the other kind of endgame.

[rebuildyourruins]

Who: Thor + others
Broadcast: no
Action: the First Breath + some other places
When: June 7th onwards

[A number of closed starters for Thor's canon update to Avengers Endgame. Hit me up on dudemeister if you want one!]

Comments

[necromanswers]

In my experience, it always matters. It's never an excuse, but the reason is important.

[Madness is too convenient a reason, too. Madmen can still have motivation for their mad behaviour.]

But whatever, I guess it doesn't matter now. So how'd you sort that one out? It got better?

[rebuildyourruins]

[She has a point, little though Thor likes to dwell on it. It's easier to dismiss everything Thanos said as lunacy, especially given where they all ended up.]

He had some idea that there were too many people in the universe to support. So his solution was to kill half of everyone.

[A concept that didn't check out. Nothing improved when half of all life was gone. Nor would it have done if Thanos got his way and did it again, erasing their memories in the process.]

No ... it would not have changed on its own. And we had hunted him down not long after to try and use the Stones again to reverse it, only to find he had destroyed them to prevent that very thing.

[necromanswers]

Of course he did. People like that don't play fair.

[Lup snorts, disgusted. She doesn't even know this guy and she already wants to set him on fire.]

Asshole. Did ya kill him?

[Because sometimes that's, like... gratifying, in a sick way. Ending the life of one who brought your loved ones unbelievable suffering. She's been there- roasting Edward alive (or dead, haha, because lich) was fucking awesome after all the shit he put her family through. In that moment, nothing meant more to her than making sure he never saw the light of day again, and that he got a taste of what he'd done to them.]

[rebuildyourruins]

I did. It changed nothing.

[It hadn't even felt good. Not after everything that had happened, not after learning they had lost their last chance to fix it. At least, that was what they had thought at the time.]

But I removed his head from his shoulders, which is better than he deserved.

[necromanswers]

...Good.

[Her ire isn't worth much, but shared anger is sometimes cathartic in some way. Without the actual guy being here to set on fire, it's all she can do.]

Sorry, though. That you all had to go through that. You'd already lost too much.

[rebuildyourruins]

Thank you. It's been a while since then. We ended up having to fight him again, strangely enough, but he was defeated for good not so long ago.

[For better or worse, it's done with. And in Thor's estimation it's for the better, despite their losses.]

[necromanswers]

...You know? That's hella weird, but it still manages to sound pretty normal for folks like us. Kudos.

[She's lived a life on repeat for a hundred years, fighting a dead guy sounds legit.]

So does that mean you got to kill him twice?

[rebuildyourruins]

Time travel does make things complicated.

[More so than originally planned. Somehow they'd muddle through it, though. Thor shakes his head at the question.]

Ah... no. I helped to fight him, but it was not me who struck the final blow the second time. [He pauses.] I don't think I ever mentioned my team to you. The Avengers.

[necromanswers]

Not ringing any particular bells, but the name is awesome. And definitely fitting, considering the circumstances.

[And time travel sounds... extra complicated, so she's just gonna put a pin in that one.]