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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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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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