[ He tries to hit all the salient points without forcing Peter to sit through a boring, lengthy, miserable tale. The figure changes as he talks into easily digestible scenes, some depicting Thor. The Old Man has stitch marks across his lips and Loki explains that the old myths were real, the Old Man was abused and tormented, and responded more viciously each time. ]

... Until he was no longer the God of Mischief, but of Evil. [ Nothing the Old Man did was met with surprise, everyone expected him to screw them over. ] Mischief cannot survive where there is no kindness, no playfulness. It's cruelty, otherwise.

[ He chins a hand, tired in droves of his history but summarising it for Peter's benefit. ]

He made a plan to kill himself but to copy his soul, which is where I come in. That's a whole other level of insanity, we can stop there if you need a break.