driftfleet | video + action.

Who: Thor + you
Broadcast: video, fleetwide
Action: the Blue Fish
When: now

video.
[The video opens on Thor. For those who've met him, it might take half a second to realise that, because his appearance has markedly changed. His long hair has been hacked short, and he's wearing an eyepatch over his right eye. It's weird. It doesn't even have a strap. Even his armor is different, much less flashy and looking worse for wear than the other silver set he'd had previously.

The look on his face is a bit harried, but he starts off with a long drawn out:]

So... [This just had to be his first address to the network, didn't it. Thanks, fate.] Hello. I had heard before that people in this place could fall asleep and end up back home for a while. It seems I now count myself among them. I have to say it's much more confusing to experience yourself. I think it's been only a few days here.

[He rubs at his chin a bit, looking off to the side in thought for a moment. This whole business on top of everything else makes him feel downright exhausted.]

Doesn't feel like it, though. [Thor returns his attention to the communicator, with a little shrug and less of a pensive look.] I'll add it to my list of grievances against the Atroma. I'm sure we'll have a library's worth to throw at them before the end.

If anything has happened in the last few days, I would be glad to hear it. If we haven't yet met, I am Thor, son of Odin, God of Thunder, and king of Asgard.

[It still sounds strange to him, though he trucks through it as gamely as he can.]

Rogers, Natasha, I need to talk to you both.

Oh-- [He smiles a bit, though it's a shade deadpan.] And happy new year.

action.
[Later, Thor sets about re-familiarising himself with the Blue Fish again, poking around the rooms and going through the kitchen cupboards. He could honestly use the distraction that pointless busy work can give, or conversation with anyone he happens to run into.]

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You have a sister. [ calmly. ] I knew you had a brother, but I didn't know about the sister.

[ very open about the fact that she's had a bit of intel stashed away. and that she's almost disappointed to find it lacking. ]

He was in the Fleet for a while, wasn't he? Someone did tell me that.

[He hadn't sorted out his feelings on that enough to ask anyone in the Fleet about his brother's time here... and now it's almost irrelevant. Thor shakes his head, sighing a bit.]

Neither of us knew we had a sister until recently. So there would have been nothing to tell.

He and I met, briefly, rather a long time ago. [ here in the fleet, yes. ] But I suppose that rather pales in comparison to suddenly gaining a sister.

I don't think anything quite compares to that kind of revelation.

[And all that it entailed. The lies, the cover ups, the upended sense of self.]

Is it too forward of me to ask whether that fight of yours was over the line of succession?

[ a good guess, but also an easy guess. after all -- she comes from a country with a rather bloody history when it comes to deciding who sits a throne. coupling thor's new title with his lost eye and his gained sister?

well. it's simple political calculus. ]

[She's a quick study. Thor isn't hiding the details of what happened, exactly, but he's not yet had to explain it to other people. So there's been no sudden exposition from him, just responses to questions. His lips quirk a bit, impressed at the deduction, though the subject matter is anything but amusing.]

No; you're right about that. Hela was our father's oldest child, as it turns out. She seized the throne when he died. She had a claim to it, but...

[But. Her short reign had nearly been the death of his people, and would have caused countless other deaths throughout the universe.]

But a claim is hardly the same thing as being well-suited to a throne.

[ in that regard, she might find herself more sympathetic to the americans and their long-past revolution. but peggy leaves that topic off the table. ]

Either way, it seems you sit it now. [ she won't congratulate him. it sounds as though it's been a difficult journey. ] I'm certain that makes you a rather busy man.

[He nods to that, not going any further into why Hela was such a poor fit for rule. It's enough to know he spared people like Peggy having to find out firsthand. He smiles a bit wryly.]

Busy does not even begin to describe it. Though now that I'm back here, that won't be quite the same.

[It chafes at him to be back in the Fleet when there is so much he needs to do. The fate of his people rests on his shoulders, and even knowing now that time won't move while he's gone, the lingering distress at being away from them isn't going to leave him.]

That is the rub, isn't it? [ a puff of her cheeks. she sorted out the details she wanted sorted; conversation turns remarkably casual in that wake. ] We're all in something of a holding pattern while we're here.

Although I freely admit I have no kingdom waiting for me when I return. [ unless you count what will one day be shield. good lord. ]

[Thor is completely okay with changing the subject. He's going to be talking about those things enough over the next while.]

Holding pattern is a good way of putting it. [He nearly says "Neither do I", but they did just change the subject, so he catches himself. The kingdom is its people, after all.] At least I know now that time definitely doesn't move while I'm gone.

Haunting, isn't it? [ she huffs. ] I've been here for two years and some change -- but back in September I went home and gained a day as though I'd never left. Just a day.

A damn lot changes in a day.

Just a day? But-- you're right about that. A lot can happen in the span of a few hours.

How long was it for you?

About two years. I think this puts me ahead of Rogers and Natasha, actually.

...Christ. [ she exhales. ] That it most certainly does.

[ which means she needs to be just a little bit selfish -- and a little bit reckless. ]

Is he alright? [ naively, she hopes he'd know. and, after a moment, she tries to correct her clumsy error: ] Are they alright?

[He gives Peggy a sympathetic look.]

I am sorry, but I don't know. I've spent most of my time elsewhere in the universe. I visited Earth only briefly, and it was on other matters. I haven't seen any of them except for Banner.

[ blast. ]

Oh. [ she exhales. ] Well, you know what they say. No news is good news.

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I hope so. I was in the middle of returning to Earth, in fact, so I should have been there within a few weeks.

[Theoretically. Now he's over here again, so that plan is put on pause.]

On a space ship, I presume?

[ it would have been so weird, once! but now it seems so normal. ]

That's right. It's the only way to get there now.

[ well. that's a funny way of putting things. ]

Was there once another?

My people traditionally used the Bifrost to travel - it's a bridge between the Realms. That's how I came and went from Earth all those other times. [He shakes his head.] But it's gone now.

I never realized that realms could be -- well, bridged.

Oh yes - it's an ancient technology of the Asgardians. It makes travel much easier. I could usually get to Earth within moments.

With a ship, though, it takes much longer.

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