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[dothelokimotion]

Who: A baby Loki + You
Broadcast: Yes
Action: SS First Breath
When: Right now!

[ loki is no stranger to space ships. though the kind of ships asgard uses are quite different in nature, he's read enough to be familiar with the make and feel of this one. he quietly turns on the recording device, squinting at it. very primitive but it'll have to do. he straightens himself, as befitting a prince, quiet and somber despite the nervousness. ]

Greetings. I am Prince Loki of Asgard. I wish to know about my whereabouts and swift return to Asgard. My father will not be pleased.

[ a pause as loki thinks of what else to add before pulling out a large knife he stole from the kitchens. ]

Also I have a knife.

Comments

[abracafcku]

None so stuffy, little dude. Try anything! Paloma, Her Royal Haughtiness, Tracy, who knows. She's a space elf, she might not even go by conventional naming conventions.

[His name is Taako, after all.]

[dothelokimotion]

[ loki gives him a look. ]

Tracy?

[abracafcku]

Hey, it could be her culture, you can't knock it until she says it's not her name.

I'm Taako, by the way.

[dothelokimotion]

Is that a real elf name?

[abracafcku]

I'm a real elf, aren't I?

[dothelokimotion]

I don't know. I haven't met many elves. The Dark Elves are gone.

[abracafcku]

I'm definitely not a drow. But yes, I'm a real elf - high elf, technically.

[dothelokimotion]

A high elf?

[abracafcku]

Mmhmm, it's my race. Like humans, dwarves, and the rest. Technically, I'm a high sun elf or something?

[He shrugged, not really caring about the actual races and subraces, but figuring he should be informative at least.]

[dothelokimotion]

You don't know?

[ taako plz. ]

[abracafcku]

Well it's not like they give you a card when you're born. And I didn't hang around long enough to really get into "elven culture" like some other nerds.

[He's a little different from other sun elves on Faerun, but he's always figured it's because of his time on the road as an outcast, not anything else.]

[dothelokimotion]

[ this is so bizarre to loki, who is drenched in asgardian culture. ]

You don't think it's important?

[abracafcku]

Not to me, it isn't.

[He's been on his own since he was 12. Any culture he picked up was just the parts that let him survive or that he needed to live.]

I had more important things going on than learning some weird song about elves who died centuries before I was born.

[dothelokimotion]

But . . . how do you know where you belong?

[abracafcku]

[And there's the question. The one that Taako doesn't have an answer to that will be satisfactory to either Loki or himself. He could be glib here like he always is, say something about how he doesn't need to belong because he's above and beyond others.

But he could also be honest. He doesn't know where he belongs except where he's ended up; and he has no idea how long that last. He thought the cooking show would be his place, his mark upon world, somewhere he could carve a chunk out for himself.

And then Glamor Springs and Sazed happened.

And he'd gone back to zero.

Taako eyes Loki for a moment, weighing the options in his head. Would he remember what Taako said when he "grew up" again? Would it give Loki an edge over Taako more than he had over the god having met his child self?

He decided and shrugged.]

I don't. [And he'll do whatever it takes to make sure it looks like that doesn't bother him.]

Wherever I am at the moment, that's where I'll be until I find something it somewhere else. Why do you care so much about it though? You have a family and a kingdom, don't you?

[dothelokimotion]

Yeah . . .

[ loki shrugs. it's not a movement that seems normal on him, though his older self has done it thousands of times. ]

That's why I know it's important.

[abracafcku]

[Taako waves a hand dismissively.]

Then you shouldn't be so worried about it. Songs and old books aren't going to tell me where I belong.

[Nor would a bracer and some people he's starting to care about. They're not here anymore and he can't use the bracer to call for a pick-up pod, so it's basically just junk on his wrist at this point. He tries not to let it bother him, but he wonders - did they even notice he was gone?]

[dothelokimotion]

[ but it worries him all the same. because loki has always been like that, even before the truth. he never fully felt like he fit in and he couldn't tell if he was imagining it or not.

the truth, of course, was far worse. ]

Yeah, I guess so. It's not a big deal.

[abracafcku]

Exactly.

[Taako has spent nearly his entire life coming to terms with never belonging anywhere. He's come to terms with the lie he tells himself.]

And if it doesn't work out? Just find somewhere else. It sucks to start from zero, but it's not impossible.

[dothelokimotion]

I don't want to be anywhere else but Asgard. It's my home.

[abracafcku]

[He can't even remember what "home" was like anymore. Things get fuzzy after a hundred years.]

Well, then maybe you'll be lucky and never have to leave. [He shrugs, but something about how Loki carries himself in the future says that isn't likely.]

[dothelokimotion]

[ loki's never been that lucky. ]

Yeah. Asgard's eternal anyway. I don't have to leave.

[abracafcku]

Lucky indeed.

[Or not. Knowing that something is there and not being able to get back to it can be worse than not having it at all.]

Well! Not an issue as you'll never have to worry about it, hm?

[dothelokimotion]

[ loki frowns before nodding. ]

I'm not worried.

[abracafcku]

[Somehow, Taako doubts that, but sure, little dude, you believe what you need to believe. Even if Loki is a god(ling), he's still a child and far be it from Taako to destroy the innocence of children. He might tease and mock and do a lot of things to them, but he won't hurt them - not like that.]

Good. Because I'm afraid to inform you that, while I'm sure they're out looking for you, you're stuck in this hellhole until whenever this [He gestures at the world around them] ends.