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[dothelokimotion]

What kind of stories did you grow up with?

What kind of myths and fairy tales were you told?

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[deathkid]

yes it is
so why are you asking about myths

[dothelokimotion]

Why not? I do have a vested interest in them.

[deathkid]

because of who you are?

[dothelokimotion]

In a manner of speaking. I have no interest in dispelling my own stories, no matter what form they take.

[deathkid]

i admit, i'm not as familiar
with the norse stories.
i know that the pantheon exists in my world
but that's about it.

oh, and what the other loki has told me.

[dothelokimotion]

Neither am I. Some I am aware of, but the Norsemen spun their own webs and I will not take it from them.

And what my other self says is not the same for myself either.

[deathkid]

yeah, people tell stories about the greek gods
and some of them are right and some are very wrong
but it's better to not dispel those ideas.

you two are different. i get that.

[dothelokimotion]

[ The skin beneath his palm itches. ]

I believe that is easy to tell simply from looking at us.

[deathkid]

there is that, yes.

[dothelokimotion]

Then what is there to "get", pray tell.

[deathkid]

you share some things in common
because you're both loki
but you're also different because you're your own
individual selves.

[dothelokimotion]

[ Some of the sourness dissolves on his tongue. ]

Perhaps. He will go further than I and I do not begrudge him that.

[deathkid]

further where?

[dothelokimotion]

Into a new story.

[deathkid]

what makes you think that you won't?

it doesn't have to be the same as his
why can't you make your own story?

[dothelokimotion]

Call it a hunch.

[deathkid]

you're making your own story right now.
not even the gods can know when their own stories will end.

[dothelokimotion]

I know my story. And I know what end it will have. Having illusions over my own story is not charity or helpful.

[deathkid]

how do you know, though?

[dothelokimotion]

I know. How could I not?

[ The monster isn't meant to live beyond the end. ]

[deathkid]

i've found that even gods can make mistakes

[dothelokimotion]

Certainly. But Gods are more aware of the threads that hold their stories together than most. That is their weakness.

[deathkid]

those stories DO keep you alive, after all.
if people stopped telling father's story
or even stopped thinking about him
he'd fade.
it's kind of scary to think about
because what happens then to us demigods

[dothelokimotion]

I imagine nothing will. You will keep the stories alive and you will forge a different path. That is why you reside in the boundary.

[deathkid]

i guess so.

anyway, i still think you can make your story
whatever you want it to be.