[He doesn't respond right away, mulling over what Loki says. There are a handful of things he could say, thoughtlessly, and it's only because he's actually caught up in thinking about it that he keeps quiet for once.]
Sounds like it matters. What's the point in repeating the same bullshit over and over? [It's all very personalized for Loki, he's picked up that much, but he's not gonna ask. For him, if there was one thing he refused to do when he got to the ground, it was repeat the methods of the Ark. He might not be aligned to the court, but Bellamy knows he fits right in.] So, what, the Seelie court kills us, or the Void kills everyone? Every time?
[It's mostly rhetorical. He's just annoyed.] There's gotta be a way to get unstuck.
For the Aesir it was someone. There were the gods above the gods that perpetuated the cycle for their own divine-ly benefit. [ he tosses his fingers again. ] It was called "fate" or "destiny", but of course those are just pretty words to cover up the truth: that we were all fodder.
The universe likes cycles and patterns. It has a memory that lives through us, you could say. They've just been around so long that they're perceived as "natural."
So, yes, we have to get unstuck. We just need the unsticking to stick.
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"Natural" just gives people an excuse to subjugate, to keep following cycles and patterns that do shit in the end. [He is drawing from the Ark here, clearly, but it's more than that. "Whatever the hell we want" might have backfired in a lot of ways, but he still refused to follow rules that were expected - and some of it worked.]
I don't buy fate as unbreakable. [Spoken like a true anarchist.] Is that why you're so focused on shards? You think they got something to do with all this?
Morla said that she was bound to fate after the gem broke by some fellow appropriately named the Drabkeeper. I want to know the details of it, the whole thing. Everything plays together, you see. The gem, the Void, the Drabkeeper and the Monarchs.
You don't think that Morla would want to end everything just because it's her nature, would you? [ there's a spark in him that shows. the cadence in his voice flowing as he becomes electric with defiance. ] She's forced to fight someone she loves over and over and over again because she was damned to it.
Everything intertwines. The shards—whatever you want to call them—are a piece of that puzzle. I want to know what they were fighting over.
[This is no time for a commitment like that, Loki.]
[Bellamy likes Morla well enough, for a monarch. He doesn't trust her, but that largely stems from the whole monarchy thing, and his distaste for the court system as a whole. Even if she is tied to it without choice, it doesn't immediately warm him up to her.]
[Some of it's already familiar to him though, just not necessarily all as shoved together like Loki offers.]
So when the time comes, see if our secretive god friend has any of these answers, too. Someone put this cycle into place, which means it's far from natural. It's just convenient for whatever they want.
[ ties to Martin Maskmaker. ties to the Avatar of the Void. ties to the Drabkeeper.
this was the end; it was coming to a head.
he knew it, he could feel it. the desperation boiled. he couldn't let the tendrils of fate do this again. the thought of it made him ill. starting over, becoming what he was and reaching this point, never able to go any further. ]
You catch on quickly. [ he says it as if he's pleased, tipping up his empty cup as if in toast. ] Now, to think of a proper offering.
[Bellamy shrugs. He has to catch on quickly in most things, or he'd have been dead many times over.]
It's not like we need to think of something immediately. Obviously, sounds like the sooner the better, but if breaking the cycle is your priority, then the offering needs to be worthwhile if you want to get anything relevant out of them.
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Sounds like it matters. What's the point in repeating the same bullshit over and over? [It's all very personalized for Loki, he's picked up that much, but he's not gonna ask. For him, if there was one thing he refused to do when he got to the ground, it was repeat the methods of the Ark. He might not be aligned to the court, but Bellamy knows he fits right in.] So, what, the Seelie court kills us, or the Void kills everyone? Every time?
[It's mostly rhetorical. He's just annoyed.] There's gotta be a way to get unstuck.
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For the Aesir it was someone. There were the gods above the gods that perpetuated the cycle for their own divine-ly benefit. [ he tosses his fingers again. ] It was called "fate" or "destiny", but of course those are just pretty words to cover up the truth: that we were all fodder.
The universe likes cycles and patterns. It has a memory that lives through us, you could say. They've just been around so long that they're perceived as "natural."
So, yes, we have to get unstuck. We just need the unsticking to stick.
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I don't buy fate as unbreakable. [Spoken like a true anarchist.] Is that why you're so focused on shards? You think they got something to do with all this?
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Morla said that she was bound to fate after the gem broke by some fellow appropriately named the Drabkeeper. I want to know the details of it, the whole thing. Everything plays together, you see. The gem, the Void, the Drabkeeper and the Monarchs.
You don't think that Morla would want to end everything just because it's her nature, would you? [ there's a spark in him that shows. the cadence in his voice flowing as he becomes electric with defiance. ] She's forced to fight someone she loves over and over and over again because she was damned to it.
Everything intertwines. The shards—whatever you want to call them—are a piece of that puzzle. I want to know what they were fighting over.
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[Bellamy likes Morla well enough, for a monarch. He doesn't trust her, but that largely stems from the whole monarchy thing, and his distaste for the court system as a whole. Even if she is tied to it without choice, it doesn't immediately warm him up to her.]
[Some of it's already familiar to him though, just not necessarily all as shoved together like Loki offers.]
So when the time comes, see if our secretive god friend has any of these answers, too. Someone put this cycle into place, which means it's far from natural. It's just convenient for whatever they want.
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this was the end; it was coming to a head.
he knew it, he could feel it. the desperation boiled. he couldn't let the tendrils of fate do this again. the thought of it made him ill. starting over, becoming what he was and reaching this point, never able to go any further. ]
You catch on quickly. [ he says it as if he's pleased, tipping up his empty cup as if in toast. ] Now, to think of a proper offering.
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It's not like we need to think of something immediately. Obviously, sounds like the sooner the better, but if breaking the cycle is your priority, then the offering needs to be worthwhile if you want to get anything relevant out of them.
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[ and with a sigh of "I'll do it myself"ness, he gets up to go get another. so, case closed. it was time to pull a few strings.
he knew where to start. ]