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Tony Stark (campusking) wrote in snapthread,
@ 2019-12-14 11:49:00

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loki (616), tony stark (avac)

WHO: Tony and Loki
WHAT: The aesthetics patrol is on the loose
WHERE: around town
WHEN: at the start of the week

Tony wasn't what one might call a Christmas obsessive, but he did like the sort of things that went along with it all, the lights, the presents, the parties. So when Loki had said that he wanted the town to look the part well Tony knew that was something he could help with. He'd taken a little time to get together the lights for it all and then with that taken care of he had Loki Jr, named -of course after- Loki when he'd suggested it when they'd both been children, help him carry the bundles of lights to Loki's house so they could get things started.

"I hope you're planning on helping a little bit because Little Loki and I can only do so much ourselves." Tony teased after he'd greeted Loki at his door, a wide and easy grin on his face, happy to see him.

He liked Loki, he was generally good, and always seemed to have time to listen when Tony needed to vent or get some advice, so yeah, Tony liked him a lot. Even after the young Peter had told him about the other version of Loki that he'd known, it wasn't what he'd expected but it wasn't like that had been this Loki, he was different and so Tony didn't let himself feel weird about being friends with him.

"We've got options for the lights." He added, "We can do just plain white, or we can do the multi colored version."

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lie_smith
2019-12-14 10:40 pm UTC (link)

Loki also wasn't a Christmas obsessive -- mostly because it wasn't his holiday to celebrate. Asgard didn't have Christmas, or Christ or anything like that. But he'd spent enough time on Midgard to see the holiday in action several times over. And he didn't dislike what he'd seen, so long as no one focused up too hard on the false gods and idols the celebrations pretended to be about.

No, Loki liked the decorations, the lights, the general feeling of people trying to make the best of things no matter how futile -- and sometimes even the music so long as it wasn't overplayed. In a place like this, where the day to day became quite stagnant if one were to allow it, Loki didn't see any reason not to decorate and make some cheer from it.

So it was good, when Tony showed up at his doors, the little robot Loki Jr. at his side, with an armful of lights. "You can fly on a good day," Loki pointed out to Tony, well aware that he was also a technical genius and that lights weren't going to be the thing that put him out of business. But it was only an observation, seeing as Loki grabbed his coat and was already wearing his very useful (and very stolen) seven league boots.

Slipping his coat on, Loki stepped outside, offering Tony a grin of his own. "I should say that the white ones are classier," he said, because they were. They were classier by far.

But then, nothing about this town was particularly classy in the first place, so it might well be a disservice to both town and concept.

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campusking
2019-12-15 04:20 am UTC (link)

"Well sure, but like who wants to do all the flying?" He shrugged, grin on his face happy to play like he needed the help if it meant he and Loki got to spend some more time together. Though he doubted he really needed the excuse, but sometimes it was just nice to have one even when it wasn't needed.

No this was better, Loki with him and ready to get the town ready for a little Christmas cheer. Sure it wouldn't be the sort of huge displays you sometimes saw around this time of year but it was going to be nice regardless, he always thought the lights were the best part of Christmas, the way everything got a little warmer and a little brighter.

As for the color of the lights, he hmmmed thoughtfully while Loki offered his assessment. "What if we alternated?" he suggested.

"So we'll start with white for yours, because well - obviously, and then go from there. So we've got a bit of both." He didn't think the town itself was all that classy but something sort of cobbled together, a mix of styles and ideas? That seemed right.

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lie_smith
2019-12-17 03:29 am UTC (link)

No, the excuse wasn't really needed but Tony did like easy, silly little lies and so he only smiled, a small pleased sort of thing. "As if flying is some kind of hardship," he said, closing the door behind him and moving out into the snow, it crunching loud beneath his boots as he glanced up at the roof, where the lights might look best.

"Alternating sounds good," he agreed, looking over at little Loki Jr who was holding the majority of the lights. "White, obviously, yes. Classy against green." Look, Loki was just a little proud of his stupid little green house with a lovely kitchen and a bathroom that was almost absurdly large. He'd magicked his priorities properly, clearly.

