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William "Billy" Kaplan (Wiccan) ([personal profile] selfhelp) wrote2019-07-30 03:29 am
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[IC] Appointments Post



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complicatedliar: (but i needed one more touch)

[Action, October 4/5]

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2012-10-05 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[Maybe Luceti has. Or maybe Loki's mind has always been thus, and no one would believe it. It doesn't really matter.]

I am what I am. That may not be the same as is believed.

[Loki shrugs.]

People mistrust me because I am Loki. Ever has it been so. [He opens his hand in a gesture of invitation.] But more information is always better.
complicatedliar: (the eyebrow is raised)

[Action, October 4/5]

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2012-10-05 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[Loki is entirely unsurprised by this. He had assumed it would be so.

And after speaking to his younger self, he already knew there must be different sorts of realities, different hims out there.]


That seems to follow.

A hateful creature indeed, I assume.

[Which really begs the question why Billy would want to get within twenty feet of Loki now.]
complicatedliar: (facepalm)

[Action, October 4/5]

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2012-10-05 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Loki frowns, a look of distaste on his face.]

That sounds...

[Words fail him. Trite? Boring? Annoying? He aspires to be many things, most of them probably not very nice, but annoying is definitely note on the list.

He rubs his forehead with one hand.]


Pointless.

[Evil, in his opinion, is a pointless construct. And even more so when it's apparently pursued to its own end.]
complicatedliar: (i have to burn your kingdom down)

[Action, October 4/5]

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2012-10-05 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Loki hears the question, loud and clear as if Billy spoke it out loud. It's the question he is always asked. The question he can't answer, for a multitude of reasons.

He sighs.]


Destruction for its own sake is pointless. [Though he could envision a future in which he became so bored that he'd still find nihilism better than gibbering madness.] As is cruelty.

[Another sigh. He traces a finger around the top of his tea cup.]

But sometimes things we think are terrible must happen, in the service of preventing something even worse from coming to pass.
Edited 2012-10-05 20:54 (UTC)
complicatedliar: (about to fall)

[Action, October 4/5]

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2012-10-05 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[Loki stares at the far wall, eyes distant. Whatever he's seeing, it's not this room.]

So many things.

[He knows most of them.]
complicatedliar: (wicked thoughts)

[Action, October 4/5]

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2012-10-05 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Loki blinks, bringing his attention back to Billy.]

Deserve. [His lips twist in the parody of a smile.] Now that is a pretty lie. It feels nice to think the despised deserve to suffer, to rage that the innocent face cruel fates they don't deserve. It's all the same, hot and red.

[He shakes his head.]

My purposes are my own and will remain that way. Perhaps lives deserve an explanation, but even more they deserve to not be wasted.

[He grins, a sudden flash of his teeth.]

I'm a bad, bad man, Billy. Content yourself with that.
Edited 2012-10-05 22:17 (UTC)
complicatedliar: (about to fall)

[Action, October 4/5]

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2012-10-05 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[The smile is gone as suddenly as it appeared, like a mask falling away. Loki leans back against the wall again.]

But that's the point, isn't it? There is no such beast as a reason good enough to erase all of that.

[He covers his eyes with one hand for a moment.]

Horrors need no explanation. They are. Paint it with a reason, and it just becomes a mirror.
complicatedliar: (all according to plan)

[Action, October 4/5]

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2012-10-05 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[Loki smiles crookedly.]

Because I knew you would be fair.

Because I knew you wouldn't find the sight of my blood funny or satisfying.
complicatedliar: (i never wanted anything from you)

[Action, October 4/5]

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2012-10-05 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Loki hesitates, mulling over the potential words, reasons real and not. Everything is a calculation.]

No.

[The admission is very quiet. He looks down into his tea cup.]

But you may like my other reasons far less.
complicatedliar: (the eyebrows just look at them)

[Action, October 4/5]

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2012-10-05 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[Loki sighs.]

Both of those are true reasons.

[He turns the tea cup in his hand, smiling wryly.]

I see much of myself in you, though our paths have obviously diverged.

I wish to teach you.

[And this last, he adds almost as an afterthought.]

I haven't been able to cause you to give up yet.

[He finally looks up, eyebrow raised.]

Truthful enough?
complicatedliar: (seven devils in my house)

[Action, October 4/5]

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2012-10-06 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
[There is a flicker of surprise on Loki's face, quickly hidden away. It's not the reaction he expected; he thought he'd get the normal wage of hatred or disgust, possibly with a bit of denial.

But then again, they are alike in many ways.

Loki nods slowly, though he's not certain how he feels now, himself. Less alone? Perhaps. But it's too soon to start springing such hopes.

There is a lot more he could say, feeling the words on the tip of his tongue. You're not a monster like me, Billy. You don't need to be afraid. You don't realize it, but you're very lucky. He's already told more truth today than he's comfortable with. He feels too vulnerable even having this conversation.]


We may start when you are ready.
Edited 2012-10-06 00:22 (UTC)
snikting: (Back where?)

[Action, Sept 27th Event]

[personal profile] snikting 2012-10-06 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
[He just hasn't discovered his papa wolf instincts yet.]

Yeah? You know of somethin' that will?
complicatedliar: (the devil's horns)

[Action, October 4/5]

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2012-10-06 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Loki's eyebrows go up.]

I don't think I dreamed those supposedly true words.

[There is a definite flicker of humor in his eyes when he says that.]