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[The video begins in the swampier edges of the jungle. Thanks to the flooding, the water is up to Thor's waist and he has mud up his arms and on his face. He holds the camera up at a selfie angle, smiling into it and waving with a muddy hand.]

If anybody happens to know where a big, fat crocodile went, let me know. He's got a scar over his eye and his legs are very stumpy. Embarrassingly stumpy.

[Thor looks about him, holding the camera out so the audience can really appreciate the view of the overflowing river and not the fact that he's wearing a wet singlet.]

And if you've lost anything in the floods, let me know and I'll keep my eye out for-

[He cuts himself off when he catches sight of something making ripples on the water. His arm whips out of camera, snatching the tail of a snake that he brings into view.]

Look at this! Did you know snakes could swim?

[The snake hisses, flicking its tongue at Thor even as it coils around Thor's arm in a lithe, slow crawl. When Thor's hold lessens though, the snake rears back slightly like a mirage before vanishing and revealing a grinning Loki who very casually slides a small dagger into Thor's side.]

Oh dear. Was that me?

[Thor grunts, mostly in surprise but there's pain in it. The little blades sting, and it's a miracle that he can hold onto his camera (lopsidedly) when he drops to his knees and grips his side.]

You've done it now, brother. [Thor growls, with a clenched jaw.] It's all going dark. Dark and cold. I see a light, it's calling me. I'll bleed out before they find me.

[And with his final breath, he musters the strength to try kick Loki into the mud along with him.]

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Not you?

I think humans can be remarkably strong.

[ Sounds fake. ]

Debatable.

[She means it. Her other human lives might have felt...weak. Ineffective. But Setsuna is different.]

He managed to lead the rebellion against god.

[ His eyebrows went up. ]

How did he manage that?

He is the savior I sought for so long. His personality, the effect he has on others, his ability to lead and endure and, most of all, his love led him to victory. The allies I made in the past supported him and I, when I could awaken, cleared the path before his feet.

Edited 2018-04-05 01:53 (UTC)

It sounds like an epic penned by poets. Love? Really?

Without love, he wouldn't have been willing to do what it took to see it done.

I would think common sense could do it as well, considering the situation.

It took common sense to go to hell? I think most humans would avoid it at all cost.

It takes sense to want to beat the system. And humans chafe against control.

How well do you know humans?

That wasn't the reason he went to hell. It was like the story of Orpheus and Eurydice.

[ He just raises an eyebrow. What a complicated story. ]

His love perished and he sought her soul.

[ Dryly. ]

Tragic.

If he hadn't been given the chance, he would have destroyed a city, at least. My temper has never been...restrained.

I don't particularly see that as a great loss. Humans perish. It's what they do.

So you would not have cared if all the races were destroyed? If all was erased?

Why would I care?

My concern is for my people. And your gods do not exist there.

So imagine your people expiring. Could you accept that?

I don't need to imagine anything.

[ Especially since he lived through it. ]

Much less this scenario. I saved the remains of my people.

And what if there were no remains? What if the world they had inhabited was gone? Obliterated from being?

[ In the driest of tones. ]

It was.

Are you done?

My point is: you wouldn't like it.

Not much of a point. Is that all you do? Pontificate?

I'm not ruled by tragedy. I look to the future.

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