"What powers the lights?" He asked, because this was Tony Stark, and if he said they needed some sort out outlet, Loki would be incredibly disappointed. Instead of waiting for an answer, he took a string of white lights and teleported straight to the top of the roof, looking for all the world like he was just waiting on Tony to keep up with him.

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campusking
2019-12-18 04:36 am UTC (link)

"You should have seen me in the beginning," He admitted with a laugh. "It was kind of a hardship then." He told Loki, happy to laugh about it now that it was all over and done with. But flying hadn't been a natural thing for him, and it had taken him a little bit of time to get it right. Of course these days that was all old hat - he had it down and flying was as simple as walking.

Nodding as Loki agreed with him about the color scheme for the town, he could only agree with Loki's assessment of his own house being classy, it might not be exactly tony's aesthetic, what with a hot tub on the roof of his house, but he appreciated it plenty.

"It's a repeating power loop." He started just as Loki moved to the rooftop with what seemed to be nothing more than a thought, and for all Tony knew it was exactly that. Suiting up though, Tony joined him easily enough. "So once we get it all strung, it just needs a jump and it'll keep itself powered until we're ready to take it down." A rather simple explanation for a fix that had been - well not complicated, but it had taken a little work to get all the lights together and using the same system so that no one needed to worry about plugging them in and unplugging them again and again. He liked things simple.

And together he and Loki were able to begins stringing up the first of the lights, of course they'd start with Loki's place, it had been his idea to make things a little more festive after all,

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lie_smith
2019-12-19 02:20 am UTC (link)

It probably had been a hardship. Learning to do something that you weren't meant to be able to do always came with some trouble. Loki rather suspected that it hadn't been a laughing matter at the time -- but he probably would have laughed anyway. "Do you have footage?" He asked, because it seemed sort of like the kind of thing that Tony would have.

"Impressive," he admitted of the power loop -- it saved a lot of time and effort and he suspected Tony had spent more time on it than he was going to admit. That was one of the reasons he liked Tony, actually. He cared a lot, even if he didn't always say so. Loki could get behind that sort of sentiment.

Stringing up lights wasn't hard, not when one person could fly and Loki could both teleport and walk on whatever surface in whatever direction he choose and when his house was done, Loki observed it with a look of satisfaction from a house away. "It's good," he decided, pleased. "Very festive."

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campusking
2019-12-19 04:32 am UTC (link)

Tony huffed when Loki asked if there might be footage of his early days and first attempts at flying. "Would you accept my pleading the fifth?" He wondered with a laugh, he didn't mind sharing of course, not with Loki at least, but it had been ridiculous - filming it had been for science, well sort of, for improvements in the future and a record of what he'd been doing. Someone somewhere had said the difference between science and fucking around was writing it down - so Tony was generally pretty good about keeping a record of what he was doing just for that reason alone.

He grinned when Loki called his power loop impressive, he didn't need a lot of praise but it was nice to get it every now and again. And he certainly wasn't going to ask for it. But he wanted to make things easier, and he wanted to make things that worked. So this had been something that helped him do both.

"I like it," He agreed once they finished Loki's house, "It'll look even better once we get the rest of the houses finished." The whole town lit up and shining at night, yeah that'd be a sight to see. The place could look a little.... old at other points, but something about Christmas lights combined with that same idea and Tony thought it was just right.

"Say," He said as they started moving to the next house, "Have you talked to the new Peter? The young one?"

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lie_smith
2019-12-26 05:56 pm UTC (link)

"I don't even know what that means, to plead the fifth," Loki said, a smooth lie that was very obviously not a lie if only because Loki was pretty well versed in all of Midgardian concepts and cultures. It was hard not to be after spending so long on Earth. And, well, watching a great deal of television.

Loki tended to agree that everything would look better once the whole town was done up, and for once wasn't inclined to shirk away from labor in order to get it done. So, companionably, they moved on to the next house, tacking up lights with their own special skills -- which meant it was going a lot more smoothly and quickly than most could have managed. No ladders here.

"Parker?" Loki asked, although he didn't really need to clarifying, considering the age and the fact that that was the only new one in town. "No, not really. Should I have?" Tony clearly was bringing it up for a reason, and so he arched an eyebrow and gave Tony some of his most undivided attention.

