[muffled spooky scary skeletons playing in the distance]

[geonomy]

Who: You! Me! Everybody!
Broadcast: idk but we've sure got a pretty broad cast of folks eh, eh
Action: HECK YEAH PLANET MINGLE
When: 10/7 until plot update or recaptcha

It's a deep, deep forest filled to the brim with fungi, mysterious life forms, and pitch black darkness. Explore if you dare and discover all these things and more! Just don't get lost...

Comments

[precedented]

I think she would prefer her joys, her life than the sorrow of her death.

[ That's how his mother would have preferred it. ] My mother gave me life. She knew what it would cost. I resented her for it, for a long time.

Do not forget, but do not let it be the sum of a person.

[complicatedliar]

Perhaps it has been too long since I knew her joy. And who brought her joy was a different Loki who is long since gone. [The bright, quick boy who everyone had thought was her son and Odin's. Before he'd become an object of masculine despair, really.

He touches Leto's cheek lightly.]

I regret, but I do not resent her for anything. Anything I might count as a sin against me was the responsibility of Odin.

[precedented]

[ He tilts into Loki's touch, eyelashes fluttering. ]

The sins of the parent often bloom in the children they bear.

[complicatedliar]

And thus are we all born into the unfairness of the universe.

[precedented]

I don't mind it.

Do you?

[complicatedliar]

On the whole, I like it better than the notion that all good and ill is deserved.

[precedented]

I've never understood that concept to begin with.

[ Mostly because Leto is far too old to address morality in black and white. ]

[complicatedliar]

[Dryly:] It is an excellent way for those privileged with good fortune to convince themselves that they deserve their superiority.

[precedented]

It is a societal construct. We've discarded most of it in the future and that was a failing in its own right. They found different ways to demonstrate superiority.

[complicatedliar]

How do those of your time lord it over the less fortunate? [It is always interesting to hear new things, even if it's just humans.]

[precedented]

You assume they come in contact with the poor. I can assure you, they don't usually bother.

[ But he considers this. ]

The Harkonnens used to have tournaments. That's how the poor forgot their pain under their rule. The Atreides were more benevolent, but not all that connected to their people. For the people did not need them.

[complicatedliar]

[It isn't as if Loki goes out of his way to rub elbows with the unwashed masses. But his misanthropy tends to cross class, race, and creed. He just despises everyone, with rare exception.]

How curious, that the people did not need their rulers.

[precedented]

The people had better things to do than to be involved in the politics of our Empire. Granted, none of these systems exist any longer. My father wiped it clear and my rule will be a stranglehold.

[complicatedliar]

And shall your people need you?

[precedented]

Unlikely. No one needs a god.

[complicatedliar]

[He snorts.] I think they tell themselves so.

[He hasn't been impressed by the ability of humans to manage their affairs with gods, that's got certain.]

[precedented]

They're not there yet, I'm afraid. They still look to me and my family as gods.

Eventually, I'll wean them off such beliefs.

[complicatedliar]

So really, you seek to render yourself unneeded.

[precedented]

That is the goal. I'll give them my dream. I won't get to keep it.