How strange, to meet for a casual chat with an alien being, only to find you're speaking the same language. Loki's gaze doesn't shift when Megatron winces, though the expression on his face softens some, while somehow losing none of its grim sobriety.
"I am the god of mischief and lies," he says. "My providence is the outcast, the guilty and maligned. You need not believe in my power or any divinity at all, but I will extend to you the same promise I have to many others: I will not judge you."
He lets those words hang in the air between them for a moment, before nodding a little and sitting back in his chair, folding his hands behind his neck. "Death is rarely the solution to these sorts of moral dilemmas."
"For myself, I reject the notion that I am reformed, or somehow a different person than I was at my worst. I caused death and suffering, but my actions came from a place of pain and terror, as well, and no one, until recently, asked me why. Until it was almost too late to profit from my answer."
"I would not deny my victims their rage by pretending that I can make up for my sins now. The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on. The best I can do is to move forward and do what good I can. Our story is the sum of all of our actions, whether they are done in the darkness or the light of day."
"Some will never forgive you, no matter what you say or do, and that is their right, but that doesn't mean you need to submit to their judgment, either. If I were you? I would not stay to be executed."
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancing_serpent
(no subject)
Date: 2020-11-11 01:18 am (UTC)"I am the god of mischief and lies," he says. "My providence is the outcast, the guilty and maligned. You need not believe in my power or any divinity at all, but I will extend to you the same promise I have to many others: I will not judge you."
He lets those words hang in the air between them for a moment, before nodding a little and sitting back in his chair, folding his hands behind his neck. "Death is rarely the solution to these sorts of moral dilemmas."
"For myself, I reject the notion that I am reformed, or somehow a different person than I was at my worst. I caused death and suffering, but my actions came from a place of pain and terror, as well, and no one, until recently, asked me why. Until it was almost too late to profit from my answer."
"I would not deny my victims their rage by pretending that I can make up for my sins now. The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on. The best I can do is to move forward and do what good I can. Our story is the sum of all of our actions, whether they are done in the darkness or the light of day."
"Some will never forgive you, no matter what you say or do, and that is their right, but that doesn't mean you need to submit to their judgment, either. If I were you? I would not stay to be executed."