"Mmm." Loki makes an uncomfortable little noise of acknowledgement. "Frost Giants are the monsters and boogeymen in Asgardian bedtime stories. Raising me to think of my own kind as savages, little more than beasts, was a very poor choice on my parents' part."
"I have come to understand Odin's thought processes well. In the end, he and I are very alike, always planning several steps ahead, thinking of all the angles from which to manipulate a situation. And he was convinced he was working for the greater good, but when you use a person as a tool and leave them dirty, it sits ill. His real problem, I think, was that he began to love me as a son, and pushed me away out of fear that that would spoil his plans. Whereas I knew there was something wrong, instinctively, and was desperate for his approval."
"Some of his last words to me were to call me his son and tell me he loved me, and I believe he meant it. I do not forgive him, but he was, nonetheless, my father." It's Complicated.
He smiles, then, touched that Megatron prefers his true shape. "It unsettles some humans, otherwise I would wear it more often. Thor has mostly acclimated, Norns bless him."
"Frankly, 'kind to me' is an inadequate descriptor. He has been through Hel, figuratively speaking, to reclaim his little brother. He had to learn who I actually am along the way, is all. And vice versa. And now he is the King and Allfather of the Aesir, and I could not be prouder, though I know how it weighs on him."
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Date: 2020-12-01 07:58 pm (UTC)"I have come to understand Odin's thought processes well. In the end, he and I are very alike, always planning several steps ahead, thinking of all the angles from which to manipulate a situation. And he was convinced he was working for the greater good, but when you use a person as a tool and leave them dirty, it sits ill. His real problem, I think, was that he began to love me as a son, and pushed me away out of fear that that would spoil his plans. Whereas I knew there was something wrong, instinctively, and was desperate for his approval."
"Some of his last words to me were to call me his son and tell me he loved me, and I believe he meant it. I do not forgive him, but he was, nonetheless, my father." It's Complicated.
He smiles, then, touched that Megatron prefers his true shape. "It unsettles some humans, otherwise I would wear it more often. Thor has mostly acclimated, Norns bless him."
"Frankly, 'kind to me' is an inadequate descriptor. He has been through Hel, figuratively speaking, to reclaim his little brother. He had to learn who I actually am along the way, is all. And vice versa. And now he is the King and Allfather of the Aesir, and I could not be prouder, though I know how it weighs on him."