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campusking
2019-12-27 05:11 pm UTC (link)

"Of course you don't," He huffed a grin on his face despite being entirely certain that Loki of course knew exactly what he was talking about, "Well I might have some footage of the early days." He allowed after a moment, still amused as they talked.

It was kind of fun to just hang out with Loki for a while doing something that was sort of mindless but would have a really great payout when they finished it up. Loki was the perfect partner for it, they were able to move at a steady pace, better than he'd have been able to do on his own certainly, and better than most anyone else in town might have been able to do except for maybe the wizards. But they were outliers and shouldn't be counted.

"Well maybe not," He admitted, Peter hadn't really seemed like he was all that keen on getting to know this other Loki, but it had left Tony curious. "He just mentioned another you, from his world." He explained. Which on it's face wasn't that strange, Tony knew his own version of Loki, but he wasn't that different from this Loki here, perhaps a little goofier, but all in all they were much the same. This other Loki though? He seemed a lot different from what Peter had said. "It sounds like he caused a lot of trouble for them there." He didn't really know what exactly he wanted to know here, because this Loki wasn't that Loki, but he felt like it was something that he should talk to Loki about regardless. "He seemed surprise that I said you were my friend."

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lie_smith
2019-12-28 12:18 am UTC (link)

"Then you'll have to show me," Loki said, like it was a given. Now Tony was basically just contractually obligated. It was a thing.

They were on to the next house without any trouble at all, and it was easy to work in mostly companionable silence for a while -- because, against probably a good deal of odds, the two of them were friends. Probably that was strange to others, people who knew one version or the other of either of them.

And it wasn't like this Loki was particularly innocent either, even if maybe he'd had a moment or two of it now and again. But he wasn't that Loki either. Thor's version, Loki suspected. "Well, causing trouble isn't so out of character," Loki said, a bit nonplussed over it. He wasn't going to go admitting to all the bad he'd done in his lifetime, but he was still Loki. Some bad wasn't exactly out of the question. "I'm a terrible influence."

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campusking
2019-12-28 01:37 am UTC (link)

"Only if you promise not to laugh too much," He warned, but he'd already sort of made peace with the idea of Loki seeing it, it wasn't like it was the worst thing he'd ever filmed himself doing after all. So why not? And he suspected Loki would be amused by it, and that seemed a good enough reason to show him.

And maybe that was why Tony had felt like he wanted to talk to Loki about what he'd heard about some other Loki, because - well they were friends. And he didn't like the idea of someone thinking anything bad about his friend. Sure it wasn't like he thought Loki was perfect, and he hadn't asked a lot about the life this Loki had before he'd ended up here, he knew it was different than the one he knew, but he was still Loki. And that had been enough for Tony. But now this was - complicated, he supposed.

"Well it sounded like it was kind of... take over the world, mudery kind of trouble." He said with a sort of wince, and he wondered if Loki knew, if Thor had told him, because Thor was from the same place that the others were from so he'd know. But the brothers didn't seem to be hung up on it. "I mean, I know it's complicated with the whole multiverse thing and all of that, it's just... I don't know, I was surprised, I guess?" His feelings were complicated he supposed, trying to separate one from the other and was there a line there and would it matter if that other Loki showed up here? Would they be friends too? Or would he be so different from this one? The multiverse made his head hurt sometimes.

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lie_smith
2019-12-29 03:36 pm UTC (link)

There weren't a lot of people that Loki felt like he needed to protect the honor of, he supposed, but he did have some friends (and family) where he could try doing so if he heard something particularly harsh or untrue about them. Tony might well be one of those people here, along with Thor (obviously). He'd never especially worried about his own reputation, however. Mostly because Loki knew full well how tainted it was.

"Well," Loki said, clearly unsurprised with the concept of some other version of himself trying to take over the world, and possibly killing people. "Versions of myself have tried that before, it's true." Technically the version he was now ... hadn't. Except he also kind of had? Loki's life and timeline was a mess these days. "Did your version not?"

If that other version -- Thor's version -- of himself ever showed up here, Loki was almost positive he'd end up trying to kill him. There wasn't room for that much ego.

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