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Ojiro Sniper ([personal profile] deicider) wrote in [community profile] meadowlarklogs2018-09-26 08:34 am

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WHO: Ojiro + anyone
WHERE: Safehouse, New Amsterdam's artificial river.
WHEN: Beginning-Mid July
WHAT: open log
NOTES OR WARNINGS: None really.

Morning Run
Sniper rolls out of bed every morning at 4:30 on the dot to go running, sometimes for an hour, sometimes for three. Still nursing a broken wrist, it's the one exercise they can still go all-out on, and if striving against the weakened state of their body didn't fix this whole stupid situation, it at least felt like getting something done.

They've managed to get extracting themself quietly down to an art, sleeping in their work out clothes (stolen during recent chaos, thanks kaiju) so their fumbling in the dark doesn't wake up any of the others still bunking in the safe house.

They're not opposed to company, if someone else picks up the habit. For anyone they catch awake at this hour, they give a teasing smile in the dark, whispering. "If you want to come, you have to keep up."


Sport Commentary
Sniper's inserted themself into the cooking rotation—it seemed only fair, given the amount of calories they burned through in a day—and has mastered making most of the cheap nutritious staples one-handed. Gone most of the day scouting New Amsterdam and lining up job prospects, they're always back in time to help make dinner.

Once the initial frustration of being here had faded enough to allow for idle curiosity about this version of Earth, Sniper had been drawn to investigate the cultural cornerstone they knew best: sports. The results had been disappointing. Nothing very innovative. The Olympics were still going at least, but digging further, professional sports in general seemed open only to the already-rich. There had been plenty of accusations that Sniper had used money to compensate their own small size with expert training for the pentathlon (true on paper though not in spirit), but back home it wasn't weird to see the non-wealthy go professional.

They've been steadily watching their way through the past Olympiads: opening ceremony, the pentathlons, record-breaking achievements. They use the implant with the ease of long familiarity; it was pretty similar to what they had back home (back home it didn't require brain surgery) so chopping things for dinner at the same time was easy. Judging my their scoffing, they're not that impressed. "That's the record?"


Free Lunch!
Afternoon generally finds Sniper by New Amsterdam's artificial river to find lunch. The river is a sad sight for someone who grew up seeing the ocean—this whole world was a sad sight compared to their own flourishing world—but it was lively and less claustrophobic than the rest of the city. And the food wasn't bad.

They're buying some dumplings when they spot a fellow safehouse occupant. Even if there hasn't been a formal introduction, the face is familiar, and they wave over, gesturing to the cartoon of dumplings in their hand with a smile.

"Want some? My treat."

When's the last time you had something that wasn't bug casserole?


Cast-off

Around mid-july the cast on their wrist finally comes off! You can find them celebrating doing one-armed pushups in the safe house.
selfimage: — ɢᴀʀʙᴇᴛᴛ — (Space oddity.)

[personal profile] selfimage 2018-10-03 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"He just likes to act like it." Loki says coolly, like he knows better. For all the millennia that he focused on the differences between him and his brother, they're surprisingly similar when he switches views.

Honestly, there have been frequent times where Loki has supported Thor's horrible decisions—just came out of one of those recently, actually.
selfimage: — ɢᴀʀʙᴇᴛᴛ — (Yassassin.)

[personal profile] selfimage 2018-10-06 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
The thing Loki doesn't say is that the Loki that Thor left was a picture dripping with pure villainy. That was a bad time, right down to the ambitious beginning of his own carefully calculated demise. It had been a feat, sure enough, and he was still a stranger in a former incarnation's body, stricken from the books of Hel.

It wasn't surprising that Thor was still concerned with his presence, anyone with half a brain would be. Regardless, he's making a decent impression. A fine place for half-a-new-start.

"We weren't, not entirely. He comes from a bit behind me in the timeline. Who knows whether that's a good thing or not. The whole concept gets meshed up between the borders of dimensions and time and other scientific blah blah blah ..."
selfimage: (Up all night to the sun.)

[personal profile] selfimage 2018-10-07 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Displacement in space always meant displacement in time, from a very basic standpoint. While Loki's no scientist, he knows enough about the basis of reality's workings to understand where point A met point B, even with his dulled sense of everything, really.

"We've handled worse," especially from a time traveling point of view. "Do you plan on returning to your own universe?"

While things are looking pretty bleak, the possibility does strike him.
selfimage: — ᴍᴄᴋᴇʟᴠɪᴇ — (Where have all the good times gone?)

