[ text | un: trickster ]

[dothelokimotion]

What would you consider to be unforgivable?

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[billyrocks]

Even I'm not entirely sure, to be honest. They base it mostly on looks. I was also born in another country, so I guess they thought that was a factor too.

[dothelokimotion]

Ah. That is a commonplace attitude.

[billyrocks]

So I've heard.

I was kind of hoping it'd be different in other worlds, but I guess even that was too much to hope for.

[dothelokimotion]

Human nature rarely changes.

[billyrocks]

I think environment has something to do with it, too. I don't personally believe people are born with such prejudices. They had to learn it from somewhere and someone.

[dothelokimotion]

Of course not.

But they take to it very easily. Too easily in fact.

[billyrocks]

Fear could be another factor. People tend to be wary of things they don't understand.

You sound like you've had your fair share of prejudice as well.

[dothelokimotion]

To put it mildly. My brother would talk about putting my kind down regularly.

[billyrocks]

Your own brother? But that doesn’t make any sense.

[Unless...

Another text comes in shortly after.]

Unless you two have different parents?

[dothelokimotion]

I was adopted into his family.

[billyrocks]

Adopted, yes. That was the word I was looking for.

But that's still no excuse for such talk.

[dothelokimotion]

He didn't know. Neither of us.

And when we learned the truth, the damage was done.

last tag before bed~

[billyrocks]

[He's curious about the exactly the "damage" was, but Billy knows better than to ask those sort of questions.]

Probably doesn't mean much on this text thing, but I'm sorry you had to go through that.

Although, I still think it was wrong even though he didn't know.

sleep well!

[dothelokimotion]

[ It's an odd sentiment. People thinking that. He doesn't know what to make of it. Loki is very used to being told that it meant little, that he was simply making it up in his head. ]

That's how it was among all of them.

[billyrocks]

Them?

[dothelokimotion]

The Asgardians. My people, after a fashion.

[billyrocks]

Wait, Asgardians? Like Asgard? Home to the Nordic gods?

[dothelokimotion]

Yes.

I am Loki, God of Mischief.

[billyrocks]

I’ll be damned. And here I thought you were just a name in the stories my friend would tell me.

[Billy had been illiterate before coming to the Quarantine, so the only reason he knew certain myths and books was because people like Goody and the Master’s young son would read to him, or pass the stories down by word of mouth.]

If we’d been anywhere but here, I wouldn’t have believed you so easily.

[dothelokimotion]

That hardly bothers me.

[ What people believe is up to them. ]

But my brother and I have resided here for some time.

[billyrocks]

How’s that been working for you two?

I’ve been here for about nine months now. Still no sight of anyone I know from home, though.

[Damn. Had it already been that long?]

[dothelokimotion]

It seems to be fine for now. Time rarely matters to us.

[billyrocks]

Who is your brother anyway?

[The mortal legends passed down in Billy's world didn't explicitly state Loki as one of Thor's brothers.]

[dothelokimotion]

[ he realized, too late, that maybe this isn't a subject he should be speaking of, anymore. it had been habit, but it's a habit he should learn to break.

thor should disown him. disavow him. loki should make sure of that. ]

Thor.

[billyrocks]

Thor? God of Thunder? Has a hammer with a name that I can't spell? That Thor?