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[dothelokimotion]

Who: Loki Odinson (dothelokimotion) and People Trapped in Arcadia
What: it's a SCHEME
When: Early July, idk time
Where: Inside Arcadia
Content Warnings: N/A

[ if you are trapped in arcadia and musing on a way to take down the authority and bust your way out, then you may notice a green magical butterfly in your vision. it's beckoning you. somehow. don't ask how magic works. you end up following it through arcadia until you set into a room.

a room unlike those in arcadia. it's all golden with red drapes and torchlights. even the view from the windows seems starry, unlike anything on earth. and there's loki, dressed in a black suit, tapping his foot impatiently. ]

Finally. Let's get to business, shall we?

( MEET AND GREET | PLOTTING )

Comments

[vaudevision]

Well, far be it from me to presume.

[dothelokimotion]

You presume that the best kind of support is the violent kind?

How very Avenger of you.

[vaudevision]

Oh, come now. I can provide varied forms of intensive support to colleagues depending on the work at hand. But you and I aren’t colleagues, and, you know, “stranger danger”— [ he does hand quotes, even, HE USED TO BE A DAD ] —so the help I can offer you specifically is for now limited in scope. With apologies.

[ he starts to push up from his seat, smoothing down the front of his dork sweater ]

I wouldn’t see you come to harm, regardless. Whatever else I’ve known of you from historical record in our home universe, you seem to do good work here.

[dothelokimotion]

[ what the fuck is wrong with this person.

in the driest of voices, loki responds. ]

Thank you, but I don't require your support.

[vaudevision]

As it suits you.

[ a haze of the distortion field here, a molecular adjustment there, and—cranberry manbot, the vague opaque cape settling on his shoulders, a stone glinting eerily from his forehead. ]

As regards the investigation I’ll be liaising primarily with my colleagues so long as they remain in Arcadia. Once they leave I don’t know how long I’ll stay. But do let me know if there’s anything you need until then.

[dothelokimotion]

[ the stone. loki pales for a moment because how can the stone still be here? but his magic tells him it's not his stone. it's some sort of . . . copy. lacking in its power or ability.

that being said, it still makes his hackles rise. ]

Are you reliable or do you only listen to the Avengers?

[vaudevision]

[ yeah it’s a weird one alright. definitely has mind stone ... vibes. but no, not quite the real thing. none of him is, actually. he’s got strong magic tingle all over ]

... I don’t know what you mean by reliable. I can’t presume to assure you. But my priority is life and its protection. I have no more important allegiance. And I can be neither compelled nor controlled.

[dothelokimotion]

[ loki eyes it warily, unable to shake off his feelings of unease. ]

Hm. We shall see. There is a reason why you are all called Avengers rather than defenders or protectors.