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thor | theoretically roughing up moons ([personal profile] ofmyth) wrote in [community profile] meadowlarklogs2018-08-27 07:59 am

Pictures of last night ended up online, I'm screwed

WHO: Thor ([personal profile] ofmyth), Loki ([personal profile] selfimage), a bunch of booze, and everyone!
WHERE: Safehouse 2.0
WHEN: Late afternoon, evening, night on the 28th.
WHAT: Some people took down the monster, some people kept the group safe, some people snuck off to steal booze. They can all celebrate together.
NOTES OR WARNINGS: This is a post-event mingle! Loki stole a bunch of alcohol and Thor is going to make sure everyone gets some. Debrief, have fun, get wreckt, prepare for tfln the next morning.
Tag your own/check individual threads for specific warnings.

[When Loki hears the news of the Godzilla's demise, it takes a moment to sink in. There were doubts when a handful of the refugees wanted to run out and play hero, especially with their lack of abilities (for those who had them). He expected Thor to come back content on his involvement at best, broken and nursing his own failure, at worst. This? This is better than the best, and it's worthy of celebration. I's hard not to be pleased, hard not to congratulate; it's Thor's victory post the fall of Asgard, and Loki's sure that he's reveling in it.

Then, comes the booze: all different bottle shapes and sizes, some dark with lighter liquid, others opaque filled with something that has a more amber tint. It's unloaded carefully by all of them, messily lined up on the frames of one of the cots..

Thor looks to be almost a different creature than the moping, sullen thing he'd been since they arrived in the safehouse. Getting to his feet he stands taller, shoulders held back, a bright look in his eyes. Loki backs him up, tinking a metal spoon against one of the bottles to get everyone's attention. As Thor speaks he looks around the room, seeking out the eyes of everyone present.]


Seven days ago we were strangers. We were brought into an underground bunker, unsure of who we were and how we had come here. Some were angry, some afraid, others unsure. It's thanks to the aid and kindness of Gaby and El that we survived at all, here in this foreign city. Today, we have proven we will not merely surivive here.

[Thor hasn't met everyone here, but that's ultimately not the point. In his mind they are in this together, for better or worse. There is a 'we' who celebrate together now just as much as there is a 'they' who are responsible for their being here.]

Today we have repaid Gaby her kindness. Today we have protected not only her people here in the safehouse, but the people of the city. Today we have proved our strength to ourselves, to the city, to any who are watching us. Today, we set fear in the heart of our captor. [He seems to relish that last one most of all.]

Seven days ago we had little to celebrate. Today we raise a toast—[Up goes his bottle, held high and triumphant.] To us! To what we have done today! To victory!

[Loki chimes in, shaking the little bottle in his hand.] To New Amsterdam!

[Thor's arm is held high while others raise their drinks, then Thor upends his to drain it in a long pull.]
selfimage: — ɢᴀʀʙᴇᴛᴛ — (Dumpster trash.)

[personal profile] selfimage 2018-09-12 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ why is Thor looking at him like that?

for a brief moment, he's stumped. it's a rare occasion that Thor knows something that he doesn't, and if he wasn't quite as intoxicated as he was, he wouldn't be sure if he liked the feeling or not. there's a frown that tugs at his lips as he grasps for explanation, and then it hits him as hard as the drunkenness does.

he puts a hand on Thor's face to push him away.
]

You're so loud! [ push push push. ] Get off!

[ now he's kind of embarrassed. ]
selfimage: — ᴍᴄᴋᴇʟᴠɪᴇ — (The heart's filthy lesson.)

[personal profile] selfimage 2018-09-13 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[ there's a purse of his lips as they drawn into a thin line. while Thor looks pleased, Loki looks dramatically put-out. it's hard to tell just how fussed he feels about the whole exchange (not enough to be anything more than adequately embarrassed). ]

I'm still Loki ... [ he argues, half-heartedly. ] I know the implications.
selfimage: — ᴍᴄᴋᴇʟᴠɪᴇ — (Where have all the good times gone?)

[personal profile] selfimage 2018-09-17 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Loki is, and forever will be, absolutely mercurial. there was probably not many who could read him better than Thor, even if his mood ended up swinging like a pendulum in a dramatically different direction.

he sighs as Thor speaks, and tips his head at him.
]

No, I'm not that person anymore. [ it's said half to himself, half to Thor. (he's stuck in the chest with the thought of the child self he had slain, the mantra of I win that comes with it, and the feeling of guilt that washes over him. he's thankful that Thor's lifted his hands, and wonders just how close to the blade he may be dancing.) ]

...

I'm still myself, of course, just ... [ he slurs the end of the word, and wrinkles his nose in distaste. ] Changed. I had to change.

[ clearly: ]

I'm still a dirty thief, of course.
selfimage: — ʙᴏɴᴅᴏᴄ — (Atomica.)

[personal profile] selfimage 2018-09-19 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Thor's reaching for another bottle, because of course he is, this is how Asgardians tend to do things. Loki watches with half interest, his mind still buzzing from the intoxication, settling in a slow haze.

there's a little heh.
]

It took everyone some time, I think change was just ...

[ worth the larger sacrifice.

but you didn't want to change, did you? you wanted to stay the same.
]

... not within our grasp. We were creatures of cycles, and now we're not. Change came for us.