If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks...

[coldsong]

It's customary to have a Wake after the subject thereof dies. Even Loki knows that. But this is a special occasion. Ego-death is coming to his alternate, and the idea of letting him go off to perish alone, uncertain he will even be mourned, is too dark a proposition even for a flawed and callous person to contemplate.

That, and this Loki has been in a melancholy mood since speaking to the spirit of Frigga. He anticipates a dark choice of his own, sooner or later, and where the fates will send him after that, he can't know. Maybe oblivion, although even at that rate there may be worse places.

What's important right now is that no one dies unremembered. And honestly, any excuse for mischief a party. The first text rolls out to Harley, an innocent enough invitation to join them for milkshakes. Cricket is next, because it occurs to him that Cricket has plenty of liquor, which is good for a reckless celebration.

Things snowball from there.

As long as they don't destroy too much property, they'll call the night a success.

Comments

[smartass_captain]

"You get used to that kind of thing in the Nexus. They don't even look identical. There's a few of us out there with mirror duplicates running around."

And yes, Jim is one of those folks. He tips his drink toward Azwel and smiles ever so slightly. You get used to it.

[lovesuwithknives]

This genuinely interests him. Of all the things that could result from interdimensional travel, duplicates are not anything he'd even vaguely considered, seeing as how he predates Hugh Everett by a few hundred years. Still, the idea of two of the same being needles at what he knows of early physics. He can't quite put his finger on why it shouldn't happen, but it just... doesn't seem as though it should.

"I've the suspicion that usually that would result in some kind of disastrous reaction of energies that we've only just begun to understand," he muses.

[smartass_captain]

"You would think that. I've been around my own long enough to know that's not the case though."

At the very least, if the two of them meeting up has any disastrous effects on the multiverse as a whole it's happening on a scale that neither one can observe individually. So effectively it doesn't count, right?

"It does make things awkward when someone thinks they know one of us and it's the wrong one though." Growing the beard was the best decision his counterpart could have made honestly.

[lovesuwithknives]

Azwel laughs a hearty laugh at that. "Worse than twins, even!" he chortles.

Then he thinks on it for a moment. "The same being, yet not..." it hits him and he grins. "Of course, what a person does in one reality is not necessarily the same as what they would do in another. So one's choices in one reality or another would result in completely different lives! Oh, that is fascinating!"

Oh, great. He's going to invent quantum physics a few hundred years too early and really fuck up his timeline. Where are any Time Lords when you need them?