Video; Sleep Deprivation

[ragnarsson]

[The video shows Ivar looking a little rumpled, the look of someone who has been trying to sleep and can't. He's cleaning out grime from under his fingernails with one of his knives as he speaks and it occasionally flashes into view.

Oddly enough, he's smiling, his eyes just a little too bright. It's not a happy smile. When Ivar gets angry, sometimes, he smiles in a way that says he's going to rip your throat out with his teeth if you get too close. His tone sounds oddly cheerful as he speaks.]

To whoever is making that horrible racket that's keeping me awake, you have two options. Stop it. [Then his voice goes dark and furious.] Or I'll stop it. Trust me when I say my way will be a lot more unpleasant. [He never stops smiling even as he turns off the video.]

Comments

[yorkist]

Would you like to hear one of their myths, then? Though they also had great heroes among their people, and I know their tales, as well.

( She will need to rectify this immediately. If she is reading him correctly, then she assumes he would enjoy a good story. )

Anyone else would call that blasphemy, but I agree. If God is meant to be merciful, and listen to prayers, then He would not turn a blind eye to suffering and death. Half of my family is gone, and so it is rather difficult to not find the platitudes trite. That "God's Will" was for them to perish.

( She has honestly been thinking about this since the Memoria holiday, and it needles her. A small frown crosses her face, until she, too, finds the need to listen to the rain in order to remain calm.

Eventually, she gives him a little smile. It is rather nice to share this with someone; and a relative at that, in a manner of speaking. )

[ragnarsson]

I would. Make sure it has lots of monsters and heroes in it. I like those.

[He can be a little childlike sometimes in his love of a good story. He likes to think that one day the poets will tell his own tales to the people. He settles back, prepared to listen.]

I think you're following the wrong god if that's what people think he should be doing.

[Norse gods could be terrific assholes sometimes, selfish, brutal, and uncaring. But that's why their worshipers liked them. They were exactly like the people who followed them, full of faults and able to make mistakes just like the Vikings did.]