If your only impetus to do something is to get a certain reaction, you might want to reassess your motives. Otherwise, you'll be pretty disappointed in how this "Good Loki" thing works out long term.
[ he admits without hesitation or self-depreciation. the line between good and evil was already too grey for him, and good brought some comparisons in nobility to Thor that he'd rather not repeat. once their father had posted them apart (or in Loki's mind, he had posted them apart) as contrary players. they were never that, and Loki refuses to fit the expectations of any meaning of the term. ]
Honestly—honestly?—I'll settle for "Loki that doesn't hurt people anymore."
[ which means he'll lie and steal, be an annoying probe and amuse himself with reactions.
but he wouldn't go that far ever again. ]
I'm still Loki after all. I have a role to play, I just have to make a damn good story of it.
[ Her tone is so dry and placid that it's nearly impossible to tell that she's joking, ribbing the overdramatic reactions of Steve and Tony's testosterone-fueled posturing. ]
If we're throwing out cliches, I should probably point out that beggars can't be choosers. [ And his current standing with the Avengers—she grits her teeth to suffer the sting of not counting herself among them—certainly makes him that. ] You're lucky. As long as you keep your hands clean, Stark and Rogers should keep each other too busy for either one of them to make a preemptive move against you. [ If anyone did, she reasons to herself, it would be Tony. He's all about preemptive strikes. ] So whatever role it is you're playing, I hope it plays well with ours.
[ She doesn't give him the chance to counter because she just lets the feed cut then, closing the book on this very weird ? ? ? ?? interaction. Sometimes it's hard to ignore the way her skin crawls on principle. ]
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[ There's some chagrin there, but empathy too. ]
If your only impetus to do something is to get a certain reaction, you might want to reassess your motives. Otherwise, you'll be pretty disappointed in how this "Good Loki" thing works out long term.
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[ he admits without hesitation or self-depreciation. the line between good and evil was already too grey for him, and good brought some comparisons in nobility to Thor that he'd rather not repeat. once their father had posted them apart (or in Loki's mind, he had posted them apart) as contrary players. they were never that, and Loki refuses to fit the expectations of any meaning of the term. ]
Honestly—honestly?—I'll settle for "Loki that doesn't hurt people anymore."
[ which means he'll lie and steal, be an annoying probe and amuse himself with reactions.
but he wouldn't go that far ever again. ]
I'm still Loki after all. I have a role to play, I just have to make a damn good story of it.
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[ Her tone is so dry and placid that it's nearly impossible to tell that she's joking, ribbing the overdramatic reactions of Steve and Tony's testosterone-fueled posturing. ]
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[ he adds as a last note. ]
Though I don't like the term dog, myself ...
[ it reminds him of All-Mother's lapdog, and the little woof that accompanies his calling card. ]
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[ She doesn't give him the chance to counter because she just lets the feed cut then, closing the book on this very weird ? ? ? ?? interaction. Sometimes it's hard to ignore the way her skin crawls on principle. ]