The admission is so quick, there's a beat before it even sinks in, and Thor blinks in surprise. "Your fa-" His expression takes on a vaguely panicked air as he quickly runs through his memories in search of anything that might've resulted in a child with a human. You know. Just in case. Nothing in the necessary timeframe, thank all the fates, and he can't catch so much as a wisp of seidr from the captain.
Not that he'd thought there would be, but in this place, it pays to double-check. For all he knows, it could have been a case of a son he simply hadn't had yet.
Whoever Kirk's father was, though, he clearly wasn't a son of Odin. That's... mostly reassuring. For multiple reasons, a possible impending heroic death sitting right at the top of the list. "That's a hell of a coincidence," he says, once he's had a moment or two to work through his own thoughts. "You have my sympathies," he adds, and means it. He knows all too recently how it feels to lose a father, if not quite under the same circumstances.
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Date: 2018-12-01 03:16 am (UTC)Not that he'd thought there would be, but in this place, it pays to double-check. For all he knows, it could have been a case of a son he simply hadn't had yet.
Whoever Kirk's father was, though, he clearly wasn't a son of Odin. That's... mostly reassuring. For multiple reasons, a possible impending heroic death sitting right at the top of the list. "That's a hell of a coincidence," he says, once he's had a moment or two to work through his own thoughts. "You have my sympathies," he adds, and means it. He knows all too recently how it feels to lose a father, if not quite under the same circumstances.