of me without upsetting moth- [Loki bites off the word and hastily corrects himself.] without upsetting the Queen unduly. I would live for a long while yet, if he did, after all.

And as for her... [Loki's jagged smile falters at the edges.] Well, in the end, she is only making things harder than they have to be. At least death would have been a proper end to it, making us free of each other for good and all. But she persists in her affections, all the same. I suppose it must be a hard habit to break, after all this time. Truly, Asgard is stronger for her. I know that. And...whatever happens in the days to come, I wish her well.

...he called me 'Laufeyson'. I would rather be no one's child at all. I killed Laufey by my own hands, for him, so I suppose that I am now. Please don't make that face. You're only making this harder than it has to be, too.

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[courtedwar]

[LBR Loki and Thor working together could rule a lot of the know universe.]

Is it truly so important to you, to rule?

[jotunblooded]

[Odin's plan at first was for them to rule at least two worlds. It could have certainly happened.

And Thor, that was not his point. That was not his point at all. The point was that all of your high ideals and strength would have been for absolutely nothing if you'd wound up with Loki, and you would have been right there with him subjugating your pet humans in the end. The point was that you are not so high and mighty as you think and the fact that you still haven't learned this is impossibly irritating.

If Thor would just stop and think for a second...

Loki sighs.]

I wouldn't have ruled Earth even if I had succeeded in taking it. [Not truly. He would have ruled it in the sense that Laufey still ruled Jotunheim, which was not a pleasant comparison at all.] The fact that you believe I gathered that entire army together alone is flattering, but false.

Being able to vex you once more was a pleasant side effect. I knew you would find a way to come, if I threatened the humans.

[courtedwar]

[For his part, Thor still cannot quite understand that there would be any power out there so great that he would not be able to overcome it.]

Then why did you not ask mother for aid, when she appeared to you? Odin would have sent help to you then, and- all of this would not have come to pass.

[jotunblooded]

[Which is going to get him killed one day.]

You say that as though you would have been able to help. Or that Odin would have sent aid at all. [Thor's faith in the Allfather is staggering, but then again, it also hasn't been shaken to its foundations as Loki's has.]

...you also say that as though I wanted your help. [All right, Loki had been more than a little mad with power at the time. The Tesseract had affected him. And there had also been the threat of impossibly painful torture should he fail to conquer Earth. But that had only made him even more determined to succeed, even if only for the chance to turn around and strike back at his old masters.

He had chosen this. The thought that he hadn't, that he'd just been a pawn, that he'd never even had a choice about what happened, that they'd played and used him and he'd let them because he'd been lost was...unthinkable. Because he'd had a choice. If he'd truly wanted to stop this, he could have, would have.

This is a train of thought he likes even less than what happened the night he fell. So Loki deflects again.]

As for the Queen's attempts to reach out to me, it really wasn't a good time. It was a few seconds before they sent me to Earth, and traveling without the Bifrost is...rather unpleasant. I couldn't afford... [And Loki has the grace to hesitate before he finished, a little more quietly:] ...distractions.

[courtedwar]

[All men and gods must die someday. For now, Thor is still content to take fights when and where he can. One day he might learn a little more wisdom.

One day he might even learn to not be deflected by his brother.]

Nor did you wish to be distracted, if your haste in destruction is any indicator. [The more he has time to consider it, the more Loki's behaviour on earth frustrates Thor. Frustrates, because he hadn't been able to alter it in the slightest, and Thor above all else dislikes being useless.]

There are no distractions now, nothing to lose by asking for aid.

[jotunblooded]

[Thor is not allowed to die unless Loki personally arranges it. To let anyone else bring him his end is unacceptable.

Until that day comes, Loki can content himself with the knowledge that he can still play Thor like a cheap drum. Sometimes it's even for his brother's own good. Even if the number of conversation topics he's ducking is starting to tax even Loki's power for lies.

"Asking for aid"...the very idea makes something in him recoil. Because there is still so much that Thor is just not understanding. Unfortunately, Loki isn't even fully aware of everything he isn't understanding, either.]

There are lives to lose. More than my own. [Malekith and the darkness he brings are a world-shaking threat. But Thanos has a galaxy all his own. And Loki is so very grateful that his master never turned his attentions towards Asgard, because then Loki believes he would have tried to stop Thanos, and suffered for it until he longed for something as sweet as pain.] Not all problems can be solved by smashing them with your hammer until they stop moving, Thor.

And there is no point in any case, because what is there to be done? [The humans, at least, had put up an impressive resistance.] I have committed undeniable crimes against all the Nine Worlds.

[So stop bothering with this, Thor. Loki is ready to say anything just to try and make Thor stop caring.]