Yadrolla System Mingle

[lacyprincess]

Who: EVERYBODY
Broadcast: Yeah, sure, I guess
Action: The Fleet and the Yadrolla System
When: 4/29 - 6/8

[Hey, hey, look, we have a new system! Let's go compete in stuff and root for sportsball teams! System info is here!

GO WAVES!]

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[angelofthevored]

It's dough with tomato sauce, cheese, and various other ingredients on top that's cooked inside of an oven. [It's baller. Or it was baller, now it just kinda tastes like everything else does, preservatives and sodium.

Notices that hot dog still gripped somewhat disdainfully in Loki's hand.] You don't have to eat that if you don't want to.

[dothelokimotion]

[ That doesn't sound very impressive. Mortals were weird. Still, he eyes his hot dog and takes a tentative bite out of it. ]

[angelofthevored]

[lmao okay buddy

waits for him to spit it out]

[dothelokimotion]

It's not . . . terrible.

[angelofthevored]

[goes back to his frank-cookin, mildly surprised] I expected you to drop it onto the ground.

[dothelokimotion]

That's uncivilized.

[ He would throw it in a dustbin at least, geez. ]

[angelofthevored]

I beg your forgiveness. [very mild sass]

[dothelokimotion]

[ Without missing a beat. ]

You've forgiven.

[ He takes another careful bite. ]

[angelofthevored]

[Lmao you are nothing like his brothers, man, and for that cas is honestly pretty thankful.

He's content to keep working while Loki does whatever he wants with the rest of that hot dog, though after a while he does turn to address him again.] Loki. About what you said earlier.

[dothelokimotion]

Hm?

[ He has finally polished off the hot dog, wiping his hands clean with a tissue. ]

What of it?

[angelofthevored]

Before, you said that the narrative for tricksters is unsafe. Why? [Oh, so like...weeks ago earlier.]

[dothelokimotion]

I would think that is self-explanatory.

[ Loki rubs circles in his palms, feeling an old phantom itch. ]

Tricksters are chaotic beings, both in story and in reality. They are not trusted and not liked. While that can inspire a certain degree of wariness, the running theme is that tricksters always get what they deserve. Playing tricks, cheating — there is no reward in life or myth for those.

[angelofthevored]

[Another headtilt]

That isn't entirely true.

[dothelokimotion]

It is true enough.

[angelofthevored]

Mortals appreciate tricksters. [Even when they're annoying fucks, because humans are strange things that value rebelliousness and freedom and laughter above all else.] Some of the first tribes of men worshiped tricksters as guardians of the sacred, as heroes, as gatekeepers to knowledge and creation. Anansi, the Coyote, Nanabozho...

[He turns the dogs on the grill.] You.

[dothelokimotion]

[ Loki chuckles softly. ]

I do not recall that. But I enjoyed their stories in the past. They had an ear for the fanciful.

[angelofthevored]

...all right, I'll give you that. [THE STORIES ARE MOSTLY BULLSHIT BUT THE POINT-!! The point is,] What I'm trying to say is that people do like tricksters, and many of them do wish for them to live happily.

[dothelokimotion]

[ Do they? Loki finds it hard to believe. ]

Well. I cannot say I've ever met anyone like that.

[angelofthevored]

What happened? [Since something, or maybe some things had to have happened to make Loki believe so strongly that trickers are destined for failure and pain. And since Cas has been pretty accommodating in answering...most questions, he thinks it's fair for him to pose a couple in return.

Nevermind that the ones he poses are probably way more personal. WHATEVER.]

[dothelokimotion]

[ Loki huffs. ]

Nothing happened. Asgard simply had a dim view on anyone who didn't pummel their enemies to death.

[angelofthevored]

Ah. [Nods sagely] You were an outcast.

[dothelokimotion]

[ Loki frowns. A few months ago, Loki would have said yes. Asgard never loved him. Never cared for his talents. He had to engineer his own life story for him to be remembered with any kind of fond nostalgia.

But he thinks of Hela. A sister he never knew, barely spoke to. Her history outlined in blood with no way out. ]

I was a shadow. It made seeing things in the light . . . difficult.

[angelofthevored]

[Calling yourself a shadow trying to look into the light is like, parallel to being an outcast dude. Luckily Cas is just as extra, so he absorbs all that dramatic explanation with every ounce of seriousness he can muster.]

The light tends to be overrated, in my experience.

[dothelokimotion]

I have learned that recently.

[ Odin's first born, a monster greater than Loki could ever imagine. Still. ]

But it will take some time to remember that.

[angelofthevored]

[bruh, fuckin MOOD] I can relate.