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[complicatedliar]

Who: Loki
Broadcast: Everyone
Action: Paisley
When: Right now!

[Action]

[Guess who just shows up to breakfast one... afternoon? Loki emerges from his office, looking for all the world like a man who has just woken up from an extended nap, barely open eyes, trying to stretch his back and shoulders, the whole nine. He wanders into the kitchen, fumbles around until he makes himself something hot and dark enough that he can pretend it's coffee, and stares suspiciously into the cup before drinking.

Ugh, his mouth tastes like someone glued one of Thor's feet to it. Ugh. What possessed him to sleep like this...

(Guess who has no idea he's been missing for weeks~)]

[A bit later: Broadcast]

[Awake now, and... well, he looks amused. Which is to say as if he's planning on flaying someone alive.]

Why yes, I have returned. Hide all of the party favors, lock up your sons and daughters, cancel the pedestrian fireworks displays.

A funny thing, missing time. You'd never know it was gone until someone tells you. Has anyone else fallen victim to such thievery?

Comments

[universal_charm]

You sure? Trickster sounds like it would be more fun. And you already pulled off a nice trick - the fireworks.

_{[ He smirks into the screen, a particular glint to those blue eyes. ]}

[complicatedliar]

Books are likewise very fun. Haven't tried them?

[universal_charm]

I love them, but I had to admit I like my own real life adventures better. Books only get you so far. And as they say - truth is stranger than fiction.

[complicatedliar]

Oh, you sound terribly brave. [He's totally playing along on this.] What manner of adventures?

[universal_charm]

Space, as it turns out. I'm calling this whole kidnapping for a show business a bump in the road. Might even make myself a whole opera by the time I'm done if I have my way.

_{[ He might only be half joking here. He wants a lot experiences, to be sure. ]}

[complicatedliar]

Oh dear. I hope you have a decent singing voice for that.

[universal_charm]

I've never been booed off a karaoke stage, so I'd say I'm passable.

[complicatedliar]

If I recall what that is correctly, I doubt it's the same. Your audience probably won't be drunk.

[universal_charm]

Drunken audiences are the most honest, if you ask me. The fact I wasn't booed off the stage should be further proof I do not sound like a tone-deaf bullfrog.

[complicatedliar]

Drunken audiences will like anything so long as it's delivered with a pretty smile.

[universal_charm]

Aw, you think I'm pretty?

[complicatedliar]

A bit early in this conversation for you to be so desperate, is it not?

[universal_charm]

It's okay to admit it, you know. And what can I say? A man likes a compliment now and then.

[complicatedliar]

You must not get them terribly often.

[universal_charm]

Now you're just being salty.

[complicatedliar]

Merely... honest. My besetting sin.

[universal_charm]

Really? I wouldn't think honesty would be the besetting sin of a trickster god.

[complicatedliar]

You can't believe everything you hear. Rumors are terribly ugly.

[universal_charm]

But there's always a little grain of truth in there - or so I hear. I mean, the ancient Norse couldn't have gotten everything wrong, could they?

_{[ There's a saucy tilt of his brows. He doesn't believe you're a god, but a visiting alien? Sure, that he believes. ]}

[complicatedliar]

The grain is never that which you think it is. That's the trick.

[universal_charm]

I'll be sure to remember that next time I come across the more interesting tales about you.

[complicatedliar]

Ask yourself what the tellers sought to gain.

had to come up, and there it is

[universal_charm]

Well, there is that one particular story about you and a horse, and I'm really not sure I want to know what they had to gain from that one.

sigh.

[complicatedliar]

My unending annoyance that everyone is so amused by the idea of a man being raped by a horse?

You ought to consider what it says about you that you feel the need to ask after it.

Better to get it out now

[universal_charm]

To be fair, that's really not how that story is presented, though I'll keep that in mind next time it comes up.

_{[ There's a pause. ]}

Did you visit Earth, once upon a time? It doesn't seem like you did for long if the stories are so grossly inaccurate.