VIDEO. UN: LOKI

[selfimage]

[ the sound of the wind storm hollows dully against the cave walls. Loki's squidge, Bacon, can half be seen crawling in the confines of his tacky green jacket and over his knee from where he sits, sometimes ducking and squeaking when a particularly large gust hits. to keep it from screaming, Loki offers his fingers absently, which the little squidge pulls on with its pudgy arms before ducking low again. ]

Hello there, it seems like we'll be waiting this out for some time considering the weather-type circumstances. While we're all rotting away, etcetera etcetera, I thought we could amuse ourselves with a game. A little bit of team bonding funtimes, so to say. [ he twists a dark nailed hand in the air, gesturing. ]

Soo—oo ... it's called Two Truths and a Lie. How do you play? Glad you asked, it's simple! Give two true statements about yourself and add a lie to the mix, shake it up then toss it out there and see if your team members know you well enough to spot the lie.

Usually this is done with copious amounts of alcohol, but we're lacking at the moment. [ pause. ] But—ah—you could always enjoy the satisfaction of being right. It's not like we're doing much else.

NOTE | Feel free to threadjack if that's your thing!! :****

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[winces]

[ olivia just laughs a little in embarrassment. ]

W-Well... sometimes you don't really get a choice, when they're mad like that.

[ that, at least, is the truth. however, playing or not, he guessed right! ]

But you're right, in this case. The ruler of Ylisse is a very lovely man.

[secondnature]

Oh.

[There's some surprise in his tone, like he hadn't expected to get it right for anyone playing. That's part of why he didn't play, and part of it is because he has a bone to pick with Loki now from extremely petty reasons.]

Good to know you won't sing for a crazy king. It's probably good to look out for yourself.

[winces]

Well, [ and here she laughs, kind of helplessly. ] Sometimes, when the king is that mad, you don't really get a choice...

[ #truth ]

But I have been very lucky, yes.

[secondnature]

I'd rather bite my tongue than sing for a mad king, but I guess not everyone gets that choice.

[winces]

Not.. everyone is quite so brave.

[ which is probably putting it a little too nicely, but. we can't all be stubborn shounens, can we! ]

[secondnature]

Well ... I dunno that it's brave. [He hadn't been thinking of it as being brave. He was just being stubborn about a hypothetical scenario.] Maybe more stubborn?

[winces]

[ she laughs a little, easing up a bit. at least he is self-aware! ]

Maybe... but sometimes those two words can mean the same thing, I guess.

[secondnature]

If you're being nice. I just don't like to be told to do something when I don't want to do it.

[Imagine why this boy flunked out of school!]

[winces]

[ she laughs a little. ]

You are your own boss...! That's not so bad.

[secondnature]

Yeah, I guess so.

[Unless Shiro is around.

And then Shiro is boss.]

[winces]

What about you, Keith?

[ ASSUMES THEY EXCHANGED NAMES BEFORE, WHY NOT. ]

Aren't you going to play, too?

[secondnature]

[They probably would have.]

I ... wasn't really planning on it. But I came up with some for Zenyatta. I can do the same for you, if you'd like.

[winces]

If you don't mind losing to me, then I'd love to hear some!

[ gd who allowed this woman the play ]

[secondnature]

[Lose to her? Keith looks at her as if she's a little ... well. Something.]

All right ... Uhhhh ...

[He almost wishes he could just use the same ones he used for Zenyatta, but his competitive spirit tells him to try something else.]

I was the top fighter pilot in the academy I attended. [Past tense.] Before coming here, I never left my home planet. And I have a bond with a robot lion.

[winces]

Hmm.

[ she has to take a moment to think it over. he had hardly any tells there, barely any difference in inflection or tone, or even facial expression.

though, she does have to wonder— ]

What is a "robot"?

[secondnature]

... Have you met Zenyatta?

[winces]

Mr. Zenyatta? I have, yes!

[ a moment's pause, and then suddenly she sucks in a gasp, hands flying up to cover her mouth. ]

Ohmygosh — is that what he is??

[secondnature]

[Wow, Olivia. He's judging you hard and isn't bothering to hide it.]

What did you think he was? A hunk of weirdly talking metal?

[winces]

[ alksjdla wow???? don't shame her for coming from a less-technologically advanced world! ]

I — I wasn't sure...! I thought perhaps the jewelry was just showing me... an unclear image... [ she hadn't met him face-to-face okay! ]

Is that what robots are? Talking metal...?

[secondnature]

[Where is just about anyone else in the entire world who can explain this better?]

Uh, kind of? Not all of them talk. My lion doesn't. [It just makes him feel things, which would be harder to explain. He thinks, anyway.]

They are metal most of the time.

[winces]

That's so fascinating... Does everyone in your world have a lion?

[secondnature]

[He shouldn't be so proud of his lion every time he talks about his lion but he loves his lion and anyway, he's smiling, it's a big deal:]

Oh, not at all. Only the special paladins get lions. There's just five of us.

[And the old paladins who are probably the bad guys now buuuuut he's leaving that out. That's less cool.]

[winces]

Special paladins? [ it's not a foreign word to her, but in her world, paladins rode horses, not robot lions... ]

What makes you so special?

[secondnature]

We were drawn to them. [Uh, he thinks. That's what makes sense, right?]

Well, I was. The others kind of followed. [So, this is TECHNICALLY true, but mostly they just showed up from what he can tell.]

[winces]

So... does that mean you are their leader?