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St. John Allerdyce (untamedinferno) wrote in snapthread,
@ 2020-03-03 15:50:00

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loki (616), st john allerdyce (616)

WHO: Loki and Pyro.
WHAT: What time is it? Friend o'clock!
WHERE: Somewhere amidst town, near COFFEE.
WHEN: Tuesday Afternoon.
RATING: S for Slight Situational Stabbing.

Well, John wasn't sure he was comfortable with how this town worked, especially now - but he was growing to the life without Kitty in it now. Where he loved the place because it had brought him back to life and brought Kitty to him - he now hated it for the same reasons. So John was making it worth his while by just living as well as he could. Considering he wasn't one for suicide and all that bullshit.

Then there was a familiar face, well as familiar as familiar could be considering the god of tricks could change on a whim. There was Loki in all their glory.

"What brings you from your fjord sanctuary." Pyro spoke to get the attention of the deity while approaching. "Did you and Thor make up finally?" He asked even though there was the pang of desire that hoped not, considering that his love for the god of hammers was quite limited but who was he to judge who did what with who. Frankly he didn't give a fuck about a lot of things these days. Keeping a decent distance, John stopped, because one avoided stabbings when they could from the god. Unlike said god of hammers - John was on point to take much fewer stabbings if Loki grew upset. Thumbing over his shoulder towards the COFFEE, John offered a smile.

"Buy you a cuppa long black?" Of course it was free, but that was not the point.

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lie_smith
2020-03-04 11:00 pm UTC (link)

Yes. There was Loki, in all that godly glory. Except it was Tuesday afternoon and there wasn't much glorious going on beyond the fact that at some point Loki needed to go through the doors for some kind of food run adventure. Later though. Even Loki occasionally lacked the patience to open and close doors enough to find something worth his time.

He blinked in St. John's direction when he called to get his attention and rose an eyebrow curiously at the man. "Make up over what?" He asked, not bothering to answer the first question because -- that was his own business, what he was doing out, thank you. But the implication that he and Thor had gotten into probably a hundred new arguments since the last time was both funny and true, so there was that.

There was no current need for stabbing -- enough so, that it didn't even come into Loki's mind. He just considered the proposal before offering up a one shouldered shrug. "So long as you're buying." Which no one here was, but that wasn't the point.

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untamedinferno
2020-03-05 01:25 pm UTC (link)

Truthfully, John didn't particularly care what was or wasn't Loki's reason to come up from the Fjord to the town, if anything it was introduction to conversation to the god that he had gotten closer to by force. All and all, it wasn't that bad - just awkward having lady Loki hanging on him while trying to keep his attention on cooking.

Not that he judged Loki for it at all. Different boats, different floats. "Whatever thing the hammer god has done to annoy you." John countered knowing full and well those two bickered and fought like a cat and dog.

"Tis what I said, mate." John said stepping into COFFEE greeting Clint casually, paying little attention towards the man himself. Taking his coffee black as he always did, he shimmied to allow Loki to do his thing. "So," John sipped the hot liquid. "How are you, Loki?" He inquired passively, knowing full well that the answer could go a number of ways.

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lie_smith
2020-03-06 09:13 pm UTC (link)

At the time Loki had been especially keen on making Thor angry about anything and everything possible. Now, a bit less so -- and not only just because Thor wasn't around in view in order to get angry. Although that might also have been a factor.

"He's always doing something to annoy me," Loki said, which was only sort of fractionally true, but if he wasn't lying, what was the point anyway?

Still, he followed St. John into the coffee shop, offered Clint a vaguely civil sort of expression (they, unlike most people here, knew each other, and kept it as business like as possible. Loki was here for the coffee and tea, not the company). He ordered a latte, and then sat to wait for it.

"Never better," Loki said, lifting an eyebrow in vague question.

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untamedinferno
2020-03-06 09:25 pm UTC (link)

Setting the latte down for Loki, John sat across from the god sipping on his hot coffee sitting considering the words. Realizing now, that he was just aiming to be near people since having no one, Loki seemed no better than some of his other options. Sure, he had Quill but that even only went so far since he didn't want to suffocate his good ole friend.

So there was Loki who he happened to run into to, and much rather be around than alone with his own misery and thoughts.

"I dunno. There is annoyed, and then there was the week I had spent with you." John countered, but ultimately shrugged. "Though, question," John came out with. "Considering all the different Spiders we have dancing around this place, that Thor doesn't seem like the Thor I've bared witness to. Is he our Thor or Stark's Thor?" Okay now all this timey wimey bullshit was getting confusing, because none of the Spiders here were their Spider-Man.

But Clint was. These people he had little time to dance with in his past, but he knew things. It was hard to be Thor and people not know of you.

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lie_smith
2020-03-06 11:07 pm UTC (link)

It wasn't as if Loki wasn't aware of St. John's hardship -- it simply wasn't any of his business (or, really, much of his concern). They had something of a tentative friendliness going on at best, and that wasn't the sort of thing that made Loki willing to go above and beyond to check in with anyone.

"Hm," Loki said of the question, like maybe he was thinking it over even as he looked down at his latte -- Clint was quite clearly practice foam art lately if the poorly drawn dick on it was anything to go by. "He's my Thor," he said, like it was obvious. "But he's from Stark's world."

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untamedinferno
2020-03-08 04:36 am UTC (link)

There wasn't a surprise that the town knew of his hardship. He was a fucking wreck about it, and he had no shame regarding that. Not that he was looking really for a sympathy party from the trickster god himself or anything. This was just the life and hand he was dealt, all he could do with it in the now.

A small snort of a chuckle came from Pyro at Loki's proclamation of who Thor belonged to. It was fair, and something that John could understand fully. Wouldn't even argue the point that it wasn't what he was referring to. Sipping on his coffee he nodded. "Being you, and doing all the you things that you do - have you ever ventured to other worlds like that?" So, these are questions that sort of came to be in this place.

Ultimately, John was more trying to understand the place more fully than accepting his ticket back to the living.

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lie_smith
2020-03-10 12:06 am UTC (link)

Probably for the best that he wasn't looking for sympathy from Loki since Loki simply wasn't the sort to give it. That didn't mean he didn't understand or have any thread of empathy. But having it and showing it were two very different things.

"I've been to other dimensions," Loki said after a moment. "I've met other versions of myself." Although perhaps, it wasn't the same since other versions of Loki still tended to just... be Loki. That was how it always was. It might even be a stretch to say they were different. "It wasn't like this though. This is a -- singular thing."

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untamedinferno
2020-03-10 12:55 pm UTC (link)

What was the saying? Hope in one hand, shit in the other? Well, it seemed to fit with the god. Pyro wasn't about to start hoping for anything from Loki anytime soon, other than the things that you could expect from the likes of Loki.

John made a soft noise in thought. Loki meeting other Lokis. That sounded dangerous. One Loki was already a lot to be concerned with than having them talking to each other. "Well, best I got is there is a different me that came about after I died. Picking up the Pyro mantle and such." John would acknowledge it out loud, but to his understand the new Pyro could manifest the fire, where his simple upbringing, he could not.

"What do you mean it's a singular thing?"

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