[personal profile] selfimage 2018-10-07 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"Let's just say that I'm not certain how far any plans in that respect will take us."

At least now. There has to be a way to get back, because traveling through time, space, and dimensions was merely a matter of resources (that they didn't have, at this very moment). Loki was, if anything, good at adapting, and he was good at finding opportunity. Asgard, while obtainable sometime in the future, was not a place that he wished to return to today.

There were other systems at work, and other future selves to thwart.
selfimage: — ɢᴀʀʙᴇᴛᴛ — (A small plot of land basquiat.)

[personal profile] selfimage 2018-10-08 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
For a moment, Loki considers them curiously.

"You may share my mother's gift for prophecy."

Asgard has collapsed and been built again time and time again—New York has collapsed and been built again time and time again. He has no doubts of the resiliency of humans and their deities, and while this world teetered, it wasn't lost. Not yet.

"The future is still where it is, in the future. But we haven't gotten there yet—this universe hasn't gotten there yet. Until we do, there is the prospect of change, and pessimism brings nothing but prediction."

He knows what's in his best interest, and he needs time more than he needs to go back.
selfimage: — ɢᴀʀʙᴇᴛᴛ — (We prick you.)

[personal profile] selfimage 2018-10-08 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"I've never been one for saving anything."

But he has. He's been the hero, he likes it, but it's not really Loki. He's better at opening doorways and creating options.

"But I'm a god of chaos, I'd be a poor one if I didn't advocate for change."
selfimage: — ʙᴏɴᴅᴏᴄ — (Valentine's day.)

[personal profile] selfimage 2018-10-08 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Every time he tries to save something, someone tells him that he's doing it the wrong way, or not in the expected way that someone should. It could have lead to his distaste, and his own self-depreciation. Sometimes a little chaos was more fun than righting horrible wrongs.

"Besides, there's a clear tension that has mounted. This world might not need saving, it just might need a little push into saving itself."

Says the catalyst.
selfimage: — ɢᴀʀʙᴇᴛᴛ — (We prick you.)

[personal profile] selfimage 2018-10-08 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"Just how old do you think I am?" there's just a hint of amusement in his voice and a brow raise at Sniper. While there may be a certain mortal outlook on the divine, Loki wonders if the gap can be connected.

"But yes—in a manner of speaking. I've seen endings both mortal and divine, and I've even been responsible for them from time to time. Luckily ..." he clucks. "I don't do that sort of thing anymore."
selfimage: — ɢᴀʀʙᴇᴛᴛ — (That's where my heart is.)

[personal profile] selfimage 2018-10-12 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
"Cause apocalypses."

He says it like everyone's gone and done it in their lifetime.

"I've been through quite a few of them, was the catalyst for most of them. So, this time around what you see is what you get—I haven't quite figured it out, but I'd say around mortal drinking age."

There are other reasons he hasn't quite figured it out, but no one really admits to killing their former incarnation. It's a bad line.
selfimage: — ɢᴀʀʙᴇᴛᴛ — (Loving the alien.)

[personal profile] selfimage 2018-10-12 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"If you want to know that kinda stuff, you're going to have to buy me a drink."

It's easy to disconnect himself from the Lokis that he's been, to paint himself over with varnish and consider himself not that Loki. There is the myth, and there's the person. There are always details that myths miss.

"Is there no Loki in your realms?"
selfimage: — ғʀɪsᴏɴ — (Black tie white noise.)

[personal profile] selfimage 2018-10-12 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Loki just tips his head and waits for Sniper to follow his swagger. They're off in a direction around the corner, lots of places have outdoor drinking areas.

"Small comforts. Why are you so interested, anyway?"
selfimage: — ɢᴀʀʙᴇᴛᴛ — (Here comes the night.)

[personal profile] selfimage 2018-10-12 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"I didn't think you'd be the type to lump yourself with all the humans over the course of their entire history with the divine."

It's said like the punchline of a joke.
selfimage: — ɢᴀʀʙᴇᴛᴛ — (Battle for Britain (the letter).)

[personal profile] selfimage 2018-10-12 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
While Loki doesn't expect trust, he never really does, but he pays attention. Omission is a powerful tool, but sometimes there's more said in what people don't say than what they do.

"I'm not exactly the poster child for all gods, but I've got stories. Mine may not be how the resonance expresses itself." There was an opportunity here. He had an evil future self somewhere holding the axe just inches from his neck, and he meant to find an escape route.

The place is nice, all metal and what passes for brick. There's a neon sign that's bright agains the artificial light.

"But sure, why not? Let's talk divinity."

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