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[dothelokimotion]

What would you consider to be unforgivable?

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[dothelokimotion]

Why would I?

[billyrocks]

If you're saying that, then I guess it's mostly a mortal concern. If I had asked a mortal man the same question, I'm sure he would have denied it until his last breath. If he was from my time period, at least.

[He's noticed how the dress code in the Quarantine has been more flexible for all people.]

[dothelokimotion]

We don't renegade on the stories told. They exist and should continue to do so. After all, truth is a strange thing to a god as is memory.

[billyrocks]

Truth can be just as strange to humans.

Some days, I still find it hard to believe that I'm here, alive and well.

[dothelokimotion]

[ Ah . . . ]

You perished?

[billyrocks]

Yes. In a painful way, too. Gatling gun put a bunch of holes through me.

[This is something he doesn't mind sharing, or at least, not as much as when he first arrived and needed time to process everything. He died. It happened, but that was in the past now, strange as it sounded.]

[dothelokimotion]

[ Loki isn't familiar with a Gatling gun but weapons are weapons. He doesn't need to know all the details. ]

Do you have a lot of regrets from your passing?

[billyrocks]

As a matter of fact, not too many. With the lifestyle I had, I figured I probably wouldn't live to see old age. I got to see many places and do things most people in my position could only dream of. And I was free.

[He didn't die in the peasant village he was born and raised in, and he didn't die a manservant.]

But the biggest regret I have is me being the only one here from my group. It just doesn't feel right.

[dothelokimotion]

I have died many times.

But I suppose I should be grateful that I've never died alone.

[billyrocks]

I've heard people say that gods can't die permanently. Is it frightening each time, or do you get used to it?

[There's a small pause before the next text comes in.]

I wasn't all alone when I died, there was one other, but he didn't come through the portal with me.

cw: suicide idealisation

[dothelokimotion]

I couldn't say.

[ Mostly because both times, he had no real desire to survive. The third time was different and that's why it hurt.]

I had little fear of death, I suppose.

[billyrocks]

I imagine a god wouldn't fear death since they are immortal.

[With this being text, Billy can't hear the implication behind those words, which was one of the reasons he didn't like texting. He couldn't read a person's body language, or see the look in their eyes, or hear their tone of voice.]

[dothelokimotion]

No, we do not. But perhaps we are lacking in that area.

[billyrocks]

How so?

[dothelokimotion]

We would appreciate our time more if we felt it closing.

[billyrocks]

Isn't it better to have all the time in the world to do the things you wish?

[dothelokimotion]

Do you think so?

How long do you think such things will last? Because time outlives it all.

[billyrocks]

It's just something I've heard a lot of people wish for back home. The idea itself sounds great, but there's always a catch.

[dothelokimotion]

That is usually the case. Mortals aren't built for long lives anyway. They cannot contain it.

[billyrocks]

I'm not interested in immortality, but I've heard plenty of tales of men who spent their whole lives searching for it.

[dothelokimotion]

Yes, it does seem to be a goal for many mortals.

[billyrocks]

Would you consider your own immortality to be more of a curse? Or do you have mixed feelings about it?

[dothelokimotion]

I've lived with it all my life. It would be hard for me to consider it as anything but normal.

sorry, I had writer's block for this

[billyrocks]

I could say the same about my mortality. It's almost funny how we tend to wonder what we might be like if we had another person's attributes, but I try not to waste too much time worrying over it. I work with what I have, and that's how it's been my whole life.

Maybe in the end, that's all any of us can do, mortals and immortals alike.

no worries!

[dothelokimotion]

That is usually the case, though people rarely arrive to that conclusion.