002; elevator of forced honesty

[memefox]

elevator of forced honesty

» POST: a top level for your character(s) » RESPOND: to other characters ICly. your characters are now trapped in an elevator together. » UH OH: neither character can lie. » ADDITIONAL, OPTIONAL COMPLICATIONS: at player discretion characters may also... a. be unable to remain silent when asked questions b. be unable to speak around the truth when answering c. be compelled to reveal truths/secrets unprompted THE POWER OF THE ELEVATOR COMPELS YOU.

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Thor | ota

[worldsaway]

[dothelokimotion]

So tell me, Thor. What is it like to nurse a broken heart?

[worldsaway]

It is.. more painful than any physical injury, it takes longer to heal than any bodily wound and it does not reform as if nothing ever happened. [He grunts, he is not comfortable sharing here.] And you won't know yourself for weeks, months, years after. It changes everything.


And why, Loki, do you ask?

[dothelokimotion]

Why not?

[ Loki shrugs. Honesty grates on him, but Loki is skilled at using the truth. ]

After all, it was such a momentous occasion. You came back a changed man. A peace-lover, of all things.

[worldsaway]

It's harder to stay the same than it is to change when all of your shortcomings follow you wherever you go. Far easier to accept it than to run from it, wouldn't you say?

[dothelokimotion]

Yes, Thor. I should just accept that I'm a monster and you pledged to destroy me since we were children. That is my shortcoming, is it not? The one you and the rest of Asgard branded upon me?

[worldsaway]

Your shortcoming is that you create self-fulfilling procphecies out of insecurity.

If I thought you to be an unsalvageable monster, I'd have killed you. I can protect you from others, but not yourself.

[dothelokimotion]

I wish you did.

[ He inhales sharply. That, he did not intend to say. The effect had gotten the better of him. ]

[worldsaway]

I know. [Thor says, and it hurts. It's like pulling shards of glass out of his skin.]

But I can't. Not yet. Maybe never.

[dothelokimotion]

[ The silence descends on them, heavy and thick. Loki finally speaks, hoarse. ]

I can't go home, Thor. I don't even know what that is, anymore.

[worldsaway]

No, you can't. [Thor agrees, reluctantly.]

It's better for you here. But I can't stay with you. [His voice falters, like he's unsure that the truth is necessarily what he wants.] I have to go back.

[dothelokimotion]

I appreciated the sweet lie.

[ Even if it hadn't been Loki on that throne, Odin would not have been swayed by Loki's deeds. Only Thor cared enough to weep into the dust. Only Thor does Loki regret hurting. Sometimes he can't because the burn of anger and pain is so deep, he can only feel better when Thor has an ounce of his sorrow.

But it never stays. ]

I wish you had let me see her off. I am no longer Odinson. The halls of your forefathers are closed to me.

I wish you had let me have that if I could have nothing else.

[worldsaway]

You know that every choice I make is not on behalf of you or myself. Father would not have allowed it, he closed himself off to dissent and.. [He hates to say it, and he wrestles with it, but the truth will be told regardless of how it feels.]

People were afraid of you, Loki. Of you, of the Dark Elves, of what was to come. Asgard was afraid. [He grits his teeth, he's already anticipating the venom in Loki's reaction.]

I cannot offer you what you want and I will not give you platitudes when you know you do not want them.

[dothelokimotion]

[ He wants to laugh. They had been afraid of him for years. The second son, conniving and weak. The magic-user who clearly coveted the throne and Thor's place. Asgard was a joke and a joke it'll remain. These were the people Loki had once pledged his loyalty to. Whom he went to war for Jotunheim for. To prove his worthiness to them.

A joke. ]

Enough. I know the difference between a wish and reality. I've stopped wanting what I can't have.

[ He's had the throne twice over. One through legitimacy, the other through his own cunning. Both are transient. Like family. Like everything else.

A joke. ]

[worldsaway]

Then I hope for you to start wanting things you can have. You have my love, you have a new life, you are unburdened and presented with opportunity. All I want is to see you happy.

[dothelokimotion]

[ Loki huffs quietly. Even that seems too high for him. ]

I don't think it's in me to feel that way. Best not to get your hopes too high, Thor.

[hardedged]

Out of all those Avenger assholes you hang out with, who's the most annoying?

[worldsaway]

Tony Stark. [He says that a little too easily.]

But I hold no ill will against him, grating as he may be.

[hardedged]

[ sounds about right, honestly. ]

Why not?

[worldsaway]

He's a good man, deep down. His heart is in the right place and he tries. [Poorly.]

Why do you asks?

[hevenly]

I am curious how you remain worthy of your title and your hammer, when the Odinson of my universe is not.

[worldsaway]

I cannot say I know the answer to that, but I can assure you that it has been a concern of mine. [It keeps him up at night.] Perhaps there will come a time when I approach a situation I cannot overcome.

[And he adds..] I do not understand how my title can be won, my title is Thor. That is my name.

[hevenly]

There is another, in my world, who goes by Thor and wields the hammer. She fights to protect Earth in your stead.

[worldsaway]

It brings me great displeasure to know this.

[hevenly]

I am sure it does.

[ Sorry bro. Doesn't change the fact that Thor is a woman now. ]