[IC] Appointments Post

[selfhelp]

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Re: [Action, November 18]

[complicatedliar]

[Loki nudges a chess piece with one finger.]

Let me know if you manage to believe it. I haven't really mattered that art myself, if I'm to be honest.

It requires time.

[Action, November 18]

[selfhelp]

[Billy glances at the piece, his gaze wandering back over the board. God, he can't even remember what he was trying to do with it anymore, besides resist the inevitable defeat.]

Time... one of the many things that aren't really guaranteed here.

[He could be gone tomorrow, or five minutes from now. So could the people whose opinions worry him.

It totally sucks.]

Re: [Action, November 18]

[complicatedliar]

Oh, you've nothing but time, until you don't. At which point you shan't remember so it doesn't matter anyway, does it?

[Action, November 18]

[selfhelp]

...That's just more depressing, you know.

[Then again, with a subject like this, what did he expect?]

Re: [Action, November 18]

[complicatedliar]

You should have requested the God of Wiggly Puppies. But you're stuck with me now.

[Action, November 18]

[selfhelp]

It's less the company I don't like as the reality around me.

[It's half a joke, but after a moment his smile fades.]

But then, that's kind of the root of all my problems, now.

[Action, November 18]

[complicatedliar]

I'm afraid I haven't a solution for that. Or I would be in a very different situation myself.

[Action, November 18]

[selfhelp]

...Would you do it? If you had that power? Change the world, change reality, or at least your own part of it?

[Action, November 18]

[complicatedliar]

[Easy question.] Yes.

[Action, November 18]

[selfhelp]

[That answer isn't entirely unexpected, but the speed of it is.]

Even now? Even knowing how things turned out?

[Action, November 18]

[complicatedliar]

Happy as I may be now, there are things I have experienced and...mistakes I made that I know I would be happier without.

I also can't say I am all that enamored with the well-known fate of Loki to be ever alone and reviled.

[Action, November 18]

[selfhelp]

...Changing the past... it's not a good idea.

[Even when aspects of your life sucks. Even if there are a lot of memories you'd happily live without.]

If our lives had been different, if we could just pick and choose what it could be, then... we wouldn't be who we are today. I can't think of anything worse.

Re: [Action, November 18]

[complicatedliar]

[Loki grins without humor.]

Oh, I think there are quite a few who could get behind the idea of me being someone different, yes?

[But for his part, he could do without the events that have caused him to have his attacks, if nothing else. But Billy doesn't know about those and doesn't need to.]

[Action, November 18]

[selfhelp]

...Probably, yeah. But are they the kind of people you'd want to change for?

[He can understand the desire to change. But... change can't come from magic, or it doesn't mean anything. It's just cheating reality. That's all magic ever is.]

[Action, November 18]

[complicatedliar]

[He raises his eyebrows.]

If that person is Rogue, or myself, or you...?

[Action, November 18]

[selfhelp]

God. If I ever ask you to change who you are for me, please punch me in the face.

[That doesn't sound like anything he'd do, but still. It's humbling to hear that he's one of the few to carry that much influence, but he doesn't have to like it.]

There's a big difference between changing behaviour, and changing personality. One's good. The other is yours, and yours alone.

[Action, November 18]

[complicatedliar]

Ah, but personality causes behavior, does it not? [He shrugs.] Ever have I been the trouble maker.

[Action, November 18]

[selfhelp]

Troublemaking isn't so bad. People can generally handle that well enough. It's the whole genocide thing that folks take issue with.

Re: [Action, November 18]

[complicatedliar]

[Loki laughs.] I learned from the best. And here I thought it was all right, so long as it was all bad people.

[The blood on his hands is nothing compared to that on Odin's, after all.]

[Action, November 18]

[selfhelp]

That really depends on who you talk to, I guess.

[He doesn't expect to ever agree on this one, either, though.]

[Action, November 18]

[complicatedliar]

That would certainly be the crux of it. And when. And if they're feeling particularly hypocritical that day. [He shrugs. He really doesn't care, at this point.]

But I'd daresay most don't even handle a bit of trouble all that well.

[Action, November 18]

[selfhelp]

...True enough. The heroic types can be kind of stick-in-the-mud-ish... I know I'm guilty of it myself sometimes. I hate pranks.

[Too many locker room encounters in his childhood that were just hilarious to everyone but himself. That was before things devolved into punching sessions, though, and even he's not sure what he prefers.]

[Action, November 18]

[complicatedliar]

Steve Rogers is one of the worst offenders at that. [Loki rolls his eyes and does a beautifully mocking impression:] "If you're this bored maybe we should find a way to occupy your time."

[He has plenty to occupy his time, a bit of which is annoying Steve Rogers. Ugh. As if a human or anyone else has any business telling him what to do.]

[Action, November 18]

[selfhelp]

[He shouldn't laugh at that, he really shouldn't. But even Billy can't help cracking a smile. God, that really did sound like Cap.]

Didn't he give you any good suggestions? Puzzles? Bottle-cap collecting? Handing food out to the poor? I could see you doing that.

Re: [Action, November 18]

[complicatedliar]

Perhaps he'll teach me to bake an apple pie.