riverview | user: South.of.Nowhere

I mean, fair. But still. I had a busted up leg and was shot in my gut and crawled through snow- and I still love it.

[Sure, it was just one mission that had been that bad. But still. She was crawling and leaving a trail of blood in the snow. She ended up passing out more than once during that trek, eventually got hauled up by some teammates that found her and returned to the e-vac. But her point stands! She was incapacitated and hardly able to crawl through the snow, but she still loved it. Totally the same thing, right?]

Yeah, but I bet you don't look like Bambi making his way through a snow drift when you go out into the stuff. I do.

[Did he just reveal he watches Disney movies in his spare time? Ah well. Everyone needs a hobby.]

....Bambi? Did you. Say Bambi? Like the little deer on ice?

Ivar. Bud. Pal. Your new name is Bambi. I've already saved it in my device. It's official.

[Ivar just sighs, running a hand over his face. It's not that he particularly minds the nickname, not after the one he's been saddled with his whole life, but he can figure out what this one stands for.]

I walked right into that one. I have no one to blame but myself.

That's true, it's all your fault.
But it's okay, Bambi was a sweet little dear, it's definitely fitting

[Definitely fitting, riiiight]

Everyone seems to forget he grows up into a deer that beats the shit out of his rival and a pack of dogs.

[Okay, so maybe the nickname fits Ivar a little better than initially thought.]

...How many times have you seen this movie?

[She honestly hasn't seen it since, well, forever. Since she was a teen, maybe. Not her fault she forgets Bambi grows up]

Like...three?

[Hey, movies are really cool when you come from the 800s. He still hasn't quite grasped the concept that they're the same every time you watch them.]

I just fast-forward through the part where his mother dies.

[Because he's an orphan and being reminded that his own mother got shot in the back makes him cry every time.]

I mean. Same. I was a kid when I last watched it, but I did the same.

[Look. Even now, if she watched the movie, little Bambi running around calling for his mother would kill her. So. She can relate]

Those movies are all fucked up. They're all cute and innocent and then someone's parent dies. Just drives home that message of "No matter what you do, your parents are going to be taken away from you for no good reason."

[Just the sort of thing children need to learn early on.]

Yeah, they do that. Usually it's the mom from what I remember. Kinda bullshit.

Yes, but very true to life. Parents always die when you least expect it.

Yeah, they seem to like doing that. Well, maybe not like doing it, but it happens more often than not, I think.

But I'll see them again someday. My father is in Valhalla and my mother is in Hel. [Not the Christian one, though they're pronounced the same way.]

That's...a positive way to look at things. [She doesn't know if she'll see her parents again, or her brother- while she's still in the air about if there's a heaven or hell or anything else, she's not convinced she'll go to the same place they are. She has a lot to makeup for still...

It keeps me from being eternally depressed.

[Only somewhat depressed. He also got his feelings out by taking revenge on those that had killed his parents, so yay for violence?]

How'd they die?

[Tact? Being subtle? What are those? Never met them. But she does at least even the conversation]

Innies- the bad guys where I'm from- killed my parents. That dream you seen? That was their funeral, so I wasn't like a kid like Bambi, but it still sucked.

My father was tossed into a pit of snakes by an English king after being betrayed by another who claimed to be his friend. My mother got shot in back by my father's ex-wife because she wanted to claim her crown. It all happened almost at the same time.

[Yes, Ivar's family history was one big dramatic ninth-century soap opera.]

Um. Holy fuck? That's pretty fucked up.

[To put it lightly! What the fuck?'

Did you, well you knew who did it, were you able to do anything to get them back?

[She joined the UNSC to get back at the group in general who killed her parents, revenge is important to her]

My brothers and I were in England just before I was pulled here. We'd killed one king and we were on our way to do the same to the other. Then I know my father can rest easy in Valhalla.

Killing my mother's murderer...I'm still figuring out a way to accomplish that which doesn't end up with me dead or then having to face my oldest brother, her son, all pissed off because I killed his mother.

[The problem with Vikings killing family members is that once it starts, it rarely stops at just one.]

I mean, could kill her son too if you go back. Kill them all for killing your family- it's only fair.

[Okay. So. Maybe she's not the best person to give advice on families and murder and such, she has a messy history with that sort of subject. But here she is, definitely helping]

I'd prefer to kill as few family members as possible. I don't have that many left.

[He won't always think that way. Ivar's ambitions and insanity means he'll eventually steamroll over anyone who gets in his way.]

Besides, Bjorn is tough. He once killed a bear with nothing but a knife and his hands. Both of us would end up dead if I went up against him.

I guess that makes sense.

[She supposes you should keep what family you have left close, but she doesn't know she could do that, if a half or step sibling killed her mother, she's not sure she could care...]

It sucks ass when you can't get people back after they fuck you over- if there's a way I can help, just, I don't know, lemme know.

I'll get back at them eventually. I'm patient. Someday, I'll go back through the portal to finish all of them off.

[Aw, South, he's touched by the offer. He'll never get used to people doing things because they're actually nice to him.]

Sure, I'll let you know.

Well until then, if you wanna do anything like go hunt some of those beasts outside the wall or spar or anything- lemme know.

I'll try to go easy on you, kiddo.

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